"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people." ___Carl Jung

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Tani's POV

When the police men came, my all friends went out, including Ghannu, after giving me assuring looks. Two police men were standing in the door way, waiting for my permission to enter. One seemed young and the other one seemed in his mid-forties. They both were in their light brown colored uniforms with lots of badges on it. I gestured both to enter and they came in, I pointed towards the couch to sit, but they both refused, I frowned but atleast I made myself comfortable and then,

The old one spoke up first,

"Hello, Miss Tani. I am Chief Police Officer 'Shehzad Khan' and he is my assistant and Junior Inspector 'Iqbal Sheikh'." I nodded and greeted them, then the junior one, Iqbal, said,

"How are you feeling now? Ma'am." I looked at him for answering him, but as I looked at his face he quickly removed his gaze from me and started looking at floor with so interest as there was nothing more important than the floor and if I am not wrong he was blushing too, like a girl, I was shocked with his sudden expression but then I smiled and answered,

"I am feeling very well, now. Thanks for asking." The old one looked frustrated and I frowned at the looks that he was giving us,

"Uh--okay, Ma'am we are here to take your statement, and we wanna ask you some questions, but only if---you're ready to answer them." After question he again quickly dropped his gaze to the file that was in his hand, I mean he was young, with cute features but he looked so uncomfortable before me, I don't know what he was thinking, he is really very cute that he was literally giving me a chance to escape from questions, wow!

Okay Tani, its enough, now stop checking him out, while thinking and smiling I removed my gaze to him and then I stared at the old one who was throwing glares at Iqbal and I smirked then said,

"Oh, okay and if I don't wanna answer then?"

"Then okay no----" He cut off in between by the old one, Shehzad,

"There is no way to escape from these questions, Miss. Because we are here to take your statement and we will not leave till you give us your statement." He said with straight face and I frowned with his answer and his seriousness. But he was right, I am taking it as a joke, but if that kidnapper again follow me then what would I do? He should get arrested cause he did wrong to me, and I don't know what more he could do, then I spoke up,

"Okay, let's start. But before that, I wanna show and tell you something." They both nodded and then I grabbed my cell phone from bed, opened inbox and gave it to them to see the messages from unknown number, but after I handed them mobile, they looked at me with confusion, I asked,

"What?"

"Miss are you alright? If you are really in your senses then we'd take your statement otherwise we won't." The old one said and I frowned, what they are even talking about? I am in my senses, what they meant by that?

"What are you talking about?"

"Ma'am there is no such message from any unknown number, your inbox only contains messages from your contacts." WTF!

"What? It can't be possible. Give me." I quickly took my phone back from their hands and started scrolling up and down, again and again, but they were right, there wasn't any message from any unknown number, what's that mean? where are my messages, as long as I remember, I haven't deleted any message from that unknown number, I quickly opened my call log and found that number who has called me and I sighed in relief, Thank God, atleast, it was there, I quickly showed them that number and said,

"See, now you'll believe me, here is the number who called me, but I don't know where the messages gone." I said shaking my head. They looked at that number and the junior one, quickly copied it in his cell phone and said,

"Okay, I'm giving that number for finding location or anything." He quickly said while holding his phone to his ear and dismissed.

Then after a while he returned and I started again telling everything, the whole story from the beginning till end, about everything, when and how I started recieveing call and then messages till the day I kidnapped, they both listened me carefully and looked up at this matter thoughtfully, when I finished they again looked confused, I sighed,

"Now what?"

"Ma'am we wanna ask you, the day when you got kidnap, you said someone was following you, had you seen his face?" I remembered no, I haven't cause I didn't even turn around but just on hearing some footsteps I started running, without looking at who he was.

"No, I didn't, I didn't even turn around, I just started running after hearing footsteps behind me."

"But why what happened?" I asked.

"Okay tell me one thing more, Are you sure that the person who was following you, is the same who kidnapped you?"

"Yeah." I said carelessly.

"How are you so sure?" Old one asked.

"What type of question is that? I've told you everything, the day when me and sami were in that Icecream parlor, that day too, he was outside of the parlor and he texted me, and he was the same, his costume and the kidnapper's costume were same. I remember everything."

"But still, he didn't text you the day when he was following you, you said whenever he followed you, he texted you, even at the airport, then whynot that day? when he followed you after your university?" I frowned, that's right he didn't texted me that day before, otherwise I'd never gone outside of my uni.

"Yeah, he didn't text me that day, but it doesn't mean he was not the one who followed me and kidnapped me." I said clearing myself.

"But, it also doesn't show that he is the one." The old man said,

"What are you both trying to say?" They are now confusing me more. Junior one started,

"Ma'am I am confused too and I don't wanna say something which has not proved yet. But as I am seeing this case----" He cut off by the old man.

"---There are three persons involved in this case."

"Yesss." Iqbal agreed with old man. I get amazed, Three? how's that possible.

"How can you say that ? I mean without any proof." The old man started,

"Yeah, that's what we wanna say that we don't have any proof, but still we think there is a possibility of three, because look----" He gasped, "-----there is a kidnapper who took you to his home, whom you have seen in that costume, then there is a saver 'your angel'----" I rolled my eyes at his sarcastic way of mentioning angel, "---- but I have a doubt on him too, the person whom you haven't seen a bit, and then yes, the follower, the person that followed you, I am highly doubted that the follower is your kidnapper, because you haven't seen him too. You've seen only your kidnapper, but still not fully, you haven't seen his face too. You've just seen him in some kind of costume." Whoa! I am confused now, why they are saying that there are three, when there are only two persons involved, and yeah my saver is an angel, he didn't do anything bad to me, so he is an angel. But still, three? are all men of this world behind me? That's highly impossible.

"I have a doubt on you two." I said sarcastically while shaking my head in disbelief. They both gave me same confused and frowned expression and I said,

"It can't be three, it's two, can't you see the person, that was behind me and texting me, he is a one person, he is a kidnapper and follower too, and the person that saved me yeah he is another one and one and one equal to two, so there are two."

"We know the basic maths, Miss." The old one said glaring at me,

"We will see that Miss, that are there really two or three, but the thing is, this case is more confusing and difficult than we'd thought." He said looking thoughtfully at the junior and he nodded in agreement. Right when the junior one's phone started ringing loudly, he excused us and went outside of my room, then he came after a while and said,

"That unknown number, that I took from your call log, has a location of Pakistan."

"Pakistan?" I said with wide eyes and he nodded. Then I remembered that this number when I gave it to Sami, he couldn't found out the location. Maybe because it was not of Dubai. Then I asked,

"Pakistan, which city of Pakistan? Any near location, anything more?"

"No Ma'am, nothing, just we could traced the main location, which is Pakistan, nothing else. But I think that's fake." I sighed, now I am more confused than I was before.

"If I could give you the other number too? would you find out the location of that too?" I asked quickly,

"Yes Ma'am."

"Okay, can you please call Sami, he has that number." He quickly went out of my room and after a while with him Sami entered,

"Yeah, Tani?" He said while entering.

"Sami, I want that number, you remember? I gave you two numbers to find out the locations." He nodded and said,

"Wait a second." He quickly took out his phone from his jeans and started scrolling or maybe searching then he handed me,

"Here it is." I sighed in relief, Thank God. I quickly gave his phone to them and again that junior copied that number in his phone or maybe after sending that number to someone he again stormed out of my room to call someone. Meanwhile Sami looked at me with confused expression and I gestured him to keep quiet, after a while he again came into my room and said,

"Okay Ma'am we are done here now, for today. But we will contact you soon, when we will get any information." I nodded, they were about to leave when Sami said,

"Tani, didn't you tell them about that day when that Sheikh was about to kidnap all of you. I have a doubt he is the one." The police men stopped in their tracks, turned and gave me confused looks, yeah, I forgot to tell them, kill me for that, Sami can't shut his mouth even for a second, I sighed then said,

"Yeah, sorry, I forgot. That day when------" I started telling them the whole scene and they said,

"Okay miss, you should thank him, cause he gave us a more clear view of this case now, otherwise we were thinking before, whom we should search first, but now we know, whom to find out." While saying that and leaving me more confused, they greeted and left. Sami gave me assuring look and I layed in my bed with a thud.

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The whole day went thinking about the options of who could be the third one and why there are three people involved and how? I was feeling weak, so I tried not to think about it more. The whole day, I just layed on my bed in my room and time to time all our relatives came to meet me and some of them were giving me confused and disgusted looks as if I've raped. I can't believe this, how could these people named their selves as our relatives, as I know, relatives are not like this, they shouldn't be like this, these people just want a topic for gossip, to taunt and to insult others, how disgusting people they are.

As I was thinking my phone started ringing beside me, I picked up my phone to see the caller ID, it was again an unknown number, Suddenly I got scared, but then I picked up phone calming myself, as I picked up, I said,

"Hello?"

"Hello Ma'am." I sighed in relief recognizing the voice and my name, that he has given me, it was from Iqbal,

"Yes Iqbal." I said.

"Ma'am, you should be careful because the other number gave us a location of your area." He said quickly, "----and most importantly, your home. It showed us a location of your home." My mouth fell open, what? My area? My home, But how?

"My home?"

"Yes Ma'am, that means whoever he is, he is in your home right now. I'm leaving from here, we are coming to your home, but you have to be careful. Can you tell me who else is in your home except your family?" I was shocked, I wasn't even listening to him. How can it be possible? how can he is in my home? I heard some voices but didn't listen to it.

"Ma'am?"

"Ma'am are you alright?"

"Ma'am----?" He shouted from phone and I snapped out of my thoughts and finally spoke up.

"Y-y-es?" I stuttered,

"Ma'am can you tell me, who else is in your home right now?"

"I-I-i don't even know, lots of relatives. I'm in my room and there are lots of ladies, I don't even know who else is in my home, who else is downstairs." I said with broken voice, I still can't believe this that person is in my home, my own home, who can be him? Is he among one of my relatives?

"Is he-----" I left the whole sentence unspoken,

"Yes, Ma'am, that means, he is from one of your relatives."

"Be careful." While saying that he hung up, leaving me shocked and terrified.

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Now all your doubts would have probably jumped into gutter for suicide. Right ? Lol..:D

well yeah, that's the biggest twist ever, but it should be here, cause I have something else in my mind, now how was this chapter? Even I am amazed what just happened here? where are all options gone? now who is he? the third one? To read more, stay tuned and yes,

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-Fatima