A/N : The content used in this chapter regarding Alexa is imaginary and it usually doesn't work this exact same way!

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The golden sun rays entered and shone straight inside, making the room warmer as Suhana opened the curtains.

Unknowingly, she had overslept than usual, and found it weirder when she couldn't catch a sight of the grumpy monster, with whom she shares the room.

She had already checked in the restroom and in the closet. Confused, she had taken her bath, jumped into her new clothes from the closet and descended down the stairs. 

The house was unusually silent, and with her stomach playing grumbling rhythms she sauntered towards the kitchen, only to find Rohit seated in the dining area with his laptop on the dining table. 

"Laptop Malhotras" She murmured to herself and strolled forward. 

"Good Morning " Suhana mumbled slowly as she pulled out one of the chairs.

Withdrawing his eyes from his laptop, "Good Morning Suhana" he gave a warm smile and retraced his gaze back to his laptop.

"Where is everyone?" Suhana questioned, as she took a plate to have her breakfast. 

"Everyone? You mean, Vikram bro?" Suhana rolled her eyes on seeing him smirk.

"I meant everyone " She withdrew her eyes away, waiting for him to answer.

"Mom and Dad have left for the relatives house" he gave a smug look, eagerly waiting for her to spill the next few words his ears were yearning for.

"Okay. What about Vikram?" Suhana asked, trying to be normal, exactly knowing what was running in his mind.

"Haha, Admit that you miss him" Rohit said jokingly and continued, "Vikram had to leave for Maldives immediately last night as his meeting was preponed." Rohit shrugged.

"Oh okay" Suhana's thoughts trailed away as Rohit continued," You were sound asleep last night, so he asked me to inform. He will be back in 5 days."

"You don't have to explain Rohit, I know that he purposely didn't inform me" Suhana giggled as Rohit joined. 

"Do you want me to drop you in your college?" Rohit gazed at his watch.

"Hmm...That's not necessary, because I am not leaving for college today, as I have to fill in some applications for my intern" Suhana sighed, as she finished her plate and moved to the kitchen.

"Okay, If you need some help regarding the intern, feel free to ask me" Rohit voiced out from the dining room as Suhana replied an "Okay" from the kitchen. 

As she traced back to the table and water into a glass from the jug, Rohit interrupted,"Actually a friend of mine is coming home today"

"That sounds like fun.

Well, Hope your friend is not grumpy or narcissistic like your brother" Suhana chuckled.

"Well not all" He laughed away on hearing out the names his sister-in-law had kept for his brother. 

As Suhana reached back to her room, she picked up her laptop to fill up the forms for the internship.

Placing them on the couch, and taking a minute to realize, she smirked at the empty bed in front of her.

Instantaneously, she jumped on the bed and made sure to test the threshold and springs of the bed.

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It was already quite a few minutes since Rohits's friends had crashed in their house, but Suhana decided to stay in her room until her work was completed.

She had filled up quite a lot of applications requesting to work as an intern in their hospitals.

But unfortunately, the hospital where Aisha and Ankita had applied and got internship was no longer accepting applications for internships.

So with no other choice she ended up applying for almost all the hospitals in the city.

After done with her work, she had decided to leave downstairs, and she was on the way down as she saw three people seated on the couch in the living room.

One was obviously Rohit, and one more boy and a girl were there seated amongst a huge bowl of popcorn and quite a few canned drinks.

"Hey Suhana" Rohit called her out as he saw her standing near the newel post.

"Hey" Suhana exclaimed and waved her hand, and instantly regretted greeting her guests in such a lovely manner.

"Suhana meet Harshad, my closest friend " Rohit introduced as they exchanged smiles.

While a pair of cunning eyes interrupted, "Wait..What exactly is your full name" she traced her gaze at Suhana from top to bottom.

"Suhana...Suhana Sharma" She raised her eyebrows doubtfully, with the way she was getting interrogated.

"You...You were the one who tried to snatch my Vikram "

"The what---?" Suhana exclaimed with no idea of what was happening over there.

"Zaara, please stop," Harshad said in a low voice, not wanting his evil little sister to create a ruckus.

"Oh come on Harshad, don't you get who is she? She was the one whom Vikram was about to get married to. I am referring to the piece of news..." Zaara tried to remind her brother the day when she was shocked when she read those news articles.

"--And you, What the hell are you doing here?? Wait--were you coming from Vikram's room?

Wasn't your engagement with him stopped? What is happening here?" Zaara started panicking as she badly wanted to move upstairs and at least give a hug or a kiss to Vikram.

"Vikram is neither in this house nor in this country" Rohit facepalmed watching his friend's little sister being possessive over his brother, that too in front of Suhana, his sister-in-law.

What would she think? Rohit cringed on seeing her behaviour.

"We all remember that, now please close your mouth and take a break" Harshad whispered-yelled at her. 

"Yes, she is the same girl and she is now my sist--" Rohit decided to throw the reality at the girl who has been crushing on his brother like a maniac for years.

"--I am Rohits's friend as well" Suhana said it in go and bit her lip as she realized they were his friends too.

"I mean Megha and Rohit are about to get married and they have known each other for a long time and I have known him since then" Suhana sighed happily with her own answer. 

"Phew, Thank God! You gave me a panic attack" Zaara turned her face away.

"Well, It's nice meeting you "Harshad gave a warm smile wanting to divert the topic.

"Same here" Suhana noted as sat beside Rohit.

"Suhana, you know, Harshad is here after only 3 years," Rohit mocked his friend.

"Not exactly, I actually had to come here for my hospital's inauguration in this city, so thought of visiting this idiot " He hit Rohit playfully. 

"That's great. But honestly we should binge watch something " Suhana nodded.

"Yeah anything but Romance " Harshad interrupted, as Suhana nodded furiously, "Exactly, We should watch either Horror or Comedy" she added as Rohit and Zaara cringed on their genre suggestions. 

"This is so accurate, we share similar tastes" Harsh shook his head surprised.

"Favourite music genre? " Suhana pointed her index at Harshad questioningly.

"Pop"

"This is so cool Harsh" Suhana hified with him as it was her favourite too.

"Harsh..that's an interesting nickname" Rohit nodded twitching his mouth.

With a few more laughing sessions they ended up watching some live TV shows as Rohit and Zaara didn't end up with their movie suggestions. 

Almost late at night, Mr & Mrs.Malhotra had also returned home, while Suhana and Rohit had ended up on the couch since the time Harshad and Zaara had left.

"Had some good quality time after a long time" Suhana smiled genuinely at Rohit.

"My pleasure mam" Rohit bowed dramatically and was about to leave when he sat back again on the couch.

"Sorry...For the show Zaara had put up. She is like that" Rohit cringed, half embarrassed on the words and lines she had said in front of Suhana.

"That's alright, I have met more meaner people than her" Suhana chuckled and continued," But she talked like an obsessed stalker" she added up expecting to know more about her from Rohit.

"Well she is Obsessed, with...Vikram. Not now or then but since more than 10 years" He put his head up with his hands clenching his head and continued," I had no idea she would turn up here. But yeah, she did come here, thinking Vikram bro would be here. "

"Ohhh" Suhana nodded and looked away as he continued, "Well you don't have to worry, Vikram had never laid his eyes on her and he despises her with his whole heart" He laughed out reminiscing old memories when Vikram had pushed Zaara into a pool of mud, when she wanted to hug her in front of his family.

"Haha Who cares if he liked her not. Well I don't think anyone would survive with him" Suhana shrugged and looked away as she pushed a few strands of hair behind her ear.

"Haha, I can see that. " Rohit smirked, "Though there was someone years back"

"Huh--what?" Suhana looked at him, disoriented.

"Hmm...Will tell that some other day. Good night" Rohit looked away uncomfortable for raising that topic without thinking. 

The room was pitch dark, while Suhana was constantly tossing right and left on the bed unable to fall asleep. 

"I have 5 more days to sleep on this huge bed....but only if I could fall asleep" She murmured to herself tossing on the bed.

Unable to sleep any longer she decided to study for some time until she felt sleepy.

She moved to the book shelf and picked up her books as she saw an unusual book on the rack among her other books.

She pulled the book out of the rack, only to see the title of the book covered with a sticky note saying, "This book would be of great use for you" which resembled much of Vikram's handwriting. 

"Vikram? He left this for me?? That's....unusual" Suhana's lips twitched confused as she slowly tore off the sticky note which revealed the title , '100 best solutions to keep my mouth shut'

"Seriously??" Suhana's jaw dropped on reading the title.

Vexed, with the fact that he was annoying her and showing off his narcissistic behaviour though he was not physically present here, Suhana placed the book back on the shelf and moved back to the bed along with her study materials.

As she was busy studying and taking some notes, her eyes spotted and landed on the small device near his side of the bed.

"This is going to be fun" She mumbled to herself and continued," Hey Alexa, Play some music"

"Okay Vikram, playing some music" Alexa answered in a sweet voice, which irked Suhana.

"Ugh why Alexa why?" She facepalmed. 

"Alexa..Change the name to Suhana" Suhana smirked to herself.

"Okay, Changing name to Suhana" Alexa answered.

And she continued for the next few hours simultaneously taking some notes and fell asleep on the bed with her books as her pillows.

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3 days flew away so swiftly, as Suhana's applications were accepted in some hospitals and were asked to join from next Monday, though she hadn't selected which hospital among the few.

While on the other hand, lined up works and meetings that were scheduled for five days in Maldives had gotten over by 3 days for Vikram.

Around 3am in the morning, Vikram had reached home with Vinay and asked him to take a day off as it was already late.

Vikram slowly sauntered towards the door and opened it as he had a glimpse of his parents sleeping peacefully and then moved upstairs to his room.

With weary hands he pushed his room door open and threw his coat on the bed and switched on the table lights and his eyes grew wide, as he couldn't locate Suhana on the couch.

Bewildered, he moved his confused gaze around the room and paused as he found her peacefully sleeping on his bed, with her books scattered around her, and the coat he had thrown, on top of her hands.

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