EP1 : Prologue

DIANE

The Cresent moon showed bright , a beautiful night . The nightingale cooed her song , soothing every being's soul that heard her sing. the stars shined in the cloudless clear sky , a perfect night for stargazing .

Only if everything were so perfect .

In a corner of a dark appartment in Cigar Hill lay a beautiful girl , Diane . Eyes closed , cheeks tear stained lips quivering . It was not her first heart break , but the worst of them all. Every cell in her body hated him , more than him the word , love . It had been a week already and yet she barely had done anything . EAT . . CRY . REPEAT.

Diane shivered . The reality of past danced in her dreams.

She was all dressed up to meet him , her Ian, she wore the black flowy bodycon dress he complimented that she looked hot in , with one last look in the mirror Diane entered through a door . It was a small room , a room she had never been to , and yet she felt it to be really familiar .It was Ian's room , something in her memory answered .How do I know this place?... her thoughts trailed when she felt some one approaching.

On hearing foot steps she turned around to be greeted by a warm smile ,Ian, something in her warned her about him. She couldn't point out what . And all her warlyness disappeared as he reached his hand out to pull her close into a sensual embrace.

Again something in her warned her , an uncomfortable feeling , this never had happened before.

"You are my type , even though marriage is not my thing"Ian grinned " You can take me nowhere close to my goal but she can"

"what are you saying ?who can?!" Diane blurred out.

”Diane is the key to it , kaggathalu , she is the sole key”

"ME??"

"Venessa my love , not you darling "

Diane's brows frowned in confusion. But the mirror on the wall showed her roommate Vanessa to be standing before Ian . She was not Diane but Vanessa??!

"Bye Love ..." Ian pointed a trigger at her " You must know , I am truly saddened by your departure... really"

. And he pulled the trigger.*bang*

She jolted awake from her dreams back to reality. Nothing comforted her. Her nightmare were more real than anything else. Betrayal ,murder and hatred , she had seen all shades of it in a week.

She even had written thesis on how much she hated Ian , only to realise that she nearly finished an entire diary on her ex. In the end she threw the book to the wall which she now stared at blankly.The android device blinked to life to display her mother calling . Her parents had called her many times over the week worried about her only to reach her voice mail.

She closed her eyes , blinking out another tear which flowed down her already stained cheek . She had been traumatized at what she saw .This break up was different. It was scary . The love of her life and the friend ship of her roommate deemed to be false. Her end of loyalty did not exist both ways.

Finally picking up her phone , hearing her mother sigh ,in a low cracked voice

"Hello , ma?"

"What's going on Diane? heard your room mate and Ian went missing ", It's was all over the campus gossip. Obvious that her mother an alumni of the same collage she studied in ,would have heard it by now.

"Mom...Ian shot her , I saw it"

"WHAT , WHO?" her mother gasped

"Vanessa... She .. uuh ... was with ... him ... they were..."

"Fighting?!"

"No , they were ... intimate"

"intimate??"

"They were ..."

"Making out??"

"More like mating" Diane sighed

"What ?? were you all not friends"

"apparently she didn't think so ,and now she is dead."

"so Ian shot her you say?"she gasped

"Yes"

"Yes?! how do you know?"

All the memories came rushing back

"About two weeks ago I found his rings in her laundry . It raised further suspicion when she excitedly dressed up for 'a date' ... not to mention she even borrowed my black dress " she chuckled "I followed her "

"You WHAT?!"her mom gasped

"Hear me out ,he lives accross the campus at the dorms not at his parents. I went there with full will to break their cheating behinds... only to witness a murder ... she seemed to be actually into him , and proposed marriage... with a ring... and he shot her"

"no reason , simply shot her??"

"no , he said something about me being worth more than her ... the lead to something ... like kagath... something"

"kaggathalu!!"

"how...how did you know?? ma..??"

"..."

"maa!!?"

"I ll talk to your college authorities about your transfer get packing . Immediately."

And the phone clicked to scilence.

She waited for everything to sink in.

Ma . Something seemed off. She knew something . Maybe everything?

She dragged out her suitcase , and started layering it with clothes throwing every piece of clothing she owned . It was more close to dumping rather than packing . Very uncivilized she noted but then she did not care. She checked the time on her phone , the first time in a whole week .

But something else caught her attention . 183 missed calls. As she skimmed through . She had exactly 99 missed calls from a number ,whose owner was now dead .

And the contact name read ****VENESSA**** .

DIANE HAD 99 MISSED CALLS FROM VENESSA.

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