Stole my heart (An Aruden au)

-Chapter 41-

Aiden POV

Its been a day since Aru and Kara were discharged and somehow we all ended up on the floor of Aru's bedroom.

"Can you please retell the memories?" Mini asks.

Aru groans and flings a pillow into the air. "I have said it three times, Mini. THREE TIMES!"

"Ya but it won't hurt to tell it again." Rudy comments.

Aru looked Rudy dead in the eye and said, "It would, Rudra. It would."

"Personally, I just wanna eat." Brynne interrupts. 

"Me too." Aahan says.

"You are always hungry, you pig." Anish rolls his eyes.

"Won't your parents mind that you're here?" Mini asks.

The three brothers got quiet. Anish, Aahan and Annan's expressions hardened before Annan finally answered, "No. They won't."

"Why?" Brynne wondered aloud.

Aahan, Anish and Annan didn't grace the room with an answer, though.

Kara cleared her throat. "Our primary focus is how Aru got these, her-I mean, not her memories but memories of someon-YOU GET WHAT I'M SAYING!"

"Yes, though it was very amusing to see you at a loss for words." Annan says, getting up and dusting himself.

"Where are you going?" Anish and Aahan ask almost at the same time. There's probably like a millisecond difference only.

Nikki whistled, "The unison, man."

Aahan grinned and Anish rolled his eyes and his brother's grin.

"FOCUS, CHILDREN." Mini clapped her hands. Annan sat back down.

"Look, its not something special. I think it's mine, but it just doesn't fit right, you know? So, its not mine?" Aru paused for a beat before scowling. "HOW DO I KNOW IF IT'S MINE!?"

"I don't know." Mini hung her head low. Like she HAS to know the answer and everyone relied on her, to be fair which is always the case.

"It's a girl. She has raven-black hair. Her skin is very fair but she's Indian. Her eyes are blue, which is again kinda rare for an Indian. Never met one with blue eyes. Apart from her. I think. Anyways, she has ear-holes on both ears but she didn't wear earrings this time. And-"

"What do you mean 'this time'?" I ask. She didn't wear earrings this time.

"What?" Aru says.

"You said, 'She didn't wear earrings this time'. What do you mean, 'this time'?" I repeat.

The thought processed for everyone before they turned to her.

"I-I don't know. I don't..............." Aru sucked in a breath and started blinking rapidly.

"Are you okay?" Mini whispers from Aru's side. I grip her hand from where I'm sitting next to her.

"Arya Menna. That's her name. I met her once. I know why the memory didn't click for me. Cause the memory I have isn't real. I met her at some special ceremony of Mom's museum and she was there cause Mom and her are close. Best friends. I was really young." Aru says then adds, "I'm okay. It was just kinda shocking cause it hit suddenly."

"Arya Menna can't be the woman you are talking about." Annan says, monotone. Emotionless.

"Why not?" Kara asks.

"Cause she's our aunt on our mom's side." Anish narrows his eyes. "But the description is uncanny. Though I don't get the involvement of he-"

There was a ping in Mini's phone. She moved to grab it and read through whatever message she got. It was a long message cause she took a few minutes and didn't type anything back.

"Describe your memory. Word to word." Mini orders.

"I did." Aru says, confused.

"No, not the person. The memory. You said, the memory isn't real. How do you know it isn't?" Mini asks.

"Well, there's no way she-I don't-she was-I don't know? See the memory can't be real because Arya is probably traveling the world or something-"

"Actually she's a geologist." Anish supplies.

"Yes! Something related to museums! Whatever, that's not the point." Aru says, firmly.

"Word. To. Word." Mini scowls.

Aru was silent for a minute before answering, "She was tied to something, she was sitting so I think it's a chair. Uh, there's only another person in the room. Um, it was a male? He kept telling her stuff before untying her and they'd sort of..........fight. Except Arya, she doesn't know what to do so she tried to dodge and..........he hits her. Kind of. Like slaps her or legs or hands. Its always the legs or face mostly and occasionally the hands. He hit her a few times, like, 6 or 7 and tied her up again. She was losing herself and I don't know. It just fades into the new memory I got of her.

"She's in a coma now." Sheela whispers. She was hugging her legs and not looking at anyone. "Hera Hospital. Room F14. Unconscious. Coma. She'll wake up in 43 days."

"How do you know?" Aahan demands.

"My sister is a clairvoyant. A psychic of sorts." Nikita gives a tight look at everyone in the room.

"She won't wake up in 43 days. She might. I don't-I can't-" Sheela panics.

"Its okay, everything's fine. Nothing's happening right now, see, everyone is fine." Nikki whispers.

"She's not. Her breathing spiked. Will spike. 3 days. Someone will come to get her. 4 days. Someone bad. She won't make it if they get her. We need to get her first. Nikita, we have to go." Sheela takes deep breaths and Nikita nods and keeps agreeing with her.

"Arya might die?" Annan whispers to no one specific.

"She might." Anish corrects. "But we'll get her first."

"And then what? Where will we keep her?" Mini asks, "We need to make a full plan and we have a day before taking action."

"Looking into the future is a huge thing and the people who can see it are dangerous. They can see things they should not see. They have to bear the responsibility. They can be wrong. My sister is anything but dangerous but her readings are. Nothing is certain." Nikita says.

"I need some water." Sheela said and Nikita obliged, bringer her a glass of water. "I'm sorry for panicking. And going crazy. And acting like I just got out of a mental asyl-"

"You can read the goddam future. It'll obviously have side-affects." Anish said and shrugged.

"Let's focus, people! We have a person to save!" Aru said then coughed, "That sounded way better in my head."

CLIFFHANGER!-

Also, hello! How are you?

I'm sorry for SUCH a late update but I am very sick and the doctor insisted I didnt go to school cuz it was kinda bad (the notes i'll have to write 😭 my poor hand).

But I'm also officially not under bedrest! So yay!

But typing will be hard with a broken hand (after all those biology and psychology notes 😭 helppp) so IDK when the next update will be and I can't promise anything. But I also won't ghost you guys so dw.

That's all, thanks 💓💖

Byeeeee!!

~Aurora