chapter 43

I picked up her call. She said in a very friendly tone, “Very good morning, Divya!”I tried to smile and said, “Good morning, Sanaya. At this time?”Sanaya - I am sorry for disturbing you. I just want to tell you to go to terrace and enjoy the rising sun. It’s a very beautiful scene. Especially today, it’s very beautiful. Divya - Yeah, I can see that. Sanaya - Are you watching it? Divya - Yeah, normally I don’t watch but today, I am watching. Sanaya - Wow! That’s great. We get a lot of energy from the rising sun. Isn’t it? Divya - Yeah… you are right. Sanaya - This energy becomes very essential when one wants to start his life afresh.Her sentence grabbed all my attention at once. I thought, “Does she know what I am thinking?”Sanaya - Am I right? I got lost into my own thoughts for a couple of seconds. She said, “Are you there?” Hearing that I came back to my senses, “Yeah, I am here.”Sanaya - Am I right? The sun gives us energy to start our life afresh. I said in a humbled voice, “Yeah, you are right.”She said to me in an inspiring tone, “Believe me your new life is going to start. You will feel better than ever. You will be able to live the life of your dreams. You don’t know the ways of the cosmos. Here we get everything we want but not in the way we want but in the way the cosmos wants.”I thought, “Is she trying to talk to me in riddles? Well, whatever she said, I really liked it. It motivated me. It’s better if I let her continue. I don’t feel like interrupting her right now.”Sanaya - I think we should meet today. Let’s talk to each other in an open area, which is close to nature. Don’t you think so? Divya - Hmm… okay as you like. I felt that she wanted to tell me something special. I don’t know why I felt she wanted to tell me something good. Her every word was attracting me towards her.Sanaya - Let’s do one thing. Let’s meet at the beach today. Divya - Okay fine. Sanaya - At four p.m. exactly? I said, “Okay.”She said smilingly, “This meeting will be between you and me only. Nobody else should come, not even Vaishali.”I thought, “It means Nikhil is also not coming! She wants to meet me alone. It’s strange. But I don’t think she is going to murder me. She is a mature and intelligent girl. She can’t do anything like that. And why will she murder me? I am not trying to steal her boyfriend from her. Oh God, I am overthinking. She just wants to talk to me. That’s all.”I smiled back and said, “Okay. Only I will come.”I got a bit late and I reached the beach at 4:15 p.m. She was already sitting there alone and waiting for me. I walked up to her and said in a very friendly way, “Hi Sanaya.”She became excited to see me and said very happily, “Welcome Divya, welcome. I was very eagerly waiting for you. Please be seated.” I sat beside her. I sat on her right side. She picked up a small polythene bag from a big polythene bag which was on her left hand side and gave it to me. I asked her, “What’s in it?”She said smilingly, “You see yourself. These are pop corn. I have brought many packets of popcorn. Because today, we are going to talk a lot like best friends.”I slightly laughed, She added, “Divya, you know what, I have got a very good boyfriend. You know that. But I don’t have a best friend in my life. I really want a best friend in my life who is a girl.”Divya - Oh… But why is it so?She thought for a few seconds and said, “Perhaps, I was not so good at that time to attract a good girl.”Divya - And now? She chuckled and said, “Now, you are sitting with me. It means I have improved a lot.” She succeeded in making me smile, “Hehe!”She said very sincerely, “Divya, I really liked you in the first meeting itself. I want to know about you. I want to hear your full story.”I said, moving my hands according to my words, “You already know about me. Nikhil has told you everything about me.” Saying that, I started looking at the water a bit to the other side where she was seeing. Then she said something and grabbed all my attention, “Today, I want to hear that Nikhil doesn’t know.”I looked back at her, into her eyes. She was looking at me very affectionately as if we were long lost friends. I said, “What do you want to know?”She said smilingly, “Everything.” She took a pause for a couple of seconds and then said, “You are a good girl. You deserve a good boy in your life. Nikhil has come with me. But it’s not the end of the world. I don’t why, but my heart is saying I can bring your life back and that also in a better way. And for that I need to understand you deeply.”She said so warmly that it casted a spell on me. I started seeing an elder sister in her. I said, “Okay, I will tell you everything about me. But you have to promise me that you are not going to tell anything you hear today to Nikhil.”She extended her hand forward and said, “I promise you.” I said honestly, “Right now, I don’t why. I am seeing you as my elder sister and I am about to reveal my heart to you. I hope you will keep your words.”I extended my hand too. She shook hands with me and said smilingly, “I promise.”(It will be so nice of you, if you leave at least a single word comment and please don't forget to follow me and become my superfan. You will be able to read all the locked parts of all my series for free and you will also be able to chat with me and my superfans directly.)