In front of me, was a big wrapped in red box and beside it. A thing that I had started almost hating.
A letter.
I looked curiously at the box wondering what can be inside it. How come that person made it inside my room also, with this big box in his hands.
I slowly forwarded my hands to it before grabbing the box. It wasn’t much heavy as I carefully kept it on my bed.
I was about to open the box but before that, I turned back and looked at the letter in the cupboard. I went there and took it in my hand.
I opened it.
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Dear Akshara
I warned you two times And I think it’s enough. So..you ready for the consequences?
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I couldn’t understand anything.
I held the box and shaked it. It didn’t made a sound.
I held the ribbon at the top and pulled it.
I removed the wrapper.
When I finally opened the lid, my eyes fell on a cloth in it and jwellery. I looked at the jwellery carefully to find out that it is completely same as Aaliya’s.
As the cloth was packed in a cover, I still saw the colour and design of it enough to guess it was also same as Aaliya’s lehenga.
There’s a letter too. I opened it and read it, again and again until I believed my eyes.
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Wear it.
Give Aaliya the medicine which is below it and faint her.
After that, Come in the mandap, and marry Arhaan.
Simple.
Today, at morning I just showed you what I can do without sending Aaliya a single scratch, but don’t expect that the next time.
If you think that it’s a joke again, then, just wait when Aaliya comes in the Mandap and gets killed.
And yess, don’t try to miss this one and only chance to save her by telling her about it.
Got it?
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No! What the fuck is it? Does he think that I’ll believe this shit?
But why am I really believing it?
I looked inside the box. There was a chloroform bottle and a small letter wrapped around it.
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You know what it is and how to use it, Don’t you, Dr. Akshara Mehrotra?
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Yes..
It’s just someone who likes Arhaan or Aaliya who’s trying to be oversmart and wants to break her marriage and nothing else. But.. if this person like Arhaan then she wouldn’t want me marry him. So it’s not Arhaan’s lover.
But if it is Aaliya’s lover, he wouldn’t threat to kill her.
It’s really fucking confusing. I think I should talk to Aaliya. I don’t care about these fake threats. What happened in the morning was an accident. Just an Accident.
I rushed to Aaliya’s room. I saw her holding her palm tightly with the other when I noticed the dripping blood below on the ground as soon as I entered the room.
“Aaliya!” I gasped walking to her. “What happened?” I asked her looking at the deep cut in her palm.
“Someone just threw a knife from the window.” She said sending a shiver running throw my nerves. I looked at the window.
It was wide open. I walked to it and closed it. “Aaliya, will you still say that what happened in the morning was just an Accident?” I asked. Not believing myself.
She didn’t said anything. “You know what? I just received another lett–” I stopped on my track realising that he can be anywhere, and he threatened me not to tell Aaliya.
“What?” She asked. “Nothing, let’s go tell your papa about it” I said holding her wrist and dragging her but she didn’t moved. “What?” I asked. “Akshara, please. This will create a mess and the wedding may break” she said.
And I think that’s the best idea for now. “Then, just let it break. Atleast you will be safe” I convinced her. “Akshara! I’ll die but won’t let this wedding break.” She yelled.
And that’s what I’ll never let happen. If that person can throw a knife at her as a warning, I don’t think he will give empty threats and I don’t know if I’m choosing the right way or not. But this is the only option I have to save Aaliya.
“Now, treat it quickly” she said hurrying. “I’ll go get the first aid” I said before going back to my room. I poured the chloroform in a hanky. My hands were shaking out of nervousness.
Am I making a big mistake? Yes I am. I shouldn’t be an Idiot and just go and tell everybody, once everyone knows it, they’ll provide security for Aaliya and everything will be sorted out.
But once again the thought that, while I’ll be telling everyone about it, what if that person shoots her?
I pulled my hair in frustration. “I don’t know what to fucking do!” I yelled. I stood there for a minute with a blank face until a paper ball hit my back.
I better write my number and give him, so atleast he won’t waste this much of paper.
I held it and opened it.
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The wedding is half an hour late for you, decide before it’s too late, and yess, don’t you dare try to tell anybody about it.
Or..the same knife will slice her throat open, or stabbing it in her heart won’t be bad too.
Or….What about a gun?
You don’t have much time.
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“Fucker” I hissed reading it. Am I really going to do this? I thought looking at the lehenga in the shitty gift box.
I took the first-aid box, put the handkerchief in my pocket and rushed to Aaliya’s room.
“Dawai banane gai thi?” (Were you making medicine yourself?) She asked as I entered the room. “Are, mil nai Raha tha” (I couldn’t find it) I said sitting beside her on the bed and started treating her wound. She winced when I applied the ointment on it.
“Waise abhi tak koi bulane kyu nahi aaya?” (By the way, why hasn’t someone came to take me?) She asked. I shrugged. I think the letter writer, no, Aaliya’s well-wisher did something to postpone the wedding for half an hour as the letter said.
“And..your done” I said finishing dressing her wound.
I looked at her smiling like an Idiot. “What?” I asked. “Arhaan might be waiting for me” she said forming a rock in my chest for what I’m going to do.
“Aaliya” I whispered. She smiled at me and asked. “What?”
“I’m sorry” I said before pulling the handkerchief from my pocket and forcefully pressing it on Aaliya’s face. She tried to fight for a second but then, she fainted.
“What the fuck did I got myself into?” I mumbled
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