chapter 18

** Panchali's Point Of View**'I lied to you Abhi. My mother didn't died of cancer. In fact she never suffered from cancer. She was murdered.....by my father', she said the last lines in a low voice , I didn't had any words to say.' You must be wondering why I lied but after I tell you the truth you will understand the reason. When I was born I was named as Panchali Mukherjee, my father's name is Obhijit Mukherjee. I was my parents only daughter so obviously beloved one. We lived peacefully. Me and my mother were the best of friends. We or anyone of the family never knew what my father did. Nobody had the courage. I remember it was my 8th birthday, we celebrated it grandly. That day Papa said that some of his colleagues were going to come at the house for some private meeting, nobody should be even around the meeting room. And we followed his instructions. But after that day my mother's behaviour changed it always felt like she was afraid of something. What? We didn't knew. A week passed. It was a rainy day. And you know in primary schools we may get a half day easily . I was returning home to surprise my mother when suddenly I saw the front door of our house open. It was quite strange because my mother was really cautious about these things. But I didn't mind it. I went inside to my mother's room when suddenly everything destroyed for me. I saw my....my... mother hanging. I was standing there without any senses. I didn't knew how to react , when my grandmother came and saw her and me. She took me inside . I was in shock . I didn't talked to anyone or ate anything for the  whole day. Slowly I was coming to my senses but still I couldn't accept that my mother could commit SUICIDE. After a day I was looking at my mother's belongings which were kept in a trunk. While I was looking at the things I saw my mother's diary. My mother wasn't a daily diary writer but when anything special or sad happened she used to write the diary to distress herself. I started to read it when my attention caught a date IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY. I started to read it. It had everything written like what we did from the morning and all. When suddenly her handwriting changed , it was a shaky handwriting.It wrote ,''What did I heard? Jit is associated with underworld. All these years he lied? What if he knows that I know everything? Will he kill me? No , he loves me. ''And then the last entry was of the day in which she died,' Today I left my diary on my table , how can I be so foolish? I saw Jit reading my diary. Did he read everything? Why did he looked at me like that? Will he kill me too? Jit is back , he has something in his hand , OH ! It's tea. He is kept the tea on table and went didn't said anything, I am drinking the tea. I was wrong, i shouldn't had thought that Jit will kill me, afterall he loves me. I don't know why I am feeling dizzy. What is Jit doing here? Why is he sm..smiling like that? I am still writing but couldn't write anymor......' The day in which I read was the next day after my mother's death so she wasn't taken yet. I didn't knew what to do when I saw my grandmother and told her everything. My grandmother was a very practical person , she told me to go to the police station immediately. I went there and told the officer everything , he arrested my father and he was sentenced jail for 20 years but due to his good behaviour he was released 2 years ago and after that he is constantly trying to make contact with me', she finished , her eyes were wet. I didn't had anything to say. I just kept my hand on her hand and said ,' Don't worry I will be always by your side.''I know that this is not the correct time to say this but Panchali I want to confess something, No don't say anything. From the first day I saw you I fell for you but I didn't agree , because you know I felt like I was betraying Sonalika but now I know that I can't live without you. Panchali Ghosh I LOVE YOU. WILL YOU MARRY ME?' I asked sitting on my forwarding the ring I had bought for her. She stood up , I could see the happiness in her face but suddenly her expression changed and she replied,' NO Abhi , I can't marry you', saying this she started to leave .**************OMG! THIS IS ALSO SHOCKING FOR ME THAT PANCHALI REJECTED ABHI. BUT WHY? WHAT COULD BE THE REASON? DON'T SHE LOVE ABHI ? OR DOES SHE LOVE ANYBODY ELSE? AAKARSH😱😱?Comment and tell me what do you think.YoursTwilight ❤️