| lviii: the calm before the storm |

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"Life is really unpredictable

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"Life is really unpredictable." — Akanksha Singh Chauhan, His Inconvenient Bride

" — Akanksha Singh Chauhan, His Inconvenient Bride

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Jaipur, India

I was bored. And tired. And frustrated.

It was nothing strange that this came from my parent's side. At this point, I should get myself over with the jumpscares because the bombs my parents were slowly dropping were scarier.

I mean who knows, that maybe I have a twin sister who got separated from me at birth and they hid this information from me?

Maa and Papa, you're topping Ekta Kapoor.

God, I should stop keeping tabs on the daily soaps that Vihaan watches.

I buried my face in my palms as I recalled the events before Ruhi's death. As far as I could remember, I had marched off to Adi's house with my stuff in the morning. Maa and Papa left around ten in the morning though they had a flight at night. It was nothing strange since we knew that they loved spending their time together. And this had happened a lot of times before that year.

Nothing new.

But something happened that day. Something that stopped them from going.

"Did Aunty speak to them?" I asked Pranav.

"No," he answered. "She told me that Sneha Aunty went somewhere in a hurry and that she assumed that Anika Di knew already," Ah, it made sense. Well, I am damn sure Di didn't know because she would have told me.

But I will still call her to confirm that.

"Shay," Pranav poked me, "are you okay? You're not looking shocked."

"I have tossed my dramatics in the Ganges," I sighed, positioning my head over the sofa's backrest.

"Jeez, Uncle and Aunty are antique pieces," I scoffed at his comment. "No, Sharma, they're jokers who think that they can make fools out of their children and we would just laugh and forget about it."

"Never knew that they had the acting chops," we sighed and looked at the aimless sky.

"Did I ever get the chance to tell you all that night what I had actually seen inside that cabin?" I randomly popped the question. That hallucination from the cabin kept bugging me at random times. I wished for it to be true but given my condition, I didn't want to keep my hopes up.

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