The story so far- Part 2

Days went not too smoothly for me as an anxiety was killing me from inside. An urge to know her, to talk to her was growing fast. Though i don’t consider myself to be a good actor but I managed quite hard to look as least bothered as possible about Preeti, in front of Nisha and Rahul. But after a few days I received a message in Orkut, from Preeti :

Do u know me?

Well that was quite a rude reply I thought, but that’s a fundamental right for good looking Indian girls. And you don’t have any other option but to fulfil her demands. Initially I thought of not replying and started surfing the net. But in the next few minutes I found myself replying to her message:

I am Joy. We r in da same class.

I wrote and thought she must have seen me some day or the other over the last week and still she is seeking attention, typical girl! I sighed and decided not to make any friendship with such a snob. But then again as expected from a starving engineer, i found myself sending scraps to her, after came the Update in my Orkut profile, which I was dying to see. It said

“Joy Mitra and Preeti Sha are now friends.”

Though according to Orkut we were friends but practically we were far from it. But if you are a government official and like to know legal facts then that’s the day we officially became friends. In the next few days we chatted a bit and sent few scraps. But I wondered if she really knew me. I was almost sure she hadn’t checked out my pics in my albums in Orkut. Her ‘attitude’ was becoming irritating for me and I wanted to test her a bit (actually I wanted to flirt with her a bit).

I scrapped her one day “I am quite sure u dnt know me”

She replied after one day “Why do u thnk so??”

I immediately replied “Ohh u knw me?? Den lets play a game. U hav to find me in da clas!”

“Ok!”

The idea was that she would try and find me to win this game and thus will talk to me herself. And thus I will get the chance to talk to her without making ‘a lot’ of efforts and all my friends (specialy that psycho Rahul) will get the perception that Preeti is the one who wanted to make friendship with me. Master plan!! I felt proud of myself for planning such a multi aiming game plan!

But nothing happened. What I failed to convey Preeti was that after ‘finding’ me in the class she needed to talk to me right there and not send a scrap in Orkut saying “I saw you 2day.. u wer sitting in da middle row in black t-shirt!” There by failing my master plan! 

In the next few days in college, though I never had the courage to go and speak to her I often managed to give a formal smile to her and she reciprocated back. I felt happy somehow. But that was not good enough for me. I wanted to talk to her, to know her, to like her, to Love her. But I had learnt from my JEE that you don’t get anything you want easily, it takes hard work! And so was the case similar here.

It was the day of our fresher’s welcome, all the girls were supposed to wear saree. And she looked stunning in her black saree. By this time half of my class knew that I had a crush on Preeti, all thanks to Rahul and Nisha, though i hadn’t confessed anything as yet but little sparks are enough in an engineering college to give birth to a flood of fire, be it case of love, fight or campussing!

When I saw her that day, my eyes were glued on her for a few seconds, but then a huge roar from my ‘hooligan’ friends. I wondered why do these ‘animals’ have such a bad timing. I tried to look away from her but she gave me a smile, and that made my day.

Rahul came up with all his expert comments and Nisha joined in via her sms-es, as she was lazy enough to miss the freshers.

“I think she has a crush on you! I mean something is in her mind!” Rahul said.

“Stop talking shit!” I fired back.

“Come on the whole class knows about your ‘IL’ for her! If she wouldn’t have liked this then she would have never smiled 2 you, you dumb head! And these girls like guys like you who come with guarantee and all!”

“Give me a break! And shut up!” I said, though I liked his logic of “smiling back”. But this was too early to come to a decision.

“And what is this ‘IL’ by the way??” I asked, curious.

“Immortal love!” He replied with a huge grin.

“Ok now stop Mr. Hero!” Sneha said, bursting out in laughter. “ I can’t take it anymore! My hero was afraid to talk to a girl??” She said, and started laughing again.

I didn’t become angry, I just loved the way she laughed. I looked deep into her eyes, took a deep breath and resumed the story of my first encounter with Preeti.

To be continued...

The story so far

When i met her for the first time, rather when I saw her the first time, I thought she was definitely above average looking, given the standard of an engineering college. It’s an unsaid rule in engineering colleges that the moment a not so bad looking girl is located in the campus, the sexually starving engineers fantasize their chances with that girl. And I not being an exception stalked her for a few seconds exploring wild things.

“Man! She is the new entry in our class, missed the 1^st month due to some family problem. Isn’t she cute?” Rahul asked. I gave him a startled look and tried to speak as if i hadn’t noticed her.

“Who are you talking about?” I asked.

“The girl your eyes were glued on for the last few minutes!!” He said and broke down into one of his traumatic laughter attacks. When i thought he was about to have a heart attack due to his laughter, our teacher entered, thus saving his life. But Rahul seemed to be in no mood to talk about that girl.

 “She is from central India. She looks good. I think you should take a try. “He whispered. Not that he was perverted but that’s how things work in an engineering college.

“Just stop talking trash!! Will you?” I barked, trying to save my image and hoping he had not understood about my wild fantasies which I was day dreaming just moments ago.

“Come on I am just trying to help you. You are such a bore! I think you should move on, its been 2months that your so called girlfriend dumped you. Move on man!”

“I have moved on. But its not that i will have to try every girl I see! Now you just shut up and listen to the lecture!” I said, almost steaming.

“Ok chill! No issue. We can discuss later about it.” Rahul said and gave a disgusted look.

But strange enough, I couldn’t concentrate in the class and found myself turning and looking at her most of the times. Ones i saw Rahul looking at me, and to escape from his further suggestions to “try her” i tried not to look at her. But the 1^st thing I asked Rahul after the class was

“What’s her name?”

Rahul gave a smile as if he had achieved noble prize and he dreamt about it the last year.

“I knew it! You were stalking her!”

“Shut up! Just tell me.”

“Well her name is Preeti. She is from Madhya Pradesh.” Nisha said, joining our conversation “By the way different community, different culture, how will you guys match up after marriage? And will your mom accept her as your wife?”

I felt as if i was sitting in some Mr Bean or some cartoon program. And felt like putting a cello tape over her mouth but restrained my feelings for that moment.

“I just asked for her name! And you are thinking about marriage? Will you give me a break?” I shouted back.

Rahul started one of his routine laughter displays and finally said “ Nisha is right! You have fallen for this girl. I think you should go ahead!”

I was about to protest, when Preeti came close near our bench and gave some lab report to Nisha and was telling her something which didn’t came to my ears as i was busy stalking her. After they were done, i behaved as if i didn’t even know she had just come.

That night i checked out her profile in orkut just due to curiosity and nothing else, i told myself.

Preeti Sha  From Madhya Pradesh, lives at Kolkata, India. And checked some other stuffs and scrolled left to see the most important segment of the profile, Relationship status and it said “It’s complicated.” I don’t know what happened i felt a sudden disappointment as if someone had just stolen a lab report from me (lab report to an engineer is far more important than his girlfriend). And after thinking about it for a few seconds, I sent her a friend request. The first step towards our friendship. A new chapter in my life was about to begin. And then,

“Your phone is ringing” Sneha said.

I was too lost in the memories of the 1^st year of my college to hear the phone ring. Almost a decade from now, but it felt as if it was just a few days ago. All those moments of joy, sadness, betrayal everything was in front of me like a flash back. It was hard to come back to the present.  

The call was from a colleague wishing me happy birthday. Yes it’s my birthday and as a return gift sneha wanted to know about the girl who was in my life throughout my college, the girl who changed me forever. Yes, she was Preeti sha the sweet heart from my college.

“Now continue!” Sneha demanded.

“I think its better to stop here. I am feeling claustrophobic. It’s hard to remember all those days.” I said.

“No way i won’t let you escape like this! Your future wife is quite demanding Mr. Joy Mitra! She won’t let you stop so abruptly!” She said and held my hand tightly with a big grin.

“Ok i will continue the story tomorrow i promise, I will tell you how our friendship started” I replied.

“Hmm. Its quite strange to hear about your fiance’s love story that doesn’t feature yourself!!” She said and gave me a kiss.

“Ok then it’s better not to continue this thing i guess.” I said trying to escape from this torture.

“Not so fast honey, you will continue it tomorrow and that’s an well not an order but a request, she said with a cute smile. I suddenly felt a lot of love for her but then again i remembered about Preeti, I wondered if Sneha could handle the facts those were about to come out very soon.

To be continued . . .

Similar sound

There is something special about horror stories. 90% of the people will say that they don’t believe anything called ghost, but the moment you talk about something supernatural, something that can’t be described by the known forces of nature becomes a point of interest to all the people. Now as I have said so far you must have guessed the story is not a same old love story that you usually come across my blog (if you have ever read one that is). And also one more thing I guess I have given a nice intro to hold my reader’s attention, as it is a horror story.

Shree was watching a horror flick in her laptop in the evening. The story was of a girl who was killed in some a day after her marriage and then later on she became a ghost and used to haunt all men n women who used to cross the place of her accident. The acting seemed to be more comic than horror. Shree felt disappointed for spending the entire evening in such a below standard movie. Now she suddenly realised that it’s almost 10.30pm and she hasn’t yet ordered her food for home delivery as her mother was out of station. So there was only one option left for her, go to a nearby restaurant and buy some food.

She quickly took some money in hand and went out. She realised that she hadn’t changed her brother’s track suit which was quite over sized. But it was too late for any fashion parade she thought and started to walk quickly. She reached the restaurant in no time and ordered her food. Now while paying for the food, she realised that she didn’t care to bring her purse in the hurry and had a 500 rupees note. When she produced it in front of the shopkeeper his expression changed into a disgusted one.

 “kya madam102 rupay ka bill hua hai iske liye itna chutta kaahan se denge aapko!!” he said

“please bhaiya dekhiye na. I dnont hav any other note” Shree managed.

After a few minutes of argument the shopkeeper gave up and gave her the change and she could sense her victory.

On her way back, just after taking a few steps the lights went out. It was pitch dark. She wondered how come the shop she went just now closed down so suddenly. Taking a few more steps, suddenly she remembered about the film that she was watching. How coincidental it was that in the climax of the film when the hero returns to his house there is a sudden load shedding. And then the ghost of the girl chases him through the graveyard in the darkness. She wondered how come every horror flick has to have some chase sequence in a graveyard! Thinking all these she suddenly felt a chill in her spine. She felt some one was following her wearing an anklet (or payel), that the Indian dancers used to wear. And again coincidental how the dead girl in the film used to follow her preys. She consoled herself by saying that possibly it was someone who was wearing those anklets and there is nothing abnormal about it. To conform this, she suddenly stopped walking and turned back to see. But the moment she stopped walking the sound of the anklet also stopped. This time she lost her nerve, and started to sprint towards towards her house. And as soon as she started running the sound of the anklet grew stronger, as if the person or whoever it was also was running after her.

There was nothing but darkness and a figure invisible chasing her. Her heart was beating fast as she came to a stop in front of her house. The sound had stopped, she felt relieved and sat down on the street. The light came back. She had lost all her energy and power but a chilly feeling was still there as soon as she thought what might have just happened. She felt unsafe outside and quickly got up to go inside. The moment she looked up in the light street lights, she saw a face half burned and a blood dripping from the other side. Shree went unconscious seeing this horrible scene.

Epilogue:

One of shree’s neighbours found her unconscious in front of her house the next morning. He called some other people to take her inside her house. Shree was lying fainted right in front of the boundary wall of their house, which contained the poster of a horror film having a very ugly burned face on it. And when they lifted her to take her in, tons of coins came out of her pocket which she got from the restaurant, it’s quite strange that anklets and a lot of coins make similar sound !!

Idea from : darna zaroori hai.

The Unsocial Network - Installment 1

Its amazing hw facebook attracts almost 40% population of the world towards itself..Arush being jst one of those 40% people. He is a boy from a small town of India who has come 2 a metro city just 3months ago after getting chance in a medical college in the city. It was about 5months ago when the exams got over n Arush got to learn the “basic principles” of a social network. And within a few days it attracted him like women attract a man like casino attracts a gambler. Being a student of a boys school the wave of charming ladies of the web attracted him immediately.. And due to his good and nice looks there was no shortage of friend requests for him from the gender called female. And it was a girl named Priya who became very close to his heart may it be due to her looks or may it be due to her behavior.. Their friendship grew in the months to come and it matured like wine with the passing days. Priya is a very sweet and innocent girl from another metro city. She was an year younger than Arush.

It was about a month ago when Arush started feeling for Priya. He felt there is something between them n slowly he felt it may be love. But he was too shy and afraid to tell it to her. And then came the twist in the tale. The entry of the Tina, a class mate of Arush in his college. Her roll no. was the successor of Arush’s. And thus they had to do the practical together. 1^st Arush was hesitant in talking with her as all girls thought her to be a bitch and all boys were busy scanning her curves of her hot body all the time. Over all she was the best looking girl of the college and due to her attitude she got some taglines like “the bitch.” But slowly Arush realized that Tina was not as bad as everyone thought her to be..They became good friends. Arush got lost in two women one a virtual one and another, a real one. Entangled in this web he was searching for answer about whom to choose between the two.

4years later. It was the last day in college. There came a message from Tina saying “Need to talk to abt our relation aftr coleg..gonna wait @ canteen @ 5pm sharp…c ya..” And then came another message from facebook mobile service saying “Priya Sharma sent u a message on facebook : need 2 tell u sumthng regarding my life..U wil hav 2 take the decision for me…gonna be on9 @ 4:30pm J”.The hint was clear in Arush’s mind. Both the ladies wanted to make a relation with him.But he was not sure about whom did he really love. He bunked the college that day in stress and there was only one face which was coming in front of his eyes it was the face evry one said to be that of a bitch’s..It was Tina’s face..He was in love with tina..He was sure about it.

Then came the moment..He turned on his laptop and connected to the net at 4:25pm.he found Priya online… And before Priya could say anything he said about all his feelings for Tina.In reply Priya said she was happy for him and she called him as she was in love with a guy of her class n she was not sure how to approach him..So she asked help from our hero Arush..Hearing this he was relieved and then opened his heart and talked with Priya for a long time…And then @ 6pm he realized Tina was waiting for him…He ran like a mad dog towards the college canteen like any hero does in a bollywood masala flick for his heroine..And like every movie the heroine kept a letter for him “Before coming here I opened your facebook account as I knw da password. and found da message from Priya who I thnk loves you.And she shud hav told it 2 u by now..n da way I hav known you in da last 4 years I thnk u also luv her…so I dnt want 2 b an obstacle in ur life…bt before goin I wud lyk 2 tell u yes I luved u always from day 1…bye..you wont find me ever n if u thought me 2 b a gud frnd den please don’t search me ever..i will b happy…bye darling.”

Seeing this letter he was lost and felt destroyed..the love of his life had left him due to due to a social networking site’s crap! He wanted 2 do anything to bring her back.. But then he remembered what she wanted..she wanted him not to find her… With no hopes he returned to his hostel and opened his Gmail account.and found a mail from Priya it said :

“Today I wanted 2 say that I love you. But after hearing that you love some1 else I didn’t want to tell u about my feelings.But soon enough I found that I m not god I m a normal girl who wants luv in return of luv and hates the girl who took it away from you..but I m happy for you.i hope u get al da luv in ur lyf..u wil never find me again.i hav deleted my facebook account and wil change my number soon enough..Dont cal me til then cause I hav thrown the SIM card away..b happy my 1^st luv.”

Finished reading he realized that he was the 1^st person in the world who had unintentionally rejected proposals from two women in the same day…he was broken and shattered he wanted to cry he wanted 2 break everything in front of him and started wondering why was the thing called Social Network ever invented???its a murderer..it killed his luv..he hated it….the blue logo of Facebook was turning red with blood infront of his eyes as tears rolled down his eyes.

Epilogue:

After almost a month he opened Facebook to deactivate his account.. And in between numerous notifications he found a friend request. He couldn’t believe his eyes he was getting mad in happiness. At that moment he promised himself that if Social Network had killed his love then it will be the social network which will bring back life into it. The Unsocial will turn Social he mused. But it was just the beginning of another struggle in front of him for the quest of love. will the social network be able 2 bring love back to his life???

Everybody is a fool

Ria came out of the bathroom in a white towel. Drops of water crawling from her body, begging for mercy to stay on the smooth n cheesy skin of her. Standing in front of the mirror and taking a glance of her perfect zero figure and the most beautiful  face of her town she thought. Every guy dreamt her to be their girlfriend. She is what every man she desired she thought and smirked. She suddenly felt very powerful. Obsessed by herself Ria felt sorry for all the other average looking girls (every girl looked below average in front of her she mused).BEEP BEEP. 1 New text message her cell phone displayed.

It was Rishav, the latest fool who was wasting his time and money for the slut Ria. “c u in 10 mins infront of coleg gate” it said. Ria smiled n replied “don’t feel like goin 2 coleg 2day..c me infrnt of autostand.” She was in mood of wasting some more money of Rishav’s that day. She thought it was more than a month that she was dating him and he must have wasted at least wasted ten thousand bucks for her .It was becoming hectic for her to date the same guy for soooooooo long. It’s time to dump the rich dog and find someone richer. But she couldn’t let this happen without wasting few tons of money of his in the slog over she felt.

After spending almost five thousand bucks that day in the shopping mall she thought it was time to kick the fool in the butt. And  it was really a walk in the park for her to break up, as she had done numerous times before, actually she didn’t even remember the name of her 1^st boy friend. All men are so easy to be fooled. Why can they be used so much by women, the beautiful ones of course  so easily??She was busy thinking all these Rishav broke her concentration. He said “Hey honey, what are you thinking?”

She said, “actually I wanted to tell you something..But not now I will call you in the night and wil tell you then.”

“what is it all about??any surprise??” he asked with a naughty smile.

“No, its kind of serious issue” she said.Ya a Big surprise for you fool,She thought.

And after sometime here and there they dispersed.

It was 1am and Ria thought of calling her “toy” Rishav. She thought about the night the made love, he is quite decent in bed at least better than Raj(her previous boyfriend, or previous atm card to be specific) who turned out to be a wimp. Clearing all these useless thoughts she called Rishav’s number.

“Hello” he said.

“Hi ” she said. And being a professional breakup star she started her conquest which  was as much cherishing for her as much Tendulkar loves batting. And after 15minutes of this conversation Rishav was in tears sobbing and sniffing like a little girl. She felt powerful again, “I can bring the whole world to my feet.” she thought. Rishav was begging her not to break up he was swearing by every possible god’s name the he will be the best boyfriend ever and all filmy stuffs.  But as expected it didn’t work for Queen Ria. And soon she disconnected the phone. She felt victorious the world was waiting to be taken she mused n went to sleep.

Next Morning a phone came very early. She wanted to throw it away and ask Rishav to buy a costlier one for her but then again she broke up just the last night and thought of finding some spoilt rich guy very soon. But seeing an unknown number got irritated and picked it up. A husky male voice on the other side said “ Am I speaking to Ria Sinha??this is sub inspector Sawant .”

Puzzled by what possibly could cops want from her, she said “Yes. How can I help you ?”

“By handing yourself to the police without further delay.” He said.

“What?? I don’t understand!!”

“Your friend Mr. Rishav Malhotra committed suicide last night and accused you for this consequence in his suicide note madam. I have sent a Jeep in front of your house. If you want not to get harassed infront of your parents and neighbors then please come here withrespect.”

She was lost, felt  cheated. She thought men were becoming too much fool these days and she is the one who has to pay the price for this. It was all Rishav’s fault he is such a loser she thought and without thinking about anything, she boarded the jeep and it took her to a police station she never knew it existed. Sawant was waiting for her with a lady constable.

He said “welcome Miss  Sinha. Welcome to your home for the next 14 years or so..” And started laughing.

The female constable came forward and dragged to a chair and asked her to give her signature on a blank piece of paper. Ria rejected and received a slap in return and then was locked up in a room that looked like jail, as it is shown in films. For the first time in years Ria started to cry, she felt  pain in her heart, she never knew it existed. She knew it was her fault and would be punished for her sins. Felt  as if she was paying for all her sins. She even felt sorry for all the things she had done wrong felt sorry for all the guys whose heart she broke. Felt as if she was wrong all the way, she could see it clearly, but it was too late seconds, minutes, hours passed and she fell asleep. She wanted to die.

When she woke up she saw she was sitting in the police station on a chair. A piece of paper was there in her hand it said :

Hi Ria

I love u.i love u so much. But u never luvd me. U cheated me, just like you cheated so many guys before n just like you will cheat so many after me. So here was a little revenge from me. I’m not dead. The police you met were actors and the place where you r currently sitting is a studio. Hope it felt as bad as I felt when u said u will be breaking up..God bless you.

Tears rolled down Ria’s eyes.. Tears of joy, She thanked god that not all men are fool….

The Murderer Escapes

Murderer Escapes

He walked in with a knife. Removed the Sweat which rolled down his fore head with the sleeves of his black shirt which was quite oversized. Just a few more minutes baby and I will have all the money, he told himself. He knew it won’t be that easy. As instructed he removed the covering  of the man sleeping and lifted knife in air and in full force aimed to drill it through the ribs of the man sleeping, into his heart. Just about a few centimeters from destination, someone held his arm strongly his strength was inhuman and rolled him on the floor. He couldn’t see the person in the darkness he fell on a table which crushed down with him. He was sure he was about to get the beating of a lifetime. Memories of life flash in front of him hard working mom and dad, his escape from home to see the bigger world and then finally ending up as a gambler and losing possibly everything that he had. His life was the only thing that was spared. But tonight’s failure meant his life will be taken from him. He wouldn’t be able to save his daughter, she was his life. If anything happened to her he will die. But even after a minute nothing happened, he gathered some courage and turned on the flash light. And it directly targeted the man sleeping. Seeing the sight, he froze. It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. It wasn’t just a routine threat anymore, it was a murder and more importantly the man was murdered by his knife the knife which Krish brought with him, the same knife which he dropped in the collision with the mysterious man in the dark and he had murdered Mr. Sen. But the one who will be held for this will be Krish. He knew he was screwed something bad was coming up for him.

There is only one way I can save myself he thought, remove all possible evident that was there in the room. He took carefully pulled out the knife and erased all fingerprints and he was about to leave the knife on the bed but then he thought to take it and destroy it forever and opened the door. He wondered what is waiting in the future for him. His daughter’s kidnappers certainly wouldn’t like to know that the person who was asked to be threatened seriously was murdered. Will he be able to see his daughter ones again he thought.

He opened the door of the car that the kidnappers had sent him for this operation. But someone touched something cold and metallic on the back of his neck and few other men grabbed him from behind. Someone barked at him “stay still or we will shoot you bastard!!”

He was turned around by two constables after searching his whole body and they made him kneel down on the floor and stripped him out of his shirt and trousers and left him only in his underwear and searched fiercely in every possible part of his underwear. But they found nothing. At least not what they were looking for. He wondered how police reached there so early. And then the officer held his neck n lifted him in the air. He knew this inhuman strength. It was the same man who had taken him over in the room. Everything was clear to him. How close he was of fucking up his life he just realized. He just saved it by throwing the knife in basement of the lift. The inspector barked “What are you doing here?”

“My car was not starting. So I was trying to fix it, when you guys came and stripped me naked.”Krish said, faking a smile. But inside he knew it was by no means over..It was just the beginning of a battle to bring back his daughter.

II

“How are feeling krish?” asked Dr. Sneha Roy.

“uhh…..Nnnnot good!” said in a faint voice.

“Now come back to yourself krish. Forget whatever happened. Pia is waiting for you.”

Krish opened his eyes and found Sneha turning on the lights of her chamber, where Krish was having his regular counseling. Its more than a year now that he has to take help from a psychiatrist due to his sudden emotional bursts. At least this was what Krish was told about his sickness. But Sneha knew it was far more serious. It was a case of a lifetime. But she hesitated to go with it upfront, as she knew if anyone came to know about Krish he will soon be killed. And being a doctor her first and foremost priority was to save her patient, which she was doing for the last one year. But nothing was working. All the medicines, all the counseling, everything was going in vain. She had to figure out some other way she thought.

“What happened last night doctor? I don’t remember a thing. Did I say something about last night?”

Hypnotism was such a phenomenon where everything a person knows can be brought out of his sub conscious mind, which he may not remember once he comes back to his own. Same was the case with Krish. He used to forget “some” things like he forgot what happened last night.

“Nothing special.” Sneha said covering all the unbelievable secrets which she came to know about krish’s last night’s adventure, by hypnotizing him. Krish looked upset.

He said, “I think my daughter was kidnapped last night!”

“Not in my knowledge. She is waiting for you outside the room with her nanny. And I don’t think even she knows anything about it. It’s just that you worry for her so much and you feel like this. I am giving you some sleeping pills take these. You need some rest.”

Krish came out of the chamber, took her daughter Pia and went back home. He tried to remember about last night. Some foggy memories came to his mind but two things came to his mind prominently one Pia got kidnapped and two a blood stained knife. Both the scenes made him froze. No matter how much he tried, nothing came to his mind about the last night except for those two things.

III

Sneha called Mr. Deb Dutta, the private investigator that she had hired for Krish, the relation between Sneha and Deb were complex. They used to date each other during college, but things fell apart as time went on. And now they were just friends, though at times both felt they were more than just friends. Sneha had asked Deb to follow Krish where ever he goes in the night. And he has been doing this for more than a week now. Deb picked up the phone

“before you ask about krish let me tell you I have got some unbelievable things to tell you about last night. And I am quite sure Dan Brown wouldn’t mind making it the plot of his next story!” he said and started laughing.

“Shut up!” Sneha fired back. And said tell me what happened in details.

What Deb said next was totally the same thing that Krish had told her from his subconscious mind earlier on.

“Perfect!” Sneha said “I have got a plan for tonight. I know it’s becoming a bit risky but it’s the only way to save Krish before this gets out of hands.”

“Tell me what’s the plan?” Deb enquired. Sneha explained her master plan to Deb, and disconnected. She wondered if any medical book would encourage her to do this, but she was ready to do anything to make this case a success. Not only a successful career, a success in this case would save the life of Krish and his daughter Pia, she thought.

IV

Inspector Ram kept down his cup of tea and listened to whatever his caller had to say. Girls are always demanding he thought. And his sister was the most demanding girl he had ever met, even more demanding than all the girlfriends he had he thought. Had it not been for her, Krish should have been in jail by now. And she said that Krish is innocent?? How come? That useless Deb showed the video and it cleared out everything. But what keeps her sister Sneha saying that Krish is not the murderer he thought. He kept the phone down after listening to her. He was sure it will be a long night tonight.

V

Krish woke up. And found a sms in his cell phone it said “If u want to save your daughter then meet us @ the parking lot of hind shopping mall!” He will have to save his daughter he thought. And went straight to his destination with his knife. It was passed 10 so the parking lot was almost empty. He started going in when a black SUV screeched to stop right in front of him. A man came out of the car and held his neck. He knew this inhuman strength. It was the murderer who had murdered Sen the last night he thought. But he managed to escape from his grip and took out his knife. Deb thought this is it. He is going to die when Ram caught Krish from behind. Krish started shouting “this is the man who killed Sen.. He is the murderer!!!” He became violent, just like he had become the last night Ram thought. He thought of shooting his brain off if he does anything to harm them he thought, but then from the other door of the car came Sneha with Pia, and said “look krish here is Pia. She is safe!” Ram was holding the gun firm in his hands. One bad move and you are dead my friend, he thought.

But nothing happened. Expressions of Krish changed in seconds. From a cruel and vicious one it changed to one of a loving father. She kissed and hugged her madly and started sobbing. Seeing this both Ram and Deb were stunned. They were expecting a highly action packed night but then it turned out to be something else. And then Krish said “ How come I am here?And how did you come here Doctor??And who are you two??” he asked looking at Ram and Deb.

“You go home and take rest Krish, I will see you later and explain all this as well.”Sneha said.

Krish left for his home. And Sneha, Ram and Deb went to Sneha’s home. Deb and Ram wanted an explanation of what happened in front of their eyes.

VI

Sneha felt victorious and she was about to surface all the things that she came to know about Krish in the one year. She began :

“Krish grew up with a lot of problems in his life. He never got that happiness. 1^st he lost his parents then he lost his wife. Now his daughter was the only one left to him, and he will do anything to save her. But the problem is he can’t be as much ruthless as much required to live the life of a gambler. Deep down inside he thought he couldn’t save his parents and wife, so will also not be able to save his daughter. This gave rise to a different person in him, who will do anything to save her. But the two persons are different. One the normal Krish and the other a daredevil, a hero, a murderer. Scientifically it’s said to be a case of “Multiple personality disorder” where there resides more than one soul in a single body.”

“Ok I get you, but please explain what happened last night??” Deb asked.

“Now there is someone other than us who knows about this problem of Krish’s,who had faked a kidnapping of Pia and asked him to threat Sen. But there was a mishap. Deb didn’t know that Krish was only going to threaten him, so he tried to save Sen, but he couldn’t. In this collision came back our normal Krish, but before that, he had already killed Sen, and seeing the blood came back the fierce Krish and you know it after that.”

“How do you know about this change of personality of his last night? Did he tell u during counseling?” Asked Deb.

“I don’t know. I just think that’s what happened, and this is what logic tells me. In fact Krish didn’t remember if he stabbed the man or not during his counseling, but I think my hypothesis proves  everything to you guys.” She said with a big grin.

“Ya whatever!” Ram said, certainly not liking his defeat.

“You are a genius!” Deb said and winked.

“But the problem is not over, we need to find out who knows about Krish’s condition other than us..” Sneha injected.

“Ya the case is not closed yet!” Ram said uninterestingly.

“Well I need to go now.” Deb said and left.

Back in the car he felt good he felt like a winner, he had fooled a psychiatrist and an inspector he thought all thanks to Krish’s disease and a little video editing of last night. The idiot Krish wouldn’t have been able to kill Sen he knew so he pushed Krish and killed Sen himself that no one will ever be able to know.He thought Krish may have recognized him earlier that evening at the parking lot, but it was not to be he thought and smirks. The murderer escapes.