He got a strange vision of two snakes crawling together and suddenly they turned back to their human forms. He opened his eyes with a jerk seeing that it was the girl to whom the dead body belongs. “Avni, I got a strange vision of two snakes crawling together and suddenly changing into human forms, the male snake was me while the female one was this lady to whom the dead body belongs,” he told her and she got thinking. “It might be related to your past birth, Neil. Close your eyes again and try to remember something else” she said.
He closed his eyes resting his head against the wall, but he could not remember anything. “I see nothing,” he said, opening his eyes. “It means, you loved this girl in your previous birth,” she said and he shook her head. “I would’ve never done that,” he said. “But it can be possible Neil, as this girl keeps coming back to us, means she doesn’t want the relation between us, she wants us to drift apart,” Avni said. “But that won’t ever happen, I love only you that’s all, I don’t care about the past birth, I care about you. Only you,” he said. She caressed his face.
“Neil, I know that. I feel like we missed somewhere to search,” she said. “But we searched each and everything Avni,” he said and she thought of an idea. “But we didn’t search behind the cupboard, maybe there is something over there,” she said and they stood up and both moved the cupboard and a diary and an old album fell out. “Look, I told you there is something hidden which we can’t see,” Avni said and picked the diary to read it.
The name on the front page was “Nayantara Parekh”.
#1
Dear Dairy,
Me and my twin sister went out for shopping today morning and brought a lot of warm dresses as we all will be going to Manali, a week later with our parents. So, we will definitely be needing warm clothes. Even we thought how to spend our time there. I know it is going to be a great fun. – Nayantara, 1 January 1984
#2:
Dear diary,
Today my sister got a proposal from a guy Samar Kashyap. His family and he liked her very much but she rejected him, saying that she didn’t want to marry now… Adamant Samar asked her to reconsider her choice but my sister Tara was least interested in him. Samar and his parents get disappointed… In the evening, I came to know that she loves her BFF Mayank. I hope he loves her too. – Nayantara, 2 January 1984
#3:
Dear diary,
Today Tara proposed Mayank and he accepted her wholeheartedly. I’m so happy and I am loving a boy named Yuvraj. I am adoring him and hope he too love me. – Nayantara, 5 January 1984
#4:
Dear Diary,
It is a sad day. Tara suffered a seizure during flight. The doctor in the plane checked her but she couldn’t cooperate. I burst into tears as the fate is too harsh to us. – Nayantara, 7 January 1984
#5:
Dear Diary,
Whatever Tara suffered is not natural as I suspect it is caused by black magic. Maybe the Kashyaps are behind this shameless act. It’s been one month since we arrived to Manali but she is not the same person she used to be. She is physically unstable, she makes strange sounds, scars occupied her fair skin. She is no more beautiful but anyone would get scared seeing her face. Nayantara, February 7, 1984
#6:
“Dear Diary,
Today, I lost my sister forever. She was on bed when suddenly she start to groan loudly, I came to her and she hugged me all of sudden. We both cried bitter. She spoke for the first time after seizures and asked me to save her. I reassured her that nothing would happen but she gives a sharp and heavy breath and died. Me and my parents couldn’t accept it. Her ugly face turned pretty, but the soul never comes back. This place turned into a nightmare for us.- Nayanatra, 10 February 1984
“Sad reality, I don’t understand what happiness one gets from troubling another person, they took her life,” Avni said. “But if they are twin sisters, then how will we know whose dead body it is?” Neil asked. “Maybe this album can help,” Avni said. Neil opened the album, firstly there were few couple photos who looked like parents of the twin girls.
Then there were the twin girls photographs who weren’t identical.
“The dead body belongs to her,” Neil said pointing at Nayantara. “And it was her who you saw in vision?” Avni asked and he nodded. They flipped further and saw Neil’s photo with Nayantara.
“God, we both were in love with each other in past birth,” Neil said. “But is she Tara or Nayantara?” Avni asked. He pulled out the photo from the album and turned it. There was written “Nayantara’s Yuvraj”. “I was Yuvraj in my last birth and this is Nayantara whose dead body keeps coming back,” Neil said.
“Nayantara just want to take you away with her, I don’t care about previous birth, In this birth we are a couple,” Avni said with irritation in her voice. “Avni, relax, we still don’t know the whole story,” he said side-hugging her. She hugged him back but didn’t calm down. As he broke the hug, she stood up. “Nayantara! Where are you hiding now? Why are you after my Neil? Come in front of us! I won’t go away from Neil! He’s my husband! You will go!” Avni shouted looking around.
“I will take him away!” said a ghostly voice shocking both of them. Neil too stood up getting startled.
“But why?” Avni shouted and Nayantara appeared right before her. “Because I loved him but he betrayed me. He is the culprit for whatever happened with my sister Tara, he did black magic on my sister. I came to know this from Mayank. Yuvraj was Samar’s best friend and that’s why he did that, he chose black magic over humanity, I have seen everything. He is the reason I died and my last rites were never performed, He killed my parents mercilessly.” Twinkle told her with vengeance in her eyes.
Neil stands numb while Avni is angry on Nayantara.
To be continued…
Note: Jigyasa Singh is casted as Tara and Jasmin Bhasin is casted as Nayantara aka Nayan. Sayanatani Ghosh and Shalin Bhanot are casted as their parents. Still there are many things to get revealed. Give your views about this episode.