SwaSan FanFic (TOL)

CHAPTER 8

Swara's meeting with the senior reporter Viren Mehta was kind of anti climax. She was apprehensive of him because his work was brilliant and she had seen many of his reporting from war torn regions and conflicts. She expected him to be the typical journalist with a moody behaviour, but he was one of the most effusive and warm people she had ever met. With his jovial temper and a little too healthy figure, she could not imagine him writing up the serious stuff from those horrifying places. So she could not hide her surprise when she met him

'What did you expect Swara Bose? A very serious bespectacled nerd!' he asked. She laughed and tried to deny as politely as possible

'Never mind...' he continued and saw the presentation she made 'Hey this is good stuff for first time.There is lot of information that I could compile for my feature.' After studying it, he clicked his fingers as if he got a sudden brain wave.

'Listen, why don't you come with us to the camp?'he asked. He had this habit of jumping from one sentence to another without explaining properly so Swara sat looking at him without any comprehension. What camp was he talking about,she mused.

'See, we will leave in a day and spend two days interviewing and studying the situation. It will help us to make this report.' He added

'Sir..'Swara began but he interrupted

'Sir???? Call me Vir...'he said. How could she call him Vir, his name was Viren Mehta and he must be at least twenty years older than her. So she avoided taking his name and asked

'I don't understand about this camp. Can you please explain?' Finally he went into a long explanation about what they were going to do for the next two days.

Karan and Nadira were in splits when she explained her meeting with Viren Mehta. They were amused by her narration.

Late evening, Sanskar and Uttara were relaxing in the living room, when the phone rang. Sanskar picked it up

'Hello, this is Sharmishta speaking..Is Ragini there?' Sankar covered the mouth piece and asked Uttara for Ragini.

'Ragini bhabhi is not here,bhaiya. She has gone to the movie with Parineeta bhabhi ...You gave her the passes no?'

'Ragini is not here aunty...'Sanskar replied over the phone..

'Ooh, she is not picking up the phone.That is why I called there.' Sharmishta sounded worried,

'Is there any problem aunty?' Sanskar enquired

'Actually Swara told me she was going to meet Ragini. But it is almost 9 and she has not come back..So I wanted to talk to Ragini....Anyway, sorry to disturb you.' She was about to cut the call when Sanskar asked

'Did you try her phone aunty?'

'Yes, it is switched off'

'I will try to find out from Ragini' he said

'Thank you...'Sharmishta thanked him

After disconnecting the call, Sanskar asked Uttara

'Uttara, when did Ragini leave? Has Swara gone with them?'

'No bhaiya, Swara didi was here before they left. She spent an hour and then she left. Ragini bhabhi and Parineeta bhabhi went for movie afterwards. Is there a problem bhaiya?'

'No, Has Laksh not gone with them?' He gave the passes to Ragini hoping that Laksh and she would spend time alone but that plan seems to have failed.

'No, Laksh bhaiya said he was busy in office.'

Sanskar got up, took his car keys and headed to Laksh's office. He called Laksh all sorts of names in his head. If Swara was with Laksh, he swore that he would kill both of them. When he reached the family's corporate office, the building was deserted. At this hour, there was hardly anyone left. He went straight to Laksh's office and barged into the room. But Laksh was alone, absorbed in the video that was playing in his laptop. He was startled to see Sanskar and shut the laptop immediately. Sanskar narrowed his eyes and looked around