(In the midnight)

The beads of sweats didn't even waited for a second and continued flowing as the women on the bed, squirmed in her sleep.

The nightmare was worst this time, more worse than earlier, but still she wanted to have to live in the dream for few more minutes. Few more minutes because she wanted to see his face.

Everytime, she has this nightmare, that man escapes. That man saves himself again and hides his identity even in her dreams. Why can't he show his damn face..?

The women's breathing rate started getting heavier and heavier, indicating that soon she will get out of her dream. Once again, leaving behind the mystery which involves her little 17 year old self.

The tears in both sides of her eyes, expressed her thoughts. Expressed how terrible she feels and will feel after getting up again.

"Ahh!! Once again!! Once again!! I missed his face."

I aggressively said as I pulled my hairs in frustration. The fear filled up my whole body and I felt exactly the exact same emotions from that incident 11 years ago, striking up my body.

Only I know how I reached upto my phone and called the first person who came in my mind. I can't afford to tell about my nightmares to anyone expect her.

"Vidhika. I think I need hypnotherapy. That's how I will remember what exactly happened 11 years ago."

(In the morning.)

I was sitting in my car and waiting for Uditasree, a few miles away from her house aka kairav's foster family's house.

'Why my instincts are telling me that this isn't a coincidence...?'

Nowadays, everything happening near me sounds and looks sok suspicious. Sometimes even I can't figure out if it's just my hallucination or really something is wrong.

The memories of last night re-visited me once again, the movement I shook my head.

From the time, kairav had told me about her mom being the same person whom I saw being killed in front of my eyes, I started getting nightmares.

From my earlier experience, I knew that if I will fight against them weakly, then they will haunt me forever and ever. The only way to leave this nightmares behind is when I find out who that person was.

'That person who killed kairav's mom. Who is he..? How can I not remember him even when he wasn't wearing any kind of disguise...?'

My subconscious level of mind knows that person, but conscious level of mind is rejecting to remember him. So, when I started getting this nightmares, it was like a victory for me.

'This nightmares will lead me to the person who killed her.'

It's dangerous but worth trying. I just needed to have courage to face that same events, every night. Seeing that same events occurring again, was terrifying but keeping in my mind that it's just an illusion and I took a step ahead.

Everytime, The moment I was going to see his face, my vision either gets blurred out or I wake up. Last time, I woke up but a night before, first my vision got blurred and then, I woke up.

I let my thoughts fly away from my mind as I saw Uditasree sitting in the passenger seat. I started the engine of the car and before driving away, I texted kairav about our departure.

"The focus of the case have moved from Mr. Vihaan Singhania to Mr. Adarsh Patel now."

I nodded as I stopped the car on the signal. Not only the case stoplight have from Vihaan to Adarsh but also from a rape case to a planned rape case as according to Vihaan, both sisters are trying to frame him.

"Yes it shifted, especially after knowing his criminal background. It's totally understandable if judge choose to believe Vihaan in the next trials.

How can a judge believe in a family who has a criminal, instead of a person who is government servent...?"

I saw her nodding, but before I could continue my words, the red light soon turned into green, making me start the engine instead of talking.

"So what should we do now...?"

She asked after we drove passed the traffic signal. As we were closed the park which we chose to met, I refrained myself from speaking anything for at least 1 minute.

"We have to make the judge see the reality."

I told her after parking the car and looked at her face filled with confusion.

"Who said Vihaan's family is as pure as milk...? Don't forget that nowadays even milk isn't as pure as it looks like.

You will come to know about the quality of the milk, only when you ignite it. Here, the fire is already lit, the only thing which is missing is milk, that is a full-fledged evidence."

I laughed and scolded myself internally because of stupidly I spoke to her without any filter.

Before saying anything, I disattached the belt and picked the black caps which was lying on the back seat of the car. I gave one to her and wore the other one.

"Do you see the black car under the tree..? That car belongs to one of my friend. We have to sneakily, without getting caught in the cctv camera of the park have to reach his car.

Do whatever you want to for reaching there but remember that you shouldn't get caught in the camera."

The problem wasn't we getting caught while sitting in the someone's car but the problem here was, we, lawyers sitting in an uncovered agents car. 

I seriously wanted to curse to kairav for suggesting this method. According to him, this method of meeting in secret will give thrill not only to him, the person who haven't went on any kind of mission for a long time, but also will give us an experience.

Blame him for making me agree with his arrangements in the name of thriller. For sure, we are wasting our time but to be honest, it's really a fun.

"Kairav. I swear if you do something like this again. I will kill you."

I said the moment I sat down in his car. I saw him rolling his eyes from the car's mirror and I swear I wanted to bang my hands on his head but controlled myself when I saw uditasree getting inside.

"Don't act like you didn't enjoyed it."

Obviously he wouldn't be Kairav, my annoying friend if he didn't answered back making me angry on his stupid comeback.

"Vaishnavi di, how come you know Kairav bhaiya."

Kairav bhaiya?? I wasn't surprised by the fact that she knows him but what shocked me was she called him bhaiya.

Obviously she has to know him somehow as even though they are grown in different cities, but their childhood went under the same family name.

"How do you know me...?"

Kairav said shockingly as he looked back at her. Why he is soo shocked..? Is he shocked because she knows him or is it because she called him bhaiya. Whatever the reason is, we have to go by the plan, so interrupted their moment in between.

"Okay. Let's head towards the cafe near the testing lab. As we are still ahead of the time, we can sit there comfortably and talk instead of talking inside this uncomfortable car."

(That day, outside the police station.)

"Go and use your smartness in the right way. Bring justice to the actual victims, not the bullies."

I was definitely shocked by her outburst and started questioning myself while seeing her going away.

I don't know whether she was really disappearing from my sight or was it because of my tears, my eyes git blurry making her figure disappear from my sight.

Soon I realised that it's no use to stand here and cry, so turned around and decided to calm down before going inside the police station. I can't go there with my disheveled state.

As I started walking, once again her voice stopped me. This time, I decided not to show her my tears and wiped all of it before turning around to see her but I was late as the moment I lifted my head up, she was already standing in front of me.

"I am sorry. I let my emotions ruin my plan. I wanted you to believe me and trust me as I want to help you, just like how I did back in the college.

I no longer can be suppressed by this devil like people. I can't tell you their identity or my identity but I am sure that this information which I have will surely help you.

But before giving it to you, let's head back to your car. I don't want anyone to see us or hear us talking."

I nodded as I decided to trust her. Trusting is hard and is like playing with fire but when the fire is already lit and your life is on stake, you no longer care about what will happen next. You just go with the flow while trying to save your life.

She immediately gave me pendrive after we sat down comfortably in my car. I attached the pendrive in my phone and listening to her instructions, opened the files which she wanted to show me.

The moment I saw the portfolio of two very familiar people in them, my eyes wide. For one second I couldn't even believe my own eyes as I shut them and re-opened again to see that profilo again making me realise that it's the ultimate truth.

"How come this two are related to the case...? Wah!! I can't believe my eyes."

I said as I started thinking hard about all the possibilities which can lead them to get involved but in the end, none of them showed me the route to the ultimate answer.

"Not just this two, but you are involved too in a way which you can't even think. And no, it's your kidnapping 11 years ago is not the reason why you are involved, if that's what your are thinking about.

There is more to the story. A story which you still have discover by your own."

(Present.)

"I swear to god!! If you again said something bad about my car, I will be the one who will kill you."

It was my time to shine. It was now my time to roll eyes and come up with a childish comeback.

"And will go to the hell first."

It was just 10 pm in the morning but that didn't stopped us from continuing our useless and baseless fight.

"As if you will go in heaven after I killed you."

I smiled innocently as I looked at him with my eyes full of love while blinking continuously.

"I am an angel. I don't need to go to heaven after death. Wherever I go and whatever I touch, will turn into heaven."

For other people, it might be a childish fight but for us, it was a fight for our life.

My stupid comeback made him laugh while proudly smiled. Uditasree was looking at us with pure horror in our eyes. She was going to say something, when our order number displayed on the screen.

"Vaishnavi, now go and bring our orders. I am craving for coffee. Shoo away!!"

If we were alone in this cafe without her being with us, for sure I would have cursed him a lot but as that's not the case, I just got up while giving him my deathliest glare.

While I was walking to the counter where I can take our orders, when I suddenly bumped into someone. It didn't even took me a second to realise who that person is even when he wore a mask.

I gave that person a sly smile before muttering a small sorry and again making my way towards the counter.

After I took our order, I once again looked at that person who bumped into me. That person who was already looking at me so it didn't took a long to send him an eyes signal before going away from there.

(Yesterday after seeing the dna test and before getting call from Adarsh.)

"You were the one who added kairav's real sister's hair strands in that second dna test, aren't you..?"

I spoke to that person in the hushed voice while keeping a proper eyes on my surrounding. I don't want anyone to hear us talking.

"Yes kid, that was me. Was I being too obvious to you or you have became too smart...?"

I would have cockily said the latter one if the timing was nice but as the timing was very bad, I decided to skip all the unnecessary talks.

"I remember you said that Uditasree isn't his real sister and you know who his real sister is. I also know that you will not reveal her identity until I find it by my self but how come finding his real sister will be beneficial for the case..? I don't understand that."

The person I am calling, is the person whom I met in the front of the police station. After giving me the pendrive which consisted of two familiar portfolio who are involved in this case but they don't even have a slightest idea about it, she told me about Uditasree being not kairav's real sister.

The first portfolio was of kairav and the reason behind why he was there, was unknown to me. Also, I already knew the truth before him but I didn't said anything because she said not to as it will spoil the plan she made.

"Are you really that dense...? You said you know that kairav's mother side is dangerous. Can't you link all the words and make it into the sentence..?"

(Present.)

"Obviously, I know that you know me but I was quite shocked when you called me bhaiya."

My thinking process was cut off when I heard kairav speaking. I realised that I was spaced out and u was quite embarrassed because of it but also happy that no one saw it.

"Yes, I called you bhaiya because I didn't knew what to call you and it's quite bad to call you from your name when we aren't sure about our relationship."

We both looked at her with an inferior gace. What she meant by that sentence...? My mind started coming up with different questions before the realisation stuck me.

'This lady.'

"I know that you thought that I was your real sister but something happened that made you think about the relationship we share.

I also know, that you called me here today, for the third dna test which will tell you if am I really your sister or not.

But trust me, I am sure that I am not your sister. I don't know whether you will trust me or not but from the information I know after being determined to find about my real identity, I found out that I am not your sister."

I quickly wanted to say something as kairav looked at me with a very scary eyes, but I was again interrupted by my phone ringing indicating that someone is calling me.

'Does he really thinks I snitched her about it...? Dumbo, if he thinks like that, then he is soo wrong.'

Before picking up the call, I motioned them to keep quite and listen to the person who was calling me. I kept the phone on speaker as I answered the call.

"Yes Vidhika. Why you called...?"

The other side of the line, went silent before speaking with the voice full of confidence.

"He's here and I am sure that you also know it but just want to let you know. Our plan was successful. That's all."

That's all she said before hanging up the call. After the call, my eyes unconsciously went towards that person who bumped into me earlier before looking at two people sitting in front of me who were looking at me with eyes full of confusion.

"This time, what you are upto, Vaishnavi...?"

(The late night call with Vidhika.)

"Vidhika. I think I need hypnotherapy. That's how I will remember what exactly happened 11 years ago."

It was already 30 seconds and she still haven't given any kind of reaction making me worried.

"Sorry. I was thinking about something. About what you said, yes let's do that. Even I was thinking about doing it. Let's go together."

Her voice tone sounded too troubled. After knowing her from soo many year, I know that something is troubling her and she wants to tell me that but she is stopping herself from doing that.

"Vidhika, you know that you talk with me about anything and everything. I don't care if it's midnight or early in the morning, If you have to talk with me, just do it."

I said that with a comforting tone and reminded her the words I always keep telling her.

I heard her sighing and instantly I knew that she is going to tell me what's troubling her. I sat straight on my bed and prepared my ears to hear what is was going to say.

"Vaishnavi, after what you said today in the office, I couldn't help but think whether I was fair to him or not. And everytime I ask myself this question, I always get the same answer and that answer is troubling me.

The answer to my question is no. I wasn't being fair to him when I charged him for doing that and I didn't even heard what he wanted to tell me or saw what he wanted me to see.

So I have decided....."

She took a deep breath before continuing her sentence. I was glad that she finally realised what I realised early this month.

Not only she was responsible for it but even I was responsible as I decided to keep my mouth shut even when the whole situation clearly looked like a mess.

I don't know how but I lowkey knew what was coming. I knew what she was going to say next and it will help me in my plan.

"I decided that I will hear him out this time and help him. Even if for proving his innocence, I have to go to the other side of the world, I will go but this time I will not let my cousin stand alone.

This time I will be there for him... Always. Even if he pushes me away, I will be there for him."

(The call between vaishnavi and Adarsh.)

"What's up with this hello senior and all, love...?"

Whatever he said, I didn't understood it. Once again I thought that it was wrong number as the language this person was speaking wasn't English or Hindi.

"No it's not a wrong number and I am really Adarsh."

My suspicion on wrong number was soo erased as he spoke in English but why and what he spoke earlier, made me curious about his intention.

"Why are you speaking in Arabic...?"

I asked him, still unknown to his intentions and what he was trying to point at. Was he giving me some kind of hint by speaking in Arabic..?

"Are you really that dense...?"

That's when the realisation stuck me making me unconsciously wow at the situation I am in right now.

"No way. Don't tell me that you are coming to India."

I got the hint but still wanted to confirm it as I didn't wanted to jump into the conclusion.

"Yes, I am coming to India from a connecting fight and right now I am in Dubai. Don't forget to welcome me."

(A/n- 3300+ words update as it's my BIRTHDAY today!! A birthday special update❤️❤️❤️❤️

Happy 17 to me!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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