Ayra's POV:
It was difficult for me to hide about the letter from Daniyal. He kept on asking where I was going, why I was going and to meet whom. Gosh!
This man never gives up!
Somehow I gave him snarky remarks to shut him up for a while but I knew that he would keep asking me again and again because he knows my work is my priority and I never leave in between office time. I have worked hard to prove to dad that I'm worth this position.
I couldn't find any information about this Lucifer guy so right now, me and Reem are heading over to the treehouse, hoping that everything will work in our favour.
As soon as we reached there both Reem and I together started walking towards the treehouse door, somehow the door was already open and it kind of scared us.
"Oh my gosh! I think that Lucifer is already here." Reem said scared.
"It's okay, Reem. We will handle him." I assured her giving a squeeze to her hand.
As we entered the the treehouse, we were consumed by darkness, I switched on my torch and-"
"AAAHHHHH"
"MUMMYYY"
"BHOOOTT" we screamed so loud that anyone could hear us from the outside.
I put the torch on the face of the person who let out the scream along with us and I was shocked.
"YASMINE" I yelled.
"AYRA, REEM! What are you guys doing here?" Yasmine asked us just as surprised as we were.
"Did you receive that letter as well?" I asked her.
"By that letter you mean the one who invited me here today. Oh God! Did you both-" Yasmine was interrupted by another voice.
"So we were all invited and none of us told each other." It was Ilyana's voice.
"You too." Reem spoke surprised.
"Wow! This shit is crazy for real." I sighed.
"When did you guys reach here and were you together?" Reem questioned them.
"Oh no. When I reached the treehouse I saw Ilyana heading over, we didn't know anything.
But what about you guys?" Yasmine answered.
"I called Reem when I received the letter and I got to know she received it as well so we just came along." I told them.
"Do you guys have any idea who this Lucifer is?" Ilyana asked us.
"No, not at all. I tried finding it out through so many ways but just couldn't." I replied.
"Did any of you tell the guys about the letter?" Yasmine questioned.
"No"
"Never"
"Okay good. But what are we supposed to do now?" Yasmine asked.
"Yes what do we do? It's all dark and scary here." Reem said.
"I think we should just wait for-"
"AAAAHHHHAHAH" we all let out yet another scream.
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Rayyan's POV:
As we reached near the treehouse we heard a loud scream.
"Shit! I think the girls are already in there." Daniyal said.
We all rushed in the treehouse.
At first it was all dark then we switched on the flashlight on our phones.
We saw the girls having a shocked look on their faces and looking ahead at something (or may I say someone).
Her.
I couldn't believe my eyes at first, my heart started beating faster like all those times in the past.
She looked even more beautiful than the last time I saw her, her brown eyes looked a shade lighter and she had for sure dyed her hair the hazelnut brown colour that she always wanted to. Her cheeks were now much more fuller making her look all cute and she had those tiny freckles all over her cheeks which were now much lighter. The right side of her cheek had that tiny mole and the left side of her face had that pretty dimple which was killer as always.
All in all she still looked like a dream.
A dream that was once mine.
"What are you guys doing here?" Ahad questioned the girls.
"Why can't we be here Ahad?" Ayra snapped back a question at him.
"If you girls had also received the letter from that damn Lucifer you should all have at least informed us." Daniyal spoke calmly.
"Why should we? Who are guys? We can't always rely on you guys for all our problems. And please we are all mature and independent enough to deal with all this." Yasmine said annoyed.
"Okay guys chill out. And who are you?" Ashar said.
"I um- I'm Z-"
"Eshal" I said before Eshal could speak.
Everyone was staring at me.
"And how exactly do you know her?" Reem curiously asked me.
Only Ahad knew about me and Eshal back then not even Ilyana, so it was obvious that everyone else was clueless.
"Uh- I"
"We were colleagues." Eshal replied not making any eye contact with me.
"Oh gosh! Are you the Lucifer?
But you are too pretty to be the Lucifer.
And how do you know about us?" Ashar asked her and I couldn't stop glaring at him.
"I- what? I don't know or am any Lucifer and I do not know you guys, my friend had invited me here." Eshal spoke.
"Your friend? Who?" Yasmine asked her.
" The one and only Lucifer that you guys have been dying to meet." Spoke Zayn from behind Eshal giving us all a wide grin.
"YOU?" We all questioned together.
"Yes babes." He said with a wink. This fucker!
And how did he know Eshal?
"All this while, the letter and everything was all done by YOU?" Daniyal asked him.
"What is wrong with you Zayn? You scared me to death." Reem said annoyed at him.
"This is only expected from him. Idiot!" Yasmine glared at him.
"If this is one of your pranks Zayn, I swear to god I will kill you today." Ahad told him furious at his actions.
"How did you remove all the hints Zayn? I was not able to trace you." Ayra asked him.
"Okay okay guys,
Yes the letter was sent by me.
I'm sorry Reem, I didn't mean to scare you or anyone.
No, this isn't one of my pranks, it's actually serious but I just wanted to lighten the mood before telling you all about this.
Eshal my bestfriend, knows a few tricks so she helped me remove all the traces and that's why she is here. She has no clue about anything yet.
And lastly thank you Yasmine baby for at least expecting something from me." He replied to all the questions and at the end winking at Yasmine which only grew her anger.
"So what is it that you want to tell us all Zayn?" Ashar asked him.
Everyone in the room was now all serious. We all sat down to hear out what Zayn had to say after everyone introduced themselves to Eshal. I couldn't help but notice how Eshal seemed to be smiling at Zayn. Bestfriend my foot!
"So guys before I begin, I would like to ask for your consent to tell Eshal about the incident.
She helped me collect all the proofs and stuff, it is only fair that I let her know about what's going on." Zayn asked us and everyone agreed though some of us were a bit reluctant but I guess it's only fair.
"Eshal go ahead." Zayn told her.
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Eshal's POV:
I had just reached the location Zayn had sent to me.
"Finally you are here." Zayn said with a sigh.
"Zayn I don't get it, why are we here?" I asked him.
Zayn and I were bestfriends ever since we met in the bike racing arena. He was so welcoming and supportive cannot forget what a total flirt he is. But he had been there for me on my worst days. I was grateful to have him.
A month ago I was going through old news on the social media and I came along this website which mentioned this place and I'm someone who loves mysteries and solving them.
When I told Zayn about this new mystery I was solving, his face went pale, he asked me all the details that I knew about it and I told him everything. Later on he told me that this mystery was somehow related to his childhood and all his friends. So I thought to help him out.
"Eshu I promise to tell you everything today that is if my friends also agree with it okay?" He said.
"Fine! But my deserve the cheesecake after this is solved." I told him, he once brought a cheesecake which one of his friends had made and holy goodness, i fell in love with it.
"Anything for my love." He said giving me a flying kiss. As I said a total flirt this guy is.
After a while a group of girls and guys came to the treehouse, I was just about to introduce myself to them assuming that they might be Zayn's friend when I saw him. It had been 3 years since I last met him. He looked exactly the same the only difference was he had a much more muscular body now and his haircut was different otherwise his face was just as handsome as the day I met him. It was as if he hadn't even aged. I saw him look in my direction so I immediately looked at the other side not wanting to make any eye contact with the man who broke my heart.
When he took my name suddenly, it took a lot of courage to not just run and throw myself in his arms. I knew that I wasn't over him but seeing him here today and him taking my name reminded me of all the times we smiled and laughed together.
Finally Zayn showed up and cleared all their misconceptions, even I wasn't aware he was going to invite them all here by scaring them. This guy was just next level. He then introduced me to everyone. I knew about them all but I had never met them. When he had initially told me he had a friend named Rayyan, I didn't think much of it but now I realise it was none other than The Rayyan Rehman."
Everyone was now seated and were much more calm, didn't understand why Yasmine and Rayyan were glaring at me and Zayn but anyways. Zayn took his friends consent to tell me about the incident and I just couldn't believe it. I couldn't even imagine the trauma they had to go through when they were all just kids. I decided to tell them about the clues that I had found.
"I was just going through the old newspapers on social media when I found out about this house and since I enjoy trying solving mysteries I had decided to solve this one as well.
I collected all the newspapers and other hints around this date 21st September, 2012 and what I found intriguing was that this exact same incident had occurred on the same day but in Mysol which is in the complete opposite direction from here, but no one wrote about it except for one newspaper which was later shut down. Not only this but, when I tried finding about that why the newspaper company was shut, almost no one gave me a response except for this one person who told me that the guy who was mentioned in both the news was same." I said.
"What?"
"Wait how is this even possible?"
"One guy in two different places?"
They shot me with all these questions. I understood their confusion. I was confused as well.
"Yes exactly, the same guy at two different places that too at the same day and time. He also told me to not investigate any further in this matter let the past be past if I didn't want to get into trouble. But I still went ahead and tried finding more evidence and the last clue I have found till now is that maybe that guy is still alive." I told them as much as I was aware of.
"No way!" Ashar exclaimed.
"Are you a 100% sure Eshal? Because as far as we remember this cannot happen." Ilyana asked me.
"Trust me Ilyana, I have no reason to lie to you guys, I'm being completely honest. I can even provide you all with the proofs that I have" I assured her and passed the file which contained all the necessary documents.
"We need to look into this matter." Daniyal bhai said.
"Yes, if it is the truth then I'm sending those guys to prison for causing us all the trauma. Also we will all have to be very careful, if anyone finds out that we are looking into this we might get into trouble." Ahad bhai told as we all nodded.
"Also we are not going to share it with our parents at the moment, don't want them to stress over it at this age, they've all done more than enough for us." Ashar said in a strict and serious manner.
He was right why involve our parents and cause them trouble.
"Ayra, Yasmine, Reem, Ilyana you will all be going out with Ahad's bodyguards and please for gods sake anything happens, a phone call, a letter, a text absolutely anything you will let us know. You too Eshal, we wouldn't want you to get hurt because of our past. Am I clear?" Daniyal bhai said in a voice loud and clear.
"Yes." We all replied.
"Rayyan, you start finding more on this as soon as possible." Ashar told Rayyan.
"Right, and Zayn stop with your antics now." Rayyan said as he passes me my file and our fingers touch for a brief second giving me those tingles. I could see him staring at him so I just took my file and stood in the opposite direction.
"Hey, don't act like you all don't enjoy it okay!" Zayn said.
"Oh we so don't." Yasmine said glaring at him.
"Liar." Zayn told her and they started bickering.
"Okay enough! I guess we should all go home right now, we will all meet tomorrow and discuss what to do further." Ayra told us all.
Everyone agreed to it. We were all headed to our cars when Ahad said,
"None of you girls are going alone at this time, Ilyana, Ayra and Reem you will go with us and Zayn you drop off Yasmine and Eshal."
"Ahad I will go with Reem it's fine." Ayra protested.
"No you are coming with us." Daniyal said in his "this is final" voice.
"I'm certainly not going with this guy Ahad please." Yasmine told him.
"Aw. Don't worry baby I won't bite." Zayn said giving her a wink and she made a "i'm so done with you" face.
"Guys no bickering do as I said." Ahad said.
Finally after all the bickering Daniyal, Ahad, Ilyana, Ayra, Reem and Rayyan went together in Daniyal's car and Yasmine, Ashar, Zayn and I went in Zayn's car.
I looked at Rayyan one last time to see him already staring back at me. Damn these feelings!
I am going to avoid him until this investigation is over and never see him ever again.
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Hey everyone, hope you liked the chapter.
I just created a place named Mysol on my own since I wasn't sure of what to name it.
Our very own Zayn was the Lucifer, how was this surprise?
Which character do you guys like the most till now?
Do Comment and Vote.
Thank you.
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