Meanwhile unexpectedly Arhaan heard a bell rang.....So he stopped toward the table while he started toward the main door. (The main door was closed to the dinette as it connected the kitchen to the living room.)
He anyhow forced himself towards the door constantly getting out of breath. He tried a lot to get over to the door as he wanted some help to get out of this heck. Concurrently Puzo was barking around being furious about his possessor. Somehow Arhaan managed to reach to the door and yelled with a suffering tone for help.
Meantime the man standing on the other side of the door asked being anxious, "what happened Arhaan? Are you alright?" But suddenly something walloped into the man's mind and he took no time to make out what happened with Arhaan. The man immediately tried to pacify Arhaan out and and told him to take deep breaths and rub his chest.
Arhaan did as the man told. He took constant deep breaths and rubbed his chest. And gradually he was coming into normal breathing! It was like a miracle that a man who was out of breath before a few minutes easily recovered.
(How can this happen that a very powerful poison which started it's reaction in less than a minute of time interval after when it was taken; easily stopped affecting???)
And after 10-15 minutes Arhaan stood up from the floor on his own and opened the main door. As he opened the door there was a sign of relief on his face. He suddenly hugged the man and said, "thanks buddy! you again saved my life, you owe me a lot!"
(But who was that man? How did he know that Arhaan was poisoned; was he the one to poison Arhaan???)
Further Arhaan added with solace "thank God Vansh that you came here at this time or else I would have..." Vansh showed a fake smirk and went in with his friend. He behaved as if everything happening to Arhaan is normal.
(Vansh was a bit skinny with sharp black eyes. It seemed like he had coloured his hair hazel brown. He was Arhaan's one of the friends from the University of Pennsylvania. He had few more friends there, from which some came back to Mumbai after their graduation. Vansh was one of them and he and Arhaan even used to meet almost everyday as they worked for the same company.)
Eventually everything settled down and Arhaan threw the nuggets into the garbage. (What? He threw them without even thinking from where the poison came into the food!)
Puzo immediately popped into Vansh's lap as he sat on the lounge and started licking his cheek. Arhaan and Vansh then talked about an ongoing project in the company in which they worked together as they were a part of that project. And they didn't like procrastinating things; so they have decided to work even though it was a Sunday. Arhaan was immensely intelligent and Vansh also had a good caliber, after all they were working for a multi-international company. Completing a deep discussion upon work Arhaan asked Vansh whether he would like to have some coffee. Vansh didn't relent.
As Arhaan got up for coffee he felt a shadow infiltrate into the room. He turned into ice for moment and got some wired vibes as the shadow passed during dusk urging Arhaan's mind to freeze. Although it was just for a minute or two but there was something fishy going under Arhaan's nose. (Was there anybody else except the both of them into the room? And why was Arhaan facing a catastrophic day?)
Arhaan was almost passed out when out of blue a hand suddenly shook him and it regained the completely lost Arhaan.
It was Vansh; he consoled Arhaan again. (Was Vansh the one doing all this to Arhaan? as logically he was the only one except Arhaan in the room. But, why???)
Arhaan was like he came into life after witnessing such a frightening sight. He took his hand onto his face rubbing it all over and pushed himself, "it's ok" and quickly went into the kitchen. (It's ok? Is that all he reacted to after what he went through the whole day? He wasn't suspicion at all???)
He prepared coffee for him and his colleague. As they both slurped the coffee, Vansh went onto talking about their old friends. Arhaan avidly joined him remembering those days they spent together. A severe vibe of nostalgia surrounded the room. Both of them enjoyed the conversation as it went for almost an hour and it was now quarter to eight. All of a sudden an idea stroke into Vansh's head and within less than even a second he exclaimed with a lot of enthusiasm "REUNION!!!"