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A pin drop silence followed after the outburst of Kahani.

"What did you say?" Deep asked her . Kahani looked down. 

"Don't test my patience ,Kahani,  what . Did. You . Say?" Deep asked her sternly . Still Kahani remained mute. His grip on her shoulder tightened and his fingers pierced her skin.

"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU SAY?" Deep yelled,shaking her holding her shoulder. 

"I killed Lekha...I KILLED HER. DID YOU HEAR ME ?" She shouted ,pushing him away.

Mr and Mrs Raichand gasped in shock. 

Deep smirked and yelled, "Officers." 

Soon the police entered along with Kahani's parents whose tear stricken face told them that they heard their daughter's heinous confession. 

Kahani looked at Deep in amazement. Soon a wave of recognition passed her features. 

"You knew it." Her statement made Deep smirked. 

"Of course. Otherwise how were you able to experience the scary adventures?" He said, making her eyes widened .

"What do you mean?" Mr. Raichand asked him.

"Yes Dad, whatever ghostly adventures she came across since the last few days were staged by me. 
Everything was planned by me. 
The balcony incident , the library , the farm house where you saw Lekha and  after that in this house and today as well" Deep said. 

"Do you know technology, Sweetheart?" Deep asked Kahani sarcastically after seeing her puzzled expression. 

"I used that technology only.  Hologram, speakers , voice tune changers which let Lekha's voice..Everything  " Deep said to her. 

"But the dreams….." A perplexed Kahani asked in a whisper. 

"Oh..that was your subconscious mind. As you were seeing the holographic images, your subconscious mind started to create a fear within you. The nightmares were the result of the fear .
After seeing Lekha ,the nightmares you saw about her were your subconscious mind's work. Your crime you created started to revive in your subconscious mind.  The things you heard your nightmare and today just now as well were your conscience which told you that Lekha would take revenge on you..
So yeah, I used Psychology and Technology to bring out the truth. Obviously your fear of ghosts helped me a lot...it came as an advantage. " Deep said to her. There was  anger  ,loath in his voice. He finished his lines with sarcasm.

Kahani closed her eyes and tears rolled down her cheeks. She knew that one day this would be out but like this she never thought that.

Suddenly she was pulled by someone only to receive a slap in return. She looked up to see her mother who was seething in anger..there was loath in her eyes...loath for her. 

"Why? Why did you do this? What did she do to you? You ate my daughter away? Why did you do it, you witch? " Her mother cried hysterically. 

"Was I not your daughter?" She asked her in a low voice which made her mother stop .

"Was Lekha your only daughter? I was nothing. " Kahani asked as a tear rolled down her cheeks.

"From the very childhood ,every single time I was made to feel left out. "Kahani beta, Lekha is your sister, you should give it to her. "
 "Kahani beta, I am sorry but Lekha wants it ,let her have it ,I will bring you something else." 
I have only heard that. 

Whenever we both fell ill ,she was treated as if she was the only one who was ill… i was left alone with the maids because "Kahani is elder one, she knows how to handle herself. " I was just a year older ….just a year older from Lekha. Still I was treated like this. My back to back successes weren't celebrated the way her one success was celebrated because she was a pampered and a sensitive child.

Whatever I liked from childhood, she always snatched it away. Books, dresses, toys, everything. You guys never stopped her. In fact you told me to give her everything happily no matter how close the thing was to my heart. 

But I accepted everything as she was my sister. 

As Time passed, we grew up. I thought she would change. But nah...she remained the same.

You know Ma, when I was in the first year of my college, I fell in love with a guy. He was a friend of mine.
Lekha knew it . But still when the guy proposed to her she accepted it as the guy was a popular one. She wanted to be highlighted. 
I forgave her because again she was my sister  .

Then years passed. I graduated . After a year she also passed out.

One day I got a friend request from Deep Raichand. Yes..this Deep Raichand only. We started talking . We met a couple of time as well. As the friendship grew ,I started liking him and eventually I fell in love. But I didn't say anything to him as I knew that I was out of his reach. 
One day Lekha caught me chatting with him . I told her everything after she asked me .

After some days Deep's parents came to our house with a marriage proposal from Deep for me.  I took time because I needed to talk to Deep.

At night Deep also proposed to me, then I agreed. He told me that he also liked me .
 
For the first time in my life I was so happy. I was so into my dreamland that I ignored Lekha's jealous gaze on me, Deep's late replies and sometimes avoiding me . I thought maybe he was busy.

Finally the wedding came. After completing numerous rituals, the day of wedding came. I felt as if I was the happiest bride .

I was sitting in my room in my bridal attire and was waiting for someone to call me down. All of a sudden, Lekha appeared with a glass of juice. She made me drink it ,telling me that Ma had sent it for me. I drank it. It was the biggest mistake of my life.

After drinking the juice ,everything went blank. When I woke up , everything was finished. I ran inside the wedding hall  to see my sister telling my family how I requested her to marry Deep as I was having some affair with my colleague and I was unable to say no to this marriage. That's why I didn't cancel it before. My dream broke when I saw my sister standing beside my ex fiance with all the bridal signs, wearing my bridal dress. 

After that my life became miserable. My parents stopped talking to me. My relatives never left a chance to taunt me about how I left my Mandap ruining my family's prestige, how I should learn from my sister about how to sacrifice one's own happiness for family.

Nobody tried to hear my side of the story. Everyone blamed me,taunted me.

I also didn't have the explanations. I was ashamed, angry at myself for sleeping like this. But somehow I felt that there was more to it.

Later I found a diary of Lekha where I  came to know the actual truth.
Lekha and Deep knew each other from before. When Lekha was in her last year of graduation, she and Deep met in a birthday party of their common friend. Deep was a year senior of Lekha. From there their friendship started. 
After a year Deep proposed to her but Lekha denied saying that she only saw him as her friend. 

Then Deep came to know about me being Lekha's sister and sent me a friend request in order to know more about Lekha so that he could impress her. 
Surprising Lekha was aware of it because Deep boasted how he and I enjoyed each other's company, and how our choices were so much alike.
When our friendship started to make Lekha jealous, he decided to use it for his own benefit. 

He told her how I was interested in him which he understood by our conversations and he also liked me . He used my unsaid emotions to settle his own future with Lekha. He used me to make Lekha realize her feelings.

But unfortunately his mother saw him chatting with me and asked him if he liked me or not . He replied positively. 
Then the proposal came.  There also he saw his benefit because he knew it was the last chance for him where he could make Lekha realize that she loved him.

Finally the wedding day came when Lekha decided that she couldn't let Deep go as she loved her and made me sedated to take my place in the wedding. 

If she told me everything, I would have left Deep . I was not a monster to snatch my sister's love.

But she chose to make me a villain, a shame , a joker in my own wedding. That's when my hatred started. Everything from childhood to till the wedding added the fuel in the fire. 

The last nail on the coffin was when Deep after months of their marriage told me that it was best that I didn't reach my wedding mandap...otherwise he wouldn't get the opportunity to marry the love of his life.

My parents' broken relationship with me, relatives' hateful gaze at me made me a monster when I decided to push her from the stairs in the fit of rage. But when my anger cooled down everything ended. Lekha died." Kahani said to everyone and fell down on her knees crying hysterically. 

Everyone around her was in tears.

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