All of them finished lunch and Gauri went to search for Swara. She thought Swara might have gone to the recreation room to read books. All the men went into their rooms because they suddenly started feeling sleepy, they thought it might be because of the gloomy weather and soon they were fast asleep. The entire house was silent and as the sky is cloudy there is no much light inside the house. Gauri searched everywhere but there is no sign of Swara.   When she was about to get down the stairs, she found Swara near the dining table.

Gauri: Swara ji, ap yaha. mein tho apko kabse dund rahi hu..kaha thi app ithni waqt? (Swara ji, you are here. I was searching for you from so much time. Where were you till now?)

Swara: I was in my room itself. Did you check there?

Gauri: No, wo Sanskar ji ne muje pucha ki ap kaha ho tho muje laga ap kamre mein nahi thi tho mein vaha nahi dekha...Kair chodiye ab hum kathe.. muje bahut zoor se bhuk lagrahi hai. (No actually, Sanskar ji asked me that where were you so i thought you were not there in your room. I didn't check there. Anyways leave it, let's have lunch. I am feeling hungry)

Swara: Ha actually, when he came out for lunch I went in so he might have not noticed me. I having a little headache Gauri. I will take my lunch in my room. (Saying this she was about to leave Gauri stopped her)

Gauri: Swara ji rukhiye. Hum ap keliye kuch davayi lekar athe (Swara ji just wait. I will get some medicines for you)

Swara: No, it's ok. I will be fine If I take some rest. You too have your lunch.

Gauri nods and sits there and finishes off her lunch. She thought to clean the table but suddenly she too started feeling drowsy and she went to bed. After around 2 hours everyone woke up and comes out of their room, spend some time. Till now, all the charge in the phone is also completed and they have nothing to do but wait for the rain to stop, but it is increasing its intensity from time to time as if it doesn't want to stop for ages.

Arnav: I don't know when this rain will stop. I don't think the food will last longer. 

Abhinav: Relax ASR, we can manage for two more days and I think it will stop by then. Just chill.

Arnav just nods and sits in the couch. Gauri and Swara prepared dinner and again the same thing except for the disappearance of Swara, everything repeats like after eating all the boys slept and Swara again takes her dinner to her room making some excuse which makes Gauri suspicious. 

Gauri(in mind): mein tho pehle kabhi din mein nahi sothi thi to aj kaise aur muje ithna weak kyu lagrahi hai. Aur Omkara ji tho muje kabhi good night bole bhina nahi sothe tho aaj kaise. Aur Swara ji tho mujse tikse bath bhi nahi kar rahi hai. pata nahi ho kya rahi hai. (I have never slept in the daytime till now but how come I did today and why am I feeling this week. And Omkara ji never slept without saying goodnight to me, then how today. Moreover, Swara ji is also not talking to me properly. Don't know what's happening?)

Thinking all these, as she was feeling week, she takes a tablet and was going near the dustbin to throw the strip and is shocked to see Swara throwing the rice and curry in it. 

Gauri thinks that maybe Swara didn't like the food that is why she threw it, but she is not convinced because she feels food is God's gift and it should not be wasted. Brushing all the thoughts she went to have her dinner but then she heard Swara's voice somewhere. She goes in that direction and it leads to the storeroom. Gauri couldn't understand what Swara is speaking and with whom, because there is no signal in their mobile phones there is no chance of her speaking in a call. She was shocked to see the storeroom door opening because Arnav told her that the door didn't open even though they tried a lot. She felt scared but gathering all her courage she went inside. As soon as she steps inside, the door closed slowly. She could see Swara standing facing towards the wall, her back is towards Gauri.

"Swara ji, What are you doing here? Let's go down", saying this she places her hand on Swara's shoulder. Swara turns towards Gauri and she is shocked to see Swara's face which is no longer pleasant and her eyes became completely white with no eyeballs and Gauri faints then and there.

After about two hours, Gauri gains conscious and she doesn't understand where she is. Slowly she wakes up and comes to sitting position. She looks around the room and suddenly everything flashes in front of her eyes. She feels so scared and with a lot of effort, she gets up onto her feet and runs to the door. But the door doesn't open. She starts banging at the door and keeps shouting for help. But there is no response from outside. She feels tired and sits near the door. Her gaze falls on a bag that is in the cupboard. She goes and opens the bag. That is a small college bag which just had few books and when she was searching the bag she is surprised to see a photo in it and also when she was going through the room, she finds a bottle which is half empty. Because of the darkness, she couldn't read anything. That's it there is nothing she could find there and then she hears Om's voice calling for her.

"Gauri, Gauri where are you? Swara what is this? Is this any sort of game or what? Between you both, one or the other needs to disappear some or the other time. Can't you both be in one place?" scolds Omkara in worry. Then suddenly they hear Gauri's shout from upstairs and she keeps banging on the door. Everyone rush upstairs. After reaching near the storeroom, they find the door is not locked from outside.

"Gauri, the door is locked from inside only. Just calm down and have a look properly," called Omkara.

"No, Omkara ji it's not locked from inside either", Gauri started crying in fear.

"The door might have jammed. Gauri move back we are going to break it open", said Omkara. After a great struggle, the door gave away and Gauri hugged Om as soon as the door opened. They all walked downstairs and Gauri finds Swara standing near the kitchen with a fake concern on her face smirk clearly visible.

"Gauri I will get you some lemon water", saying this Swara leaves to the kitchen. Gauri in a panic-stricken state tells everything to everyone so fastly that half of the words are not registered to them. 

"Gauri relax, hum sab hey na. Kuch nahi hoga.(We all are there na. Nothing will happen. Stop crying." said Omkara trying to soothe her. He is so much worried to see his wife in this panic-stricken state.

"Come on do you all believe in ghosts that too in this century. Grow up guys", said Sanskar getting irritating listening to the allegations on Swara.

"Sanksar ji meri bath maniye, Swara Swara nahi hai maine dekha hai vo bayankar chahra, uski anke muje soch kar hi dar lagrahi hai..please meri bath maniye. (Sanskar ji listen to me, she is not Swara, her frightening face, her eyes, I am getting scared remembering them. please believe me.)", said Gauri still crying.

It was very difficult for everyone to believe her but Yet they think they should find out whether it is true or not.

"Listen, guys, don't argue. I heard that we can't see ghosts in a mirror and in the kitchen we have a glass partition separating the wash area from the kitchen, so I will go and have a look. Wait!!" said Arnav.

Arnav went into the kitchen and Swara is facing her back towards him. He slowly goes inside and is shocked to see that there is no reflection of Swara in the glass partition. He is about to leave but Swara called him. He stands froze at that place not understanding what to do.

"Hey you are Arnav right?" asked Swara. Arnav nodded in yes. "What are you doing here?"

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Well, that's it. I know I couldn't scare you because I myself was not scared while writing. But what to do, jithna bhi sochu kuch scary dimag mein athi hi nahi. Kair leave it. Let's not think it as a horror story bus kuch nomal story soch kar padlijiyega. Thank you everyone for your support. Bus 2 more parts, It will end. 

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