writingcamp + Slay Like A Princess

Week X + Nightmares again and character sketch

I was running fastly. With all my might to escape from the monster who is behind me from more than twenty minutes. I don't even know how did I landed here when I was sleeping in my tree house. It's really hard running in this dark forest without getting any way but luckily as it's Full moon day, I can atleast see the path for moving forward. I know if I stop running, this will be my end which I don't want to ofcourse. I know that monster will kill me if I stop in the middle. I'm so tired now. I can't run anymore. I know he is a bit far away from me so atleast I can sit for a minute peacefully.

Sighing I sat on the big rock beside a big tree which was just a few steps away. Damn I'm so thirsty. I swear if I could have find him somewhere else I would slay him brutally but I guess it's not my time.

"Where are you baby girl. Come on now stop playing. Even you know that you can't run away. So quit the game baby let's just have fun" I heard his voice coming from a far distance. But even being far I can understand the warning in his words. He won't definitely leave me. I have to start running again if I want to live. His voice still holds the same intensity that sends shivers down the spine. God how the hell did I got stuck here?

Thinking to myself I started running again as if he could here my foot steps he will definitely find me. I don't want to die. I can't lose myself. I kept running. Running for how long I don't know but I guess maybe a half an hour. "Ouch what the heck" I hissed feeling something pierced my right foot. God why me? I stood by balancing myself on one foot and my back supporting a tree. My shoes got damaged. Such a bad time.

*sighing she bent a bit to take out the thorn that pierced her foot when someone palmed her mouth and dragged her somewhere inside and closed the door*

I'm scared. I don't know who it is. My leg is bleeding because of the thorn. I don't want to open my eyes. What if it's him? Is this my end? Will he use me and kill me? But why isn't he speaking anything? Thinking all these I sat on the ground there still with closed eyes as the person made me stand balancing to the wall or tree or whatever it is. But wait I don't think it's the monster because if it's him, he would push me harshly being a monster but this person made me stand carefully. Does that mean it isn't the monster who pulled me?

After fighting with myself for a minute or so I decided to open my eyes. The person is this silent that means they might be safe or can help me. God please help me for this one time I promise I will keep praising you whenever I'm free.

"Says the one who keeps on reading or studying without taking much breaks. I don't even know how did I even Became your person" a voice came from somewhere I guess from my body only. Oh yeah meet my not-so-annoying conscience. I doesn't have any work other than annoying me. And till now it already did masters in it and does it's work well. It comes everytime I think of something and taunts me. Does anyone have this bad conscience too? I wish god could replace it.

"Oh hello miss! If you forget, you are here to get saved from the monster. You can even make deal with God later for my exchange which I know would happened never but at present it's important to get out of here anyway" for the first time ever in my life I feel to go with my conscience.

I slowly opened my eyes and found silhouette of a person with long hairs and the physic, it looks like a girl. Wait! A girl in the middle of the forest, that too save me? How the hell is this possible?

"Hey umm- thanks for saving me but can I know who are you?" I asked politely but my voice came as a muffle due to continuous running and being tired. I'm glad that it's silent everywhere that I'm sure she might have atleast heard me. Nodding her head she slowly turned around and I saw her.

Her eyes, nose , lips , facial features, hairs, physic I feel I know that person. Wait- what? It's me? How the hell I'm here? I saved myself? I'm at two places? With myself? How the heck is this possible? I know that I don't have any twin. That means she is my doppelganger. Means I'm going to die soon?

"Nooooo" I shouted closed my eyes tightly and sat up. After a few seconds I opened my eyes. Wait! I'm in my bedroom? With my duvet on me? After looking at the surroundings now I believe that I'm in my room.

Again a nightmare. God why always me? Why am I getting nightmares from so long? That too so weird nightmares. Wait a second! I saw my doppelganger today. What if it's true and it's in my home.

"Aashi. Jaan are you up? Come on wake up and get ready Orelse you will get late for uni" I heard a sweet voice coming loudly which means mom is shouting. Damn mom I love you so much. But wait I have to see whether I have my doppelganger or not.

Aashi's POV ends.

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Aashi came running out of her room and climbed down the stairs fastly and ran everywhere in her house to find her doppelganger but her father who was sitting on sofa in the living room was looking at her weirdly.

"Princess stop running orelse you will fall down and get hurt" he said softly which obviously went to deaf ears. She was about to go into kitchen when she felt herself flying in air. She squealed loudly as she knows who picks her up like this and wrapped her arms around his neck and slapped his shoulder.

"You imbecile put me down."

"You sure baby doll?"

"Ofcourse I'm. Now put me down" she whined.

"Ok then" he said and threw her and she shouted thinking he threw her on floor but when she felt something soft under her and someone laughing. She slowly opened her eyes to find she is on sofa and the Person is laughing literally rolling on floor. But when he stopped after a while and looked at her who is glaring him as if she will burn him alive he immediately held his ears as if saying sorry. But when he looked into her eyes he felt she would cry and that's the last thing he wanted. She sighed and he sat beside her on sofa and wrapped his arm around her shoulder.

"Did you got a nightmare again?" He asked softly and she nodded her head slowly. "What is it?" He asked again and she explained whatever she got as the nightmare.

"But whatever happened or whatever I see, these many years, I only find myself running or chasing or whatever it is. I didn't found who is the one chasing me" she said with a huff. That's true. She is getting the nightmares from the age of 8. But with some sessions with psychologists, they stopped the number of times they come. It's been a month that she got a nightmare and she was happy for that but again she got one yesterday.

Her parents became mute spectators finding the bestest friends so adorable to disturb whether it's serious discussion or some bickering. Even they don't know why she was getting nightmares that too a particular type of nightmares. They have tried taking her to priests, sages, church father but nothing worked nothing helped but because of psychological sessions she was doing a bit better but again she is getting back.

"Acha ashu now go and get ready Orelse you will get late for uni and Ishu beta you come into kitchen I will serve you Breakfast" said Aashi's mom Ananya sweetly to which "Aunty it's Ishaan not Ishu and anyways I will eat with baby doll only let her go and come fast" said Ishaan, Aashi's best friend.

Aashi went up to get freshen up and ready while as always Aashi's dad Arnav and Ishaan kept talking about business and studies and some boring stuff which Ananya went inside kitchen nodding her head in disbelief with a sweet smile Playing on her lips to continue making breakfast.

Aashi came back in half an hour after tieing her hair in a high pony and wearing a cute shorts and sweatshirt looking cute and hot at the same time. Seeing her Ishaan smiled and called Ananya who sat on sofa reading newspaper and looking at the diary in her hands, she understood that Aashi wrote a poem again. Getting excited Ishaan immediately took the diary from her and opened it sitting between Arnav and Ananya.

He opened the diary and there's written the below lines on yesterday's date:-

"She doesn't know who is she,

She doesn't know who she can be!

She doesn't know what happened to her,

She doesn't know what she has done!

She doesn't know how she was,

She doesn't know how she can be!

She doesn't know whether she is herself,

She doesn't know whether she can be herself!

She doesn't know that something is in herself,

She doesn't know that someone is in herself!

She doesn't know that she has a past,

And it is going to affect her present,

Whatever she knows,

She has been brought up as a princess,

And she slays like a princess!"

~ Rapunzel.........

"I was Myself shocked when I read this today morning. I don't know how do I write these poems. I was never into this but whenever I take diary and pen I write poems even without knowing myself and I don't feel that I wrote it instead I feel someone inside me is writing." Aashi said after looking at the surprising look on the three faces infront of her after reading the poem.

"How? I mean how everytime you manage to leave us speechless with your poetry?" Asked Ishaan because he knows Aashi never lies and if she says she doesn't feel that she didn't wrote it, then it means she didn't. He just trusts her. But now the best thing is to divert her.

"Acha leave all this and let's have breakfast as you guys have to leave too." Said Ananya after getting a clue from Ishaan's words that she should divert Aashi orelse she will start overthinking.

Nodding at both Aashi got up keeping the bag on sofa and everyone too followed the cue and settled in dining room for breakfast which happened happily with the usual flirting of Arnav with Ananya and the regular bickering of Ishaan and Aashi.

"Acha now let's leave orelse we will get late and Mukti won't leave any stone unturned to shout on us for being late" said Ishaan after completing breakfast. Arnav and Ananya pecked both their foreheads as bye and both left in Ishaan's car but Aashi is driving which is very rare. Ishaan kept looking at her and thinking about the nightmare,poetry and the name below poetry.

Ishaan knows Aashi loves poetry alot as she has been writing from when she was ten. Even she don't know how but she does that from starting and from that age only she kept writing RAPUNZEL at the end of every poem as poets write their name at the end of their poem. She wrote Rapunzel name even before she saw the movie. He tried joining the dots. Nightmare of a monster or that's what she calls the one who is chasing her in her dreams from literally ten years yet she didn't saw atleast a glimpse of him once.

RAPUNZEL. MONSTER'S CHASE. SLAY LIKE A PRINCESS. He closed his eyes keeping on chanting these three things to himself and even Aashi didn't disturbed him today concentrating on driving.

"Yesss" He shouted loudly all of a sudden for which Aashi got scared and stopped the car abruptly. Sighing she smacked his head lightly saying "What's up with you today? You are behaving weirdly from morning. And what is the thing in the freezing hell made you shout now as if you became University topper" She asked annoying to which Ishaan chuckled lightly nodding his head in no and said a small sorry and asked.her to continue driving.

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Ishaan's POV

It feels so weird. These three things really have a connection. I mean Rapunzel is a princess name. The one who fought all her life and had passed all the struggles and battles well. Slay like a Princess. Means Rapunzel is a princess. Slaying means killing in some sense. Everytime she writes Rapunzel means the poetess is killing- the monster who is chasing her. It's so weird but everytime she gets the chasing dream, she writes these kind of poems which are confusing yet motivational one. I feel these things are connected. Is she going to kill someone. But whom will she kill even if she wanted to as she doesn't even saw the person's face in the dream? Urgh so confusing.

Ishaan's POV ends.

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Sighing at his weird thoughts he looked at Aashi who is driving while humming the song that is playing on the F.M. Smiling to himself thinking how can she calm the fire in his heart just by looking at her for a second he opened his mobile and started scrolling through i********: and after a few minutes they reached their destination aka University.

Aashi parked the car in parking lot and both of them came out of car doing their all time favourite task that is bickering on posting pics on i********:. Being so involved in their bickering they didn't observed that 2 pairs of eyes were shooting daggers on everyone who were eye feasting the goddess of beauty and greek God (Aashi and Ishaan).

"Hello love birds" came a loud sound probably called by their two i***t friends who won't leave atleast one stone unturned to embarass both of them.

"We are not love birds we are just friends" shouted Ishaan and Aashi together at the same time on the both who called them love birds. Before they could react, they got engulfed in a bear hug of their best friends Mukti and Dhruv who always wanted Ishaan and Aashi to make a pair because they feel that these are made for eachother.

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Character sketch

Ishaan Mehra- Light brown eyes with a sharp jawline and six packs. A guy with good heart and every girl's dream come true.Apple eye of Ishita and Raman Mehra. Their pride and symbol of love. He loves them to the moon and back. If he loves someone as same as he loves his parents, then they are Ananya Singh and Arnav Singh~ Aashi's parents who loves him like their own son. And Aashi, she is his life even though he won't mention it much. A happy go lucky guy but very much protective and possessive for Aashi.

Aashi Singh- Female protagonist. A very goofy girl with required sassiness and attitude. A package of cuteness, craziness and hotness. Loves Ishita, Ananya, Arnav and Raman equally and Ishaan is her stress buster, mentor, 3 A.M. friend, and only he can handle her craziness and mood swings. Not even Ananya and Arnav can handle her mood swings. A crazy girl in love with Chocolates. Get her a chocolate, she would herself sit in the kidnapper's van and happily gets kidn*pped. A scratch on Ishaan she will be the worst nightmare of yours. Hella possessive for him. The things weird about her are her nightmares, poetry and some abilities evens he doesn't know herself.

Mukti Vardhan- Best friend of Ishaan , Aashi and Dhruv. Tomboy of the g**g. Always tries making Ishaan and Aashi understand that they are made for eachother. Orphan. Loves Dhruv and both are in a relationship. Dhruv's parents accepted her happily. Going to get engaged to him soon. Hella possessive for the trio.

Dhruv Kashyap- The silent guy of the g**g. He is shy infront of others. An introvert type. Loves mukti to the moon and back. Possessive for her. All girls swoon over him for his shyness and cuteness which makes Mukti drown in jealousy and she will be ready to hit anyone who comes to him and that's why whole college is scared of Mukti.

Ananya and Arnav Singh- Cute couple with cute bickerings and loves eachother so much. Ananya is a housewife and runs an orphanage named BUTTERFLY HOME with Ishita and Aashi who visits it frequently. Ananya helps Arnav in business while he is a business man.

Ishita and Raman Mehra- Best friends of Ananya and Arnav. Four of these are childhood friends and share a family bond with eachother. Arnav and Raman runs a business together with equal partnership named AHAAN CONSTRUCTIONS PVT LTD. And Ishita and Ananya runs an orphanage. Ahaan constructions is one of the leading companies in India.

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Author's note-

Hola readers your writer here! Is the episode interesting? What do you think why is Aashi getting nightmares. Can you predict something in this story about what may happened next? And yes this story is based on my pure imaginations and if you find anything similar with some other story, then it's a purely coincidence because this is my own work and yes even the poetry i write as Aashi are also written by me so if you like the update do review and let me know your thoughts. Meet you with the next update bye and yes 3000+ words up here!