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Chapter 1 — The Voice Behind the Hood

At the far end of the city,....
A stadium trembled beneath a sea of screaming voices as thousands of lights danced like stars around the stage.
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Calling loud one name over and over again.....
"Vivaan."
"Vivaan. "
"Vivaan. "
Slowly an angelic voice started raising from behind the stage
So soft, like a whisper in the night air
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The stadium erupted in deafening screams.
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Everyone clapping👏, shouting his name relentlessly.
" Vivaan. "
"Vivaan. "
"Vivaan. "
His angelic voice came through, gradually rising as if he was singing while walking to the main stage
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"Yesterday, I found sorrow on the road. "
"I embraced it and broke down crying. "
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"The one I thought would always be mine..., truly mine"
"Why did I let her slip away?"
...
(His voice faltered.)
(Almost breaking on the last word.)
(slowly lowered his head. )
(Only one picture in his head)
(Her calm face..)
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...
The crowd fell silent.
Not because they were told to.
Because they wanted to hear every breath.
Every light died.
Except one white spotlight...
Searching...
Left.
Right.
Forward.
Until it found him.
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"Yes, those eyes I used to kiss for no reason
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"Why don't they hold love for me anymore?"
(His fingers slowly tighten around the microphone.)
(His jaw locks beneath the mask.)
(Walking slowly through the darkness.)
(Head lowered.)
(Mask and hoodie hiding everything except his eyes...)
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Still singing.
Not waving.
Not smiling.
Not looking at anyone.
As though...
The millions surrounding him don't exist.
Only the song does.
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"My companion, you're the reason I still breathe."
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"Tell me, me how can I live without you?"
Vivaan Arora : (ML)
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(Lifts the microphone with both hands... as if he needs it to stay standing.)
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(A shaky breath escaped him.)
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"My companion with you my breath goes."
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"Tell me love, how can I live without you?"
Roses danced above thousands of raised hands.
Phone lights swayed with every note...
As if the entire stadium had become a sky filled with stars.
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"You're the absence that hunts my heart all the time."
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"I don't understand why you're this essential to me?"
(His shoulders become heavier.)
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"Sleep left me and never returned. "
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"So many nights passed. "
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"So many stars I counted."
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" My fingers began to burn. "
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Millions of voices joined his...
Yet they blended so perfectly...
It sounded as though one heart...
Had learned to sing.
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His voice drifted into every dark corner of the city.
The city...
That always died...
Whenever he sang.
Dim streetlights.
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Empty roads.
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Silent cafés.
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Motionless traffic lights changing colors...
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For cars that never came.
Not a single conversation...
Not a single hurried footstep...
Nothing.
Only...
His warm voice...
Echoing through the sleeping streets...
As though the entire city...
Had left its heart...
Inside one stadium.
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"You were the only tear my eyes had ever known..."
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"You were the only pain my heart ever carried..."
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"Since you left..."
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"My heart left with you."
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"There was no heart left to give to anyone other than you."
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"I never shared my evenings with anyone again..."
Vivaan Arora : (ML)
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"Though you weren't there..."
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"My heart never stopped calling you home."
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The song continued...
It slipped between silent buildings...
Crossed deserted bridges...
Floated through empty bus stations...
Until...
...It reached a girl standing in the middle of the street...
Very angry... Her head down... trying to control her anger.
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"Don’t let distance come between us."
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"I’m your refuge."
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Vivaan Arora : (ML)
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"No matter how hard I tried to convince myself I'd get used to your absence..."
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"I figured out that I don't know how to live without you."
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"Tell me how can anyone survive... when the other half of his soul is no longer with him?
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"How can he even breathe?"
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"While his soul still clings to hers."
(His blue eyes closed for only a heartbeat.)
(stopped walking.)
(Swallows hard before continuing.)
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"Why are you testing me?"
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"Come to me from wherever you are."
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"It doesn't matter how much you've changed."
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"Each path of my heart ends at yours."
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"Every beat inside my chest reaches for your name... before I do."
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"Each day passes."
Vivaan Arora : (ML)
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"Makes me realize I didn't just lose you..."
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"I lost the life I only knew because of you."
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(His hand moves unconsciously to his chest.)
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(His thumb rubs the edge of the microphone.)
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(One tear almost falls... but never does.)
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(Her eyes slowly moved to his poster hanging on the wall.)
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(Her jaw tightened.)
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"I really hate you..."
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(A pause.)
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"...Vivaan Arora."
Myra Mehta : (FL)
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(Her fingers curled into a fist.)

Chapter 2 _ Beyond the Mask

The concert continued...
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Melting thousands of hearts...
Until the very last note.
And the moment it ended...
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The crowd completely lost control.
Fans rushed toward the stage...
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Desperate to get closer.
To see him.
To touch him.
To tell him how deeply they loved him.
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Security men rushed to him, surrounding him with their bodies...
Security
Security
"Move!"
Security
Security
"Back!"
Forcing a narrow path open toward the backstage exit...
Where his car was already waiting.
As always...
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(Kept walking.)
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(Head lowered)
Vivaan Arora : (ML)
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(Never once looking at the people calling his name.)
As though he feared the world beyond his mask...
..and believed his peace lay in staying away from it.
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But even that little peace...
Was too much for the world to offer him.
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Out of nowhere—
...one of the fans threw herself into his arms, ...
Fan
Fan
(crying, pulling his mask down.)
Fan
Fan
"Please... just one glim—"
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(The fabric started slipping down...barely an inch.)
Before it revealed anything more...
Security...
Security
Security
(Pulled her away.)
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(His hand shot up.)
Vivaan Arora : (ML)
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(The mask was back where it belonged.)
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(Dragged the hoodie lower...)
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(Keeping a death grip on its edge.)
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(Never released it.)
As though it was the one secret...
He would give his own life to protect.
Without a single word...
Vivaan Arora : (ML)
Vivaan Arora : (ML)
(Pushed through the security line.)
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(Every step remained steady...)
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(While inside...)
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(He was shattering...)
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(Piece by piece.)
Yet...
He kept every broken piece imprisoned...
Until he reached his car.
He threw himself inside...
Like the last boat reaching a drowning man.
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His younger voice echoed from the past...
Merciless.
Cold.
Loud.
As though time had never passed...
As if it were still happening now...
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His Younger Self
His Younger Self
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3- He Never Left That Playground

His Younger Self
His Younger Self
(His voice breaking...)
His Younger Self
His Younger Self
(His sobs kept choking every word.)
His Younger Self
His Younger Self
"Please..."
His Younger Self
His Younger Self
"Stop..."
Children laughed.
Not loudly...
Cruelly.
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"Why?"
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"Is it..."
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"Because the truth hurts?"
His Younger Self
His Younger Self
(Shook his head violently.)
His Younger Self
His Younger Self
(The tears clinging to his eyes finally slipped free.)
His Younger Self
His Younger Self
"No!"
His Younger Self
His Younger Self
"It's not true!"
His Younger Self
His Younger Self
"I'm not ugly!"
The children laughed harder.
One of them stepped closer.
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"You really believe that?"
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"Didn't you ever look at yourself in the mirror?"
Another boy smirked.
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"You do have beautiful eyes..."
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"...very beautiful blue eyes"
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"Eyes that look like an angel's."
His Younger Self
His Younger Self
(The tears in his eyes froze for a heartbeat.)
His Younger Self
His Younger Self
(A ghost of hope sensed a way out...)
His Younger Self
His Younger Self
(Too afraid to believe it.)
Then...
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"But they don't belong on that face."
They all laughed.
Their laughter was the knives...
That killed him in that garden.
With no warning...
With no mercy.
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(A violent gasp tore through his chest.)
As though...
He had never left that playground.
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(Slammed on the brakes.)
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(His breathing grew harsher.)
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(Another breath.)
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(Another breath.)
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(But his chest refused every breath.)
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(The car suddenly felt too small.)
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(Too silent.)
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(Too much.)
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Stumbled out of the car.
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His vision blurred...
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One stubborn tear clinging to his lashes.
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Kept walking.
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Faster.
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Then running.
As though he could outrun the memories chasing him.
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"Why..."
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His voice broke.
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"Why..."
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"Why do they want to see my face?"
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"Why do they keep asking?"
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"I already gave them..."
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"The best thing I have."
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"My voice..."
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"My eyes."
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"Why isn't that enough?"
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(His steps grew slower.)
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(As though the unbearable weight in his heart...)
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(Had fallen into his feet.)
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(Even they...)
Vivaan Arora : (ML)
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(Could no longer carry him.)
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"Don't they know..."
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Vivaan Arora : (ML)
"Know that....
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"If they see it..."
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"They....
Vivaan Arora : (ML)
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(chocked sob in his voice)
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"They'll leave."
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"Just like everyone else."
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(A tear finally escaped.)
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Vivaan Arora : (ML)
(stop walking completely
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(His chest rising violently.)
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"And then...."
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Vivaan Arora : (ML)
"Lowered his head."
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(His whisper disappeared into the empty night.)
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"And then....
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(His trembling fingers gripped the edge of his hoodie.)
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(Pulling it away from his neck...)
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(As though the fabric itself had begun suffocating him.)
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"...only this ugly face..."
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Vivaan Arora : (ML)
"...and I..."
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Vivaan Arora : (ML)
"...will remain."
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"In the middle..."
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"Of that enormous..."
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"Lonely palace of mine."

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