The landline rang, loudly. Riya opened her eyes. She took her phone from her nightstand. Everything seemed hazy to her for a second but she could make out that it was around 2 in the morning. She could not think of the person who would call up at that time.
It couldn't be her parents cause they were out of town and too busy with their work to call. They had already called her before she went to sleep.
It couldn't be her best friend because he would be snoring in his bed at the present.
It couldn't be her older brother or her cousins cause they would be interested in calling on her phone rather than the landline. Plus they knew better than to disturb her sleep.
She got up and went towards the living room to pick up the phone . However, by the time she reached, her grandmother had already picked up the phone.
"Hello? Who is it?" her grandmother asked to the person on the other side.
Her grandmother made sounds indicating that she was understanding what the person on the other side was telling her.
Riya made her way back to bed. Her sleep was way more important to her than some stranger calling at the middle of the night. She had to wake up in five hours to head to school.
She would ask her grandmother about the caller in the morning.
"What? This isn't possible!" She suddenly heard her grandmother shouting over the phone.
She turned around. Her grandmother was crying. She was pretty confused. Her Daads was a very calm person. She would never get that freaked out.
"What happened? Who was it?"
Vasundhara, Riya's granmother could not understand if she should tell Riya. She was having second thoughts. She ultimately realised that it was no use hiding the truth.
"Ri..ya.."she stammered "Udita and Karan are no more."
Riya could not believe her ears. They could not leave her and go like that. She hadn't seen them in months and now she got the news that they were dead? She could feel years trickle down her cheeks.
She laid her head on her grandmother's lap and cried. Flashbacks of the happy moments came back to her. She stared at the beautiful picture of a happy couple at the wall.
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