The Coincident Arrival

It was 24th of May 2017. I was as free as ever imagining useless boring stuff which was boring for others, but it was interesting for me. Suddenly a super interesting idea popped from my brain. I switched on my cell phone and guess what? I was on my mission to search my other like…. I mean my stranger twin. Actually during the previous days mom bragged about me being a little insane but now I was set to prove it out to her that I am not what she thought. Since by doing this I thought I would be famous overnight. What if my stranger twin turned out to be a famous actor, celebrity, owned a large firm or?… I had even thought of all possible plans to reach out to her and take her place and live her life. Somewhere far from my boring one. Lost in my own imaginary world I could not even hear mom calling me. She was calling me because I had got a letter from the company I had applied a few months ago and had lost hope of getting a job there. Oh! Dream job, I am a genetic scientist by profession.  I had no job since last 6 months. As job vacancies for a genetic scientist were full in Goa. I was mostly reluctant to go out of state, as I never did not want to leave mom alone. Meanwhile I had applied for a job in the research agencies in Goa itself. Mom handed the letter to me. 

The letter read I mean avoiding all that format subject and stuff. I think I should buy a frame and frame this letter. Oh let me now first read the letter. Miss Gracy, 

we have read your resume and C.V. (Curriculum Vitae) and we think that you are an applicable candidate for a job in our research lab as a scientist. For any doubts please contact 23456901112. Your interview will be held on 8th June 2017 in ‘The venue hotel’ Goa sharply at 8:30 am. 

Thanking you 

Yours sincerely ……

I jumped in excitement after reading the letter. Now I had changed my mission, now it was all about getting the job and being successful in researching about stranger twins. I went for the interview on the written date and guess what, I got selected to do the job. I was on cloud nine. I finished the interview and rushed home to give mom the good news. When I reached home with the cake I found mom sleeping, so I decided not to disturb her and move to my room to work over my project right away. As I was researching on stranger twins, I found some details and I proceeded to search one of my like’s location. To my utter tongue biting, body chilling surprise I found one. Her location was in the region of south India. I decided to travel to south India to solve this mystery of stranger twins…. This was a beginning of my little adventure. I celebrated my joy with my mother. That night we had delicious dinner. Later I called my boss and old him that I wanted to conduct a research on stranger twins. He was excited about it and readily agreed on my idea. I told him that to do this I had to find a pair of stranger twins. At that thought he must have frowned at me over the phone. I assured him not to worry and I have found a person looking exactly like me in south India. The next day I booked my tickets to south India, after taking permission from boss. I was excited to go there. It was one month now since I had joined work. One of my work mate was sent with me to inspect my work. We both left Goa at nine pm. We travelled by train. Our journey was fun. During the first hour Rochelle and I did not speak much. Later I decided to break off the silence and start speaking. Speaking to each other we came to know that both of our ideologies likely match.

Just some time ago we were strangers and now, we are friends. We reached Tamil Nadu and now it was time to start our work. We needed a place to stay, so we went to find it. We decided to stay in a near by lodge. We walked towards the taxi stand. There were many

cars lined up just to drop everyone getting down from the train, I mean those people who needed a taxi like us. We approached one of the drivers standing outside and waiting for a person to hire him. We asked the driver if he would take us to a nice lodge. He took us to one of the best in that area but it was full. Like that we circled around the street for the whole night in search of a lodge. All lodges were full, we were worried about our stay over there. We did not have much money too to stay in a five star or even three star hotel for a month or more days even if our sample collection was not completed. We needed shelter for the coming days and today too. Examining our sorry state the kind driver assured us to stay at his place. We were uncomfortable at first but later we agreed. We were little afraid at the thought of relying on a stranger for a stay, but we did not have any other option. 

Afraid of being lost in an unknown place both of us decided to agree staying at the drivers place. We went at the drivers place. His wife and children gave a warm welcome. We were lucky to get such a nice family welcoming strangers like us, but I did not know the dark secret they hid from us. They gave Rochelle and me a nice separate room. We all ate food together. Later we went to our rooms. We sat to research the location of the stranger twin that night. I suddenly felt thirsty and I went to drink water downstairs. I had my phone torch on as I was walking downstairs my mobile flash light hit the front wall. I was shocked looking at the hand size photograph on the wall. The girl looked like me. I quickly drank the water and ran towards my room. I wanted to tell this to Rochelle but, she already had something to tell me too. I was confused. Rochelle told me that stranger twin I had seen used to stay at the driver’s place. She died a few years ago due to a car accident I was grieved at this. 

The next day as I woke up they addressed me as ‘DAUGHTER’ in local language. I told them my true identity it was hard for them to understand it that I was not their daughter who died two years ago. As I was residing in her room I searched the cupboard for sample collection. After a few days as our work was coming to an end I decided of telling them that I had to go back. They were nice to us and they happily bid us goodbye. I assured them if they needed any help then I will definitely help them . we exchanged numbers. After a week I was back to Goa with my mom and researching on the stranger twin samples.