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January finally arrived again.

Devan loved this month. He could typically feel its uniquely refreshing energy long before it’d even start. It was his free ticket to starting everything anew and with a clean slate. It always motivated him to turn his life around and make it better than ever before.

However, this year, his future looked bleak, and not even the perspective of a new start could animate him. Maybe, it was just Nainital, giving him those feelings...

His friends kept pushing him to just pack and go back to New Delhi. Devan kept saying, yeah, yeah, I know, I should.

But deep down, he knew well that returning wasn’t an option… not after everything got ruined like that. Plus, his inner voice was whispering to him that staying in Nainital wasn’t a mistake, at least, not for the moment.

Thinking of it, it was almost as if something was keeping him here…

But what? He wasn’t sure of that.

Certainly, those couldn't have been memories of his first love? Because if the answer was yes, then it would be ridiculous... It was over and done with that man. Devan had even managed to get a rebound – the relationship with whom he managed to screw too – but oh well. That was life.

Relationships were hard.

So no, it definitely wasn’t about his first love. Rather, a general nostalgia related to the town, to which destiny made him return two times already...

Nainital was a special place. It was located in Uttarakhand, Northern India, and built on the Kumaon foothills of the outer Himalayas, almost two thousand meters above sea level. As such, it towered over other places, and locals liked to call it the hill station.

Devan loved this name, and his mind often drifted away to feed him inspiring images showing the post-apocalyptic version of the town, one with an abandoned train station concealed between various trees: pines, oaks, chestnuts, walnuts, musk roses, and others.

But the town itself had nothing post-apocalyptic in itself, and the true train station was actually far away; one had to drive forty kilometers by car to get there. Because of it, it was rather isolated from the world and a shelter... One that he needed very much after everything that occurred recently in New Delhi...

And that day, he had a particularly tough day at work, not really in terms of working long hours (although that, too), but tough emotionally.

He was asked to make a choice that he didn’t feel ready to make at all, a choice that was triggering all kinds of conflicting feelings in him...mostly ones that he didn’t want to be experiencing anymore, related to his first love...

He wasn’t ready for this. Not now, when he still felt bitter about everything that happened back there, in New Delhi... Things went from great to total disaster within days, and it was making him feel so miserable…

He shook his head as if it could make him get rid of all negative thoughts.