Part 1
Mrityunjay Singh Shekhawat and Tara Shukla were childhood friends. Two peas in a pod.
They went to the same school and college. If anyone had seen them for the first time, they might have thought them as childhood sweethearts. Butin reality they were best friends. Tara guided Mrityunjay on how girls act pathetically. They were so much together that everyone thought they were in a relationship. So no boy approached Tara fearing a nice beating from the big broad Mrityunjay.
Mrityunjay was hard to be ignored. He had a well-built body and a charming personality. Many girls in school and college tried to approach him but each time they tried to get near him, Tara from nowhere used to come toMrityunjay's rescue. It was not that Mrityunjay did not like girls but he was well informed by Tara about girls’ tantrums and found it best to stay away from them.
Tara was also a girl but for Mrityunjay, she was Tara, not any girl.
Their families were business partners and friends as well. They had finished their MBA and were working in their parents’ company. Sometimes they still behaved like five-year-old kids. Like today in Mrityunjay's office they were fighting about where they would go this weekend because, after this weekend, he would be in another city for a month to learn more about the work in Bangalore office while Tara would be here in Mumbai office, learning things which she would later share with him.
“Movie and dinner,” she yelled.
“No, just dinner,” he shouted.
“I am booking tickets and we are going,” she said snatching his phone from his hand to book the tickets.
“No, we are not.” He snatched his phone back from her hand.
Jairaj and Govind were standing in the conference room looking towards Mrityunjay's office. Seeing Mrityunjay and Tara fighting, Jairaj and Govind laughed.
“If someone comes and tells me that they are grownups, I am not going to believe them,” Govind chuckled.
“I agree with you,” said Jairaj, putting his hand on Govind’sshoulder.
“What do you think? Should we tell them?” asked Govind seriously.
“I don't think this is the right time. Besides, they are fighting,” he chuckled.
“Let's stop them then before they break anything in the office,” said Govind walking towards the cabin door.
Jairaj knocked on the door of Mrityunjay's cabin and said, “If we are allowed.” Both Mrityunjay and Tara noticed Jairaj and Govind standing at the door and stopped yelling at each other.
Seeing them both quiet, Jairaj and Govind stepped insideMrityunjay's cabin.
“There is some exhibition and I think both of you should go and check it out,” said Govind circling his arm around Tara's shoulder, giving her a side hug.
“Yes, it will nice,” said Jairaj hugging Mrityunjay.
Mrityunjay and Tara were calm now but still glaring at each other.
“Come on. Stop fighting like five-year-olds. You both are next inline after me and Govind,” said Jairaj, patting Mrityunjay's back. Hearing him, both of them shrugged their shoulders in defeat.
Seeing them calm down, Jairaj and Govind left Mrityunjay's office. After they left, Mrityunjay and Tara looked at each other and smiled liked nothing had happened and hugged. This happened after each of their fights.
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Next day Mrityunjay and Tara visited the exhibition. Soon both of them were bored and left the exhibition. It was a nice spring evening. They decided to take a walk in the nearby area where the jewellery shops were located.
They were discussing how boring the exhibition was when his phone rang. He excused himself as it was a call from one of their clients. Tara was still standing there and was looking at the shop in front of her. She moved closer to the shop and just to pass the time was looking at the jewellery on display. Her eyes stopped on one small heart-shaped locket. It was not something that was too shiny or exclusive but without any reason, Tara felt drawn towards it. She was about to touch the glass in front of it whenMrityunjay came behind her and tapped on her shoulder. He handed her the phone mouthing that she needed to talk to the client. Tara took the phone and moved aside to talk. During the conversation, her mind was again and again drawn to the locket. When after fifteen minutes she finished the conversation, she came straight to the shop to purchase the locket. But when she reached there, she didn't see the locket and panicked.
“There was one locket here. Have you seen it?” she asked the shopkeeper, still scanning his shop for the locket.
“Are you talking about a small heart-shaped locket?” he asked trying to follow her scanning eyes.
“Yes...Can you please give me that?” she pleaded.
“Sorry madam but we sold it just five minutes ago and it was the only piece,” he said.
“Ohh.”
She was disappointed. She walked out of the shop and suddenly thought, “I can buy it back from the person who bought it.” Thinking this, she ran inside the shop.
“Can you tell me who purchased it and in which direction that person went?” she asked in a hurry.
“It was bought by a man over six feet tall and well built. He went that way.” He pointed towards the direction in which the man had gone.
She thanked him and dashed in that direction. “Don't know why she is so desperate for that locket?” the shopkeeper murmured to himself.
She struggled to make her way through the evening crowd and walked in the direction the man had gone. She tried to look for a man as described by the shopkeeper. But to her luck, there was no man to match that description. She was still looking in the crowd when Mrityunjay tapped on her shoulder andTara turned. For once she thought she had found the man that the shopkeeper had described. For the first time in the twenty-five years of her life, she noticed he had brown eyes.
Mrityunjay waved his hand in front of her face to grab her attention and she came out of her thoughts. “No, it can't be Mrityunjay,” she thought to herself.
“What happened Miss. Bak-bak? You are too quiet. It does not suit you,” he said smiling. He also had a heartwarming smile, she noted.
“What are you doing Tara?” she scolded herself in her mind. Soon they were in the car discussing the client with whom they had just talked.
That night Tara's thoughts were drifting again and again to the locket and the man who had purchased it. She was in some way attracted towards the man who had purchased it. Her mind had tried to reason her out that it was possible that the man was married and might have purchased it for his wife. And if not married then he might have purchased it for his girlfriend or whatsoever. The locket was sold and she had lost it and it was useless to think about it. But even after all these reasonings, Tara was not able to take her mind away from the locket and after some time of fighting with her thoughts, she drifted off in slumber.
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A big Thanks to 🤗 Shaina_b for editing it!
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Edited by Archi21 - 4 years ago
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