Hei

*Flashback continue*

"You are safe. Calm down." Nurse and Doctor both tried to calm Kaya down when Dhruv entered. "What happen??" asked Dhruv.

"May be she is again having the trauma." The doc said.

Dhruv came forward and hugged Kaya. But she just tried to push him away. "Kaya, its me. Dhruv. What are you doing?"

Listening her voice, she raised her head to look at him scaredly and she started crying. "They will kill me. They are gonna throw me in the pool again."

"No one will kill you. We all are here. Neel will also reach here in an hour or so." She didn't stop crying as she continued that someone would kill her.

The Dean entered the room while talking to someone on the phone. "Just a second sir!!"

He stretched his hand out towards Kaya with his mobile in his hand. "Ms. Rai!! Mr. Marcel wants to talk to you."

Listening to the name of the person which Dean called, she stopped screaming with tears rolling down her cheeks and looked over to take the phone from Dean's hand. "I think we should excuse Ms. Rai" The Dean said and everyone left the room.

"Hei!!" Kaya said in a low cracky voice still crying.

"Everything is fine!! Why are you so scared?" Hei Marcel, the person over the phone spoke.

Listening nothing in reply but just sobs, he continued, "Stop crying. Shhh!!!...You want me come here."

"No."

"Should i tell Grandpa about this? You want to talk to him?"

"I want to come there. I want to meet Grandpa. Don't tell him anything, he will get worried."

"Ok!! I am sending the plane. Come tomorrow here. I will talk to the Dean."

"Ehm!!"

"Rest now!! Nothing will happen. No one will harm you. Take care. I will not let anybody touch you, never forget. Just call me, if anything happens."

She nodded like he was seeing him instead of saying something and called Dhruv who came inside. "What happen?"

"Give it to dean." She said while passing the phone to Dhruv who went outside to hand over the call to Dean and came back again with doctor.

The doctor examined her little and told the nurse to bring her dinner. She was having dinner when Dhruv sat on the sofa in the room chewing his own food, both were silent.

Dhruv broke the ice by saying, "You better now?" Kaya looked up at him and just nodded.

After they had their dinner, Kaya said, "You should go back. Its past 1 of the night."

"I'm not going anywhere." Dhruv retorted.

The door flew open and a man with blonde hair ran in to Kaya. "Princess!!"

"What are you doing here, Neel?" Kaya asked in shock.

"I called you and Dhruv picked up and told me you are in hospital, so i came by the first flight i got."

"I'm ok now."

"What did the doctors say?"He asked while turning towards Dhruv.

"Trauma?!"

"The pool was reminding me of the incident.....of Deep Pool." Kaya said while closing her eyes and sighing audibly. "I lost control over myself. It's been a week since I'm seeing all this. I thought I could overcome it but..." Tears fell down from the corner of her eye.

"It will be fine!! You.... should have told someone. You should have just called me once." Neel said.

"She told me." Dhruv spoke while getting up from the sofa and sat on the stool near Kaya's bed. "She said that she is seeing something. But i just thought she was nervous."

He took Kaya's drip pierced hand in his hands. "I'm sorry. I...I...almost lost you today. I'm really very sorry."

Kaya smiled and said, "Stop being so cheesy you two!! Its cringy... Ewww!!!" and the room filled with the laughterl

*Flashback ends*

--Back to present. Living room of the beach house--

"It was her first time. She told me that before she was ok. She had won several swimming competitions in the past and also she was a national player. After that incident of intracollege swimming champion, she tried to jump into pools several times, she tried to swim several times but its was all in vain. Everytime she suffered from the same trauma which eventually forced her to leave swimming and pools. She never went near any pool afterwards." Dhruv said.

"If you knew it, then why didn't you stopped her that day when Eun Woo asked her about swimming?"

"She seemed happy when he mentioned about swimming. I thought she had forgotten and may be this could help her."

"What's the Deep Pool and the man Hei?" Su Yeon asked out of curiosity.

"It's better if she will tell you herself and Hei.... She will tell you!!"

"Is that the reason that she didn't mix up with other people? Even back when we were in camp, she didn't talk to anyone there." Su Yeon stated.

"Its a lot more Su Yeon, which you and me can't even understand."...." I shouldn't have forced her to come here. I knew everything but still i....The way she is comfortable with Eun Woo and she also got bonded to you instantly the day we came, I thought she is getting better. See now, even she is shairing her room and she even swam the whole pool three times. But still it came...in the end. I wanted to come here and I just dragged her with..." Dhruv was speaking yet when he noticed Kaya standing there.

Kaya was smiling listening to his words with her arms folded infront of her chest and her body frame leaned on the wall. She walked up to them and sat near them infront of the window, all looking outside through the window at the velvety sky canvas coloured with a bit of orange and red strokes.

"I wanted to come here. That's why I came here. Nothing is because of you." She paused to sigh, "Huffff!!!" and then continued. "I wanted to be here. I was curious about Eun Woo like...what's about him that so familiar and put me on ease. I love to spend my time with him but sometimes it just get too overwhelming. I want to know him more. I really forgot about all that before but during last lap it just drowned me again."

'But its getting more worse. Sometimes, i feel relaxed with him but sometimes he just drives me crazy.' Those are her words to inner self which made her to not listen to Dhruv and Su Yeon, "You found out then?"

Su Yeon tapped her shoulder softly and Kaya who didn't listen to them looked at them questioningly. Then Su Yeon said again, "Do you got to know then about him?"

"Its puzzled!!!" Kaya said.

"Just enjoy yourself. If you ever have a need to know this, you will find it eventually. So, now just relax." Dhruv continued in an despondent manner. "Sorry princess!!"

Listening to his sorry which was showing how bad he was feeling, so Kaya got up and sat at the table infront of him and held his hands. "If you were not there back then and today, may be i would have died once again. Don't say sorry when you did nothing wrong."

"Ah!! Why do you have to talk about dying?" Su Yeon retorted and stood up straight. "I don't wanna my friends to die this soon. Let's get old first. Its been first time that i have friends and over that 'the best friends', I am going to drag you two everywhere with me till the day i will be carved to a grave."

"We are ready to follow you anywhere." Kaya said.

"Anytime, with anyone? Wait!!" Dhruv added.

"What??" Both girls spoke in unison.