ENIGMA BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT

Chapter-23 Arnold Is Dead

May brought out a sharp knife and said," let's have some fun. I hope Arnold would've been here, he would've enjoyed this too, his bad luck." Sora said," kill me if you want, I don't wanna live anyway." May replied," who's gonna kill you? There's a long way to go till I kill you." She made cuts all over her body and the blood was all over the floor, she brought out some salt and sprayed over those wounds.

I heard screams and it seemed like her lungs would come out if she screamed more. May said," Veronica, can you bring me some chilli powder?" I said," I'm not gonna involve myself in this go get it on your own." When May left, I took the knife and slashed her neck because I pitied her. I have no idea what May will do to harass someone who abducted Arnold.

When May returned, she said," why did you kill her?" I said," May you need to stop here. She suffered too much that I too feel like she didn't do something wrong to that extent that you'd torture in different ways, it's not like she killed Arnold." May was so mad at me that she left without saying a word.

When I got to Arnold's place, I went to Aunt Irene's room and said," you may move back to your place now, I've got rid of the woman who was pretending to be my mom." She replied," yeah, I was also thinking the same thing."

She moved out of Arnold's place with John and invited all of us for dinner at her place. When we were done moving, she served us dinner. Aunt Sabrina said," Veronica, I think you both should get engaged now isn't it a good idea I would love to be in-law with Irene."

I quickly turned the topic towards Arnold. I said," I guess they should be engaged before us, don't you think so Aunt Sabrina?" Aunt Sabrina said," yeah, I'd love to be in-laws with Arlo and Elaine too." May replied," wait a minute, I'll call Arnold."

She called Arnold and said," Arnold, Veronica wants us to get engaged. Isn't it an awesome idea? So when should we get engaged?" Arnold flung open the door and said," I'm ready to get engaged at this very moment." I was stunned for a moment and said," Hey guys, you're both just 21! Why are you in rush to get engaged? If you wanna do it we should do it properly with preparations and Arnold I thought you went to Sydney, why are you here?"

Arnold said," calm down Veronica, we're getting engaged because we want to, yeah I'll leave the preparations for you. You'll do all the preparations for my engagement. I didn't leave for Sydney because I didn't think I should run away just because I was afraid. I forgave myself and if I keep blaming myself and ruin my life, Pearl's sacrifice would go to waste so I'll live my life to its fullest."

Aunt Sabrina said," let's have it tomorrow, I guess everyone would be free as it's a Sunday." Everyone agreed and I prepared all the venue and everything and I was hella tired. The next day when I went to Arnold's room, he kicked me out of the room without any reason. When he later came out he apologised for being rude but I was super pissed at him.

When they stood in front of each other and exchanged rings Arnold was shot in the chest!

For readers- hey guys, this story ends here, you guys must be curious about what happened to Arnold and who killed him. Wait for the next story named 'Enigmatic Present' I'll publish it as soon as possible. Thank you for reading and hope you like it.