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Close Apart Chapter-33 “The Day Before” Amrita was getting really excited as the day of the wedding was coming closer. She was completely absorbed in planning exactly how the wedding will take place, what dresses will they wear, what music to play until she was told that none of those will be totally possible since the registrar office is generally very crowded and any pompous and time consuming celebration would be literally unmanageable! Monday came, and most of the planning was over, Aditya was relaxing in his armchair in the morning when Amrita came with a cup of coffee. “Aditya! I need you to do me a favor.” “What?” Aditya asked inquisitively. “You’ll have to stop seeing me…” “Wh… what!! What are you talking about! We’re getting married tomorrow!!” “Something has come up to my knowledge!” Aditya froze! He couldn’t believe what he was listening! He was just jotting down names in his mind of persons who might be responsible for this. “I’ve heard from someone whom I trust very much t...

Close Apart Chapter-31 “The Breaking News” Amrita gave him the breaking news exactly a week later. “Maybe you’ll have to take a leave from your office coming Tuesday.” “Why?” “An important thing might come up!” she said with a sparkle in her eyes. “Yeah! Maybe. Important things keep coming to me from past few days.” “But this’ll rock you like anything!” “Sounds like you’ve planned something!” “Please don’t pin me! I find it very hard to keep a secret long with me. But this time I’ve managed because I have imagined a special way to let you know!” “O.K.” They were crossing the busy streets. Sounds of approaching vehicles were cutting out Amrita’s voice. Aditya’s raised his voice to call Amrita. “Let’s have some cakes today instead!” “Why cake? Why not pizza?” “I thought cakes will be a change” “Then we’ll have cakes tomorrow, today I’m in a mood of having pizza!” Amrita ordered a couple of Lamb Delights and then started chatting about the times that they had spent together in the past. A...

Close Apart Chapter-27 “Déjà vu…” “Hello Aditya!” “Yes Komal?” “What are you doing this fine morning?” “Planning to have a good sleep.” “Well has anyone told you about the appointment?” “Which one? Well I clearly remember not keeping any one today.” “Yeah you have! You are supposed to meet your girlfriend in half an hour from now. Hurry up!! You don’t want to be late at the meeting… get up.” “O.K. where is the venue again??” “Pizza Hut, 25 mins” “Hey you said half an hour” “And you’ve already wasted 5 minutes!! Hurry!” Aditya was getting ready when the phone rang once again. “Now you’re making me late.” “Hi Aditya its Mr. Arora.” “Oh hello sir! I was just speaking to one of my friends.” “Aditya, I know with whom you were talking, I need to talk to you about something.” “Yes sir…” “The thing I am about to tell concerns Komal, so I need you to be listen very carefully. During her college days, Komal fell for a guy.” “Rohan” “Yes, so you kn...

Close Apart Chapter-26 “ D ear I ’ll A lways R emember Y ou!” Dear diary, I never thought that I would ever face you again!! Life’s changing its course like a fast flowing river, eager to meet her destiny… the sea. So I have also decided to surrender myself to its flow. The last few months have changed everything in my life, I have experienced love, faith, pain, misery, hope… emotions those I even don’t have names for. All of them have molded me into a separate being. And all through this, my love for Aditya has helped me survive. From the first day I saw Aditya, I knew that he was destined to be mine, and now he is!! I would do anything to live this life that my destiny has bestowed me with. From tomorrow, life will never be the same. Our love will blossom to its full glory & I’ll go to any distance to have this. I have wasted so many years of my life searching for him, and now I’m not going to waste any more. I’m going to live the life that I deserve; with ...

Close Apart Chapter -25 “The Other Side of Me” “Let’s go on a picnic!!” Komal said. “That’s a negative. Neither of us is going to have that much of leave.” “Who said we’ll have to go away from the town for a picnic? We can have a nice joyous picnic just here…” “Here where?” “Say… on the roof of your apartment!! Wouldn’t that be great?” “That would be crazy! No one has gone up there in like a million years!” “That would make it even more exiting! Then it’s done, tomorrow at 10:30am we are going up!” So the roof was cleaned, and Aditya’s “rugged old stove” was pumped for one last time. And just when they were all done with spreading mat, and arranging breakfast, it happened almost then. The daylight went dim… and before Aditya could say “crap!” raindrops started falling from nowhere. “And I was thinking that the weather was nice!!” No doubt Komal’s plan had been wasted. Seeing Komal standing in the rain with a childish expression of despise on her f...

Close Apart Chapter-24 “A step ahead” Receiving a bunch of roses in office was not the usual way to start a normal day for Komal! And when the note read “Got you another surprise, meet me after work- Aditya” Komal knew that there’s something really unusual about that day! All day long, she kept on thinking, what may be the surprise! “Is it the movie that I mentioned that day and he reacted like… Ice Age! Aren’t you too grown up for those movies!! Or is it that keychain that I loved in the Archie’s gallery and he winked away!! Oh god! I am too much stressed out! I hate surprises!” “Madam!” Komal was so much sunk in her confusions that she almost forgot that she was still in the office! “Yes?” “Sir asked if you’ve completed proof-reading for your article or not…” “Ah… tell him that I’ll hand it to him within 10 minutes. And again she sank in her trivia hunt!! Basically Komal is a “constant demanding” type girl. Need clarification? Well let’s put it in ...

Close Apart Chapter-23 “New Beginning” It was a fine evening; Aditya & Komal were in the same old spot which they’ve chosen quite a number of times now in quick successions. Having bites from their favorite cakes. When suddenly this topic came up. “Aditya!” “mm hm…” “Where are you?” “Right here! In front of you! Why did you ask?” “You seemed lost…” “Yeah you guessed right, nothing important, past stuff.” “Thinking about Amrita, aren’t you?” Aditya’s sigh gave Komal the answer she was looking for. “Do you know Aditya, why I often ask you to meet here instead of Pizza Hut?” “Why?” “Because that was the place where it all started, because that place is full of her memories. And I thought that may be changing the surroundings may help you to recover fast. Come-on Aditya, for how long will you bear this pain within you?” “Komal, tell me that even you’ve believed that she’s dead.” “You tell me Aditya, you enquired in each a...

Close Apart Chapter-22 “Moment of truth” “Only one question… how?” Aditya said only these words as he took his seat in the van. “This could only be an act of God!” was Komal’s reply. Aditya tried hard to solve the riddle but he failed to come up with any answers. But then, Aditya was always a little weak in riddles. “Remember? There was a time when God called you…” “Yes! I do remember… is that??... But…” Manish came into the rescue “Let me explain. The time when I heard that the security guard was going to call Mr. Bakshi, I quickly analyzed the voice extract that Komal recorded in her recorder the day when she was taking his interview, from that I prepared a duplicate voice track which would imitate exactly Mr. Bakshi’s voice, though some flaws were there, but I was sure that it won’t matter over a phone line. But the main problem was how to insert this voice over the phone line that the guard will use! The trick includes hacking phone lines and would have take...

Close Apart Chapter-21 “Night Out” “Are you sure you are going to do this?” “I have to! This is my last hope!” Aditya & Komal were still arguing on whether Aditya should take the risk or not “Don’t worry; I’ll be on the wireless terminal all the time.” Manish said in an assuring tone. “All you have to do is transmit the data. The rest will be taken care of.” “Why can’t I go in there? Even I can do the job!” “No Komal, the job is very tricky! Only I have a fighting chance to finish it before the time runs out!!” And so there Aditya was! In the middle of the night, standing outside the British council Building. His only link to the “safer world” was a Bluetooth headset through which he was in call with Manish. “O.K here we go!” An eerie voice spoke from the headset & Aditya approached the Security Guard. The Security Guard was certainly not prepared to see a well suited person at that time with a briefcase full of stuffs! “Excuse Me!” “Yes, I woul...

Close Apart Chapter -20 “Crack Down” Of course I am! But we take frequent trainings about the latest upgrades; as for example, I have just returned from training in the states and will go to receive training about these new rack servers.”>> Aditya was listening to the recorded conversations that Komal has brought with her. > As Aditya finished listening the interview, his face got lighted up! “What happened?” Asked Komal, “Did you get anything useful?” “I don’t know yet, but wait, let me hear it once again. Would you guys please leave alone for sometime?” As Aditya got busy with the tape and his laptop, Komal & Manish hung out in the balcony. “Thanks a lot Komal!” “You need not say that! Pulling out Aditya from this case is really important, plus …” “I wasn’t referring to that topic.” “Then?” “I was thanking you for pulling Aditya out from his hopeless condition.” Komal Blushed, she had been caught red handed in a case wh...

Close Apart Chapter-19 “The British Council Mystery (Part-II)” “Komal you don’t have to do this!” “Trust me, I’ll have to. “ “O.K. listen, try to find out as much information as you can about the server they are using & about its network administrator Mr. Bakshi.” “Why him?” “Because only he has got the power to insert any virus or Trojan in the server & I had this feeling before that he’s up to something.” “O.K and I’ll see you in 2hrs or so…” “Right, note everything, take pictures if necessary and…” “and?” “Don’t run into unnecessary troubles!” “I won’t.” “Manish will drop you on his way…” “No, I’d prefer to take my Press car with me…” Watching Komal going away, Aditya had this strange feeling. He realized that she was going to risk her job to find out something for his defense; Aditya realized that something has creped into his self silently. So silently that he never even realized that it rested there. Rested just to remind his of its exist...