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"The art of smiling is not a rocket science; it's just a reflex action to what you feel. Try it's not that hard, Arnav." He smiled again at the memory; Seven years, was long enough to forget someone, not that the memory of the person haunted him or tortured him in anyway, he is just amused by himself to relive the memory ever so naturally every time he found himself helping someone. "Ram Singh" he greeted as he reached the parking place of the airport. "Hello sir how was your flight?" the driver spoke reaching out to his luggage. "It was good, I would have hailed a cab, you shouldn't have come" he said going around the SUV and settling himself behind the wheel. "Oh, I was strictly instructed not to allow you to drive at this time of the night sir---" he said hesitantly looking at Arnav settled behind the wheel already. "Then your Maam shouldn't have sent you Ram singh, the taxi would have served that purpose, don't you think? Now shut up and take the place beside me or you can choose to stay here for the rest of the night, and oh! I might just deduct your one day pay if you choose to stay by the way" he said and smirked. Ram Singh visibly cursed his boss under his breath. He slowed down his car as they neared the building with both of their gazes fixed to the white image above them and finally the car halted just below the building. Sensing the car stop, Ram Singh turned his head to look at his boss as a reflex action. "Sir, I was just kidding; you are not thinking to go up there, are you?" He asked swallowing hard as he could see Arnav just ignoring him and his glance fixed to that image. Arnav stepped out of his car all the way looking up at her and stood facing the ridiculously tall building, his face bent behind in an attempt to take a clear look at the white image. He tugged his hands in his pockets and continued to observe her. The white gown looked oversized for her petite body, it looked more like a hospital gown, her legs stood long and straight on the very thin wall; he noticed there wasn't a shiver nor a tremble in the way she stood there, her posture almost looked relaxed and his lips parted registering the view that spoke volumes to him, but somehow nothing made sense. He felt a sudden pull and he swallowed hard processing the unknown fear creeping up his nerves.His legs on their own accord made their way into the building completely ignoring the repeated calls from his driver. The doors of the elevator wide opened into the top most floor and then he walked around to find the stair case leading to the terrace. He wasn't rushing, he wasn't running nor was in a panic state, he was just walking as if in a trance" He could see her from behind, her petite body from within the loose gown showing curves blended in her form in perfect places, as the mid-night breeze blew her gown from the inner side.There was some kind of familiarity with her.Making sure, she acknowledged him so that he wouldn't startle her; ."May be you should jump and take a look to see what it feels like?" he said seeing her withdrawing her hands and tugging them in front of her. The rest of the stance in her body still seemed relaxed and as expected by him, she wasn't startled. "I'm not gonna jump stranger, you can go back to whatever you were doing before you decided to save me" she said "You are not gonna jump?" he definitely did guess that "Well, sorry to disappoint you Stranger, but I'm not jumping" she stated bringing her palms over her hands and rubbing against the cold breeze. "I'm glad, I wonder why stand like that if you have no intention to jump though" "Dangerous, isn't it?" "Standing at this height several meters above the ground, that little feeling you get when you stand here dominates every other misery of your life; Just when he reached the bottom of the steps his legs halted at the entrance as the white bundle rushed down in front of his eyes landing with a thud on the ground:he recognize her kushi

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chapter 5

Name: Khushi Kumari Guptha

D/O : Shashi Guptha

Age: 24

Date of Birth: January, 13

Qualification: Computers Grad from Delhi University, 2006-09 batch.

Born and brought up in Delhi. Lived with her parents in Chandini chowk"Delhi. According to the information from the neighborhood, the family suddenly moved out to Mumbai for reasons unknown. The only information that the hospital could provide was that she was found with bruises, scars and major injuries in the vicinity of a cathedral resided in the out-skirts of the Mumbai city, she was then admitted into the hospital in question by the church trusty. Questioning the faculty hasn't been of much help. Apparently she was just found in a critical condition on a fine day in the back yard of the church and they knew nothing about the girl. This was exactly a week before Mr.Arnav Singh Raizada found the victim on the terrace of the hospital building.

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Arnav studied the back story of the victim' as termed by the officer for the umpteenth time which was drafted five months ago in an attempt to try and fetch some more clues. Of course the first piece of information that included her education and native was provided by him and so the police were able to fetch the information from her Delhi neighborhood, which wasn't much as it is. He sighed dropping the file of papers on the table and fetched the other file lying beside it and took a deep breath looking at it with determination.

This was the file which the intelligence department handed him a week ago. He had been apprehensive to read it and had been delaying it, however sooner or later this needs to be done. Although he was informed by the agent that the information wasn't much helpful, somehow he found himself anxious to know about the mystery called Khushi Kumari Gupta. He noticed, as the days turned into months ever since that lone night, he was just being drawn into this more and more. Agreed that his stay in Mumbai was termed by the law, however, he might not just go back to his life leaving her in this state, especially when no one ever approached her as her care takers in all these months despite his efforts. Was she really that alone?