happiness and food

Team Wordoholics : Chapter 20

Read the previous part of the story, Chapter 19 here

Jennifer was behind the wheels and Cyrus was dutifully giving directions. They were heading to pick Tina from her place. It was not the peak hour yet and hence driving was smooth.

“A few more red lights on the next right turn and we will reach”, said Cyrus.

He also knew that Jennifer is not paying attention to anything that he was saying other than the usual road signals. Cyrus was maintaining his patience and he also was feeling appreciative of Jenny. What people say is so right. When a woman puts her heart into something, she will get her brain to follow her heart. May be this is what was happening to Jennifer. Any woman in her shoes would have done the same thing. To move ahead in life, some chapters need to be closed forever. The chapter of Darius was one such in Jenny’s life.

Tara was home that day and had a mild migraine. She remembered that the doctor told her about stress induced headaches. Popping a pill is always a solution but how she wished there was a pill that could fix things in her life. “Ah! Just a wish and wishing it comes true”, Tara almost said it aloud. Holding Roohie’s hand, Tara got the little one to sit in the living room. Roohie knew this was not the time to hide anything from Mumma. So even before Tara could ask anything, Roohie started talking. “Mumma, please don’t be angry. I did not ask for anything. I was playing outside with my friends and Aryan Uncle also joined us”. Tara’s heart skipped a beat at that moment.

“Who joined??”

“Aryan Uncle, Mumma. His house is here only.”, said Roohi pointing to the window.

Tara was secretly hoping that may be the name is just a coincidence. Roohie told many things but her words were falling on Tara’s deaf ears.

Finally Cyrus and Jenny reached Tina’s place and Tina was already waiting for them. After a quick round of introductions, Tina got herself comfortable and Jenny once again was lost in her thoughts. Cyrus briefed Tina about the intent of this meeting and Tina was comfortable going to Jenny’s place to look at the pictures. After all the expertise of studying encryption and data handling techniques would be put to some practical use today. Tina was smiling at the prospect. Like an inquisitive child, any puzzle was fun for her. At Jenny’s place, without wasting any time, Jenny opened the laptop and starting showing the pictures to Tina and Cyrus. Tina knew there are no image databases in India but she knew of a lot on unrecognized data storage websites that held such data. The pictures were not clear and after making a copy of them all, Tina ran a couple of image filters. Some faces started showing up and that was when Tina was taken by surprise. Multitude of thoughts was on her mind but she was very cautious about divulging any details till there was a confirmation. She wanted to be really careful. She again ran those images on the databases and yes, she was right! She knew who this person in pictures was.

Shekhar was back after his first visit to the doctor. The doctor who was a specialist mentioned that Shekhar was trending towards BAD (Bipolar Affective Disorder). The medicines and therapy would keep his condition under control and it was the reason for his frequent mood swings – periods of elevated mood and periods of depression as Tara hinted one day. Shekhar kept the reports in his study and sort of hid it inside. He did not want Tara or anybody else to take a look. Tara will get a reason to say a hundred things and he knew he was capable to keep himself under control.

“Huh! Doctors have a habit of exaggerating things and naming big things for medical trouble. All they want is money. Go for fever and they will get you to get a MRI scan .50 tests to say it’s viral and here is a dose of antibiotics. F*** him!!”.  Shekhar was constantly talking to himself and mumbling. With this thought, he opened up that mail again and decided to give a call to the sender first thing in the morning. After all, he had to prove to himself that he is not insane.

Read the next part of the story Chapter 21 here.

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