chapter 1 : school trip

The school trip was going to the verona fields..

Long fields and huge mountains passed by , students sat beside their friends enjoying views and playing games...it was early monsoon days!

The rain wasn't supposed to ruin the trip.

At least, that's what everyone had thought when the school buses left early that morning.

But halfway through the journey, Ariana's bus broke down on a lonely highway surrounded by hills and endless fields.

The students groaned.

"Great. Now we're stuck here for hours."

Ariana sighed and leaned her head against the window.

Then she noticed something across the road.

A small medical camp.

Doctors and volunteers moved between tents, treating villagers and handing out medicines.

Curious, she crossed the road with a few classmates.

That was when she saw him.

A boy around her age stood beside a doctor, organizing medical supplies with surprising confidence.

He looked up.

Their eyes met.

For a second, neither of them looked away.

"Need help finding something?" he asked with a smile.

Ariana suddenly forgot what she had come there for.

"No," she said quickly.

The boy laughed.

"Then I guess you're just looking around."

She didn't know it then.

She didn't know that years later she would still remember that smile.

Or that one conversation with a stranger would change the course of her entire life.

"What's your name?" she asked.

The boy held out his hand.

"Rayyan."

The named echoed in her mind...she didn't knew what and why was her heart beating fast she eventually let it down

The bus took long enough to get fixed students took a shelter near that medical camp some helping the doctors and some exploring the surroundings

Ariana sat on the bench still lost in her thoughts thinking about that boy whom she just met

she felt a presence beside her...she looked and her breath hitched...THE BOY was just beside her smiling while looking at her

His smile took Ariana's breath away...charming eyes that shine bright with his beautiful smile

Rayyan spoke "you asked my name but didn't told me your's...this isn't fair!"

"Ariana , Ariana D'Souza" she spoke in her almost panicked voice

"Ariana..." he repeated

Both sat in silence none of them spoke the view around them spoke the unspoken while ariana was still figuring out the reason behind her sudden heartrace

After few minutes gathering her courage ariana finally spoke

 "what are you doing in a medical camp?"

"That doctor over there...the one who is treating that lady's wound is my father...Dr. Zayan ahmed"

he replied while smiling

Ariana moved her gaze to that person whom rayyan just pointed

 "he is your father?" she spoke with her newfound respect towards the doctor

"yeah!..he took me here because of my interest towards the medicine field....I want to become a doctor like him"

His gaze was fixed towards his father looking at him with a smile

"i always wanted to become a doctor and when i heard that he is assigned for this medical camp i came with him-"

that's when a voice came from behind interrupting their conversation

"STUDENT'S THE BUS IS FIXED WE WILL MOVE AHEAD NOW!!!" the teacher spoke

The bus was fixed means she had to leave not wanting to leave but the situation was not with her...

"i have to leave...hope we will meet again bye" her eyes unknowingly sad and her heart heavy

"see you soon!" rayyan said

Both didn't know that they are really going to meet soon...

they both did a handshake and she left!

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