Aanya clicked off her cellphone and sat down on her sofa, uncapping the bottle in front of her and gulped down the whole eater in one breath. She tried her best calm her mind and recollect herself. Her mom had frozen, her dad wasn't picking up the phone, something must have happened to him too. And also there was nobody on the streets. And Ishyaa… she , Aanya thought, was the only other person conscious. Ishyaa had just told her, sobbing silently on the phone that her parents too had met with the same fate. They were sitting frozen on the sofa and a look of amusement on their face. Amusement and horror, Ishyaa had said. Ishyaa was too shaken… Aanya had understood, she tried to calm her friend down, Ishyaa too after moments had stopped. She understood the gravity of the situation and it

