Chapter 3 - Her Birthday Gift

Adrita's Pov.

Why did he write that he is my worst nightmare?

I again looked outside the window to see that he was moving towards his car.

"Hey, you. Stop there." I shouted at him but he didn’t stop in his tracks.

I quickly got out of my room and ran downstairs. I opened the main door and I ran outside barefoot.

I saw the car moving away.

"Hey, don't go." I shouted behind the car.

But the car's speed became faster and next it was out of my sight. The car was black and it looked too expensive.

But I don’t know any man who is rich enough to buy a car like that.

"I should go inside." I muttered to myself.

I got inside the house and went to my room. I sat in my bed and started looking at that paper with great attention.

Who was he?

What does he want from me?

"I should sleep rather than take unnecessary tension." I said and took a deep breath.

I covered myself with a blanket and took out my glasses and kept it in the bedside drawer.

Another thing about me that I didn’t tell you guys is that I am afraid of darkness. I sleep while switching on the lights.

If I sleep with the lights off, I will have a fear building inside me and because of that, I will have nightmares.

I closed my eyes but that hoodie man was flashing in front of me and I wasn’t able to stop it.

After an hour, finally, sleep consumed me.

Next Morning

"Here take this." Ma said and gave me the gift that ma and baba bought for me.

I opened the gift excitedly to see what was inside. It was a beautiful red dress.

"Thank you so much for this beautiful gift." I said and hugged them.

"Here take my gift." Didi said and I quickly grabbed it from her.

I opened it hastily to see a new pair of beautiful earrings which matched the dress ma and baba brought for me.

"Thank you, didi." I said and hugged her too.

After the gift session ended, ma went to the kitchen to make my favorite foods and baba went to the office. I strictly told him to come back early in the evening.

I was about to go to my room when the doorbell rang. I was about to open the door but didi opened it before me.

She bent down near the door and picked up something then she turned around with a gift in her hand.

Oh no!

Again?

Fear building inside me again looking at that gift.

"Ei ne, tor hater er arekta depressing gift." Didi said with an amusing smile. ( Here take it, another depressing gift from your hater )

With shivering hands, I took the gift from her. I slowly went towards my room, didi following me behind. We entered my room and I kept the gift in bed.

"Open it slowly. Maybe this time, that hater sent a bomb." Didi said giggling at my scared state.

"I am already scared, don't scare me more." I said glaring at her.

I slowly opened the gift wrapper and opened the box. My eyes became confused looking at the gift. Didi took out the gift and she also had a shocked and confused state.

"It's an emoji pillow." We both said at the same time.

"But it’s the devil emoji pillow." Didi said and I nodded looking at the pillow. ( That person sent this 😈 emoji pillow )

I took the pillow from her and started looking at it with great attention.

"Why did he send a cute gift this time?" Didi said, chuckling.

"This is not cute. He could have sent any other emoji pillow but why did he send the devil one?" I said then I turned the pillow to look at its back.

On the back, there was written 'The time has come'.

"Didi, look at this." I showed her the back of the pillow.

"The time has come." She read it slowly whispering the words.

"What does it mean?" She asked me like I know the answer which I don't.

"It's another message from that psycho." I said to make her confusion go away.

"I can see that but what did he mean by this?" She asked again, making me remember his previous message!

"His previous message was that he will see me soon. Now he is saying that the time has come. Maybe it means that the time has come to meet each other." I said looking at the pillow.

"No one is meeting anyone. You won’t go to meet that psycho." Didi said, getting concerned.

"Offo, didi. I am not going to meet him

but I want to know who he is and why he hates me so much." A lot of questions were appearing in my mind but I decided not to take any tension, at least not today because it's my birthday after all.

"BTW, I want to tell you something which will surprise you." Didi said grinning.

"What?" I asked, becoming impatient.

"We both are moving to Mumbai." She dropped a bomb on me.

"What!" I asked, getting shocked.

"You are surprised, right? I knew it." She was smiling broadly.

"This is not a surprise, this is a shock. First, tell me, why are we going to Mumbai?" I yelled at her in anger.

"You do know, I want to do higher studies in Law so I was thinking of going to Mumbai for three years. I told this to baba but he said he won't let me go alone. Then I asked baba if I take you with me will he let us go? He agreed so you have to come with me." Didi said sternly.

"Don't drag me with you to Mumbai. I won't go." I made myself clear.

I won't go means I won't go.

"Adrita, please don't be stubborn for once in your life. Going to Mumbai will also be good for you. Dad has already transferred you to the best fashion-designing university in our country which is in Mumbai. On top of it, the second top fashion brand company in the world is in Mumbai. Maybe you will get a chance to work with them." Didi said and gave me puppy eyes.

She decided all this without asking me. I won't go means I won't go.

"Right decision." My devil spoke, smirking!

"Wrong decision. Learn to sacrifice for the happiness of your loved ones, Adrita. Moreover, your didi said that her decision is also good for you." My angel spoke, beating my devil.

"When will we go?" I asked with a timid voice.

"The day after tomorrow is our flight to Mumbai." She dropped another bomb on me.

"What! So soon." I whined.

"Don't be a brat and accept my decision happily." She said, showing her angry eyes which always scare me.

I pouted sadly because I have to go with her. After all, there isn’t any other choice.

"I know why you want to go to Mumbai. To see Hardik, right?" I asked, arching my one eyebrow.

"Yeah, so what? We have been in a long-distance relationship for five years. I want to see him, feel him, hug him." Didi said, getting emotional.

"Okay, okay. Don't start crying." I pleaded to her not to cry.

We both are such crybabies.

"You should start packing your luggage." Didi said and went out of my room.

"Only God knows what Mumbai has in store for me." I murmured to myself!