Anurakti

64: She looks like someone

"Sahaj! Wake up!"
Shweta kicked Sahaj and he jolted up, startled.
It has been about eight hours and he had nothing to do so he ended up sleeping on the couch in Shweta's cabin.

Rubbing his eyes he stood up and stretched.

"Are you guys done? Where's Samidha?"

"She slept halfway through. She's still there, sleeping."
She mumbled, and opened a drawer searching for something.

"She slept?.....Did you try waking her up?"

"I didn't have the heart to."
She said, and turned to him.

"She looks like a baby when she sleeps."

Sahaj nodded, agreeing. He has seen her asleep. She does look like a sight to watch.

"Did you do something about her hair?"

"Why don't you see so yourself?"

She asked and led him to the room.

"Did she like it? What did she say?"

"She didn't say anything. She fell asleep. I can't believe she slept through. I had assistants hold her head and do her hairstyle. Has she not been sleeping properly?"

"I.........don't know. Why the hell is this corridor so long. Where the hell is she?"
He asked and Shweta opened another door, revealing Samidha, sleeping on the comfy arm chair, looking like a goddess.
"There she is. Sah......"
She couldn't say much when she looked at Sahaj.

He was breathing heavily and his eyes were as wide as saucers. His hands were shaking, he was trembling.

"My love."

His mind went blank, knees buckled and a wave of dizziness hit him.

A sharp pain erupted in his head and he fell down on the ground.

"you are my damsel in distress or rather a damsel in stress.

if you can't be a part of my happiness, you can't be a part of my hardships and my pain.

Sahaj.

Sahaj.

Sahaj."

"SAHAJ!"
Shweta screamed and shook Sahaj vigorously.

He opened his eyes, the pain subsiding.

"What happened? Are you okay? Do you want water?"
Shweta asked, concerned as she helped him sit up.
He shook his head in no, rubbing his forehead.

"What happened?"

"I just....... someone was laughing. She was blur.........She........Samidha. She didn't wake up?"
He asked, realising that the voice sounded like Samidha's.

"No. Are you sure you are okay Sahaj?"

"Have I met her before Shweta?"

Shweta gulped. Aditya uncle had strictly prohibited anyone from even uttering Samidha's name in front of Sahaj.

He probably didn't recognise her till now because she looked nothing like her past self.
But now she looks exactly like she looked ten years ago.

And just one look had him almost passed out.

What if something bad happens if she tells him

"I.......I can't help this feeling. I get this strange feeling whenever I look at her, I feel hollowness in my chest when I see her sad. A different kind of emptiness. And a different kind of fullness when she laughs. I feel like it's my responsibility to make her happy. And when she talks, I feel like she has talked to me before. She..........It feels like deja vu, but considering-"