Touch Her And... (Completed)

Chapter 35

The Flashbacks

"Boys do not cry Ritwik. Only the weak people do that. Learn to endure. Learn to absorb. Only that will make you a man." Said the middle aged man.

"But baba the dream bothers me. I can't sleep. It's as if I am watching a horror movie, only the same story is being retold every time I close my eyes." The child said with teary eyes.

"It happens to many of us. But do not let it spoil our peace of mind. Learn to ignore it. Learn to hate everything and everyone that bothers you." Rik's father said and left the room.

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"Rik, what's wrong? Won't you sleep? It's quite late babu." His mother said.
"I will maa." He said looking out of the window.
"Is there something that you're not telling me? You can tell me anything that bothers you. And if you find it difficult to sleep here you can come and sleep with me. Dev and Nik are also there. It will be easier for you to sleep." She assured him.

"I like sleeping alone maa and I am fine. You can go to sleep now." He said and whispered to himself
"I have learnt to hate everything and anything that bothers me."
He climbed into his bed and turned the lights off.

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"What's wrong baby?" Asked the girl who was sleeping beside him naked.
He was feeling the same suffocation again. The same feeling that occured everytime he made out with someone. But he had learnt to endure the pain with time.

"W-who were you again?" He strived to open his eyes.
The girl who seemed utterly disappointed said "I am Linda, the girl from the bar. Remember you were dancing with me?"
"Was I?" He asked with uncertainty and said "whatever it might be, I am done with you and you can leave now." The girl was so surprised that she kept looking at his face until he went to sleep again.

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"Wow, man!" The man standing infront of Rik exclaimed. "These are.. these are brilliant. I haven't seen them in any of your exhibitions. How much are these?" The man asked.
"These are not for sell." Rik answered and picked up the beautiful paintings of a curly haired girl, wearing a saffron saree and jewelries made of rudrakshas.

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"Off to South Africa!" Manik's Facebook post said.
"Finally, finally the boy grows up." Rik said to himself and started typing a comment. He finished typing it and another notification occurred from Manik's profile that read "I will miss you Kiddo..😔" and then his eyes fell on the picture.

His breathing hitched. The same feeling of suffocation overwhelmed his senses. His hair stood on end and a shiver raced down his spine. The last thing he could remember was that the phone fell from his hand and everything went black around him.

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"I want every information. You have a week to tell me everything about her." Rik disconnected the call and opened the gallery of his phone.

There she stood in a white high neck jumper, covered with her beautiful curls. Holding a tiny beagle in her arms with a pure smile plastered on her pretty face.

"I hate you Ambika!" He said and locked the screen.

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Back to contemporary

"Who was driving her car?" He asked Tinku ji.
Tinku ji, who had just seen him so much enraged found it too difficult to answer. However he finally gathered all his courage and managed to say "Joseph, sir ji."
"Give me his number and also Ambi.." Rik paused and took a deep breath, then said again "I mean Teressa's."

"Joseph..it's Rik here." He said opening his car door.
"Yes sir." Replied Joseph from the other end.
"Where is Teressa?" He asked coldly.
"She should be back at the mansion by now sir ji. She said she needed to collect few things from her aunt's place. So I dropped her there." Said Joseph.

"What do you mean you dropped her there? Did you not wait there to bring her back to the mansion?" Rik's voice finally started shaking.

"She asked me to leave. She said she will call Manik Sir to pick her up. What's the matter sir ji? Is she not back at the mansion yet? Should I go back to her aunt's place?" Joseph got worried.

"No! Just answer me by what time did you drop her there?" He asked getting restless.
"Around 5PM or so sir ji." Joseph said and Rik ran back inside the mansion.

Tinku ji saw him coming back and started walking towards him when he asked "when did you call her?"
"Around 5.30PM sir ji, I am really sorry.. " but before Tinku ji could complete the man shouted "Fucking hell!" He ran out of the mansion like a crazy person and started his car.

"Why the hell do you keep driving me crazy woman!? Why? I hate you.. I hate you more than anything!" He yelled and punched the steering wheel.