Where is she?

Vasanti could not hold back her tears as she looked at both the girls. She could not believe they had grown up so much. She could still remember laddu gobbling everything that came her way and varshu with her innumerable pets.

"Vasu diiiiiii" laddu came running towards her " I missed you so much"
"I missed you too laddu. You look beautiful, young lady" said vasanti with an appraising look at laddu.

Laddu blushed and almost smiled, when a sad look passed over her "Vasu di, Varshu, I'm sorry I could not .. I tried .. I really did.. but then .. they would not listen .. I still tried and I was only 14.. and I could do nothing" she muttered incoherently.

Varshu put an arm around her and said "Don't we know you wouldn't give up easily?" and then she added with a smile "By the way, we could not understand anything you said"

"I..." started laddu

"Hold it laddu" interrupted Varsha, "Let's hold all updates till shishira is here, that way you won't have to repeat everything again. You can even tell us how you lost all the weight" she added with a wink.

"Speaking of weight, I don't look like a laddu now, so can you please call me by my name? "

"Sure Grishma! We will" said Vasanti.

"I dunno" sulked varshu "I like calling you that"

All three of them walked back to the lake and sat on the banks.

"Are you sure she will come?" asked Vasanti "After all she was not very gung-ho about meeting us. Was she?"

"Yes, I remember she was a little reluctant about meeting again." said Varsha.

"A little???" asked Grishma "She was absolutely against meeting again"

"Yes, she was." said Vasanti, "What do we do now? Wait for her?"

"I don't know. She would have come here directly.. I wonder if she has checked into that hotel." said Grishma.

"What kind of people would be able to afford THAT" said varshu, waving her hand at the hotel "It's obscenely expensive!!"

"I know some people who can Varshu and I bet Shishira is now one of that kind" said Grishma with a strange expression on her face.

"You know something that we don't" said Vasanti "Have you been hiding anything la.. Grishma?"

"Why don't I leave the updating until Shishira turns up" said Grishma.

"Ok" said Vasanti "Shall we go over to the hotel and check?"

They started walking towards the hotel with the same thought on their minds 'Where is she?'