It all began with a random late-night text message.
Ding, Ku's (Avika) phone rings with text notifications. She opened her phone and saw Tejas's message, "Hey guys, come on, let's go on a trip!" She typed, "Where to and why this sudden excitement?" Aani (Ayaan), her brother, who was sitting right in front of her, told her not to take the message seriously because they were joking and knew how Tejas was.
Vihaan, the clown of the group, texted, "Really, guys, we should go on a trip to Turkey". Aani texted back, "Okay, guys, we can do a trip. What do you think about it, Avika?"
"Yeah, sure, Vihaan, can you please book tickets at least!" Ku replied. The day after, they all met and decided on the dates and the itinerary. Vihaan reminded, "Guys, we have to take permission from our parents too." They all went home to ask their parents. Ku and Aani had hope that their parents would allow, but Vihaan and Tejas had no hope of getting permission to go.
Hopefully, all of the parents agreed after a lot of inducing. They all happily texted in the group, "Our parents agreed!" Vihaan used to handle all of the documents, so he booked tickets and checked all the documents thoroughly. The flight was one week later.
The night before the flight.
It was all chaos.
Ayaan and Avika were packing their bags, and all of a sudden, Avika received a message that said, "Good Luck with Your Flight." They both wondered who must have sent that message. She told Vihaan and Tejas, and they were surprised to hear this. They thought it must be a prank or something. That night, Tejas texted in the group," Everyone, be ready, we have to reach the airport at 10 am. Don't worry about me, I will also arrive on time."
Ayaan, Avika and Vihaan slept at 11 pm, but Tejas kept scrolling reels and thought he could wake up early and he would be ready before anyone else."
The next morning, everyone woke up at 6 am to get ready, except Tejas. The airport was 1 hour away from their area, so they were all ready by 8:30 am. They texted almost 1000 times (not really) in the group to wake up Tejas, but there was no reply.
They decided to go to his house to check on him. They reached there only to find out that Tejas was still sleeping. They sighed and laughed at his overconfidence.
They woke him up and told him to get ready quickly, otherwise they would miss their flight.
All of them left by 9 am and reached the airport at 10 am. When they entered the airport, they saw the crowd and thought of arriving early, as the airport was relatively uncrowded. They boarded the flight on time, sat in their seats and got comfortable. As Avika settled her luggage into the overhead compartment, her eyes caught an anomaly, a chilling detail that made the hair on the back of her neck stand up.