Mismatch/ Identity - THE END! (pg 93) - Page 2

Part 3 – Meeting with Angad Khanna

The door opened to reveal Prithvi Bose.

Before Kripa had time to react, a young lady came along and slid her arms around Prithvi's as she pouted, "Prithvi, what is this? How long will you make me wa—" and she stopped midway as she took in Kripa's appearance.

Kripa had enough of this nonsense. She instantly turned around on her heels and marched out the place before she could even hear anything further. Prithvi was disgusting.

She could not even bear his sight. It was only due to Mishty that she could not completely hate him, after all he was her best friend's brother.

She stormed down the main steps in anger, and had nearly tripped, but luckily managed to balance herself.

Fear replaced anger as she realized the consequences of her temper. What if she had tripped? What would happen to her child? Her anger would have cost her this child... instantly tears started to block her vision.

She needed to get away from this place as it was starting to suffocate her. She marched up to the gates only to find it locked and a missing 'watchman'.

In exhaustion, she leaned against the gate, and closed her eyes.

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Prithvi rushed behind Kripa. But, distraction came in the form of Tanya.

"AWWW PRITHVII", she screamed

He immediately rushed to her aid, even though he had to find Kripa and talk to her.

"What happened Tanya?" he asked gently

"I tripped"

At first he thought he heard it wrong, "You what?"

"Tripped"

"Tanya, stop acting like a baby" he yelled as he walked away.

"So Bipa or ripa or whatever her name is.... is more important than me huh?"

Prithvi just ignored her and continued to walk ahead leaving a fuming Tanya behind.

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Footsteps. She could hear footsteps.

She could tell one was of shoes, mostly male and other were of heels, had to be a female. They were coming this way. Maybe it was the watchman, and some female visitor.

And, that's when she heard someone call out her name.

Her eyes snapped open. There was no mistaken, it was Prithvi and that stupid girl. And, they were surely heading this way.

She immediately rushed in the vast garden trying to lightly run through the water sprinklers for a place to hide. And, to her luck she found one.

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Prithvi came running up in front with that girl behind him. Kripa could see his shoes from her hiding place.

"Where is she? I swear I saw her running here," he replied looking around

"Honey, why are you looking for that ordinary looking girl?" she asked

'Honey, my foot' Kripa spoke under her breath, 'he is a jerk, and you will know that soon ms perfect!'

"I need to talk to her", Prithvi replied

"duh.. That's easily understood" she answered back

"Well, you overlooked the main part"

"Which is?"

"Maybe I don't want to tell you" replied Prithvi

"Why? We are going to get married soon and in no time we will have kids. You're not going to tell your future wife and your chid's mother"

"Can you please help me look for her?" Prithvi asked

"Hey look at these footprints", yelled the Barbie doll

Prithvi walked around the garden.

And, then he did the unexpected. He bent down. And, it was so sudden that Kripa could swear her heart had jumped right in her throat, as soon as she saw Prithvi's face in front of her.

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"Kripa, what are you doing in here?" asked a puzzled Prithvi

"Hiding from you. Can't you see?" replied Kripa as she tried to push herself in front.

"Listen Kripa we need to ta—", he said in a serious tone

Kripa struggled to get out, then finally she asked, "Can't you help me out?" as she put her hand in front.

A shocked Prithvi stared at her. She was asking for help?

"You pig don't just stand there. Now help me out," yelled Kripa

Pig? Kripa Sharma was calling him a pig? It was never in her nature to call people 'names', since when did she develop this habit?

"Sure" he replied as he pulled her out of that hiding spot

Kripa tried to clean her clothes, which were wet in the first place, because of those sprinklers and now they were muddy. She slowly walked to one of the sprinklers to clean up the mud.

"Prithvi, what was that all about?"

Prithvi jumped because he had completely forgotten about Tanya, who stood behind him.

"Nothing" was all he replied as he looked at Kripa again.

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It was now blowing out of proportion making her entirely wet and on top she could barely even get up due to all the water falling on her, and blocking her vision.

And, then came help in the form of Prithvi. He immediately pulled Kripa out and asked, "Kripa, what were you doing there?"

"My clothes are dirty all thanks to you!"

"Me? What did I do?"

"Why did you have to come behind me?" she asked as she wiped out the mud

"To talk"

"Which I don't want to. Didn't I make myself clear last time? After what you did... i can never forgive you and no explanation is going to force me either, so quit wasting my time" she replied as she ran out on him again.

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Kripa had walked up to the main gate. Amazingly, the watchman was still missing. What was the point of him?

How long would she wait? Speaking of waiting, she was wet and a complete mess.

It wouldn't hurt to go and wash her dress, now would it? She would be back in five minutes, and hopefully by then the watchman would have arrived.

She entered the house again and looked around. She could not visibly notice a washroom, so she decided to head up the stairs. It would take barely a minute, she told herself, and she would be back before anyone comes.

But, her heart knew the real reason for heading upstairs.

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The top floor was breathtaking beautiful, it had a wonderful glass ceiling, and it was relatively open with art works on the side. She loved the area. If only she had a house like this one.

She noticed a row of doors and they all were closed. She picked the first door on the right, and carefully opened it.

It was a master bedroom. It was huge. Actually, 'huge' was a relatively short word to describe the room. This room alone was the size of her entire apartment.

Dreamily forgetting her surroundings she stepped inside. It had the most lavish furniture she had ever seen. And, even if she spent all her life saving money, she would never be able to buy such rich furniture!

Before she had more time to think about the furniture, her eyes fell on a set of pictures on the side. She rushed to see them. Her mind warned her dangerously, but she refused to listen to the warning and rushed to look at the pictures until her 'dupatta' got stuck beneath her heels, which caused her to look behind.

She stared in horror at the floor.

There were muddy tracks on the floor. She rushed to the washroom, turned on the tap, first she washed all the muddy marks on her dress, then she took paper from the side and rushed outside to wipe it clean.

It took barely a few seconds to erase the muddy tracks from the floor. Once she was satisfied with her work she rushed back in to wash her hands, and that's when she caught her reflection in the mirror.

She looked pathetic. Her skin was pale as snow... there were dark circles under her eyes, and overall her face had this dullness to it. Her eyes no longer shined the way they used to. Now, they held nothing, but pain and sorrow...

She moved up in front to examine her eyes closely. 'See, what you have done to yourself?' her mind taunted, 'whatever its not like I was ever a beauty queen'.

She turned around on her heels to walk out of the room when she realized her back was still muddy. With her back facing the mirror... she turned around slightly to get a look of her back.

It was bad. No tissue would solve this problem.

Shower. Yes, she needed a shower. She turned around to see the shower. With no other way out, she turned the hot water tap on, and immediately stood under it.

Five minutes later.

The cool chill hit her as soon as she stepped out of the bathroom, as quickly as she could she tiptoed her way across the room.

Kripa closed the door behind her. And, a second later she regretted it, right in front of her stood this huge rat. She stood there frozen unable to move. The rat stared at her, and she stared back at the rat. And, then it started to approach her....immediately forgetting her surroundings she ran down the stairs screaming loudly and tripped...

She tripped on the last couple of steps, and fell forward landing on a net. Only it wasn't a net.

She opened her eyes to look at a man. And, a second later it clicked to her... she had just landed in the arms of Angad Khanna.

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To be continued...

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