Anika Pov
Finally we reached to the restaurant at Mysore Highway and demanded the security to stay outside before we got inside. As soon as we reached the private room reserved for us Kushi squealed in happiness by the presence of our gang.
here goes our gang : me(Anika), Kushi Kumari Gupta, Gauri Sinha, Bhavya Agarwal, Mallika Malhotra, Vividha Bedi .
Gauri Sinha
Bhavya Agarwal
Malika Malhotra
Vividha Bedi
Being scared by Kushi Squeal all four looked at us with serious expression as we committed a crime and shouted " You Twins are Late".
Yes, its twins. To keep my identity a secrecy Kushi and I said we are sisters and they developed it as Twins, we being in the same class. Absolutely we have no problem regarding that because already 3 years are done hiding my surname from registers and friends (thanks to Arjun bhai, he is the one who managed Principle with hiding stuff) and now only one year is left for our graduation. After that my friends are not allowed to my home anyways, so it will be a sweet life long lie. I just don't want to keep my friends in dark but, its my situation that keeping my hands cuffed. If I had a chance then I would surely enlighten them enough with my identity , but there is no such chance.
As Kushi and I settled in our chairs Gauri asked me where I'm lost. To that all others joined Gauri including Kushi in pulling my leg by saying- "Flying in Dream Land of Prince charming?", another one- " Oh my god!! Do you accepted Vinay's proposal ?", another one-"No chance for that ,I Guess your alliance is fixed.who is the guy?" another one-" None of these can divert anika, I think you are planing for a one night stand. Right?" with that all my patience broken and shouted top of my voice "Shut Up, Enough". But will they? a big NO, they started laughing hysterically. I being embarrassed try to divert the topic by checking the menu and asking for their dish tonight. Successfully drawing their attention towards food we all indulge in a chitchat which contains recent Satellite launched by ISRO to new hair band we bought.
After completion of main course we are waiting for our dessert to be arrived fast. We have to move quickly because Mallika have to leave for Delhi, Vividha have to leave for Jaipur and Gauri and Bhavya have to leave for Varanasi. Bhavya and Gauri are Cousins ( Bhavya's Mom and Gauri's Dad are brother and sister). Meanwhile Mallika,Bhavya are involved in their social media accounts and Kushi , Gauri and Vividha involved in girly talks about accessories,new designer outfits, nail arts, cosmetics and what not? And here I being grown up with my brothers didn't have any interest over their so important girly talks sitting ideal. Gauri observing me spare a glance with smiley face and suggested me to try on Pink color stuff at-least. I said being irritated, from where this topic came out of blue Gauri? She just smiled and asked me to behave some times as a girl. Am I not? is my sudden reply. She just rolled her eyes and joined her previous conversation. Then Mallika suggested me to open a social media account and turned back to her phone screen. Anyway I'm not going to open a account of mine due to my family rules, but I can go through my friends account to find whats there in it that Mallika and Bhavya not even sparing a single glance at me?
Then I asked Gauri- Can I go through her social media account and she handed over me her phone. Now I'm confused what to open? Twitter? Facebook? Instagram? Then I thought to myself why to strain my brain in this silly things? So, I closed my eyes and touched the phone and open my eyes to see its Facebook first. Then I went through some videos and posts of Gauri's. I found a post stating Love you Mom, Dad with a photo.
Gauri's Parents Ashok Sinha and Mamata Sinha
Suddenly I felt sad after seeing this post. If my parents are also alive today? No I shouldn't think of that. Then I scrolled down the phone to see Bhavya's post in which she tagged Gauri. The post is same as Gauri's. I Love you Mom and Dad more than didi.
Bhavya's Parents Anita Agarwal and Pratap Agarwal.
Then I turned to Gauri to ask about more details about her family, because I have seen Bhavya's mom somewhere for sure but can't remember right now. Then I said, Gauri, Bhavya stated 'didi' here in her post, but you never spoke before about having other sister. Then Gauri said that Bhavya's sister is 6 years elder to them and happily married to a business man and living in Delhi. Being curious I asked her to introduce all her family members to me to which she gladly accepted and turned to my direction. Gauri seems to love here family so much, its seen clearly in her face. She started listing her family members.
"My dada and dadi have 3 children, 2 daughters and one son. first Amita, second Anita and third Ashok." she said, By Listening to the name 'Amita' I got 230V shock, but I stayed quit to know more to confirm by doubt. Then Gauri continued "My father is Business man and looks after Sinha group of Industries and I'm only child to my parents. My Bua and fuffa, Mrs Anita Agarwal and Mr Pratap Agarwal are Doctors by profession. They used to stay here in India but now shifted to Germany. My Anita bua has 2 daughters Shona and Bhavya, you know about Bhavya and Shona is a Doctor, runs a super specialty hospital and married to Dev Dixit and stays in Delhi. Ashok Sinha being only son of Sinha family and me his daughter is the only Heir of Sinha Group of Industries. My dada is head of the family and quite orthodox."
After saying this Gauri stopped and looked at the waiter who arrived with our dessert and I'm being more curious now can't wait till we complete this dessert so I asked Gauri to continue. She just glared me and I waited till the waiter disappears. I'm growing impatient second by second so I just raised my voice in the way of demanding and said "Gauri now Continue." with that all are looking at me as if I grown some horns and Gauri looked a bit surprised by my voice and facial expressions and asked ' What's wrong with you Ani? wha--- ' and about to say something more but I interrupted her by asking " What about your Amita Bua? " . But there's no response from Gauri and she is still looking shocked or surprised what ever her expressions speak I'm not in to it now. I just want to know about "Amita Sinha".
Then Bhavya said breaking the ice "we don't know much about her. In-fact all my family are still angry up on her even after her death. My mom used to say that Amita Massi is the one who killed herself by playing a deaf ear to the words of our family." By hearing that I'm shocked 'death?' but gathering my strength,I asked one last question " Bhavya, Do you have her photo?" by that time all are looking at me as if I'm a alien and Bhavya searched in her phone and showed me a pic. Its a family pic, 2 elders are sitting in the middle of a couch and a boy around 5 years is standing between that elder couple. 3 couples are standing in the back of couch and one of the lady is holding a baby around 1 or 2 years. I can't see it clearly because of tears in my eyes making the image blur. I rubbed by eyes and zoom in the image to maximum that gives me the biggest shock of life.
I just zoom out the pic little bit and it broken all my questions and doubts in to pieces with crystal clear answer.
They are my parents Mr Anand Singh Raizada and Mrs Amita Singh Raizada. I hold the phone in tight grip and bend my head ,Tears are streaming down my face. I have a family other than my brothers. The 2 boys in the photo may be Arjun Bhai and Arnav bhai. Kushi came to me and held my shoulders tightly, trying to raise my head. I cant let them see my tears but I can't even hide my feelings from expressing. Ugghh!! I'm quite bad at hiding feelings. Atarv bhai always mocks me that my face is a mirror of my heart. Gauri also came forward to help Kushi and I have to escape this. How can I tell Gauri and Bhavya that they are my cousins? I should go now. Throwing the phone in my hand to corner of the room to divert their attention and hold on my shoulders , averting their gazes I ran from there and reached the parking area. I can hear Kushi ,Gauri screaming and running behind me and next Bhavya, Mallika and Vividha voices rang in my ears. I got in to the car and started furiously, with that my security got alert and ran towards me. While reversing the car from parking area , to avoid my security and friends I took a wrong turn which lead me on to the road. These non stoppable tears are making my vision blur and I missed the Truck running on the road straight to my direction. That's it with that in fraction of seconds my car had a hit, spinning along the road finally collided with railing before coming to a halt making a sudden friction ran through my whole body. The air bags are out protecting my head from a hit. I'm happy that I put on my seat belt even in this devastating situation and its a bullet proof car that can with stand this accident,I Hope.
I can feel the smell of my own blood dripping from side of my face and I felt my knees numb and struck between some thing, may be engine. But what running presently in my mind are the un-answerable questions.
1. What is the reason that my brothers hide such a huge thing about existence of my family from me, even after knowing I'm carving for a Family?
2. What if they too don't know about existence of this family as like me?
3. Does my brothers hiding me and themselves intentionally from our own family?
4. Are we are in a great Danger or is there any life threat to me and my brothers, so that we are hiding from our family?
5. Does Sinha family knows about our existence? Why are they still angry on my mother even after her death?
I need all these answers before my death. Please god don't take my Life in middle of all this mess. Give me some more time to clear this mess and save my brothers. with that I lost my consciousness.
End of Anika Pov
Kushi Pov
I'm and Vividha discussing about our new collection of nail paints then our dessert arrived.After the waiter left I'm ready to dig in to my sweet pineapple cake but stopped by Anika's voice. She is saying Gauri to continue now. what to continue? what are they speaking about? then Gauri started but halted again by Anika. Now who is this Amita Bua Anika asking for? I'm really confused now. Then Bhavya said something which I can't understand. I'm being silent observer observing all their expressions. Me, Vividha and Mallika sharing 'whats going on here look?'but Gauri is like a statue. Finally I moved to Anika and placed my hand on her shoulder. she held the phone tight in her hand and I signed Gauri to come forward. I and Gauri held Anika from both the sides. I tried to raise her head to see her feelings but she throw the phone in her hand to a corner, with that I taken a step back and the next minute Anika is missing in the room.We are running behind her but the waiter came in between us saying we are running away with out paying bill. I just looked to Mallika and she assured me to go.Then I and Gauri ran behind her and I saw from corner of my eye that Mallika is throwing a bundle of notes on the face of waiter and following us. As we reached outside I saw Anika moving towards the car and I shouted her name but all are in vain. She got in to the car and started driving then the security got alerted and ran towards her. She reversed the car to avoid us in the direction of Highway then the worst thing happened. A truck hit on the side of Anika's car with full speed and the car rotated in anti-clock-wise direction sliding along the road away from us. I'm standing being Numb and all other 4 are behind me as statues. This is the first accident I have seen in my life and that too to Anika.
The one to react first is Rahul and Rohan while screaming Anika name and we 5 also run behind them. The car gone through the railing breaking them and Rohan broke the car door, while Rahul cut the seat-belt, Anika is unconscious and her legs got struck in the car. With lot of difficulty they got her out of car. Mallika Called the Ambulance. I'm scared to see Anika in this condition. Her forehead had a cut and blood is oozing out. The legs below her knees is full of blood, and there are scratch marks over her hands and neck. I don't know what to do and stood there numb. Then Rohan shouted "call sir " with that I came back and took Anika phone which is in my handbag and called Arnav.
Arnav picked it up in 2nd ring and I just cried by saying " Arnav , Anika met with accident. Here is full of blood and I don't know what to do. Please come fast. Please." with that the call is hung up from other side.
End of Kushi Pov