That was extremely sad day for Shruti, as she witnessed her husband's murder. She was deeply shaken by that incident. Her eyes were filled with terror...

After two hours of endless crying, she had now stopped. She was too tired to stand, so she kept seated on the floor, thinking a thousand ways she could have prevented Rahul's death. Monika came in with glass of water, uncle followed her. Monika handed Shruti the glass of water, Shruti refused to take anything. Monika observed her carefully, Shruti looked exhausted, her eyes were swollen because of crying, which also revealed her nerves on the corner of her eyes. She seemed completely broken.

Monika's POV:-

I have never seen Shruti so helpless. She was very deeply affected by all this happenings. She is one of the strong women I know. I am so engrossed in helping Shruti, that I forgot about my marriage anniversary. Samar, my husband is gonna be so upset. I feel so bad about it, but at the same time I also feel bad for Shruti, I mean what's her fault in all these?

Its like I am trapped, between my marriage and my friendship. Shruti had helped me many times, during our college days, we were so close to each other, we used to share everything. I could never forget, she saved me from dying.....

Yes. From dying. There was this guy, I don't wish to take his name, I was infatuated with him in my last year of graduation.

I had told Shruti, about that guy, her instant reaction was 'What!!' Because that guy was so popular in our college, he didn't had any good history, but I was so blind behind him, he was obviously good looking, I was so obsessed about him, that I didn't even asked Shruti before asking him out on a date.

That was my big mistake, but to my surprise he had accepted my proposal. We went to nearby restaurant, had food, and suddenly I felt going dizzy. Then I was unconscious, when my eyes opened, I found myself at Shruti's home.

My condition was not too good, my dress was torn from back, and I had also lost my phone and purse.
Then I came to know that, he had tried to rape me by drugging me. I was completely shocked, and ashamed of myself, that I would never face my friends and family, I was so humiliated that I decided to end my life, by cutting my wrists.

But Shruti, not only stopped me from committing suicide, but she also slapped me hard. She told me real meaning of life is to live it and not kill it. Then my life started getting good, I got graduated, got job and also understanding husband Samar. I felt my life was complete with the birth of our son Aayush. I am more than happy in my life, because of Shruti.

She helped me a lot through that phase. Maybe now it was my time to repay her by helping her through her bad phase. Uncle was another person, who is helping us in getting rid of that bastard.

Now Uncle is planning to communicate with our friend Rohit's spirit to know the real reason behind all those murders including Rahul's.

My thoughts were disturbed by Uncle's voice, "Monika! We must now prepare for further step." I just nodded and went towards Shruti. She was stable now, I took her inside her room. She went to the washroom, and washed her face.

She finally spoke, "Monika, I want to kill him". Her eyes were filled with pure revenge. For some reason I felt Yes, my Shruti is back.

I said, "Yes! We will kill him Shruti." We both hugged each other. Tears formed in my eyes, thinking about what challenges will Shruti have to face. I still couldn't believe that we had come this further.

I was ignorant of the fact that there is something beyond humanity, things have been weird lately, but now I believe in these astral things. And, basically, if there is God, then there is Evil too.

We both were seated before Uncle and he was busy turning the pages of his big black book, which contained so called ways to destroy evil. He finally took out a page looked at us. I swallowed hard, thinking about what would happen.

He said, "Moving forward, we are going to perform a seance, and summon Rohit's spirit, as we assume, he knows everything about Sa... Oh I mean the evil spirit"

Shruti frowned, "But Uncle, then why don't we call that bastard's spirit and have him killed right now!"

Uncle said,"No Shruti! We must know his motive first! We can't call him directly, as we don't know his weakness, it could be difficult to control him. That's why I am going easy way. We will call Rohit's spirit and see if we can get enough information about him."

I was quite convinced, the way uncle was telling us. He turned towards me saying, "Now, I want you to bring some leftover food and a glass of water."

I stood up and started walking towards kitchen, Shruti followed me. I opened fridge, while she poured water into a glass. I took out leftover rice, dal and some pickle. I took everything, put it in a tray and we rushed towards living room. I handed the tray to uncle.

He said, "Good."

I asked him, "But what's this for?" pointing to the tray.

He answered, "While summoning spirit, we have to offer food to that spirit, according to this book. Ok now I am going to draw a big circle here from vermilion around the dining table. We are gonna be seated on chairs."

Shruti looked at me, signalling to ask uncle about the method we were going to use.

I asked uncle, "Uncle! Are we going to do planchette?"

Uncle said, "No, but something like planchette. I will explain everything, let me just arrange the things properly." I just nodded.

After drawing the red circle around my dining table, he told us to sit in the chairs. We did as he said.

Uncle then turned off the lights in my living room, and lit a candle exactly in the middle of the table then he began to explain, "For this method, we need complete darkness, except for the light of candle, because it will show us the direction of the spirit. We will hold each other's hands and close our eyes, while we chant this mantra. I repeat close your eyes. Do not open until I tell you. Understand!" We both nodded.

He continued, "While chanting mantra, if you feel something strange like being touched or whispers in the ears, then don't get frightened, it means we have successfully contacted Rohit's spirit. Don't leave each other's hand at any cost."

Shruti asked, "Why do we need to close our eyes?"

Uncle said, "Because, while doing this, we connect ourselves to another world, and there are lot of things there which we are not strong enough to bear." My eyes widened with fear.

Uncle noticed that, he said, "That's nothing to be afraid of Mona. I will not let anything happen to both of you." I smiled in response.

He said, "Alright, that was the basic thing you had to know. Now listen carefully to this part, I will chant the final verse of this mantra, which will enable Rohit's spirit to take my bodily form. Rohit will speak through me at that time you can open your eyes. You will ask him everything we want and record it in this tape recorder. Well in this book there is nothing specified about usage of tape, but we will use this to decode the spirit's language, in case if we fail to understand." Saying this, he handed us that tape recorder.

I took it and kept it in the middle. Uncle said, "Okay. Take a deep breath three times, and hold the hands tightly. Close your eyes and repeat after me."

Uncle was chanting mantra and we were repeating with him. We repeated the mantra almost 10 times, yeah I counted, but there was no sign of anything. We continued chanting loudly until I felt a breath on my cheek. It was so spooky, it was tempting me to open my eyes and see what was happening.

Suddenly uncle's voice started to shake, he stopped chanting, and I could feel his voice was changing. Everything was recording. I finally opened my eyes, to see a horror sight of Uncle's eyes were red coloured and his face seemed disfigured. Just as Rohit's at the time of his death. I knew it was Rohit's spirit. It began speaking in a strange language, and disgusting voice. Shruti had now opened her eyes and she screamed while looking at uncle's face.

I answered it, "Rohit. Its me Monika. Do you remember me?" It again answered in that language.

Shruti asked him, "Rohit we wanted to know about Sameer.... We want to know everything." It stopped making strange noises, and it looked straight into Shruti's eyes. Suddenly the spirit started weeping.

I was shocked. I tried to calm it, "Rohit don't worry. Please help us to destroy that bastard. Please, I beg you Rohit.".........

We were shocked. Absolutely shocked about what we came to know about Sameer and Shruti's dark past. Rohit literally took us to the flashback......