Journey To Answers

chapter two

"Lavanya, Calm Down!" said Priya in an attempt to calm her down.

"I won't! Now, I'll show her what I can do. How dare she mess with my friend? I am gonna show her hell on earth." Said Lavanya, gritting her teeth angrily.

"Lavanya, anger is not the solution to everything. Just Calm down, okay?"

"Everything will get over the instant I leave from here." said Nithya in a low voice.

Lavanya sighed and kneeled before Nithya, who was sitting on the sofa with her head lowered down and eyes filled with unshed tears.

"Nithya,.. look at me!"

Nithya looked down at her as she cupped her left cheek softly.

"You won't go anywhere, do you get that? She has a problem with you, she can go to hell for that. I don't care. But in no way you are leaving anywhere..."

"I have to go La... I just can't live here anymore. It's suffocating me here." she said in a quivering tone, tears streaming down her cheeks and she cried.

"If she asks you to stop living and die, will you do it?" Priya asked, sitting beside her.

"She has a point. She will say whatever she wants, we are not her puppets to obey her commands, yaar."

"What did she say that compelled you to take this decision?" Priya asked with a frown.

Nithya took a deep breath and started narrating about the incident.

FLASHBACK

"Am I Speaking to Miss Gupta?" Came a voice from the other side of the call.

Nithya felt a strange sensation seeping through her as soon as the voice hit her ears.

"Why do I feel like I've heard this voice before?' she wondered.

But her train of thought was halted by a voice from the other side of the call.

"Are you listening to me?"

" yeah, Sorry. And yes, Nithya Gupta here." said she, slapping her forehead with her palm for her stupidity.

"I am calling from PS Designs.You are appointed for the post you've applied for."

Nithya's eyes widened in surprise and delight.

'I am selected?' She literally jumped in happiness.

"Thank You, sir! thank you so much."

"Ok, Miss Gupta, you can join from tomorrow, your appointment letter is already mailed to you."

"Sure Sir. I'll join tomorrow itself. Thank You again."

"Have a good day!" he wished.

"Same to you sir!" and she dropped the call.

'YAY!!!!!' she shouted in happiness, as she jumped around like a crazy girl.

But a knock on the door broke her reverie.

"It must be Priya..." she mumbled and herself and rushed to open the door.

"Pay..." Her words died in her throat as she looked at the person standing on the other side of the door.

"Samaira Ji? ... please come in." said she, looking at the lady in her mid-thirties who was looking at her coldly.

They walked in with tension lurking around them.

"Please make yourself comfortable, I'll get something for you to drink."

"I am not at all interested in having something or sitting here. Let's come directly to the point."She spat rudely.

Nithya was taken aback by the way she was speaking to her.

"I want you to do something..."

Nithya looked at her in confusion, not getting the head or tail of anything she was saying.

"I want you to leave this city right away."

"What!" She gasped in shock. "But why?"

"Earlier, I had warned you to stay away from my brother, But you paid no heeds to me and you saw the consequences. I lost my brother just because of you... you snatched my brother from me." She shouted, tears of anger rolling down her cheeks.

"It's not just you who have lost him. I can understand what you are going through..." Nithya whispered teary-eyed as she stared at Samaira who was shooting glares at her.

"You can never understand my pain! Never!" She spat angrily. "You can never understand how it feels when you lose your brother whom you took care of as a mother. But he had to let go of his life just for you and your happiness." She said emotionally.

"I loved him, Samaira Ji! And I'll always love him, till my last breath."

"But that love of yours snatched his life from him. You know what actually, he didn't deserve your worthless love."

"Please don't say that..." She mumbled, shutting her eyes in pain, feeling a piercing pain rising in her heart.

"It's hurting you here, right?" Samaira asked, poking on her chest harshly but then her next set of words snatched away the ground below Nithya's feet.

"Do you have any god damn idea about how much it hurts me when you try to get closer to my husband?" she almost shouted, pushing her back and she stumbled on her steps in bewilderment.

"What are you saying?" She whispered, her eyes widened in shock.

"Wow... that innocent face of yours." She mocked her, "You used the same tactics to trap my brother in your love, isn't it? And now when he's gone you are trying your luck with my husband, My Hrithik Ji."

Nithya stood numb, trying to grasp her words. She was looking at her in disbelief. How can she even think like that?

"I... I didn't..."

"Dare you say anything to justify yourself. I know you very well, middle class girls like you can reach any extent to get what they want. But I won't let you succeed this time. I will not let you snatch my husband from me." She warned her in an extremely dangerous tone.

"Samaira Ji... Believe me, I didn't..."

"Oh please! Don't you ever get tired of this facade?" She asked in disbelief. "Just go away from our life unless my husband faces the same consequences as him."

"I hope this is gonna be our last meet." she said just before she walked out of the house leaving behind a shattered Nithya who slumped down on the floor, crying her heart out.

FLASHBACK END

"That witch, how is she so inhumane?" Priya asked in disbelief.

"Sometimes, I feel that she might have murdered her own brother..." Lavanya said angrily.

"What nonsense are you saying? How can a sister kill her own brother?" said Priya, hitting on her head.

"She can. She is a witch, not a human." Lavanya huffed, glaring at Priya for hitting her.

"But whatever she might be, but she can never attempt to kill her own brother because he once told me how much Samaira Ji loved him."

"Whatever it is, we can know the entire truth only after reaching Mumbai. And since my IPS Exam Centre is there, I am gonna accompany you for my exams scheduled in the next month." Lavanya suggested.

"Not bad! You have brains huh..." Priya teased her, in an attempt to lighten the atmosphere.

"Of course, I Do! I didn't c***k the Entrance Exam by cheating girl!" Lavanya gaped at her.

Nithya shook her head at their usual banter with a small smile creeping up to her lips.

'God, keep her happy always.' Priya thought, looking at her smiling face.

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