Hello, my lovely readers! I am back with a new chapter full of new turns and twists today, on new year; I wrote it as a new year gift for you all, I did my best to make it beautiful now it depends on you if you like it or not.

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Happy New Year,
As the year 2024 comes to a close, let's bid farewell to the past and embrace the exciting possibilities that 2025 holds. May this new year be filled with joy, success, and unforgettable moments. May the coming year bring you endless joy and laughter. Wishing you a year filled with love, happiness, and prosperity. May your dreams take flight and your heart soar high. Cheers to new beginnings and endless possibilities. May your days be filled with sunshine and your nights with sweet dreams. Sending you warm hugs and happy vibes for an amazing year. May this new year bring you closer to everything your heart desires.
May your hard work and dedication continue to pay off.
May the New Year bring you peace, happiness, and success in all your endeavors.
Wishing you a year full of blessings, prosperity, and success.
May this year be the year you will be fearless, take risks, and dare to achieve everything you've dreamed of.
Let's make 2025 a year to remember!
Remember, the best wishes come from the heart. Let your loved ones know how much you care.

Happy New Year!

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Why so many wishes at once? To let you know how much you all mean to me, your support keeps me motivated but with a new year comes new responsibilities, new works so maybe I won't be able to update any soon.
Let's not think about that, enjoy the story!

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"What in the world is this?"
Ara was staring at the note stuck on her door, with shining blue ink still fresh on it. 'Stay away from RK' was written on the note with sharp cursive writing; she is getting these notes continuously from when she last met RK and Ara was sure that this wasn't from the same person who asked to come to the park. Why would someone tell her to stay away from him when she is not even meeting him? After she last time she went to the park, met RK but forgot to ask for his number, she haven't even seen him, not even a glimpse. Her school function ended as well so she is getting up early too, but she gets these notes everyday she comes out to go there. She at once thought of going Nari's apartment, but she still hasn't come back. Ara is worried about her, the caring soul she is, can't see her neighbor in trouble but nor could she go to police. With her own problems, standing tall like a wall in front of her, not letting her go anywhere, she went back in the apartment to solve the mystery on her own.

Puting all of the notes she has gotten till now together, (which included the ones she is getting these days with "stay away from RK" and the one which had a address to xxxx park asking her to come) she felt something is missing, Ara walked towards her bedside table, pull out the drawer and the pink colored note was in front of her eyes. Yes, the same pink note she got with her coffee mug when she forgot it in the rain. At that time, she thought some kind soul gave it back to her, but she got so busy that she forgot to check what is written on it; now when she is checking it, did she notice "Stay away from RK" was written on it with bold letters in completely warning tone.

She was shocked, the note was given to her before she met RK and she has clearly been warned, but she still met him because she didn't read the note.

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Some points she noted till now are

• She has been warned before, but she still met RK just because she didn't read the note so that person might be thinking she didn't take the warning seriously and now that she is getting these notes continuously which clearly means something big is going on behind her back.

•The new 28 notes and the first pink note are from two different people with same warning as the writing doesn't match; the note with address to xxxx park was also from a completely deferent person, so it means, there are more than 3 people after her.

No help, no police and she is going to fight back all alone like always. It kind of scared her but before anything she needs to solve this mystery to know about the real culprit and get free from this trap.

She prepared herself a coffee and sat with her phone thinking what to do next. "Camera!" The same camera found in the place of the soft toy's eyes, keeping an eye on her. The first thought that came in her mind after seeing the camera was why would someone use such a old time way of hiding camera in soft toys? She searched for it in her whole apartment as she didn't remember where shd kept it, anyway she found it, crumbled to pieces in her dustbin but she needs to check it too find clue. She took it out of there putting it on the floor when-
* Ding!!! *
Her mobile pinged indicating that she has got some message. She opened her phone but instead of finding some message she saw something that confused her for a moment.
There, on Instagram's homepage was her live video, just like before, recording her every move; she could easily tell by the angle that the camera is shooting from a nearby building but can't get which building. Now she is sure that she is going in the right way and her doubt was right! She wondered why that person would use such old way of hiding the camera, and now she is sure that when she ruined the plan A, the person is using plan B and maybe they have planned everything already, knowing how wise she is.

She got up and looked out of her window using her eaglelike eyes to investigate the area for any sign of some kind of camera, but there was nothing to find except of cold winter breeze.

She thought of seeing for the brand on the broken camera and found Pixel Snap Cameras on the place of the brands name, "I have never heard of this brand, does it even exist or is it fake?" She muttered to herself; keeping the pieces of the broken camera down, she took pictures of each of them, carefully from every angle to do more research and find clues. She threw the camera back in the garbage bin, after all what can she do with a broken camera?

Everything happened so fast that she forgot to drink her coffee. Ara hates when she has to drink a hot coffee all cold so, she just threw it, prepared a new cup of coffee and went out for a walk, without her mobile, •Note: without her mobile for a peaceful walk away from social media.

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She walked on an isolated street, which she didn't even knew existed behind the building where she lives. It felt weird to her as this place was completely different from the front side of this building. She didn't mean to come here anyway, she was just looking around in search for that camera which recorded her every move, thinking she might find a camera on some building which might be hacked to spy on her, but she ended up behind thee building on this weirdly isolated street.

"I am going to end up becoming a detective, I think!" She said out loud, so sarcastic, she laughed on her own joke, there was no one else to laugh at it. Suddenly she felt sadness engulf her, only if she had friends, she would be living happily like others not struggling here, trying to get out of these problems.

She is pretty much sure about who is behind all of this, but she can't say anything without having solid proof, so she is not taking any action, wait, she can take action against this on her own? If you have this question in mind then the answer is yes, she can because she has enough power to do what others can't predict, now I won't tell you everything, you will find it yourself.

So back to the story, she was just enjoying the peace, fallen leaves crunching under her feet with every step, soft, cold breeze brushing her hair away from her face, the yellow-orange sunset sky making the atmosphere calmer with little birds chirping somewhere far away.

Isn't it something different to enjoy the peace of nature........
Without distraction,
Without disturbance,
All alone with no people and no social media-
Wait, Ara now remembered something, she left her phone back in her apartment for a peaceful walk, seeing the sky darken, she figured out that she is getting late, she calm fully started walking towards her apartment; only sound of the leaves softly rustling because of the wind and birds flying to their destinations, flapping their wings together in rhythm added to the view,

Ara wanted to capture the moment only if she hadn't left her phone, back in her apartment, who knows till when this peace will stay with her in the storm of her life? If you would have been in her place, you would want to stop the time so you could always feel the peace of this moment with yourself.

Life is like an ocean, no one knows when the tornado is coming, the calm peaceful waves don't take time turning into the crazy storm; at that time, wanting to capture the peaceful moments as memory is something anybody would want and so does Ara.

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She was so deep in thoughts that she didn't even realize when she reached her apartment; opening the door, she was about to enter her apartment when she saw a new note stuck on her door, not any note but a note written in white ink on a pitch-black paper.
"Has that person gone crazy or something?" She was irritated now and just wanted to punch the person in the face, but she still hasn't found that person, "who writes notes that way?"

She took the note and went inside only to find her phone ringing continuously; she has got 10 missed calls from 2 different numbers, both unknown. Ara picked up the call, a girl on the other side spoke breathlessly, "Ara! Ara! We need you! Please come back! I am begging you! Please! I am so sorry for what I did to you but only you can help us! Please-"
"I can't, I am sorry." Ara spoke calmly before cutting off the call. Just as the call got disconnected, she sat lifelessly on her bed like she has lost everything. She just wants to live her life simply, she doesn't wants to go back, it isn't that she doesn't miss them but self-respect is before anything, they didn't like her nor thought of her as a human, they treated her bad, and did everything they could to hurt her, after all they were seniors, it started worsening from bulling to abuse and she left them. After that, everything changed, just like removing a pillar from a house could cause the roof to fall and kill the people inside, the problems, troubles and difficulties fell on them causing them to realize that Ara was the main pillar holding all their problems for them and as she left the roof of problems, troubles and difficulties fell on them. They soon realized, they are nothing without Ara, she was the strongest among them; they started respecting her as soon as they realized that she could have fought them back, she had enough power to become the boss, but she did none, just because she Respected them as her seniors, so she simply left without hurting them.
But wait......
A whole paragraph about them and you don't even know who are they? Curiosity at peak, right? Let it blast like volcano because I am not going to reveal them any soon. This is a whole damn novel, not a children's book & your author is evil enough to test your patience! ☠️ hehehe!

So back to the story, Ara went in her kitchen (right! Not a whole large kitchen, just a small section she used as kitchen), she filled her glass with fresh water, went back, sat on the bed, then half layed on it, like a baby and started watching her favorite k-drama to calm herself.

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Waking up to loud screaming, Ara realized, she was tired that she didn't remember when she fell asleep watching Kdrama.
Wait, wait, what woke her? A scream? What is wrong? Who is screaming? She quickly got up and went out and to her horror, Nari's apartment was on fire and people were gathered all around; some screaming and shouting while others calling for help, Ara was too shocked to do something, but she quickly took action when she saw some movements in the apartment from the corner of her eyes. She ran and broke the glass window of Nari's apartment with only one kick, but she wasn't ready for another shock which made her run to save the person she saw half laying on the couch.
"What the hell is she doing here?!!!! Hadn't she left her apartment to go to forest for peace?"
If you think it is Choi Nari, then you are absolutely right! But now the question is, what is she doing here when she said in a note that she is going to leave the city?

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"I am not sure if we can save her, she has been in coma for nearly a month, and you bought her here today."
"But you can't just leave her, could you doc?"
"We are trying our best" saying that the doctor left...........

Ara is in a hospital right now, they bought Nari here as soon as they found her and doctors said, she was hit on her head with some heavy object like a metal rod and is in coma for nearly a month.

Ara knows this happened after she asked for help from Nari, so the person who did this is surely Ara's enemy, trying their best to not let anybody help her. Maybe that person thinks of Ara as some random weak girl not knowing her reality.................................

To be continued..............

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