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Raina: You still awake? She asks looking in her watch.

Abhimanyu: You don't let me sleep. He smiles at her.

She smiles back.

Abhimanyu: You came back? He asks looking at her.

Raina: Ya! I thought, I should.

Abhimanyu: So soon?

She was so engrossed looking at his room that she didn't bother to answer.

Abhimanyu: What are you looking at?

Raina: Myself, on your walls, on your screen. Are you so attracted to me? She turned to him.

Abhimanyu: Ever since you left, you are on every inch of my wall, my screen, my heart, my head,...... just not in my bed.

Abhimanyu: And attraction, you caught my eye in the first sight itself. I was attracted how ugly you are but so confident, I heard you sing and I was attracted to your voice,  when you saved your father, I was attracted to the beauty of your soul, and when we did that video I was just bowled by the beauty of your body. I was always attracted to you, one or the other aspect of you.

He said so romantically, she swallowed the lump that formed in her throat.

Abhimanyu: You know, sometimes I miss you so much that I cannot stand it. But, you don't understand. You always do what you want and never what I want.

Raina: What you want?

Looking at her, "I want to see you naked". He says.

She looks at him, and  without any second thougts, starts taking off her clothes. She drops them on floor one by one until none left on her body. He looks at her naked with his heart beating double in time. His head drops back and he closes his eyes, "You always blow away my minds." 

He opens his eyes back and gazes at her dreamily.

Raina: Do you want to just keep staring at me?

Abhimanyu: No.... I want to kiss you down there. He says looking right there. She swallows down the saliva.

         She walks and stands in front of him, him sitting in the bed. She sees his head move in there and she gasps when his lips touch her. Her chest heaves as he plants several open mouth kisses there. He moves her knees apart, and kissing up her inner thighs his mouth reaches her core, licking and sucking her pussy to orgasm. Her hand in his hair, her head falls back moaning in pleasure.

        As her pulse levels she looks in his eyes and says, "Kiss me like the world is gonna disappear." He looks up at her and pulls her down on the bed and rolls on top of her, grabs her lower lip with his, pulls it, bites on it, and then vanishes it in his mouth as his lips, tongue and saliva all come into action and his hands go all over her body desperately touching and feeling what he had been longing for so long.

           He thought of condom. 'Damn this is hallucination, he doesn't need it,' a voice said in his head as he licked wet kisses on her body. He penetrated without condom and came inside her.

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            He opens his eyes  in morning. He looks on his side. She was not in the bed. His eyes moves along it's periphery to look for any signs of her in the room. No clothes on the floor, the tissue he remembered cleaning up with after sex was also not there. There was no sign of her presence. He was in his sleeping shorts. "Aah! Dream," he breathed out deep, and closed his eyes. 'Damn! It felt so real. He actually felt he did it all with her'. He was happy that now he can die feeling she was the last woman he was in.

              He looked at the clock showing eight. He looked in the direction of window, and saw light peeping in between the curtains. "8 am," he said and reached out for the sachet of heroin under his pillow. There was only one left. He picked the small sachet of heroin that he packed with just the right amount of dose he needed and emptied it in a glass with water to prepare the amount of solution he needed. He was drawing the solution in the syringe when he started hearing some sounds. He hated audio hallucinations and he usually did have hallucinations after waking up from dreams. He got up from bed with syringe in his hand, slipped on a Tee and walked down the stairs to get some beer.

He smelled coffee. Then he saw Raina standing next to stove in the clothes he saw her wearing last night.

"Good morning! Want some coffee? she asked smiling seeing him walk down.

"No, I don't drink coffee. I can use some beer though".

"Now, that I have made it, you have to drink coffee. I am sure you would love it like always," she told him as she poured it in the cups.

He walked and sat on the sofa in the living with curtains pulled out.

He looked at her suspiciously.'Is he still hallucinating? This can't be real. How can she come inside when he never opened the door for her and there is no one else in the house to do that?Has to be hallucination'.

She walked in the living with a cloth and started dusting the coffee table.

"What are you doing?" he asked her.

"Cleaning your house. Don't you have a maid come in to clean now?"

He didn't answer, just watched her dusting the side tables.

"I have cleaned the house off all the undesired things for a clean beginning," she declared. He narrowed his eyes at her.

"I have thrown all your stuff and now it's going away in that garbage truck, you see," she said looking out the window pointing to the garbage truck headed out the gate  of the building.

He glanced at the syringe filled with heroin on the side table next to him. 'He is definitely hallucinating.How many hours since he didn't take his dose?' He stressed his head but couldn't remember. He was feeling like his body needed one badly. He reached out for the syringe.

" You are not doing it," she stormed to him and snatched the syringe.

"C'mon, Raina! Give it back to me. I need it. You know I cannot live without it," he pleaded.

"You can live without me, but you cannot live without it. Let me see what this damn thing is," she pricked the needle in her arm and plunged the whole thing in one go and in no second she was on the floor.

         Horror and grief struck him. He immediately picked up her hand, felt her wrist for pulse. No pulse, and her hand dropped like no life. "What's happening?" he screamed out his lungs. " What's happening?" tears bursting out of his eyes. "Someone please get me out of this hallucination. I damn hate this hallucination". Then he looked at her lying lifeless on the carpet. 'What if it's real? No, no'. He tried to resuscitate pumping her heart with his hands and giving her mouth to mouth. Nothing worked, she didn't move. He put his ears on her chest. 'She is dead'. "No," he cried. 'This better be hallucination now, I better wake up from it now'. He swallowed the lump in his throat, but tears won't stop from his eyes.

           "Where is my damn phone?" he cried and rushed up to his bedroom, called the police and ambulance and the security of the building. Soon the police and ambulance reached blaring and he told what happened in a hope that they might be able to bring her back to life. Doctor declared her dead at the hospital. He wished he woke up from it and realized it was hallucination or a nightmare, but everything seemed to be real now. She was dead. 'She was there for real, but how?' He had no clue.

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          The news of her death spread like a fire across news channels and websites of different countries. "In a shocking news coming from India, the young pop sensation and global icon Raina Shinde died this morning due to drug overdose. She was found dead in an apartment in Mumbai. The news comes just few days before she was about to kick start her tour,'Love on Brain' in London. We will keep you updated as we get more information from the Indian Police investigating the incident. Her fans, manager, co-workers and family are in shock and disbelief. We got in touch with her manager and he says she flew to India just last day for some private business, but it's difficult to believe she is no more and that she died of drug overdose because the young singer never smoked, drank or used substance. All the people who knew her and worked with her are deeply shocked and claim that singer led a clean life. They can't believe she died of drug overdose. The news channels kept on and on about her albums,music, achievements how she achieved so much success in such a short span of time, and reading the messages and tweets from fans and celebs expressing shock and grief throughout the day. Music channels and radios played her songs all day.

          Forensic reports came and his fingerprints were found on the syringe she injected herself with. Abhimanyu was taken into custody for investigation for murder in high profile case as the people who knew her from all over the world claimed that she was not into drugs. 'Some more news on the sudden shocking death of international pop sensation Raina Shinde. Her body was found in the apartment that belonged to the young producer and director of her first English single, Abhimanyu Singh. Also an ex-model featured in the video of her first English single. He has been taken into custody after drugs were found in his blood and post mortem reports suggest consensual sex with him hours before her death. Her parents who live in Mumbai had no idea of her visit to India and they deny her having any affair with the young director. Her body was handed over to her parents in evening for performing the last rites. Prayers were offered by fans across the world for the peace to her soul' the news across the channels read.

             Sahil who was away shooting in Budapest tried reaching him when news reached him, but his phone was with police. He left for Mumbai by next flight. He didn't know what to think. Firstly, he couldn't believe that Raina was no more in the world, and secondly that Abhimanyu was being held for it. Post mortem report that his semen were found in her vagina  confused him. What really happened? Was it just that one night thing or did he have an affair with her he kept secret from him. He went to meet him, but Abhimanyu didn't want to meet anyone. As the whole thing sank in Abhimanyu, he didn't cry. He just went quiet. He wanted to be punished. Punished to death. In jail, he didn't know whether he was more miserable from the withdrawl of drugs or her death. He was so miserable and his mind under so much pressure that it would explode out any moment. He just wanted to die. He refused to answer to investigating officer's questions and said that he has nothing to say, he killed her.  Sahil hired a lawyer to fight in his defense as Raina's family demanded death for him for foul play after Raina's lawyer disclosed that she got her will made few days back only, in which she left 20% to her family, 10% to the charity organization she supported, and 70% to Abhimanyu.

            Police investigated into the case as they didn't feel it was intentional even if it was a murder by accident. The surveillance cameras of his corridor showed her opening his apartment and getting into his house after midnight with her suitcase. How could she have keys to his house if she didn't have an affair with him. Very unlikely. They reached out to people they thought could throw some light and they co-operated. "She never told me the name, but she told that she was in love with somebody back in India and she didn't think she could move on from him to anyone ," Mendes told them as he remembered her telling him this when he proposed her to be his girlfriend. Police spoke to the shrink she was spotted with. She too told that Raina visited her as she wanted to move on from this guy she was madly and deeply in love with back in India who didn't love her. She didn't give the details, but she told that despite no communication between them over years, she just couldn't get him out of his mind. She did tell that  though she was not into any exclusive relationship with him, but she ended it when she found he was with other girls too. They found from phone call history that there was absolutely no communication between the two. Police checked their call history over last four years and confirmed no communication between them. Her secretary who handled all her e-mails confirmed there was no communication between the two, and he never knew about him. His entry dates into different countries on his passport coincide with her concert dates, but it didn't seem they met. Stockholm was the last country he visited where according to her bodyguard, she told him to follow him in the middle of concert and next day when he left he even said he found her hurting herself in the snow. Police was clear she was in love with him and police doubted he had any idea about her will she got only a week back. He had a pretty good bank balance himself and if he wanted her money he could have married her. Though levels of drug found in her blood were normal for any regular heavy drug user, but beyond tolerance for anyone who had never used drugs. That explains her instant death like he told the police in his first and only statement. 

       They told Sahil though they believed  his friend was innocent, but  with her family and fans pushing the case for his death, they could do nothing in the lack of any concrete evidence in the high profile case. There was no way they could prove that he didn't inject heroin into her as he was found under influence of drugs and his fingerprints were found on the syringe.

                 Sahil remembered him telling that he has hidden cameras that watched from living to kitchen. He requested the police to check his house for hidden cameras. The police found the hidden cameras in his living, dining and kitchen. It clearly showed Raina snatching the syringe from him, plunging all the substance in her arm instantly, and dropping on floor immediately. It showed him pulling out the syringe from her arm looking all horrified and checking her pulse and trying to resusciate her heart. It was clear that he didn't kill her. There was no foul play. It was an accident. He was declared unguilty by the court and released. The police hadn't found any drug in his house except what was in their bloodstream. So, he could not be sentenced for possession of drugs. He was fined for personal use of drugs and since he had already done two months in jail, they let him go.

               Two months behind the bars without any drugs, he was out of the addiction. It broke him that it took him, her life to quit drugs. He decided not to touch the drugs and make his mind numb to what happened, but remember it everyday and die every second of his life. That was his  repentance to his actions, but she didn't give him time for that. She already got work for him. He received the papers from her lawyer to claim 70 percent of her fortune that she left to him in her will along with a letter. He took the letter from white envelope and read...

Hey Abhimanyu,

                   If you are reading this letter, it means I am no more and you are. Strange, isn't it? You are the one who is most likely dying, but see life is so unpredictable, I am gone before you. Who knows which flight, which car, which gunman or terrorist activity takes your life when? You knew what to do with me, and I am sure you will know what to do with this money. 

Love you so much,

Raina

                  He wiped a tear from the corner of his eye, but then he wept like a kid. She left him millions of dollars, to the man responsible for her death and  which will keep coming every year even after her death.

                   He formed a trust on her name to which all the money belonged now. A trust that worked for the welfare of people and owned business to generate revenue to run them. He laid plans for the trust to work on. A residential school for the bright poor kids in Khopoli with world class education and amenities which prepared them for IAS and to take the important roles in the development of country. Sponsoring top coaching classes to topper kids from government schools to clear UPSC exams.'Perhaps when thousand of poor girls will become IAS, her dream of becoming IAS will come true'. Collaborate with the bright young entrepreneurs with new ideas and venture into IT and Technology. Open chain of stores committed to selling only unadulterated healthy goods and grains procured from local farmers of area and profits to go for their welfare. An old age home for poor where they could grow flowers for the florist shops. With the trusted dedicated members in trust the plans were already taking off well. Sahil's wife, and her few friends dedicated towards the cause volunteered to supervise the work.

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               Two months down,he was neck deep laying plans for the trust to realize her dreams, when the head of R&B label which produced Raina's all albums approached him over phone and told him that he was interested in producing an album for him. He told him he wasn't. He said Raina wanted to produce the album herself. She had left the USB of his songs with him to have his opinion. He said he wants to produce it not only because Raina was dear to him but also because he truly believes in his music. "It's her last wish I know of. Think over it. May be her soul will rest in peace if you fulfill it."

             He recorded the album which was a huge huge hit. It was double platinum in no time because of the story behind it and curiosity of people to something associated with Raina. He didn't promote it and didn't feature in any videos. The label took care of that. It found such a connect with the listeners all over that it had their heart strings strummed. He  never paid attention to oodles of praises it got from music reviewers, listeners and critics. He did it only  to fulfill her last wish He donated all the earnings from the album to Raina Trust. He agreed to go on' No to Drugs' tour, the proceeds from which would go to Raina Trust.

           As he stood with his guitar for his first performance in Madison square arena in New York City where she too had her first live performance, he looked at the excited faces of people in a jam packed sell out arena,'She left, but not without giving his dreams to him. He gave his dreams to her but she gave him his dreams'.

            "I watched Raina's first performance on this stage and I don't think I can match her or even come close. But I'll try my best and hope she will be proud watching me from where she is," he said and started strumming his guitar 'Let her go'. His performance wrenched hearts and people cried. He performed other songs from the album.

          "All the songs in this album I wrote when I missed her, but this last song I am going to sing tonight is the one I wrote in her loving memory. I feel her around me as if she is alive. I even talk with her. If I had a chance, I would do it all over again, differently. But unfortunately, life doesn't give you second chances for few things and you gotta be wise the first time around itself. It took her, her life for me to quit drugs. It's shameful. It's awful. We don't kill ourselves with drugs, but we kill those who love us. We don't suffer, we make them suffer every day. We have no right to take our lives from the people who love us no matter how hard the circumstances are. We need to understand our life is important, if not for us, for people we love. If we love them we can never think of snatching smiles from their faces forever. In the face of tragedy, we want to lose ourselves, but drugs are not the way to go, there are greater causes we can lose ourselves to. It consumes you equally. You see people struggling in conditions that make you realize how better your life is. If they can live through all that, you can definitely live through all the other lows of life. Say no to drugs. Let's make this world a drug free and happy place to live in for all and our loved ones who care for us.

The last song I am going to sing from my album 'Remembering You' is the one I wrote after she left this world to live with the angels in heaven.

This song is in loving memory of the love of my life . If you can hear me Raina," I love you. I love you so much, and this is for you".

Always you will be part of me

And I will forever feel your strength

When I need it most

You're gone now, gone but not forgotten

I can't say this to your face

But I know you hear

I'll see you again

You never really left

I feel you walk beside me

I know I'll see you again

When I'm lost, I'm missing you like crazy

And I tell myself I'm so blessed

To have had you in my life, my life

When I had the time to tell you

I never thought I'd live to see the day

When the words I should have said

Would come to haunt me

In my darkest hour I tell myself

I'll see you again

I'll see you again

You never really left

I feel you walk beside me

I know I'll see you again

I'll see you again

I'll see you again

I miss you like crazy

You're gone but not forgotten

I'll never forget you

Someday I'll see you again

I feel you walk beside me

Never leave you, yeah

Gone but not forgotten

I feel you by my side

No this is not goodbye

After an astounding successful tour across the countries that generated millions for Raina Trust, he was back working on the plans set to be accomplished. The trust was dedicated to providing education, bright future and employment to poor and venture into business to keep these work flourishing.

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          After a day at the inauguration of residential school for poor kids and evening at Sahil's home, he opened the door to his house and walked upstairs to media room. He removed his shirt to change for the bedtime.

"Do you like what you see?" he asked smiling  flexing his lean arms to her smiling pic in the digital photo frame.

"You are looking so hot and sexy there," he said looking at the pics sliding one after another. "You know you will always look hot and young, but I am going to grow old with time. But I am going to try work out and stay fit and young for you. Only for you baby". He smiled at her pic. " I was thinking of getting a big picture of us on for this wall in our bedroom, and I hate that I never took our pic. I think, the still from our video where you and I are sitting on the couch together and watching TV would be good. Ya, that would be best though I have long hair in it , but still good."

"What else? Today, I met Sahil's kids and tried to teach them music, but all they are interested in is soccer. And guess what? They are poor in math like you. You know I never wanted to have kids, but now that I think of it, I feel I wouldn't have mind two three like you.I would try to teach math and they wouldn't get anything in their head". He laughed.

             Changed into his pajamas in his bed, he watched some of her videos. "I am happy, you did these hot videos, helps my imagination," he smiled at her pic in the frame. I am going to sleep now and dream of you. Don't play too hard to get. Let's do it baby! Some skills never go waste, one of them was lucid dreaming. He brought her to life  in his dreams  to live with her in night while the day went in fulfilling her dreams.

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 Song he wrote in her memory 

I'll see you again- by Westlife

https://youtu.be/Gl2sqdfD2Q0