~Devil whispered to me that i can’t face the storm. I smiled and replied i am the storm~
In Shimla, the roads were busy and there was hustle and bustle everywhere, a car stopped outside police station from which Manik stepped down and went inside. Anyone could tell that he was guilty of something. As the police officers and the female police officer saw him, they greeted him. ‘Namaste,’ the female officer Durga greeted him. ‘How’s that girl?’ he asked creasing his eyebrows. ‘We have tortured her a lot, every night a male police officer goes to her cell and scares her and touches her, we didn’t even gave her anything to eat, and now she cannot even stand properly but still we have shifted her to a cell that has handcuffs on the ceiling, we handcuff her that way, she stands forcefully and even her feet are cuffed, if you say we can get her beaten up and finished.’
Meanwhile in a lockup, Nandini was standing with her hands cuffed to the ceiling and mouth was taped while her feet were cuffed to the floor as there wasn’t much distance between the ceiling and floor. She couldn’t stand but was forced to do so. She was dizzy and hungry. Just then a bucket of water was emptied on her.
She woke up getting startled as the water was ice cold. She struggled to open her eyes and looked around to see all the monsters of the jail surrounding her. ‘You must be hungry my dear, I brought food for you, eat,’ said a woman with an evil smile. She was about to eat but the woman threw the food on the floor. ‘Now eat,’ she said and the others laughed seeing her getting treated like an animal or worst than that. ‘No, don’t do anything to her, just release her,’ he said giving her money.
‘As you say Manik sir,’ she said and went while he sat on the bench with hands on his forehead. ‘Why did I have to trap her for the girl I never loved? I loved the one who got trapped, and she’s my very own Nandini, now they will go to jail for their deeds and she will be with me,’ he said and sighed. Just then he saw her being brought to him by policemen instead of policewomen and that too by dragging her as her feet weren’t in a condition that she could walk. He stood up and went to her.
‘Stop, what’s this way of bringing her? Are there no policewomen? And don’t you have manners? You should’ve brought her properly, actually fault is mine, I should’ve come instead of trusting you people,’ Manik said angrily and she stared at him with bloodshot eyes, she had spent many sleepless nights here alone in the dark world full of monsters. ‘Talk with manners else we will close you in a lock up, don’t say we didn’t warn you,’ they said and almost threw Nandini towards him but he held her in his arms as she was about to collapse.
‘Just shut up!’ he shouted on them and threw money on their face and lifted Nandini in his arms taking her away. She went unconscious recalling the past where she was tortured and was betrayed by him and how he acted of loving her but loved someone else, how he got fake relationships to woo her and how stupid she was to fall in his trap but little did she know that he loved only her and not that murderous girl who just knows how to demand and commit murders. She just had a face like her, not nature.
He opened the back door of the car and made her lay over there and closed the door. He sat on the front seat and started driving. She opened her eyes just then and searched something from her eyes and saw a deodorant and sat up in such a way that he couldn’t see her. She sprayed it in his eyes due to which his eyes started burning and he stopped the car. ‘Good bye Manik, I promise to come back and ruin you and your family especially that Shivani, that psychopath, you remember that before going to jail we three, you, me and Nyonika had a talk,’ she said.
Flashback:
N: I will come to take revenge for sure…aaj aap log ye case toh jeet gaye, lekin main ne ab tak haar nahi maani hai, main apna badla zaroor loongi (today you won this case but I haven’t given in yet, I will surely avenge you)
Nyo: (laughing evilly) yeh mat bhoolo k hum Malhotras‘ hain or tum ek anaath ho or saath hi ek gareeb parivaar ki beti
(Don’t forget that we are Malhotras‘ and you’re an orphan and also a daughter of poor family)
Nandini gets hurt by her but answers her well.
N: yeh toh main kabhi nahi bhool sakti, lekin dekhna, ek din yahi anaath larki or gareeb parivaar ki beti aap ke parivaar par peet peechhe vaar karegi or aap ke Malhotra Mansion ki chaar deewaro’n ko hila k rakh degi
(I can never forget this, but you see, one day this orphan girl and daughter of poor family will attack you all from behind and will collapse the walls of Malhotra Mansion)
M: han han Nandini kyun nahi, abhi tak apnay aap ko iss raakshas ke dil ke mehel ki pari maanti ho na? Maanti raho
Nandini was taken away to the jail glaring at him and Manik looked on sadly.
Flashback end.
‘I know you were taking to kill me,’ she said to him before stepping down the car. ‘It’s nothing like that Nandini, I was taking you to fulfill your revenge, I love you,’ he said to her and she dug inside his shirt pocket for money. ‘I love myself too Mr.Manik Malhotra,’ she whispered and went limping to the street and took an auto and ran away. She smirked as the auto drove away. She directed the auto towards Malhotra Mansion and stepped down the auto paying the driver and went inside by the window. She knew that window belonged to Shivani’s room. She saw her getting ready in front of the mirror, she went towards her slowly and hit her on her head by the vase.
She fell on the floor and Nandini smirked. She closed the door of the bedroom and sometime later she was dressed as Shivani and Shivani was dressed as Nandini. She closed her in a sack. ‘Enough luxuries, enough of your fun, now it’s my turn to have all this,’ she said and threw the sack down from the window by tying it to a rope. She then ran do the main door outside the house where the sack laid. She took it and hid it somewhere, she ran back to Shivani’s room and found a suitcase.
She took it and went back to where the sack laid, she put it in the suitcase and went from there in a taxi. She directed the taxi driver towards the same police station in which she was tortured. She took the suitcase and went outside towards the door of entrance. She kept the suitcase there and knocked on the door, she quickly ran from there before anyone saw her. The policewoman came outside and saw the suitcase, she opened it and saw the sack inside, she opened the sack and saw Shivani as Nandini. ‘Look now your crimes made you come here again, tchtchtch,’ she said and locked her in a cell