The Stranger (Part-16)..
The Stranger (Part-16)..
After the meeting with Arun and Ravi Meera went to the washroom. She saw the time and it was around 9.30 pm. Then she felt suddenly hungry. At that moment Sara called her to join them for the dinner. Meera started thinking, "how her Mom can understand her unspoken feelings? She felt hungry and her Mom called for dinner. Even many times before she could express her feelings or emotions, her mother used to understand that and act on that." This had brought a childish smile to Meera's face. She reached the dining table and hugged her mother like a child. Sara looked at her and said very affectionately, " Sit and have your dinner darling. I know you are very hungry now. I made your special dish fish Curry today. Enjoy your food. " Then Meera sat on the chair and said, " You are a unique Mom in this world. You can understand every unspoken word or feeling. I love you, Mom. " Rima then too joined with Meera and said, "Yes, our Mom is special. We are very much blessed to be your daughters." Sara looked at her both daughters and the tears of happiness rolled from her eyes. She said, "You know, both of you are my darling daughters. I am a very proud mother of both of you." Then she sat and all of them had their dinner. Meera was enjoying her favourite fish curry. They finished their dinner. Meera and Rima went to their respective rooms, Sara went to the kitchen to clean the utensils and all others.
Meera locked her room and sat on the sofa. She close her eyes and went back to her memory lane. She started focussing on her shopping incident of the day she met with the accident. She started from her parking the vehicle to enter the shop, her discussion with the shopkeeper, her choosing the gift, then the wrapping of that gift by the shopkeeper with his activities, her time of making payment and waiting for the change as the shopkeeper called a person standing outside to get the change, then the delay in that process, her exit from that shop, the action of both shopkeeper and that person and her reaching the vehicle to open the door. During all these thoughts she was trying to go deeper and visualise all. Then she started getting some pictures. Meera started noting down all the small and big actions, expressions of all. She even noted the name of the shop "For You". Then she tried to make the rough sketches of the shopkeeper and of the person gone to get change for him. She noted down the winks made by the shopkeeper through the glass being inside to someone outside. She remembered a signal of raising hand by the person of shopkeeper while she was leaving the shoo. Now she started smelling the conspiracy. Her doubts about the shopkeeper and his person for being a part of that conspiracy started growing stronger. Then she remembered while opening the door of her vehicle she saw two persons with black jackets were moving behind her vehicle and she could now clearly visualise one person's face with the bore. She made a rough sketch of that too. By this time Meera was tired and closed her writing pad and went to her bed. She now needs a good sleep very badly. All the actions involved in the conspiracy by the strangers made her very tired. She just wanted to get rid of all these thoughts and concentrate on her slee
p. After a few moments, she had her sleep.
The next day morning till 8 AM Meera was in the bed. As she slept in late last night, that had made her sleep till this time. Sara didn't disturb Meera as she knew that her daughter will not go to the office and let her relax. But Meera woke up and rushed to the washroom to wash her face. She knew that Ashok will come at about 11 am. Then she went out of her room and asked Sara to give her coffee. She asked her mother, " I am getting late Mom. You should have woken me up. I have to work from home and it should be on time. I know that it's my mistake, but your yesterday's fish curry made me more relaxed and I had a nice sleep. " Sara then realised her mistake and said, " Yes it's my mistake. I should have given you a call. I forgot that you have to do the work from home. Just give me a few minutes dear, I will get your coffee. I had already prepared the breakfast. You have your coffee and get freshen up. Then you both sisters can have breakfast. By that time I will finish the cooking for lunch. " Then Sara rushed to the kitchen. Meera was sitting on the sofa and waiting for her coffee. After a few minutes, Sara came with coffee and gave it to Meera. Then she gave a smile and left for the kitchen. Meera finished her coffee and rushed to the bathroom to finish her bath. She came out and changed her dress. By that time Rima and Sara were waiting for her for the breakfast. Meera joined them. All of them had their breakfast and then Sara got herself ready to leave for her school. Meera locked the door as soon as Sara left. She saw the time, it was 10 O'clock. Then she came back to her room. Before that, she checked with Rima on her study. Though Rima had completed her MBA, still she is busy in preparation for the UPSC examination. She found everything was ok with Rima. Then Meera came and sat on the sofa. She again tried to remember each moment with the shopkeeper on that day. She remembered when there was a delay in getting the change and Meera asked the shopkeeper to pack the gift. Even Meera told him to make it quickly. Then the shopkeeper asked very lightly where will she go? Meera just casually took the name of Sangeeta's place. At that moment the shopkeeper took the name of that place bit loudly two to three times and looked at her back. Meera then saw that the man who went for getting the change was standing there to give him the change. The shopkeeper took that from him and the person left the place quickly. After the packing was made and while Meera was leaving the shop, she saw that man was talking over his mobile and kept quiet seeing her. Meera had not taken that seriously at that time. But now this is very important. They probably passed the message of the place she was going to the persons, who were following her that day. She noted down these points in the pad. It all surprised her to think how the strangers made a conspiracy to utilise her vehicle and made the plot to put her in trouble. How could she know this? Then she closed her eyes and tried to be relaxed as Ashok will be reaching her place as told by him. She checked the message on her mobile. She saw the message of Ashok mentioning that he is on his way to meet her. She waited for Ashok.