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armaan , aria and Maida were in hunza , armaan had a guest house booked for him , whereas Maida had booked a room in hotel . first two days, they were busy with seminar . when they got free from it , they decided to look around hunza . it was a beautiful place with lakes , mountains , cold weather , aria was in pure heaven . 

armaan and aria picked Maida and they left for exploring . they first went to arttabad lake . the beauty of it took aria's breath away . she was looking around the beautiful mountains of Karakorum . armaan took a look of the beautiful surroundings and then his eyes were focused on the beautiful smile and expressions of his princess's face . 

aria rubbed her hand feeling cold , armaan handed her the jacket , which she was denying to wear since morning " wear it princess ,you will fall sick " armaan said and helped her wear it . 

they spent the day , exploring around , the forts and lakes of hunza were beautiful enough to make people loose themselves in them with their inhabitations , worries , feelings ......

armaan was all around aria , Maida was feeling like she wasn’t even with them . he was taking care of aria's need before she was even spelling them out . he was taking care of her , but it felt like he had to keep reminding himself that Maida was also with them. whereas when it came to aria , it felt like aria was his extension , taking care of her came naturally to him . 

Maida didnt know what to think anymore , she kept thinking about what she felt whole day throughout the night . 

next day , they went to gulmit valley . they were having fun, looking around .. armaan went to get something for them to eat . aria was standing very close to the borith lake , she had her hands in the cold water of melted gulkhin glacier . 

Maida was sitting a bit away . armaan came back and placed the food near Maida , he moved towards aria to get her . his heart missed a beat seeing her sitting so close to the edge . aria saw him coming towards and got up quickly , knowing that he will be upset about her carelessness. but her sudden movement made her feet slip and she ended up falling in the lake . 

armaan felt his heart stopping , Maida also got up seeing aria fell in lake . the water was freezing cold and aria didnt even know swimming , she wasn’t able to breakthrough the surface . armaan ran towards the lake and jumped into it . the sudden chill halted his movement , but he used his strength and started swimming towards aria . once ,she was in his arms , he came out of the water . 

aria was awake but shivering badly with cold . armaan kept her wrapped in his arms , his eyes were red with control on his emotions . the thought of loosing her almost broke him . 

" i would have died " armaan whispered thinking about drowning aria . his whisper was clearly heard by Maida , a sad smile covered her lips and she closed her eyes in realization . 

armaan took aria back to their guest house , he hadn’t even noticed that Maida hadn’t come with them . 

once aria had changed , armaan helped her settle in bed and made her drink warm soup so that she wont get sick . he wasn’t looking at her, the sadness surrounding him was breaking her heart . 

" maan ......" she called . armaan looked at him with his red eyes . 

" sorry ! i shouldn’t have gone so close to the edge " she said and tears fell from her eyes . armaan pulled her in his chest and kissed the top of her head . " you scared me princess ! " armaan said and kept holding her .