Chapter 33: A Plan
For Closure
Anjii was in her room looking through the evidence. She had
to admit that it was pretty damning. She still held on to the hope that this
was all a joke and that Arnav and Shyam would burst through the door laughing
and saying how they had fooled her. She would be angry at them at first but
after extensive apologising, she would forgive them and everything would go
back to how it was. But life was seldom easy.
I won’t believe a word
of any of this until I get it out of Shyamji. I’ll even record him so Chote and
the rest of the family know that this is all just a misunderstanding. I’m sure
no one is to blame, it’s just a matter of simple miscommunication.
“Hari Prakash!” she called.
Within 20 seconds the little man burst through the door.
“Is Lavanyaji’s old cloths still in her old room?”
“Yes ma’am.”
“Good. Go and get all of them and bring them to me.”
“Ok ma’am.”
After 10 minutes, Hari Prakash had hauled all of Lavanya’s
old cloths up to Anjili’s room.
“Good work. Now go and get NK.”
“Yes ma’am.”
Anjili picked out a pair of jeans and a t-shirt from
Lavanya’s old cloths, stripped her saree and put them on instead. She wanted to
have as much mobility as possible if her plan was going to be successful.
There was a knock on the door.
“Come in.”
NK came in and closed the door. “Di you called for me.”
“NK do you love me?” she asked seriously.
“What kind of a question is that Di? Of course I love you.”
“Will you help me?”
NK fidgeted. “That depends.”
“All I want you to do is have a car ready to drive me at midnight to the police station.”
“Di-”
“NK please.” She begged. “You can come with me. I just need
him to confess to me or I’ll never get closure. Just don’t tell anyone,
especially Chote.”
“You won’t do anything stupid?” he asked sceptically.
“I promise. All I want to do is talk.”
“Ok Di.”
“NK, promise me that you won’t tell anyone about this.”
“I promise.”
Anjili was relived. “Thank you.”
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