Nirupama

Nirupama-16

NIRUPAMA

(Some Secrets May Better Remain Secrets Forever)

'I cannot bear this', 'I want to pluck my eyes out' only these two sentences were the clues which the late girl Nirupama left in writing one on a wall and one in a book quite unintentionally and involuntarily to know about the reason for her committing suicide. Her father Ranganath, detective Smaran and his niece Menaka along with Nirupama's friend Sukanya pretty well understood that Nirupama did not want the said secret to be known to anyone else. But since her father Ranganath hell bent upon knowing about the said secret, detective Smaran and his niece Menaka ruthlessly investigated the matter only to unearth the said ghastly, shocking and astounding secret which the dead girl terribly wished to keep only with her in her grave forever.

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"When did you have come?" Ranganath asked Smaran.

"Just ten minutes or so back." Smaran replied to him. "I am feeling very happy to see you here Niranjan. In fact I want to come to you again."

"I am also feeling happy to find you here. Is there anything particular that you wanted to see me?"

"Nothing particular in fact." Smaran nodded his head in negation. "I just want to talk with you to know if you remember anything new to tell me."

"Unfortunately no. I did not remember anything new so far." Niranjan said and slumped himself beside Smaran in the sofa. "So you people are still very much trying to know about that reason." He wearily said again.

"Yes, we are."Smaran said. "Until Ranganath asks me to stop this, I am not going to. I must know about the truth." Looking at Ranghanth who sat opposite to them in the chair Smaran said.

"I am not going to say a 'no' to it. I hundred percent want to know the truth." Ranganath said.

"Alright." Niranjan nodded his head. Before he was saying anything more, Nirmala came there with coffee cups on a tray. She might have known that Ranganath and Niranjan also have come, she took three coffee cups in a try and they took the coffee cups from it.

"You have almost stopped coming to our home." Nirmala said accusingly looking at Niranjan.

"I have become busy in something else. Otherwise I would have come here." Niranjan said.

"Niru is about to come in one or two days. She asked about you." Nirmala said.

The other three exchanged stealthy looks on hearing that.

"I see." Niranjan nodded his head. "What else she said?" he asked her.

"The usual." Nirmala said. "She still wants to stay there. But I asked her strongly to come home."

"Why? What would be the problem if she stays with her aunt for some more days?" Niranjan asked her.

"I cannot pass my time here without her." Nirmala said. "You know how she would be in the home always."

"I know about that." Niranjan nodded his head. "She is a very active girl."

There was few seconds of silence "I do go to the market to fetch the necessary groceries etc." Looking at Ranganath, Nirmala said.

"As you wish. I have no objection whatsoever." Ranganath said.

Then she left the house taking a bag and money purse with her.

"This is the way she is behaving. I just don't know what to do." Ranganath said looking at the way that Nirmala went out.

"Really very pathetic!" Smaran said.