Seeing this a wide smile appeared on my face . “Finally I have hope of meeting my long lost love. ” I thought to myself.

Soon I started typing “Hey, Sam I have seen and saved your message and marked the date on the calendar. I will make sure to attend this gathering at any cost. Thanks!” And kept my phone on the side table.

I took a shower and laid on my bed. As I had already slept in the morning, I was unable to sleep at night. So I picked up my phone , opened the browser and logged into my old facebook account . 

I checked my friendlist and it had Naina in it. I clicked on her DP that had a photo of her eyes and her forehead and went on her Facebook handle. The last post was uploaded almost 10 years ago from that account.

 I messaged her “ I don't know if you remember me or not or are you still using this account. I know most probably you will never log in into this account again but just in case you did ,hey I am Jay . Do you remember Jay ? Your childhood friend. We met when we were 11 years old and four years later I moved to foreign country with my family and a few years later we met again on a Facebook group. In case you read this message. This is my Instagram account jay_khanna123 and my phone number 4596705697 . I am still waiting for you , I am still missing you and I still love you. Please feel free to contact me anytime you want. I will be waiting for your call or message. Goodbye and Love You.” 

“That's a long message. Should I delete it or not ? ” I thought to myself .

“Anyways , Naina is unlikely to see it. Even if she did , it would be for good only . At least I can hope for closure.”

I thought in my mind and started typing one more message “Hey, sweetheart I don't know where you went and why you left me but I love you . You are the true and only love of life . I hope one day at least I will get answers to my questions even if I can't get you.” 

I kept my phone on the side table but sleep was far away from my eyes . 

I again picked up my phone and called Sanjeet , my PA . 

“Hello” a feminine voice came.

“Hello, bhabhi I am Jay Khanna. Sorry to disturb you bhut can you please give the phone to Sanjeet.”

“Hello ” a masculine voice came 

“Hey, Sorry to disturb you Sanjeet, I am Jay.”

“Oh ! Hello Jay sir. Is there any important work?”

“Yeh I am messaging you an address along with a photo and name of a woman, actually one woman and a girl who disappeared years ago. You are supposed to find the history of the property owner , the woman and any possible link to the girl.” 

I cropped Tia’s selfie with my sister that my sister sent me along with some other pictures taken by her in the dining hall. I sent her cropped picture along with her name , details of address and Naina’s name , old and discontinued phone number and whatever information I could have with the link to her Facebook profile.

I again called Sanjeet and said “Hey I have messaged you details and I want all details and information as soon as possible. You could hire a private detective, hacker , cyber cell or whatever but I want all the information till I return back from my trip.”

“Ok sir ” replied Sanjeet 

I scrolled my phone for forty five minutes 

more and then went to sleep. Whole night I was thinking about Naina and her link from Tia , similarities in their voices and appearance. 

Finally I fell asleep at 1a.m.

My sleep was broken by a knock on my door. I opened my eyes and looked at the clock. It was 9 a.m in the morning.

“Hello… Jay bhai Are you up? Bhai please open the door. We are getting late for hiking. If you can hear me then get ready and meet us at the main entrance gate within thirty minutes.” Sunaina said.

“Hey, let me sleep na” I replied.

“Bhai , you are so boring. Did you come to this trip to sleep?” 

“Ok fine, I am coming” I replied.

I quickly got up and went to the washroom for a shower and got ready within half an hour.

When I reached the main gate I saw Sunaina and her finance standing there with Sania and Raj jiju waiting for me. They had bags with them.

“Hello, good morning jiju , Raj , Sania and Sunaina ” I said to everyone.

“Good Morning bhaiya but where is your bag?”asked Sunaina 

“What bag?” I asked in reply 

“Uf! Oh! Bhai we are going for hiking and camping. Don't you think that you should take your spare clothes and other camping material with you.”

“Ok give ten minutes I will be right back .” I replied 

“It's ok” 

I rushed to my room and collided with someone in the corridor.

“Sorry, Sorry…..” I said

“My bad, I was careless ” a feminine voice fell into my ears.

I looked up and saw Tanya . There was a bowl of muscle in her hands that fell on the ground and on her clothes.

“Oh! God now I need to clean all this up .” Tia said with anger on her face.

“I am really, really sorry for this.” I said .

“No it's ok. I should have paid attention. I will clean it.”

I apologised one last time and went into my room. Quickly I packed my stuff and changed my clothes that were spoiled by muscle .

After ten minutes I reached the main gate and said “Hey, Let's go.”

They greeted me but kept standing there.

Looking at them I said “Whom are we even waiting for? Now you people aren't late . ”

Sunaina said“We are waiting for Tia.” .

“ Oh ! That's great” I said with slight grin on my face 

“Waise, my dear bhaiya…. you just look too excited.” Sunaina said while giving me a naughty smile and slightly pinching my left cheek. Everybody started laughing.

I gave her a smile and side hugged her.

“When will Tia come? ”

After half a few minutes Tia arrived with a bag and she was talking to someone on the phone “Take street number 3 and move in a straight direction until you reach the end of the road” . Then she cut the the call and kept her phone inside her bag 

She said “ I have booked a Camper Van . It will arrive as soon as possible.