Sanskar sleeps again but Swara is not getting sleep, Whenever she closes her eyes she remembers the shadow and the door sounds. She thinks to herself "No, No it was not my hallucination. Even if I have imagined the shadow but I heard that noise. I should find out who it is" So now as it is not dark, around 7 in the morning she wants to go and check the corridor once. As everyone is asleep, she decides to go alone. She goes out of the main door and around the house towards the corridor.   

She sees the whole place but all her efforts are in vain because she couldn't find anything. When she feels dejected and thinks to go back, she hears someone crying nearby. First, she gets scared and feels the urge to run back but then she gains courage and goes in the direction of the sound, and lands in the exact middle of the jungle. There she could only hear the voice but could not find anyone. She gets scared and tries to run away from there but just then a bright light falls on her eyes and she becomes blind. She before fainting calls Sanskar's name loudly. Just before that Sanskar wakes up and when he misses Swara in the room as well as in the house, he comes out in search of her, then he hears her voice calling his name. So, he goes in that direction and finds Swara unconscious on the ground. He panics and tears start rolling from his eyes as different things come in his mind. He carries her in his hands and then It starts raining heavily. He takes her inside the house. As Omkara and Gauri are doctors, they check Swara.

"Sanskar ji there is nothing to worry. She is absolutely fine. It's just that she is scared and tired that she fainted. She will get conscious soon", Said Gauri.

Sanskar gave a sigh of relief and sat beside Swara on the bed taking her hand in his while remaining four left to the hall.

Sanskar: Swara, please wake up... you know na I can't be without you. please, Swara. (He kept Swara's hand near his heart and cried closing his eyes.)

At around 9 am Swara came out of the room along with Sanskar when everyone was having breakfast. "Swara ji, you woke up!! How are you feeling now? If you want I will send your breakfast into the room itself. You just take rest.", said Gauri

"No Gauri I am fine. What happened to me actually?", said Swara (she asks them catching her head as it is paining badly).

Sanskar came near her and keeps his hand on her shoulder and explains everything how he found her missing, then how he heard her voice and found her unconscious in the middle of the jungle. "Then I brought you here. It's okay you will be fine. First of all, what were you doing there?"

Swara tells her version and when she tells that she heard someone crying, as usual, they think it is some wolf or other animals in pain. But as she is not well, they think it is better not to stress her much. They leave that topic.

"I think today we can't leave", said Sanskar to Swara seeing outside the window of their room as it is raining heavily. There is no power and no signal in the house. And they can't even go out because of the rain. So, all of them decided to stay there until everything is fine. This time even Swara didn't protest.

As there is nothing much for them to do, all the men decide to play rummy with the cards brought by Abhinav in the room which is upstairs that consists of television. Beside that room, there is a storeroom which they tried to open but it was reluctant to open. While Gauri and Swara are sitting in the hall on the sofa and are having a casual talk.

"Gauri, your house looks so old and don't mind me saying that it needs a good cleaning. How are you staying here with all this dirt?" asked Swara.

Gauri laughs "Swara ji, apko galth phemi huyi hai, ey humare ghar nahi hai. ey un dono chirotte ki hai (this is not our house. It is those twins.) Just like you, we came here for shelter because of our car breakdown and got stuck here because of rain."

"So you were also going to Sripooram? And may I know the reason?" asked Swara not so sure that she can ask such a question or not.

"Well, the people in this village are suffering from a contiguous ailment, as there are no proper medical facilities available here; our head has asked us to conduct a campaign to give free treatment to the villagers. All our team is going to come today with the equipment. I and Omkara ji thought it would be better if we go before and have a look of the place properly. But maybe we will be the guys reaching late." Said Gauri.

"Oh great. You doctors really help people a lot", praised Swara.

Gauri smiled and asked "What about you and Sanskar? Why are you going this way?"

Swara thought for some time and then replied "we are going to get married next month and Sanskar's parents insisted us to invite few relatives of Sanskar who are in that village, but Sanskar has last visited this place when he was a kid. So, he couldn't remember the way."

"Congratulations Swara ji. You owe me an invitation card," said Gauri laughing.

"What's going on ladies, looks like you are having a wonderful time here", said Omkara coming down along with others.

"Just now Swara ji told me that she and Sanskar ji are getting married next month", told Gauri. Everyone congratulated them. "What you boys did till now?" asked Swara.

"We played a game and finally we decided to explore this house and you know what we tried hard to open that door but of no use. It didn't budge even an inch," told Arnav pointing to the door that is beside the room which consists of a television and a small library. Upstairs there are totally three rooms one to the left side which is shared by Arnav and Abhinav and to the right side, there are two rooms one let's call it a recreation room and the other one they deduced it to be a storeroom.

Swara: you guys explored Matlab, is this not your house? (she asks Arnav and Abhinav)

Arnav: what the... well ok it is our house. But we had come here for the first time. We don't stay here.

Swara: Oh.. (she was about to say something, Arnav cuts her)

Arnav: I will go freshen up. Abhinav you too come with me. (Everyone goes to their rooms)

Swara and Gauri prepared lunch. Then they started arranging the dishes on the table, when Swara was taking a lot of time in the kitchen Gauri went to see what the matter is but couldn't find Swara. Then she came into the hall and everyone came out of their rooms for lunch.

"Gauri where is Swara? I thought she is with you helping in the kitchen," asked Sanskar.

"Yes, until now she was with me. But when I came into the hall she didn't come with me. Maybe she went to the restroom. You guys have lunch. I will have it with her." said Gauri.

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.     

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That's all for today guys. 

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