The next morning

Everything is silent inside. The light breeze playing with the curtains have made chilly weather. Many calls came yet the girl sleeping with her blanket all over her didn't make any buzz. The room is still messy with her clothes carelessly stacked on her sofa and the half packed trolley at the side waiting to be closed someday.

The girl slowly moves around to feel where was she. It feels comfortable. She looks around and hugs her blanket again. It's her home. But she is confused. Shouldn't she be dead already? Hadn't she already bade her goodbye last night?

She is feeling headache. She'd have asked for coffee if for any normal day but today she is afraid of being scolded. She thinks hard as to what happened last night after she jumped, who took her here, what do they want. Just as she was planning to step out of the bed, her mother enters in.

"Who was that guy?"

"Guy..? Who guy? I don't know any guy."

"So you forgot your secret lover now."

"Secret Lover???? No, no, I don't have any."

"Then who was he last night?"

"I don't remember anything, Maa. Let go off this, please give some coffee."

"Let go off this.. are you joking?"

"No.. why should I, I'm afraid of you, you know." (nervously)

"MISS JESSICA D'SOUZA.. tell me who was that guy last night who came to drop you here in the middle of the night when you were completely out of your senses?

Come on speak fast. Your dad wants to see you. .... Beware girl, of your words, he is not in a good mood."

[Jessica doesn't remember anything. She doesn't have any clue who the guy could be. The worse is she won't be recognising him even if he appears again.. but her parents will. This means she is completely doomed this time.

But then she understands one important thing here. They don't know about her suicide attempt or what happened later, the guy must not have told them. . So she decides to tell them about her suicidal thoughts and let it be calm for sometime. She still has to find the guy anyways to know the full story.]

"I don't know, Maa. I really don't know anything. And why should I be knowing any guy? You and Papa are the only ones I have in my life, nobody stays with me. (sobbing)"

"... you should remember everything now, Jess, you must. Last night, that guy......."

There was a knock on the door and Jessica's father enters inside. He looks at his wife and tells, "Give her some food. We need to talk after that." He then goes out.

Jessica was totally confused. She knew something was a blunder here and the worst thing is that she doesn't have a single piece of this puzzle. Her mother smiles at her once and tells her to freshen up. Jessica had wanted some comforting words, or maybe a hug, but she didn't get any this time. Her mother left the room.

Jessica had been trying hard to remember even a single detail of whatever happened last night. But she got no success. It seemed like a total brainwash this time. While in bathroom, she saw few blood stains on her dress.

(thinking)"Aunt Red, is it? Naah, doesn't seem so, she can't be this early. Then what..?"

A scene flashes through her mind. The guy had hand covered in blood and he held her hand for sometime. But she had jerked it off. .. Jessica tried to remember more but it was her mother asking her to come down.

After finishing up, Jessica comes down and sits at her usual place. It was dramatically too silent. Even the drops from the kitchen tap could be heard clearly as if sounding like a ticking bomb. She didn't how to start the start the conversation so she looked at her father and mother once. They didn't give any response, infact they didn't even look at her. She was scared now.

She moved forward to take a plate, when her father said, "Last night, the guy said ..

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