"What do you mean I was gifted to you?"
"It is not good to eavesdrop but you heard it right. You are a gift that was forcefully imposed on me."
"Y-You... are.... lying..."
"Am I? You know what? Gift is a very fancy term for you. 'Trash' suits you be...
Following chapter contains mention of DID and depression. Proceed with caution.
⚠️ Very long chapter ahead ⚠️
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Yuvaan's POV
Reyna. Where is she? Why can't I find her yet? Where could she have gone without informing me or any of us?
"Yuvaan, I talked to Arman, but he said that Reyna isn't at their relatives' place too. Keerti said that Reyna doesn't have many friends, and all the people she knows don't know her location. Are you sure she didn't tell you something?" Shaurya asked.
"She didn't say anything... She looked so happy that day, bro. I don't know what's happening! Why would she leave suddenly?" I pondered.
Shaurya sighed and sat down beside me. He wrapped an arm around my shoulders and consoled me; he assured that Advait would find Reyna this time. Just as his name was spoken, Adi entered my room and handed me the new medicines prescribed by my psychiatrist.
I stared at his face as he told me that my doctor would be visiting today to check up on me. I looked like I would get a panic attack any time and it might be really bad if I didn't get some medical help.
"Did you get any clue?" I asked him.
He scratched his beard. "Still no trace on her."
Shaurya rubbed my back, and Advait looked at me apologetically. It had been over 24 hours since Reyna disappeared, and there was no sign of her. No matter how I tried, I couldn't detect anything odd from the last few weeks which could have made her to leave.
"Yuvi, you don't worry, okay? Take your medicines, and I will see what we are missing," Shaurya said. "We have to find her at all cost; the way she left means something bad. We have to get her back considering her personality disorder."
I nodded absentmindedly but snapped my eyes on him when he mentioned the personality disorder.
"What disorder? Are you talking about Reyna?" I asked in disbelief.
My friend thought for a minute and tilted his head downwards an inch. "I doubt that Reyna has DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder). Recently, I didn't see that much extreme change in her moods, but I can't rule out that possibility just on that basis. Didn't you guys observe her?"
I knew she acted differently sometimes and had mood swings, but I never thought she could be suffering from a medical condition. But what Shaurya said didn't seem like alien language either. I glanced at Adi, who was staring at his shoes for a long time.
"What do you think, Adi?"
"I... I don't know much about DID," he mumbled.
"Leave it. Can you tell me how much more time it would take your team to track down my wife?"
