VANSH'S POV;

"Well now since we are stuck here, we have to wait!!" I said and dropped myself on the bed. "Or maybe you could call??" she said. " I would but sadly, i left my phone outside and your bag is also outside, i told rey and sam not to disturb me till tomorrow!" i answered her question.

"Until then, lets search for this non-existent bag which i have taken" i said and started looking everywhere. While she just sat on the bed, indulged in some deep thoughts. "Are you even sure, that i took it?" i said which disturbed her deep thoughts and finally she looked upto me and eyes meet, i don't know why but they are radiating some kind of pain, wish i could know what it was.

"Maybe, i left it in aditya's car, sorry for the trouble" she said and started walking towards the door, looks like she forgot our little  situation here, yet i don't stop her. She tries opening the door and turns around to take a seat in the couch.

"I know you won't tell me, but mind if i ask, what happened? in these 3 hours time frame, that you seem soo upset?" i said and sat beside her. "I miss her you know, she was my best friend" she started, and i was scared that did something happen to misha? "Misha?" i ask her softly.

"Aadhya, misha came in later, aadhya died 2 years ago" i was feeling sad for her, genuinely. "she died a day before my birthday, and she sent me a voicemail you know, before her death. Wait i will play it..." saying that she took out the phone from her back pocket, she had the phone! Anyway wouldn't matter, because outside my room there is a big fat signal jammer, so thought people couldn't track me.

"Oh, i had the phone, call someone up, so that we can get out?" she said handing me the phone, tell her about the jammer, and she decides to play the voicemail for me. 

Voicemail.

"Hey bitch!! I know tomorrow is your birthday, and i am really sorry, that i am not able to visit you this time, but guess what?? Guess where am i? I am on a fucking FERRY BOAT!!! I know you have a thing for them, god i wish you were here. Remember how we used to sneak in ferry boat rides back at our place, when we were young?? Anyway i am on my way to get you a perfect gift, which will obviously not arrive on your birthday, because i am here and you are in india, I wish i could spend the rest of the years birthday's with you bish!! But to be honest, from morning i feel like something is going to happen, but i guess everything will be fine. Anywayyy,my stop is here trust me you are going to love the gift. Au revoir domina!!"

VANSH'S POV;

"She would have been alive, if it wasn't for my birthday, she was supposed to stay home, i called her earlier and scolded her for not coming, her death is on me" I know this part, kind of familiar with it. I have blamed myself for countless deaths. I wish i could say something that would calm her. BUT WHAT? People have never opened upto me this way.

I glance at her, to see her wiping her tears soon later she kept her phone on the table. "Why did you suddenly remember this? A while ago you were fine?" probably shouldn't have been the first thing after what she said, but too late to take it back. "She had this weird software, that sends a message everywhere at the same time, she mistakenly did that for this message, since past 2 years before my birthday this message pops up" which means that tomorrow is her birthday.

"Does it feel good now?" i ask her and continue. "To say that out loud? To say something that you have been carrying around? I for a fact know that you didn't say it to anyone till now?" i ask her. "I didn't" she slowly leans on my shoulder. "I didn't want it to be real, i thought if maybe i could hold it in, then i don't know i thought it would make the pain lesser." "did it?" i ask her like a whisper. "It didn't" she said and a tear drop fell on my hand. 

"Everyone around me just dies you know? My parents died, my best friend died, whoever i think is close to me just drops dead"

"hey, hey, hey" she looks upto me and i hold her face delicately between my palms and wip her tears with my thumbs. "There is no such thing, People don't get what they deserve. They just get what they get. There's nothing any of us can do about it, we just have to move on" i said and removed my hands, she leaned on my shoulder again, this time she fell asleep.

After a while Rey opens the door and is shocked to find riddhima with me. I slowly slip her from my shoulder to on the couch. I talk with Rey for a few minutes, when she wakes up and comes outside the room. 

"I should leave, sorry for the trouble, and vansh you should definitely come to the wedding, tomorrow we are starting with haldi, this is the card, do come, and maybe rey you can also join him?" she says with a huge smile as if nothing happened a while ago.

"Family functions? Not my thing, i am better off!" Rey said laughing. "You don't worry about him i will bring him" I said and she smiled back and left.

NEXT DAY;

RIDDHIMA'S POV;

I was sleeping on my bed, when i was thinking about yesterday, i never shared aadhya's story with anyone, even misha, then why did i share it with vansh? The guy who i hate the most, or so did i thought. Maybe i thought he wouldn't judge me.

"Riddhimaa!!!! I am soo excited, from tomorrow our wedding rituals are beginning and i am soo fucking excited, you can't even imagine!!" misha said jumping on the bed, i was too tired to even reciprocate her happiness, so i did what i could best do, smile. "Anyway get up and get ready!! I will come and check upon you!" she said and left the room, i was just dragging my body to shower.

It's been half an hour and i am still under shower, i don't even remember what i was thinking, i was just standing there, soon later i clean up and tie a bath robe around me. Misha is a fashion designer, so she has basically designed all her clothes including mine, for every party in her function. I come out to find my dress laid out on bed. I turn around to take the hair dryer, but i bump into someone and suddenly we were on bed, and i was on top of whoever i bumped into. I opened my eyes to find vansh.

The water from my hair was dropping on him. I suddenly realize our position and try to get up but in vain, i slipped on wet leg and fell again. But second time was a success. "What are you doing here??" i ask him, not angrily but calmly. "So sorry, i was searching for gautam's room and i mistook this for his room and walked in, i am really sorry" he said.

"Never mind, his room is on the left side corner" i said and turned around to lock the door after he left. I requested to misha to keep it simple for the rituals. So she gave me a beautiful yellow kurta with a light blue net chuni.

I came downstairs to find the ritual already begun. I didn't give much attention before vansh was looking handsome but not in indian attire, he was wearing professional clothes. Obviously he didn't know that he was going to attend a wedding until he landed here.

VANSH'S POV;

She was looking just amazing, how can she go through soo much and still be able to wear a smile soo radiant? That can even make a man like me smile like a kid? She definitely holds some power. She also looks at me as she was ascending down the stairs and she walks upto me, i thought she only runs away from me, this is new. 

"This is not a business meeting" she whispered, standing next to me. "I know, i didn't have anything else to wear" i also said whispering, i continued asking, "Why are we whispering?" 

"I don't know, but we should definitely go to shopping, i know some places, that you might like" she said again whispering. "We?" i ask her with doubt. "Unless, you can do it yourself?" she said. I need a women's assistance in buying indian clothes, mom usually helps me, i can't go around video calling her. So i can take her, and for the first time, she has willingly decided to come with me and this is the longest we have gone without bickering with each other.

OPENING UP AND ALL HUH? LET'S SEE WHERE DOES DESTINY LEAD THEM!!