Chapter 6

Shankar is back from Australia. Shankar and Vishwesh sit to get into the Shalini issue. They google Shwetha out extensively. But nothing proper is found. They also google for the deaths in the Lahore Shootouts. But the biggest irony here is that, there is not a single Hindu name in the list of deaths, forget something even near Shwetha. Then they search in full for Shwetha Balachandran. They find a Facebook profile by that name, with location Delhi! This has them freaked out. Probably such a female does exist after all. They manage to get the contact number of Shwetha.

Next they try to contact her, in vain, because the number seemed switched off for most part of the day. Then at around 12 in the night, Shankar got a call. And that too from the number of Shwetha. He picked it up, and started speaking. He realised someone by the name did exist, and told her that he needed to meet her. She made a couple of enquiries into who he was, and after he revealed a fake identity, she agreed to meet him. They set up the meeting at the City Pub, the next night.

Vishwesh, Karthik and Shankar had a party at the City Pub, the next evening. At the end of the whole thing, Karthik said he had to leave because his father was coming to the same pub with his friends that night. After he left, Vishwesh and Shankar discussed the future plan of action. They decided that they would find out somehow by the end of the day the mystery behind the Shalini story.

Then Vishwesh went outside the pub, and waited for Shankar to finish the work they had planned upon. Shankar walked into the room they had planned on meeting. It was 23:58 hours as he walked in. He went in and exclaimed screaming, 'No, it can't be you! What sort of devilish attitude is this?' As he screamed, the clock slowly ticked. It struck 12, and there was a deafening sound. Someone had set a time bomb in the room. As Vishwesh in full grief, sorrow and disbelief rushed to the room, he saw a female figure, the same one which went into the room as Shwetha, escape amidst the flames. It was her, the bitch after all who planned and killed Shankar. She needed to be punished, by law or by Vishwesh and Karthik. On getting to know the news, Karthik came back, and found his dad unhurt. But he had lost Shankar. No one cried more that night, the grief of having lost a true friend now hurt the hearts of Vishwesh and Karthik. But they had to cope up with it.