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Days are Dark

 

Peace After Storm

Peace after the storm






The sky is drizzling slowly and the vehicles were Fastly moving around in the sloppy evening of Finewood City. The Streets of the Finewood city have been quite silent for a while except that one street The fleeting sound of the vehicle has been heard all over the street for the small amount of time and the vehicle stops and a bright looking man comes out from the car and he started to move towards the house and he carefully glanced, if someone watching him and soon, he confirmed, no one is on the way and he quickly opened the door and he see the stairs and he slowly moved towards the first floor and he saw a room in the corner and he have opened the door forcefully and he found a boy who is found died at there and he put a hand on his chest and checked for his breath and he quickly started to looking for things in the room and he moved the things and he found a note and he found the name David at there and he started to read the things that have been written in the note and mostly it has lot of routine things like subjects and works and he fastly moved it to the last page and he saw the lines, which he felt a familiar, he takes the note in his hands and started to read it slowly "Think I forgot, How to be happy, Something l am not, Something I Can't be" Deva listened this line, somewhere and he see the corners of the page and it was designed with the flowers and he closed the note and he kept it on a desk and found an empty can of sleeping pills and he take that put in a cover and keep it in his bag Deva received a call and he attended the call and the cute voice from the other side, started to speak to him, initially we thought it's 9 but it's increased to 15 now, we are checking on the details from the other houses too, we will update you quickly Sir, He disconnected the call and he moved towards the window and see the town, It was the small town considerably has less than 100 houses and this town is mostly considered as the retirement home for the people who were in the government service and they have been flaunting all their wealth in this small humble town to spend the final days of them. The looked around the room and he started to think why he was here? His name is Deva and He was working as a police in that city and he has come to this house to investigate about a case of hit and drive and he found that the boy whom he suspected was died at here Deva already informed to collect his body and he slowly moved down to see the house and it was the pretty decent rich looking house and he saw the photo of him with the couple who were his parents and they have been dies recently in a flight crash and from then he is staying alone in this house. Deva moved into another room and see a room full of pictures of him being winning the medals in academics and helping people and also him with the pictures of being alone in the different parts of the world He closely looked the pictures, and fair enough, he was living a super-rich life and there is no surprise in that Suddenly, The calling bell of the house is ringed and he goes to the door and he found his assistant Emma was saluting at him and he asked Emma to come inside and she said, I have done my part of investigation and he asked how many casualties, she replied it's 15 Sir, 7 of them were died and 8 of them has been admitted in the hospital and Doctors were treating them and she continued I have also made an investigation on friends that, he was always used to be alone and stay away from everyone and he barely speaks to them from the beginning and after their parents death, the distance become increased and we try our best to console him, He was getting into normalcy day by day until it occurs, She told the Deva that this is what they tell about him to me and Deva asked Hey Emma, did they look suspicious to you, Emma slowly nodded her head and said most of the answers were genuine but I have found suspicious on two guys and their names are Thomas and Mark and I don't find their answers are genuine, Deva asked why? She answered they have been living opposite to my house and in today's afternoon I randomly checked my house CCTV footage and they have been entering into their house in the mid night but during the investigation they have said, they haven't left the house for whole day, Deva asked why, Don't you ask them about this, I have watched the footage only after the investigation sir, he asked her to bring them here Emma called the other police to bring them here, and after 15 mins, Emma has informed Deva, sir they are here, Deva asked her to bring them inside and She bring them in front of Deva. Deva started to speak to them, "Tell me what happened yesterday night, Otherwise I will have to remand you for causing the murder of 15 people" Their face was filled with fear and they started to beg for forgiveness and they agreed to tell what's happening at yesterday night We, three have gone to the main town to watch a movie and we have headed to a restaurant and we are having food at there until we meet someone Deva asked whom do you met at there?, Thomas continued he is our old friend and his name is Richard, we all used to roam together in childhood and he got shifted to another place at young age and he immediately recognised us and started to talk with us, we are having chat together and the boy stays silent and Richard teasingly sparked his anger by saying, "why you are looking like a cry-baby, speak to me you fool" and suddenly David got angry and smashed the plate in the head of the Richard and we asked him to go away and we tried to stop the David and in the due time Richard got escaped and suddenly David break out from our hands and started to chase Richard in his car and that's all we know sir. Deva looked at his Emma and she gives him a meaningful look and she asked the other police waiting at there to keep the boys in custody, until this case is solved Deva's face was literally confusing and he asked the Emma to check the neighbours about his character, She goes and investigated about him and all were saying David is a good boy and kindful person and he always stay silent and he never shows his anger even how hard they have given any work to him Deva has quickly take a breath and he asked Emma to get some water at his car and she goes there and Deva quickly ran fast to stairs and see the David's hand and it imprints a word "Delia" and He moves to the desk and started to read the thing written in the Diary Which he has read at earlier "The world which I have seen is And my whole life is a Wolf in sheep's clothing" Deva reads the line again and he checked the pockets of the David and he found a photo and soon, he heard the sound of Emma calling him, Sir here is your water and he slowly comes down and she handed him the water and after drinking that, Deva started to feel better and he took the photo and checked that it was a family of 4 and he found the younger version of the boy at the photo along with someone else He shocked and look the photo at the house and he found the same boy at the photo and he was visibly confused and he saw the old picture closely and he saw the hands and one of kid has the words Maria imprinted in his hands but looking at the pic in the home, it was not found in that picture that's in the house Everything is getting clear for the Deva and he moved quickly towards the David's room and he started to search like a mad man and he moved the things even faster than what he was done at the beginning and his Emma was visibly shocked for his actions and he moved across everything and Deva found an old letter, he opened it and started to read it After reading that, his face was become bright and he said to Emma, He found an important thing and he said to Emma that David was not the biological son of the parents he had and may be he recently found about this but one thing was troubling out my mind, why does he suicide now, he know his original family and sure, he would try to search for them and why does he wanted to leave this planet and at the same time, David's phone at the house started to ring and Deva goes and takes the call and the guy on other side said asked is David was there and Deva replied, Nah he is sleeping, tell me what do you want to say to him and who are you? The guy tell Deva that, his name is Mathew and he was an professional artist and Techie, he continued Yesterday, David sent the photos of one family and asked me to design how would they look now, Deva asked to him, did you designed that, the guy on the other side said yes and Deva asked him to send the pictures and Deva ended the call and he opened the photos and see 2 pictures at there ,it was the family in the old photo, he found in David's pocket and there is an another picture and it was a girl and she appeared cute in that picture and Emma saw this and screamed and suddenly her face turned into horror, Sir this girl is killed in the accident that happened yesterday Deva's face changed after hearing that and he slowly turned off the phone and he was completely shocked after hearing this and Emma was looking at him in terror His thoughts were running quickly and suddenly the words which he read in the beginning from the note started to crash into his mind "Two angels climbed down from the sky and took me from the dark and put me in the top of the aisle I still don't know the aisle was just made to hide the blood soaked faces of the angels, luckily the angels were so kind to me until I found out the blood, was made me" Deva comes out from the thoughts and he started to write the report on this case and he give that to Emma and he goes out of the house Emma Started to read the report, that the David's parents were killed the biological parents of the dead person and they were died in the similar accident made by the David's parents and the original name given by his biological parents is Max and the boy stayed alive during that accident and they took him as a remedy for the tremendous sin made by them and with all the money they had, they made the accident case as nothing and as a remedy to their sin, they decided to raise Max as their son and soon, they made him as their son as their original son David is died in the mysterious fever and Max was raised in his identity as David until they have tell about the truth and Max doesn't hate the people who raised him and Max still called them as Dad and Mom even after he heard the truth and they have also treat him as a son, as like before but the people who were raised him was died in the flight crash and Max becomes sad and until he found the old picture of him with his original family and he saw he was having sister named Delia and asked to find how would she look now and he was pretty nervous after hearing the photo would come tomorrow and suddenly he got irritated by Richard and Max vent out all of anger of being made alone by the people who were around him and he rode the car like a mad man and he killed the group of tourists who were taking rest in the street while moving towards the religious journey, after he crashed them, he found the name of him written in the hands of the girl and he started to cry out of guilt for killing the only soul related to him in this Earth and he takes the decision to offers himself to the God ... Emma reads this out and the Deva was coming back again to hand out the cover which he collected at the beginning and he goes out of the house and after Deva gone, Emma asked the other police who gave information that David is dead and the other police said Sir, only called me to bring the person to collect the body and she was shocked after hearing this and she slowly started to understand what actually happened before her arrival to the house and she decided not to tell about that to anyone else While Deva was going out, he was receiving a call and Deva took and answered it "Come over here, asap I will send the location to you" and Deva quits the call and he slowly steps down from the stairs and moved towards the car and slowly started it and started to navigate towards the next destination, he looked outside in the window and 3 boys were bullying another boy and a random quote from the movie once he watched, comes into his mind "All it takes one bad day to make the sanest man alive into lunacy" and Deva continued to drive towards the next location and a person in the road said hello officer and he raised his hand to say Hi and he closed the window of his car and he looked at the picture of him and Delia together and he looked the pictures at tears and he opened his pocket to take that old picture of the girl and the bill of the sleeping pills and he tore the bill into pieces and he kept the Delia's picture close to his heart and cleared his tears and he moved towards the next location with the peace that had comes after the storm..... The end......... Author's Note: I don't know I am going to win or not, but thanks for letting me to compete in this competition and bringing back my focus into my writing....

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