Chapter - 02

4 years ago

Nushrat

@Nush_Rat

Chapter - 02

“Get ready for my surprise, Mr. Rathod!!! You don’t know what’s coming in your way!” Piya smirked... She knew exactly what she had to do to give a nice surprise to her husband. She went inside to prepare for Ansh's welcome...

A few hours later, a cab stopped in front of their building and Ansh got out of it. He entered the lift and pushed the button for his floor. On reaching his house, he put his bag down and called out to Piya. When she didn't respond, he went around searching for her. 

After a few minutes, he heard the tinkling sound of Piya's earrings from the terrace... "So, that's where she is!!" Thought Ansh. He went to the terrace to meet Piya. But a surprise awaited him there...

The terrace was full of plants of different species. The walls were covered with creepers... It looked more or less like a small botanical garden.  "The last time I saw so many plants was when Piya was possessed by Visharika..." Ansh could feel a cold chill running down his spine at the mere thought of Pia being possessed by Visharika...again. He started looking for Piya and finally found her sitting in the center on a small seat, talking to a small plant and making it grow bigger by her powers. 

"Piya..." He called out to her.  But she did not respond. He called her again, and finally she got up and turned around. "Ansh... You are back!!" She exclaimed joyfully. "Yeah... But what is all this?" He said, pointing at all those plants and creepers all around. "These?" Pointing towards the creepers, she said "These are snakes, pythons and anacondas. And these..." She pointed towards the potted plants. "These are some small wild animals which I brought from the jungle." "Come on Piya!!! I am serious..." "So am I Ansh... So am I!!" Piya said in a calm voice. "When you can clearly see that these are plants then why are you asking such silly questions?" "Okay... Okay fine!! But what are all these plants doing here?" "They are practicing salsa here!!"  "Piya..." Ansh began to say something. "Oh come on Ansh!! What would the plants be doing here? I have brought them here..." "But why?" "You know how much I love plants, don't you?" "So?" "So, I brought them here." Piya said, nonchalantly. "But..." Ansh stopped mid-sentence because he saw a red streak on Piya's hair. He was reminded of Visharika again. Strangely, everything around him today was reminding him of Visharika...

Striving to keep his voice normal and hiding the underlying tension, he asked her, "Piya... Did you get your hair coloured? You are looking really pretty. I like how you dyed them..." Piya replied with complete innocence, "No... I didn't. Probably it happened on its own." She shrugged her shoulders and continued, "Anyways, since you really like it so much, it must be looking pretty." Ansh turned around, his back facing Piya. He was trying to join all the dots together.  "All these plants here in the terrace... Piya's hair slowly turning red... Does this mean that Piya is again possessed by Visharika? No..no...no... This can't happen. Papa had said that Visharika is gone forever. How can she be back?"

If he had turned around at that moment, he would have got the answer about Visharika being back because all this while, Piya was silently laughing behind his back. "Ansh..." She called out softly, in an innocent voice. Ansh turned around. "Piya...Are you okay?" "Of course I am okay Ansh... Why? Was something supposed to be wrong with me?" "No... Nothing like that." "Then what Ansh?" Ansh did not know from where to begin. He was about to say something when Piya put her arms around his neck and he saw a blue scratch mark on her neck.  He was shocked to the core... All the pieces of the puzzle fell in place. That blue scratch was the same as before. Piya had again brought all those plants to the terrace. Her hair were again turning red. She was possessed by Visharika... Again!!!

This realization hit him like a lightning bolt... He was stunned. Seeing his shocked face, Piya could not control herself. She burst out laughing... Seeing her laugh, Ansh was even more confused. "What? Why are you laughing?" "I never thought that you would be so easy to fool..."  "Means?"  In response, Piya did not say anything but pulled out the false red colored hair extensions from her hair. She then removed the fake scratch mark from her neck.  

"So, how was the surprise Mr. Rathod?" "Surprise? You call it a surprise?" Said Ansh. "It is not called a surprise... It is called a heart attack." Piya burst out laughing yet again...  Seeing her laughing, Ansh started tickling her as a revenge. "Stop... Ansh..." Saying this, she ran away from there. Ansh followed her and soon, the house was echoing with the sound of their laughter...

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....... Written by Nikita .......

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