MIZPAH

13 | conspiracies

Vrishti's phone rang beside her as she found herself sprawled on the bed on her stomach. She must have slept on her right hand as it tingled a little after the blood circulation had been cut off due to the body weight.

She picked up the phone with her left hand. Bleary eyes looked at the phone screen where Papa beside which a green heart adorned it.

She swiped on the green icon and brought it to her ear, "Haa Hello Papa", her voice drawled out.

"Hello beta", came her father's voice from the other side, and the conversation continued.

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"This place is so boring ", Lee sulked as he put his head on Namrita's shoulder.

Namrita patted his head as Naaz laid her head on her lap and read the book 'The Chronicles of Meluha'.

Give her a fictional book on religion and history and you wouldn't even know she is there until she finishes the said book then all she had to talk about was the book she read, like the last time when she read the book 'The Origin'.

The book wandered around the question, 'Where did we come from and Where are we heading?' and for the next some days all Naaz had to talk about was how good Dan Brown's books are.

"What's the task for today?", Lee asked raising his head from Namrita's shoulder as he gripped Gurnoor's fist holding a handful of grasses aimed at him.

"Don't know, the teachers gave no instructions for today even though it's written hike day in the itinerary", Namrita answered as she traced the patterns on Naaz's hijab.

"Any guess who will call their dearest father first? Erena or Radha oh I mean Ri-Ri?", Lee smirked certainly not hiding his amusement as he made fun of the relatives of the college's chairman who attended the same college.

Just then Shayon spotted them below the tree and sat beside them followed by Vrishti after a few minutes with her eyes stuck to her phone screen coming from the same direction.

She looked up to meet Lee smirking at him who raised her eyebrows questioningly as she pocketed her phone in her jeans which she wore over her block-printed kurti.

"What?"

Lee just shrugged at looked back at Namrita who has her eyes on a pair talking animatedly to their teacher-in-charge at the back entrance of the resort.

"I guess both", and they all laughed while Vrishti looked around dumbfounded, and the 'what' from her resonated again.

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But somewhere unbeknownst to them, new secrets were unraveling, " Why are you here, I told you not to follow me?", the voice spoke.

"How can I not?", the other voice spoke with an undertone of saccharine syrup.

"Don't you understand?!? You shouldn't meddle in other's business when you are told not to", the former exclaimed.

The latter clicked his tongue and shook his head with a 'nuh-uh'.

"I am warning you or else the consequences wouldn't be good"

"And I am warning you, or else it would be too bad when I find it before you, Father"

"You wish", coldness coating the syllables in its icy exterior as it cut through the others.

The impending storm was nearing.

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Writing 'DISTANCES' had been easier than this and one of the reasons for it being short and fluff-filled. This one is more complex for a newbie like me so feel free to point things out if they don't make sense, I will be happy to give my audience an improved version.

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