If Sushant's Back?

Birthday Call

Time flew like air, it was already a month Sushant has been with me. We've talked a lot about different stuff like his childhood, mine, parents, the golden 90s era, astrophysics, stars planets, our craze for Shah Rukh Khan. We also tried to revive his memories during the death time.

I was surfing on my mobile, and found an interesting video which I had to show to Sushant, 'Hey look at this video Sush, this man claims that he' s contacting your soul' he really looked amused and we laughed around for some time. 'Did you really go meet him? 😏' I teased him.

There was a knock on my door, I opened it slightly, it was mom with a few chocolates. She handed over them to me and I closed the door.

Sushant kept looking at the chocolates. He looked so innocent and kid like.' Hey? What? You want them?' I asked.
He nodded his head. I swear he looked so innocent anybody on earth could fall in love with. I offered him some but he couldn't take it or taste it...

I kept following the news, the trends on twitter for sush... He sometimes felt very happy seeing people were figting for him in the same way he sometimes got sad that he wasn't able to experience this love when alive.

A lot of speculations were made for his death and time to time he got glances of what might have happened.

At first Sushant would get that chronic neck pain but slowly that pain faded. We got along so well that he rarely remembered all the pain he faced.

Everything went well until one day...

I woke up in the morning and called sushant as usual, but today was different, he didn't show up. I thought he might be visiting his family. I didn't worry much. But even I tried calling him out in the evening he didn't show up... I didn't understant what was happening, why wasn't I able to see him..

I tried calling out his name but he didn't appear. I was now so habituated with his presence that I was not able to cope up with his absence.

Disheartened I surfed my Instagram... Its been months since his death, people still are to trying to get back the truth.

I took it to twitter and tweeted ' He wants to know what had happened... He awaits for his justice to be done and am waiting for him to come back. #justice4SSR''

I repeatedly tweeted that day... Involuntarily I let out some stuff very personal to Sush. I was totally out of my mind. I wasn' t able to spend my time without sush.

That day passed by and Sush never showed up. Disheartened I went to sleep.

It was not much time that I had hit the bed, I heard sounds of something rumbling at a distance. Unlike movies where the scared girls walk to find out who it is... I silently slipped inside my blanket hiding most of my face.

I shut my eyes very tight. I felt a hand on my forehead. I managed to open my eyes and see who it was.

That face.... That face force me to slip a tear from my eyes... I sprang up and hugged him.. It was Sush. I was frowning yet couldn't stop myself from hugging him. Tightly than ever. Ive mever had imagined I would be able to touch him but now I was hugging him.

He whispered in my ear... 'Happy birthday' I was astonished, 'H... How d.. Do you know its my birthday today?' I asked him stammering.

He just put on a smile and caressed my hair.
I cannot define that moment... It was so wonderful. I was with the person whole world is fighting justice for. Am in his arms.

Time felt being paused there. But my mobile rang breaking the silence. It was my friend called me probably to wish... I didn't want to spoil the moment hence tried to avoid it but sush asked me to take it...

There were about 5-6 calls wishing me birthday and asking for a party. I kept giving lame excuses.
Finally an hour later i got the free time to talk to Sush, 'Where were you the whole day? 😔😔' I asked looking down...
He lifted up my chin and said ' preparing some surprises for you' we were talking the remain time... I didn't know when i fell asleep in his arms.

My next morning started with my mom dad wishing me birthday. After my breakfast there was a call from my friend... I thought she'd wish me for birthday but incontrary, she said 'What the fuck? Your tweet is trending.... How do you know such stuff about SSR? Bollywood biggies are retweeting you tweet even SSR's sisters have confirmed the facts to be true... How to you know all this?' I stood sunned for a second and dropped the call. Hurriedly opened my twitter. She wasn't wrong, My tweets were trending. I had numerous messages. I was checking everything, then a phone call from an unknown nummber arrived... I picked it up considering to be from any of my friends... But it wasn't...

' Hello.... Is this Payalishious? I mean Payal..' said a voice from that side. The voice was heavy. It was of a male probably of 50 years of age...

' He... Hello sir... Yes am Payal.' I replied.

'Hi am film maker Mahesh Bhatt'

He said and all my senses went numb.