Pandora's Box!

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Hey guys ! Here's the 12th chapter ! Enjoy !

(Mohit's point of view)

She was gone. Just like that and for a moment I thought that I would lose my mind! What happened in that crazy delusional world had already shaken me up. Losing a person I care about ...that was my fear and something similar in some sense happened right in front of my eyes right now. That pathetic jerk came and took Latika!!

God knows where she is. We all were still in the motel. Uttara was still a little shaken up. She told us what her fear was all about and I gotta admit that it was scary enough to give nightmares. So was the case with Kartike ...he too was not in the right state of mind but was keeping it under control for the sake of Uttara, she needed him. He was trying to get her to eat something. As for me, I was sulking. I was trying to focus on something but my thoughts went back to her, Latika, where was she now! She was the one who saved me. I was going to give in and  wouldn't have survived if it wasn't for her. She got me out. She was so brave and I knew that saving me had taken a toll on her but she didn't give up. I should have fought for her, atleast done something and not let that jerk take her away!

She had always been different. I remembered the last conversation that I had with her. The way she spoke, the way her eyes shone with a spark! She was beautiful. Guilt was all I felt right now. Wow, my life had suddenly become a mess. Will it all be fine? Will it become the way it was before I got onto that metro? "I hope my Latika is fine!"

My? Where did that thought come from! Kiara was mine right? Oh my god I was going crazy! After all this is over ...I have to go back to Kiara! For some reason that thought unsettled my heart! Had my loyalties changed? Was this because of Latika? Did I feel something for her? No I hated her but now I admire her so much.I can't leave her alone after all this, I need her but does she? These thoughts were messing my head. It had become warzone while Delhi was quiet as a windless night!..............................

(Aaran's Point of view)

I woke to the 'real' world to find myself in my bed with IV kept as a SOS. My bed was placed beside the window overseeing our beautiful driveway. The scarlet curtains draped our pale yellow walls; my study, kept below a lunette window, was lit by the sun. I loved the warmth of the basking sun. I stretched myself to wave off any remnants of fatigue that crept in every time we went to our mind palace.

I peeped in the room next door to see whether Latika, Mohit, Uttara and Kartike were showing any ungodly movements. They were all kept in separate beds, each attached to an IV while their consciousness was trapped in a parallel world created by my sister and me. I decided to move Latika to my room as she was due to 'wake up'.

Strands of her lush black hair kept tickling her cheeks while she slept soundlessly with her entire body moving rhythmically under the sheets. "You will wake up soon. You are to unveil the urn, the white king's progeny." I whispered gently after tucking a stray strand behind her ears. I lifted her and placed her carefully on my bed in the neighbouring room; she was as light as feather. She moved unconsciously in her slumber while I looked at her from a distance. "You are instrumental to fulfilment of our destiny. Latika, why are you so pristine?" I asked without expecting a reply. "At times I am awed by your innocence and your disposition, what makes you so soft on the surface and so strong indeed? You intrigue me, Latika." I spoke while looking at the full bloomed roses flanking the driveway. "Had we not destined to be enemies, we would have certainly been friends. I have longed for a friend like you ever since I was..." I choked at my words and before I could continue, the door flung open. At the doorway stood my sister with her dark brown curls clinging to her face and neck, pitch black eyes and Roman nose which made her countenance look rather appealing.

With her pretentious smile and voice which sounded unrealistically sweet, she spoke," Aah.. Did I disturb you, Aaran?" "Of course not!" I snapped at her. "Have you got the urn?" I asked to divert her gaze from Latika. "Let me show it to you!" She responded excitedly. She reached out for her bag which she had kept on the study table involuntarily. She unzipped her bag and lifted a brass pot, sealed with wax. The pot seemed heavy as her forehead had traces of sweat but her eyes shone in excitement. "We will finally avenge our king!" She exclaimed. I glanced at Latika's countenance which showed signs of recovery. I sighed at my destiny, torn between what I had to do and what I wanted to do...

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SOOOOOOO......that was the chapter ! Something big is about to happen !!:D

Also isn't Mohit too cute ! What about Aaran ? His heart is messing with him!!!

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Until next time !