Deadly Reflection ✓

18 - Spill the secret

Rita felt as if her head will explode because of things she was hearing. She couldn't understand how she got herself caught in all that mess. She just knew one thing that she have to get to the end of it and then, get over with it for her good.

"So.....what did you find in diary?" She asked.

"I will just tell you how much I understood out of it. Its strictly upto whether you want to believe it or not." Rajat warned prior to continuing. Rita nodded her head agreeing.

"So...in my brother's words, he was getting really close to Janki with each passing day. He was mad about her. He used to love everything about her, except one strange habit. It was her obsession with herself and her beauty. She used to spent hours in front of mirror. On more than one occasion, he even caught her doing some strange black magic kind of rituals in her flat. He even stopped her from doing those things, but she never listened to him."

"So you want to say that she used to practice black magic and witchcraft?" Rita muttered leaning towards him, as her curiosity increased.

"That what it seemed after reading that diary." Rajat mumbled. "One day when he went to meet her, he saw a new addition to the decoration in her room. It was a mirror. Yes....the same mirror which is still on your room's wall." Rajat informed as Rita felt her throat becoming dry. She took a large sip of water.

"Since, during his last visit to her flat, Arvind had not noticed that mirror, he asked her about it out of curiosity. She told him that she bought it from an exhibition of vintage things. Being blinded in her love, he believed every word of her.

"But, things started to get little strange after that incident. Surprisingly, Janki's face started to appear way more younger and beautiful day by day, but at the same time, her body was getting thin at alarming rate."

"That's weird. It doesn't makes sense." Rita murmured.

"Exactly." He agreed.

"So, one day when they were enjoying some alone time together, he once again asked her about that mirror, since he had developed some suspicions by observing her since many days.
At that time, she eventually told him the truth. Actually, that particular mirror was given to her by a person who knew black magic and witchcraft. He claimed that if she regularly, for six months does a special ritual, she will get power of ageless beauty. It would mean that she will never get old or loose her beauty and charm.

"Thats so sick. Anyway, what exactly that ritual involved?" Rita asked.

"Hmm....according to that ritual, she had to recite a special mantra (verse) in front that mirror, exactly at midnight for six months continuously. And according to my brother's diary, initially it seemed, that ritual was working fine but one thing became clear with time that, in game of beauty, age and body, she was loosing her body as well as sanity."

"With each passing day, she started to look more like skeleton than a living human. Her clothes would loosely hang from her bony frame. He mentioned it to her many times, that she don't need to do all these things, but she didn't paid attention to his words."

Rita was listening everything holding her breath.

"Gradually, he stopped visiting her because of her strange behavior. He started diverting her mind by spending more time in our work. Everything was slowly returning back to normal. One day he got a call from her, asking if he can visit her. When he told that he can't, then she gave him very silly reason that she was starving and will faint if she doesn't get something to eat. He told her to go and make something for herself. To that she answered that, her kitchen stock has finished, and she can't go to market as she was very sick."