Chapter Five: The Unknown
Rehan
Uncle and Ruhani stayed back
at the hospital that night. Since there were only two attendants allowed with
the patient, uncle asked me to go home and get some rest. I was wide awake from
last two days and the lack of sleep had slowly begun to take me over.
Again, I couldn’t sleep that
night. Information that I had received from the Doctor was creeping me out. I
kept thinking about all the possibilities that could have landed Tanya in such
a condition, but how hard I tried, I wasn’t landing upon anything.
Then, my mind rested on the
thought of the conversation I had with Ruhani, about the diary I had seen in
Tanya’s room. I tried to searching for it, but unfortunately, I couldn’t find
it.
Someone must have misplaced it. I still remember the chaos when the girls
told me that Tanya wasn’t opening the door.
We had to break the door
open. Everyone was horrified to see Tanya lying on the floor in a pool of
blood. The blood was still oozing out of her cut on her wrist with force. There
was a diary in her hand. Then I had thrown it on the bed and rushed her to hospital.
But that diary was nowhere to be seen now.
How can a diary vanish suddenly? Now,
it felt like that diary, it had something that someone doesn’t want to let us
know. Whoever did this, must be responsible for Tanya’s condition.
I got up early in morning
with a severe headache. My head was throbbing as if someone is hammering on it.
I somehow managed to get up of the bed. Had a cool shower waking my senses up,
got dressed and then headed downstairs for the breakfast.
At the table, it was only
Ruhani waiting for me there.
"Is uncle still at
hospital?" I asked her.
"Yes,” she replied,
helping me to serve my plate, “he said he'll wait until Tanya wakes up. After
you left, a few hours later, he managed to convince me to go home. I refused
but he insisted so I had to leave him there alone."
"Okay, now I think we
should go there and send him home,” I said, “He needs some rest too. I don't
want him to mess with his health."
"Yeah… Hey Rehan, did
you find the diary?" Ruhani asked hitting spoon on an already empty plate.
"No, not yet. But I'll
make sure to find it out soon." I replied. I felt something amiss, but
ignored and went ahead with the day.
While in the car going to the
hospital Ruhani was acting a bit weird today. She was fidgeting a lot and her
breaths were heavy enough to be heard out. Was it an effect of jet lag as she
said or was it something else?
I parked the car at a
comfortable place. While we were on the way to enter inside the hospital, my
phone buzzed.
I frowned. It was a private
number. I wasn’t receiving any good vibes from it.
"Hello, who's
this?" I answered.
"You don’t have to know
that,” said an unknown voice, “Just listen carefully to what I’ve to say. If
you want to find out what's the reason behind Tanya's condition.”
My heart fell to my knee and
my brain was jammed for a second. It took me a while find my own voice.
"Wha…what?” I stammered,
“What do you know about it?"
"I know everything you
might want to know, just do as I say else you'll never find out who was behind
all this."
"How can I know you are
telling me the truth?”
“You just have to trust me
because you have no other choice. And don't try to find out who I am. If you
do, I'll eventually come to know. I am watching all of you twenty-four by seven
and believe me, things can go really ugly.” I tried to look around if someone
wasn’t pranking me.
I paused for a few minutes. I
just wanted to believe it was a prank call but the voice was so grave that I
was forced to have second thoughts and that the person warning was speaking all
genuine.
"Alright. I won't." I affirmed.
"Good,” said the voice,
“Now search the diary immediately. You will have all your answers in it. And
after you do, I’ll call you back.”
He hung up on me, without even letting me ask how he
knew about the diary.
"Who was it?"
Ruhani asked, sounding concerned.
"I don't know. It was a
private number,” I replied shrugging.
"Ohh,” she said as
expressions on her face changed, “what did he or she say?" She looked
tensed as she tried to study expressions
over my face.
"He said that he's
watching us all and he knows what had happened the night before the
wedding."
"Oh my god! Did he say
anything else? Who’s that person? Did he tell you anything Rehan?" She
shooted an array of questions at me.
"Yeah, he asked me to find
the diary. He said everything I need to know is in that diary." Her face
dropped and expressions changed as I said that.
"Any clue where to find
it?" she asked, “Did he mention anything?” fear could be easily read on
her face. But what did she have to fear? My mind wasn’t working
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