Such a beautiful sunday morning, but I'm here, standing in front of this house and ringing the doorbell for the past 10 minutes but to my bad luck there isn't even a trace of anyone. Then I started banging the door and finally, it give me some good results. "Ufff! Salesman again? Can't you leave us even on a Sunday morning?", the person before me yelled, rubbing his eyes as if I woke him up in the Midnight. "Do I look like a salesman to you Mr. Bunty?", I asked dejectedly as he finally tried to open his eyes. His eyes widened, and he shouted almost at the top of his voice, "Dev! What a surprise! When did to come to Mumbai?". "Will you let me in at least now?", I asked. "Ahh... Yes, come in", he said letting me in.

***

"So, you shifted to mumbai.. That's great! But why... all of a sudden?", bunty asked as Dev kept quiet. " I.. I came to know that she is here", he mumbled. "Oh god! Dev are you kidding me? It has been freaking 7 years man! And you are still searching for her, who is not even bothered about your existence!", Bunty said as dev narrowed his eyes. "How do you know that she is not bothered about me?", he yelled. "If she is, then she would have also tried to contact you", he said. "If I can't find her after a lot of tries, then how can she?", Dev asked trying to control his raging anger. "Dev, you are one of the leading doctors in India. It won't take much time to find you", bunty said trying to put some senses into his head. "It's a waste of time talking to you. I am leaving", Dev said trying to walk away from there. "Dev", bunty called as Dev stopped in his traces. "Do you believe that even she loves you?", bunty asked as Dev turned around to face him. "Of course.. She does. And I have no doubt in it... I know that she will be waiting for me..", Dev said confidently. "If you are this sure, who am I to confuse you? You go man.. You will surely find her. I am there with you", bunty said smiling as dev's lips curved upwards. "Thanks bunty!", Dev replied as he hugged him.

I am happy that at least now Bunty understood me. Now, I have someone who will help me in finding her. It's not like that I didn't do anything to know where she is. I have been trying to find her, since the day I realised my feelings for her. But all in vain. But now, that she is here, somewhere very close to me. And I am sure that I will meet her. I still remember what happened then.

:

It's been two days, since Dev came to Darjeeling. He was all silent and never went out though Jatin insisted him a lot. Finally giving up to his demands, jatin too stayed at home much to sona and elena's dismay, who thought to hang out throughout the holidays. Everyone were chatting at the living room, having fun watching TV, while Dev was silently listening to them. Sona, who was passing by Jatin's room, saw his phone beeping. She came in, saw the name flashing as 'Bunty' and attended the call, as it was much usual for her to do so. "Hello, Dev how much time will you take to attend my call?", the person on the other side yelled. It was then, sonakshi realised that it was dev's phone. "Oh sorry! I will call him", she said hurriedly and thought to give him the phone. " Who's this?", bunty asked. "Sonakshi..", she was about to continue but he interrupted. "Oh god! I didn't know that Dev has a girlfriend", he exclaimed. Sonakshi, who heard this, stopped in her traces. "Oh hello! I am not his girlfriend!! Who would like to be a devil's girlfriend?", she shouted but Dev grabbed his phone from her hand. "What are you doing with my phone? Don't you have any manners?", he shouted. "Hello Mr! I don't have any wish to talk to your friend. I was just passing by when the phone rang. I thought its Jatin's phone and attended it. It was your friend who is talking rubbish", she shouted back and he gave her an angry look.

He resumed the call and she turned around to leave, but her hand hit on a photo placed on the table and it fell down, making the glass shatter into pieces. Sonakshi shut her eyes in horror as Dev's eyes widened in shock. He rushed towards the now broken picture, as tears pooled up in his eyes and started taking the broken glasses pieces with his bare hand but jatin intervened. "Dev.. Dev.. Please leave it", he said but Dev didn't stop. He looked at sonakshi who stood perplexed by the recent happenings. Finally getting back her senses she opened her mouth, "Sorry", she murmured as she was still scared to face his wrath. "Throw your stupid sorry in the trash", Dev shouted making her gasp. Jatin eyed sonakshi to leave the place, which she did obediently. Jatin made dev sit on the bed and apologized to him on behalf of her. But Dev kept quiet staring at the broken photo, containing a picture of him with his mother.

***

Jatin came out of his room and saw sonakshi, who still looked affected by the recent happenings. He walked and stood beside her as she was little startled by his sudden arrival. "Jatin I didn't do it intentionally. I'm sorry but he is over reacting. What is the need to behave like this for a simple photo?", she asked confused. "Shona, I know that it was just an accident. It may look like a simple photograph for you, but for him it's a memory with his mother, who's no longer with him", Jatin said as she looked at him shocked. She was completely clueless that Dev lost his mother. "You were asking that why was dev behaving so rudely, isn't it? He wasn't like this before shona. It's been 2 months since he lost his mother. That's why uncle sent him here, so that he'll atleast try to become normal. But things are getting worse here", he completed and looked at sonakshi whose eyes were filled with guilt.

***

It's been 8 at night and it was raining heavily. Jatin was listening to music lying on the sofa and dadi was busy in TV. They heard some noise outside and rushed out. They saw bijoy shouting at sona at the top of his voice but she kept mum while asha and elena were trying to stop him. Dadi interrupted, trying to defend her favourite girl. "What happened bijoy? Why are you shouting at her?", she asked. "Ask her where she went at this hour. It's raining heavily for the past 2 hours but she didn't return home. She didn't even think that we all will be worried for her. Why can't she sit at home like other girls? This is all because of you asha.. You are the one who spoiled her", he yelled. "Bijoy, first learn to talk to her softly", Dadi said and moved towards sona, who was still lowering her gaze. "Shona.. Where did you go? See your baba is so much worried for you", she spoke. "Dadi.. I was stuck in rain and I don't even have an umbrella that's why I couldn't reach home on time. I promise.. I won't repeat this", she said. "Good. Now go and dry yourself. You may catch cold otherwise", she said and made sona go inside. Sona muttered a sorry to her dad but bijoy averted his gaze in anger. Dev, who was watching all this from the window, looked confused.

Next morning, as sunrays peeped in, Dev opened his eyes slowly. He looked at the other side of the bed, and not finding jatin there, he woke up and searched for his alarm to look at the time. As he saw his bed side table, his eyes widened in shock. He saw the same photo which sona broke the previous day but it was completely fine now. He took it in his hand and looked at it confused. "Good morning Dev", Jatin greeted him as he came out of the bathroom. "Jatin, when did you fix this? You were with me all the time", Dev asked him pointing towards the photo frame. "I didn't do anything", Jatin said as Dev looked all the more confused. "Then who did it?", he asked. "Sonakshi", he said making dev amused. "Yesterday she went out for this only and got stuck in rain", he said. "Then you should've stopped her. What's the need to do it so hurriedly? I know.. I've shouted at her but it didn't mean that she should do all this and get scoldings from her dad", Dev said. "She told me after coming back only Dev. What to do after that", he said. "Did she come here after that?", Dev asked curiously. "Yes, she came here to give this to you. But you were sleeping then, so she said not to disturb you and went from here. Aahhh!.. She told me to give this to you", he said and took a paper. Dev opened it and saw a chocolate with a note.

Hello MR. Devil!

I'm sorry for what I've done yesterday. But I didn't do it intentionally.. Mother promise. So please forgive this poor soul. If you've apologized me then take this chocolate and accept me as your friend, otherwise don't throw it away😑 give it back to me. I don't like to waste food😝

Yours

Sonakshi

His lips curved upwards reading the letter and he kept it in his pocket. "Where is she?", Dev asked jatin.

***

Dev smiled reminiscing the good old memories. How good it would've been if you're with me now, he thought as he continued driving. He halted the car suddenly and was shocked as he saw a familiar face crossing the signal.