PART 5
Best friends never keep secrets from each other. But they had…..and for a very long time.
Yuvi & Ranveer spoke about everything but somehow never got around to telling each other their deep secret. This was a secret that they had kept form each other since their school days.
Now, the sadness of not sharing their secret with each other weighed them down more than the secret itself. But they would never tell. 'Yuvi will think I am crazy'….thought Ranveer as he sat at the foot of his bed. Resting on his bed, Yuvi said to himself, 'Ranveer will feel cheated and think I'm crazy if I told him after all these years'.
Then it all started to surface. The sightings, the voices, the dreams, the memories….or was it imagination?
PART 6
' Ranveer….Ranveer…. here….this way…..I'm here Ranveer…..I'm here'. A small laughter and the voice faded. Ranveer got up with cold sweat! The voice….."not again" he thought.
'Ranveer….Ranveer…. here….this way…..I'm here Ranveer…..I'm here'. This time the voice was louder and this time Ranveer was awake! Was this his mind playing tricks???
'No it can't be….I'm not mad', he reassured himself.
'Don't be afraid Ranveer…it's me! You know me…for so many years. Then why do you fear me? I'm not going to harm you…am I?'
"STOP IT….STOP IT….please. Whoever you are…..please stop it for heavens sake!' Ranveer said aloud.
Again the girlish laughter…..and the voice said 'You know why I'm here….you just don't want to accept it. Face yourself Ranveer and only then will you see me'
"Go away….go….I hate you…please go away", Ranveer cried and covered his face.
PART 7
It may have been cold outside but the hearth kept the room warm and Yuvi kicked off his rug. He looked up at the mirrored ceiling….like he had several times before, ever since he started coming to the guest house.
He may not have told Ranveer what he saw in the mirror, but Yuvi for some reason was comforted by those eyes that stared back at him. He knew there was nothing to be afraid off…as long as he held on to his secret. As long as people don't think I'm mad, its ok….he thought.
"Hi..." said Yuvi gently, as if he were greeting an old familiar person. The eyes in the mirror just stared back down at him. How he wished he could see the whole face.
Usually when alone, Yuvi would try to construe the face that belonged to those eyes. He knew that it was a woman….but who was it? No clue!
He would often sketch her face but something was always amiss. Something always told him that the face was not right.
When Yuvi came to the hill station, the intensity with which those eyes stared down, increased. It was a little unsettling. It made him want to search for that face!
CID
Ishaani
