A New Journey

An Eventful Day

A New Journey

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Tarika opened her eyes as the sun rays fell on her face through the window of her room. She checked her table watch and found out she's awake 10 minutes before her set alarm. She turned off the alarm from her position and yawned. She's sleepy.

"Should I go for a walk?" She asked herself, mumbling.

Just then her mobile phone vibrated with an unknown number. She's taken aback with an unknown number calling her this early. Nevertheless, she picked up.

"Hello." She said, confused.

"Hey," came a familiar voice from the phone.

"Omg! Ta-"

"Hey, shss..."

"Okay, okay... How.. How have you been?"

"I'm fine."

"What happened? Why are you sounding so down?" Tarika sat up on bed, panicked.

"Nothing. Just tired."

"Don't lie to me. You sound like you have been crying."

"Oh, c'mon. There's nothing like that. How are you?"

"Fine."

"Have you talked to mom recently?" Tasha sounded very dull. "How's she?"

"She's fine. Ta.. I mean, is everything alright? Are you hurt? Are you trapped?"

"No." Tasha said, desperately.

"Should I call Abhijeet?"

"Please, No."

"Is Vivek alright?"

"Yeah... I was just missing you."

"It can't be true. You won't be risking your mission just because you are missing me!"

"If anything happens to me, I just wanna be sure that you are doing okay."

"Shut up! Nothing's gonna happen to you. And I am doing perfectly fine."

"Good. Gotta go. Take care."

"But-"

But the call was cut. Tarika sat there silently for a while, looking at her phone screen, blanked. Tasha was sounding very weird. She's never an emotional person. She's nothing like Tarika. She couldn't even remember clearly when was the last time Tasha cried. But today she talked to her, she's sure she had been crying. And she's even more sure it wasn't because she was missing her family or her. But again, things and time could make a person weak. She just hoped Tasha was doing fine. She wondered if she should talk about it with Abhijeet?

Tarika sighed. Abhijeet must knew every details of the mission. She had heard ACP sir talking about how extra cautious Abhijeet was about the whole mission. Still, she made a mental note to inform Abhijeet about the call if they met today. She jerked of the weird 6th sense feeling that something gonna happen today and went to the washroom to get fresh.