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I didn’t realize when I have literally fallen asleep. I slept like a log, unaware of what was happening around me.
When I woke up, my heart was beating rapidly. I asked my heart, ‘Hey my heart, why are you beating so fast?
‘That is my business.’ it replied. ‘Okay. That’s good. But why so fast?’ ‘Don’t worry. I beat for someone.’ ‘For who?’
‘Aditi,’ my heart replied.
I shook away the thought. I got up and went to the washroom to freshen up.
I came to my bed to check my phone, if there was any call. The battery was dead. I thought for a while. At night the charge in the battery of the phone was around 70. I was not able to understand how it drained from seventy to zero. I had not used my phone at night. ‘Never mind’, I said to myself, and I plugged it in for charge.
I thought of calling Aditi but decided to call her after my breakfast.
Meanwhile the phone battery would be charged.
I went to the dining table. Dad was alrea
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