Dev , feeling so claustrophobic on seeing the two photographs continuously ,unable to withhold and cope up with all the emotions that are being brought back and also realising that shrey bhai is missing from the last 10 min,left the room giving a small forced smile to mahi bhai..

But never...never in his wildest dreams or nightmares he would have imagined that he will find shrey bhai in such a devastated state....In such a devastated state just like what he had been before 5 years...More like what every one of them have been before 5 years....There he was,shrey in a fetal position all curled up in the portico trying his level best to breath,but miserably failing so....Dev  sprinted towards shrey....

Shrey p.o.v:

Seeing that pic,Nush bhabhi's face ..he didn't  understand the proceedings that are happening... Is  this true or a hallucination again just like every morning since the past 5 years...He didn't know whether to trust this or not...

The blood pounded in his ears. His heart thudded in his chest. His hands shook and his feet started tingling.. His vision disfigured, as if he is looking through a fish-eyed lens. He had to get away. He couldn’t stay near this damned condolence meet ya puja whatever any longer... Pehle yaha aana hi teekh nahi tha...He started cursing himself why did he choose to come this year, something which he hadn't done for the past 4 years..Especially not now...He cant go inside and look at it after seeing this pic...He collapsed on the ground and felt like the  breath is being knocked out of him..His palms are being extremely sweaty and the mobile slipped out of his hands with his senses being no longer under his control..There was too much  risk of someone walking out now and he is at crossroads whether to let them know this or not.. He is stranded. On one side he wanted to leave this place at once but at the sametime there is something nagging him saying that they deserve to know...Drive, and he could cause an accident. Not drive, and he is still too close to someone finding him here in this goddamn state...

He is being frantically shaken by someone,but he is unable to process who is that and his thoughts seem to pull him into an unending abyss...It felt like free fall from a cliff...It seemed as if his existence is being sucked into an enormous blackhole......

Dev's P.O.V:

Initially thinking shrey bhai is crying may be remembering virat bhai,I ran at once to him atleast to make him feel better...But shrey bhai started taking deep breaths and isn't responding to whatever I'm asking of him...Trying to shake him frantically,I realised that he is sweating profusely and he seemed to be in a complete trance ...He is shaking lyk a leaf with tears flowing out of his eyes  and my words are not at all having an affect on him....Not knowing what to do and seeing the situation going out of control,he immediately dialed jassi bhai's number and just said two proper words not trusting his voice to speak anything more coherent than "shrey bhai...." and started wailing.....

This made jassi,Rishu,cherry,mahi bhai,krunal,mayu,harry and rest of the team come outside at a god speed .. Mahi bhai  at once hugged him first and started consoling  saying "kuch nahi hua kiddo...shrey ko kuch nahi hua...U were brave baccha...u called us immediately..He will be fine...Don't worry..."continuously rubbing his back...

At the sametime,jassi caught shrey by shoulders and said"Shrey...Shreya....suno....You are ok....You are fine...Listen carefully to me...Count hundred numbers backwards ... Do it pls...Take deep breaths along with me....Just like me..Follow me ...Good...like that...Now tell me three things u can feel??

Shrey(still voice not proper):ground.....ur touch....and and warmth of sunlight...

Jass:very good...Three things which you can see...??

Shrey:you,dev and mahi bhai...

Jass:good Shreya...very good....

Out of no where shrey hugged jassi saying Jassi.... And started wailing like there is no tomorrow....This continued for almost 5 min...But the thing which shocked not only jassi but the entire team was shrey openly sobbing hugging jassi and calling him Jassi....

Knowing it's not gonna last long and shrey will be again back to his usual self ,once he gets back to his pura senses,no one said anything...Jassi seemed to bask in that hug that shrey had offered him with..the serenity ,the assurance of it... Even though it's hurting him to see shrey crying lyk this but he isn't gonna trade this moment with his brother after a longtime for anything...

Shrey started "jassi...wo....humara Nush bhabs..."but immediately realised what he was abt to do and infront of whom he was abt to say...So,he immediately pushed jasprit away and muttering a sorry he left from that place hastily....

This act astounded everyone...They thought he might push jassi away but no one expected that shrey will leave like that achanak,isiliye none of them were prepared to stop him too...By the time they reacted,he had already left but Yuzi and Rishu started running to the parking and got onto the car following shrey...

This left a huge impact on Dev who is still side hugging mahi bhai and sobbing ..

Mahi bhai:Dev baccha...kya hua shrey ko...tumhe kuch idea hai kya kiddo...

Dev(still hoarse voice):Nahi bhai..mujhe sirf shrey bhai aise hi dikh gaye and respond bhi nahi kar rahe the...isilye mein Darke call ki Jassi bhai ko..Kya hua hoga bhai...aise chale gaye wo...wo  teekh  state of mind mein bhi nahi hai....

Mahi bhai: sh... kiddo...kuch nahi hoga baccha...yuzi and Rishu gaye the na,wo shrey ko layenge...tum chinta na kar baccha...chinta na kar...

Even though he himself is worried,what made shrey react like that mahi bhai chose to keep a brave facade...

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Shrey turned the key in the ignition, took a long, slow deep breath, then rounded the corner out of sight. There.... They wouldn’t know the reason for his breakdown...Not yet...He has to dig into it first...He can't allow them to break again...They shouldn’t follow him... He drove very quickly  out of sight even not knowing where he is proceeding to... He already saw that flicker of doubt in their eyes and now he should make sure they don't follow him...That is all that mattered.

He clutched the steering wheel, his hands wrapped so tightly around it that his nails dug into his palms. Breathing is hard even now... Really hard. As if he’d just run a Marathon.

He cried harder, his chest growing tight as bile rose in his throat still unable to process the information that he had learnt few minutes ago...

After 10 min when he searched for his phone to call Ayana,he realised that he dropped it at the prayer meet...Cursing himself he muttered "Shit"...

At the sametime,confused,anxious,worried and perplexed beings started dispersing from the garden...But that's when one person found Shreyas's phone...

(Guess yeh insaan kaun hoga?)

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Another unknown place:

Ayana(on phone):Good job ******...Ab yeh jhuti tasalli and ummed humne Shreyas ko diya na,this is gonna make our work more easier...This will divert him and humara kaam aasan ho jayega...

Person(on call):Tho jab yeh pata chalega tab kya??

Ayana:Tab kya..Kuch na kuch bolenge...thodi na yeh sach hai ki hum dar jaye ki kya hoga aage...yeh jhooti evidence kuch time tak humko wo freedom degi...

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Vida Hospital,Argentina:

(Think why it is vida...)

Rahul sitting beside the person and  holding the hand:Aur kitna tadpaoge yaar mujhe...5 saal hogaye ...Tum ab bhi sleeping Beauty ki tarah so rahe ho...Bore nahi ho rahe kya ??Mujhpe zara sa bhi Taras nahi aa rahe kya tujhe??

Humdard hai, humdum bhi hai
Tu saath hai to zindagi
Tu jo kabhi door rahe
Ye humse ho jaaye ajnabi

Rahul:There is no one in this world for me except you at this moment...I miss you,I miss the support you have always offered me,I miss the way in which you always took care of me...I miss you...I remember  the good and  the bad..Whilst my mind wants to forget,my heart never will..But on a jovial note na this diet I’m on has me missing carbs, sugars and gluten, but I’d happily forego those for another month ya entire lifetime to spend a minute with you..

saying so he wiped the  unknown traitor tears flowing out of his eyes rashly ..

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Not 100 percent medically correct in case of panic attacks...So,pls ignore if any discrepancies are there...Not proof read... Constructive criticism accepted...Pls do vote and comment...Lots of love..