A month later.

"Calm down and breathe." I heard my friend saying; her words didn't really get into me as my heartbeat accelerated again, and damn, it was so furious that I felt she could hear it as well.

I clutched the sides of the kurta and took a few deep breaths to calm myself down. "Miss Sharma, you will get reports day after tomorrow," I heard the doctor saying, and I nodded my head as no words came out of my mouth.

"Let's go, Sayantika." I heard my friend, Zoya, saying it again as she dragged me out.

As soon as I walked out of the hospital, I took...