Author's POV:
(3 months later)
Kunal was beaming and daydreaming. He has never been this happy in his entire life. He had a crush on Sanjana as soon as he saw her and now he was afraid that it was developing into something more.
When he asked Sanjana to write a small quote on a piece of paper "From me to you. A piece of my remembrance in your life", he placed the paper in a small box along with Sanjana's earring that she lost when they first met. Even though she did not give it to him willingly he was happy in his own delusional self. By adding a note to that earring he felt like she gave it to him willingly.
He thought he wouldn't get a single minute to spend time with her due to Akshath's overprotective and brooding attitude. But now she is willing taking him out on different places and exploring the whole city with him without even telling her friends.
He felt special, he felt important and he felt heard as she would listen to his non stop blabbering.
He was looking forward to which place she would take him next.
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Akshath was going bat shit crazy. He was not at all in a good space of mind and the reason being certain brown-hazel eyes beauty.
Sanjana has not been talking to him at all for one and half month. She would sleep before he even calls her and then the call would be answered by one of her friends saying that she fell asleep.
He would call her during her lunch and she would just message him that she didn't check the call or her mobile was silent. He wasn't able to understand the distance that she was creating by herself.
His life became robotic as he would wake up, eat, work, work, work and then sleep for only 2 to 3 hours as he was insomniac. Now, he wouldn't even sleep for those 3 hours atleast.
He was so tempted to fly back to India but he cannot do that as things would get messy without him. He can't leave a billion dollar project to his old grandpa and Jay. He was bounded to work and by no means have time to act upon his impulsive thoughts.
He was praying that things stay the same between them and wouldn't get too worse by the time he land in India.
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Sanjana was popping anxiety pills left and right these days.
She has taken these pills in the past when she was in her 10th standard.
It was a time when she was walking home alone late at night due to her extra classes via short cut route. She left the troubled car with the driver and took an alley way where she saw a man harnessing a girl.
She pressed herself into the shadows of the dark so that he wouldn't notice. She got a hold of big rock and launched it at his head as he was about to throw acid on the girl's face. She and the girl ran away leaving the bleeding man in the alley.
She informed her dad about the incident and he made sure that man was locked behind the bars for lifetime.
This incident lead Sanjana into the overprotective cage built by her parents but she was happy in her own cage.
Now, she can't go to her dad for help in regards to the blackmail.
It's not that she didn't try at all. When Ankit didn't do anything or reappeared infront of her again, she turned a little bold. She took Tara's phone to call Aksh and tell him about this whole ordeal few weeks ago.
As she was about to call Aksh, her phone pinged. She with shaky hands opened her mobile and her heart dropped at the very moment.
Ankit sent her a newspaper copy where the blurred images of Aksh was plastered all over the news paper. The images of him with the stripper. Although his face was completely blurred, she could definitely make out the outline of his body through these pictures. She immediately read the matter and it said that a reputed businessman's son was out there enjoying his late teens in a shameless manner. His name was not revealed, whispered Sanjana to herself.
Her mobile pinged again saying "The news is real and its a kind of warning to you that if you try to do something, his blurry face would turn into high definition quality picture. So mind it!!", her hopes of reaching out to Aksh shattered the very moment when she found out the news really broke the Internet.
People started a guessing game to put a name to those blurred images, raising the anxiety levels of Sanjana.
She lost weight, her once beautiful red tint cheeks turned hallow, soft pink lips turned dry, memorizing eyes turned lifeless and altogether she stopped taking care of herself.
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Trisha planned her master stroke along with Ankit, as it has already been 3 months since Aksh left. He could return anytime soon!!
This time Trisha wanted Sanjana to attend a famous party hosted by one of the most popular guys of their college. This party is often referred to as adulterated party as there is endless supply of alcohol, drugs, weed, stuff that people get high on and last but not least -girls.
As per Trisha's wish, Ankit sent a message to Sanjana to attend the party at night and gave her the location
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