Thank you so much, you guys! I absolutely loved the response! I thought I might get a reply or two, but this is just over the top. And you guys have been so supportive and welcoming, thanks a million.😃So here's the second part. 😳
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"Mr. Arora!" Mr. Dixit calls a man as we reach the warehouse. It took us almost an hour or two to reach here, and Mr. Dixit says that checking the warehouse might take us the whole day. I shouldn't have come here.
"Oh, Mr. Dixit! Welcome!" The man, apparently Mr. Arora, smiles warmly. "Thank you so much for coming on such short notice."
"No, that's all right." Dev shakes it off. "I heard there was some problem with the storage unit?"
[A/N : I have absolutely NO idea what a storage unit has to do with Dev's job. So just go along with it. It's for fiction's sake. :P Enjoy!]
"Yes, Sir, the sanitation department came last week to check. They found some dirt, and possibly some bugs." Bugs? "It would be great if you could have a look."
"All right. The freezer?"
"Yes, Mr. Dixit. This way." Mr. Arora leads us to a corner of the place. I glance at Dev, finding him with a frown on his face. Why must he always be frowning?
"Dr. Bose." Mr. Dixit turns around as we reach the storage unit. The word 'STORAGE UNIT' is written in big, bold letters, is how I know what it is. "Do you want to stay out here?"
"I thought I came here to help you." I say.
"You did. But it's cold in there." He nods. "But you can come. It would.. take less time if we both checked it."
"All right." Mr. Arora politely smiles at us, and walks off to wherever he came from. Dev enters the freezer, and I follow suit. Okay, this place is cold.
It's a freezer, Sona, of course it is cold.
One of these days, I'm going to kill my conscious.
"You check over there." Mr. Dixit points to the right. "I'll check here."
"Are there mice in here?" I gulp, but nevertheless walk over to the right side of the store room. This place is dark, and fortunately, a little roomy.
"No, Dr. Bose, there are no mice in here." Comes Mr. Dixit's bored voice. I groan.
"Why must you always be so annoyed with whatever I say? I'm scared of mice, everyone is. And.."
"I checked my side. I didn't find any bugs, but I think this place requires a lot of regular cleaning for sanitation. Did you finish checking yours?" Dev walks over to my side.
"I didn't." I say sheepishly. "It's not even my job. I'm helping you. The least you can do is be nice to me."
"I don't do nice." He says, and starts looking around.
"Well, you should. People would get to know the side you try to so hard to hide." I start looking myself.
"What do you mean?" He says. I don't turn around at his voice.
"What I mean is, the way you act around your sisters, your mother; it's unreal. You have a mask on, Mr. Dixit, and you try so well to hide what you truly feel. You're not like this. You're not arrogant, you're a sensitive person who cares. And this might come as a surprise to you, but I know you. And I know that you're not the person you claim to be." I finish with a sigh. "All clean. Like you said, needs a little cleaning up."
"You know nothing about me, Dr. Bose. Absolutely nothing." He shakes his head, looking angry all of a sudden.
Huh, bipolar.
"Now that we're done, can we please get out?" I point towards the door.
"Yeah." We walk over to the door and Mr. Dixit pulls on the handle.
The door doesn't open.
He tries again, no avail.
He tries again and again, but nothing happens. Panic sets in, as I shove him aside and try myself. It doesn't open by me either.
"What's going on?" I say, panicking.
"Dr. Bose, it's all right. No need to panic. I'll call Mr. Arora and ask him to let us out." He takes out his phone and dials something in.
We're stuck in a freezer!
And I have claustrophobia!
"No signal. Shit." Dev says, frustrated. I fish out my phone from my bag and see.
"In mine too."
"This place doesn't catch signal." Captain Obvious. "Are you all right?"
"Yeah." I lie. "I'm fine."
"Good."
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It's been 45 minutes and no one has to come to get us. Mr. Arora couldn't possibly be thinking that we still have work in the freezer, does he? I've tried banging on the door, shouting my lungs out. But Dev says the walls are soundproof.
Who makes freezer walls soundproof?
"What do we do now?" I take a seat on the floor. "I'm.."
"I'm sorry." He says, sitting beside me.
"What for?" I turn around to look at him, utterly confused. He's apologizing. The arrogant, ever rude, Mr. Dixit is apologizing. To me.
"You know me well, Dr. Bose. Though you are my mother's nutritionist and I've hardly known you, but you know me too well for your own good."
"I'm not judging you, Mr. Dixit. You're a good man."
"You think so." He scoffs. "Nothing about me is good. I've hadn't had proper meals with my family since forever. I work twice as much the time I am home. I hardly ever get any sleep, no matter how long I lay in bed. Though I love my sisters, everytime I look at them, it's like I hardly know them. I don't know anything about Nikki's college, or Rhea's job experiences or Neha's english classes. I don't know what things they like, what songs they prefer. Nothing about them. And my mother? She loves me the most, but I can see it in her eyes that she's disappointed in me."
"She isn't disappointed in you, Mr. Dixit." I say quietly. "You're so brilliant. You have achieved such success in such a short amount of time. You've inspired so many people. You.. You're amazing, Mr. Dixit."
"Are you claustrophobic, Sonakshi?" My heart stops when he calls me by my first name. And how does he know?
"How..?"
"You're sweating in a freezer." I wipe the liquid on the base of my neck. My breathe odds out, and I struggle to breath.
"I have to get that door open," I get up from where I was sitting and walk over to the door.
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"Mr. Dixit, this is impossible." I've tried at least a thousand times to open the door, but to no avail. I look around and what I see stops my heart.
There has got to be a way out of here. I look around to see Dev, lying there, shaking in the cold.
My heart stops. Completely, stops.
This is all my fault.
"DEV!" A cry escapes my lips as I run over to his side, gently holding his head up, kneeling down, and setting it on my lap. "Dev, Dev, wake up."
"Dr..Dr.Bose?" He slightly opens his eyes.
"I'm sorry, Dev, I'm really sorry." Tears start escaping my eyes. "I should've waited outside. This is all my fault."
"Do..Don't..cr..cry." He tries to talk. "I'm..I'm..fi..fine."
"You're shaking." I push him further in my lap, cuddling it as I do. I can't let anything happen to him..
"It's.." His eyes start drooping.
"NO! No, you can't close your eyes! Please!" I cry helplessly, tears flowing down my eyes, and I don't try to stop them. I look towards the door, crying even more. I look down again, at the face of this angel. I can't let him close his eyes..
"Please, please, just don't close your eyes." I beg. "You..You wanted to know right? Why..Why no one is disappointed in you? I'll tell you why. You're the greatest, the most kindest man I have ever met. You are so modest, so nice, and you just have this mask on. And you let it down when you're with me. I don't know what I have done to deserve that, but I'm grateful to God that.. that you trust me."
"These all talks are said to the people who are dying, right?" He laughs without any humour. This angers me.
"Shut up, Dev. Don't talk like that."
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Edited by xxSomeonesLuvxx - 9 years ago
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