Mystery of Tangled Lives

Part 2

Piyashree stood to introduce herself but someone announced, "Piyashree Jaiswal"

All heads turned towards the source i.e. towards the door, where an Inspector with his 2 constables and a sweating principal, was standing and now wwalked into the class.

Inspector," Hum hai Inspt. Pandey aap log hume Rhobinhood bhi bula sakte hai-"

Piyashree cut him and said,"Aapne hume kaise yaad kiya, Inspt. Rhobinhood Pandey?" scarcasim visible in her voice.

Inspt.-" Well, it's not me it's he, who wanted to meet you so I brought them here, to you"

Piyashree-"Who he?"

Inspt. pointed towards the door at a standing boy of age approx 10. No sooner Piyashree saw that boy and uttered in shock,"Raghav"

And the boy ran and hugged her tightlywith tears streaming down his cheeks. Piyashree soon parted from him and while holding him she asked him,"Raghav. What are you doing here? Tumhe toh vaha...."

Raghav –" No Akka. Mein wapis nahi jaunga, vaha sabke dil kaale hai. Par mene diya saaf dil se hi jalaya tha, woh sab aap se nafarat karte hai aapko doshi mante hai jabki aap ne unn sabke liye kya kuch nahi kiya. Mein nahi jaunga unke pass vahapar sab log bure hai mujhe unke bich nahi rehna , mein aap ke saath rehne chahta ho."

Piyashree sitting down on her knees to level him up and cleaning his tear sticken face with her hand said in clam voice "Aisa tumse kisne kaha? Aur rahi baat mere saath rehne ki toh yaha na mere rehneka tikana hai aur na toh kkhane pine ka hai toh tumhe kaise mein apne pass rakhu?"

Raghav-" Because i heard them saying that they would find you and kill you and now they are searching for you Akka They want to kill you. I can't let them kill you They are the bad people that's why I came here to tell you and to protect you" Piyashree cassed his face lovingly and said "Sorry but I can't".

Raghav in pleading voice,"Akka mujhe kuch nahi chahiye, mein bhuka reh lunga, aap jaha bhi aap rahogi mein bhi aapke saath rahunga, koi shikayat nahi karunga, aapko pareshan bhi nahi karunga, aap jaha bologi vaha mein aapke saath chalunga, koi sawaal bhi nahi karunga, mujhe sirf aap chahiya , sirf mujhe meri Akka chahiye aur kuch nahi." With last line he said and hugged her, Piyashree also hugged him tight. He parted from her and looked at her with his pleading eyes and kept muttering,"Please Akka i want to be with you......"

Whole class was witnessing this and were more curious about the boy and in the nick of time Dida and Adi entered, they had listened to their conversation.

Dida with a smila on her face "Piyali, beta he is requesting so much to you, please manjao na, he loves you alot"

Piyashree –" It's not about him leaving with me, it's about mein kese ussko usske neccissities provide kar paungi. It would have been a complete opposite thing if I had all those things but now I don't have a single pennie with me I gave it all. Dada can't you understand the situation, I have nothing with me. I can tolerate anything but Raghav is just 10, just a small kid, he won't be able to"

Dada (Adi) –"If that is the only case then we have the upper floor of our house empty and were wanting to have someone to stay with us and if thats not enough then we can offfer you a job also them

that will be ok with you two.

Raghav requesting "Please Akka....please.."

Piyashree accepting her defeat," Fine "

Raghav hugged her again but this time in happiness and Piyashree too.

As piya noticed her surroundings she started turning scarlet due to embaressment and nervesness. Abhay noticed this and smiled a small smile by thinking of something. As Raghav parted from Piyashree and ran towards Dida and Dada

Dida asked looking at her," Piyali why are you turning scarlet?"

On this questioned she turned deep red and murttured a nothing to them and went back to her sit and sat back.

With this everyone except the reliefed principal , teacher and studnts went out. Principal made anannouncement, " Attention students, I did to introduce you to Piyashree Jaiswal, our new rsearch student and your new Professor in litreture and not just that, she has got a full Harson Scholarship, one of the prestigious and a really difficult one to get"

Everyone was shocked and surprised, with such reaction from everyone Piyashree again turned scarlet. Principal then continued,"And one more thing, you all will gona have 4 research subjects this year i.e. History, Litereture, Ayurveda and the last one of your own choice. These all researches are to be done in pairs given by me and i have decided that with whom you are sitting are your partners. And mind you all, if anyone research not done properly or done without the contribution of both the partners in anyone also will not be allowed to sit for final exams. Got that! I am circulating a paper, write your and your partner's name sitting besides you and do it fast and give it to Ms. Das Gupta. (to Ms.D.) Sumit the list after the class."

Misha – Kabir, Maya – Jeh, Angad – Tracker were partners and were happy, T was not as she wanted to be paired up with Abhay.

Abhay – Piyashree were paired up Abhay was fine with it but Piyashree was not, she was again turning red due to anger.

Abhay with a naughty smile whispers to Piyashree,"Comon Cherry now there is no use of this anger we have to work together for the whole year on 4 research subjects." Piyashree was surprised on what Abhay had named her and asked,"What?? What did you callme with?"

Abhay "Cherry because you are most of the time as red as a cherry"

Piyashree – "Don't call me that"

Abhay – "I will, Cherry"

And the bell rang with Abhay outside the class and Piyashree inside red in anger.