**back to Vinny's point of view**

Next day morning, I woke up to the buzzing alarm sound of my phone at 6A.M. I stopped it immediately and flipped it on the bed. Screw you. For ruining my sleep.

The cold and pleasant morning air occupied the room. The sounds of bird chirpings, the morning fresh light filtering through the green trees and cold breeze entering the room from window made it hard for me to get up from the bed. I closed my eyes for few more seconds and it felt like seventh heaven.

The bliss disappeared slowly pushing me into awakeness like a wave pushes the dirt to shore when I realised that Sushi wasn't sleeping beside me.

I climbed down the bed and walked to washroom. It was empty. I stepped out of the room rubbing my eyes and went to the other rooms. Karthik and Vishal did not lock their door. They were still asleep. Karthik laid his legs on Vishal's abdomen and Vishal on Karthik's. I swear, even Sushi and I never slept like this anytime before besides being best friends.

Nikita's room was locked from inside, which would mean she was still asleep or may be Sushi was with her. I could atleast ask her if she saw her but then I would become the one who ruined her sleep if Sushi was around here somewhere in the house.

Anyway I decided to wake her up but stopped halfway knocking at her door as I heard someone knocking at the main door. Ohh!

I went down to unlock the main door and as I did, there was Sushi and Krishna standing infront of me. I predicted that they would've gone for a jog as sweat dripped down their faces.

"Good morning." Krishna wished me with a wide smile.

"Good morning Vinny. " Sushi said with huffed breaths pushing me aside entering into the house.

"Morning" I wished back to Krishna, "You should've waked me up," I said following Sushi to the sofa, "You forgot me or don't want me to accompany you?" I asked her with a small grin. I had no idea if Krishna understood that I was teasing her.

"Aww shut up. You were sleeping like a buffalo." She scowled.

Krishna laughed watching us. I did too. She was okay now despite of what had happened to her the previous day.

"Hey, am I late guys?" Nikita said yawning standing in the corridor above us.

She turned back to see whether Vishal and Karthik were in their room or not. "Oh my gosh!" She exclaimed. I knew what was that for.

"You're not late Nikita, those idiots are still not awake" I said smiling thinking how would Karthik feel if he gets to know that his crush saw him like that.

"Oh they are not awake yet from that awkward position?" Sushi asked chuckling.

Krishna didn't seem to understand any of this. He slept in the room located in the hallway. So he didn't see them. He laughed with us anyway.

We got ready and started our journey to see places at around 9A.M. On the way to our destiny, we took many pictures. Krishna had digital SLR with him. He said that he loved photography and he also had worked as a photographer for few months. And now he was working as a guide. I wondered how he had managed doing so many works.

"Next going to be a chef or what?" I asked him.

He chuckled, "No, cooking is just a timepass thing. I'm not going to make it as my source of earning."

"That's so sweet of you. I'm glad we're having a multi talented young guide instead of some middle aged stubborn goofy man." Sushi said blushing a little. Krishna nodded and smiled.

We were on the Doddabetta peak. A beautiful view from the peak was the only thing that entertained us. We didn't know what else to do, so just sat there talking and enjoying the view.

Vrindha, Ayesha and Ishwarya joined us when we entered the city. They had got extra energy I guess, they wandered around the place while we were sitting and stopping here and there. I held a bottle full of water and made sure that Sushi was drinking enough to hydrate her body.

"Go get them Krishna, or else our trip is going to become a-1-year-trip." Nikita commented. Krishna smiled and left us to bring them to us as we had other places to visit.

That was when Vishal started talking, "You three are so interested in him huh? Not at all considering either me or Karthik!" He pouted.

"Yes, he is more interesting and caring than you guys" Sushi said. No doubt if someone was admiring Krishna, that must be her. She never stopped admiring him since she first saw him.

"Well then, go grab his", Vishal stopped as Nikita interrupted him, "I'll cut your tongue before you complete that sentence, Vishal!"

Krishna came back to us with three girls behind him. They looked so exhausted. Who asked them to walk that much? We stopped by few gardens and parks before reaching the guest house.

This time, Krishna did not come with us to guest house. He said that he would catch up on us tomorrow morning at our guest house again. We all got fresh up for second time in the day and assembled in the hall. They ordered pizzas from near by restaurant.

When we were about to complete our pizzas, I asked finally as there was no other interesting topic to talk. "Umm yes, who was up after sushi and Krishna gone for jog and locked the main door?" I added "from inside," I again added "in the morning?"

"They went for a jog?" Vishal asked surprisingly.

"You and Karthik were not in this world at that time. Leave it" I said.

"I thought you did it, because you are the only one who was awake when we arrived. We locked it from outside and left to jog as everyone were still asleep but I was a little surprised too when the door was looked from inside after our return." Sushi said raising an eyebrow.

"No. I did not lock the door." I said slowly thinking of all the possibilities of who would have locked the door when we all were asleep inside.

I raised my head to see Nikita suspecting her, but only to see that everyone in the room was already seeing her. "What? I did wake up when you three were talking in hall" Nikita concluded.

Well, then who had locked the door when Sushi and Krishna went to jog, but no one were awake inside the house? Or else this house must had some super powers to lock doors on itself.

"Or else some kind of gho....." Nikita did not complete her sentence as Karthik said, "No, darling, there are no ghosts or spirits in this house. Please don't create one by your weird imaginations." Nikita frowned at his comment. I didn't knew if it was for him using 'darling' or him saying her imagination as 'weird'.

"Let's not think too much about the lock. Now we need some sleep. Good night." Vishal said standing from the bean bag he was sitting signalling everyone to sleep.

Everyone went back to their rooms. I knew that no one were going to sleep until it was 12 A.M., including Vishal who asked us to sleep. We were kind of late sleepers.

But he just tried distracting our conversation. Otherwise we would have sat there panicking the whole night thinking on who would be the one that had locked the door.

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Who locked the door?

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