Chapter 3

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Hearing his words there is a silence again and this time longer than two minutes. Dhruv suddenly feeling bad for dropping the bomb like this decides to break the silence, "Guys why do you keep zoning out like this. It makes me doubt if the call is on or not!!"

Here on the other hand Mr.Mehra who has kept his phone on mute, laughs hearing their conversation and the confessions.

Coming out of shock first Mukti asks,"What do you exactly mean by a long distance relationship?"

Glad that the silence period is over Dhruv answers, "Alya is in Paris while I am in Delhi. That's how we are in a long distance relationship."

"Oh" was all Mukti could come up with.

Cabir realising that Mr. Mehra was still on call says, "Dhruv we'll talk about that later. For now can you get Alya on the call."

Agreeing Dhruv dials Alya's number and they wait while the phone rings. Just then the phone is answered.

Cabir just says, "Hey Alya!!" and then they hear a girl's voice, "What do you want huh?? There's no alya here! And don't ever call back again moron!"

Saying that she cuts the call leaving Cabir and Mukti to wonder how did Alya's voice change entirely.

"What the hell was that?" Mukti asks coming out of shock. Dhruv just giggles and says, "That was Aashi!"

Cabir with a frown asks, "Aashi Who??"

"That's not for me to tell. She's a part of Alya's story. It is her thing to tell you", saying so he dials the number again and as soon as the call is answered he butts in saying,

"Aashi listen it's me Dhruv. Please can you give the phone to Alya. It's sort of important."

"Sure loverboy" saying so Aashi hands over the phone to Alya.

"Heyaa Dhruv!! How is work going on and how did yesterday's meeting go? you were pretty stressed about it?" Alya chirps.

"Yup it went fine and we did get the deal. By the way there's a surprise for you, this is a conference call" Dhruv answered.

After nearly half a minute Alya realising who it could be on the call just says, "Oh!".

Slowly whispering she says, "Is it really all of us together on the call? will it be okay if am on the call?? Am still working on myself and I don't want to hurt them anymore. I have already done enough damage."

Coming out of their reverie Cabir says, "Alya"

Mukti also chips in saying, "I am glad you realised that you have already caused enough damage but it's never too late to ask for forgiveness."

Alya almost crying says, "Am sorry" with sincerity dripping from her tone.

Cabir and Mukti realise that Alya is truly sorry they say, "We missed you Alya. We missed all of us together. We missed FAB5"

A crying Alya and a happy Dhruv also agrees with them.

"Okay now will you tell us why did you call all of us Cabir??" Dhruv asks trying to lighten the mood.

Snapping out his daze Cabir groans," Manik!!! Monster Manik ko call karna hai!!! And this time am not gonna call him. Last time I called he almost punched my face from the phone. This time again he's changed his number. Anyone having his new number??"

Feeling sad remembering Manik all of them deny having his number. Saying so all of them fall silent.

"Did you try asking Nyonika Mom??" Dhruv asks Cabir.

With a sad tone Cabir answers, "It's been two years Manik left Mumbai. He no longer stays with his parents. He's been in Manglore since then."

"Then there's only one way to contact him", Mukti says.

In unision all of them say "Amms".

Cabir dials Amms Manglore residence and after three rings he's greeted by Amms pleasant "Hello".

"Hello Amms" all four shout in unision. Hearing all her four kids voices together Amms tears up and says, "Tum baccho ko meri yaad ab aa rahi hai?? After two long Years"

"We're really sorry!" Fab4 say in a soft voice.

Then Cabir asks, "Amms is Manik at home?? There's something really important and we know that if we directly talk to him, he's never gonna talk properly. Pleaseeeeee can you help us??"

Hearing the sadness as well as urgency in Cabir's voice Amms agrees and says, "Just a minute, i'll get him on the call. Hold on"

Saying so she places the reciever on the table and goes to call Manik.

Finding Manik on the sofa in the living room she goes to him and says, "Mannu. There's a call for you"

Hearing the nickname Manik groans, "Not again Amms, not Mannu please."

"But am gonna call you Mannu only. My mouth My wish!! Now go and answer that call!! And dare you cut it without talking properly or hearing them out. If you do that i'm throwing you out of this house!!" Amms retorts.

A scared Manik agrees to Amms while nodding his head and goes to answer the call, already having an idea of who it might be.

On the other hand all giggle hearing Amms words and Dhruv says, "Woah!! Amms is damn savage. We better beware of her!!"

Giggling all of them agree to his words.

Just then they hear Manik's monotonus voice, "What is it Cabir?"

Hearing his tone Cabir loses his cool and snaps at Manik, "You are asking me what is it? Really Manik? What do I want? All I want is all of us to have atleast a proper conversation! And I have been trying to do exactly the same from the past two years. But every single time what do I get? Nothing. As always am taken for granted. You know what am just tired of all this now, trying to have all of us together for just a conversation."

Hearing Cabir's outburst all of them feel guilty for the way they had treated his calls in the past two years. Manik feels the worst as he remembers how everytime he ignored or cut Cabir's calls.

"Am Sorry Cabir" is all Manik manages to say.

Still trying to calm himself Cabir says, "Save it for later Manik. By the way there's someone else also on the call who wishes to speak to all of us, specially you Manik."

Taking this as his cue Mr. Mehra joins the conversation, "Hello Manik"

There's again a silence as everyone gets shocked recognizing that voice, their dream mentor.

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