The 'Un' Attached String

Chapter - 28

At first, Pratham asked the manager to call all his staffs and when they all arrived, Maahir showed them a photo of Bela in his phone and asked them all if anyone of them had seen her. Among the staffs, one of them was the bartender, so one seeing the photo, he spoke out, "Arey ye to wahi madam hai, maine inko dekha hai. Ye to bohot lamba time bar mein bethi thi." All were surprised and Maahir went to the bar tender and asked, "Bar mein thi?" But before the bar tender could answer, Pratham intervened and asked, "Tumhe kaise pata ye bar mein hi thi, bar mein to bohot saare lof aate hai. Tumhe inhika chehra kaise yaad hai?" The bar tender replied, "Kyuki sir, bar mein saare mard the, sirf yehi aurat thi aur specially inhone 3-4 glasses whiskey bhi pee hai." Maahir was shocked on hearing that Bela had 3-4 glasses of whiskey as he knew that Bela becomes totally out of control when she is drunk and so he said, "Usne whiskey pee hai!! Tab to ho gaya, abhi vo totally control se bahaar ho gayi hogi." Pratham then asked, "Waha se vo kaha gayi?" The bar tender replied, "Pata nehi main dusre guests ke saath busy ho gaya phir maine unko nehi dekha." Pratham asked, "Tab kitne baje the yaad hai?" The bar tender could not reply that and so Pratham asked for the CCTV footage of the bar from the time, after Maahir, Bela, Bulbul and Kuhu came to the party and while checking the footage, he asked to fast forward the video and after a minute or two, when Bela was viewed on the footage, Pratham asked to stop the forwarding and asked to forward it slowly. While the video was being forwarded but at a slower speed, they all noticed Reyhaan sitting with Bela and after a few minutes, they saw Reyhaan holding her when she was about to fall and then taking her somewhere. Maahir, on seeing Reyhaan got extremely angry and said, "Ye kaha lekar ja raha hai Bela ko?" Pratham asked the man who was showing them the video footage to show the video from the angle to where Reyhaan was leaving with Bela at that point of time and they found that they entered into a lift. Daksh, who was watching from behind asked, "Ye Reyhaan didi ko lekar lift ke taraf kyu ja raha hai?" Maahir was angry at first when he saw Reyhaan with Bela but seeing the footage, he was tensed and said, "Mujhe na abhi achchi waali feeling nehi aa rahi hai Pratham!" Pratham replied, "Jo dikh raha hai vo achcha nehi hai, to achchi waali feeling aayegi kaha se? Reyhaan ke intentions achche nehi hai. We have to search Bela fast!" Pratham asked for playing the CCTV footage of inside the lift to see which floor they have taken but unfortunately it could not be seen. Maahir slapped on the desk angrily and helplessly and asked, "Ab kaise dhundhenge Bela ko?" Pratham didn't reply and was very carefully looking at the video footage until Reyhaan and Bela went out and he exclaimed, "Its 7th floor!" Everyone were shocked and Maahir asked, "How do you know that?" Pratham replied, "Dekho normally lift ko ek floor se dusre floor par jaane mein 4 se 5 seconds lagte hai and I have counted the time from the moment he tapped the floor button to him and Bela leaving and it was exactly 35 seconds so its definitely 7th floor aur agar mujhse galti bhi hui hai to bhi hum 7th floor se hi shuru karenge kyuki 6th ya 7th floor se zyaada neeche vo log gaye hi nehi hai. Let's go Maahir! Maine unke bar chodne ka time dekha hai sirf 10 minute pehle hi bar se nikle the." Maahir said to the manager, "7th floor ya dusre kisi floor mein Reyhaan Khurana ke naam se agar koi room booked hai to please vo hume abhi chahiye." Pratham replied, "Don't be silly Maahir! Tujhe kya lagta hai vo itna bewakuf hai? Yaha room book karne ke liye identity card chahiye hota hai unless he is a professional criminal. Usne zarur yaha kisi staff ko paise khilaaye honge aur koi room liya hoga aur video mein dekha nehi bhabhi kis tarah se behave kar rahi thi? 3-4 peg whiskey ke maarne se aisi haalat kisi ki nehi hoti hai, I'm sure Reyhaan ne jab bhabhi ka glass pakra tha, kuch daal diya hoga. Well abhi hamaare paas time nehi hai, jaldi chalo!" Saying three of them were about to leave but before doing that Pratham instructed the manager to call the police immediately. When Maahir came face to face with the tensed family, he told them everything and guessing what might happen to Bela Madhu shivered in fear and then both Madhu and Ranjit decided to follow the trio to find Bela to which he agreed since involving more number of people would make the search easy. Bulbul, on the other side was listening to them and one thing she understood that Reyhaan had kidnapped Bela and thinking he might kill her mother or do something very bad, she didn't wait for anything and straight way ran towards the lift for the 7th floor to save her mother. When Maahir and others were about to leave, Suhaani pointed towards the lift and exclaimed, "Arey dekho Bulbul lift mein ja rahi hai!" Seeing that Maahir scared to hell and ran behind Bulbul but it was too late and the lift door got closed and Maahir helplessly punched on the door and Madhu said, "Maahir puttar mujhe bari ghabraahat ho rahi hai Bela ko lekar, jaldi chal aur Bulbul ki fikar mat kar vo 7th floor mein hi gayi hogi. Hum bhi to wahi ja rahe hai aur vo bohot tez bachchi hai, apna khayaal rakh legi." Maahir although listened to Madhu but kept on saying, "Aise kaise hoga? 8 saal ki bachchi hai, koi super woman thore hi hai!" After that, except for Maahir, Pratham and Daksh, rest of the family went through lift and three of them took the stairs and Kuhu remained downstairs all tensed and worried about Bela.