Chapter 10

The whole ride home was tense with unasked questions where Abhimanyu and Armaan was looking at Ansh through rear view mirror, who was cradling Ashvik in his lap in the backseat like his life was dependent on him and Armaan was driving crazily to reach home sooner both the brothers were calm , too calm but the trembling of Abhimanyu’s hand and legs or the way Armaan’s grip around the steering wheel turned pale because of force gave their inner storm away, But Ansh , he was a different story, he was in a daze as he was feeling very guilty and wrong for letting his so called friends near his baby brother or to give them impression that they can hurt his brother however they want and he will not say anything to them, he knew he was the reason that they got the idea of hurting Ashvik as he was mad at him for taking his mother away , and wanted to punish him for something he cannot control, Without realising a lone tear slid down Ansh’s eyes remembering the way Ashvik was scared of him in the terrace and the way Kai and Jay were touching his brother inappropriately, he has went to the terrace just to clear that he was not the one to leave the glass pieces in the stage as he knew that Ashvik was must be thinking that he didi it and to give him ointment, as he was bleeding badly but because a teacher called him he got delayed for few minutes and when he reached his blood boiled seeing the scene infront of him, his Friends were doing something so awful to his brother , before he can register he started beating them, but then too watching the same fear in Ashvik’s eyes from him broke something in his chest. With all these thoughts he reached his home . By now more tears were streaming down his face , which he didn’t bother to wipe , both big brothers were looking at him concerned as they still didn’t knew what happened.

After Reaching home , Abhimanyu picked up Ashvik and went to his room to tuck him in , he went to Ashvik’s room for the first time, he was surprised seeing Ashvik’s room as according to him a room of 15 year old should not look so, dull and lifeless as he only had minimal things in his room, a desk with his textbooks and stationary with few art supplies but there were no trace of normal teenager stuff, no band posters, games cds or things like normal teenagers but he couldn’t blame Him could he ? After all everything was not normal either way , he left him in his room and came back .

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In Hall~

Armaan was pacing back and forth while waiting for Abhimanyu to come back and Ansh was sitting in a chair with his head in his hands a clear sign of distress,in sometime Abhimanyu came back with a first aid box and sat near Ansh and took his hands which were bleeding because of using force,
The tense silence was broken by Question both the brothers had in their mind,

Armaan: What the hell happened there Ansh ? Why the hell you look like you fought an army! and what happened to Ashvik ?

Before answering anything Ansh broke down crying infront of his both brothers, he was not able to form sentences because of crying,

Ansh: I..I failed..I.. Failed as ..a brother…I..I..I let them…hurt..himm..I… Allowed…them…

Abhimanyu: shh breath first and then tell us okay,calm down.

After few minutes Ansh calmed down and then he told what happened to Armaan and Abhimanyu, skipping the bullying part as he knew they will be furious with him and he was scared of his brothers too as they can be dangerous for him too , after he completed telling ,to say they were furious would be an understatement,

Armaan : It’s not only your fault you didn’t know they were like this okay!

Abhimanyu: yess , and don’t worry we will make sure everyone knows what happens if someone tries to harm any one of uss , no one has the right to touch a Goenka and get away with it.

Armaan : I will make them pay bhai don’t worry. Jay Khurana and Kai , Kai’s , I know his brother is struggling with funds , and Jay his family is already at our mercy, I was going to give them a big deal, I will make his whole family pay and will make sure they know what he did wrong. I will give them hope and will take out floor beneath their feet . Mark my words !

He slammed his hand on the table and left fuming from their.

Abhimanyu: We will handle it, okay make sure he is safe in school from now on ,he is still a kid and such things will affect his mental health.

Ansh : Yess bhai ! I won’t let anyone harm him .

Ansh said to Abhimanyu and he meant it , as today he realised his mistake, he realised how he was just manipulating his own self by hurting Ashvik , he never truly felt happy by hurting his brother, it was just the pent up irritation and frustration of not having a mother around ,which he took out by hurting and allowing others to hurt his brother, but watching him so terrified of Jay and Kai and of what could have happened and how it would be only his fault, he came into his senses.

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At Night ✨🩷

It was midnight and Ashvik was still sleeping because of the past weeks hectic schedule and as morning’s incident left him drained, Abhimanyu and Armaan was busy handling the situation as they didn’t want to waste any time to see the downfall of both families and no one was particularly hungry so, Ansh and Abhimanyu went to sleep empty stomach, it was 3 Am when Armaan completed his whole setup and was returning to his room when he heard it , a painful sound coming from the corridor it was Ashvik’s room, he hesitantly went to his room and stood outside, his hand on the handle , he has not entered that room as long as he remembers it was painful for him to even look at Ashvik, all the memories he tried to push aside will come running back to his head but right now he cannot wait so he entered the room, Ashvik was laying there under quilt, he was looking so small and breakable under illuminating light of moon,

Armaan’s Pov ✨

It is 3:15 am right now I just finished setting up the trap for Khurana and Kai’s family, I was going to my room when I heard a painful sound coming from Ashvik’s room, I don’t think I should check him but maybe he needs me , okay it won’t be bad If I check on him it’s actually better I don’t want anyone else to wake up because of noises, Yeah that’s why I should check, I went there and saw him he is looking so small right now like he didn’t eat at all and now after seeing the signs I really didn’t see him eating, I should really teach him a lesson to eat , seriously I don’t want a kid to die in my house, I hate ghosts , wait he is mumbling something,

Ashvik: no..no..no… don’t.. don’t..touch… don’t..touch…me..Dante.. Amaira…save..me…luca….no………please

Who the hell these people are , it’s not like I give a flying fuck about it , I went closer and he is drenched in sweat it seems he is burning, godd he is burning in fever, It’s so late maids must have returned to their house and I can’t disturb them so I quickly grabbed a towel and water from the Washroom and started putting cloth in his head to calm down the temperature, and I also gave him medicine for fever , he seems to be in unconscious state , as he took medicine and slept again I remember Ansh mentioned that he has cuts in his legs which he forgot to bandage because of all the drama so I cleaned it too and applied ointment on it as it can be reason behind the fever, By 4 I was done with cold cloth and the fever has seemed to reduce too , I really don’t care about him but it’s just I hate ghosts and dead people are a handful of work . Yeah this is the only reason I am doing all of this .

Armaan’s POV end

Armaan was leaving quitely not wanting to get noticed by Ashvik as he is not a caring one , but froze instantly when Ashvik holds his hand and mumbled something which Armaan definitely heard,

Ashvik: .mA…don’t..leave..me alone..plss..take ..me.. with… you ..na ..mumma..I..miss..you ….mumma ..plss..take ..me … I can’t..ma….I can’t do …it .. anymore..I…am…tired…..plss

Armaan looked like he was slapped in his face he quickly went out leaving Ashvik alone in the room .

He was feeling so frustrated with himself, his brother wanted to die , how much he must be going through that he wanted to die , and the fun fact that it’s exactly their doing which they didn’t understand till now , he was the sole person who despise him the most and now when he is giving up when he looked so fragile, he was not feeling the same, he was feeling that he failed him somehow and that was worst.

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End of chapter ✨

A small chapter, but from next chapter Ansh will become protective and caring and trust me guys it will be adorable.
He will join the Dante group too In some time and he will have a partner too guess who will be his partner in the comments?

It’s time for Ashvik’s happy life ✨

Bye bye 👋
Love you Munchkins ❤️