Chapter 7

The death ceremonies of Shankar were over. Vishwesh and Karthik didn't have the strength to even talk to each other. Vishwesh sat alone at home. He switched on his computer, connected to the net, and opened Google. He realised that the small investigation Shankar and him had begun had gone this serious. Now, there was no end unless he himself put an end to it.

He opened the webpage where they found the number of Shwetha earlier. He now sees a small link at the botton of the page. On clicking that page, he realised that it led him to a blog page. The blog's URL was www.shwethathemokkaparty.blogspot.com. They could have been rivals, but not to the extent of having similar URL's to their blogs. Now, he went into the blog and saw the shock of his life. The latest post here also read 'THE DEATH'. As if the real existence, and living condition of Shwetha wasn't enough, he now saw a post, a ditto rip off Shalini's post, except for the fact that Shwetha's name was replaced by Shalini here. So, Shwetha had essentially said her rival Shalini was dead. This shocked Vishwesh.

He went, drank some water, and switched on Shankar's laptop. He logged in and then saw for whatever groundwork Shankar had done there. He saw a file called EKS,EKS. EKS EKS was some kind of code the two had created among themselves to keep others away when doing something private. It asked for the password of the person using. Shankar and Vishwesh had chatted in private maximum about Vishwesh's love for Miss.V, so he tried Miss.V. But it didn't work. Then, it struck him. How could he forget? If there was something so private between them, and not shared with the world, it was their gay story. So it had to be ga(y)iety. It worked!! So, Vishwesh opened the file, and it read 23 5 2 3 1 13. He couldn't understand a thing on this notepad file. As he was pondering over this, his sister came and called him for a show of Ayan, to make him forget the pain. It was a huge loss afterall. But Ayan gave him the answer to the clue. Shankar and Vishwesh had seen Ayan a few hours before Shankar's death. In Ayan, Suriya had decoded 3 15 3 1 9 14 5 to COCAINE, and he guessed this had been set in the same pattern.
23 = W
5 = E
2 = B
3 = C
1 = A
13 = M,
and so the code decoded to WEBCAM.
Vishwesh immediately opened Shankar's Webcam, and lo! what a shock. It covered Shalini's bedroom through a spycam. Shankar was a genius! He had set a webcam in Shalini's bedroom, and after watching Ayan, found a way to set a code, and anticipating his death that night, had given Vishwesh a chance to crack Shalini's case.