Read Me to Sleep

"I'm s-scared , Arjun. I'm terrified. I d-don't know h-how it h-happened. I didn't mean it. I didn't want it."She went on with her scattered explanation making him even more confused.

He let out a loud sigh and hugged her closer."What are you scared of ,sweetheart? And what did you not mean to happen ? Come on, stop crying and tell me",he asked calmly even though his insides were frustrated and angry to see her like that.

This was it. She had gone too far and there was no turning back. She took a shaky breath in and mustered the courage and finally let the words out.
"I-I didn't m-mean to fa-fall in l-love with you."


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Payal Mahale is a nineteen year old student pursuing English honors in NR college of Mumbai, India.Coming from a conservative South-Indian family with strict parents, Payal is a beautiful woman - clever , shy but courageous, kind ,loving yet a meanie to the meanies. She has loved only one thing apart from her family and friends -Literature.

Amidst the trials she has to face in her new college life, she meets a certain tall, handsome Mehra who succeeds in bringing out of her heart some forbidden feelings which she dared not to show. Will Payal heal his heart and let him into hers? Will she become the princess he has been waiting for all his life? Or will she keep her new found feelings to herself in the fear of her kin's wrath back home?
Find out in "Read me to sleep".

Written in third person POV.