At next day in the morning, Priya’s car arrived at the door of Arjun’s house, she walked towards his house, worried for his health, she walked toward the door, she found it open, she felt strange, the house was all messed up, she saw kettle lying on the floor, water spilt everywhere, the stove was still on, she turned it off, then walked towards the bedroom, she saw Arjun lying on the floor towards the door of bedroom, she felt her heart heavy, she moved her legs faster towards him and grabbed his head on her arms.
“Arjun?” she said panickily.
“Arjun_,” she said slapping her fingers at his face, but still no movements her eyes recorded. She stood up, took some water and spilt it to his eyes, he moved a little, his eyes struggled to open, and she grabbed his head again.
“Arjun_”
“Hmm_,” he said lazily like a child getting off from his sleep. “Who’s this.”
“Arjun, it’s_ it’s me, Priya, Arjun wakes up.”
“Whose Priya?” he said, for a while, she thought that he was joking but there was no smile on his face and his eyes were examining her.
“Who are you?”
“Arjun? What are you saying?”
“You get out of my house I can’t allow strangers here.”
“What? Arjun I am not a stranger Arjun, I am your girlfriend.”
“What a good joke it was you bloody thief, just get out of my house.”
Arjun stood up, grabbed her arms and took her out before she opened her mouth to protest, there were tears in her eyes, tears of abandonment, she never expected that, her legs refused to move, and she fell on her knees.
“Please Arjun, don’t do this, why are you doing this.”
“Doing what?”
“Arjun, I am Priya.”
“I don’t know you,” he said for the last time and slammed the door shut.
She sat there for a while, denying everything that just happened to her, she knew something was wrong, and she had never seen him behaving like that before. She stood up and called the boss from the office, and She called Arun as well, both appeared at the door after a few minutes.
Priya narrated the whole incident to both of them, the boss was shocked, and he told them to stand there while he walked towards the door of Arjun, he knocked on the door, Arjun opened the door, and Priya and Arun stood at some distance making sure that Priya was not visible.
“Yes, how can I help you,” said Arjun, opening the door.
“What, um, why are you not in the office?” his boss asked, in was harsh voice just like a teacher scolding any student who didn’t bring his homework.
“What, which kind of office, I don’t work in any office.”
“What’s this bullshit.” the boss said.
“What? What happened to everyone, why are people whom I don’t know keep arriving at my door,” he said. “Look, sir, I think you have the wrong information or you are standing at the wrong address, I am not doing a job anywhere, now please stop bothering me,” he said and slammed the door shut.
The boss was also clueless, he went toward Priya and Arun, Priya looked at him, there was hope in her eyes.
“What happened boss?” she asked.
“He is denying that he is doing any kind of job, even if he is denying to know me.”
“What_”
“I think he is on a drug, an overdose may be, let’s wait and see, he will be in a normal state again.”
“But he never did drugs before,” said Priya, she looked at Arun, he was staring at the road where he stood.
“Arun, why don’t you say anything, we both know him very well.”
Arun looked at her, unable to build eye contact and then looked towards the boss, like he just woke up.
“Oh yes, you are right Priya, Boss, he never did drugs.”
“Then what is it?” The boss asked.
“Should we call the doctor?” Priya asked.
“See Priya, I can understand you, but I think we should wait for a while. I think he will be fine after a few hours then we will know what’s wrong with him.” said the boss and walked toward the door of his car, Arun followed him as both arrived in the same car.
They both went to the office, Priya stood there glaring at the door of Arjun, her mind showing an image of him and her together, what was wrong she didn’t know but she also agreed with what her boss said.
She took the car and went to the office, that day she was unable to concentrate, she had sent hundreds of messages to Arjun but only a single tick appeared on her message, every second she waited for his reply but every time it was just a waste of time.
She called Arun for coffee, and they both sat there at the coffee table, Arun was simply scrolling his phone.
“What do you think, what is wrong with Arjun?” she asked.
Arun was still on his phone,
“Arun_”
Still no reply,
“Arun_” she shouted, Arun looked at her, and she felt everyone’s eyes towards her, she waited until the eyes started doing their job without interfering with them.
“Yes,” he said taking his eyes from his phone to her.
“What do you think is wrong with Arjun.”
“I don’t know.” He said picked up his phone again and started scrolling.
Priya stared at him, her face red in anger but her eyes took out salty water, she picked up her handkerchief to clean her eyes. And once again saw Arun……
The end
