No one's P.O.V.

With a very bright smile on her face, Vena was walking out of the airport. After so many months of begging her parents, she finally gets the chance to flew to New York to meet her sister Adrian. She was dying to see her sister, her husband Dylan and her nephew Aiden. Holding her suitcase, she walked to get a cab. Adrian couldn't come to pick her up from the airport so Vena has to take a cab. Well, she could do that. She's a big girl now. She's sixteen after all.

With innocence in her eyes and a slight hesitation, she glanced all around herself. A cab driver who was a slightly old looking gave her a friendly smile and Vena melts. She's a softie inside. A word of care, sympathy is enough for her to melt away. Afterall, that's what she craves the most. Her parents adopted her because Adrian falls in love with her once she came to visit the orphanage for a school camp. Adrian wanted Vena to be her sister and that's how Vena became a part of the Aniston family. Vena's present parents don't like her much but Adrian gave her double love. Vena can handle any hatred, any insult and every hardship just to stay with Adrian.

They both were soul sisters. They're not united by blood but they have a heart connection. They both love each other to the core. Vena has no one except Adrian and she's way too possessive of her.

Vena walked to the cab driver and told him the address. The old man nodded and told her the fair. He also added, "You look like my granddaughter. I'll give you a discount".

People here are nice, Vena was naive enough to think this.

"You're so nice. Thank you", Vena said as she sat on the back seat. Soft music was playing in the car. Vena was so tired from the flight that she decided to close her eyes. She wasn't sleeping. She was enjoying the car ride and music with her eyes closed.

Her biggest mistake ever.

After around two songs later, the car stopped. Vena opened her eyes and frowned as she looked all around herself. The car was standing amidst broken dark buildings all around. The building itself screams danger.

"Where are we?", Vena asked. The old man looked behind and smirked.

"We reached our destination", he said. The good old man turned into a bad dangerous guy in a click of the finger.

"What do you mean?", Her voice stuttered.

"You're so young and so beautiful. I'll get a good deal from you", he mumbled as he looked at her from head to toe. Her throat went dry and her eyes teared up.

She opened the car's door and was all ready to run but that big guy held her before she could do anything. He held her hand firmly.

"Please let me go. You can take as much money as I've. Please don't do anything to me", she begged. She cried. She yelled. But not a single soul was there to listen to her.

"You're a million-dollar deal. How can I let this opportunity pass?", He said. He seemed very proud of himself. He started dragging her inside one of the building. She was trying way too hard to get free from his grip. Her situation was like a wounded animal who is stuck in a net and is fighting for freedom but all its attempts are futile.

Here's a saying. If God is there to protect you, he'll send his guide for you because he can't be there with you. Vena was praying to Jesus to save her. As if her prayers were so genuine that they're heard. A boy of around eighteen or nineteen-year-old walked out of the building. He was lighting his cigarette. He looked like her only hope.

Vena got confidence all of a sudden seeing that stranger. She bite the hand of the old guy so hard that he whimpered in pain. His hold on her hand loosened up and Vena got her freedom. She ran to that unknown guy and stand in front of me. The guy looked at her. The cap over his face hides his eyes and the expressions inside them.

"Please save me", she said folding her hand in front of him. He looked at her without blinking his eyes.

"Hey, young boy. Get out from here. Leave that girl to me", said the old man who approached the duo. Vena immediately hides behind the tall five feet nine inches something guy. She holds the hem of his jacket out of fear. Her whole body was shaking.

"Why? Is she your possession?", The guy said with so much authority in his voice that Vena feels comforted somehow.

"Yes. I've found her and I'm gonna sell her to the boss. Now, go and play somewhere else", The old man yelled.

"Ivan Green don't follow orders, you old punk. You can't tell me what to do and what not to do. Do you get that?", The young guy yelled. Vena gets to know his name finally.

"Fine. Then I'll deal with you first and then I'll take this girl away. You need to learn some lessons, mot***fuc***", said the old man.

"Be my guest", saying so, Ivan pulled out his jacket and immediately threw it over Vena's face.

"Don't remove the jacket", he said as he held her shoulder. She couldn't see him because of the jacket over her face but still gave a nod. After a few seconds, she heard the sound of yelling, cursing and groaning of both the man. But soon she realised, Ivan was beating the shit out of the old man. Her heart was filled with gratitude for this young man.

After a few minutes passed away, the jacket over head was removed. She was still shaking in fear. She looked up and saw Ivan standing in front of her. His right lower lip was bleeding. The old man was nowhere to be seen. Vena adjusted her messed up hair feeling all conscious of her looks in her newfound crush.

Teenage years are stupid yet most memorable. Vena was enjoying hers for the first time as well.

"Why are you roaming alone? Where are your parents?", Ivan asked. His breath was still rapid due to fight.

"I came to meet my sister", Vena replied. His sharp voice sends goosebumps all over her body. She holds the hem of her shirt.

"You should have been careful if you're travelling solo", Ivan said and she just nodded. Tears of helplessness started flowing down her cheeks. She bowed down her head allowing her hair to hide her face.

Ivan sighed and he removed the cap from his head and placed it over Vena's head. She looked up after wiping her tears and saw the complete face of her crush. Her eyes widened to see how handsome he looked as the sunlight was falling on his face. She felt weak in her knees.

How can one be so handsome?

"Let's go now", saying so, Ivan held her by her arm and started walking ahead. She turned crimson at his touch but followed anyways.

Dear heart, I don't want to die. Please lower your pace, she requested.

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Days passed and so does weeks. Vena was having her best time with her sister, Dylan and her cute little nephew Aiden. She was happy but every single day, she thought about Ivan. His cap was still with her. She felt so drawn to that guy because after Adrian, he was the first guy who made her feel protected. She smiled at the thought of him. All the love songs she listened to, she imagined Ivan with him. Afterall, he was her first crush of her new teenage life.

But fairytales are real in stories only. Real life is not all about happiness and smooth rides. It's a mix of road bumps, feeling of being stuck and gloomy sad days. And that's okay.

One day whilst coming back from the grocery shopping, on her way back home, Vena saw her crush. Her steps halted and her eyes widened. The guy she's been dreaming to meet again was right in front of her. She was standing at the other side of the road whilst he was in the park but he wasn't alone. He was with a girl. She saw how he pushed the girl against the tree. His demeanour was screaming danger. He was forcing himself on that girl.

It broke her heart. Her eyes were brimming. She ran away. She ran until and unless she reached the home. Her first love was supposed to be a kind and a good person. The Ivan Greene who saved her that day was a helpful boy who respected girls. But today, the guy she saw was a bad guy. Her first love broke her heart for the first time.

One day her sister asked her about her sour mood. Vena couldn't lie to her sister. Hardly she knew at that time that the girl she thinks is her sister is actually her doppelganger.

"Today, I saw the boy who saved me that day, remember I told you about him", Vena said.

"Yes", replied her sister.

"He was treating a girl badly. How do you judge if people are good or bad?", She questioned.

"People are not good or bad. Their circumstances are. Sometimes things are so hard that even if you want to do good, you end up taking the wrong route. Life is hard for everyone and not a single person is strong enough to handle it with grace", Olivia who was disguised as Adrian spoke. Olivia was addressing herself but Vena took her advice and apply it to Ivan.

What bad must Ivan has to go through that he was so rude to that girl?, She thought.

Her heart defended her crush in every single way. She was adamant not to prove him guilty. Love does that to you. It makes you blind. She didn't want to look at the dark side of Ivan because for her he was her knight in the shining armour.

And then the dreaded day came which changed her life forever.

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Standing in front of the building, Vena was catching her running breath. Adrian received a call from her student and she came running to help her. What was her name again?, Vena thought.

Joe, her mind reminded her.

"Please be safe", Vena prayed for her sister and started walking towards the building but was stopped in her tracks when she saw Ivan walking out of the building. He walked past her with his head bowed down. Her eyes never left him.

She noticed a trail of blood drops following him and her eyes found his bleeding hand. She froze and just observe him. He threw a ring on the ground and sat on the bike. He looked devasted. A sudden urge to comfort him overtook her senses. Vena was in dilemma. Where should she go first? Her sister or her crush? Her family relations won and with a heavy heart, she ran inside the building.

"I'm sorry Ivan", she said to herself and ran inside. Vena has never seen Joe properly. She has heard about it. She saw Joe once outside a mall when her sister's ex-husband Ron was harassing her. But she can't remember her face properly.

Vena froze when she saw Ron running out of one of the doors of the apartments on the floor. He looked devastated and freaked out.

"Come fast. I'm coming down", he was yelling over the phone. He ran towards stairs in hurry that he didn't notice Vena standing next to the lift.

And then one by one Vena lost everything. She found her dead sister in the apartment, another girl Joe was lying lifeless on other room as well. A few people came and put those two ladies in a stretcher and took them away. Vena followed but she missed her opportunity to sit in the ambulance. She saw Ron sitting next to Adrian. He didn't notice her. She vowed to herself to put Ron behind the bars.

She thought Ron killed his sister and developed the resentment against him instantly. She hated him for cheating on her sister but now she wants him to die.

On her way to the hospital in the cab, Vena saw a crowd gathered at a side of the road. She recognised the red bike. She found out Ivan lying on the road. He met with an accident. Without thinking twice, Vena asked help from others and took him to the hospital. She couldn't save her sister that day but she managed to save Ivan's life atleast. That girl Joe was saved as well.

Vena went to meet Joe and told her about her sister and her child. Joe forwarded the hand of help to her. Vena was naive enough to believe her.

"How's that guy?", Before leaving the hospital with her sister's dead body, Vena decided to ask the doctor about Ivan.

"He's in a coma", Doctor replied her.

I guess this is the end of my one-sided love also, she declared.

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Present time;

Truth has been unfolded. The real culprit is behind the bars and Vena is all free to live her life normally. But she doesn't want to be a part of Ivan's life now.

He doesn't deserve a lonely girl with so many issues of her own. She wants to make her identity and prove herself worthy of his love. She can only pray that the day she will be ready for him, he's still available.

If you can, please wait for me.

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