Hello pumpkins.

Surprise!!!

*Drum rolls*

*Eye rolls*
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Maybe when you find something very interesting it will intrigued you to a point where the worldly pleasure disappears consuming you in an enthralling heaven like space.

After the unrequited reunion with Dr Shravan Bhattacharya the place where Aryan took Sejal was quite far better than the actual surprise.

It was G7.
The place where Aryan had secretly set up his research on some newly undetected disease. The same research for which he had asked Sejal to assist.

For which he had posted her in different parts of RCSM to check her liability in all the particular fields.

It's been already like half a day since Sejal started going through the reports which Aryan had given her of all the cases he had observed. Few of them were pre checked and verified by Darshan and few by Peter.

Yeah,the same Peter who gave a tour of RCSM to Sejal on her first day.
Okay.
A semi tour because he got something urgent to attend.

All the reports almost had the same symptoms. Mostly the veins and arteries having a major darker shades during the last stages before their deaths.

So engrossed in her new found job she even forgot about not having her phone and informing Raghav or Katyusha about her whereabouts. For a time being she even forgot that her stomach didn't have a morsel since morning as she was busy hosting an unplanned and self invited party for her friends back then and now busy with the reports.

Moreover having her phone wouldn't be any use because G7 or to say the entire ground flour was jammed to any network except the LAN which was controlled somewhere from the ground only.

When Aryan bought her in from the back entrance which Sejal didn't have any idea about because it was a freaking painting of her father which split open as a door and the ground floor was much more equipped then the rest of the particular parts of RCSM which she had worked in.

The ground floor had it's own network and God only knows how much of things run here legally or illegally because it was having no connections with the main hub.

Anyways Sejal highly doubted that Raghav or Katyusha would be worried about her because they were too busy in suiting themselves with the guests that they even forgot was the birthday girl enjoying or not.

This is definitely done.
Yeah disappearing from her own flat on her own birthday was truly an achievement!

The door juggled open startling Sejal out of her so great thoughts and Aryan entered in with a bottle of water.

"Thank you."
Sejal said when he gave her the bottle.

Aryan waited for her to drink the bottle and Sejal could already smell and sense something was not right.

"You need to come with me."
Aryan said not revealing any emotions.

Sejal relaxed knowing this piece of a man was totally insane because he used the same dialogue just two hours back scaring the shit out of her and took her to the control room of G7 to install her finger print and Iris scan for security purposes.

Chuckling she nodded and got up from her chair.

"Lead the way handsome."
Sejal said shocking her own self.

But it seems Aryan was back to the bipolar thing it's either he didn't hear her or just completely ignored the 'handsome' part.

Good for her because she didn't want any embarrassing encounters.

But this time they were walking in a different direction piqueing her interest in where they were going this time. All this felt so good. More nice than meeting her father.

With a flight of stair case they reached a final door revealing the main hall of Block B of RCSM astonishing Sejal about the architectural design of the place of how they were connected.

"Why are we here?"
Sejal asked and watched people crowded over an area with an army of policeman talking something deep.

She turned to Aryan for an explanation but it seems he was not in a mood for a briefing.

"Is it a murder case?"

No reply.

"Or suicide? Are we attending a patient?"

Silence.

Then everything happened all of sudden. The spotlight was on her because suddenly everyone stopped talking with silence overtaking all the eyes pried on Sejal without a flicker confusing her.

Then out of nowhere somebody jumped on her wailing like a pig about to die making her realize it was Katyusha while another hand slapped her hard on her cheek making her wince.

"Thank God we found you."
Katyusha said sniffing.

"Was I missing?"
Sejal questioned enticing away from the death grip of her fashionista.

"Yes you idiot. You disappeared."
Raghav said checking her hands and legs for any scratches to confirm if she was okay or not.

Huh.
Childish.
But cute.

Darshan came and pulled her hair and Sejal could bet she was now looking like a horse whose hair wasn't combed. He pulled until Raghav surprisingly beat him which led Darshan to leave the grip on her hair.

"Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die."
Darshan quoted.

Typical Darshan.

Searching for a hint of explanation of what the hell is happening on everybodies faces Sejal gave up until the police officer started examining her with his eyes.

"Look guys I am absolutely fine in one piece. I don't get what the problem-"
Darshan cut in Sejal.

"Are you out if your senses beautiful? One minute we were sitting in the dining hall and the next minute you go to get the door and disappear which we observe after two hours of you gone. You don't even know the shit what went on us."

Thanks to Katyusha who gave a water bottle to Darshan who was very much in need of a liquid because he was shouting like hell.

"Thanks Usha."

"I am Katyusha. Not Usha."
She said with an eye roll.

Then Raghav and Katyusha explained about what ever happened with a few here and there inputs of Darshan in the middle making her realize she was stuck in G7 since the past 24 hours.

Like one whole damn of a day!

After they found out Sejal was not there they tried calling her but the inevitable was she didn't have her sandal in her feet when Aryan took her out or to say almost kidnapped her but she didn't want him to be behind bars so she kept mum as they continued the explaination.

They called any known possibilities of where Sejal could be but they got is all negative response. Then they checked the CCTV of the building where they surprisingly couldn't see the face of the person who kidnapped her.

Sejal could understand this part because Aryan had parked his car somewhere in the no parking region.

After watching her getting kidnapped they contacted the police. However the police didn't confirm it was a kidnapping case which made Darshan do some shitty stunt by calling the DCP and firing the officer who refused to Lodge an FIR.

Sejal could practically see Darshan in his most serious mode asking the officer to start searching her but obviously they wouldn't Lodge an FIR within twenty four hours of her missing so Darshan being Darshan didn't even threaten the officer but directly fired him.

Then with the request of an army of twelve best police officers they started searching her. They tried contacting Aryan but his phone seemed off or not reachable something between the both is what Darshan described.

"I am sorry guys I didn't knew this would be such a mess it's just that Ar-"
Sejal turned to check where was Aryan but he seemed missing now.

Does he want a missing complaint to be filed for him or what?

Total Gross. Aryan had left her alone again to deal with her own misery. He was back to being himself again.

What could be more likely expected from him?

"Actually-"
Sejal was stopped again.

"Miss Seghal you have to come with us to the police station to give us a written statement because we have a missing report."

The thought of visiting the police station was quite horrifying. She immediately said no.

"It's the protocol mam."
Another officer spoke.

Sejal looked at Katyusha and Raghav to save her but they seemed to be agreeing with the officers because they were the people who filed an FIR in the first place.

"If beautiful doesn't want to go then it's a no."
This made Sejal smile because even after anything and everything Darshan was saving her ass.

"Sorry sir but you need to cooperate because when you asked for the best police force I had to request for aborting them from other important duties for you."
The officer spoke who seemed to be in his salt pepper hair age.

Darshan jumped into silence thinking for a moment.

"Okay then I am coming with her."
Darshan said nodding at Sejal.

Fuck.
This visit to the police station seemed unavoidable.

"Give me a moment."
Sejal said and ran upstairs without anybody to reply.

She clicked in the elavator as fast as possible trying to reach the office floor of Aryan. Because she wanted him to be there with her in the police station not Darshan as she need to know how much of the correct information she is supposed to reveal to everyone.

Running in her new sea green sandals she reached to the doors of his cabin but stopped herself from knocking as the scene viewed was quite heart breaking. Aryan was sitting with a girl on the couch and they were having quite the time of their life.

They were laughing and drinking coffee or tea whatever it was Sejal couldn't care because she felt her heart shrinking. Not even knowing why.

Maybe because she wanted Aryan to be there in all this mess with her. Moreover he is the one because of whom this is happening in the first place. But it seems he didn't care.

Wiping a tear she walked back to the elevator. She didn't want to cry over him. Because he should be meaning nothing to her. He was a nobody to her.

They weren't friends.
They weren't family.
They weren't in a relationship.
They weren't in love.

They were nothing.

But why did it hurt like a knife being plunged in the naked heart directly?

Saying a mournful bye to both Katyusha and Raghav she walked out of the Block along with Darshan.

"She will come with me. You don't need to take her in the Jeep making her feel like a criminal."
Darshan said to the officer opening his BMW door for Sejal.

"What happened beautiful?"
Darshan said firing the engine.

Sejal couldn't even speak up of what happened. It was her freaking birthday. Everyone came then Aryan also came secretly becoming her knight in shining armour.
She smiled stupidly to herself at that thought.
He made her meet Shravan Bhattacharya the father who couldn't be there for her. But it was actually good to see him and say him the things she wanted to tell her father since the day he left her with Uncle.
Then to make things right and better he took her to G7 and that did it. She was so involved in the reports that she didn't realize people were worried for her and it has been one day.

It was one perfect birthday for her. The fact that her friends filed a missing report because she disappeared was quite amusing.

Like who even does that?

She chuckled thinking that even police got to celebrate her birthday.

"Beautiful I asked you something?"
Darshan did taking a turn on the road.

"A friend of mine came so he took me out and then I came to the hospital and totally forgot about the phone and you guys."
Sejal said closing her eyes.

She didn't like lying to Darshan but she didn't wanted to share those blissfull moments with anybody. Not even Darshan.

Aryan made her feel wanted. He made her feel many freaking things and now he is blacking out completely like nothing happened. Like he never took her to the park or just made her birthday special.

Involuntarily her hand reached to the infinity locket caressing it softly sadly reminding the beautiful moments of her birthday.

"Beautiful can you pick up that for me."
Darshan said as his phone was in the dashboard.

Nodding Sejal answered the phone and a voice conquered the car making her realize that the call was connected to the car speakers.

"Sir the pamphlets are ready. Where should I deliver?"
The man spoke making Sejal confused about what will Darshan want to make pamphlets for.

"Nevermind. We don't need them. The payment will be done."
Darshan spoke in his commanding voice.

Sejal couldn't imagine Darshan having this side of his personality also because he was sweet and gentlemen among everyone around.

With an okay the supplier cut the call.

"If you don't mind will you tell what pamphlets were they?"
Sejal asked placing the phone back in the dashboard.

Darshan chuckled.

This wasn't a good sign.

"Check my WhatsApp."

Which Sejal did and she was just ashtonished beyond limits.
It was a photo of her and the worst picture of her to say and below her name was written with a phone number.

It was a freaking missing pamphlet.

"Darshan! Like seriously? You guys were about to distribute them?"

"Yeah beautiful. We were worried."

"I can't believe this is happening with me. I am going to a freaking police station because of you guys!"

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Did you guys ever go to a police station?

I didn't go. 😎

Wish me all the best guys!
I have my semester exams. So going off for the next fifteen days.

Keep enjoying the story.

Love,
Sana Afreen😄❤️