"Is this how you welcome your new boss? By showing up late? The nerve you have to disrespect me in front of the whole office, Mrs. Arora. If I didn't respect your previous boss, I would have thought he pitied people like you to hand over any positio...
Last night after the strange occurrences that had happened I was surprisingly able to get 5 hours of sleep before I heard a loud crash from outside which I ignored. If you guys didn't know I have become a pretty light sleeper these past few months and I have no one other than myself to blame.
It had come to my attention that a few new people way up in the firm I work at would be switched. I have been dreading that day for the past 3 months now. I always make sure to be fully aware of my surroundings even though it's hard staying focused when my energy levels have been so low.
You might ask me why I should really care but the problem was that they could be literally anyone. Anyone including Aryaan's associates.
The last thing I would want to do is have to be off the radar again. Work has already been challenging with me having to be available all around the clock. One of my close friends, Ayushi, has been having a lot of trouble lately with her post-maternity. Her husband was last in contact with her before she even had a baby and now she has had to handle everything by herself. She went into depression after birth thinking nobody wanted her because of how bad of a human being she was. Her husband was always traveling due to being a business' man but it infuriates me to even try thinking how he could leave her in such position.
Having a feeling that I would not get any more rest, I decided that I would head over to the precinct to talk to a few officers about a case I was going to hopefully get more answers for today. I got up from bed and picked up my phone which read the current time: 3:26 am.
I went over to my closet and grabbed black leggings, a white blouse, a scarf (its getting cold out) and my undergarments. It took me 15 minutes to take a shower, get dressed, put concealer under my eye bags and some mascara. I let my hair cascade down my shoulders and put on some accessories because I was going with a covert police officer to figure out if I could get any ideas of whether a rich family who had a close relationship with a victim were possible suspects. I'm not really a person who dresses up that much but for this I had to look presentable and match the environment that I was going into. headed downstairs; brewed coffee, placed a muffin from the box I had gotten 2 days ago into my purse, grabbed my keys and headed towards my car.
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Caption: This is her outfit and her hair is a few inches longer than this picture.
I checked to make sure I had everything and grabbed my black trench coat from the backseat of my Benz. (I'm not crazy rich or anything if your thinking so because of the Benz. I've had this car for a long time now and it took me a crazy amount of time/jobs to buy it in my last year of college)
The drive from my house to the precinct was around 20 minutes. I sipped my coffee on the red light as I got call and accepted it through the car.
"Hello?" I answered. "Ira? Are you there?" Ayushi's voice came through. "Yes. I'm here. Are you okay? Do you need something?" I responded while starting to worry a little.
"Ira! I can't find my baby! I don't know what to do!" she started sobbing. "Okay, Ayu. First calm down okay? Your the only one who can find her right now. Take deep breaths. And now try to remember. Where was the last place you kept her?"
"I-I don't k-know. I chhecked her crib and she wasn't ther-re." she started hiccupping.
I could hear her shuffling around in Avi's room (the baby's) and sound of banging and clashing. Her house was a detour to the precinct but I really had to get there on time before her panic attack got worse or if she fainted.
"Oh my god Ira the baby monitor isn't there! Neither is her milk bot-ttle. I searched the entire ro-om. Ir-ra?? Could someone have taken her? I couldn't take care of her aa-nd now-w she's go-one. I'm such a bad mother aren'tt I? Ira even my baby does-sn't lo-ove me." she started hysterically crying.
"No. Don't you ever think that Ayu. I'm coming soon. In the meantime could you please call the police on your home phone?"
I still had 15 minutes left before I reached her house. At this point I was just praying to god she wouldn't do anything to put her life in danger.
"Okay. I can do tha-at. I'm going downstairs to get it." she said with a steadier voice.
"Please continue telling me what your doing. Okay?"
"Ira?"
"Yes?"
"Something doessn't feel right."
"What makes you say that?"
"I-" she starts screaming really loudly.
Her screams catch me off and I don't realize that the signal in front of me has turned red. I swerve the car towards a pole on my right so I don't crash into the car ahead of me. The amount of force put into that turn causes my car to fully tilt to one side and then come back to the ground. In the process my head smashes against the window. It feels like my brain is turning into mush and I hear a buzzing sound as if bees have surrounded me. I sense liquid trickling down my forehead and black dots start clouding my vision.
It takes all the willpower in me to look back at my screen.
"Ayushi? Are you still there? Please respond back or give me some indication that your there."
I hear people outside of my car trying to get my attention but I'm barely able to pay attention to their words.
"Irrra. I think he has herrr. Som-- oomphh mphh oph"
I hear gunshots and a thud after the line goes silent.
Tears start rapidly falling down my eyes. I wasn't able to be there with her. What type of friend am I? But who was "he"? Did her husband come back? It feels like I'm suffocating and I start losing sight of what is happening around me.
The last thing I hear before blacking out is "Don't take her to the hospital."
