Chapter 5: The Neighbor

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Aditya sped off towards the block, while he turned and looked around and saw Zoya running back of him, calling out to him.

Aditya tapped his foot in irritation as he muttered, "I feel like a pickpocket right now!!"

Zoya started panting for breath as she speeded up behind him, "What's wrong with him? Why is he running like this...?"

A woman saw Zoya chasing Aditya and called out to him, "Heyy...that girl is calling you!!"

"I am deaf, Aunty!!!" Aditya shouted as he rushed inside the block and quickly tapped the lift button.

"Open open open!!" Aditya muttered as he checked for Zoya, while the lift opened.

Zoya reached the block and saw Aditya getting in the lift. Before Zoya reached inside, the lift shut and it went up.

Zoya put her bags down and held her chest, breathing heavily.

"I just wanted to ask the way...he can't even stop and help?? And why did he run like this??" Zoya panted for breath, "Are all people in Mumbai like this??"

Zoya looked at the block number engraved in the board over there.

"Okay...so, this is the block..." Zoya pressed the button of the lift, and entered inside.

Meanwhile, Aditya got out at the 10th floor and ran towards his flat, and rushed inside and locked the door.

Aditya gasped for breath, and then turned and looked out through the lens in the door at the corridor.

"Good...I somehow left her behind..." Aditya smiled in relief, while he felt a hand on his shoulder.

"Heeyyyy!!" Aditya turned back in a jerk, while Arjun moved back with a scared look.

"What happened Bhai??" Arjun asked, while Aditya covered his face, as he said, "Nothing..." Aditya walked to the dining table and poured water into a glass.

He gulped the water and said, "A girl was chasing me."

"Sorry??" Arjun asked with a smile, while Aditya looked at him. Arjun broke into a chuckle as he laughed, "The great Encounter Specialist Ex-Assistant Commissioner of Police Mr. Aditya Hooda is being chased be a girl...wow!!!"

Aditya smiled sarcastically, while he asked, "You find it very funny bro??"

"Sorry Bhai..." Arjun stopped laughing, as he asked with a smile, "Who is that girl and why was she chasing you??"

"Arjun, that girl whom I saved that night...that girl in the bus..." Aditya said, while Arjun thought as he said, "Ohhh...the one who scolded you for saving her??"

"Yes...the same girl!!" Aditya sat in the chair at the dining table as he said, "Can you believe it she traced out my location and came here in search of me??"

"Really??" Arjun asked as he sat next to Aditya.

"When I avoided talking to her, she started chasing me!! Arjun, saving a girl from death is such a big crime or what?? She is following me like some most wanted terrorist...and you know..." Aditya said heaving, "These days even women seem very dangerous!!"

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Zoya opened the door of her flat. She looked at the flat and as she was about to step her foot inside the house, she turned and looked at her side, with no one standing next to her.

Thinking how she was supposed to enter this home with pomp and celebrations along with Yash by her side, and the harsh reality now hurt her deep inside. With a heavy heart, she stepped inside the house and took her bags inside. She closed the door and looked around the house. It was a bright, spacious and neatly furnished house.

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