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THE STORY OF REVENGE!

As everybody welcomed the season of joy, vibrancy, and new beginnings. My heart welcomed the season of winter of the cold mess, a beginning to a life where I would not be able to ever walk again, where I was lodged into this wheelchair forever. They say when God can’t come to you directly he sends you angels and I am happy to have met my four angels. I, Josephine, and Lara had been school friends and I had met Robinson and Katy during sessions with my therapist.

Robinson was every other girl’s dream his deep chocolate brown eyes looked at you like a puppy, dimples were pressed under his prominent cheekbones, those cupid-bow lips which hid a hundred secrets behind those unspoken words and that smile which painted a ray of sunshine all over his face. All my friends were pretty with each having a quality unlike the other.

I had always romanticized about Robinson from the day I met him. I would spend hours stalking his profile and gushing about how if I was as pretty and physically abled as Katy was, I would have dated him, but all was good in Katy’s paradise and I didn’t want to ruin it.

It was as if it had become a ritual where we would meet every Saturday around 6 pm in the evening at Barry’s Bootcamp not an actual camping site but a local coffee shop where we would catch up over a cup of coffee. Following the schedule, I arrived there an hour earlier and sat there at our usual table ordered a choco lava cake, opened my phone, and started to stalk Robinson all over again, as time passed and the clock struck 6 it was time for me to come back to the real world and burst my bubble of dreams. As the smell of the coffee tantalized our senses and we were done imprecating curses on the cause of our being we realized Katy was again late and had missed all the fun and gossip. It was almost half-past 8 and there was no sign of Katy, we knew either she was busy swaying Robinson or some evil spirit must have taken control of her in that spooky house in which she lived that looked exactly like that from Conjuring movie, as we joked about it and were down with 3 cups of coffee there was no sign of Katy, it was kind of unusual, so we decided to go to her house and check what’s up with her. As we entered her house there was unusual silence all around the house, her parents were out for their foreign trip, we then entered her room we could see the bloodstains on the floor and the room was a complete mess, the broken flower vase, the smashed photo frames the curtains covered with blood stains and still no sign of Katy, our hearts started pondering more than usual.

We then followed the bloodstains which led us to her bathroom where Katy was lying in the bathtub like a dead corpse, her wrist slit and the bathtub filled with blood we all froze to death and before we could understand anything “boom guys” Katy shouted and there it was a camera in her hand recording all our expressions. Katy had been trying for this contest named “scary wit” for the past three months, whoever won it would be featuring in an ad film and she always wanted to go in this field so this time we were here

Lara was almost into tears and we were much furious at Katy for pulling this at us. After half an hour session of Katy apologizing to us, we finally did accept her sorry. It was midnight and as I lay down on my bed I recalled what had happened at Katy’s house and in my mind, a storm of thoughts started brewing, I wondered what if Katy was actually dead today then I could date Robinson but as much as I liked him I loved Katy more and would never break my best friends heart I gushed out all these thoughts and went off to sleep.

They say that our fingers now know how to express our feelings more appropriately than our mouth does but we four had never let technology come in between and hinder our Saturday coffee camping but the past three weeks our phones were the only way of communicating with each other as this time our work made us camp all through the week, finally after three weeks we were back at treasure opening of our emotions with each other. As usual, Katy was again late but this time Lara who has had a history of always being on time wasn’t there, as we were done with opening our treasure boxes neither Katy nor did Lara showed up it was kinda off the wall to have two members of your gang missing. As the clock struck 7 Josephine’s phone rang, soon our happy faces were turned in perplexity the call was from a police officer informing us about the heinous murder of Katy. As we rushed to her house we all had a little hope that this might be another prank pulled by her but all our hopes were crackled up like firecrackers when we entered her room and there she was lying on the floor dead the murder was done so heinously that we could actually see the flesh of her bones, the room was a complete mess, the smashed photo frames, the wall covered with blood stains and incise of nail marks, the most stupefying that had caught everyone’s attention was a mark of an ace drawn with blood on the curtain. Darkness had crept on all of us it was as if there was light but there was no path to walk on, we tried calling Lara thousand times to inform her about the incident but she didn’t answer her calls the police had already begun their investigation as Josephine consoled Katy’s parents I comforted Robinson. That night felt more than long it was as if the sun was also scared to come out. The next day was followed with utter grief and sadness and police inquiring each one of us, there was no sign of Lara still, the police was very much adamant that it might be her because every evidence was pointing straight towards her the ace mark that was made only Lara was a big fan of playing poker and one of her favourite cards was ace, secondly she was missing since Katy was found dead in her house. But none of us believed the police, our hearts were filled with grief but somewhere my heart was celebrating the season of love, care as Robinson and I started growing close to each other day by day and every flower in my garden started to blossom again with the drops of affection by him. And soon everything was coming back to normal Lara was traced back down she had been out of town because of some family problems and because the police were not able to find any evidence and track down the victim the case was closed down by their parents. Three months had passed, I and Robinson sat down near that lush green valley where the flowers sang in rhythm with the wind and the water gave tunes to their song it was Katy’s favourite place, and every Sunday both Robinson and she would come by and sit for some time over here.

As the trees swayed in motion I held Robinson’s hand and I thought it was time to tell him about how I felt about him, as I apprised him of my feelings and how my life had changed after Katy passed away in an unfortunate incident he took away his hand and at that moment my life was shattered in pieces just like when a piece of glass breaks and is shattered in bits my life was broken and was lying in pieces like those bits of glasses.

After Katy had passed away he had started liking being with me, he was very fortunate to have my shoulder when things weren’t right for him, he had always treated me as his friend but little does he know that to even gain this friendship from him I had killed my own best friend and it was me who had drawn that ace mark it was me who had killed Katy brutally just because I loved Robinson more than I loved the friendship I had shared with Katy. But nonetheless, though I did not gain him as my boyfriend I am happy to have him as my friend, and soon I will turn this friendship into love. Regards to you Katy love from Me.

WHAT IS REVENGE!!

It is the act of inflicting harm on someone because they have done something wrong on you.

THE SCIENCE OF REVENGE!!

In swiss research, a number of researchers wanted to know what inflicts revenge on someone and how people and their brains react to it.

So in a study, they took a group of people and recorded their brain functions while they were ready to inflict revenge on them and it came to light that there was a rush in of neural activity in the caudate nucleus, the brain part known for rewards. So in a way, the study showed that revenge is something a person does for rewards.