Angad entered the doctor's office and sat down, he waited for the doctor to stop looking at a file. The bald middle aged man with glasses put the file down and folded his hands on the table, Angad chuckled to himself, all doctors seemed to do that, maybe they all learnt it in doctor school. He satup as Dr. Bhatt spoke.

"so what brings you here Angad? I assume everything is OK with Miss Kripa?"

"Yeah she's fine, actually I'm here for myself"

The doctor looked puzzled, in all the years he had known the Khanna boys, it had always been Aditya coming to the surgery for various check ups, neevr Angad, if on the odd occasion Angad did come it would be to collect a prescription on behalf of Aditya.

"well ever since Adi......I've been having nightmares and I keep waking up in the middle of the night, I haven't slept properly in ages"

Dr. Bhatt nodded his head and took out his stethescope to check Angad's heartbeat, he performed various other tests then sat back down.

"I was hoping for you to give me some sleeping pills" Angad spoke

Dr Bhatt shook his head and this time it was Angad who looked confused

"I have no problem in prescribing you medication but I think that this is more of a psychological problem Angad, how about you visit as psychiatrist friend of mine, if you think he can help then great if not then come back and I'll prescribe you the medication, how does that sound"

Great, Angad thought, the doctor offically thought he was in need of a shrink, he nodded his head and noted down the number of Dr Bhatt's psychiatrist friend then left.

 

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Angad smiled at the woman behind the counter in the cake shop, he always used to come there to get cakes and mosr than often he would be served by her, he secretly believed that the woman knew he was coming so she would make sure she was able to serve him. Angad shook his childish thoughts away and looked at the different styles of cakes, after a while he finally chose one.

"So what would you like written on the cake?" The woman asked

Angad thought for a second

"Happy Birthday Aditya"

The woman nodded her head and wrote it down, Angad checked the spelling then handed her a deposit then left.

 

He had ordered the cake, he'd even sorted out the hall for the small get together, but he still hadn't thought of how to get Kripa to the party, well getting her there was easy, it was explaining why they needed to go there. If he wanted Adi's birthday to be perfect then he would want Krpa cutting the cake and if she saw "Aditya" written on the cake she would ask too many questions. Angad sat in his car and racked his brain for an idea which he could use for the party, after what seemed like ages he gave up, he needed some help.

 

Angad took out his phone and keyed in Neha's number and let it ring, he waited until she answered.

"Angad? what do you want?"

"I need a favour"

"what famour? I don't want to do any favours for you"

Angad sighed deeply and rubbed his forehead

"It's Adi's birthday today"

"oh.."

"Yeah you probably forgot, not like anything which is connected to me is important to you anymore"

Neha heard the sarcasm in his voice clearly as Angad had intended.

"it's not like that Angad"

"It doesn't matter, that's not why I phoned"

"then why did you?"

Angad glanced out of the window, he saw a couple holding hands and giggling with each other, he smile appeared on his lips for a brief second.

"I'm having a small party for his birthday...."

"I won't be able to come"

"damn it Neha will you stop jumping ahead and let me speak!"

Angad ran his hand through his hair and sighed again.

"sorry, I was going to say that I wnat Kripa to cut Adi's cake but if I tell her straight then she'll ask too many questions, so I need some help in deciding how to convince her to cut his cake without arousing any suspicions"

Neha was silent for a brief moment, Angad took that moment to look outside the window again where the couple were still standing talking to each other. Finally Neha spoke and Angad nodded his head and hung up. He may not have been getting along with Neha at that moment but he knew he could count on her, he put his phone away ad started the car to go home.

 

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"AAHHHHHH!!!!!!"

Angad heard Kripa's scream as he opened the front door, he didn't bother shutting it or taking his jacket off he simply rushed upstairs to see if she was ok. He found in the bathroom standing on a chair, Angad wnated to laugh but didn't, he moved closer and spoke softly

"why are you screaming?"

"SPIDER!!!"

Angad looked to where Kripa was pointing and saw a black hairy spider crawling on the floor, he stepped closer and picked up a piece of paper, he inched closer to the spider and slid it underneath it and quickly rushed to the window, opened it and threw the spider out, he shut the window and looked back at Kripa's fear stricken face and burst out into laughter, Kripa's expression changed into anger and Angad quickly ran into their room before Kripa killed him.

 

He stopped running and sat on the bed, Kripa came and hit him, he apologised and hugged her.

"why are you so scared of spiders for?"

Kripa sat next to him and folded her arms

"because they're hairy and ....horrible"

"right...hairy and horrible"

Angad laughed again but stopped when Kripa glared at him

"you know...you're so cute when you're scared of something....I remember one time you saw a mouse in the garden and ran screaming to the front garden and sat in the car, I came after you to see if you were ok and saw you locked in the car and started laughing like crazy"

Kripa rested her head on Angad's shoulder and closed her eyes and tried to recall the memory Angad was referring to. Angad kissed her forehead and Kripa spoke

"yeah and then you kept knocking on window persuading me to get out of the car"

 

Angad nodded his head but then froze, he lifted Kripa's head up

"what did you just say?"

Kripa repeated herself and was confused at Angad's shocked expression. Angad stood up

"Kripa...do you remember anything else about that time?"

Kripa thought for a moment but shook her head

"no....why"

"Kripa...that happened before the accident"

Kripa stood up and faced Angad

"before the accident....what does this mean?"

"I don't know, we'll go to the doctor's tomorrow...."

Kripa hugged Angad, he kissed her hair lightly then moved back

"I was going to tell you something before"

"what?"

"we're going to a party"

"party? what party?"

Angad opened his cupboard and took out a suit for himself then went over to Kripa's cupboard and pulled out a dress and handed it to her.

"a birthday party"

Kripa looked puzzled but Angad kissed her cheek

"its a friends, but my friend isn't here"

"then why the party?"

"this friend was very close to us both, and even though he isn't here I still want us to celebrate his birthday, I've even ordered a cake for you to cut"

"but..."

"Kripa come on, no more questions"

Angad left the room to get changed while Kripa still looked confused, she shook her head and began getting changed. While she was changing Kripa remembered the door and thanked her stars that Angad hadn't mentioned anything about the key, she looked at herself in the mirror, yes she had the perfect way to get that key off Angad without him suspecting it, all thanks to the party.