8 chapter 8

He got up in one swift moment and started pacing back and forth in his office room. He knew what loosing parents was, he knew what being orphaned was, he knew the pain, he is aware of that aloofness which comes as an aftereffect, he is even aware of the walls that suddenly come up around your heart. Losing his parents at an age as tender as 14, and then diverting his attention from life to making his business as his passion made him the Arnav Singh Raizada the world knew today.

He perfectly understood what shutting off the world is; he definitely knew what materializing things meant, for he had been there, gone through it all and with time he did emerge as a slightly better person, but the damage by the past had already been done, made him the person he was all those years back when he was still dealing with his own wrath.

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A cheating father, a suffering mother, a childhood that had been a silent speculator of domestic quarrels, Arnav Singh Raizada has become one brat of a child, owing to the only fact of his life--- a rich kid. His arrogance, man-handling fellow kids, fights and arrogance towards his teachers, stubborn nature, everything has resulted in being thrown out of one boarding school to another. While his sister Anjali Singh Raizada chose her natural interest and passion for music as her escapism from the wrath of their childhood, he settled for arrogance and stubborn nature.

His parent's sudden suicidal deaths one after the other, when he was all but 16, made it even worse for him. The only thing that remained constant for him was the flow of money from the family's business. Their family belonged to the one of the richest community of Delhi, very prestigious with right amount of political background; their father was the only clan of the Raizada brothers who did not opt the ancestors tradition of a political career instead chose to establish a cooperate industry with his own share from the ancestor clan, which later had been the only source of income for their family. By the time his schooling was completed, Arnav realized, money is the only key for everything and he needed to keep the flow of money coming. Under the guardianship of his Nani, he joined the business soon after his high-school and his mission was set. He encouraged his 21 year old sister to continue her education and implemented the same for himself, efficiently juggling between the business and his education.

It was these three years of his life, where he stayed constantly with his only family. Having realized the need to be a graduate in management for his business expansion, it has been important for him to stay the three years and pursue a constant education. His goals and intentions were set--- no attachments, no relations; no space for a fourth person neither in their worlds nor in their house; heart is just an organ; love is just a commodity; no one is coming near his sister nor him; no friends needed; only target was to be graduated and to fly away to take over the international expansions of AR-Industries.

Such a ruthless, heartless, still arrogant and quite popular Arnav Singh Raizada walked along the campus of the Delhi University with two of his body guards always protecting him; they acted more like guards around the walls of his arrogance into which no one can dare to enter and people just would know their aukad' if they dared to.

And so, at 20 reaching the final year of his graduation, he was the loner, the untouchable by everyone"unreachable rather and for which he was very much pleased with himself. At an age where everyone looked for lifelong friendships, he chose to stay aloof and arrogant. At a time when people of his age, flirted, enjoyed affairs, maintained relationships, he preferred occasional one-night stands. He awaited the running away that was standing at the end of the year and hated the happiness around him not trusting himself to be offered for anymore happiness from the big-fat-world.