Your fabricated lie

31 - Not guilty

The break was over and everyone was back to their places. Rajesh's gaze was filled with rage for doing unplanned stuff. Well, he might not understand it now but later, he surely will.

The judge was seated and each one of us was holding tiny hearts in the grips of our own. A few were biting their nails, others looked down and the rest were just looking at the judge. This rest includes me, Gautham and Devansh.

Turning a few papers, "The court has decided its verdict and found Mr. Vikramaditya innocent," the declaration was given. I sighed and closed my eyes in relief.

Honestly, I was on the verge of crying.

The judge continued saying, "All the charges filed against him will be called off. As the criminal who committed the crime is already dead, we call off this case and close it here. The case is disposed".

That's it. That is all it took for me to break down into tears. I honestly am not sure why I am crying. Everything that happened was possible only because of Devansh. Had he been selfish, it would have been my end.

While everyone in the court was leaving, I cupped my hands in front of my face and cried my heart out. This success is going to weigh me down for the rest of my life. Sorrowful tears streamed down my face as I wailed uncontrollably over my successful failure. The pain of not doing the required justification is on one side and the pain of unknown things is on the other side.

A hand pressed my shoulder. I took my hands off my face to see who it was and Aditya was standing in front of me with tears in his eyes.

Well, it's not right for either of us to approach the other but to my surprise I stood and hugged him not caring about the people around us or about the things he has done to me.

He wrapped his arms around and hugged me tightly. That tight hug from him was gluing every broken part of mine. I stuffed my face in his neck and cried my heart out.

This console is from the same source who caused the pain. I am sure it could have been a thousand times better than this.

…but this is how it ended.

After a solid two minute crying session, I moved away from him gently. Wiping my teary eyes and runny nose, "Congratulations!" I spoke.

I stared into his eyes and those eyes were begging for an apology in every language that existed. Yet, I ignored it as that could be my mere assumption too.

I swear, it's going to take a lot of time for me to heal from this. The wound is deep and severe. Maybe, in another year I might heal but this is going to leave a scar. Scar of love, scar of betrayal and scar of losing!

I hate myself for still loving him even after everything he has done to me. I never knew I could feel so much pain yet be so in love with a person who's causing my heart to bleed.

Life goes on but I will still be struck with this guy.

I sighed heavily and left out as staying there for another second would change the complete perception I have on this guy.

Let me just pretend as if I hate him to the core.

I didn't meet anyone after that and went straight to my home. When I started from the court, I didn't have the foggiest clue about the guy who is tied up in my basement. Even when I reached and unlocked the door, I didn't remember.

Only when this guy attacked me with a metal flower vase, I realized we had him tied up in the basement. I dodged off the attack perfectly. I ain't even that stupid to get hurt by the same person.

Tightening his grip around the vase, "Ready to die?" he asked.

I scoffed and smiled a little. "You know what's the problem with you and your sister? – You think everyone else is dumb".

"You wish!" he said, taking two large steps towards me. I dodged that attack too. Luckily, I moved towards my table. Realizing that my pistol is in here, I took it out without him noticing it and tucked it behind.

He again walked towards me and boom. Shot one.

When I took my pistol out, I wasn't in the plan to hurt him. He asked for it.

Shooting him again when he was already collapsing down, "Too bad that my fabricated story is taking life!" I said. "Don't worry, you are gonna meet your sister soon," I said, closing his eyes.

Surely, Gautham is going to kill me when he learns that I killed Shravan. But little does he know; this was my plan all along.

I can't let losers win just like that. There were many cases where I chose the wrong path to let the truth win. I thought this is going to be the same way. But it turned out that people were taking advantage of me and I can't let that happen.

Everyone who made others walk through hell deserves to die. Though I hate it, I am not going to back off even if it demands for me to consume Aditya.

Only then, there is value for my fabricated lie!