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She was shocked by an unforeseen phone call.
By placing the clock aside, she picked up the call. It was her dad.
"Hello," she answered and kept quiet.
"Hello beti,
Happy birthday" Her father wished her.
Still, she maintained her silence.
" For how many days you'll give us the punishment, we are really missing you, beta! "
" Come back sweetheart
Please come back! " the pain-filled voice was effectless to her.
She noticed an incoming call, which disrupting the conversation.
It was Kiaan her boyfriend.
She finally spoke "Ok, I'll call you, dad. Kiaan is calling me.
And thank you"
She hung up.
"Hello Kiaan" She answered to the call.
"Hello miss lady-love
Happy birthday" Kiaan replied.
"Thank you, my heart". She had a smile in her face.
"By the away, who is the one that wished you before me?
Your phone show busy before my call", asked Kiaan.
" No one, wrong number ", she answered with a dull pasted face".
Kiaan paused for a juncture and said," Oh! he is dad".
"All right,
after all, he is your dad. It's obvious to wish you first,
It may be with a point second first "
Pihu's hush was powerless to explain the knotted riddles of her life to her boyfriend.
"Ok I'll call you in the morning" she hung up before he could answer.
It took a little longer for her to sleep than usual. All sorts of things are bombarding in her psyche.
The morning opened her eyes. With morning coffee, lots of calls, birthday wishing texts filled her so much that she skipped the midnight letter's words.
Hardly an hour was left, the summoning for her birthday party.
The house was beautifully ornated. Abruptly a sharp knocking of her door had dragged all of her attention.
She opened the door and found no one.
But a folder letter was placed on the ground a metre away.
She took a read.' Come to the main gate'.
She followed.
She found another letter there. She unfolds to read it. 'Wait for the minute hand of your clock to take a rotation'
She waited for a minute but found nothing.
She decided to go back to her room. She thought someone had fooled her.
But found another letter on her dining table.
She got irritated by this letter but still opened it.
'Sorry,
don't get angry.
This is the last one.
By the way, your house is nicely decorated.
Stay focused during your party baby.
I'll come without your permission and I'll snatch you and everything from your life without your permission.
One advice for you.
Stay a bit away from your boyfriend or else you will miss me.
And if you miss I'll definitely hit".
The loud vibration of the phone call again drove her back from the dark world of imagination.
it was kiaan's call.
She picked up with her loud breathing.
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“Hello kiaan”, she answered the call, trying to breathe normally.
“Hello, sweetheart. Are you okay dear.” Asked Kiaan.
“Yaa.Yaa.I am fine.” said Pihu. Still Breathing heavily.
“Are you sure dear, you don’t sound like you are fine.
Should I come to your place now?” asked Kiaan sensing something fishy
“No, it’s ok. I am fine.” Replied Pihu abruptly, trying to keep Kiaan away from her hectic situations.
“Ok, I just called you to inform that my mom will come with me. If you don’t have any objection.” Kiaan said.
“No no, she can come. I don’t have any problem.” Replied Pihu abruptly.
“Ok then see you later. Bye sweetheart.” Said Kiaan and hung up.
Pihu put her phone and went to the kitchen to have some water.
She spotted another folded letter over the refrigerator.
Slowly she took her hand to take the letter. She already has goosebumps. She took the letter.
This one also looked the same as the previous ones.
She doesn’t know what is going on. She doesn’t know what will happen next in her life. She doesn’t know who is doing this.
She doesn’t know why this is happening with her.
She somehow managed to unfold the letter and starts reading.
‘Hello dear,
How are you feeling now?
You need to be happy.
Because you will going to miss it so much.
I will snatch all of your happiness soon. You will not be able to see your sweetheart ever again.
Nothing to do now. Just go and rest. The bad news is coming soon.’
Her, mind gone blank.
She doesn’t know what to do.
Tears are already in her eyes. Slowly she came to the drawing-room and make herself comfortable on the sofa.
She just wants to restart everything from the beginning. She closes her eyes and thinks about the day from the beginning.
The alarm…The letter…The call from dad…The call from Kiaan…
“Oh my God! Kiaan” shouted pihu.
She unfolds the letter she found from the kitchen which is still in her hand. She reads it again and again.
“ You will not be able to see your sweetheart ever again”
“ Oh my God! My sweetheart! Kiaan is in danger” spoke pihu.
Unfortunately, there is nobody to listen to her words. She got up from the sofa went towards the exit.
She is trying to call kiaan. But the phone is continuously telling, ”the person you are trying to reach is either switched off or out of network coverage area.”
“ Oh shit, Kiaan,” said pihu aloud. She is already inside her car when she remembered that she just forgot to bring her keys.
She found herself running when she reaches the door. She went inside and bring the keys.
She is driving towards kiaan's place. The roads of Mumbai are busy as always. Her speedometer shows 80km/h. Still, she accelerates her car. Her car is now at its optimum speed.
She is unable to think anything. Her mind is totally blank. She is only thinking about Kiaan. Her only love. He is the only source of her happiness.
She is about to take a right turn When suddenly out of nowhere, a biker came in front of the car. She turns the steering wheel to her left. The car hits a tree standing on the roadside.
When she opened her eyes she found herself in darkness. She somehow managed to pull her head backwards.
Then she realised that her head is surrounded by the airbag of the car. She opens her seat belt and steps out of the car.
There is already a crowd waiting for her to come outside.
“ Are you okay madam?” someone from the crowd asked.
“ Yes, I am fine. The biker came spontaneously” said Pihu.
“ where is the biker? Is he alright?” Pihu asked.
Nobody answered this time.
She is busy to think a way out of this mess when her phone rang.
It was Kiaan.
Pihu took the call.
“Hello”
“Hello, Pihu. Where are you?”
“ Oh my God, Kiaan are you okay? I tried your number, but it is switched off.”
“ Oh sorry. I just forgot to put it on the charge, so it’s battery got dead. But where are you now, your house is locked.”
“ I am sending my location. Please come fast, Kiaan”
“ Okay then, send it fast.”
Pihu just sent her location to be Kiaan.
The crowd gradually decreased.
Pihu now decides to take a look at her car. The car is severely damaged.
The bumper is totally broken. The tree is pushed halfway to the hood by the force of the car itself. As per the current situation, the car is of no use.
Pihu looks at her watch. It is already 8:30 PM. Hardly half an hour left for her birthday party to begin. Kiaan is already on his way to receive her.
Pihu is busy to think a way out of this mess, when suddenly
Beep… beep…..
Her phone vibrates.
‘ I hope you enjoyed watching death so close. You have read me before in letters, watched me in accident and I'll soon hug you along with death'
It was a message from Kiaan.
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She was about to drop her phone.
Flashing all, that had happened with her, in her mind.
She wasn't able to paste the face of kiaan with all these.
She was in a short coma. Her mind was not ready to accept any possible relation between the case and Kiaan.
The shrill horn was almost erupted her heart. She back face to see the source.
It was Kiaan with his car.
A tsunami of questions and lots of disarray.
She left the place with Kiaan. The whole journey back to her house was euphoric.
She observed Kiaan in the whole journey. It was the first time he seemed strange to her.
She could ask him the reason of the message. As his mom was with them, so she kept mum.
" Anything serious " asked Kiaan
" I have never seen your such facial expression" he added.
"No, it's normal, just thinking about the accident" she couldn't meet her eyes.
" oh!
Forget about all those.
After all, it's not your mistake.
And I had spoken to one of my friends, who will keep your car at its right place.
Now forget about all and behave like a birthday girl". He grinned
Suddenly, her eyes spotted some torn pages and a copy with a marker placed near the front glasses of the car.
The same colour, same texture, same material. They are exactly the same pages the stranger used to wrote letters to her.
The things are going hideous for her. The clarity of the obscurity step-up.
The more she observes the more she puzzled.
And when she saw the corrugated box of an Amazon product. Seemed like an alarm clock might have came in it. A clock of the same size, she had on her table.
She was sweating. About to die.
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The whole journey back to her house she was staring at him.
She was amazed by its nice wrapping which made it special and different than other gifts.
She kept to aside to open it in the last. She usually do so. Saving good things for further.
She started with the pink colour wrapped gift. A beautiful photo frame. With pictures of his college friends. It brought a smile on her face.
A nice gold bracelet by Kiaan was the most adorable birthday gift her.
One after the other she opens each and every gift. a silver buddha, a costly Chinese painting and the expensive collection of Belgium chocolates touched her heart.
Some gifts are also there which left a trace of happiness in the gallery of her memories. The secret recipe of Nikita's cookies,
The favourite set of earnings she wanted to wear and the complete makeup set of her favourite brand.
Although she hasn't expressed, still during the opening of each gift she wished if there would be a teddy bear.
Her father gifted her teddy different bears in her every birthday.
But that time she was expecting a teddy bear not because she liked that, rather she wants to feel her father's presence.
Exactly, she had the same expectation from the last one.
By climbing her pinnacle of curiosity, she unwrapped it.
When she opened it. She threw that and screamed loudly. She was thrown into a panic.
No doubt, that was a teddy bear.
But it was far different than her fictional fairy tale world had ever imagined.
That was a half-burned teddy. Whose head and body was split up. One of its eye button was plucked out. And the whole body had lots of weird stitches.
On a lump sum that was something enough to make Pihu die in fear.
She was breathing heavily. It took a little bit longer to calm down herself.
She had never such a horrific thing in her life.
But what was going on, in her mind that made her to explore that teddy more.
She moved near the box and hold it in her hand.
Pulled out the teddy. She found a car key along with a letter.
"Well done, Pihu
The real gift is always hidden inside the box of fear. We always missed it".
She rushed to her balcony and her eyes were hunting something.
Exactly underneath her balcony a shining brand new Mercedes-Benz with its black metal body.
Pihu's jaw dropped. Her dream car was under her balcony and the key was in her hand.
Without bothering about the time she rushed down towards the car.
Moving her fingers over her smooth metal body.
She unlocked the door and got inside to take the feel.
Simultaneously, she was thinking,' why someone offer me such an expensive gift'.
She noticed a tag on the steering," love you, my Princess"
She became so happy by receiving such a beautiful gift from her dad.
She wanted to go inside her room and call her dad to thank him a lot.
But what had happened, she had never expected.
She was trying a lot to open the door but it was locked and the key was unable to open it.
Suddenly she heard the ringing of a cell phone inside the car. She searched for it and got it.
She received the call but no one was answering from that side.
When she received a sms.
"You have been trapped, dad's Princess"
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