RiKara~ The Return Of Dead

3~The Girl In The Library (edited)

"Gauri, what happened? Why were you playing the piano at this hour?", asked Omkara making me startle. "I wasn't, look its still playing, it was a white eyed girl", I said panting heavily. "Relax, relax, it's not playing now, come, sleep", he said and took me to my room while I continued pointing at the door getting scared. "It's nothing".

He laid me down and closed my eyes with his palm and laid down beside Kavya while I slowly drifted to sleep trying to forget what I saw. The alarm rang and I woke up switching it off. My body was shaking and I felt weak. I woke up Kavya and Omkara. They woke up. "If you are not feeling well then stay at home, I will take Kavya", he said. "No I will come along", I insisted. "No, you're not coming", he said palming my mouth and Kavya giggled. "Awww hahaha", she laughed teasing us. I blushed.

"Ok m staying", I said and laid down, sleep took over me again. I woke up at 11:00 am and looked around the room, Kavya was sitting on the study table scribbling something in her diary, did she again saw Kriya? I got up. "KV", I called. "Hmm?", she asked. "Did you got admission?", I asked. "Yes mumma, the school is very good, papa went to office interview after dropping me home", she said still writing.

"Congratulations, my baby", I said and kissed her hair. She hugged me and I went downstairs and made myself breakfast then made chocolate milkshake and fudge cupcakes for Kavya as a treat to her. It took thirty minutes and I went upstairs to call her downstairs, as I went at the entrance of the room, I saw her looking under the bed, then in the cupboard, I stood behind her and called her name. She immediately looked back. "What are you doing KV? What are you finding?", I asked her, I always call her KV by love.

"My slippers", she said not meeting her eyes with me, I knew she was talking to Kriya. I don't even know if she exists or it's just her imagination. "Go downstairs, I made your favorite cupcakes and milkshake for my cute doll", I said pulling her cheeks. "Really? Thank you mumma", she hugged me and went downstairs. I really wanted to give her a treat, I didn't only wanted to distract her, she's my daughter after all, I can do anything to make her happy and to protect her. I took all the room keys and counted them, it were five, that includes the locked rooms as well. I firstly read Kavya's diary to know if she again saw her. There was nothing inside, just a drawing of me, Omkara, her and Kriya. Wow, my daughter is surely an artist but why is Kriya here? Now I know she exists because I also saw her yesterday near piano.

I went to the the first locked room next to our room, I tried all the keys inside and finally it opened. I ran my hand on the wall, it touched the switchboard and I switched on the light. There were three single beds inside, oh, so confusing. There are three of them and not one? Oops, I walked towards the beds, there was a name written on each of them. One read "Shreya Agnihotri". The second read "Priya Agnihotri" and the third read "Kriya Agnihotri". So that means Kriya really exists. But who did I see yesterday and who did Kavya see? Shreya? Kriya? Or Priya? I went to one of the cupboards, inside was clothes, a photo album and a diary. I took the diary and turned to first page, there was the picture of that white eyed girl I saw in library but there were three of her? No, silly, she had triplets. Below the photograph was written Kriya Agnihotri. I kept flipping pages and read every page.

'Today was the third day of school, I study in Bombay Model School, I became friends with a boy named Kunaal and he's damn cute.'

And many more diary entries were there, then I came to a page where there was a picture of a man. I was shocked.