Lost in your love

the letter

I opened the mailbox to find a letter for me.

It was from my sister, Becca!

How is this even possible? Becca's dead. Who sent me this letter? What are they up to? I was just staring at the letter without reading the message.

I was literally feeling so dizzy that I was loosing my balance. Rean held me from behind.

"Hey."

He took me to the house and made me sit on the couch.

"What happened? Wait. Let me bring you some water.",he said.

"I recieved a letter from my sister, Becca."

He stood still for a second and slowly turned towards me.

"Really?"

I nodded.

He sat next to me.

I was shivering.

"Lia. If you don't want to.."

"No. I will only read."

The letter read,

'Dear Lia,

I miss you. I'm in danger. I don't know if this letter will reach you at the right time. I'm alive. Till when. I don't know. But I didn't try to suicide. It's all a cooked up plot against me. I wish I should have stayed with you and my parents in London itself. This was all a bad move.

Please help me Li.

Love you.

Yours Becca.'

I took a long breath as my brain needed a lot of oxygen to process it.

Rean took the letter and read it and looked at me.

"Why is this letter delivered to our house? Like it should have been sent to London. Wait, it has New York address in the address box."

"Yeah. I don't get it. How does she know that I'm in New York?"

I took the letter.

"How does she know my New York address?",I asked repeatedly as my heartbeat increased.

She attempted suicide ten years ago! A sudden message is sent to me like after a decade. That too to New York directly.

"Calm down love.",he said hugging from side.

I held my head,"God."

"Is someone upto something by sending a fake letter? ",Rean asked with crossed eyebrow.

"I don't know!"

"Is this Becca's handwriting?"

"I'm not sure either. It's more than a decade seeing her written notes."

I turned the letter.

Backside of the paper was empty. I could feel that paper was thick at the back. Like in one of the parts. I tried to scrap it from my nails. Paper started to peel off in tiny pieces. Slowly, I could recognise some numbers and letters.

"What's that?",Rean asked out of curiousity.

"It's the co-ordination address Rean! She has sent the address. We were taught about it by Dad when we were young. He used to address location in numbers and letters like a code."

"Wow. Do you know how to decode it?"

"No. I have forgotten how to decode. But my dad knows."

"Once we get the address, we need to search her in that location. We need to.", I said by jumping out of the couch.

"Yeah. We'll. Firstly, your dad has to decode it."

"I will go to London tomorrow morning. Will you come?"

"Tomorrow? I could try to come if it was weekend. I have lots of work pending here, Lia."

"It's okay Rean. I will go alone. Get the work done and be back here by day after tomorrow."

"Will you say to dad that Becca could be alive?"

"No. I can't say that. Because nothing is confirmed. Until we find her, I won't inform him.", I said picking the letter.

"Okay. Now can we have our dinner? I'm so hungry.",he said wrapping me from back.

I nodded. Even I wanted to know why it was delivered here. Maybe my parents shipped it again to NY.

"What are you thinking?",Rean asked.

"Nothing. Now leave me. I will serve you dinner."

"Let's go to kitchen like this."

"Rean!"

We had our dinner. Rean booked the flight. I started packing.

"Will you miss me?", he asked looking at my reflection on the mirror in front of us.

"Ofcourse. I will.", I said climbing on his lap.

"I need you to be safe Lia.",he said caressing my hair.

"Yeah."

We slept off for a while. My flight was in the early morning, 4A.M.

I got ready. Rean was still sleeping. It is really hard to live without him. But I need to go, for my sister Becca.

"Rean. Wake up. It's time for my flight."

"Oh.",he woke up immediately rubbing his eyes.

"Ready?"

"Yeah."

He freshened up while I was applying leave for two days to my office.

The drive was so silent.

We reached the airpot. I looked at him. He was staring at road.

"Rean?"

"I'm gonna miss you Lia.",he said rubbing my hand.

"It's just for two days.", I whispered trying to show I'm calm. This is the first time after marriage that I'm leaving him alone like this.

He leaned towards me and kissed me instantly. It was a soft and gentle one filled with love. I looked at him and opened the door. I took a long breath.

He came out and unloaded the trolly.

"You have everything right? Passport? Phone? Letter?.."

"Yeah yeah. I checked.", I said with a smile.

"Cool then.",he looked away.

"Reaaan"I hugged him tightly.

He chuckled.

"Call me, once you reach home."

I nodded.

I held his face,"I love you okay?",he said joining his hand with mine.

"I love you too."

We dropped our hands.

I took the trolly and entered the airport looking at him with teary eyes.

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