RELATIONS

HELPING HAND

Raizada Mansion, Mumbai

Hearing Anika voice everyone stood from there places with stunned expressions. The least expected person to hear their conversation at this time, by Anyone of them present in the hall is ANIKA. But seeing her dragging wheelchair towards them raised there astonishment even more. Kumar recovering fast from his state observed others faces to witness his mirror image in their expressions. 

Anika is now holding Arjun hand and asking : Bhai? Bhai? Who is the unknown enemy you are talking about?

Arjun came out of his trance from Anika pulling his hand. He tried to say something but nothing came out of his mouth. Observing all this Kumar reached to Anika, and kneeling before her , releasing her hold on Arjun,holding her both hands said : Ani, Beta I will say everything to you. But first tell me, Why you came here?

Anika closing her eyes for a minute then said : Mallika and Kushi are fighting up on silly things. Me being in this wheel chair failed in stopping them. So came for some help from you guys. But, now I think you guys are in need of a big helping hand than Mallika and Kushi. And I'm glad to become that HELPING HAND for you.

Kumar nodding to Anika said : Ok. Leela will come with you to look after Mallika and Kushi. Leela go with Anika.

Anika : No. I'm not going anywhere till I get my answers. You said that Kolkata attack up on us is by some local goons for money and gold. But now Arjun bhai is saying that attack is done intentionally to kill all of us. What is happening around us uncle? Arjun bhai is saying that, he is hiding me from the world for my safety till he get details about Unknown enemy of our family. Who is this unknown enemy? From when our family has threat on life? Why you all are hiding me alone? What about you guys? You also had life threat. isn't it?

Arjun stammering a bit asked : Fr..from wh..when are.. yo..u here? 

Anika with a deep frown looking at Arjun shouted : So, i missed some thing very important before my arrival, which you don't want me to know. Is it bhai?

Kumar lightly squeezing Anika hands said : Ani, calm down. We will say you everything today. But we need to know from when you listened to our conversation, so that we can clear all your misunderstandings.  

Anika squeezed her eyes as if she is thinking something. Taking it as a opportunity Kumar signaled everyone to shut there mouths by placing his fore finger on his lips. Everyone nodded their heads understandingly.   

Anika opening her eyes and releasing her breath said : I came here when Bhai is explaining about Kolkata attack.

Listening this every one sighed in relief. This made Anika more suspicious that she is missing some thing big before her arrival. 

Kumar observing this thought of Anika said : Ani, Beta if we are hiding some thing from you means there will be a good reason for that. Believe us you will come to know about everything on the right time. 

Anika : But...

Cutting Anika in mid Kumar said : Let me complete it first beta.

After getting a approval nod from Anika, Kumar said : Coming to your first question about the unknown enemy, we don't know anything about him/her except one thing that person is our Enemy who is trying to harm us. That is the reason we called that person as UNKNOWN ENEMY.

Coming to your question about Kolkata attack, you are just 10 years old then Ani. I didn't think its necessary for me to explain about all these to a kid at that time. Even Kushi is unaware of all these stuff, because you both are kids at that time. After that we didn't have any of that conversation between us, to tell you about the truth.