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Part 13
The next morning:
The team was sitting in the conference room. There was no case till now so everyone was either finishing pending work or reading files or just passing their time. Suddenly, Sameer's phone rang and he went out to attend it. He came back announcing a case and the ETF team geared up. As they were getting ready, Sameer's phone rang AGAIN and this time, he talked in the conference room itself. After the call ended, he looked at the team and sensing his gaze on them, all of them looked up at him expectantly.
"Guys, aaj se humein ek nayi officer join karne vaali hai... Ms Aisha Kapoor. Vo humaari team as an ammunition expert join kareingi. Riya, Shree, Chotu, osse welcome feel karvaana tumhaari zimmedaari hai. Main nahi chahta ke ose koi problem ho. Is that clear?"
"Yes Sir!" replied a smiling Riya. 'Yay!' her mind shouted, 'Ab main iss team mein akeli ladki nahi rahoongi!'
Seeing her smile after so many days, brought a smile on four faces. Shree and Chotu had seen those dimples after so many days and had missed them so badly. Even though Chotu didn't know the reason, he knew it was something big. He also knew that Shree knew it but didn't ask Shree to tell him. Even though the trio were the best of friends, Chotu somewhere realised that Shree and Riya shared a deeper bond and he respected it. Sure, he sometimes felt a little bad but only because he wished to share the same bond. He never had any ill-feeling for Riya or Shree. Infact, this bond made his respect and love for Shree-Riya grow a thousand times and made him wish for a person to share the same bond with!
Sameer and Arjun also felt at peace when they saw her smile. Of course they hadn't been unaware of her dimples-missing case. They were very well aware. But there was hardly anything they could do. After all, the reason for her dimple-less face was quite complicated. And of course, Shree was definitely happy to see those pits of happiness on Riya's face. God knew how hit killed him to see her sad. But now, everything would be OK. It was a Shree-promise; and Shree-promises were never made to be broken!
They all left for the crime scene where they began the investigation. It was a murder case and quite a simple one. The murderer was the victim's own friend who had killed him in a spite of anger for having an affair with his sister. After killing, the murderer had panicked and escaped leaving behind a trail of clues for our ETF heroes to sniff him down like a pack of dogs. The case was open and shut in a day and frankly, they were quite disappointed by the case. It was too easy! No challenge at all. They returned to the ETF headquarters and finished the paper-work. It was around 5 PM when the conference room door opened and a girl in about her mid-twenties entered. She wore a simple top and jeans and her hair tied in a high ponytail. As she entered, Shree, Chotu and Riya, who were the only ones sitting in the conference room looked up.
"hi! I'm Aisha! Aisha Kapoor. New member?!" she said in a sweet voice.
"Oh Hi," Riya stood up and smiled, "I am Riya. Riya Mukherjee. Research specialist. Aur ye hain Shreekant Sen, humaare technical expert aur Chotu, humaara commando!" Shree and Chotu nodded and smiled. She smiled back.
"Chotu? Kaafi suitable naam hai!" Aisha said with a smirk. Riya and Shree laughed.
"arre nahi.. Chotu to sirf mera nickname hai. Mera asli naam to Chandrakant Patil hai.!" Chotu said quickly.
At the same time, Arjun and Sameer entered. Aisha turned to look at them and the trio also looked at the duo. "Oh! Aisha, ye hain humaare chief ACP Sameer Dhamsingh Rathod aur..." Riya began but Aisha cut her off, saying, "ACP Arjun Suryakant Rawte, ETF ke second-in-command!" in a very high and excited tone.
"right... par..." Riya started but before she could continue, Aisha took long steps towards Arjun and wrapped her arms around his neck. Riya stared in shock as Arjun, too, put his arms around her waist and picked her up. He twirled her around and put her down. Then, he looked down at her with a full smile on his face and she looked up at him.
All this while, Sameer had been intently staring at her with awestruck eyes. She was a beauty he had never seen. He couldn't believe his eyes. Was it possible to be so beautiful? When she had hugged Arjun, not one but two hearts burnt. Riya and Sameer. Both stared in horror as their hearts burnt seeing Arjun and Aisha in each other's arms.
'NO! It's not possible. How can this happen? What is happening?!' cried Riya's heart at the scene in front of her. 'No Riya! Aisa nahi ho sakta. Kuch to zaroor hai. I'm sure iski koi reasonable explanation hogi! Kyun Bhagwaan kyun? Kis baat ka badla le rahein hain aap?'
Arjun and Aisha separated and stood a few steps apart. "How could you Arjun?! Iss tarah 3 saal pehle gayab ho jaana aur phir koi aata-pata hi nahi! Jao. Main tumse koi baat nahi karna chahti!" Aisha said in a high tone, shocking everyone further. Nobody talked to Arjun like that! Oopsy..
"Arre jaan. Gussa kyun ho rahi ho? Chalo theek hai. Main maafi maangta hoon. I am sorry. Mujhe please maaf kardo!" Arjun replied, snatching the earth from below everyone's feet. WHAT?! DID the GREAT Arjun just say "Sorry"? And "Please"? And Ask for FORGIVENESS?! Boy, oh boy, the sun definitely rose from the west today! "Could this get any stranger?!" was the question running in each mind. "Could it?!"
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