" I loved the love, but love had a different face,
I was told that was love, but was something else,
Standing on the crossroads of life, what to choose,
all emotions, all expectations are set too loose..
Lovely were those days, when you were next to me,
holding hands together, walking in the setting sun's glaze,
but now it feels, all were wrong, not real but a foe..
My tears dried, and so the smile,
Emotions have gone in a distant land,
I see you infront of me, and a smile on your face,
I am not happy, but in pain,
My scars have dried in the rain,
looking back to what you did,
can't let you win again, in this game of fate.
Emotions have gone in a distant land,
I see you infront of me, and a smile on your face,
I am not happy, but in pain,
My scars have dried in the rain,
looking back to what you did,
can't let you win again, in this game of fate.
Life has given a new defination to me, but this is a bitter one,
revenge of what you have done, my heart bleeds on that,
justice to my pain, is what i want today"
It was a cold and damp room probably half of the size of her bedroom but the common thing was the sense of lonliness and a stale sent of the left over food. Her long hairs, which she always was a point of circle gossips was not there and was cut into small. Probably a sign of change was evident and swati was not the same person any more. She was sitting gazing at the .32 caliber on her hand and was sweating in the AC running in its full speed. Her emotions have died and her face was full of warth and sadness, which she has been living with.
It was around 3 months she was running to find her love and her sleep was running behind the turbulance of thoughts in her mind. The change in the events in her life has made her a criminal, which she has to borne for her entire life. But her mind always goes back when her life started as a princess and then as a queen.
Swati was an only daughter of business tycoon Mr. Oberoi, whose spread was more than any other empire. He always liked the honour wealth brought to him but he always lives closed to his root. Having a capability of buying anything in this world, he led a very simple life and so he taught the same thing to his family. Swati was made to understand the importance of money and how hard it takes to earn than how easy is to spend.
Akash Sharma, a MBA passout was working as a finance manager in the company and Mr. OBeroi was always pleased with his pressence of mind and business acumen. In a short span of time, he achieved the trust, which people would not have achieved at such a small time and because of this he was appreciated as well as hated by may people. Gradually he became very close to the business family and was able to create contacts and credibility in the upscale business community.
The journey from just a formal introduction to closeness with Swati didnt take much time and soon they were bonded for the entire life. Swati, being the only child was legal inheritor of the empire and Akash was the managing authority. Life was extravagant for both of them, they had everything - fame, money, houses, vecations to exotic locations - everything. But as it is said, "Change is evidant" but one cannot predict whether it will be for good or bad.
It was their 1st anniversary and akash planned a big party in one of their beach front property, for their close friends and family. Monsoon had already started but that didnt holded them to have the best time of their life. The week long celebrations was planned was in all sense to the taste of swati and she was super excited to cherish all moments of this day.
The beach property was in a close community sorrunding, not many people living arround but who so ever lived very well knew and had high regards for this family. It was 12 pm and the skies indicated that there will be a rain, Akash gets a unknown call on his mobile. Swati never doudted her husband and never felt the need to ask him about this. Akash went out the house to take this call and after 30 minutes he came inside and told swati that he had to go out for some important work and he will be back in 20 - 25 minutes. The whether was bad and demanding to be in the house and not to go out. Notifications were passed on the mobiles, TV channels and Radio stations.
In the midst of the preparation, no one noticed that akash didnt returned back and swati noticed this when the clock struck 6 PM. she tried to call Akash but the call didnt connect, she franatically called several times and his number said "switched Off". It was more than 7 hrs, akash didnt respond back and the fear was growing with a pinch of uncertainity. A search started across the town but all in vein as he was not traceable any where.
Local police was involved in this but that was in vein. At about midnight, the house phose ranged twice and swati jumped to take the call, thinking that it might be from Akash. With fear in her words she responded, "Hello..." , there was a harsh voice on the other side "hello madam, I am inspector sharma, We have found a dead body, which some what matches the description you gave to us. The body is taurmented to the extent that we are not able to see face but we have found certain things which indicates, that might be Mr. Akash" Swati with blank mind was hearing everything, he started feeling chocked but thought not to break down now. He might not be akash, he might be some thief who might have robbed him. akash cannot be dead, he cannot leave his swati...while she was running between en emotional turmoil, the voice again appeared " Hello madam, are you OK? " with a shaking voice she said "yes.." she was responded with " OK...Can you please come to the police station to identify the body and the objects, so that we can release the body tonight only" This was it ... how this can happen, we were just to bigin our party..But she replied "Ok inspector, will be there in another 15 mins." The call was disconnected "Ok madam, we will be waiting"
It seemed that the whole world changed at once..all colours faded in white, the colour she have to live with for her entire life. but how she will live, how she will survive?, Akash never said her anything about the business, investments etc but neigther she asked him. Now the time is differnet, she was alone in the world of vultures, who might be waiting to snatch everything she had... all the thoughts started pouring in her mind. She was standing in her balcony..rains had stopped and a unbearable silence was making her more uncomfortable. she almost forgot to visit the police station untill the door bell rang twice. The sound of the bell broke her trans and she ran to open the door and found the police inspector standing infront of her. Before saying anything, he said " We could understand your pain on the loss happened and so we brought the body and the objects here. There was a neck chain, wallet, mobile..."she was just looking at the body covered in white cloth with teared eyes..all the physical features was matching with Akash. Emotions overpowered the belief and she broke down. The cremination process was done in the pressence of family, friends and business associates.
Life started to change now and the biggest shock came to Swati, with a legal notice, which says that the company was sued for fradulant transactions worth 100 million to its customers and the company was liable to repay back the amount to the victims. "what ??? ...." was her first reaction and she never heared anything like this in her father's time. One more time she wanted to believe that this cannot be true and so she approached Vijay, who was a legal consultant to the company and also a very close to the family. " Are you aware of this???..." Swati almost shouted showing the paper in her hand. Vijay took the papers and went through that, quickly as if he was aware of this. "Are you aware of this??" she repeated and vijay was silent. "Vijay .. i am asking you .. Akash never told me about this.." she was loosing her patience. "I dont know about this but i heard from the community. I never gave an ear to this, thinking this might be a propaganda to bring the business down.. Akash was tensed from couple of days but he never shared anything with me..." Vishal paused, wiping the drops of sweat on his forehead. As if he was still hiding something. "Are you telling me the truth? or hiding something from me??" "why should I??" Vijay intruppted before she can complete.
"How we can solve this? do we have this much money in the company?" she asked him. "I dont think so... Akash has made some big transactions from the company's account. i knew that even i tried to stop him but he never listened to me and i think, he died because of this only..." "He used to meet some people, who i felt are not good people..I warned him but all in vein and now the fact is the company is bankrupted..." Swati was listening in suprise.. "Now what is a way out?" she asked. "He made you the director of the company and you signed the document..." " what??? i never did that..." she intruppted.
"yes you did, he took out the leagal undertaking copy which had her signatures" Swati rolled back her memories and tried to remember when she signed these papers and remembered that Akash gave some papers to her saying that these are the vendor contracts for the aniversary party. She never felt the need to read the document because she trusted him. Two drops of tears fell from her eyes.."how he can do this to me ?" but now questions do not not hold any value. "Tell me .. what to do now?" She asked to Vijay looking at him. After a pause, he said " If you accept and surrender then i can get a benifit of doubt for you.. Since you never were infront of anything i can get you out from this..." a sparkle was there in her eyes. Swati was trying to understand everything, what was told to her. She thought this might be the only way to get out from this.
Swati was sentenced 10 yrs of hared punishment for this and was moved to the district jail. An orthodox facility in the out skirts of the city. Designed full proof, unbreakable and unescapable, where it was a proven that only coming in was possible without going out. Swati was put into a cell with some of cruel inmates. First couple of months she was scared, tormented yet assured by Vijay that he will take her out from this but his assurance were loosing the ground of reality.
She knew this was not right and she will never be able to come out or this and she only have to find out a way to come out of this. Something she never did in so many years, something she never thought, she will ever do. The thought would require a complete mental and physical transformation of herself. A strike of revenge against Vijay, as she thought, he is responsible for everything, she has been going through...along with her husband or Akash for fooling her and driving her into something which she was never related to.
She is a different person now and thanks to the deceit she got and have been getting, which landed her in this mess. She started spending the in making friends. In this process, she met Sunita, who was convicted on a murder charge and was kept in the next cell and she would able to meet her in the work time and breaks. In couple of weeks time there was a unseen bond between both of them. she told her problem to her and agreed to help her in getting out from this provided she lets her to come with her, which was never a problem with her.
"Where is the money??" Shewta asked herself, when she tried to roll back on the series of events happened in the recent time. There was only one grey point that how so much money got disappeared without anyone even knowing about this. Vijay was always suspected because he was never confident on what he spoke but the main part is Akash. "Was Akash really was killed?" "The body was there, the objects were there but still the body could not been identified " She tried to think on the possibilities but staying inside a cell, she cannot do anything and she have to go out and fast.
"I want to go out from here and to very fast and you have to help me.." She told to Sunita. "Hmm...give me a day's time and i will get this done..." Sunita thoughtfully replied. It didnt took Sunita to freeze a plan for them. She had resources, people to help her and Shewta knew that..."Tomorrow..we will take the kitchen duty. At 12 pm, a truck will come with the grocery..My guy will bring the truck here.. This truck will be here only for 30 mins and we have to jump in the truck before it leaves. But the major risk is that the truck will be checked ...." Sunita paused. "I'll take it.." Shewta without thinking much accepted it. " Well then..." Sunita gave the assurance and they went to each other's cell. The whole night Shewta couldnt sleep thinking, where would she go then..but it is the hunt of the truth to prove her innocence.
Like the plan was, Sunita managed to get the kitchen duties for both of them and the truck arrived in the facility at exact 12 pm. After checking, it was allowed in. Both of them saw the truck getting parked 10 meters from the kitchen. Helpers started to offboard the truck as per their requirements in the pressence of the jailor. "We have to distract their attention, to something different so that we can run from here." Sunita said to Shewta. Her mind was running here and there and out of a reflex, she banged the can of oil and it fell on the gas and there was a blast, loud enough to shake the entire facility. Shewta and Sunita along with other inmates almost bounced and hit on the opposite wall. Everyone left their work and rushed for help. They somehow managed to take everyone out of the site. Though hurt, they were pretending to be unconsious. They were kept away from the fire and called the fire brigade.
Both of them managed to get on their feet and ran towards the parcked vehical. "The truck is empty..they will catch us..." Shewta shouted. Soon she waived to sunita pointing below the truck. "We will have to hang there, till the truck is not out of the facility. No other options" Time was running and the decision needed to be made fast. Both of them jumped below. They had to hold the hot shaft but towards the cost of freedom this pain was negligible.
It took another 10 mins for the truck to start but till that time, the news of 2 disappearance speaded like fire. There were checks in the truck and the sense of uncertainity was developing in their minds. Below the truck, it was dark and hence no one could see anyone, when checked. Within few minutes, search vehicals were on the road and the truck as well hit the road. It was broad daylight and the truck stopped on the highway behind a car. Shewta and Sunita both jumped out and ran towards the car, but unfortunately they were noticed by the searching team. Upon warning, when they didnt stopped, they started firing at them. Sunita jumped in the car and made way for Shewta, its when a bullet just the her hand and went.."aaaahhhhh" Shewta shouted as blood was oozing out from the fresh cut, but before she fainted, sunita pulled her inside and the car skidded on the road.
"Police is in search of us, we cannot go to hospital... We have to find some place to hide and plan..."Sunita said to the driver tying a cloth on Shewta's hands. The car picked up the speed and moved towards the outskirts of the city. It was getting dark when they left the city way behind and there was a no sign of police vans following them.
The car off tracked in a dense forest and stopped outside a house. The house looked like a great hidding place with no one arround and even not a simple thought that there might be anyone living in that place. The house looked like stranded from many years, waiting for someone to come and live.. But there was no one. The driver Umesh, quickly stopped the burning engine of the car and there was a ultimate silence every where, with sounds of nature and animals, who are out for their dinner. There was a weak mobile signal all over the place but once they stepped inside the house it was full..suprise.
Inside of the house was a full contained control center conected to the monitoring systems accross the city. Shewta, roamed in side the house looking for any loose points but that was like a fortress much different how it looked from outside. Every one changed and burnt their clothes and there were new sets ready for their consumption. Every thing which are needed for her to avange her pain and loss was already there in the house...Guns, bombs, tracking devices etc..
She sat on one terminal and rolled its mouse, suddenly a black screen popped infront of her eyes with a green clicking bar. She typed "Vijay Malhotra" and within fraction of seconds the entire list of people with the same name popped up in front of her eyes. She carefully scrolled across the list and finally found the person whome she was searching, she clicked on "Trace" button and the screen changed to a map with a red dot moving all over the screen and then stopped in a place. This was not the same place where she met him, it was some other place..She wanted to write the location but she knew, if he changed his co-ordinates..
"Am I traceable through this" Shewta suddenly shouted without knowing, if anyone was there or not. But when no answer came to him, she shifted her eyes from the terminal to the room and no one was there..She was all alone..she shouted "Umesh..." "Sunita...." but no answer came. A strike of fear, an emotion which almost died in her but some parts of that..was still there somewhere inside her, has now grown...She jumped off the chair and started searching for someone for help.
After a long search, she found no one she again came, from where she had started..and found a small note on a table with some money, she picked up the note and started reading, " You can hide here as much you needed and there is everything which you will need to complete the job. We cannot stay here, as this will create too many risks for all of us and so we are leaving but we will be in contact always whenever you need us to help you...and one more thing...You will never be tracked through the terminal and so you can locate anyone and every one through this, without their knowledge..""she didnt write how do i contact them" she thought and suddenly there was a glowing light from the other side of the table. she stood to check, there was a pager lying, which was blowing on its own. She picked up, there was 1 message there, she opened the message which said, "use this to contact us.." and the message deleted itself...really hi-tech...
She cleaned her wounds with hot water and antiseptic, took some food and went to the bed. she was scared to switch off the lights but she thought, that any one can trace her with the lights open. He had adopted darkness when she was in jail but this was not a jail, this was a house abandant in this dense forest where animals freely hunt for their food and she cannot die without avanging her pain..she have to live and have to be strong..Calculating a plan, she went to bed after switching off the lights.. the house was dark, and darkness complimented the actual meaning of the condition of the house.
She couldnt sleep as her mind always ran back to the older times, when she was happy with Akash and also the tough times she had to undergo after her death .."is he really dead??" her mind striked a cord of uncertainity, she atonce jumped on her bed, ran to the terminal, like a child, who at once saw her toy which she was searching from a long time, with a click of a button, the dead terminal again came to light, she didnt bother to open the lights, and with shaking hands, she typed " Akash Sharma" and pressed enter. The screen changed into a list of people with similar names. She scrolled through the list but didnt found anyone matching with the details in her mind.
She went back to her bed and tried to sleep..thinking on a plan to trace Vijay and with this heaviness in her mind she was asleep. Her sleep broke with cry of birds from the nearby trees. She woke up and without doing anything she went to the terminal. she found a blinking button, which was not there yesterday. she clicked the button and there was a message with a timer running on the top..."Come out of the house...take right...walk for 1 KM....take left ... sit inside the car..." she just completeted reading and the message dissapread.
She got ready as quickly as possible and ran out of the house.. the doors locked on their own. She started running on the directions which she memorized from the message and soon she reached infront of a black car. without looking anywhere she jumped in the car. The engine came back to life in no time. The car stopped infront of a junkyard...perfect hide out for anyone.. she came out of the car and the car speed out of the premise. Suddenly her pager started blinking, she
Swati was sentenced 10 yrs of hared punishment for this and was moved to the district jail. An orthodox facility in the out skirts of the city. Designed full proof, unbreakable and unescapable, where it was a proven that only coming in was possible without going out. Swati was put into a cell with some of cruel inmates. First couple of months she was scared, tormented yet assured by Vijay that he will take her out from this but his assurance were loosing the ground of reality.
She knew this was not right and she will never be able to come out or this and she only have to find out a way to come out of this. Something she never did in so many years, something she never thought, she will ever do. The thought would require a complete mental and physical transformation of herself. A strike of revenge against Vijay, as she thought, he is responsible for everything, she has been going through...along with her husband or Akash for fooling her and driving her into something which she was never related to.
She is a different person now and thanks to the deceit she got and have been getting, which landed her in this mess. She started spending the in making friends. In this process, she met Sunita, who was convicted on a murder charge and was kept in the next cell and she would able to meet her in the work time and breaks. In couple of weeks time there was a unseen bond between both of them. she told her problem to her and agreed to help her in getting out from this provided she lets her to come with her, which was never a problem with her.
"Where is the money??" Shewta asked herself, when she tried to roll back on the series of events happened in the recent time. There was only one grey point that how so much money got disappeared without anyone even knowing about this. Vijay was always suspected because he was never confident on what he spoke but the main part is Akash. "Was Akash really was killed?" "The body was there, the objects were there but still the body could not been identified " She tried to think on the possibilities but staying inside a cell, she cannot do anything and she have to go out and fast.
"I want to go out from here and to very fast and you have to help me.." She told to Sunita. "Hmm...give me a day's time and i will get this done..." Sunita thoughtfully replied. It didnt took Sunita to freeze a plan for them. She had resources, people to help her and Shewta knew that..."Tomorrow..we will take the kitchen duty. At 12 pm, a truck will come with the grocery..My guy will bring the truck here.. This truck will be here only for 30 mins and we have to jump in the truck before it leaves. But the major risk is that the truck will be checked ...." Sunita paused. "I'll take it.." Shewta without thinking much accepted it. " Well then..." Sunita gave the assurance and they went to each other's cell. The whole night Shewta couldnt sleep thinking, where would she go then..but it is the hunt of the truth to prove her innocence.
Like the plan was, Sunita managed to get the kitchen duties for both of them and the truck arrived in the facility at exact 12 pm. After checking, it was allowed in. Both of them saw the truck getting parked 10 meters from the kitchen. Helpers started to offboard the truck as per their requirements in the pressence of the jailor. "We have to distract their attention, to something different so that we can run from here." Sunita said to Shewta. Her mind was running here and there and out of a reflex, she banged the can of oil and it fell on the gas and there was a blast, loud enough to shake the entire facility. Shewta and Sunita along with other inmates almost bounced and hit on the opposite wall. Everyone left their work and rushed for help. They somehow managed to take everyone out of the site. Though hurt, they were pretending to be unconsious. They were kept away from the fire and called the fire brigade.
Both of them managed to get on their feet and ran towards the parcked vehical. "The truck is empty..they will catch us..." Shewta shouted. Soon she waived to sunita pointing below the truck. "We will have to hang there, till the truck is not out of the facility. No other options" Time was running and the decision needed to be made fast. Both of them jumped below. They had to hold the hot shaft but towards the cost of freedom this pain was negligible.
It took another 10 mins for the truck to start but till that time, the news of 2 disappearance speaded like fire. There were checks in the truck and the sense of uncertainity was developing in their minds. Below the truck, it was dark and hence no one could see anyone, when checked. Within few minutes, search vehicals were on the road and the truck as well hit the road. It was broad daylight and the truck stopped on the highway behind a car. Shewta and Sunita both jumped out and ran towards the car, but unfortunately they were noticed by the searching team. Upon warning, when they didnt stopped, they started firing at them. Sunita jumped in the car and made way for Shewta, its when a bullet just the her hand and went.."aaaahhhhh" Shewta shouted as blood was oozing out from the fresh cut, but before she fainted, sunita pulled her inside and the car skidded on the road.
"Police is in search of us, we cannot go to hospital... We have to find some place to hide and plan..."Sunita said to the driver tying a cloth on Shewta's hands. The car picked up the speed and moved towards the outskirts of the city. It was getting dark when they left the city way behind and there was a no sign of police vans following them.
The car off tracked in a dense forest and stopped outside a house. The house looked like a great hidding place with no one arround and even not a simple thought that there might be anyone living in that place. The house looked like stranded from many years, waiting for someone to come and live.. But there was no one. The driver Umesh, quickly stopped the burning engine of the car and there was a ultimate silence every where, with sounds of nature and animals, who are out for their dinner. There was a weak mobile signal all over the place but once they stepped inside the house it was full..suprise.
Inside of the house was a full contained control center conected to the monitoring systems accross the city. Shewta, roamed in side the house looking for any loose points but that was like a fortress much different how it looked from outside. Every one changed and burnt their clothes and there were new sets ready for their consumption. Every thing which are needed for her to avange her pain and loss was already there in the house...Guns, bombs, tracking devices etc..
She sat on one terminal and rolled its mouse, suddenly a black screen popped infront of her eyes with a green clicking bar. She typed "Vijay Malhotra" and within fraction of seconds the entire list of people with the same name popped up in front of her eyes. She carefully scrolled across the list and finally found the person whome she was searching, she clicked on "Trace" button and the screen changed to a map with a red dot moving all over the screen and then stopped in a place. This was not the same place where she met him, it was some other place..She wanted to write the location but she knew, if he changed his co-ordinates..
"Am I traceable through this" Shewta suddenly shouted without knowing, if anyone was there or not. But when no answer came to him, she shifted her eyes from the terminal to the room and no one was there..She was all alone..she shouted "Umesh..." "Sunita...." but no answer came. A strike of fear, an emotion which almost died in her but some parts of that..was still there somewhere inside her, has now grown...She jumped off the chair and started searching for someone for help.
After a long search, she found no one she again came, from where she had started..and found a small note on a table with some money, she picked up the note and started reading, " You can hide here as much you needed and there is everything which you will need to complete the job. We cannot stay here, as this will create too many risks for all of us and so we are leaving but we will be in contact always whenever you need us to help you...and one more thing...You will never be tracked through the terminal and so you can locate anyone and every one through this, without their knowledge..""she didnt write how do i contact them" she thought and suddenly there was a glowing light from the other side of the table. she stood to check, there was a pager lying, which was blowing on its own. She picked up, there was 1 message there, she opened the message which said, "use this to contact us.." and the message deleted itself...really hi-tech...
She cleaned her wounds with hot water and antiseptic, took some food and went to the bed. she was scared to switch off the lights but she thought, that any one can trace her with the lights open. He had adopted darkness when she was in jail but this was not a jail, this was a house abandant in this dense forest where animals freely hunt for their food and she cannot die without avanging her pain..she have to live and have to be strong..Calculating a plan, she went to bed after switching off the lights.. the house was dark, and darkness complimented the actual meaning of the condition of the house.
She couldnt sleep as her mind always ran back to the older times, when she was happy with Akash and also the tough times she had to undergo after her death .."is he really dead??" her mind striked a cord of uncertainity, she atonce jumped on her bed, ran to the terminal, like a child, who at once saw her toy which she was searching from a long time, with a click of a button, the dead terminal again came to light, she didnt bother to open the lights, and with shaking hands, she typed " Akash Sharma" and pressed enter. The screen changed into a list of people with similar names. She scrolled through the list but didnt found anyone matching with the details in her mind.
She went back to her bed and tried to sleep..thinking on a plan to trace Vijay and with this heaviness in her mind she was asleep. Her sleep broke with cry of birds from the nearby trees. She woke up and without doing anything she went to the terminal. she found a blinking button, which was not there yesterday. she clicked the button and there was a message with a timer running on the top..."Come out of the house...take right...walk for 1 KM....take left ... sit inside the car..." she just completeted reading and the message dissapread.
She got ready as quickly as possible and ran out of the house.. the doors locked on their own. She started running on the directions which she memorized from the message and soon she reached infront of a black car. without looking anywhere she jumped in the car. The engine came back to life in no time. The car stopped infront of a junkyard...perfect hide out for anyone.. she came out of the car and the car speed out of the premise. Suddenly her pager started blinking, she
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