Sneak Peak - BDB

It was too cold an afternoon even for a winter day. The wind that was blowing had fangs and it tore through the body with the subtlety of an alligator and this for a place that was nestled so close to the equator was unusual and annoying. Annoying because even the furriest of coats bought for the worst winter day were as good as an umbrella would be in a hurricane. And to top it all off was not the dim dull lighting which led one to believe that it was late evening already lest they were to look at their watch and be pleasantly surprised nor the eerie dark clouds which threatened of a grand outpour; it was the raucous and raunchy thunder which bellowed over ones head with malice in its intentions. The whole panorama made one wonder whether Zeus and Indradev had taken control of the same skies and all this was a show of power to assert supremacy of either. The weather was sublime in its own sense, but right there in the midst of all the natural phenomena a young man sat on a chair in the porch of his house; just sat there in the thunder and the lightning of the winter day and did nothing. I mention him because the turbulences of the atmosphere could only be matched by the insides of this man. Yes, Viraj Aaryan sat there and such were his insides at that point of time, such was the gigantic accumulation of thoughts in his head, such was the insanity quotient of the measures he planned to take and such was the pain inside him as his belly squirmed with guilt that he barely noticed the weather around him. It had been almost a day now that Pritika had come to her place and told her the news but it seemed just like a couple of minutes ago, the words reverberated in his head now and then and he shriveled up with a mix of guilt, anger, grief and disbelief.