Chapter 15: Plot, Revenge and Murder- Part 1.
Ashlene lied quietly. Her mood is dejected and down. Ellie is shouting around over some cartoon movie she is watching. Ashlene's mood is on the verge of becoming livid and her lips are twisting dangerously. She seriously needs new earphones right now and can't afford them. Her savings aren't sufficient to buy one. It's nothing like Julia wouldn't buy for her one. Ashlene just doesn't want to waste Julia's money on her irresistible wish.
Her face turns from being plain to angry and then murderous and no one notices it. She stomps her fist on bed, getting attention of her daughter. She gets up, wears her black jeans and dark grey top and combs her unruly brown bangs, her mood extremely angry and livid right now.
She strode out of her room with slow steps taking care she doesn't come in the notice of anyone. She glances at Julia who is eating some snacks and browsing her phone. Raul isn't there. Her eyes travel to the door way that opens and Raul enters.
He gives a smile to her and walks to his room with Julia passing a comment that he is way more than happy than he should have. Ashlene walks out.
"Where are you going, Ash?" Julia asks,
Ashlene doesn't and answer but mutters, "Some work,"
Julia is not convinced by her answer and decides to follow her secretly.
Ashlene drives her bike angrily, her speed rising dangerously and she continues speeding it and skipping signals until she reaches a house.
It's quite big and royal. Its blue and light apple color theme is undeniably elegant. She is all in fury and her dark brunette hair is unruly suddenly and her eyes show an evil glint of darkness. She don't know where this self of her is coming but she is not even sacred a tad. She smirks cruelly and bows down to pick large hand full of stones and immediately starts flinging it with feminine vigor she have got at its glass windows.
The glass is shattered within seconds. She smiles cruelly and lividly and picks more stones and flings them even harder. The guards come out and hold her from doing such an action.
"Leave me, you bastards!" she barks and clobbers them through her elbow and shoves them away for the moment, "If you stop me from entering my own home I swear I will call police,"
The guards are on their way of preventing her but stop when a young guy, the resident of the bungalow comes out.
"So, you finally come out," Ashlene smirks,
"What do you want?" he asks with evilness decorating his handsome features,
"I've come here to take the papers of my home. And I am fucking NOT going anywhere without it, Duke." Ashlene snarls and smiles wickedly.
"Really?" he asks in bored up tone, "It's waste trying and breaking the window of my room. You are gonna get nothing,"
"I know those papers are in bank and if you are not giving me them, I'm not going anywhere and I WILL do more than flinging stones at your window!"
"Like what?" he asks in sarcastic seductiveness,
Ashlene looks around slightly and notices that guards have disappeared somehow, and she finds it extremely strange. She smirks and grins like a maniac as she slowly paces back, her blue eyes containing undeniable toxic pull. Duke looks her in slight admiration.
She smiles and suddenly bends doesn't and picks more stones and flings right at his face. Before he can dodge, the stones hit him and he is bloodied at the moment. She grins unfalteringly looking him in fury. She picks more stones and throws more at Duke's face and immediately picks more stones and targets his bottom and legs. Duke shrieks and falls down and holds his bottom.
She walks towards him and bends to his level. "Sweetheart, you will love what's going to happen now,"
She smiles wickedly and tears her sleeve from front and bloodies herself with his uninviting blood of face. He is gasping and attempts to pull her by hair but she slams him right there with her ball-pins.
"Help me! He is raping me!" she shrieks at the loudest pitch she could muster and holds the stones with shaking hands. "Please, someone help me,"
"You can't do this," Duke says in incredible tone. Julia and others gather and gasps at the situation. Julia heads towards Duke and slaps him harshly, leaving a five-fingered mark on his bloodied face.
Other woman is crying hysterically looking at Ashlene. Ashlene approaches near Julia and hugs her, crying even more. Julia comforts her and winks secretly at Duke who is way too angry and weak.
"I've not raped her! She's lying!" he yells.
A young man kicks him and shouts, "Shut up, asshole!"
"I was just here to meet Uncle and look, Ruenda," Ashlene addresses the man, "He didn't allow me to enter and threatened me to blame for firing after he threw stones at his own window," Ashlene cried.
Duke gasps, "She is fucking lying! She was the one who flung those stones!"
"You better shut up Duke. I will talk to Mr. Reynolds later,"
Duke sees that the two guards are hiding in a bush. He seethes.
Ashlene gets up along with Julia, "I can't meet Uncle. I thought I can rekindle our relations though he kicked me from my own house and left me alone; I just wanted to meet them. I don't want any property though I'm the legal heir. I'm fine with this miserable life but…why to abandon these relations." Ashlene sobbed.
"Seriously?" the other women questioned, "They kicked you?"
"Y-yeah," Ashlene sniffled,
"Why didn't you file a complaint in PS?"
"Couldn't do, I was so younger that time," Ashlene sobbed,
"Leave it, Ash. Let's go home," Julia comforted.
"Yeah," she walked to their bike and the duo and other people of the crowds looked at them helplessly. One of them kicked and punched Duke once again before they seethed and shouted at him, going ballistic.
Ashlene smirked to herself and Julia rode on Raul's bike while Ashlene on hers. Julia drove their way silently to home. Julia was extremely worried but she kept quiet glancing at a hysterical, livid and fury-filled Ashlene.
They reached home and Ashlene silently went to washroom, washing the dirty blood quickly in disgust. Julia waited for Ashlene in her room, meanwhile asking Ellie to go in Raul's room.
Ashlene walked out and ignored Julia, lying on the couch with wounded expressions. Her torn top was revealing her skin and her rising chest up and down in heavy breaths.
"Ashlene…why…" Julia whispered, her tearful eyes blinking,
"I'm bloody satisfied doing that. I know you'd come behind me. Thanks for helping me." Ashlene winks with evil demeanor,
"Ash, if I weren't there and butter their hands, they could have killed you with Duke. Those guards were tough," Julia expressed,
"I salute your excellent skills," Ashlene bows and smiles, her face not recovered from insanity.
"Ashlene!" Julia yells, "Stop this! You won't get your share! Forget it!"
"Ash! Forget this! You won't get your share!"
"How dare you! I swear if you won't help me, I won't be interested in seeing you ever," she snarled in fury.
"Ash, please…" he pleaded and headed towards her, his voice imploring and low,
"Don't touch me," she warned looking away with closed eyes,
He stopped, "Duke is dangerous. I want to protect you, Ash. He is greedy and craves all that rich houses and your property. You are helpless. I'm sorry that I couldn't help you," he said in a weak and hurt voice,
"Why can't you! You can!"
"They are powerful. You have me; this house is mine and so is yours. It may not be large but I will make sure you don't suffer," he said,
"What should I do with you! You are being coward,"
"I love you…" he paused, "If you want it so bad, I will fight for you, but don't leave me…"
She looked at him with regretful shivering tears in her eyes, "I-I love you too, Da-"
"I know, I will fight for you. I will never forgive you if I ever lose you in this," he said in a clear tone with sadness.
"Shut up! I will stay! I am sorry!" she hugged him tightly, "I don't want to lose you, idiot!" She cried in sobs and shook him in embrace, "I'm happy with you. I don't care! As long as you are by my side, I am happy. I was just angry remembering my house that was taken from me…" she sniffed,
"I will build a house for you one day in future when I will earn, the way you want and for you," he grinned through that wet face,
"You don't have to!" she kissed him on cheeks and fell on his bed pinning him. They silently cried holding each other's embrace tightly,
"You're right. I'm okay," Ashlene said in a low and fine voice. Her dark-self faded and she looked down. Blinking slightly, she let in a sharp inhale and sighed. She walked into the washroom leaving a bewildered Julia.
'I'm fine. I'm okay. They didn't want to help me, don't know why. And I'm okay with it. I'm not going to cry *hic*. I'm not crying * hic* I hate everyone and myself. If I'd wings, I'd fly up in sky and never come back. Words stung hard. I thought my parents loved me, but they didn't. I was wrong. I tried to accept that they cared about my trivial needs and vague feelings. I didn't want to cry for that never happened. If I numb my heart and let my brain speak, it says that I've hurt and denied it listening the false statements of heart that they cared for me. They didn't! They didn't! *sniff* If they had, they would have handled the papers of legal heir that's me. How can I forget? How can I deny? Dad always gave priority to Duke than me. He was more attached to uncle than us. He loved his brother, not us. We were rich. Whenever I wanted something, I got it when they bought it if they were in mood or else I had to wait so eagerly, give up it, lose the hope and eventually forget it. That's why I don't remember them now. I hate to say this bitter truth. I'm okay, I'm so okay *sob!*'
She wiped her tears quickly and washed her face with a soft soap. She gave a smile to herself looking in the unruly mirror and wiped her face and walked out. Her life has been miserable. She always pretended that she was convinced however it was. She smiled, made people around her smile, she loved, she gave no limitations to love, and it...it hurt, she broke, she bitterly broke, her own-self who seemed to be ever free and carefree was turning into a pessimistic soul. Remembering all the times she had kept quiet and felt that pain in her childhood and aftermath hurt now. Words stung, fucking yes, HURT.
The feeling hurt is not something your regular reluctance to accept the emotions displayed by another person, it's just strange and painful and uncomfortable. Your heart does unhealthy things for that time, your words can't come out of your mouth because you'd cry and hiccup out that bloody sobs if you talked. At times, your collar bone and chest feels stingy and throbbing. Your ears goes red in worst case and the unruly locks aside irritate them. It's hard to breathe and feel like your soul has been inflicted and afflicted. What is worst is you've never wanted to feel this way by the person you've loved and who have cared or nurtured you at times. It hurts even more that that person is responsible for your dismay and downtrodden soul right now. Yes, it fucking hurts, it stings, so badly. It's hard to accept and digest that fact.
She was right now holding her pocket blade and furiously tearing the tissue papers preventing her own self from any self-harm. If it wasn't for Ellie, she would have killed Duke and his parent in the worst way possible and committed suicide long back in such nefarious scenarios.
She plucked in the pocket blade which she have gotten for regular dissection and walked out of washroom.
Julia was still there. "I'm fine," Ashlene said unlikely.
"Ash, please don't do this. We can't fight them. They are way too strong. And Duke is more likely to attack you if he knows that you stay here. He will avenge you," Julia said worriedly,
"He gets the fame of raping his cousin in the entire colony now," Ashlene smiled cruelly, "His parents weren't at home. Today at hospital, I was preparing the reports of certain tests when I came across the bitch along with uncle. I came to know that she was suffering from mild heart strokes and that bastard uncle was too worried for his wife. They won't be returning till evening and have to report again tomorrow but..." Ashlene smiled insanely dark, "She will get a life taking heart attack tomorrow, I swear, because she doesn't know that Ashlene Reynolds is working right in that hospital."
"What…" Julia's face blanched,
"I've been awesome with my results. You think I can't kill her silently and manage to cover up things?" Ashlene asked rolling her eyes,
"W-What will you do?" Julia asked pointing a finger to her, scared shitless,
"This," Ashlene took out her notes and showed a rough page, "There is easy and quick way."
"Any chemical which will get broken down into simple products normal to body which may be enough to kill a human without leaving a trace can be used. The best affordable drug is Potassium chloride or KCl."
"When given, the drug simply is metabolized into potassium and chloride ions, both of these ions are normally there in the body." Ashlene paused and thought for a second before resuming,
"When potassium chloride is injected in body in excess quantity say overdose, it can cause kidney failure, sudden cardiac arrest -Sudden Cardiac Death & ultimately results in the death of that person. The examiner fails to detect the actual cause," Ashlene explained in one go with angst.
Julia understood half of it but nodded as she understood her motives. She was way too surprised, blanched. She loved Ashlene and treated her as her own sister. She gulped at the thought of Ashlene killing them.
"Ash, you can't do this," Julia said with brows tensing up. Ashlene looked at her raising a doubtful eyebrow.
"They are your aunt and uncle. I know they have been unfair with you. They left you homeless with single villa outskirts where you can't live currently. They stole all your legal property that was only of your parents. I agree. I know they are responsible for your parents' death. But Ash! You can't take their lives. You are killing them! That's not right. Forgive them and forget them." Julia explained in panicky state.
"I don't regret that they are so called relatives! Duke tortured me too and he DID scared me to rape ONCE! What I did today was to reveal what he did few years back with me! His mom knew it and she hid it and wanted me never to disclose. It was a blessing that I was sent to hostel right after that! Or else I'd HAVE been raped!" Ashlene yelled hysterically, shaking in breaths and fear.
Julia immediately hugged her and calmed her, "Shushh, don't cry, no one will harm you as long as I'm alive. You are safe with me. Ash, don't breakdown. All that happened will NEVER repeat! You've revealed his dirty act on front of everyone today. His sin has been disclosed." Julia rubbed her palms continually on her back and Ashlene was crumbling into a ball as she shivered in trauma.
"I'm with you. If you've endured this much because of them, then they deserve punishment! "
Ashlene stuttered, "I'll never forgive my parents as well. They carelessly left me in their cruel hands where their daughter suffered and lived in closed and hidden phobia. Julia! I'd have been insane if I'd lived there anymore!" Ashlene sobbed.
"You're with us! You've me, Raul and Ellie. We will be fine. I'll check out," Julia said determined, "I'll check out the situation there tomorrow. If possible, we WILL file a case against him for raping you and bring those folks as witness. Once he is behind the bars, we can threaten him to give their legal heir papers and get back your share. Meanwhile, you've to finish off his parents in a traceless manner. Do it tomorrow," Julia said lividly.
Ashlene nodded confidently. She held no remorse for what she was doing. She has to kill them to get what's hers. That's because even the smallest injustices hurt and breaks so how she can should stand this? They've not only killed her parents but left her as the miserable orphan.
"Did you ever talk him about your past?" Julia asked,
"He knows it, he refused to help me. He was scared that Duke would secretly finish me and his parents are powerful. His fears were justified." Ashlene smiled nostalgically and began quoting his words remembering them.
Julia smiled, "I can't believe he said it. I've known him but I never thought he'd be this romantic and mature," Julia smirked. Ashlene blushed. She looked away, "Forget him, let's plan how we are doing everything," Ashlene shrugged and said firmly, "It's too complicated."
Julia nodded. Ashlene prepared a proper solution of KCL with suitable dilution and filled it in a syringe and locked the front needle. She placed it in her coat pocket and stuffed the above part with tissues and gloves. Julia advised her to do it in most hideous way possible where there are no cameras or anyone who's notice. Ashlene formed a plan for that. She'd remove the N/10 NaCl bottle after it's over. They would be giving to her aunt tomorrow as well. She'll manage to wear a scarf tomorrow and hide her-self as much as possible with surgical mask and silently inject KCL in the canola which on it's dilution property would take at least five minutes to give her a cardiac arrest in which Ashlene will carry an extra canola. She'll remove the canola after the glucose is over and injecting KCL and keep it in her pocket and put the extra canola in her pocket in dustbin. She has already planned. She will complete this in a minute and walk out and will be busy with other patients and nursing the senior doctors. Within the next four minutes, there will a cacophony of agony and death in that ward.
A/N: This was entirely on Ashlene's part. The next chapter will be concerning on Tyson's part- The battles and Championship. I guess this was a little shocking and unexpected but it'd to be there. We will return to its continuation in chapter 17. Good luck with the next chapter ahead. xD Oh, thanks to all the previous reviewers and do review for this chapter.