Locked down in lockdown

13- The second blowout

"Akka, I have to tell you something" Vaani's sister Veena, whispered to her sister, when they had arrived home from college.

"Yeah? what?" Vaani asked suspiciously, waiting to hear some kind of request from her sister but what her sister said, made her whole day instead.

"I lost my specs," Veena said sadly, walking up the stairs behind her elder sister.

"How?Where?" Vaani asked confused.

"In the college bathroom" Veena blurted out, making Vaani stop dead in her track in amazement.

Vaani wanted to hear more of this story but her sister was taking her own sweet time to tell her everything.

"What happened then?" Vaani asked, not wanting to hear her sister being bullied or something in that line.

"I... um... you know how my specs were loose and when, whenever I bent down, it would fall"

"Yeah, so?"

"So, in the bathroom, we have Indian-style toilets, so when I bent down a little, it fell down in the toilet," Veena said embarrassed, surprising Vaani.

"Oh, wow, you should have picked it up, no?" Vaani asked chuckling to herself trying not to laugh out loud at his poor sister.

"Yeah, no. Before I could even bend down to pick it up, it slid down slowly into the black hole" Veena whispered, and not able to hold it anymore, Vaani burst into fits of laughter.

When they entered their house, Vaani told her the whole incident of what Veena has told her, making her mom laugh even more than she did. Veena was embarrassed but even then her sister and her mom both were making fun of her, asking if she was still able to see clearly or not.

This one thing has lifted her mood up as she and Vikrant were not on speaking terms again. She was afraid that he would blow out again just like a balloon full of excess air.

Vikrant's past had made him soo doubtful that he questioned every single thing around him, not trusting anyone. Was he in love with the girl? Vaani wanted to like that but found it unnecessary and inappropriate so never bothered to like him.

"If you don't talk to me, nothing is going to be solved.

You keep overthinking things sitting alone and then blow up at once" Vaani texted after two days of no conversation.

"I don't feel like talking to you anymore,

I even told you that I love you, but I don't think I do anymore.

you are a very smart girl, trying to fool me every time, about you and Syed.

You are ruining my life, do you think I am an idiot? you guys are stupid to think that.

I can't eat nor sleep because of you, I am thinking too much even my mom can see it

You are the one who took that pill, not anyone else, and if your friend was married then she should have asked her husband to get her the pill instead of you.

You keep lying to me, do you think I'll believe everything?

You are such an advanced girl, soo forward, you have all the experience that's y u know all that stuff

I never liked girls like you, who are like this with boys.

Just tell me the fcking truth" Vikrant texted back after an hour.

Vaani was already expecting him to say something but she did not assume that he would question her character like that. Syed had already told her that she shouldn't discuss or talk about him in front of Vikrant for her own sake.