Its been a while... but here's your chap.
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Avneet POV
My mind goes completely blank as I just stand there staring at Rohit's tears rolling down his eyes. The rain completely wet him from head to toe.
What should you do Avneet?!
You have two choices. You could either run as fast as you can and not have anything to do with him... or, I could walk over and comfort him.
yuck!
I should choose option one.
I turn around and start running in the opposite direction as if my life depends on it and just as I'm at the gate to the park the cold wind hits me and I realize that it's way too cold outside today.
The sky is starting to darken, resembling the approach of night-time.
I can't just leave Rohit here alone. Not with the weather getting colder and the rain only getting heavier...
After about 5 seconds of me rambling to myself of all the reasons as to why I shoulnt do what I'm about to do... I walk back to the bench and sit myself down next to Rohit, who still doesn't notice me...
I still consider running away until I decide to gather up all the existing emotion in me as I tap on his shoulder.--
Avu: (whispering in a sing-song voice) um Rooohhiiit. Are you aallliveeeee?
Rohit: (sniffling and trying to catch his breath as he wipes away some of the tears with his sleeves)
Rohit: A-Avneet?! W-where did you- How are you even-... I Amn't dreaming right? (pinching himself)
Avu: nope.(taking the shivering hands of Rohit) but you are freezing!
Avu: we should get back.
Rohit: I-I don't want to go.
Avu: but why? It's raining and cold.
(A moment of silence)
Rohit: Why did you run away?
Avu: I didn't run. I- I just went out for a walk.
Rohit: riGHt... without telling anyone and with no phone. In a country you don't know!
Avu: ok fine! I ran off.
Rohit: why?
Avu: um... (sarcastically) Why? Were you worried about me? Is that why you're here?
Rohit: umm... not really. I was not in the best mood.
Rohit: but either way, You shouldn't have run off like that! If you got lost, or something bad happened to you then what would happen to... Jannat?! Shed be sad to death!
Avu: (shaking her head, then leaning back on the bench and letting the rain hit her face)
Avu: (whispering) nothing would've happened. She would be broken for a few months, then she would move on.
Rohit: Is that what you did when your friend Siddharth died?
Avu: (a teardrop rolling down her eye which Rohit gently wipes away) yes.
Rohit: life is so unfair isn't it.
Avu: (nodding)
—The memory hits me again, glimpses of that very moment flashing in front of my eyes.
The moment Siddharth hits the ground.
It feels so real. The noise, my scream, my heart stops.
I can hear and feel all of it.
Almost as if it's happening all over again.
I can't control myself, I grasp the ground and try to gain control but I can't. Everything's happening so fast that I can't even process.
Jannat grasps my shoulders, shaking me hard, but I don't react. My eyes are as dead as stone.
Not a single tear finds its way to my eyes, and suddenly it feels as if all the emptiness in the world just got stored inside of me.
It's happening again.
But it pains the same.
My horrifying thoughts are rippled by Rohit shaking me and calling my name,
"Avneet! Avneet get up!"
The panic clear in his voice as I shoot out of my thoughts and am back at the bench.
It felt too real.—
Rohit: Avneet, are you alright. You seem terrified. (Taking her hands and trying to warm them) You're trembling!
—tears lavishly wet my face and I realize that it's all over. And I'm never going to see him again.
Never.—
Avu: he's gone. (Rohit wraps his arms around her and she simply sobs into his already very wet shirt)
Rohit: (stroking her hair and whispering into her ear) how often do you get panic attacks?
Avu: (through sobs) more when I'm alone, and mostly in my dreams.
Rohit: (whispering so lowly that Avu could barely hear) I'm so sorry.
(Avu calms her breathing slowly)
Rohit: (sneezing right on her hair and then immediately hoping she doesn't) we should get back, before either one of us catches a cold.
Avu: (nodding)
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Sid POV
—I grab my head and massage it with my fingers trying to get some relief from the headache that does not seem to get any better...
We stand outside Avu's room when she stops me just before I can knock.—
Avu: give me a sec, I need to breathe. (Taking in a few stable breathe ins and outs)
Avu: do I look ok?
Rohit: (putting on a small smile) as nice as always.
Avu: I just don't want Jaan to be worried cuz then she'll start questioning me and then she'll just worry more.
Rohit: it's ok. You look great. (Knocking on the door knowing that Jaan would be there soon)
Rohit: Avu, (bridging a few stray gays out of her face) take care of yourself.
Avu: (nodding) I will.
—I turn around and walk down the corridor towards the elevator only to be called by Avu once again.—
Avu: Hey Rohit?! Why don't you stay over and have dinner with us?
Rohit: (shaking his head) no thank you. (Stepping into the elevator as the door closes on him)
I could see that Avu was a bit hurt by my response and perhaps I would say that I could stay...
But, I wanted to get back to my room as quickly as possible and doze off for a few hours.
The piercing headache now only getting worse and seeing Avu in pain simply was never my cup of tea.
The elevator door opens to my office on the seventh floor and I step out, only to be greeted by Shadan, Adnaan and Ashi tapping away at their phones which they hold horizontally.--
Ashi: you suck at this Adnaan! You just vented right in front of me!
Adnaan: I did NOT! I'm innocent. I was doing the card swipe!
Shadan:(sarcastically) At the electrical... yeah sure totally!
Ashi:(now noticing Siddharth enter) oh look who decided to come back alive today!
Rohit: yeah yeah now shut up.
Shadan: you definitely look like a happy-go-lucky ray of sunshine today.
Rohit: thanks for the compliment bro, definitely helped my headache!
Shadan: you're welcome.
Ashi: I'm done playing with you noobs. I'm gonna find randoms who match my standards!
Ashi:(walking over to Rohit) You don't look very well. Do you want chai?
Rohit: no thanks. I'm just gonna go get some sleep. Just don't let people bother me for a while.
Ashi: (nodding) sure brother, get some sleep.
-- I walk into my room and walk into the closet fetching the first shirt I could find, a blue hoodie and a pair of sweatpants and hop straight into the shower.
I let the warm water flow down me for a while, hoping for my headache to lighten, but it doesn't help.
I hop into bed and try to sleep only to have throbbing pain shoot through my skull. I lightly place my palm on my forehead and it doesn't take me long to realize that I'm burning!
God damnit. I have a fever.
And all thanks to the fricking rain!
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Faisu POV (back in Mumbai and out on a mission)
-- I walk through the posh carpeted floors of Avneet's mansion with Abhi at my side. Today the manor is empty as even Avu's mother has gone elsewhere for work.
On our last visit we managed to restore the Victoria's Nightlock back to its museum and its hit the newspapers this morning.
I wonder if Aadaya knows.
We stand in front of a large door that leads to Aadaya's room and I stop, only to have Abhi walk straight into my back.--
Faisu: ugh! Don't you keep your eyes open while you're walking?!
Abhi: of course I do! It's just I tend not to look at garbage that lie in front of me!
Faisu: Oh wow ha-ha! That means you tend to walk straight into the garbage!
Abhi: I DO NOT!
Faisu: (rolling his eyes)Focus on the mission.
--We walk into Aadaya's room which is a deep magenta colour with a flowery print on the wall. Nothing out of the ordinary, just a wardrobe, a desk and a walk in closet.
But there must be something more mysterious about this woman, and today, we intend to find out--
Abhi: looks normal to me.
Faisu: mmm... let's look around while we can.
(Abhi reaches into the small couch and takes out a gun and then a small test tube filled with white pills- most probably cyanide)
Faisu: She's a bit like us!
Abhi: (snickering) totally yuck... I'll look in the closet and you check the desk.
Faisu:(nodding)
--I ramble through the desk, coming across several of Avneets files and various of her magazines. I open a few more drawers and nothing seems too out of place, but thats when I come across a few particular green files inside one of the drawers.
Neatly ordered and alphabetically kept.
I look through the name on quite a few of them, and the first one catches my eye. 'ANANYA MISRA'. I opened the file knowing that the name was familiar.
Where have I heard it! UGH where!
I open up the file and look through the contents- Relation: Daughter
Daughter? That means that this is Aadaya's daughter.
I flip the page and that's when the photo on the next page makes it all clear, This is Ananya Pandey!
Siddharth's former girlfriend!--
Abhi: Faisu I think I found something!
Faisu: I think I did too. Take a look at this. (walking over to Abhi who stands staring at a wall at the closet)
Faisu: Ananya is Aadaya's daughter!
Abhi: But that can't be. Siddharth met her parents.
Faisu: we should tell Sid about this. He'll know what to do.
Faisu: anyway... What did you find?
Abhi: Take a look at this wall. It's got this weird partition in the middle, I think it's a hidden door.
Faisu: you're right! (bending down and tracing the bottom line of the wall)
Faisu: found it! (pushing a button and standing up as they both watch the metal door slide open leading down a ladder)
Abhi: lets go. (the both of them taking turns to go down the ladder as they both hop down on the marble flooring of a pretty big room.)
Faisu: damn this place has been here all along and no one knew!
--I try to process everything in the room, three monitors, a rather large bookshelf on one side, a locker, a couch. And the most interesting of them, a large pin-up billboard right in the front of the room.
Of all, 'SIDDHARTH NIGAM' written on the top right corner of the board catches my attention. Under which there are a few pictures of Siddharth and Sana together with a lot of detailed dates and times all mentioned alongside the pictures.
Then marked it a red string and connected to an enlarged picture of Sana.
Under the picture it says, 'SANA ZUBAIR' and then next to the picture is a picture of Avneet and a '=' is drawn in between.
Which means Aadaya knows! She's known since the very beginning that Sana is Avneet.--
Abhi: Take a look at this!
Faisu: what? (walking tver to another pin-up board across the room where abhi points at something)
--It was a picture of Rohit and a red string points to a picture of Siddharth, a huge question mark in between.
Oh NO!
Aadaya either already knows or highly suspects that Siddharth and Rohit are the same person.
Shit!--
Abhi: We need to tell Siddharth about this!
Faisu: yes. As soon as possible. This might make everything go wrong.
(Abhi's phone rings)
Abhi: Its Vai. I think they're on their way back.
Faisu: Let's get back too. Lets go.
Abhi:(nodding)
--We go back up the ladder, run across the room and approach the door, looking back just once to make sure everything looks just as when we came.
Then we watch the metallic door close and we run out of Aadaya's room.--
Faisu: ugh! I hate that woman!
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Vomment!
Damn I forgot abt Aadaya for quite a while...
Whose POV is the most fun to read?
Until I write again,
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