Everything Was Fine Until...

... until she confided in him

Naina stood alone, she was looking at the path leading to the place where they went to shop. Its been an hour since, all the students had come back. But there was no sign of her friends; Dhruv and Myra.

She had tried calling them both. But, their numbers were unreachable. Naina walked back and forth, looking down at the ground with crossed arms and furrowed brows. She was thinking with all her might, about those two idiots and their whereabouts.

Every now and then, she would glance at the path on which they came from, hoping to see Dhruv and Myra casually strolling in.

Dhruv and Myra were nowhere to be seen in the market, Naina had tried to search for them in the market. But then she saw, some students boarding the other bus, she thought Myra and Dhruv must've also boarded the other bus.

But now, that she had searched the whole camp. She didn't find them in the camp and she knew, that her previous assumption was wrong, very wrong.

Naina took a seat and kept checking her phone to see if any text or call came from Dhruv or Myra.

She was thinking about all the possible scenarios that could have happened, but her recent obsession of watching documentaries related to Serial killers led her chain of thoughts to that angle.

What if? What if a serial killer has them captive right now?! Naina stood up alarmed and started looking around wildly. She then shook her head and took a seat again.

"This is too stupid." Naina said shaking her head. She again resumed with her thinking, but her chain of thoughts was interrupting by Siddharth. Who happened to be passing by, when he saw her sitting there, fidgeting with her phone, furiously tapping on it.

"Poor phone." Siddharth said lowly. Siddharth walked up to Naina, but she was too busy imagining weird scenarios regarding Dhruv and Myra. That she didn't realize Siddharth was standing beside her.

Siddharth placed a hand on her shoulder to shake her out of her thoughts, but that startled her. She was about to fall from the chair. But, just in moment she supported herself up and whispered a nervous, "Hi."

Her expressions mirrored a deer caught in headlights.

"Hey, are you umm alright?" Siddharth said with his hands on his waist not knowing what to do. Because, he'd never seen Naina like this, even before exams when the other students were about to shit their pants she always kept her cool.

"What is it Naina? Is something the matter?"

She wasn't sure how to answer the question. But she was sure about one thing, no one should know that those two idiots have been disappeared.

It felt as if they had vanished into thin air. It'll create a big commotion, if the news about their disappearance got out. She was sure, Mr. Dubey's frail heart could not handle a matter like this.

He was like a ticking bomb, ready to explode at any given moment. Because everyone was commenting about his bad luck, which that palm reader told him. The palm reader told him that his doom is near and many other things, which the children were now whispering about. This irked him a lot.

She tried assuring herself that, they just went for a stroll and must be on their way back. But her gut had other feelings, which she desperately tried to ignore.

"Matter? Nothing." Naina said nodding her head furiously with a nervous smile. Her words and actions are contrary to each other.

Siddharth stood there with a weird expression because she nodded her neck in the way that said Yes but was saying No with a nervous smile.