Pyaar, Prema ..... Friendship?

🖤Chapter 25🖤

Sebastian reaches his condominium building, mentally telling himself to call Tony to pick his car up when his guts roll and he staggers at the entrance. He grips the handle of the door to stabilize him and blinks his eyes, trying to figure out why, but he sees nothing and shrugs off that feeling before locking the door and dumping his car keys on the small table beside the door. The bad feeling doesn't leave him even when he's showered and settled himself on the bed, the long drive from Downey's place and then Ahana's place- "Shit!" his guts roll again and the bad feeling intensifies at the thought of Ahana's place.  "Better check up on her" he mutters as he finds for his phone and then digging it out from in between his cushions and immediately dials her number. She doesn't pick it up on the first ring, not on the second and neither on the third before the intercept message comes in.

'The person you're calling is unavailable, please leave a message after the beep'

His brows furrow but he tries again, and again, and again, and again but the call keeps going to voicemail and his fear doubles. Ahana has never been such a heavy sleeper, even the smallest ping of her phone can wake her up and, he looks at the time on the wall which says it's half past ten, still to early for her to be in bed. "Maybe today tired her out?" he wonders but then shakes his head when he realises she's been awake even after a massive workout in the past, this realisation making him to stand up from his couch and rush out to his car. His heart beats against his chest as his brain conjures up various scenarios as to why she isn't picking up, from having a too long bath to her being dead, and that, makes him step on his accelerator. He reaches Ahana's condominium in record time and nods at the receptionist before he goes to the elevator, cursing when he remembers he forgot the spare key card Ahana gave him back when they were together for the first time. He walks up to the receptionist and gives her a tight smile "Hey, uh, I forgot the keycard to the elevator to the penthouse, can you help me?" "I'm sorry sir but it's past visitor's time-" "Please, just help me, I think Ahana needs help" he pleads and the receptionist stares at him before she sighs and gives him another key card "I'll be fired if the boss knows this but here, this is the main key card, it can open the elevator to any floor and to any room. Please be fast" the receptionist warns and Sebastian nods, rushing towards the elevator and presses the penthouse level.

"Come on, come on" he mutters as he keeps pressing on the button and then sighs reluctantly when the elevator goes in the same speed. He taps his feet impatiently and groans when the car immediately reaches the penthouse level, Sebastian rushing out as soon as the door open. He fumbles with the key card, his hands shaking a little but manages to swipe the card and barge open the door. Silence, that was what Sebastian was greeted, absolute silence. He slowly closed the door behind him and he walks, calling out Ahana's name as he goes, his nose scrunching at the pungent odour of vodka. The television is turned on some Tamil music channel running in the background, but he could not see Ahana sitting there, neither laying across the couch. He peeks into the bedroom, her towel dry but still laid across her bed and the bathroom a little wet with a mild steam still surrounding it 'She must have just took a bath' he ponders as he goes into the kitchen, her alcohol rack still opened and only one bottle is taken out, the vodka she got for her housewarming, which explains the alcohol odour surrounding the air. He's thinking about that when he turns and his heart drops to the floor, his breath stuck in his throat, as he sees Ahana is laid vertically on the couch, her legs still on the floor, where her upper half at the edge of the couch, one of her arm hanging off. "Ahana!" he shouts before sprinting his way to her and takes a hold of her arm and uses his other arm and shakes her shoulder violently "Ahana! Babe, come on, wake up! Babe! Sweetheart, come on, should have knew you would do something like his, ugh, Ahana! Wake up!" he shouts and barks her name but he gets no response from her as Ahana still lays limp on the couch.