IN THE BORDERLINE BETWEEN AFTERLIFE AND REAL WORLD....,
Another knight approached the knight that met aryan.
" Heard you took care of one dot yesterday" said another knight.
" Yeah! And I know you are the one who dealt with his anti-dot" said aryan's knight.
" Well..yes! But whatever, you know what the outcome most likely will be, right? I mean it's kinda unfair, your dot is a very non-violent person whereas mine is completely opposite, the best thing your dot can do to survive longer is to hide and face those challenges instead of finding his anti-dot" said other knight.
" You're right! That's most probably the only way he can survive, he has to realise it somehow" said aryan's knight.
The other knight observed what aryan's knight is doing and he's actually looking at what's aryan doing now.
" But what are you doing by the way? You never looked into your previous dot's journey or all, why are being curious and checking on how's this guy doing right now?" Another knight asked.
" Well...I mean....this guy seems little interesting, so I'm just.....seeing out of curiosity" said aryan's knight.
That other knight said " whatever" and was about to go away from his sight and but then he stopped and said " you're pretty bad at lying, don't you know that?" And aryan's knight replied with "yes".
" This has to be a fair fight between them, you're well aware of that,right?" Other knight asked.
" Yes! I'm well aware" said aryan's knight with deep base voice.
BACK TO GROUND LEVEL OF EARTH.....,
Andrew and all planned to go shopping after lunch.
Aryan joined but told them he had little work and stayed in his vehicle downside the shopping mall.
He turned on his laptop and started checking the accidents that occured yesterday night.
Though the number of deaths that were reported yesterday were high, the one's who had accident and were survived were little less in number making things seem easy for aryan.
Luckily most of these accidents where victims survived specifically during night time were reported in India, only few were of other countries.
Aryan listed out the states and those other few countries too.
He called his father and asked if he had any allies or partners in those parts of India and of those countries.
Though aryan's father questioned him why, he somehow convinced his father that it was some personal stuff and asked him again if he had any connections there.
Luckily, it was a green signal from aryan's father making things even more relatively easier for him.
He contacted all those allies of his father and told them to check if there was any accident yesterday night where the victim survived and injuries were all perished.
All those people got confused and thought he was little crazy cause it's impossible to happen practically, but aryan somehow persuaded them to check if someone matches his description and they told him that they would find and report him their details by night if such survivor exists around their city.
" I should have had more allies of my own in India " aryan told to himself in his other undamaged car.
Light dimmed, barely leaving any intensity of it reaching the surface level.
Andrew and aadhya were slowly coming down holding some shopping bags whereas the other two didn't shop much, so they seem to return normally.
" Hey!! Next time save up some money and don't forget to bring your card or money, i can't buy you things always and carry them like your servant, punk" said andrew.
" Aishh!! Don't make me mad unless you want to die, i told you I would repay when I go home and next time....i won't ask for your help" said aadhya in high-pitched tone.
" No need to repay, but next time get your own money or...atleast try to get a boyfriend and use his money....'i.....wouldn't mind it then'(told this particular sentence in little low-pitched tone), Well I mean..though...probably no one would court you given your arrogance, atleast try to hide your true personality infront of other people so they might consider" said andrew.
" Lately, you're often getting on my nerves, don't make me want to kill you, got it?" Said aadhya with angry tone.
Andrew laughed seeing how funny she looks when she's actually angry.
They came out.
" Did you complete your work earlier and are waiting or have you completed just now?" Asked andrew and aryan replied "nah, just now".
" Gosh!! Looks like it's already too late, by the way you are staying more days, right? If so then let's all go out often" said andrew.
" Fine! But if I have any important work, i will inform you prior, I can't completely guarantee I'm free everyday, there are some things...I have to deal with" said aryan.
Andrew replied "fine" and then aadhya asked if aira was free.
" Heyy...!!!!! come on! Why would she not come if aryan comes along with us" said andrew while laughing out a little and then he suddenly realised he messed up.
" Didn't you ask me to not talk like that infront of them?" Whispered alan.
He faked off a little smile and laugh, by being little tensed.
" My tongue never holds itself" andrew whispered by slightly bending back for his voice to reach alan.
He observed the serious look on aryan's face.
" I mean... I think you guys misunderstood, what I mean is, like um..we all reunited after a long time, right? So she most likely will join us, that's what I actually said, i.. don't know.... she might be busy" said andrew while faking off a little laugh and stuttering out of fear in a slightly funny way.
" You have such an annoying mouth" aryan said.
They were all about to leave and aira opened her phone to book a taxi.
" Wait...aira, I've almost forgotten about it, where do you live, I can drop you too along with these idiots" said andrew.
" It's fine, don't bother, it'll be detour for you guys, I mean you have to drop alan and aadhya too, mine's a little far away, don't worry I can get a taxi" said aira.
" Are you sure it'll be a detour? Oh yes, you know where aadhya lives, so that might be true, but are your sure you can go alone, wait...I think aryan's car is free, maybe he'll drop you" said andrew.
Aira politely yet slightly stuttering, replied " it's fine I can go, don't bother about me".
Andrew and other 2 entered inside their car and andrew made a sign with his face to aryan to drop her off.
Aryan opened his car's door(not driving seat's door, but the one beside it).
" I won't kidnap you or sell your organs, you can trust me, so just get in the car" said aryan little sarcastically.
" Aishh!! That sarcastic sucker, can't he talk normally?" Andrew self talked inside his car.
Aira got in, shown him her location through her phone and they left off.
Aira felt slightly awkward as she doesn't know what to talk to him.
Things were awfully quiet between them initially, then aryan broke the silence by unzipping his mouth.
" It's understandable if we felt awkward initially when we met after a long time, but I think you can stop being awkward, it's been quite a time" said aryan.
" Well... it's-ss..not..I mean" aira stuttered.
" Hey aira! Despite what had happened between us, we still used to be close friends, right?, then just be normal, why are you being scared of me?..... or do I look like some creep or a monster, but I don't think my face is that ugly that'll make others scared of me" said aryan.
Aira nodded.
He dropped her off at her rented apartment.
" You live in this apartment?" Asked aryan.
" Yeah, I rented a...room here" said aira.
" It looks more like a hostel, but anyways in case if you need any help, feel free to call me, my phone number is ********** " said aryan.
Aira thanked him for dropping her off and went into her room still slightly being awkward.
" This place doesn't look that good or secured" aryan self spoken and later he left.
Late at night, he received information from his father's allies that none of them matched his description as most of the accidents that happened that day either resulted in instant deaths or fatal injuries that were too deep and severe.
Aryan felt slightly unhappy that none of the information narrowed down the list of places or people he should visit.
" I had my hopes for nothing...then maybe his accident wasn't reported like mine too" aryan convinced himself.
He surfed through internet until midnight if there were any accidents that day that were reported late, but he found none and while searching for these in his laptop, he opened his phone many times to check if she atleast messaged "hi", but she didn't.
He felt sleepy and fell on his bed.
Dream number 2 begins:-...(
It's break time.
" Bro! Have you made any progress? have you become friends with her and tried to gather any information about diya?" Yakshith asked.
" Friends!? What a joke, it's so hard to become her friend, except for teaching me some physics, she doesn't even talk to me, i guess she still feels uncomfortable to talk to me" said aryan.
" Hey aryan! Think logically, it's just been a week and she must have some other works, how can she get close to you so quick?" Said andrew.
Aryan thought that makes sense too.
" But she doesn't seem to have much other works, for some reason, I want to invite her into our stupidskulls group" said aryan.
" You serious? You guys didn't even allow me to be in your best friends group, only you 3 used to stay in that group and recently you added alan into it and now aira? Why?" Yakshith asked.
" I don't know...she reminds me of when I first joined this school, but she was even more weirder, not only is she afraid to become friends easily with people and stay calm and composed, but she even maintains some diary, if something important happens that day, she opens her diary during break time or when school was completed and write some stuff into it, though I've not seen what she had written, i pretty much understood that she's....quite lonely and slightly afraid, so I want to invite her into our group and remove all that fear and introvertness she's holding" aryan said.
Andrew and yakshith looked at him little suspiciously.
" I mean not only will we have another friend or remove all her hesitation and fear, but this can help our plan too, I mean if we become good friends quickly, that's going to be better for our plan, right?" Aryan said.
They nodded.
" But will she agree?" Andrew asked.
" I have a plan for that, I'm going to do what you did to me when I'm almost same like her in past" aryan said.
" Ohh! But don't tell about this crush thing on diya to even aadhya, you know about her, right?, she's very bad at holding secrets, we can tell her later after you made some friendship development with aira" andrew said.
Aryan nodded and during another break time, he approached aira.
" Are you....free this sunday?" Aryan asked and aira questioned him why.
" It's just that I'm very indebted to you, I could learn some physics because of you,.....me, andrew, alan and aadhya are hanging out that day..you always look lonely and I have to treat you for teaching me, so can you join us if you're free, i mean there's even another girl along with you, right? So you don't have to uncomfortable, it's just that if I feel indebted to someone, I'll repay their favour quick, so if you're free and uncomfortable, can you come please? It's really going to be fun... please accept my treat" aryan requested.
" I taught you just for a week and you feel indebted?" Aira asked.
" Yes I do, please don't refuse" aryan said.
" Fine! But if I have some other work to do, I might go back early" aira said.
Aryan sighed out with relief.
" I was scared you wouldn't agree, thank you so much" aryan said.
" But if there are extra classes during Sunday, I might not come" aira said.
" I mean even if we have extra classes, being absent for one day won't be that much of a loss" said aryan and aira nodded as 'no'.
Then their class teacher came to class and informed there weren't any extra classes this sunday.
" See! Luck always favours me" said aryan little happily.
Aira smiled a little.
Later that Sunday when sun is gorgeously bright, all of them gathered and luckily there are some events going around the beach that was near.
They went to gaming shops, had fun with playstations and later went to beach.
Though aira felt little awkward initially, she liked involving with other people than staying quiet, calm and composed.
They saw some singing competition and stages around that beach with healthy number of audience and enjoyed all those performances and all.
There are some small open shops around that beach.
An pair of ear rings captured aira's interest and she tried them on.
Aryan went towards her and asked " are you buying something?" With low-pitched tone.
Aira turned her head and asked " pretty, right?".
Aryan got flustered and aira recorrected her sentence " I mean..do the ear rings look pretty?".
He still felt quite flustered and said " not bad! It suits you decently".
She asked shopkeeper the cost of those ear rings and later when checked her purse, she realised that she didn't have enough money.
She felt disappointed and randomly turned her head towards aryan.
" Don't look at me like that, I don't have enough cash too, don't overexpect from me like I'm some hero in Indian love stories where I'll buy you things when you don't have enough cash, don't overexpect like that, I'm kind of short of money too, I have some but It was for our meals and snacks" said aryan.
" Are you overthinking? I just randomly turned my face, i didn't expect you to buy me too, you seen to overthink a lot" aira said and later they two went off from that shop.
They played some more offline fun games outside, had meals and played with water at beach though aira didn't play much as she wasn't very close yet.
Light has faded out and dark blue colour has painted the sky beautifully well.
And they were still at the beach.
Aira was just looking at waves standing infront of beach, andrew went towards her.
" Did you have fun?" Andrew asked.
" Yeah! I never actually had any close friends or someone like that to hang out with, it's my first time hanging out, that's actually why I agreed to come, it's my first time a group of members seemed interested in hanging out with me and I enjoyed genuinely" said aira.
" Actually we used to come here during summer holidays, we don't actually know there were some events here today, maybe we're kind of lucky, the reason why we wanted to hang out today is because of you, I mean aryan told a little about you, so it felt you are kind of similar to him when he first joined the school, he was bullied and had no friends too, but he actually wanted to be friends with as many as he can, still he used to be little afraid and lonely like you, and that's when I and aadhya invited him to hang out with us, and look at him now, the introvertness he had then was completely gone and he's now a completely different person, a happy person to be accurate" said andrew.
" Ohh! It makes sense, he looks very innocent and his personality seems a little uneven and opposite to that of his face.
Andrew laughed off a little and everyone gathered around them.
" It's actually kinda late, i think we should start the game" said andrew.
Aira asked " what game?".
" Actually whenever we 3 came here, we used to play truth or dare in different style, as you and alan are newcomers to our group, i should say you rules" said aadhya.
Aira felt this can be even more interesting and fun.
" The rules are: everyone have to pick some stones and throw it as far as possible into the beach water, after all 5 of us releases one of our stone into the beach water, whose stone covered lesser distance has to pick either truth or dare and the question or task will be given by the one whose stone covered highest distance" aadhya said.
Aira and alan thought it sounds quite fun and then all 5 of them picked some stones and played this different style of truth or dare.
As aira hoped, it was the most fun game they've played that day, it was hilarious, cute and thrilling.
Aira smiled, enjoyed,and laughed genuinely.
" Mom and dad!...I think...I found some people to write about and fill my pages of diary with, it's the first time in my life I felt having.... friends, it feels very heartwarming" aira thought in her mind while she her eyes were slightly filled with tears of overwhelming happiness.
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BACK TO PRESENT....
Aryan woke up in middle of midnight and observed his phone ringing, he picked up the call then.
" Hello! Who's this?" Aryan asked.
Aira asked if it was aryan and when he said yes, she told that it's her number.
" What's the problem? Why have you called me now?" Aryan asked.
" Well,..i actually have a favour to ask, I could think of no one else so I called you, can you do me a little favour, I mean it's not litt-tle, I know you might get angry or feel a little uncomfortable, but I need your help please" aira said.
" Alright! Say, how can I help you?" Aryan asked.
" I will explain tomorrow outside, come to the restaurant we went today at 1:30 p.m, I mean yeste-errday, I'll explain you there, if I say this now, you might feel awkward and refuse, so I'll.....explai-inn tomorrow" aira said.
Aryan said fine, then aira bidded good night in a little sweet tone, then immediately cuts off the call feeling flustered and tightly held her blanket feeling little tensed about how he'll react when he gets to know tomorrow.
" What could it....be??" Aryan self questioned.
TO BE CONTINUED.....