Nirupama

Nirupama-25

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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"But now you people want to make it public by somehow or other. Cannot you stop that?"

"Your dad wants to know about it."

"No. Especially I don't want he knows about it." Nirupama said with force. She once again looked into the eyes of Sukanya. "You must stop it. You are my good friend."

"No. I cannot. Your dad is hell bent to know about it." Sukanya said.

Suddenly Nirupama's face became red with anger. "You are not my friend. You are my enemy. You also want to know about that, don't you?"

"No, it is not true. I am not interested in knowing about it at all."

"No. You are lying. You want to know about my dirty secret. I do kill you now and take with me." Then Nirupama suddenly pounced on Sukanya and seized her neck. The next moment she started squeezing it.

"Please....Don't kill me. I.....am....don't......I can't" Sukanya was choking.

Then she felt light slaps on her cheeks and found her mother in her room. It was middle of the night.

"What is happening? Are you dreaming?"

"Yes mom. Very frightful dream." Sukanya sat on the bed.

"Not only on this day. Every day in the middle of the night you have been disturbing yourself. You are talking in your sleep."

"Is it is so? I don't know at all."

"Every day it is like this. Hearing your sounds, I have been coming into your room" Her mom paused for a moment and then asked. "It is that Nirupama again."

"Yes, of course mom." looking into the eyes of her mother Sukanya said.

"You are thinking only about her after her death. You need some psychologist's help Sukanya. You terribly need a psychologist's help now."

"No, mom. I don't need any psychologist or psychiatrist's help." Sukanya fall back on the bed and closed her eyes. "Just sleep beside me. I don't want to sleep alone now."

Her mother Latha gently placed herself beside Sukanya and put her hand on her. She understood that her daughter feared herself a lot.

"Hear me Sukanya. Tomorrow we sure do go to that Niranjan. I heard he is indeed a famous psychologist. He sure tells you how to manage with your mind. You are indeed obsessed with the thoughts of Nirupama."

"Alright mom." Sukanya mumbled.

As she was completely dropping herself into sleep, Sukanya remembered Niranjan's words. 'You and your mother are going to see me soon." She felt awe.

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"You are indeed having rare capabilities." Once Sukanya and her mother Latha settled before Niranjan, Sukanya said to him.