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soon as I lay on Raghav’s shoulder with my eyes closed, I could hear the loud sniffing sound
coming out from his breath. My heart was palpitating when Raghav tried to carry me and
walk away from the pub. As soon as we reached his hostel, Raghav placed me onto his bed. I
started to complain about his body odour rudely with my drunk acting so that he would take a
shower. Everything went according to my plan. After he went into the bathroom, I searched
his whole room quickly and found these tied hairs in his drawer at the corner of the room. I
quickly placed the hair into my bag and lay back onto the bed. When Raghav came out of the
bathroom, I acted like I was awake and scolded him rudely for taking me to his hostel without
my permission. I left his hostel as fast as I could, hoping that he would not notice anything
weird and caught me in the middle of the road. Here is the shocking part of all this, those
college girls who have gone missing for months as reported in the news have the same hair
colours as the hair in my bag.

In the silent room, I could clearly hear my heart was beating faster as I read the last sentence:
“I will leave my choice for you.” My vision went blurry as I never once thought before that
this lovely, handsome, funny guy who always hugged and kissed me would lie to me. The
worst part was could it be Raghav who murdered Jhanvi? Wait a second, Raghav asked me to
enter the cinema alone first without him because of his stomach pain yesterday. It was the
perfect time for murder!

“IDIOT! YOU SHOULD HAVE GIVEN IT TO THE POLICE!” I shouted to the air while
tears streamed down my cheeks. Without a second thought, I grabbed the box and house
keys, trying to dash out from the house immediately. There he is, Raghav stood in front of me
at the moment I opened the door. I was frozen on the spot when Raghav’s eyes were staring
into mine. He was clearly not the Raghav I knew anymore. The person who was standing
right in front of me was a cold-hearted, psychopath murderer. Raghav’s malignant smile
made me feel uncomfortable and I knew that if I did not take any action first, he would.

“Gotcha~” That was the last word he said to me. At the speed of light, I tried to close the
door as fast as I could but Raghav’s built-up body was strong enough to shove the door open.
I was thrown backwards as the impact was too strong. Fear and anger were mixed in my body
when Raghav grabbed both of my arms tightly. I struggled with all my might but it was no
use, instead, Raghav tried to put even more pressure on my arms. I felt a stinging pain on my
left arm while Raghav tried to reach for the box. Suddenly, something snapped and my eyes
burst open and there he was, lying on the bed alongside me, caressing my left arm with his
fingernails. I asked him where the box was.

There was a flicker of surprise in his eyes before it faded into a phony expression of
confusion. He stayed silent and started smelling my hair like he always did. I got up, trying to
absorb and process it all, and went in to wash my face. I felt the cold water run over my face
and jolt me back to reality, one where Jhanvi was still dead as far as I could recall. As I wiped
my wet face, and fresh beads of cold perspiration condensed on my forehead as I saw that
menacing smile in the mirror.

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