Chapter 24: Final Chapter

The environment in the auditorium had become extremely cold and, the pendant emitted reddish light, while Sameer's spirit was disappearing slowly. He was shouting, "I will come back! I will kill you Shruti!"

Shruti and uncle kept looking at Sameer, while Monika had turned her head to other side. After, Sameer vanished, Shruti went towards Monika, she kept her hand on her shoulder, Monika literally jumped, "Don't touch me! Go away!"

Shruti was shocked at her behavior. Uncle went to Monika and said, "We must go home now, and Shruti, it will be nice if you don't speak a word."

After reaching home, Monika said coldly, "Shruti, now you can go to your home, I'll send your belongings to your home."

"No Monika, don't do this! You know, how dangerous it can be at my home." Shruti said containing her tears.

"Dangerous! Now you think this is dangerous, then why didn't you thought of it before torturing Sameer! I am so ashamed to call you my friend Shruti! You wanted sympathy right! We always have that mentality, women are sufferers, we always blame men. I am sorry to say this Shruti, you are a bitch." Monika said while going in her room and closing the door with a loud noise.

While Shruti kept weeping at her door. Uncle gave her a pitiful look saying, "Shruti! She is right, you must go to your house."

Shruti said angrily, "You will be so happy, don't you? How could you do this to me uncle?"

Uncle said, "I should be asking you this question! How could you do 'that' to Sameer? Besides my job is to help people, in this case, Sameer needed help, he is one troubled, angry soul. He needs moksha to cross over, I contacted him that night, at my own risk, but surprisingly he didn't killed me despite of knowing I am helping you, he wanted to see you, and hence I made a plan to bring you to college, it was my method to arrange your meeting. Shruti, I can't protect you from him forever. You have no idea, how these spirits are! They are very hard to control. I have stopped his powers for two weeks maximum, in the mean time, its your decision whether you want to leave all this and start your life all over again, or face the wrath of Sameer's spirit."

Shruti said, "What do you mean!"

Uncle said, "I am telling you to leave from here, because he won't know whatever you do now, I suggest you leave this city."

"But, what about Monika?" Shruti said.

"Monika doesn't need to worry, because she lives in US. Do you think, she will stay here despite of what happened." Uncle clarified.

*****

Next day, Shruti went to her house. She felt warm, after coming to her house. Her servant Mr. Bhaskar, had maintained her house very well. She thanked him and went straight to her room. Her room was silent as usual, she glanced at the big photo frame of Rahul and her wedding photo. Again, the painful thoughts attacked her mind.

She thought about each and every mistake she committed in her life, regretting each mistake, and finally decided to face him. She wanted forgiveness as well, and if the forgiveness will be in form of death then so be it.

Soon, the first week was over. In the whole week, she tried to contact Monika, but Monika was reluctant to answer any of her calls and messages. At the very same night, Shruti saw a nightmare again, this time it was worst of all of them, she saw her own death. She saw, she was being impaled by a pointed object, and Sameer was laughing, as he stood in front of her. The environment around her was exactly similar to 'Hell'. 

She woke up, literally shivering. She began to hyperventilate, and she fell unconscious on her bed, she was woken up by Mr. Bhaskar. Her condition was now stable.

She thought, she should rethink her decision, because there is no one in this world who is not afraid of death. She decided to move out of the city. She told Mr. Bhaskar to start packing her things. She obviously needed to hurry as there were only three days left for the completion of second week.

"Madam! Where are you going? Why you are in such hurry?" Mr. Bhaskar asked Shruti.

She said, "I can't tell you much, but if I don't get out of this within two days, then I will die."

Mr. Bhaskar's eyes widened, at her answer. Still he obeyed, whatever she told.

That night, she again had same nightmare, but the impact was a little less than previous one. It has been correctly said, that we can get a glimpse of future from our dreams. Maybe even death, there have been some cases about people sensing their death. Maybe Shruti was on that track. That nightmare shook her to her core. But bad luck seemed not to leave Shruti's back, as the her fight to Bangalore as well as  Sameer was going to get his powers on the same day.

Finally, the 'D day' arrived, it had to called the 'D day', D stands for many things related to this story, Destination, Dreams, Depression, Deceiving and Death. Anything could happen.

Shruti was now ready to leave Mumbai forever. She wanted to give one last goodbye to Monika and Uncle. She decided to meet Uncle first, and allowed Mr. Bhaskar to stay at home, she promised that she'll be back within half hour. But from inside she was scared of Sameer.

She reached at uncle's office, it was almost, 12 noon. His secretary told her to wait, and within some minutes uncle came, Shruti quickly greeted him, "Uh.. Uncle!"

Uncle was startled, "Shruti! What are you doing here?"

Shruti said, "Uncle, I am leaving Mumbai, I have decided to settle in Bangalore, at my cousin's place, my flight is in the evening, but before going I wanted to say thank you and goodbye."

Uncle said, "Oh that's a good decision, but don't you think, you have taken this decision at a very last moment! You know what happens today, right?"

Shruti said, "I know, but before that my decision was different, I had decided to face Sameer, but then I suddenly felt that, life is giving me one more chance, then why waste it. I will start over again uncle."

Uncle said, "OK, then probably this is our last meet, happy journey, and remember you have my best wishes with you. So when do you leave?"

Shruti said, "My flight leaves at 8 pm tonight."

"OK, so why don't you wait here, with me! I am free today, besides I came here to take some of my books." Uncle asked her.

"I would really appreciate that uncle, but I can't wait at your place, I have my things at my home. I don't want to give you any more trouble uncle. I must leave, I have to meet Monika also." Shruti said.

Uncle said, "Oh OK, but Monika is at her mother's place. Besides she is also leaving today, but at midnight, if you want I can drop you at her place so that you can meet her."

Shruti said, "Oh my God! You mean, she was going to leave without even informing me! But, I have to meet her before I go. She is the only one I have at this stage."

Uncle said, "Its okay, at least we have time till 8. We will reach there within 2 hours, then I'll drop you at your place before your flight. We must leave now, otherwise we'll be late."

"Thank you so much uncle, I really don't have any words to say, how much I am grateful." Shruti said.

They both hurried towards uncle's car. While in the car, Uncle was silent. Shruti was confused, as uncle would never sit silent then how come today, he is behaving strangely? Various thoughts were going on in her mind. Then suddenly she realised that uncle was in the office for taking some books, but where are the books? She asked, "Uncle!"

"Hmm" his voice vibrated.

"Uncle! I think you forgot your important book at your office!"

"Shruti! At this point, you are important to me, forget about the books."

"Oh okay, so when will we reach? I have to call Monika to inform her that we are coming."

"No need Shruti! She knows already!"

"What? When did you tell her?"

"Shruti! Don't worry, I had already texted her that we are coming."

"Really! Did she reply?"

"Shruti! Calm down, you will know everything when we reach there."

"Okay."

Shruti casually glanced at her mobile phone, to see if she got any messages. Yes, there was one yellow button glowing. She checked the message, her eyes widened and she jolted from her seat, it was from uncle, the message was,

'Do not go with him. He is not real me!!'

Shruti remained still. She looked at the mirror above her seat, to her horror, the mirror showed only her reflection. She was scared to death, she was riding with the devil himself, and her destination was only Death. The speed of the car was slightly increased. She swallowed hard and looked towards Sameer, who was disguised as Uncle. She secretly tried to contact Uncle, Monika, but her phone signal was suddenly lost.

Tears began forming in her eyes, there was only one way left that is to pray to God. The speed was increased even more and Shruti lost it. She started scratching his face through her nails saying, "You bastard, I will not let you kill me! Stop the car." She shouted with her whole strength. He was unaffected, he said coldly, "This car will stop at only one destination. Even God can't stop me from killing you." Saying this, his face morphed into gruesome red.

Shruti kept yelling, but he won't listen. He brought the car near a jungle area, which led to the cliff. Shruti was crying continuously, she could see, how fast the trees passed. While Sameer was driving emotionless. Shruti got a shock of her life, when she saw the jagged edge of that cliff, and the images from her  nightmare formed in front of her eyes. She closed her eyes, She couldn't see anything except Death.

CRASH..... BOOM...BAM!

The car passed the jagged edge, and broke its bonnet, and soon there was a huge explosion. Shruti's eyes were still open, she was falling somewhere, but definitely not Earth! She saw a hole forming out of nowhere on the ground, Fire was peeking out from within. She was horrified, as she saw the beginning of 'The Hell'. She fell into that hole, and within seconds she was engulfed in flames. She was crying her eyes out, but no one could hear her. She landed with a thud on a sharp rock like structure, and it went through her stomach, killing her instantly.

She looked at her surrounding, and saw many trapped souls, and Sameer was one of them. He came forward and took some of her blood in his hands and opened his arms laughing. He began disappearing slowly, he gave a sadistic smile before vanishing completely....

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