Medical romance- My entry for the get published contest

Love is all in fire, yet is freezing,

Love is much in winning, but is more in losing.

                                                                                           -Anonymous.

Love has been an inspiration for literary masterpieces for ages,  the most talked about subject for ages. It is absolutely overwhelming sometimes to witness real and unconditional love in modern India, but then life is full of miracles.

Medical college brought a 180 degree change in my otherwise mundane life. I consider myself very lucky for experiencing most salubrious forms of love and every  possible shade of this  spiritual feeling( and this has nothing to do with a certain  ‘shade of grey’) But there are always some stories which remain alive in our subconscious mind only to spring back when matters of hearts are discussed. It’s a cliché that love and friendship have always been interchanged and add to it the pressure of medical studies, insane amount of course, pressure of ungodly working and study hours and BAMMM! You have a completely messed up, tangled love story. It would have been predictable had it been a triangle but here is the twist of spicy fate , it involved four friends in a pretty complicated situation.

Meet Rajat and Rakshita, 1st year medical students who became best friends during ragging perios when none of the boys were allowed to interact with girls. They owed their  friendship to the annual function and their common interest in music. Whole batch was a bit jealous and a bit skeptical about their growing friendship including Akshay and Garvita  who had a huge crush on Rakshita  and Rajat respectively from day 1.

The fate doesn’t ever leave anyone alone and again it clawed its way in their story because of the fact that  Rajat and Akshay were close friends while on the other side Garvita was best friends with Rakshita.

 Girls being a bit of sentimentalist will always be fool when it comes to the matters of hearts. So Rakshita like a true friend and a good samaritan stepped out of Rajat’s life and Garvita’s path going to the extent of fighting with Rajat just to repel him . Now Garvita started dating Rajat and Rakshita went out with Akshay just to get a hang of the dating game, not that she was interested in any one. Things went smooth for about 2-3 years when Rakshita could not keep the pretense and broke up with Akshay. But she valued friendship a tad more than love so she never interfered in her friends’ love life going about her way.

Now, I always say facts are stranger than fiction and hence both Rajat and Rakshita were unaware of the fact that they both were in love with each other and by the time they realized it, it was too late. But the fate once again tried bringing them together when they met each other after a gap of 2 years after college, this  time Rajat was sure that he has lost his true love  when he saw her after a gap. The end is supposed to be a surprise as there will be nothing of interest if I disclose so as to what happened in the end.

But the things that made the story interesting was the involvement of a a lot of spiced-up characters, the background of a medical college and not to forget the involvement of Akshay, a guy who was an epitome of love but lost out quite early due to his ill-fate.

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This is my entry for Harper collins-Indiblogger get published contest which is run with inputs from Yashodhara Lal and Harper Collins India