Hey guyz, back after longgggg time. My semesters were going on and I didnt even get time to type stries on ff. Sorry to say but I am discontinuing my other stories on ff excpet this one and Hum Saath Saath Hain! So sorry for that guys!
The Legend of Bloody Mary
Chapter 2: The Murder!
On the beautiful mountain of the Mt. Charleston, snow fall had turned into a snowy storm. It was afternoon time and it was really very dangerous to go far from the resort in the snowy mountains. A boy was pulling a girl in that storm and of course she was trying to stop him from doing so.
"K-Kavin! Please, stop it." The girl pleaded him while trying to free her hands from him which he was holding hardly to pull her with himself.
He turned back to look at her pleading face, still holding her hands, "What is it, Shru?"
'Shru? He called me Shru! Since when had he started calling me that? He never calls me Shru.' She thought to herself, taken aback at his sudden change of addressing her. They both were childhood best friends but never addressed each other like this neither Kavin nor Shruti. It was really surprising for her as her best friend suddenly addressed her like that. Well, she loved him since childhood but never showed her affection towards him and nor he showed affection towards her. But in certain cases he rather protected her many times. It was not like that he liked her but, he was afraid of expressinng his feelings to her.
"Hey! Come out of your dreamland. We need to hurry." He said waving his hands in front of her eyes so she would come out of her thoughts. She jerked and again he started pulling her in the storm.
"Wait, Kavin! What will happen if real Bloody Mary will appear?" she asked him with shivering voice as she was afraid if she will really appear.
"Idiot! If there is some woman like the Bloody Mary, I will like to meet her." He stated easily. Of course, he wanted to be a detective and detectives do not believe on ghost stories. For Kavin, it was just a legend, which has been told since years. "To solve this four year old case, first I have to examine the lift. And I need to go ahead of the other high-schooler."
"But Kavin, you must not worry about it, it is just that there is someone who just think like you."
"That's why I can't lose! If he will solve that case before me and beats me, people will think I am of the high-schooler level too." Kavin yelled in aggression.
'But you are a high-schooler!' she thought to herself. Though she yells at him about his detective freakness, she liked his deduction skills by heart. She enjoyed watching him whenever he is solving a case.
"There's a couple in love!" someone yelled and Kavin and Shruti looked at the person who was teasing.
"That's not like it!" Kavin yelled back in disgust.
But it turned that the person was teasing someone else.
"That girl is talking about someone else." Shruti made it clear to him, "Well, if you want to check on that lift we will come back after the snowstorm slows down."
Kavin's attention was caught by a woman who was filming her before also. She was standing some feet far from Kavin and Shruti. Kavin became furious after seeing her.
"Okay, but before that…" he started going near the woman who was filming them. "Just stop it, ya get it!" he yelled at the woman, "You have been watching and filming us since while!"
"K-Kavin, it is okay. She must be filming the snow-covered scenery." Shruti tried to make him calm she probably knew his angry behavior.
"No, she is not!" he said angrily, "This old lady has been filming me!" He stated, "Cause, she is my mother."
"What?" Shruti was surprised.
The lady took out her goggles and smiled at her son and his friend.
"That's my son! You are just like Randeep!" she exclaimed.
"But, what are you doing here?" Shruti asked her startled as Kavin's mother had suddenly came into appearance.
"Actually, Kavin has never been this far from us, I was worried about him." she smiled at Shruti.
"No, you are lying! She is making my videos for adding it in the collection she is making of me since I was born till I become an adult." Kavin yelled annoyingly.
'I think I want to see that!' Shruti thought to herself.
She was his childhood friend and had known him for years. They used to play study and go to school together. She had cherished their childhood moments so much. Of course, she wanted to see those videos again.
In the resort-:
The director and the make-up artist were standing near a glass window looking at the snowstorm.
"There was a snow-storm just like this, then too" the make-up artist Rose looked at the director who was speaking, "On that day, 4 years ago when Mr. Daniel committed suicide!" Tim said with his voice sad and looked behind him at the actor who was surrounded by fans asking for autographs, "That day also we're waiting for the storm to calm down so we could film and Daniel was surrounded by fans."
"It looks like the storm is settling down", the stunt-man said looking at window.
"Yeah! Looks like it!" the make-up artist said.
"Mr. Raymond, will you please show your skiing skills!" requested one of the fans.
"Sorry, we are already late for the shooting. It will be difficult." The actor denied.
The fans became sad. The make-up artist came near him.
"You should do it. They have already asked you for ski 3 times." Rose told him.
The actor nodded but turned to the director and asked him whether he should ski or not.
"We should accept their request. Fans are important for us after all." The director replied.
"Won't Daniel sir say the same if he would be here?" the stuntman asked.
Rose replied him with anger, "Please! He is not here so stop talking about him."
"I can understand ma'am that you both were getting married and we got you involved in the movie based on his death." Tim felt sorry for her.
"That's fine. It was me who asked you to let me take part in this movie", she became sad with his thoughts, "I thought that while filming this movie, I will come across some secrets of his death."
They left the resort. This whole scene was being watched by Kavin, who was deep in his thoughts as well and Shruti.
Near the lift-:
Dushyant was checking the lift when Priti came near him running and panting.
"2 places. There are 2 places where the lift comes close the slope." He was looking above, observing the lift.
"Then, someone must have jumped on." Priti said looking at the lift standing near him.
"No." he replied, "The slope is close but still there is 3 meters difference. It would be impossible without a trampoline."
Just then a skiing person caught their attention. He was wearing goggles and knitted cap and was skiing with full speed while his fans were cheering for him. There was his name written on back side of his skiing jacket 'Daniel'.
"He is pretty good at skiing!" Priti exclaimed.
The skied down the slope and stopped where his fans were standing, cheering for him.
"Once more! Once more! Once more!" The fans cheered.
He took his big bag and turned towards them, "Sorry fans, only once for today."
He waved his hand and left for the shoot. The make-up artist and the stunt man had already left for the shoot. Tim, Raymond and the detective Abhijeet rode the life to visit the shooting place. The lift started to move.
Kavin and Shruti were already on one of the lift seats, Kavin examining the lift.
"There is something definitely wrong about this lift." Kavin said checking every screw and nut of the lift.
"K-Kavin, doesn't this lift scare you?" Shruti asked him with an afraid tone in her voice and holding the bar of the lift tightly.
"Come on Shruti, you have been on lifts many times since you have joined a ski class before. Can't you ride a lift?" Kavin asked her.
"I have been on many lifts before but they were different than this one." Shruti informed him.
Suddenly, the storm started again. No one was able to see what is in front of them. Kavin tried to look at the detective Abhijeet who was sitting in front of them.
"I can't see anything because of this storm." Kavin stated irritated by the storm, still trying to see the detective.
Here, the stuntman Mr. Harley, was skiing to the shooting place when he saw Miss Rose on the lift.
"Miss. Rose?" he called her name, she looked down at him, "What are you doing at the down lift?" he asked her.
"Ohh, Harley, actually I kinda lost my chance to leave the lift at the stop. I am not good at those things." She told him.
And then, there was a gun shot. Both of them were startled by the sudden gun shot. Not only those two but also Tim, Abhijeet, Kavin, Shruti, Dushyant and Priti were startled.
Dushyant quickly started running to the place from where the sound came. Priti ran after him.
"What was this voice?" Shruti asked Kavin, frightened by the noise.
"It was the sound of pistol!" Kavin told her.
'First there was the director Tim, then the actor Raymond and then the detective Abhijeet. Who has been murdered?' Kavin thought to himself.
"What happened?" Dushyant asked running to the stop of the lift when Tim was getting off the lift.
Tim looked at him, "Ohh, you are the boy from the resort." Dushyant stood near him, "I don't know, I just got off the lift."
They looked at the upcoming lift, slowly they were able to see the shadow of the person who was sitting. When the lift came forward, they were able to see what had happened.
Raymon was shot on his temple, blood oozing out of his head through the wound and his head resting on the bar, his breath was stopped. He was dead.
The same incident had happened which had happened 4 years ago. The question still remains,
Was it murder or suicide?