A known stranger | Ft. Abhyutami

Chapter 5

Recap - aalim/abhyudaya was present at gulnaaz/gautami's cabin talking to her colleague.. She's lost in him.

Gautami's pov

"I was unknowingly but continuously staring at him, that's when I heard a

Gulnaaz aap?

He said this while walking towards me, he then stood in front of me.

With a jerk in my body, I came back to my senses, well to be honest, I was still lost in him, but this time in his voice, I am looking at him, it looks like he's blabbering some words, but for some reason I can't hear them, I can't help but observe every pitch of his golden voice, I can hear him speak but I can't hear him speak as well, they way he said my name gave me butterflies 🦋, I always hated to have a fake name but I guess it's not that bad now.. safe to say that I've gone mad.. While I'm processing his voice in my mind, I felt a pat on my shoulder and then I actually came back to the real world.

pov ends.

Abhi - gulnaaz are you alright??

Gautami didn't react to it.

Abhi - uhmm.. Gulnaaz.. GULNAAZ??

Gautami - uh uh uh, yeah yeah yeah I'm completely fine, absolutely, completely.....

Gautami (in mind) - shitttttt.. Pehli baar aisa hua hai ki mai bhul gai hu ki mera naam gulnaaz hai.. Mujhe to gautami sunne ki aadat bhi nai hai, fir kyu?? Why is this guy taking my mind back to India???

(Behen indian hai to aisa hi karega na 🌚)

Abhi - uhmm are you sure?

Gautami - yes yes, vo actually kaam ka thoda stress ho raha hai, ye log reports theek se nai bana rahe hain isiliye, aur kuch nahi..

Abhi - oh acha acha, well don't worry, yahan par sabhi ek se badhke ek zahanat(intelligence) waale hain, sab sambhal lenge, aap fikra na kariye.

Gautami - haan.. Vaise aap bataiye janab, aap yahan kaise?

Abhi - are haan, vo darasal aapse ek do report verify karani thi, ye ek fauji ne 3-4 din pehle kuch to jugaad karke ye information nikalvai hai, bas aap apni purani reports dekhke bata dijiye ki ye hamare yakeen ke layak hai ya nahi..

Gautami - ji ji zarur..

Goes to her cabin, takes out some reports and starts flipping the pages..

After a few minutes..

Gk - hmm..

Abhi - to, kya nateeja nikla..

Gk - janab jaankari to sahi hai magar extremely outdated hai.. Isme jo incidents likhe hain, vo 4-5 mahine pehle hue the..

Abhi - 4-5 mahine??

Gk - ji huzoor...

Abhi - hmm..

Gk - isse nateeja mai to ye nikalungi ki  aap fauji, ISI ke kaam ISI ko karne dijiye 😂

Abhi - (chuckles)

Abhi looks a bit sad as he had thought that this one report would get him more information to share.
But gautami thought that he was sad as he paid a lot of attention in that report and it turned out to be a failure.

Gk - Mr. Ali??

Abhi doesn't respond

Gk - uhm. Mr. Ali?? Mr. Aalim.. Aalim.. AALIM???

As soon as abhi hears "aalim" From her mouth he comes out of his daydream..
He got butterflies when he heard his name, bhale hi fake, still his name from her mouth.