Lady Cops Outing.

Chapter 3

Ishita's POV.

A loud sound woke me up, the next morning . I looked at Purvi, who was still in her deep slumber. Groaning, I hit the alarm off and looked out through the drawn curtains of the screen door, at the sky. The hues and oranges are starting to spread on the sky, giving it a marvellous view to watch and wake up to. I knew now why the alarm was put so early, Purvi wanted to witness the sunrise from our balcony. I sat up on my bed and called the hotel reception, asked them send us both some coffee. Getting out of my bed, I went near Purvi's and shook her sleeping body to wake her up. She wouldn't let me live peacefully if she missed the sunrise, she groaned, mumbling something into her pillow which I roughly made out something as 'let me sleep'.

"Purvi, you will miss the sunrise" I whispered out in a rasped voice. That worked. She jerked open her eyes and looked around. I flicked a light at the other end of the room on, so that it won't blind us.

"What time is it?" Purvi hoarsely inquired, pulling her hair into a messy top knot. I looked at the time that showed 7:11 a.m. I let her know the time and went to the washroom to get fresh. I faintly heard the doorbell ring and sounds of footsteps following it. Coming out of the washroom I saw Purvi pouring both of us coffee and she put a lid on her mug to keep it warm, while she freshened herself up. I knew, she didn't like her coffee too hot, so by the time she will be coming out it will be lukewarm, just like she savored it.

Opening the screen door, I wrapped a blanket around myself and went to the balcony, with the mug of coffee in my hand. Purvi joined me a while later with her own body wrapped in a blanket and her mug of coffee.

"It looks amazing" I announced as the sun rose slowly, spreading far more beauty in the sky and mountains that overlooked the city gleamed in its own beauty as the sunrays fell on it.

"I am just gonna record it" not wasting another moment, Purvi went inside the room, brought out her camera and the tripod. Adjusting it on one of the chairs on the balcony, she recorded the sunrise, while we both enjoyed it with own eyes.

After the sun rose to a beautiful start of the day, both of us got inside. The hotel phone rang in our room and I told Purvi to go take shower while I would take the call. It was Shreya. She wished me morning and let me know that we would be leaving hotel by 8:30, as we had a long day ahead of us. I agreed.

After Purvi, I took a hot shower. The shower gels hotel provided us was amazing. It smelled amazing and felt amazing too.

When I came out, Purvi was seating on her bed, doing something on her laptop.

"Choose one," I requested, bringing out two tops from my bag. One blue, other one dark green.

"Umm, the green one" she gestured me towards it and I threw the other away. Grabbing my make up bag I went to the washroom, pulling the top down my head, I started applying some light makeup.

We met with others at the lobby. Grabbing ourselves some breakfast from the buffet the hotel was providing for free, we dug into it. Needless to say, it was delicious.

After breakfast, we set off to the destination just like we decided the previous night. First to Sahastradhara and then to Kalinga War Memorial.

Six hours and the whole tour through the war memorial and Sahastradhara later, we were now on our way back to the hotel. The day was tiring yet I wouldn't regret one bit of it.

The fact that it was my first visit to Dehradun, due to workload I never got the time to make it to Dehradun ever, it was special for me. I was happy that it was with my friends who also happened to be my teammates joining me. It was Tasha's tenth visit to Dehradun and she almost knew everything about it. She kind of showed us around.

"So how was it Ishita?" She asked me, when we were having our lunch, before our visit to war memorial.

"I loved it. I wish I was born here" I replied, munching on the salad that we ordered.

"Well now you know why I suggested Dehradun for your Honeymoon" she winked, leaning back on the chair of the small restaurant we were having our luncheon.

That comment alone made me turn brightest shade of red known to mankind, while Divya smiled and Purvi laughed out loud, Tarika and Shreya following Purvis' well led suit.

"Lekin nahi, Dushyant ko toh Bali jana tha naa" Tasha continued teasing me. While I remarked with some playful words back at her.

When we arrived at our hotel, we saw a lady moving around the lobby, shouting orders at the workers. We entered the lobby and she approached us "Are you ladies residing here?"

"Yes, we are. Is everything okay?" Divya questioned, worry marring her forehead instantly.

"Oh, yes. Please come in. I am the manager. I was out for few days, so I was getting acquainted with the guests around here. Why did you think something was wrong?" The manager furrowed her brows and looked at all of us.

"You were shouting around at them," Purvi pointed towards the staff standing at corner with their head hung low "So we thought may be something was not okay."

The lady looked over her shoulders and then turned at Purvi "They were keeping the hotel a mess. No discipline, no rules they were following. I was just gone for a week, and now I get to know from some guests that housekeeping department hasn't gone to their rooms for neither cleaning nor provided them with fresh sheets."

"Oh, I am Miss Kalyani, by the way. Manager of this hotel. I hope you're having a good time here. And don't worry, I have had them clean all the rooms now. You can enjoy at your rooms. And also tonight's dinner is on the house." Kalyani announced the last part loud, so that catching the attention of all the guests present in the lobby.

I saw the little girl from the previous night, in the play area of the hotel lobby, waving a little 'hi' to Purvi who was in a conversation with Shreya about something I couldn't catch the start of. Instead, I waved her back and she smiled shyly. I poked Purvi and gestured towards the little girl. Purvi turned her eyes towards the play area and saw Anika, waving at her again. Without giving a second thought, my teammate went towards her and picked her up, talking with her. The mother came along and greeted us.

Seeing us with the mother, Anika made grabby hands towards from Purvi's arms, calling her mother out.

"I went to put our order for dinner, but looks like now there is no need of it," she explained to no one particular signalling about the dinner being on the house that night. She took her daughter from Purvi's arms and kissed the little girl's head.

We smiled at the lady when I noticed a man come along taking Anika into his arms. I figured out that was the father and I was proved right when Marisa introduced him.

"This Pranay, my husband." He smiled at us and looked at his wife lovingly. We started walking towards our room and them too, exchanging what we visited for the day and next day's plans. They were a nice family, I could tell. Young and in love.

"This is us" Pranay said, as they reached their room .

"See you at dinner Marisa" Tasha spoke for all of us and we said goodbye for time being.

Dinner was pretty good, as expected. At our table, we discussed what we should visit the next day. Divya suggested Tiger falls, and it was a fantastic idea, if you ask me. I was looking forward to do some trekking and what could be better than Tiger falls?

The next morning we woke up pretty early, our plan was to visit the tiger falls at the earliest possible time as it was a couple of hours away from our hotel. We booked our cabs previous night itself and also let the hotel know that we would be leaving early in the morning so that they could keep our beverages and breakfast ready.

Gorging on the wholesome breakfast, we set off to the tiger falls. The place I always wanted to de trekking at. By the time we got down off the cabs, there were already few people present there. Completing all the formalities that needed to be done we got ourselves the gear for the trekking and were off to do what we were intended to.

Purvi reached the top first and started cheering for herself while Tarika joined her second and asked us to hurry up. We joined them within minutes and looked around from the top around the greenery and beauty of it. For a person waking upto tall buildings every morning, and also spending the work hours running through the streets of one of the busiest cities in the country, trust me it was a view to cherish. I would rather spend my days in forest, if I could. We clicked ourselves some really good pictures. I didn't want the day to end, ever.

The watch on my wrist showed 5:30 p.m when we were returning from the place we spent our whole day. Two of the seven days were already up. Five more days and we would be back at our own homes and work. I sighed, laying my head on the cab window. The lights of the roadside shops were being flicked on by the owners, one by one. The darkness of the night ahead starting to set in. I looked at Tasha, laying her head on my shoulders, her eyes closed. We all were enervated from all the climbing up and down the hill we did.

We got out of the cab, as the driver halted the car on the carport, and suddenly something seemed so wrong inside the hotel. A woman was sitting on the lobby with her head in her hands, sobbing. We walked in and saw the manager, who introduced herself to us previous night, in a screaming fit at her staff members, again.

"What's wrong?" Tarika questioned, looking around as we all took in the strained surrounding.

"Oh, it's nothing. Please you all can go to your rooms." The manager replied but her eyes said otherwise.

"Tell us what's wrong" Purvi demanded, her voice getting edgy.

"It's nothing ma'am, Please..." she started again but was cut off in mid by the crying voice of the woman. We looked at her and instantly knew who it was. Marisa, Anika's mother.

"My child is missing and you're saying everything is fine?" Our jaws dropped, as I gasped.

A/n: Hello lovelies,thank you so much for the reviews on the previous chapter. It really means a lot to me, getting to writing this one after two years.

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