“How nice” Anika said, there was a silence then the both of them began to laugh, now that Anika had gotten Pallabi comfortable, they continued conversing, they talked for a long while, they talked about anything and everything, Pallabi kept thinking to herself This is definitely not the Anika that Sonal was worried about, she’s actually changed, I can’t wait for Sonal to see her, Pallabi smiled as she listened to Anika talk some more.

Anika was keeping up conversations with Pallabi, for one reason only and it was a sinister one, she kept convincing Pallabi to drink, Pallabi had tried to control her drinking as she had already been...