The Unanswered Question 2 (The Conclusion)
CONTEST RESULTS HERE ;)
As informed about the contest in the last post, I am here with my 3 winners of the contest.
The contest was to complete the incomplete story of my 14th letter which was posted last week, from which I will chose top 3 endings…
The link for my last letter is : https://medium.com/@meghanathanvi/the-unanswered-question-fd6cad0dabd0
So, the endings are :
3rd Place Holder is pawan andhare
Tina hit’s Rakesh on his head with a flower vase and became unconscious as Tina run’s away from the scene . This quarrel happened during the hunt of the exit through the mansion , when Rakesh accidently bumped on a switch which revealed the secret door to all the wealth of the kapoor family. There they both had a fight which resulted in the present situation of Rakesh.
Flash Back:
When Harleen and Aayush were going to be murdered by their family members Ayush managed to save Harleen. She managed to breakthrough the house for which Aayush wrote a letter but couldn’t not complete it, (later this letter was found by Rakesh which mentioned “she is safe”.) and was murdered by Harleen’s family members. They searched for Harleen but could not find her as she changed her name to Tina Kapoor who managed to killed each and every member of her family in the revenge of Aayush’s murder. That day she searched the mansion for the same treasure which they both had once planned to steal but Rakesh came in her plan.
Present:
After some time, Rakesh wakes up and finds a throbbing pain in his head. Somehow he manages to get out of the mansion and reaches his hotel and thinks that all that was just a nightmare or reality ! But couldn’t find any answer, just then he hangs his coat on the coat hanger from which the same heart shaped pendant falls from it's pocket which gave him the answer to his unanswered question…
2nd Place Holder is Atharva Tembhe (not a medium user)
As soon as Rakesh could react he was unconscious. When he woke up he finds himself in an alley near the Khanna House. He is full of doubt and questions, yet confused.
Then checks his phone, and notices that it’s pretty late and decides to go home thinking it all as an imagination.
A few days later…
29 January 2017.
As usual Rakesh is doing his daily chores and has breakfast while reading the paper. He is surprised by reading the newspaper’s headlines as it says, ‘The Khanna House will be demolished’. He wants to know more about what happened but it’s only written that it was sold and a new bungalow will be made there.
*doorbell rings *
It’s a postman on the door. He delivers a small packet to Rakesh and leaves.
Rakesh opens the packet and finds a letter and some notes. He reads what the letter is about. And the date is of 29th January 2017.
Dear Rakesh,
It’s Tina, I hope u remember me. Actually I need To confess something to you. And all others but I can’t say it directly. So here it is, 16 years ago, after Harleen and Aayush got married, Aayush and I met at a book reading club. Soon we became friends and we honestly started loving each other. So, we decided to tell this to Harleen. But before we could tell her anything she saw us in a cafe.She thought that I and Aayush were having an affair. She couldn’t help and bear that fact nor couldn’t even tell anyone as their family had a great reputation in the city & this would lead in spoiling their names, so she killed the love of my life-Aayush. And this happened in front of me when we reached out to tell her everything about us. I cried and it hurted me so deep that I killed her! Yes, I killed Harleen Kapoor! As she killed my Aayush. All this was a mere misunderstanding. We could have sorted everything with peace and understand. But she didn’t understand us. I hope you all understand my pain and her suffering. I wish this never happens to anyone. And, I use to make sure that nobody enters The Khanna Mansion, as it was a dreadful place. Now, after all these years I had a chance to tell this to someone.
This is also my suicide note,as well as there’s nothing left for me here. I will kill myself and i hope i meet Aayush again in after life. I know that I am a dreadful person, But again, it was never wrong to love a person.
Tina
This was the mysterious murder and nobody till now knew its truth. Rakesh was the messenger. He also conveyed this to the police and families of the Kapoor and Khanna. All ended in peace as the unanswered question at last got it’s answer…
They made mistakes but also truly cared for their loved ones. Tina remained in silence for a long time and Harleens actions were thought as poor. Aayush didn’t deserve to die.
1st is Arvind Thanvi
There was a scream coming from another room, which broke the unconsciousness of Rakesh. His head was heavy and bleeding where he was struck.
It was dark in the room and he tried to reach for his phone in right pocket. It was not there, must have fell down somewhere when he was struck.
He dragged himself in the direction from where sound was coming. Reaching upto a closed door, he peeped from a gap.
Tina was sitting on a chair with her hands and lags tied. A middle aged man was sitting in front of her on a small wooden table.
“I knew, someday you will be back Tina baby. For 16 years, I am waiting for this day.” the man said
“But Sukhi uncle, you are the one who saved me 16 years ago. why are you after me now?” said tina
Sukhi is Tina’s Mother’s youngest brother. He was also one of the missing family member of Khanna family and has been living in one of the hidden basements of this house for years. Seems he had some unfinished business here.
“Yes, I saved you to gain your parent’s trust but they betrayed me. I converted all the black money from illegal business into the gold slabs. Somehow your parents found out and kept at some secret place in this house. I tried my best to find it but could not.” frustration was evident from Sukhi’s voice.
“I tried to win their trust by playing innocent and even saving you by dropping at your grand parent’s house; but hey find out and did not tell me. Only when I was slashing your dad’s vain; you mom mentioned that only ‘Only Tina can find it becouse she will know where to hide’.”
“Look…Here you are…returning to India after 16 years. Now tell me where is my gold else I will also kill you the way I killed your parents.” he growled in a threatening manner.
“Please uncle do not do this to me. I always cherished good time I had with you in my childhood. you were the most fun person in the house. How can you be so cruel…” and a deep sob with tears kept on going from Tina’s eyes
“I give you 5 minutes to think and tell me where the gold…” the sound became weak to me as I felt someone behind me in that dark room. A rush of scare flew through my vains. Just as I was recovering with that chilling scared feeling, realized that door is unlatched from outside to opened but no one entered.
Rakesh tried to get up and his hands got struck to something rolling on the floor. It was a big old torch. He tried to start it but didn’t work — “I guess the batteries were dead but let me have it for self defence if I have to face the goons”
Just then the door fully opened with a rush of wind…come from nowhere. Rakesh got a flash of energy, got up and ran towards Sukhi and hit him hard on head with the torch even before Sukhi could react.
Sukhi fell unconscious on floor just like a dead log and Rakesh also felt week with flash of energy slipping out of him as the danger is gone. With his weak steps he reached to Tina…untied her hands, looked at her with a smile and fell unconscious in her lap with a comforting whisper repeating a sentence.
“She is Safe Now,
She is Safe Now,
She is Safe Now
She is Safe…”
