Chapter 21: chapter 21

I could hear everything but my brain turned unruly, my senses almost gave up and tears accumulated at the cusp of my eyes. Relax, Aashi! *prolonged sigh*I held my courage and tried to think in every possible way I could."Open", it was a different voice. In these two minutes, I heard almost four voices of different vocal textures each.Is that for factual?More or less, I was sure that they were human voices in the way they were changing their pitches.Because no other instrument or creature has the ability to variate their vocal cords as humans do.Now, the question was about the number of individual entities existing outside my room.I gathered my scattered hardihood and took steps ahead towards the door with almost giving up prowess.I held my phone in one hand keeping the flat's security number on the speed dial and stretched my hand towards the door-lock. I unbolted the door with my trembling hand and once it was ajar no one ceased to be visible.I stepped outside and took 4-5 steps ahead in the lobby, but there was no one.Where do those voices retreat?Who were those people?Was that a prank?What's happening? *frightened*Gosh!My first day in London is turning perplexing with every passing minute.At the same moment I heard a few footsteps moving rapidly behind my back.God, help me. I turned back and walked inside my room in search of some unexpected phenomenon.As I raised my head, my eyes popped out. I was startled to see two identical mirror-imaged girls seated peacefully on the couch with a smile on their faces.What the heck?Who are they now?"WELCOME BABYDOLL", they cheered.As a result of the sudden shock, my phone slipped off my hand aiming at the floor.Wait! Why didn't I discern a thud?Strangely, I didn't hear a thump of my phone hitting the ceramic floor as I was expecting naturally.I sighted downwards with a sudden jerk to scrutinize the actuality.My eyes widened as I saw the particular locale in front of my eyes.I saw a high-colored guy having moderate yet noticeable physique, blonde hair and a pair of brown orbs staring at me with a smile. Shit! I jumped a step back abruptly after noticing him kneeling in front of me with my phone in his hand."Ease off. I saved your phone from getting smashed", he winked. I processed everything for a while and thought of hushing up the entire matter right away."Who..are..you..all..?", I asked wiping the sweat on my forehead."Oops! You seemed to be scared", that guy replied, straightening himself. "What else do you all expect?", my voice cracked as I tried hard to control my sobbing."We are extremely sorry. This was just a prank", they shrugged. "Are you people out of your mind? Do you call this a prank which could almost kill the targeted person?", I wept out."Sorry, babydoll", those mirror-imaged girls replied.I didn't take that into account and continued with my bellow."And what's with those voices ha? First, those deadly bangs on the door, those scary voices, then you cloned girls and finally this guy..", I reprimanded wiping my tears."Chill, Aashika. Let us explain", that guy spoke. "You guys know my name?", I was confused."You just calm down, babydoll", one of those girls tried to simmer me down.They made me sit on the couch and all three of them sat opposite to me on the ground. And that guy offered me water, which I refused."First of all, we are extremely sorry for terrifying and make you cry. We really didn't mean to do this. We just planned a prank before we could introduce ourselves to you", that guy initiated. "We didn't know you were this sensitive. We apologise again", they seemed guilty. "Sorry..sorry..sorry...", they repeated till god knows how many times."Alright, fine", I stopped them as I can't stand anyone urging so much.Though I was not content completely, I was not in that frame of mind either to entertain this further."Did our sorry chirrup work or do we need to continue it the entire night?", that guy queried. I didn't respond as my body triggered mild low blood pressure attack might be due to hypotension.Ugh! This low BP issue is so unpredictable, I hate it. "We promise it will never happen further", one of those girls reciprocated in worry and the other two nodded in agreement."That's okay", I sighed.I need to take the medicine right away. The second I got up to grab my aid box, I almost lost my balance due to dizziness.Before I could plunge, a girl held me."Are you alright, babydoll?", she was concerned. "Yes, I will just have my medicine", I replied pulling my tablet out of the first-aid box and gulped it."What medicine?", the other one neared me. "I have low blood pressure, nothing serious", I shunned the topic."OMG! So sorry for the prank again, we didn't know this", that guy went agonized.I shook my head."Are you sure you are feeling better?", the cloned girls weren't sure. I nodded a YES. We all were quiet for a while."Fine then! Let me introduce us. I am Ella and she is my twin sister Emma. We are from Scotland", Ella initiated pointing towards the other girl."We three are your flat mates. Ella and I stay in the room next to yours", Emma smiled."I am Ronnie from Wales and I stay in the second room of the first floor", that guy introduced himself. I acknowledged. "Nice meeting you all. I am..", I tried to add, Ella cut my phrase."Aashika Rao from India", she completed."How do you know?", I was addled. "Ronnie works for the recruiting team. Still need to explain?", Emma laughed."You all work for Oberoi's?", I asked."We are staying in Oberoi's flats, then isn't it obvious, babydoll?", Ella responded.How dumb, Aashi! *self-smack*"And what's with those different voices?", I was curious. "Those? It's a hidden talent of Ronnie. He can vary his voice in six textures and we tried only four with you", Ella giggled.That's insane. "What? How's that even possible?", I frowned . "That's what I get to hear. I was very fond of voice variations since childhood, till now I had tried with six, still working on it for more", Ronnie sounded proud. "Crazy right?", he added."Completely", I chuckled. There was a fit of laughter echoing in my room. I felt a bit better by the way they tried to make me feel comfortable.I can't brush off that hair-raising experience so soon, but holding it for long was not going to help either."Come, let's have dinner", Ronnie invited. "You guys carry-on. I am not feeling like", I answered, shifting myself to bed."This isn't working. If you won't have dinner with us then it will be evident that you didn't forgive us", Ronnie crossed his arms against his chest. "We agree", Emma and Ella unisoned.Their unison reminded me of Ayu and Yash. I am already missing them. "Babydoll", twins snapped their fingers before my face. "You are coming along, babydoll", Emma almost commanded."Fine", I gave up. I have an intuition that these three are not as bad as I assumed. We all had dinner together and spoke about our family, friends and stuff."Let's go and sleep. It's your day of joining, babydoll", Emma pointed at me."Be ready by 9 AM Aashika, the cab will be here by 9:15", Ronnie informed."Of course. Good night", I wished them. I came back to my room and saw 10 missed calls of Ayu and Yash.Crap! I forgot to call them. They're gonna kill me. I called Yash!Ring.. Ring..Me- Sorry..sorry..sorry.Yash- Shut up! Me- Sorry, idiot! Yash- Fine. Dinner?Me- Had. Yash- Video call right now. Me- Aye Aye Captain!Yash- Nautanki! *laughs*Beep.. Beep..We had a video call along with Ayu for almost an hour and I explained everything and when I say everything, it means every single thing. Well, they were a bit annoyed at my flat mates and their prank, however, I handled them for now. I was completely exhausted. I didn't even realise when dozed off. Next morning I woke up at 7:30 and dressed myself in black coloured knee length pencil skirt paired with a white-collar shirt and added an optional black cardigan with elegant accessories.I styled my waist-length hair in a twisted and tucked bob with a side part.The first day at work should be perfect and on top of that, I am stepping in the Oberoi's for the first time.My dream workplace! *heavenly feel*I wore my low-heeled Ferragamo's and descended stairs.Ella, Emma and Ronnie were all ready and were waiting for me to have breakfast.I saw Princy seated on the chair adjacent to the kitchen island."Hey, Princy!", I greeted."Hi", she said and left.What's wrong with her? "Ignore her babydoll. She is the pinnacle example of "full of oneself"..", Emma said after noticing a puzzled expression on my face.I nodded and had breakfast with them.Our cab arrived and we paced towards it. "Morning bro", Ronnie greeted a guy who was already seated in the cab.Nevertheless, I couldn't see him."You sit this way", Ronnie pointed at the back seat of the cab."Sure", I opened the door and I froze as I raised my sights a bit.The floor beneath my feet slithered immediately as I noticed a familiar face which I wasn't expecting at any cost, no matter what.What the hell on earth is he doing here? *appalled***********************************Who do you think is the person? See you in the next chapterTill then stay tuned and miss me😉#KeepReading #KeepLoving❤️❤️