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"Words in double quotes" - Talking

'Words in single quotes' - Thoughts

(Words in braces) - Telephone conversations

Chapter 33 - The Vengeful

"L-leave my hand. L-leave me, p-please. It-t hurts." Maya stuttered out as Mansi dragged her away. Maya looked like she was one step away from hyperventilating.

However, Mansi paid her no mind and kept dragging her. She opened an empty room and pushed Maya inside. Maya fell down on the floor from the force, making her googles fall. "Why ar-are you d-doing this?"

(Maya D'Suza👆)

Mansi shut the door and glared at her.  "Now tell me who you are."

"I'm M-Maya D-D'suza. Please d-don't hurt me. I-I didn't do anything!"

Mansi smirked "That's where you are wrong."

"P-please, let m-me go! I don't e-even know you! I-I never did anything t-to you."

Mansi glared at her. "Shut up! You ruined everything! If it wasn't for you, I would be celebrating right now. Who told you to alert Sanskar of the lights? Why did you have to come in between!?"

"B-but I was shocked an-and worried for S-Saara." Maya's eyes widened in realization. "You...you w-wanted to harm h-her!?"

"So what if I did!? And why were you trying to get get close to Sanskar? Don't you know he is mine? Want me to hurt you too?"

Maya looked at her teary eyed. "Y-you wouldnt dare! I... I will tell Mr-Mr. Maheshwari."

Mansi laughed out loud. "You really think you would be able to prove me guilty?"

"Wh-hy not? I-I'll give my statement. They w-would believe m-me."

Mansi chuckled. "Oh you foolish girl! Your statement won't be enough to get me arrested. And neither will there be any other evidence with you to prove me guilty."

"Y-you're bluffing! There's n-no way you won't b-be caught!"

"Seems like you don't know about the incident with Ragini."

Maya looked at her in confusion. "W-who is she?"

"Someone who dared to get in my way. She and her sister upset me, and so Ragini got poisoned somehow." Mansi spoke with a manic glint in her eyes.

It didn't take much Maya time to realize that Mansi did it. She gasped in horror. "Y-you should be arrested!"

Mansi smirked. "But I'm not. Its Swara's best friend, Kriti that is suffering for my deeds. According to everyone, she did it."

"N-no! It's you! Y-you just said it."

"I just said someone. Not me. How could it be 'oh so innocent' me?" She joked. "Besides, they don't have proof. So, they can't arrest me. I could do the same for you. I can kill you, but no one would know I did it. "

"But w-why did you get K-Kriti arrested?"

"I don't even know who that bimbo is. I wanted Ragini away from Sankar. But Swara was in the way. So I thought of getting rid of Swara. Kriti got caught in the mess unnecessarily."

Maya kept looking at her in disbelief and fear.

Mansi felt elated. She felt powerful with the girl cowering before her. In her arrogance, she was admitting everything without a worry. After all, she made sure no one else was near them. "I planned to poison Swara and make Ragini take the drink to Swara. But unfortunately, my plan get haywire. I thought Swara would die and Ragini would be arrested. It would be like killing two birds with one stone. But Ragini took the poison herself. A pity really."

"Y-you mean you....you a-almost killed her?!"

#With Ragini#

"Aachoo!" Ragini  sniffed and rubbed her nose with a tissue. "When is this cold gonna go?"

Samay chuckled from where he sat nearby. "You sound like a broken horn. It would have been comical if you weren't suffering right now."

"Ugh! I sound like my dream slow-mo self right now. I wish could go home. Why am I not being released. I'm fine now!"

"Really?"

"Well...almost an. Aren't I?"

"You said dream?" Nikhil came near her and looked at her with a raised eyebrow. "Dream? What dream?"

"Well there is a dream that I have on repeat some days."

"Wow! Repetitive dreams might mean something. Tell me!"

"Well..." Ragini sniffed and tried to sit up properly on the bed. "It's not clear but...but it's mostly glimpses. I don't even know why I would dream something like this."

"Eh?" Samay stopped clicking away on his phone and turned his whole attention to her. "Continue Ragini. You've got me interested too."

"There's...there's all this noise in my dream. Faces...all smoky faces. All are shouting and...and there's a baby in a woman's hand. She's so...she's so afraid. Not for herself, but for the baby."

NIkhil and Samay's eeyes widened at her words. They knew what she was dreaming of.

It was of the day their parents were killed by . It was the day Ragini was separated and lost to them.

"T-then?" Samay spoke, gathering up the courage to tell her to continue the real life nightmare that they experienced.

"Then there's silence...so much silence and...and she smiles. She always smiles in my dream and..." Ragini rubbed away the tear that fell from her right eye. "I don't know why but I always cry when I see that smile. It's...it's as if she's someone close to me. Someone really close."

Nikhil smiled a wry smile. 'Because she was your mother Ragini. Although you never were old enough to realizse it, somewhere the bond still exists. The pure bond of a mother and a child.'

"Are you two okay? You seem tensed." she asked them noticing their change in mood.

"Nothing Ragini. It's just that that dream hit close to home."

"Eh?"

Samay chuckled and came near to ruffle her hair. "Don't stress about it. It's nothing. You'll understand it in the right time."

"Yes. All in right time." Nikhil agreed and gave her that same secretive smile...as if there was a lot of hidden emotions behind it.

#With Mansi and Maya#

"You almost killed Ragini, Mansi!"

"Yep! But look at me now. I'm roaming free while Kriti is in jail." She twirled to exaggerate her point.

"You monster! I'll t-tell everyone! You d-did a mistake by telling m-me."

Mansi smirked. "Sweetheart, I told you all this on purpose. Because I know someone like you wouldn't dare go against me. You can barely speak a sentence without stuttering. You really think you have the courage to go up against me?"

Maya looked down. She was shaking. Slowly she collected her fallen googles and sniffed. 

Mansi chuckled seeing her state. "Just look how weak you are. Besides, you don't even have any solid proof."

Mansi was having fun scaring the girl. Maya was shaking uncontrollably before her.

"J-just so that y-you could have Sa-Sanskar, you tried to kill Swara and Ragini?"

"Maybe." Mansi spoke dismissively.

"A-answer me to the p-point!" by now, Maya had tears in her eyes. "You would kill them just to have your way?!"

Mansi sighed dramatically. "Fine fine." She straightened up. "I, Mansi Singh, poisoned the drink for Swara to kill her and trap Ragini." she spoke proudly. "There. Now happy? Too bad you won't be able to prove it to anyone, Maya dear." Mansi taunted a distressed Maya.

"You...y-you really did it."

"Yep!" Mansi put on her glasses and turned to leave. "What are you gonna do about it sissy?"

Maya didn't speak but sighed and looked down.

Seeing her defeated stance, Mansi turned to leave. However, she stopped in her tracks when she heard Maya speak.

"Thank you Mansi darling. It wouldn't have been possible without you."

Mansi looked back at her, confused. She also noticed that there was no stutter in Maya's voice.

Maya looked up to her and smirked. "You just gave me the proof I needed to prove you guilty in front of the court."

Mansi looked at her clueless. "What?"

Maya chuckled. "It's okay. Take your time to process my sentence. I'll repeat. I got the proof to prove you're guilty in court. Savvy?"

At this, Mansi's eyes widened in fear. "What do you mean, you low life!? You wouldn't dare!"

Maya chuckled. She opened her nerdy goggles and threw them aside. She reached into her back pocket and took out her phone. "See this? It has recorded everything that you spoke up until now."

Mansi looked on in horror at her. "Y-you...you... How dare you blackmail me!? How dare you play me!?"

"Darling, it's called tit for tat. You trapped Kriti, I trapped you. Only difference is that I'm doing it for a right cause." Maya shrugged in nonclance.

"How did you...you were just..." It finally dawned on Mansi. "All this time...all this time, you were acting?"

"I see you aren't that much of an idiot. Yes, I was acting. In fact, I already told Mr. Maheshwari my purpose here and got details of everyone beforehand. He helped me come near Sanskar and Saara so that you notice me."

"You bitch!" Mansi screamed out in anger.

Maya looked at her insulted. "You called me just a bitch?"

"Yes I did!"

"How insulting!" Maya flicked her hair behind her. "Darling, I'm the queen bitch.

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