ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴇɢɪɴɴɪɴɢ ᴏғ ᴀғᴛᴇʀ

Tʜᴇ Dᴀʀᴋᴇsᴛ Pᴀsᴛ

ғʟᴀsʜʙᴀᴄᴋ (ɪɴ ᴀᴜᴛʜᴏʀ's ᴘᴏᴠ):-

Viha was the only daughter of her parents, Manoj and Ishwari Agnihotri. Kashyap was the younger brother of Manoj. Kashyap and Prerna loved Viha as their child as they didn't have any kids. It was a day before Viha's tenth birthday. Manoj and Ishwari went to bring her presents. While coming home, they were met with an accident and both died on the spot. From then Kashyap and Prerna were taking care of Viha.

As she's just a 10-year-old kid and under the care of her loving Uncle, Aunt she doesn't even properly remember her parents and started to call Kashyap and Prerna as Dad and Mom. The days were blissful for all of them. Viha got parents in the form of Uncle and Aunt. Kashyap and Prerna got the child they always wished for.

Let it be called destiny or her past life's karma. When she was 10 years old a family consisting of a father and teenage daughter duo came and settled in the neighborhood of their house. His name is Devrath Saxena. His wife died and he lives with his 14-year-old teenage daughter Roop along with a caretaker for her.

Devrath's daughter used to study in the same school where Viha studied. Within a few days, Roop and Viha became friends. Roop was a lovely young girl who only had so much to give. In her lonely and bored life, this young kid became her ray of hope. The loss of her mother took a toll on her mental health. But by spending time with Viha and her parents she was becoming normal.
The caretaker of Roop, Tapati, took care and loved her as a mother but a mother's love can never be replaced.

Days passed, Viha became closer to Roop. Anyone who doesn't know anything about them would say they both were their own siblings. That's how Roop treated Viha, as a younger sister. As the closeness grew between them, Viha started to spend her free time with Roop. She used to have sleepovers with Roop, where Roop used to feed her food. Kashyap and Prerna too felt happy that Viha found an elder sister in her life. Tapati always loved Roop and treated Roop as her own daughter since the death of Roop's mother. Tapati was so happy to see Roop becoming normal.

Sometimes when Roop and Viha were tired after playing, Tapati used to feed them and make them sleep. Roop and Viha became inseparable. But all this happiness was bound to vanish for all of them. They never knew a pair of evil eyes were having dirty thoughts about Viha.

It all started when Kashyap and Prerna went for a wedding leaving Viha at Roops's house as it may become late at night for their return. To Viha's bad fortune, Roop had a special class leaving Tapati and Viha at the house saying she would be back in an hour so that they could play and watch the 'Lion King' movie after having dinner.

Tapati was preparing dinner while Viha slept in the middle of doing homework on the couch. That's when Devrath came home from work and his eyes fell on Viha who was sleeping with a drool coming out of her mouth. His sparkled when his eyes found that her frock moved up in her sleep.

He, without making any noise, came and sat beside her. When he was about to touch her thighs "Viha Beta..." Tapati shouted, making Devrath flinch and move aside. Even Viha woke up from her sleep and started crying due to Tapati's shout. Glaring at him angrily, she was about to lift Viha and take her away.

That moment Devrath was beyond angry. He hit Tapati's head with a vase that was placed on the table near the couch. Seeing that Viha started crying more. She has never seen him like that. He dragged Viha from Tapati. Tapati's skull was broken and blood was flowing from her head like a river and within minutes she fell on the ground.

"Tapati aunty!" Viha cried when Devrath started dragging her away from Tapati. "You bitch... I was at the right time to savour you. I have never seen a kid this beautiful." He shouted with an evil smile, still dragging Viha somewhere. "Leave me... Please... Leave me." Viha was hysterically crying. "What do you think? I allowed you to visit or stay in this house for the past few months to leave you. Tonight I'll fulfil my desire of fucking you." He continued to shout with an evil laugh making her throw on the bed.