Prologue
Today I am going back to where it all started. The one place I would always love to go to. Excitement and happiness were two emotions that always preceded when I was to enter the bureau. My father, mother, my 2 brothers, one sis in law to be, my best friend, and many important people of my life worked.
This was two year ago. A lot had changed since the. Today going back meant experiencing the worst emotions in my life. I felt as if I had been given a life sentence. The people whom I once considered as my own were not a part of my life anymore. That incident had made me loose all my trust. Now trust did not come so easily. The blind trust I had in them had vanished by the time the mystery behind that incident had been solved and in the days that followed I didn't even want to know them.
Whenever I remember them the first thought that I come across is 'if only they had apologized'. I have no place for them in my life now. But maybe I should give them one last chance. Out of the 10 people in CID eight had considered me guilty and out of the other two one had believed me to be innocent and another one given me the benefit of doubt. They were Vivek and Sachin respectively. The two people I had only interacted with the least and that to if it was work related.
I was still in touch with them. The three of us had become better friends despite the fact that I had gotten transferred for a year to the Behavioural Analysis Unit of the FBI. Facebook, Skype, and all the new technological advents of the software world had drawn the 3 of us closer than what Abhijeet, Daya and me ever were. The people whom I was most disappointed in were my parents – Dr. Salunke and Dr. (Mrs) Sonali. I was devastated to see that my parents had been the first ones to turn their backs on me. But one cannot have everything in life as they plan it. Life is unpredictable.
With that last thought I made my way to get down at Mumbai's International Airport. I was sure that Vivek and Sachin had come to pick me up. That was confirmed as the announcement in the flight went out saying that all passengers were to remain seated and I was requested to make way to the front of the aircraft. Being in law enforcement had it's perks – no security checks; yes to carrying armaments in planes,inside movie halls,etc; among many other things.
