Vinny POV

Not sure why my head was aching so terribly. I was lying on a bed and when I opened my eyes, it wasn't my bed or my room. After like one minute of struggle, everything that happened before I'd knocked off in my car, came into the picture. I've met with an accident.

Okay bad time is dancing on my head.

And on my friends.

I turned my head slightly to see the hospital room surroundings and then my mother sleeping on a chair beside my bed. I looked around the room, when I noticed no one, I decided to wake her up.

I tried calling her but woah, my voice came out like a baby cry, "ma...ma...". After struggling for like forever, something other than my struggle waked her up. She was more than excited when she saw me awake.

She immediately got up and her eyes sparkled with happiness. She kissed me on my forehead and asked me, "How are you feeling?"

"Fine. Just a little headache." I forced my words and smiled.

"Wait a minute." She said and went outside for awhile. The door burst opened and Sushi hurried inside and Vishal followed.

It was like Colgate toothpaste advertisement in which reporters appear out of blue.

"How are you feeling? Thank God, Vinny I was afraid as hell." Sushi almost cried.

I simply nodded. Vishal smiled at me and I returned him a smile. My mom was still outside and I assumed that she was calling my father. Then Sushi started telling something, "I don't know if I should say this now or not but,"

"Sushma, can I talk to you for few seconds?" Vishal interrupted her. She nodded to him and squeezed my hand before leaving the room with him. What the hell she wanted to tell?

Mom came inside with a lady Doctor and a nurse after they left. "Hello! Good evening Vineetha. So happy to see you back in consciousness after two complete days of restful sleep." The female doctor wished me putting the ear tips of stethoscope in her ears. She literally meant that I was in coma for two days.

That must be so heart breaking for my parents.

She didn't give me a chance to respond and proceeded on saying how lucky I was to recover this fast despite the head injury that I had. After vital check up, she said that we could leave once after she examined the final MRI report, that would mean tomorrow I could leave. The doctor left after checking my vitals and giving some reassurance.

"Never going to send you alone again with cars. I have warned you already that driving wasn't your thing." She started. Typical mother. I just smiled watching her. I couldn't help but notice the water beginning to cover her eye balls.

Sushi and Vishal came inside again, now with Vishal holding a gift cover in his hand.

"This is for you Vinny" he presented placing it on my lap once after I sat on the bed. I opened it removing all the tapes to reveal a small wooden box. I opened it and inside was a key hanging to a cupcake keychain.

"What's this?" I asked confused.

"We thought you need a bicycle as it is relatively safe and easy to handle on roads." Vishal shrugged.

"Are you serious. You want me to ride bicycle to college?" I frowned.

"Or else your papa will ride you in his car to wherever you want to go." Mom said controlling her smile about my stupid friend's gift.

Well, I laughed too. After all, even I didn't want to handle with vehicles right now. Bicycle would be a good idea but only for early morning rides. My father arrived at the hospital later that day and brought me some freshly baked cupcakes. Yes, they were like my favourite treat.

My brother Abhi came directly to the hospital from his college that evening to visit me.

"Look at this post. I posted that you have met with an accident and this got the highest likes I'd ever got." He showed me his Facebook page. He was still not allowed to use his social media accounts as his exams were yet to come. But my father and mother went for dinner and left him here to look after me. Sushi and Vishal went with them.

I raised an eyebrow and snatched his phone from his hand. Get well soon sissy was the caption under my picture. That was one of my favourite pictures that I took in my room with a teddy bear.

It got a good bunch of likes and comments. Most of the comments were

What happened to her?

Get well soon vinny.

Is she your sister, she is so beautiful.what happened to her btw?

All this time my brother kept on asking me to hand his mobile to him so that he could sign out before my father returns back from his dinner.

"It's okay. Don't panic. I will tell them that I opened your account just to pass the time." I said to him grinning.

"Yeah. And also tell them that 'let my brother use his social media until we leave to our house'. Okay sister. This little favour will help you heal faster." He said dramatically. I rolled my eyes.

I was scrolling down the comments and stopped at one, freezing in my place. It said

It's so sad that your sister has met with an accident and it is going to be hard for her to hear the news about her friend's death immediately after she recover. Hope she will get well soon.

I felt nauseous.

Abhi took his mobile from my hands when he saw me staring at it. He noticed what I just saw and immediately deleted that comment muttering 'fuck'. I remembered Sushi trying to tell me something that morning after I gained consciousness.

"Abhi, tell me what happened. Is Nikita....de..." I gulped back a lump forming in my throat, "dead?"

"Ahh, I don't know Vinny. It's not true. You have to go to sleep." He said signing out from his account. This wasn't helping. I took his mobile from his hand....no, I snatched it suddenly from his hands pushing him away and searched on Google about Ooty missing cases. The first one to appear was with headlines, "Dead body of the girl was found inside the forest of Ooty that went missing in a friend's group". I clicked on it and saw the picture of Nikita laying on soil of forest, lifeless.

My whole body felt weak and my head started to spin and

.

I passed out.