chapter 3 - Black Rain (part 2) 

chapter 1 - A normal high school girl

Chapter 2- Nina Taneja 

Chapter3- Black Rain 

Death Row 1

&lt;p&gt;“…….” I couldn’t utter a word. That was far worse than what had happened to me. I was just… so disgusted and enraged with that thing that I wanted to kill that piece of shit. 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Toya… are you disgusted by me now?” she was facing down with embarrassment, all sad like a puppy.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“What? No! Why would I be disgusted by you?” 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Then will you shun me, now?” she looked up at me.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Definitely not! No! Why would I do that? You are my only best friend. I care about you.” I just wanted to protect her. Then we loosened ourselves back to our position. 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Toya…I love you.”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“I lo______”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Not as a friend, but as a lover. I- love- you.” She interrupted me and confessed to me…?
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“……” I took a silent gulp.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“I am not telling you or forcing you to like me back. I just wanted you to know before something happens to me.”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;She gently tucked her flowing hair behind her ears. And then I re-noticed all of the different things in her dressing and expressions. Her always two-pigtailed salmon hair was tied in a single high pony. She was wearing a red dress with a glossy and luring peach lip gloss. Her dark green eyes were shining brighter than usual. And the maple tree shedding its red leaves with the wind added a silver lining to that beauty. The weather became cool and she was sitting in front of me, that might be a cliché but… she was looking like an angel. 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My eyes went wider and brighter and there was a tingling in my heart as I saw her.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Why…why are you staring at me? Is there something on my face?” she began fumbling her fingers looking here and there. 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Oh! Uhm… It’s just that- you are so beautiful.” And I flinched as she snapped her fingers looking at me.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“What? Were you hypnotized or what?” she giggled.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“No…” I scratched my head. I was embarrassed. 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Toya, I am kissing you.” And she placed a gentle kiss on my lips without giving me a chance to react.  I was taken aback by that. But…Her lip gloss was cherry flavored and- it was all over my lips and my tongue tasted a bit of it. It was sweet for a cosmetic. Maybe it was an edible lip gloss. The scent of her mild rose perfume blurred the sense of rationality in me and my heart was beating faster than ever. I was caught in the action. I lost control. But…somehow it felt that I was doing something unfair to Nina. I didn’t know why. 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nina started crying again. She kissed me but she was crying? Was it that bad? (=y=!) (Just an FYI, I am no perverted or selfish girl.)
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Toya this might be the last time that we meet…sniff…”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Last time?” I was so confused.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“As I said, I have the power of vision. I can see what happens in the future. And…my future awaits my death.”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“What are you talking about Nina?” ____she was going to die?
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“I am going to die. I will be killed by someone but I can’t see the murderer’s face, every time I try.” She was crying unstoppably. 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Nina…” I held her tight in my arms and she said to me with pleading and teary eyes, “I don’t want to die Toya. I don’t want to leave you.” And then she hid her face on my chest.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Nina, I won’t let anything happen to you. It is in the future. We can still change it. I promise.” I was trying my best to comfort her.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Nothing can change Toya. Everything that I see happens in reality with a hundred percent accuracy and similarity. But…I don’t want to die like them. I just … I just want to live.” She pulled herself back and I released her. 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;We sat there in the sunset with few crows flying back to their home in the orange sky. We sat there quietly for a while. There was no trace of humanity until the faraway playground where kids appeared like small black miniatures of a video game. Their distant noise was all that could be heard beside the crows and chirping crickets. 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the midst of that, I broke the silence, “I don’t think that anyone tried to change it.” 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“……..” she glanced at me with forest pool-like eyes.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“I don’t think that anyone has ever tried to change your visions. I mean predictions can be changed by definite actions, right! We can do it if we try. There must be a way to change it. Every problem has a solution even if the solution’s difficult. It-has- a-‘solution’. And I promise you I will find that solution for you. Nina, please believe me. I can’t lose you. I love you, Nina. I love you too much to live without you.”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;She had a sympathetic expression which showed me that I was trying to rely on false hope. 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But- that was all I had to rely on. 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;She hugged me and said, “Are you sure?”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Yes! I am sure I will find the way to___________”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Are you sure that you love me?”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I inhaled a mass of air and exhaled it. And then I said to her, holding her round shoulders in my hands, “yes! I do! I- love- you! I love you, Nina.” I gave her a peck on her left cheek. Her face was flushed red in seconds and she covered her face with her tiny hands.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I found the right time to finally tease her.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Why? What happened to the Nina who took the initiative to kiss on my ‘lips’ and be bold about it for ‘that long period’?” I smirked as I got up from the bench.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Ugh! Stop it you pervert.”  She yelled at me with embarrassment. 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Oh my! My! You attack me with a ‘direct’ lip kiss and ‘I’ get to be called a pervert? That is unfair.” I was walking ahead and she threw her sling-bag on my back. It was heavy and it hit perfectly hard. It was painful.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Ouch! That hurt! NINA!” and she ran forward crossing me from the side. And I followed her.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Wait for me! Nina! You won’t be forgiven for this! I will torture you back for this!”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Catch me if you can!”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;She was laughing so beautifully in the orange lights of the drowsy sun; it was like a magical dream that I didn’t want to wake up from. That was a happy day. I found out that I loved her more than life. That she was more special than she had ever been. 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;End of the third chapter. 
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&lt;p&gt;I saw something strange... was it an illusion?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;what do you do when a queen of the parallel universe &quot;Navis&quot;, wants to rule the Earth only with the strongest of humans on it?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Toya kawa is an ordinary teenager with a distorted view of the world. After her only friend; Nina, dies because of an unknown reason, she is admitted to a game of survival orchestrated by the queen itself. If any human completes the last round, Earth is yours, if not then die being a slave.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Will Toya, who once despised her life and other humans, fight for them and become a &quot;Rakshak&quot;? (the people won't know about it though!) only the participants know of the danger.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;you might have to save the ones you hate.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;