Chapter three: you have to get married!

Vyom was in the garden thinking and drinking his hot coffee. "What was that terrible thing which worries Nivi?" Nividita was behind him when he said this. "Is there anyone like you in this demn world?" Vyom turned to his back only to see Nividita. "You… what are you doing here?" "Vyom. Sorry. I am sorry. I doubted you. But whenever I tested your love for me, you… you always surpass my expectations." "Oh! I see! You start praising me! Not bad. Not bad Ms. Nividita Basu. Really!" She laughed. "Hey! Stop joking. I am serious. For 2 years you took care of my family. And despite forgetting you, you never fail to make me feel secured and happy. But it's enough" Vyom was shocked to hear her last words. "What?" "You have to go home. Your parents also need you there. You have to be with them also. I am fine now. Except for my memory am doing great. So you can go. I am feeling bad for them. You are their only son. You shouldn't abandon them, especially at this age." But he refused to go home. "Nivi, no! I can't do this. I can't abandon you either. So no. I won't go anywhere." "For my sake. Please go. You have been with me for two years. They must have missed you. Especially your mom. I know how it feels when a mother gets separated from her only son. Please go for them." "Look Nivi, they aren't alone. Uncle Vidyut, aunt Avni, aunt Arti, and her son Ishaan, all are with them. So don't worry." Nividita didn't accept his proposal of staying with them. "Yes but you have to go, Vyom. The family is incomplete without you. So please, listen to me and go." Vyom "no Nivi, I won't say yes. So please" Nividita finally got a chance to convince him. "Ok here is the deal. You will take me for my check-up. If the doctor testifies I am ok, you will go to your parents' place. Deal?" "Deal!"

Nividita was taken to the hospital for her regular check-up. The doctor checked her up alone. "Wow! Nividita, it is great! A great change. Seriously. You have amazing improvements in your health." The doctor was happy to see Nividita's improvement. "What do you feel now?" Nividita's excitement vanished and remembered her last days. "It doesn't make a difference. No one understands me so let it be." Dr. Amit was such a nice doctor who understood Nividita. "Tell me. I understand. You don't have to worry. We are alone." "It is like someone is behind me. I mean something or someone is following me but I couldn't understand." The doctor said, "what kind of sign is that you see for the communication." She was puzzled. She didn't know how to explain it. "Like, I feel cold. I mean very cold. I hear a voice… horrible voice." The doctor asked "what do you hear? Tell me anything you heard?" "It says only one word. Kapalli hills. I don't know whether I am hallucinating or hearing. But I heard this. Just it says kapali hills. Again and again" the doctor seemed to understand her problem. "Do you have any memory of this place? Anything good or bad? Try to remember. I mean before these 3 years. Look Nividita, you have partial memory loss. This means you have still a memory of your life. So think."

She recalled everything. "I used to go to a temple located in Kapalli hills. And Vyom and my parents told me that the accident happened in kapali hills. What happened in that accident? What that place connect me? I am so worried doctor. The doctor almost was about to tell her the solution. But he saw a shadow of someone. He realized someone was overhearing their conversation. "Don't worry. It is the side effect of the medicine that you're taking. Ok, don't worry." He gave his business card. "If you need my help please call me anytime." She thanked Dr. Amit. and went.

Day passed. She hadn't stopped this new experience. Her shivering, feeling cold. Etc. Vyom had gone to his parents' house according to their deal. It is their first night without him after a long time. At midnight that cold wind awakened her again. She was thirsty so she went to the kitchen and picked one water bottle from the refrigerator. But the water is too hot. "How is this possible. Is the refrigerator changed its property? What's happening? Let me get the ice." She tried her best to put out the iceberg from the plate. She tried to make the iceberg out with the help of a knife. When she hit the iceberg with the knife, blood sprinkled on her face from the ice. As usual, she screamed and called her parents. "Blood. There is blood there! Anihrud "there is nothing honey. It is just water." Mohini confirmed " yes honey it's the water" her parents were confused. "What's happening" was everyone's question. Aditya was worried about his sister's condition and he called Vyom and told him about his sister's condition Vyom can't stay so he came to Nividita's house...

She got annoyed because of Vyom. Because of his arrival. But it was almost midnight so she let him stay with them for the night. "Vyom what have you done? you came because only Aditiya Called you do you're so impossible!"

2:00 A.M. her phone rang. She wondered who could be at that time. "Dr. Amit?" She picked her phone "hello doctor? Is everything ok?" "Look Nividita, we have to meet now. Come to the city garden." She saw her watch again and said "doctor, now? It's 8:00." The doctor with an unstable tone " I know that I have found something about Kapalli hills. And how it is connected to your past. I am not sure about my safety. We have to meet." "Ok doctor I am coming." She went out. No one was aware of her whereabouts including Vyom.

She had arrived at the city garden and start finding Dr. Amit. It was windy. Odhir was there. She was a spirit hunter. She knows about spirits very well. She felt a presence of spirit. She was following the spirit and ended up in that city garden. Nividita was finding Dr. Amit, her leg was hit by a stone and fallen. She saw Dr. Amit's body. She screamed. And Odhir heard her shout and came. Nividita called the police troops. And for Vyom. The police and her father and Vyom made her busy. Odhir tried to reach Nividita. But Vyom couldn't let her go. "How do you come here?" Vyom was angry. "Doctor… doctor called me and told me to come alone." Her father, Anihrud "why didn't you inform us?" "Dad he … he was here to tell me about Kapalli hills. How that place is connected to my past. But… when I came, he has already been killed."

The inspector came to Nividita, "tell us, what is your connection with the victim?" Nividita was shaking out of fear. "He… he …. He was my doctor. He called me a while ago to come." "When you talk to him for the last time, what were his exact words. " he… he told me to come here. I asked him if we could meet tomorrow. But he told me that he felt insecure, because of the secret he knew."

Odhir was shouting. But no one was listening to her. "You, girl, listen to me…. You are in danger. A spirit is behind you. Your life is in danger! Listen!" Her father and Vyom took her away from that garden. The inspector told Vyom not to worry and will inform them if they found anything.

The next day, Nividita told her parents that she wanted to go to the temple. And got permission to go. She went to the nearby temple. There she met a priestess whom she know long ago. "May God be with you. Don't you remember me?" Nividita remembered the priestess. "yeah I remembered you. How are you?" "Fine" Mrs. Gayatri answered. "How is your boyfriend? Oh! You must have been married by now." Gayatri said. Nividita didn't remember this particular incident "how do you know that I have a boyfriend?" Gayatri smiled "you came with him to pray for your marriage, don't you remember?" "When?" Gayatri got confused now. "What is wrong with you my child? 2 years ago. Both of you told me that you were going to Pune, to get your parents' permission and blessing. And I prayed for you. How did you forget that, dear?" Nividita believed at that moment that Vyom was talking the truth. She told her what happened to her.

"Oh. Even then, I told you that your husband's life was in danger. It is connected to the solar eclipse. You have to be careful. And to save his life you have to marry him before the day of the solar eclipse. Because on that day the evils will get a chance to hurt your husband."

Everyone kept confusing this innocent girl. Now, this priestess was talking about a different story and a new topic for Nividita to worry about. "Is there any solar eclipse this year?" Asked Nividita. "Yes but I don't know when. But marry him as soon as possible. Please."

When she went home her father and Mr. Pratap were talking. She greeted Mr. Pratap. "Greetings uncle," Nividita said. "How are you dear?" She went to the kitchen. "Mom, why did Uncle Pratap come?" Mohin smiled with tears and hugged her. Nividita, "mom? What is it? Tell me?" Poor girl! She was all at the sea. Mohini wiped her tears and said "my dear, for a girl her parents' house is not her house forever. She has to leave her father's home and get into her in-laws' house." "Why are you telling me these?" Mohini smiled "it's your age my dear. You have to marry!" Nividita was shocked to hear her mom. "Mom? Married? Who? Me? When? With whom? Mom, mom, stop him. I … I am not ready for this. Please!