What??
Seriously??
I looked at him in disbelief... he smirked a little looking at my facial expressions and added

"By the way what were you searching?"

"Oh nothing special, just something kept in that diary is lost somewhere. Never mind..."

He shifted a little to see past me and chanced a glance. Pointing a finger towards the diary kept in the wardrobe rack, he asked

"That brown one?"

I nodded and all of a sudden he went to his desk after saying

"Wait a second!"

I watched him opening his desk's second drawer and pulling out something which looked like a photograph.
He came back to me and handed it to me questioning

"For this you were freaking out?"

I looked at him dumbfounded and shook my head saying yes uncomfortably.

The picture in my hand is of me and Dii posing in front of Taj Mahal

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The picture in my hand is of me and Dii posing in front of Taj Mahal. We both are smiling in it, Dii had wrapped her arm around my shoulders while I had leaned my head on her shoulder sticking very close to her. We both are looking cheerful, carefree and young... unluckily unlike now. After sighing I looked up to him as I heard him speaking

"Well few days ago I too was looking for something in this cupboard, so while searching it by mistake I dropped some things of yours on the floor. I remember I had put everything back but don't know how this picture reached near the desk flapping through the wind. And on finding it there, I kept it there only."

Nodding my head I opened my diary to keep it back along with the other two photographs.

"These are your parents, right? And is this little baby on the lap you?"

"No I'm not, this is Dii in Mummy's lap.
In fact I don't have a single photograph of my parents with me as Mummy went to God after giving birth to me and Papa left us in a road accident when I was hardly 3 whereas Dii was 8 at then.
And in this other picture this is me in Dadi's arms while these two kids are Dii and Jai Bhaiya standing near us."

"Who's he?"

He asked.

"He's my only cousin, Raghav Uncle's and Megha Aunty's son.
All of them used to live with us earlier, but after Papa's death Uncle shifted to Lucknow along with Aunty and Bhaiya."

I observed Shaurya's facial expressions changing after hearing Uncle and Aunty's name. Changing the topic he asked me

"You always keep these three pictures in this diary?"

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