Chapter 30: Chapter 30

Riya's POV

So nobody knew about this secret of mine... Except one.

The stalker!

I didn't know how the hell did he come to know about it? I had never shared any such information with anyone. Not even my best friend Tanvi or my parents.

last year, I started getting a few blank calls and gradually the frequency increased. I could feel as if someone was always looking at me. The feeling never let me be comfortable, whether I was in college or at home with someone or alone. I had the feeling of being watched, wherever I went.

But whenever I looked around I could not find anyone. It was like someone invisible was following me.

I was getting scared about it but could not tell my parents about it. My father would have told me to stop going to college.

Then he started sending me messages requesting me to accept his offer to be his phone friend.

I politely refused but he kept sending 4-5 messages to me in a day trying to persuade me to accept his offer and become his girlfriend.

I was so annoyed with him that I destroyed the sim card and told my dad that I lost my phone. My father got me another phone and as I had requested him to get me a new number, he got me a new number.

I stopped getting calls and messages on my phone and I was happy about it.

But very soon, I started getting private messages on the reading app. A reader started commenting on my scenes and I doubted that he was not a normal reader. He kept asking me to come on other social media sites. I ignored him.

I stopped looking at the comments. In about a month, I started getting messages on my new number but how did

he managed to get my phone number and sent me a message on my phone.

Which really scared me as knowing my number meant that he knew my real identity.

He started asking me weird and embarrassing questions regarding the scenes like, have I been through those things or if they were my fantasies...

Next month he started sending me the screenshots of the romantic scenes written by me.

The messages included only innocent romantic scenes earlier and later on, he started sending me the passionate love scenes, I had written for my books. With the note that he wanted to try all the things with me.

I was getting terrified day by day as the man seemed mentally unstable and sick.

He kept sending me messages asking me, had I tried and experienced all those things?? I ignored his messages and deleted them. But his messages started getting bolder and cheaper.

He even sent the message that he would love to try and enact every love scene with me and would keep me busy in bed with him. He asked me to fix a place to come and meet him. I deleted the message immediately.

The next day he wrote in one message that he would teach me new things which I could write in my books to spice them up.

I got very scared.

I blocked him on the app but he kept contacting me with different accounts. I blocked every single one of them. I wanted to stop writing but I had many readers who loved my work and I could not stop writing all of a sudden.

Moreover, I was under a legal contract and I could not stop writing.

I had managed everything on my own till now and was earning good money. But I could not even think of fighting a legal case without my dad's knowledge. So the bottom line was that I could not stop writing.

One day a boy from our college came to me to ask me out for coffee but I declined his request.

But very next day I came to know that he had a terrible accident. My stalker sent me a message saying ' That guy would never even think of you now. Or he would die next time. I really got scared as he seemed to be eccentric.

I didn't know what to do, could not tell my parents about it.

He started sending me cheap and nasty messages, jokes and videos. I deleted most of them even without looking at them. I tried blocking him but it didn't work.

His obsession was increasing day by day and he started sending and leaving cards, letters, chocolates, flowers, gifts etc. But I never took them.

One day he sent me pictures of me in a mall with my parents. He even knew what had I ordered that day. I was petrified. As it meant that he followed me everywhere and was very close to me. So close that he even knew what had we ordered.

He started calling me but I did not pick up the calls and stopped looking at the messages. That day I got a parcel in my window. my mom saw it and opened it. It had two dresses in it.

My mom asked me what was that and I had to lie that my friends collected money to gift me the dresses as my birthday was in two days.

I was shocked that he brought those two dresses which I had tried in the mall the day before. Actually, I had selected 4 dresses and tried all of them but then bought two of them.

I could not buy all of them or my mom would have asked from where did I get the money. I could not tell her that I was earning well because of my books.

I knew my parents would not have approved of me writing romantic books.

The stalker threatened me to pick up his call and reply to messages or I will pay for it.

Another boy tried to get friendly with me but he got hurt too. I saw him the next day and his face was bruised. The moment he saw me, he turned and went away in another direction. It made me so scared that I could not even sleep at night.

He threatened me that he would have me one day by hook or by crook.

I was desperate to get out of Meerut and came here to Chandigarh. I changed my phone number. It was ok for a month or so and now he was calling again with a private number.

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It was morning and I heard Dr Parth moving around his home. I was still totally amazed by my own fevered response to just one kiss what the hell was going on with me?

I tried to get him out of my mind but it seemed that I was unable to do that.

I would have to share a ride to the hospital with him in his car as I had left my car at the hospital last night. We had gone to the party in Tanvi's car. By chance, even my keys were with her. I would go and collect the keys and come back to my car.

The doorbell rang and I rushed to open the door thinking it was him asking me if I was ready to go to the hospital... But was surprised to see Dr Vidyut standing there with a bunch of flowers.

Flowers?? Why??

" Dr Vidyut?? What are you doing here?? " I asked as I could not have expected him to come to my home.

" C'mon Riya, I had not expected such a dry and rude reaction from you. Anyway, please accept these, I was driving here and all of a sudden, I saw these and I could not resist buying them for you. " He said with a smile.

" You should not have... " I said and just then Dr Parth opened the door too.