Ardeep Horror Ff: Atheet Ka Bhoot - Page 18

I am Tara and not Deepika, you've taken my place completely, what you thought that I have stopped loving Deep? First love never dies, yes I loved Virat but not more than Deep, you've even taken my daughter", she said to me while I was on the edge of death, Tara was Deepika strangling me lifting me off the ground away from railing. In short, I was away from the floor too, I was in the air. "Leave me", I cried gasping for air. "I..

I love you Tara, please leave her and Deepika, please, you don't like Alisha but you do love Deepika right? Leave Deepika, please", he said and suddenly I felt her grip loosen on me. "Deep, I will fall, she's leaving me, her grip is loosening", I said and Deepika fainted while I slipped from her hand but Deep held my wrist just in time keeping his other hand around my waist.

He pulled me up and hugged me. We parted away remembering about Deepika, there she was, knocked unconscious on the floor. "Deepu, baby", I said tapping her cheeks to wake her. Deep lifted her and took her to bed. We both sat by her each side. "I am extremely sorry for not believing you, really sorry", he said. "It's ok, but if she comes again then? She tried to kill me, he can kill Deepika too", I said worriedly. "She won't come, I think we should always keep rudraksh mala around her neck, that way she won't be able to come", he suggested. "Good idea", I said and he went to bring them. "Take it", he said giving me one of them.

"Beautiful", I said. "Yes wifey you are really beautiful", he said and kissed my forehead. He wore it, I also wore it, and I tied the third one on Deepika's hand. "I was talking about the rosary and not myself", I said trying to control my laugh. "Now I can't even praise my wifey", he said pouting. "You are so cute", I said. "Thank you flirty wifey, now sleep", he said and I switched off the light and slept holding his hand over Deepika.

Next morning, Deepika had an headache and stayed at home, I asked her not to take off the mala, I made an excuse that its good to wear it. She agreed. Some days passed by, I was so scared I didn't even passed by the locked doors, but now I had to do so, for my daughter. I went to my and Tara's previous room and unlocked it, I ran my hand on the wall to search for switchboard, I know this house is mine since ages, but come on, it was long ago when I was a regular visitor of this room. Finally I found the switchboard and switched on the light.

I looked around the room. It was really pretty, I died in this room on my bed with my little girl in arms. The portraits looked a little rusty as it had been years since they were there. I stared at everything and felt nostalgic, this room had many memories, both good and bad. Wait, what about those voices I heard that day if Tara didn't kill me? Was it all a lie? Why I heard them? I closed my eyes getting angry over my sister for the first time. 'Tara! Tara! Come out, right now! What do you think of yourself? You will try to snatch my child and Deep from me? I was good in my previous birth with you but not anymore. I said come out!' I said getting angry and waited for sometime, she came.

No, she wasn't in front of me but I think someone passed by the room, I ran to the entrance but there was no one out there. I heard the library door open and close. 'Today you will have to answer my every question Tara,' I muttered under my breathe and went to library and opened it entering inside. Once again, I was greeted with a soft music, the music I and Tara used to love a lot, it was very good music. Somehow, it attracted me.

I started walking towards the music, I reached the source of the music and it was piano. There she was, standing with her back towards me, playing the music fondly. This time, I didn't tap her shoulder, I knew she will scare me like before, so I stood behind her for sometime waiting for her to turn but when she didn't, I stood beside her and played along with her, when she sensed me, she kept her ice cold arm around me, I did the same knowing that for now she might be reliving the past and won't harm me.

In fact, I was also doing the same, reliving the past as I played the piano, well whoever said that twins can't live without each other, it is right. All of a sudden, she turned to me and smiled taking me in an embrace. For the first time, I didn't felt that warmth I used to feel when I hugged her. But I hugged her back anyways, all of a sudden I felt uneasy in her arms and broke the hug looking away. 'If you have so much love for me my dear sister, why you tried killing me?' I asked still looking away

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'Mood swing,' she replied and I smirked. 'Why? Did a ghost got pregnant for the first time in history?' I asked and thought I was provoking the monster inside her but she chuckled instead. 'Oh come on. Ghosts also have their own mood, don't they?' she asked and I sighed. 'Cut the crap, if Virat gets to know your monstrous act, he will hate you my dear,' I told her looking at her angrily. 'Oh please why will he come? He's up in the sky in a place called heaven,' she said and I laughed. 'No he's not, Deepika saw him today only,' I told her smirking at her.

'No Tara, he's not in heaven, he is where you are, I mean, he is on earth just like you, and Deepika saw him today only,' I told her smirking at her and her jaw dropped open in a shock. 'He...he is here, why..why didn't y..why didn't you not tell me be..before?' Tara asked stammering badly and shook me by my shoulders. I looked at her hands and then at her, I moved her hands away and smirked turning my back towards her. 'When did I meet you before? When should I have told you? That day when you were playing with Deepu and we had just shifted here? How would I know at that time about you and Virat? I didn't even saw you Tara baby,' I said.

She bursted into tears. I thought about the voices I heard when I went inside the locked room upstairs in our house, the fighting voices and the voice of something breaking. It were the noises from past. 'What were those voices I heard that day?' I asked after a long silence and a hug. 'They were just to mislead you,' she said wiping her tears. I felt really bad for her, but what about me? Maybe if Deep talks to her, she will go even before Virat gets to know. 'Tara, come with me,' I said and pulled her out of there along with me. Deepika came there. 'Why are you taking Tara aunty with you?' she asked holding my hand. 'Deepika move from here I will tell later, go to your room,' I said and went.

I called on Deep's number. 'Hallo Deep, can you come? OK fine,' I said and disconnected the call. 'Tara, come to my room,' I said and took her there and saw Deepika talking to someone and she and the person were talking by hiding and sitting under the blanket. I went slowly and moved the blanket from there but only she was there. 'Deepika, who's here? Who were you talking to?' I asked with my hands on my hips. 'No one mumma,' she told me. 'No someone was here, else why will you sit like this?'

'No mumma, no one was there,' she said again. I glanced at Tara and she was still beside me. 'Deepu baby, if you can't tell mumma, you can tell me,' Tara said to her and she nodded in negative. 'No, I have promised not to tell,' she said. 'Means someone was really here, tell us please, look mumma is so tensed,' Tara tried convincing her sitting in front of her. 'No first you both tell me that how you both are twins and how I had an aunt but never got to know about it my whole life?'

'Ok fine if that is what it will take to get to know the mere truth of my daughter. Once there were two sisters me and Tara and two boys Virat and Mayank, both sisters were obsessed with one boy Mayank, they were twin sisters, and the girls were very cute, very pretty, who everyone loved, just like everyone loves you,' I said smiling proudly at her. 'Both the sisters became friend of both the boys, but both of them wanted to marry the same boy Mayank, the other boy Virat got alone, one of the twin sisters Tara who wasn't loved by Mayank got married to him because other sister who was actually loved by him got brain cancer, well the boy got to know about the swapping and met the girl he loved for the last time and the other boy who loved that girl Virat, he confessed his love.'

I sighed. 'Virat committed suicide and Tara broke down, she was also going to suicide but was stopped by his ghost, Tara and Mayank even had a child, that child was you and you too died after sometime, you three spent a great time in afterlife and soon went to heaven, now look at our fate, I was Alisha, now I am reborn as Aarohi, Tara was my twin but she's still dead and didn't got rebirth, Virat, I don't know about him, your father was Mayank, he is reborn as Deep.'

'So Tara maasi, you're dead, but how? You're still in front of me,' Deepika said. 'I m just a lost soul, I came to play with my baby,' Tara said. 'Oh, then the uncle I met today, he was Virat uncle, oh, even he showed me my past but asked me to confirm by you,' Deepika said slapping her forehead. 'So now will you bother to tell me who were you talking with?' I asked again. Tara picked up a toy lying beside Deepika, it was a toy joker. 'She was talking to this toy,' she said.

'A toy cannot reply,' I said. 'Maybe by pressing it, it makes a sound, by the way this toy is of Virat, I remember he used to play with it in childhood,' Tara told me. 'So how come she has it?' I asked. 'Virat uncle gave me,' she said and I could see Tara's expression changing. 'But how can he give you? He's not even alive,' Tara said. 'So are you, but you're still here right? He's also still there,' I said. 'Hallo baby doll,' said a voice. 'What was that?' Tara shrieked. 'This toy speaks,' Deepika said making us shocked.