chapter 11

Rahul Mittal sitting in his London office was seeing his flight ticket. He is going back to India after 2 years. He is going to attend his sister's marriage.He has not informed anyone in India as he wants to surprise them. His flight landed at Delhi airport at 1:00 am and he reached home by 3:00am. Everyone in the house was sleeping. Raghu kaka opened the door. Rahul entered and gestured to him to be quiet and speak slowly not wanting to disturb others. Raghu kaka took his bags and left him in his room. Chilled air of November welcomed him in his room as the window of his room is broken and will be repaired by morning. Raghu kaka said that he has to manage to sleep in the guest room (but he forgot to mention which guest room). Rahul said ok and gestured him to leave and sleep 😴.Chilled air made him shiver so he quickly got freshed and changed to comfortable clothes.He goes to the first floor's guest room, darkness of the room welcomes him and the warmth in the room comforts him, he takes out his shirt and slips under the duvet and sleeps immediately as he is tired.-------------------***********--------------In the morningShubhra as usual got up early in the morning, she found something heavy on her waist, she tried to get up but failed as she found herself trapped in between something. She tilted her face at her back and got shocked and screamed loudly.She got up from the bed instantly and with a jerk which disturbed Rahul's sleep and he got awaked.Shubhra : Aaaaaa......... Who are you ? How did you enter my room ? And with this she started throwing things whatever was coming in her hand.Rahul was staring at her continuously without blinking his eyes. He was lost in her beauty and was not able to speak. And moreover he was too shocked to see a girl in the room.Shubhra shouted again and till now Arti entered her room.Arti : What happened ? Why are you shouting early in the morning ?Shubhra pointed towards Rahul and started shivering with fear.Arti immediately looked towards Rahul and said Bhai you ! When did you come ? And What are you doing in this room ? Then she looked towards Shubhra, she was trembling due to unknown fear, Arti ran towards her and embraced her and tried to calm her.Arti : Shubhra, are you alright ?Shubhra :Huh...... Yes, I am fine.Arti : Are you sure ?Shubhra : Yes, don't worry. I am not stressed. I just got scared by seeing an unknown person sleeping beside me.Arti : Now tell me exactly what happened here ?Shubhra : I don't know who he was, how he came here. He was just sleeping with me on the bed with his hands on my waist. When I woke up I saw him and shouted.Arti : ok, He is my elder brother Rahul. How he ended up in this room I will ask him. Just relax.Shubhra : ya I am ok now no need to worry.Just you to go and relax. We will talk about this later. I too need to calm myself.Arti : Sure.After this Arti left to Rahul's room-------------*************------------In Rahul's roomRahul came back to his room and was thinking about what just happened. There were some strange feelings inside him. He ran his fingers in his hair and thought why was I feeling like this ? Why does she seem to be known to me ? Who is she ? How did I sleep with her ? Why do I feel comfortable around her ?Note : In these 7 years the look and personality of Shubhra was entirely changed. No one can easily recognise her.Arti : (looking towards his brother who is still lost in his own world comes to senses when Arti calls him) What are you doing in her room ?Rahul : Huh.... Actually the window glass of my room was broken and Raghu kaka told me to sleep in the guest room, so I went there and slept. I don't know if she was sleeping in that room. But, Who is she ?Arti : She is my friend Shubhra. And, When did you come and no information of your arrival, why so ?Rahul : I just came at 3:00am and was very tired so I slept immediately without noticing the presence of her. And I want to surprise my little princess, that's why I didn't inform you.Arti : Wow ! What a great surprise ? Ok do you need anything. ? It's just 5:30 am. I am feeling sleepy, so I am going to continue my nap.Rahul : No, I don't want anything. You just go and sleep. I will also go downstairs and will rest for a while.Arti : Ok, then bye.-----------------**********-----------------