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Lust : Chapter 4 : Love is in the air...

by Eros

Chapter 4 : Love is in the air...

I could hear somebody. I had a sensation as if I was asleep for a long time. I tried to open my eyes, but I felt too weak to do so. I was not able to hear anything clearly. The voice of who ever was speaking was very thin and faint. I struggled to open my eyes, but failed. I tried hard to listen to what was being spoken, but everything went in vain.

I felt fatigue from the futile struggles I attempted and I dozed back to sleep. 

Now I was being chased by a devil. A giant devil. I was running with all my might, trying to escape his sharp nailed claws. I ran and ran. But the monster like devil would not quit. He kept on following me. The demon increased his pace and caught hold of me.

I screamed, "The devil ! The devil ! He--- He will kill me", and with the adrenaline gushing through my blood, I opened my eyes, breathing heavily.

I felt a sharp stinging pain in my arm. I turned my head swiftly to look what was it. It was a needle of an injection. It was a sharp pain and I closed my eyes tightly trying to gather some strength to bear the pain. I saw the doctor had finished doing the job. I looked at him. Terrified. 

"No need to be scared of me, it was just a dream you had been watching", said the doctor. 

I gathered some strength and asked curiously, "Doc--Doctor..."

"Yes?"

"How did you ---" I shut my eyes in pain, but again opened them and continued, "How did you know I had been watching a dream...?"

"That is called REM, Rapid eye movement, that I observed while you were asleep. A person's eye balls keep moving under the skin of the eye lids in sleep when he is watching a dream" 

I understood roughly what was said. After the doctor left, I saw George and Hunny enter the room. 

"How you are you, Seenu?" Asked George.

"I'm ... I'm fine"

"I'm sorry, Seenu...", Said Hunny.

I saw his eyes twinkle with tears. I had never seen Hunny cry, not even when he had a breakup with Jazz. 

I asked him to sit beside me. I wiped his tears off and said, "Hunny, it was completely my fault. I saw the image of Shanaya's----" I stopped abruptly.

"Shanaya's what, Seenu!? Shanaya's what!?", Hunny became angry.

"Sh---Shanaya's face..." I dropped my head and tried to avoid matching eyes with him.

"Offoh, Seenu, leave the things and first get well. We will fix this problem of yours together.", Hunny patted my shoulders. 

I looked at him, then at George. George blinked and nodded. I sighed. 

I was wrapped in bandage and it pained like hell. But I silently beared everything. After three days I got discharge from the hospital. The bandages were still there, and I felt shy to go back home because Shanaya's house was very close to my house and I felt somewhere in my heart that she would come to meet me, and I didn't want to show my bandage covered face to her. I looked really funny.

All my predictions came true, and the very next day after I got discharge, Shanaya came to my house at about 2 pm. She was shocked when she looked at me. I expected her laugh because of how funny I looked, but I was surprised or rather shocked by her tears. I became very serious and I tried to explain her that everything was okay. 

Suddenly we heard the thunder of lightening. She quickly ran outside my house and brought back all the clothes that were drying outside. It started raining outside. The atmosphere was cool and very pleasant.

I felt emotional on thinking how much she cares for me. 

"Don't you dare to move from here.", She commanded like a colonel. 

I nodded. She went to the kitchen and made hot tomato soup for me. 

Not only made it, but also fed it to me. I felt an instant spark of energy as I sipped the soup from the spoon held by her fair fingers. I noticed her nails. Long... Painted white, with the letters L O V E written in red beautiful decorative handwriting on her nails, and a little heart drawn on her thumb nail.

My eyes stopped at her nails for a moment. 

"What happened, Seenu?"

"Your nails..."

"You didn't like them?"

"I didn't just like them. I loved them."

A blush spread from her fair cheeks towards her ears, adorned with long green earrings that matched with her dark green frock.

She was so attractive. 

"By the way ...what do you think about love?", I asked her without any intention behind it.

"Love is a bond between two souls...", She got up and walked slowly towards the window.

She gazed outside the window  and was looking at the  rainfall. 

She continued, "Love is intense liking you develop for someone. It is a thirst to get a glance of that someone. It is longing ... It is oceans. You feel drowning in the beauty of that someone. It is a victory over each other's hearts..."

I was gazing in her eyes, as she was lost in the rain drops falling like pearls from the sky. She continued, "One person becomes everything for the other person and they become each other's special someone", She turned around, her hair spun around in opposite direction. Now her hair was moving gracefully in the air because of the gentle cool breeze. I was still lost in her. 

She asked, "Where are you lost?"

"You are so beautiful, Shanaya..."

"You are no less beautiful, Seenu... But now I have to go, the rainfall is stopped."

"Sure, Shanaya..."

She left. I felt the time flew away so quickly... Shanaya came and went so soon... But I realised that it was 6 pm. Four hours flew away so quickly.

Love is in the air ... Will this story take a new turn? Is Shanaya in love with Seenu? Or will Seenu get friendzoned? Read in the next chapters...

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This is Weirdo, here for a review. Please know that nothing in this review is meant to offend you or your story. This is just my opinion, you and other readers and reviewers could disagree. That being said, let us get into this review. I will try not to repeat anything that has already been said by ryanmakenna and Bloodlord, or what I said in the reviews of Chapter 1 & 2.

What I liked
How Seenu might be friendzoned by Shanaya. That makes the story more believable. And how Shanaya describes love.

Grammar/Typos/Word check/Spell check
(the bold is what has to be corrected)

I could hear somebody. I had a sensation as if I was asleep for a long time. I tried to open my eyes, but I felt too weak to do so. I was not able to hear anything clearly. The voice of who ever was speaking was very thin and faint. I struggled to open my eyes, but failed. I tried hard to listen to what was being spoken, but everything went in vain.

*whoever

Now I was being chased by a devil. A giant devil. I was running with all my might, trying to escape his sharp nailed claws. I ran and ran. But the monster like devil would not quit. He kept on following me. The demon increased his pace and caught hold of me.

*the/a devil

I screamed, "The devil ! The devil ! He--- He will kill me", and with the adrenaline gushing through my blood, I opened my eyes, breathing heavily.

*The devil! The devil!
instead of using the word gushing, I think you should use the word rushing, since it sounds better.

I felt a sharp stinging pain in my arm. I turned my head swiftly to look what was it. It was a needle of an injection. It was a sharp pain and I closed my eyes tightly trying to gather some strength to bear the pain. I saw the doctor had finished doing the job. I looked at him. Terrified.

*look at what it was.
*him, terrified.

"That is called REM, Rapid eye movement, that I observed while you were asleep. A person's eye balls keep moving under the skin of the eye lids in sleep when he is watching a dream"

*eyeballs
*eyelids

I was wrapped in bandage and it pained like hell. But I silently beared everything. After three days I got discharge from the hospital. The bandages were still there, and I felt shy to go back home because Shanaya's house was very close to my house and I felt somewhere in my heart that she would come to meet me, and I didn't want to show my bandage covered face to her. I looked really funny.

*bandages
*bore
*discharged

All my predictions came true, and the very next day after I got discharge, Shanaya came to my house at about 2 pm. She was shocked when she looked at me. I expected her laugh because of how funny I looked, but I was surprised or rather shocked by her tears. I became very serious and I tried to explain her that everything was okay.

*discharged
*to laugh
*to explain

I was gazing in her eyes, as she was lost in the rain drops falling like pearls from the sky. She continued, "One person becomes everything for the other person and they become each other's special someone", She turned around, her hair spun around in opposite direction. Now her hair was moving gracefully in the air because of the gentle cool breeze. I was still lost in her.

*into
*raindrops

Characters
As I said earlier, Seenu seems to perfect, and now, I'd say that Shanaya also seems perfect. She is pretty, caring, sweet, smart, into studies, and so on. Introduce us to their flaws. Also, George and Hunny don't have a personality. They are just sidekicks. Give them more backstory. Like how you mentioned his break up with Jazz, give more references to their past in the story.

Overall
This chapter shows improvement, and I'm really glad about that. I am still learning, and so are you. I would probably review the other chapters of Lust as well, depends on how much time I have before I go to bed.

-Prachi :D

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Bloodlord
Review

Hi, Bloodlord here for a review!

This is an interesting chapter, and I look forward to seeing how these relationships evolve in the coming chapters! You make Seenu a vulnerable protagonist that readers care more about as the story progresses.

Since ryanmakenna already touched up on this in the other review, I'm not going to spend too much time on it, but you can definitely develop the relationships between characters a little more. Though chapter 4 is still relatively early in the story, I think by now we should know a little bit more about the characters. Exploring the friendships between Seenu, Hunny, and George, and especially between Seenu and Shanaya, would help these relationships come to life.

In some places, I think changing the wording and the word arrangement would make the dialogue more believable. Dialogue should feel natural and sound like something people would say in real life. You can make the dialogue more real by using contractions and wording that we use in everyday speech.

For example, Seenu asks the doctor, “How did you know I had been watching a dream. . .?”. The ‘I had been’ part is a little awkward to say. Instead, “How did you know I’d been watching a dream. . .?” might be better. Also, when Shanaya says “the rainfall is stopped”, it is more natural to say “the rain has stopped”. In places like these, it seems like a small change, but I think it makes a big difference for readers when they play the dialogue in their heads.

I think in your last two sentences, “flew away so quickly” seems a little repetitive. Sometimes it makes sense to say a phrase multiple times, but I think it would be better here to say something similar to “The time flew away so quickly . . . Shanaya came and went so soon . . . but I realised that it was 6 pm. Four hours, gone already.”

Thanks for sharing, this was great! Everything here was just my opinion, so definitely don’t feel like you have to do any of it. This is just here if you want it!

Thank you so much for the review !!

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ryanmakenna
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Does the devil dream have anything to do with the story in the future? It would be interesting if it was foreshadowing for something else!

On to more serious things...

I like that you showed more personality with Seenu's friends this time. Hunny seems very sensitive and like he has a deep bond with Seenu. I like that you mentioned how he didn't even cry when he broke up with Jazz, yet he was crying now after putting Seenu in the hospital. George on the other hand, seems much more reserved since all he did was blink and nod when Hunny said that they would help Seenu through his obsession with Shanaya. I like that their relationship is becoming much more clear.

I wish though, that there was more development between Shanaya and Seenu. Right now, it seems as though they went from being friends all of a sudden to him being in love with her! It all happened too quickly, as if it were rushed. I know it is exciting to write about love, and I often get caught up and write the juicy love scenes way too quickly--that's what romance is all about, right? But in order for your reader to be invested in their relationship, we need to see it develop from friendship to love. What does Seenu love about her besides her looks? Beauty can only last so long. Sure, it can be the first thing that drew him to her, but now that we get the impression that he is in love with her, you should show us more of the reasons he likes her. Not only that, but does she feel the same way? Or does she only want to be his friend?

I would love to see more content during the weeks that you skipped when he and Shanaya became closer and he became more distant with George and Hunny. I think you missed a lot of opportunity there to introduce us to their friendship and what makes it special.

Keep up the good work, you are doing well and getting better with every chapter.

Thank you so much ! I must say your reviews are really sweet !



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