Darshan was walking through the crowd towards the restaurant "V's" , he was not late yet for lunch , but the overwhelming memories of the people around him was making difficulties for him . His earphone was on , though it was useless as long as he was keeping his eyes open .

Even though it was too much noisy and disturbing to his mind , he dared not to close his eyes for once , at least it was not as horrific as seeing  shadows of different shades . These sudden upgrades had turned his world upside-down , and in these few days he tried so hard to merge himself with society and that he did only for Yash .

The first time in that hired car , when he realised that he could see the soul essence of an alive human with closed eyes , he actually wanted to tell his mom . This incident was not new , he had seen the soul essence of the murderer on his first meeting's day with Yash and oddly enough that power never reappeared again until that day .

More surprisingly he could not see his mom's soul essence nor could he read her mind and he learned that his own soul essence was pure white with a faint golden border , which he did not see in any other human . He told his mom about his ability to read minds and his inability to see through her mind and his mom reasoned that her mind might be working on different frequency which he could not catch up .

Though the reason was sensible enough , he realised that his mom knew more and she was hiding from him , so he decided to keep the soul essence thing to himself . He locked himself in his home and did not want to go out easily as he knew it would only cause headache , he already had enough of being a living lie detector in all these years . Before he could read mind he was always capable of telling a lie from a truth , now being able to see through mind was making him frustrated and restless .

First Yash's calls and few talks with his mother were his only companion while staying at home , then when Yash came to know about the truth he suggested him to go out in crowd and make himself comfortable with so much noisy memories . It was not easy for him , he started staying outside as long as he could bear it .

Though it exhausted him , he got benefits of learning human characters better , it made him strong-minded , more stabled in emotional atmospheres . Though he could not restrain himself from getting affected or reacting in few aggressive situations , at least he learned to compose his expressions and keep a hold on his actions .

With so much happening in his mind , when finally he was inside the restaurant , he did not know why but the inner atmosphere was a bit less noisy . When he scanned the whole surrounding , he was surprised to see it was occupied with less people and most of them almost finished eating or waiting for their orders to be served .

To his utter astonishment he could not see through memories of many of those who were waiting and that made him frown at the thought that what kind of people they might be (including his mom and Yash) . At the thought of Yash , his eyes finally fell on Yash who was looking at him questioningly from the front table of their usual table .

Giving a small smile to Yash , he forwarded , took the empty chair beside Yash , exactly infront of a skinny man in a white shirt . That man seemed to have a headache as he kept his head supported within his palms , fully keeping his face covered.

Before Yash could utter any word , a slender man in a black shirt from the side of the man in white shirt , interfered
"one minute late . Here we're waiting for ten minutes , and he is late . So much effort for the date !"
He was annoyed .

Dumbstruck , Darshan looked at the slender man with a bit paled fair complexion in a black shirt , Yash frowned and tried to stop his brother and there the man in white shirt , burying his face in his hands , spoke up
"can you not be so serious for once ? He reached at the door on time . How can he be late ?"

Darshan had thought about the two other male as outsiders , but after their such interference , he was sure that they were also a part of their lunch treat . Not only that , he also realised that both of them were connected with Yash , but still he could not reason out why one was annoyed with him while the other was defending him .

Yash was already enjoying the small bickerings between the other two before Darshan came . He was seeing his brother in such childish manner for the first time and that only happened because of Bhargav . Though he was internally glad to see his over punctual brother's this side , he also knew that without Bhargav he will be the cold , expressionless Lord of Karma again . But this time infront of him , he just scolded Darshan . Though Darshan did not know who he was to Yash , Yash suddenly felt awkward to introduce them for Shanath's rudeness .

Yash was about to say something to the man in black shirt , but he felt a hand on his shoulder from his behind and when he looked at his back , he came to face to face with Aayudh's cautious look . Only then he knew who occupied their usual table , of course beside Aayudh sat the Life Lady with her calm yet assuring expression . Seeing someone else's gaze also was turning to them , they turned around and kept silence . Yash looked surprised at their presence , but he composed himself and was turning back , when his eyes found Lady Rashmi and Rajani together on the last table of the middle row .

A huge disbelief made its way to his face and Darshan was all along following his gazes , he at once knew that not only the two infront of them were involved but also few more peoples . Darshan noticed that he could not read their minds too , again a tensed expression popped up and this time Yash noticed that .

"Darshan , what's wrong ?"

Darshan turned to face Yash and said
"I can't read them ."

Yash knew what he meant , he just assured him not to mind much about that matter , Darshan shrugged off the thought and then his eyes fell on the other two men ; the annoyed one was watching them with amusement while the other one still did not move his hands over his face .

Yash gestured to the annoyed man and said
"Darshan , my first younger brother Shan....."

Before Yash could complete , extending his hand to Darshan , the man in black shirt , said
"Shan Raj . Nice to meet you , finally ."

Darshan had a gut feeling that this man somehow knew about him more than he knew about himself . Shaking his hand with Shanath , he looked at Yash who had a deep frown on his face .

When he caught Darshan looking at him , he left whatever was going on in his mind and gestured to the other man
"He is Bhargav , my best friend ."

Hearing his name , Bhargav finally removed his hands and looked at Darshan with a mild smile . As soon as Darshan's eyes fell on the man in front of him , he gasped audibly . First he thought he was looking at himself in a mirror , the man infront of him was almost a copy of him . His messy jet black hair , a slightly broad forehead with two almond shaped warm brown eyes all of these were exactly same as his ; only the man's half circle jawline contrasted his square one . Also Darshan's creamy white skin tone did not match with the man's a little yellowish fair complexion and compared to his own slender physique , the other man seemed thin . All over , seeing them together everyone could say that they were brothers .

Darshan was lost in daze , worry made its way to Yash's face , he nudged Darshan and said
"Darshan , if you are not feeling well , we can go back . You don't have to force yourself ."

Then Yash looked at Bhargav questioningly , confirming whether he had lost control over his mind and Darshan was seeing through him . But Bhargav shrugged his shoulder to assure him that he had not done anything . Yash was relieved and turned his gaze to Darshan , who frowned a little .

Darshan clearly heard a voice , coming from the man in front of him
"Hey ! Don't look at me like that ! I didn't do anything !"

But that man's lips never moved and Darshan knew it was the mind of the man which he could read . A sudden curiosity occurred to him and he closed his eyes only to see the pure white shadow with a faint golden border , sitting infront of him .

As soon as he opened his eyes , he asked Bhargav
"Did we meet before ?"

Darshan did not why he blurted out such a question to a man whom he never saw before , but the sensation of familiarity was engulfing him . Bhargav was already occupied with handling his outgoing mind , Darshan's question made him go pale .

Shanath sensed the tension , he answered
"I don't think that we've met before . We barely have time to come out from our duties , specially him ."

Seeing Darshan's scrutinising gaze over Bhargav again , he added more
"Oh ! If you are thinking about the face , then don't worry . That happens a lot right brother ?"

That's where Shanath gestured Yash to divert Darshan's attention . Yash looked straight to find Vinay who already came to them with their orders , Yash relaxed again . Their lunch were served , while eating Yash started asking Darshan about his health , his problems , how he was handling them and occasionally suggesting various methods , they were in their own world .

Shanath kept watching his special person eating a bit by bit while struggling with his mind controlling . Shanath knew it was hard for Bhargav to hold on to his emotions , his thoughts infront of his elder brother , but he was trying his best not to give away anything . While their talk before Darshan's arrival , Shanath came to know about Bhargav's uncontrollable future telling power and he was worrying about that too . Knowing how much Bhargav was tolerating , Shanath squeezed his free hand to give him assurance . Bhargav felt as if his burden was a bit light , he gave a small smile to Shanath and that was enough to make Shanath feel that Bhargav appreciated him .

Everything was fine and placed as it should be , Darshan did not pay attention to anything else but only to Yash , nor the man infront of him came to his mind neither the weird people around him , his treat was going fine . But Fate again made its way to play his role in their lives and suddenly Bhargav stiffened , his eyes blazed , Darshan's attention turned to him and he saw through his mind .

A girl of nineteen or twenty suddenly got up from her chair and bumped into Vinay and the tray of kheer bowls fell on the floor . The girl seemed to be in hurry , she hastily said sorry and then ran out of the restaurant . She needed to go to the opposite bus stop and for her ignorance to watch the road carefully , a car hit her , blood gushed out of a crack in her head and she died on the spot .

Bhargav gasped for air , he was struggling to catch his breath normally , though Shanath did not see anything but he knew what the situation was , he gently kept his hand rubbing on Bhargav's back . Darshan's expression was horrified , he searched for the girl inside of the restaurant and found her on a front side table of the middle row and immediately concentrated on seeing through her mind .

Yash who was worried sick about Bhargav's condition , knew that though Bhargav tried not to spill out the future but his mind saw it and that meant Darshan saw it too . Seeing Shanath handling Bhargav , he focused on Darshan's gaze and when his eyes fell on the girl , his eyes widened as he clearly saw the pending Death Line on the girl's forehead .

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Hey, Readers!
Hope you all are doing well.

Gosh! It was really a creepy lunch date which first turned out to be a unofficial banquet of Naarook then to a race of understanding everything without spoken words.......

God! These people are giving me heart attack every second!
If they don't start behaving normal or supernormal separately , I'm going to leave them!!!!!!

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               ..............Anasuya Raj

22nd November , 2020