Red Suits You by Novoneel Chakraborty

Author:Novoneel Chakraborty [Chakraborty Novoneel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789353053123
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Published: 2018-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

Why the hell would Meenakshi not tell me her real name? Kanav wondered, as he took his leave from Mr and Mrs Dhillon. Though Parminder insisted he would drop him to the airport, Kanav convinced him otherwise. His plan was to go to the airport but first he wanted to drop in at the apartment where Bani and Namit used to live.

While he stood looking at their flat’s balcony from the outside, a woman tapped his shoulder from behind. Kanav turned around and saw a middle-aged woman standing in front of him.

‘Where were you all these days?’ she asked.

So she knows Namit , he thought, and said, ‘I was travelling.’

‘Your job took your wife’s life! And still you’re sticking on with it?’ she said. The hint of spite in her voice increased with every second.

‘I don’t understand,’ Kanav said.

‘Had you not been travelling, you would have been with her when the cylinder blasted in the flat. She could have been saved.’

Bani died because a gas cylinder blasted , Kanav mentally noted. He was tempted to ask more about Namit but realized it could freak the woman out. Kanav left.

He messaged Meenakshi the moment he reached Pune. There was no response from her even after he’d reached his flat. He called her. Still no response. Kanav drove to the Symbiosis girls’ hostel. On the way, he messaged Anahita as well about his arrival in Pune. Kanav called Meenakshi once again from outside the hostel. This time she picked up.

‘Hey, dear, sorry I slept off. Where are you?’ she said. He found her voice slightly different.

‘I’m standing right outside your hostel. We need to meet. Can you come down?’ Kanav said.

‘Sure. Give me two minutes.’

Five minutes later Meenakshi came down in her shorts and top. Seeing Kanav, she beamed. But Kanav’s heart was in his mouth when she hugged him.

‘Excuse me,’ he said.

‘What happened?’ Meenakshi said.

‘Do we know each other?’ Kanav asked.

‘What’s wrong with you? You forgot me so quickly?’ she seemed truly amazed.

‘I’m waiting for Meenakshi,’ he said conclusively.

The girl’s jaws dropped.

‘Are you out of your mind or are you just kidding—because I’m Meenakshi, for your kind information.’

Kanav didn’t know whether to laugh over it or do nothing. Of course she wasn’t Meenakshi. To solve the thing, he simply called Meenakshi again from his phone. A second later the girl in front of him received the call. She held her phone in front of his face and said, ‘I didn’t know you’re a fucking freak. Goodbye,’ she said, realizing he wasn’t kidding.

Kanav tried following her into the premises but the guards stopped him. No outsider was allowed inside the hostel.

A frustrated Kanav left the place. He tried reaching Anahita but she was in Bangalore for a psychology seminar. He messaged the new Meenakshi almost twenty times asking her where the Meenakshi he’d met originally was. That he knew the original Meenakshi was actually Ashmeet and Bani was her sister. The tone of those twenty messages started out pleading and ended up becoming plain threats.

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