Always Be Mine

Part 47:

Sanyukta dragged Parth outside the room, she carefully took him away to a distance from where they couldnt be heard..

"Sanyukta mein keh raha hun.. Randhir jhoot bol raha hai.. When I came, he wasnt there.. In fact, meine usko call b kiya tha, his phone was switched off. Floor pe khoon tha, room was a total mess. Atleast tum toh mere yakeen karo.." Parth kept on talking..

"Parth relax.. I know tum jhoot nai bol sakte ho.. Par is waqt Randhir ke saath argue karne se kuch nai milega.. Humhe kuch aur sochna padega.. I trust you.." Parth felt a bit relieved when she said that..

Parth: Thank God, atleast you trust me

Sanyukta: Parth I have an idea.. Kyun na hum CCTV footage check kare? Usme toh sab recorded hoga na.. Shayad kuch clue mil jaye..

Parth: You are right Sanyukta.. Ek baar proof mil jaye fir mein confront karunga Randhir ko.. Ek pal me mujhe pagal bana diya usne..

Sanyukta: Chalo chalte hai..

It was almost 9.30 PM.. Lights had gone off in all the rooms in both Boys as well as Girls hostel.. Pin drop silence prevailed everywhere.. Sanyukta and Parth slowly peeped inside the CCTV camera control room. It wasnt a tough task, the security guard who sits outside is very punctual. He never misses out a minute of his sleep. His duty starts by 9 and he falls asleep by 9.15. Still they neither wanted to take chance nor wanted to be spotted by the CCTV camera that was installed outside the room. They jumped inside the control room through the window, without making any noise. They made sure not to touch or disturb anything that might wake the security guard up..

Sanyukta whispered to Parth who was looking at all sides to make sure they werent noticed..

S: Parth, yehi woh main control system hai jisme saare cctv footages recorded hote hai. I have seen Vardhan sir operate this many a times.. I am sure isme se hi humhe woh footage milega..

Parth turned on the system, the screen flashed prompting for a password..

P: Password? Gosh, humhe password kahan se pata chalega ab? Password ke bina hum iske andar jaake footage nai dekh payenge..

Sanyukta thought for a split second... She illuminated her phone, and turned on the mobile light.. She had a brief look at the keyboard.. She grabbed a pen, pulled Parth's hand, scribbled something in his hand..

A I R H N K D V

Those were the alphabets in the keyboard that were almost killed.. She came to a conclusion password must be something within these letters.. Breaking the password and hacking the system wasnt that tough.. Still that isnt ethical, instead guessing the password option seemed much better.

Sanyukta almost wrote everywhere in his palm, finally after a 15 min struggle and a game of probablity, she had cracked the password.. Two options, it either had to be VARDHANNIHARIKA or NIHARIKAVARDHAN

Sanyukta did not take much time, to guess that as well.. As she always knew, Vardhan sir loved Niharika so much.. It had to be NIHARIKAVARDHAN.. She keyed in the password, system said "Welcome Vardhan"

Parth almost cried in joy, Sanyukta placed her hand on his mouth..

S: Parth kya kar rahe ho? Chup, koi sun lega.. Jis kaam ke liye aaye hai, woh kare?

Parth quickly browsed the system, he opened up a file that read "5th October 2014"

P:Sanyukta yeh aaj ka footage hai.. Let me open this.. I ll check the footage after 4 PM. It might give us some clue..

Parth played the video, after carefully muting the volume.. He forwarded it to 4 PM and focussed on the footage that covered boys hostel. Their eyes were now glued to the system.. The activity was quite normal.. FITE boys wandering here and there, few were shouting on their phones, others were having fun with their friends.. Parth pressed the fast forward button.. It was 4:50 PM, Randhir entered the hostel, he barged into his room and shut it close.

Sanyuka and Parth exchanged glances.. "Iska matlab Randhir went to the room at 5 itself. Parth forward karo but slowly.. Lets see when he leaves the room.."

Parth did as instructed by Sanyukta.. It was 5.30... 6.... 6.30... 7... 7.30... 8 PM.. There was nothing captured in the camera.. Activity was quite normal.. Parth was hell confused.. Room's door was still closed..Finally at 9 PM, it showed Parth making his way into the hostel.. He opened the door and went inside.. 5 mins no activity.. 9.10 Parth comes out of the room and rushes outside as if he was in a hurry to catch a train.. Sanyukta glanced at Parth..

P: Sanyukta, this was when I couldnt find Randhir in the room, he came running towards girls hostel. Par iske pehle ka recording kaha gaya? I am so confused

S: Confuse hone ki zaroorat nahi hai Parth.. Randhir andar hi tha, shayad tumne thik se dekha nai.. Bewajah uspe shaq kiya tumne..

P: Sanyukta please.. I am not mad. Aur mein kuch imagine nai kar raha hu.. Randhir is my friend.. Why will I blame him without a reason?

Sanyukta could see the reason behind that statement.. Parth was never a person who could hate or hurt anyone for no reason..Why will he behave weird? Something struck her mind all of a sudden..

S: Parth aaj subah ka footage play karo.. After PKC's class, matlab around 11 PM ka footage chahiye mujhe. Thats when Randhir left the class this morning after which he never returned to class.

Parth played the video and forwarded it till 11 AM, and focussed on the camera that was installed outside their classroom.

At 11 PM, when PKC was done with his classes, Randhir rushed out of the classroom.. He seemed to be tensed while going out.. After reaching the doorstep, he was quite relaxed.. Randhir was thinking of something and smiled a bit in fact it was a cute little smile. Sanyukta blushed seeing that smile.. She knew what he would have thought at that moment.. He was smiling all the way, remembering the private moment he shared with Sanyukta that morning.. He was about to reach for the stairs, but turned to look back all of a sudden.. It was as if someone had called him.. His facial expression made it obvious.. He had been called by someone.. Randhir turned and proceeded towards the person.. The screen went BLACK.. There was no footage after that..

Sanyukta and Parth had a scary look on their faces.. Parth replayed the footage, increased the volume in order to hear the voice.. But it was too noisy for them to hear anything... Screen went black!!!

Who had called Randhir? Why? Is it related to his sudden weird behaviour or its just something that could be ignored?