OBSESSION

29. Aashish Mehta

WARNING:- NOT PROOFREAD

"Good morning, my darling." Manish plopped in his chair at the dining table for breakfast while Maya kept staring at the Picture of Parth and the guy. 

"Good morning, Dad." Maya wished him without turning her gaze away from her phone. 

Manish who saw the unusual behavior of his daughter thought to not disturb her about anything now, as his detective is gonna message him the details he had collected.

"Ahem Ahem..." Manish cleared his throat to bring Maya back and Maya snapped her to hear at her Dad, who's so busy with her phone.

"Good Morning, Dad" Maya wished him as soon as she realized him beside her. 

"Good Morning. Busy?" He asked her before his phone beeped with messages. 

"No, Dad. I've been waiting for you." She said, taking him in surprise.  

"Okay, so? What's in the news?" He asked, knowing his daughter that she won't say that unless something is going on. 

"Dad, this, have you seen him somewhere?" She questioned coming straight to the point, handing her mobile to her father, who just kept adjusting his specs. 

"Whom?" He said, with his eyes set on his daughter as he took the phone. 

"Arrey, aap dekho na pehle!" Maya said, irritated already. 

"Okay!" Manish wondered what's making her restless early in the morning. 

As he looked ahead at the phone, Maya's phone boomed with the ringtone and the screen changed to Neil's smiling face. 

"Oh, your Majnu!" Manish broke into a laugh.

"Dad!" Maya exclaimed, shaking her head, as she took her phone and ran to the balcony. 

"Neil! You..." "Maya I've to talk to you, right now. Just come to me where the hell ever you were." Saying whatever he had to, Neil cut the call, not giving Maya a chance to exclaim at his unanticipated call.  

"He hung up?" Maya wondered. "Maybe about last night!" She thought. Sighing in distraught, she made her way into her home, took her handbag on the chair, and left without hinting to her parents, that she's long gone. 

"This Neil na... He'll leave me insane one day. Huh!" Scoffing at her thoughts, Maya accelerated to Neil's room, not knowing what's awaiting her. 

"Hope, everything will be okay!" Praying in her head, she dashed to the door, which is open for the first time as far as her best of knowledge. 

"He kept the door open?" Maya wondered what is going on in his mind that he is behaving weirdly lately. 

"Um, Neil?" She called him out as nobody is there in the living room. Not the guy for whom she came all the way with her hungry stomach. 

"Neil?" She screamed his name only to get silence as an answer. Sighing, she strode towards his bedroom only to find him on the balcony of that bedroom.

"Neil..." Maya treaded towards him. She is facing his back while he is lost somewhere in his thoughts. 

"Neil." She hugged him from behind, inhaling his sweet scent, losing herself completely in him. 

"Maya." His voice is smooth. It's been days that she heard this tone of him, referring to her. Maya smiled before she kisses him on his right shoulder. 

Neil turned around to face her. He took her hands in his, with his eyes piercing into hers. 

"Do you really think this will work?" He asked her, with his eyes settled on their entwined hands. 

Maya's frown faded to form a small smile near her lips.

"Why is that a question?" She smiled at him. "Look at me, Neil." She made him look at her with a blank face. 

"Cause, you know that I..." She cut him across knowing where he is going now. 

"Shh...Why are thinking this much? You know overthinking is injurious to health! And, Neil, why are you running behind something that'll never be yours? And, losing something you always have? It is never right to do so, na? To let people go away when you needed them more? And inviting unnecessary ones who have no value of you in their lives? Correct me if am wrong Neil! Remember, I'll always love you, no matter what!" That's all she said and left, not before planting a small peck on Neil's forehead. 

"Ah..." Neil heaved a sigh. "Maya!" He shook his head at her retreating figure before turning back to the pale blue sky. "Sometimes I wonder, God knows that he was cruel by taking Ayesha away from me, and maybe that's why he gave me you. Yes!" Neil exclaimed to himself. 

"What I feel towards Madam Avni is nothing but maybe some other new kind of attraction but you... You are... What are you, Maya? My savior? Saving me from the things and people I go close unknowingly, that they are dangerous! Perhaps, we are meant to be. Yes! Let's put an end to my attractions now. I LOVE YOU, MAYA. Only You." Neil said to himself with his eyes settled on the horizon. 

Shoving his hands into his pockets, he turned around to come across a smiling Maya with a cup of black coffee on a tray. He chuckled at her while shaking his head.  

"Much needed, na!" Maya said before Neil could say his line. Both of them laughed out loud at each other. 

*  *  *

"Where did you find this photo?" Manish Jai Singh screamed on top of his lungs, grabbing the collar of the already scared guy. 

"Sir sir..." He screamed in fear. "Tell me, damn it?" Manish screamed again. 

"Sir, I... That guy was in Delhi with him and I clicked these pictures then. And, I tried following them but missed them in the traffic sir." Manish groaned in frustration. 

"What the hell is w.rong with you, Manish?" Srinivas, who just came into the room which is a mess now, exclaimed at the wounds his Assistant has. 

"Ask this Assistant of yours!" Manish scoffed while glaring at Srinivas. 

"What happened, Kamlesh?" Srinivas asked, facing towards his assistant. 

"Sir, I had clicked a few pictures of Avni Ma'am's assistant with somebody at Delhi and as you said I've sent it to Sir." His assistant said, shivering in fear while pointing towards Manish. 

"And what's wrong you find in those pictures?" Srinivas questioned glaring at Manish. 

Manish scoffed while scrolling through his phone. 

"As if you haven't seen them?" Manish flashed his phone at Srinivas who was equally shocked when he has seen Aashish Mehta, in those pictures. 

The End. 

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