The Forgotten Star

2. Is that her?

Dhruv's POV:

It's another award function. Being an eligible candidate to become a future Central Minister, I always have to show my face in all the business gatherings and political gatherings. Since my father is currently the CM of the state, I must always be ready to take over his position. When I was just about to get out of my car, I felt like something was a little different than usual. Usually, I will be the center of attraction to the media but now, I was not able to see even a single journalist waiting for my presence.

I saw all the cameras flashing, hurdled up at the entrance, blocking someone from leaving the function. I was thinking, who would want to leave the program before dinner?. All of a sudden, four bodyguards made their way in between the crowd. I was hoping to see who stole the attraction away from me and tried to peep from my car a little. I was surprised to see a woman in the middle of her bodyguards, but I couldn't see her face.

I moved out of my car to get a good look at her. She wore a beautiful dark blue saree, making her look elegant in the sexiest way possible, her wheatish brown skin glowing beautifully due to all the flash from cameras and the color of the saree. She has a well-built body, her black hair was braided and put in a bun professionally. I still was not able to see her face properly, but I felt like she looked and felt very familiar. But, I just couldn't put a finger in it.

I was interrupted by my PA and a personal guard as they assisted me to enter the hall. I turned again to catch a glimpse of her face,  but oddly enough I felt like she is not any ordinary girl. she was my sweetheart. At first, I thought I must be hallucinating but god no, her eyes.. I can find her anywhere with those eyes. She looks so mature now. I never thought I would be able to see her again, even though everyone said she is dead I never believed it maybe I was guilty, or in my heart, I always felt that she was alive.

First, I must find out if she is actually my sweetheart, and I must do it before she slips away from me again. I called Vijay, my best friend who has been with me through everything, "I found Nilani!" was the only thing I need to say before he understood what I want him to do. "Do you have any other information on her?" he inquired. I asked my secretary to send me all the information regarding the ceremony and people participating in it with their background check done by the Award committee. "She goes by the name Amara, A successful businesswoman in the fashion industry".

Her photos were on the second folder, she surprised me by the heights she reached in the business world within just these five years. She has a very firm foothold in the fashion industry in India now. But it all started five years back when I last saw her. The next week Amara was born in the business world. She was not very popular at first when she started the base right here in Chennai, in one of the buildings I own. When she opened her branch in London within just after a year, She became an iconic Indian Brand in the Fashion industry. 

It has been five years I was not able to meet Nilani and Amara, and here we are. She has a great standing in India, not only as a businesswoman but also an inspiration to many women: with the amount of social activities she is doing for women, and also to keep Indian traditional dresses alive. I remembered I was on the call still when I heard "You won't believe which Amara she became?" He is interested now. I can feel it. " Your Vara's Idol"I dropped a bomb at him, he can never stay calm to anything if it is regarding Vara.

"Are you really serious right now? How is that possible, we were searching for a weak woman who was hiding her identity. Not some mysterious powerful people. and here you were shouting at me for not investigating properly. Dude, you really don't know anything about your woman. The person you asked to investigate and find and the person you are saying now are like poles apart."

I thought she would be hiding from everyone by being not actively participating in this world. who would have thought she didn't go underground but has flown so high and was hiding in the clouds. I think she was mocking me for being so transparent yet I was not able to find her despite searching for her this whole time. Heck even I kept her whole family and Close friends circle on my radar but yet I was not able to find a single clue about her being alive.

"I didn't hide anything from you. she hid pretty well from me and her family too. We thought she was not serious about her studies and wanted to become a food blogger. Even her family and friends thought the same." I tried to hide the fact I don't know her fully. This information doesn't go well with me. I thought she spent most of her time with me, who knows she had these many plans and I didn't know anything about it. I was supposed to guide her in her life.

"Go ahead and find many excuses but you can't escape from the fact that you don't know about her fully. Gosh even I can't able to imagine the sweet girl who follows you to the meeting just to spend some more time with you. to not make you burdened with the relationship and business expansion, has this intelligent mind behind her. she was not even your PA, you just introduced to us that she is your girl that's it nothing more."

I also started thinking about those meetings. It was just the year after we graduated. I need to expand my business and prove myself to my dad within one year or else I need to follow my father's footsteps into politics. I hated the idea of coming to politics at that time and we were in a relationship for more than 5 years at that time. I need to travel all around India to expand my business and I don't want to be away from her. I hate the idea of only being able to meet her only once to twice a month.

And just like my angel, like always she came up with a perfect solution to solve my worries. She took a break year before doing her Postgraduate and traveled with me around India for a year. She came up with the idea of becoming a travel and food blogger to convince her parents. We were together traveling for a year and both of our parents even came to know about our relationship eventually.

" Hello back to earth. I need you to forward the details you have on Amara soon so I don't lose her again before she disappears" 

I forwarded all the information about her to Vijay and proceeded towards the Award ceremony. All the elite circle of my state is assembled here but they didn't even bother about their image and were trying so hard to get the contact information about my sweetheart or gossiping about the way she behaved here. I was amused still, my sweetheart is a Drama queen just that she used to be cute and charming before but now she is cold and elegant like an unapproachable mystery.

Since I got delayed in the parking lot, the dinner banquet has already begun. Soon people started noticing me, composed themselves started to do boot-licking their best. I waited patiently for 45 mins soon the call from Vijay rescued me and I escaped from the Dinner.

He just asked me to come to his hotel and hung up on me. I went out of this ceremony within 10 mins and started to travel towards Vijay's hotel. It is the place we both had the conversation for the last time before the world assumed that she was dead. I wanted to know what happened with that last 12 hours she lost all hope in me, left me and her family, and disappeared.

I called my Personal Investigator to find out if there is any movement from her family. But I was surprised to know that till now no one in her family knows that she is alive. I guess they will know about it tomorrow if anyone in that family checks the business news, otherwise, I will personally invite them and meet their daughter together with them.