Lavan was lying still. He barely breathed and his eyes were closed. Marin was speechless. She noticed several stitches around Lavan's chest. That reminded her that that was the place where Fatan had shot. He was wearing trousers.
"How…" Marin started but she couldn't find the words.
"Don't worry. I'll tell you." Greyson assured. Marin nodded and left out of the room. Greyson asked Marin to sit on any one of the three chairs and he took a seat opposite to her.
"What's going on?" Marin asked.
"Franklin was killed on your birthday. Am I right?"
"Yes."
"On February 01, Lavan asked me to come to Chennai to your party. We thought of giving you a surprise. On February 02, I reached Chennai by 7:30 pm. I didn't go to my house. I thought that Lavan would have gone to the party and for confirmation I rang him. But he was unreachable. I tried for several times but there was no response."
"Why didn't you ring me?" Marin asked.
"I didn't have your mobile number."
"Proceed."
"So I tried to track the location of his phone. I was shocked as he was present in a building opposite to that of the Harry's Restaurant. It made me feel that something went wrong. So I rushed to that building and I saw Lavan holding a gun and aiming at the sky."
"What happened next?"
"I thought of going closer to him. But…after a short span of time, I heard a girl screaming and my brother too started to scream in pain and fell backwards. I was shocked to see blood dripping out from his chest."
"I was that girl." Marin said sadly.
"I know." Greyson said.
"How is Lavan now?"
"Not too good." Something crashed in Marin's mind.
"Then how did you find that I was in trouble?"
"Dead easy Marin. I found your contact in Lavan's mobile. You too behaved like Lavan and the rest you know."
"How did you get that spherical sized thing which gave hissing sound and white smoke?" Marin asked.
"I got it from my friend who lives several kilometers away from us. He is a gadget specialist."
"Oh! Great"
"Yeah"
"Thanks a lot"
"No problem."
"Main problem is one step ahead of us." Marin said with a saddened face.
"Greyson!" a voice came from nowhere. Marin recognized the voice instantly. It was from Lavan.
*********
When Marin went in, she saw Lavan sitting on the bed. Greyson rushed to him and said something. Marin knew that he was talking about her.
Lavan turned towards Marin and smiled. Marin too smiled. She stepped closer to Lavan and gave a hug. She couldn't control her emotions and wept. Lavan was too weeping.
"Sorry Marin" Lavan said.
"What for?" Marin asked.
"I didn't even have a motive of killing Franklin. One man made me do that."
"I know"
They hugged once again. Greyson felt awkward standing there and said, "No time for hugs. Time is 9:15. Time to sleep."
Lavan and Marin got separated.
"Marin you take the room opposite to Lavan's room and I shall sleep in downstairs." Greyson said.
Marin nodded.
"I hope you guys will sleep in your own rooms." Greyson said as he went out of Lavan's room.
Marin looked at Lavan and said, "Everything will change." She went out.
She opened her room's door and went in. It was identical to that of Lavan's room.
She switched off the lights and started to sleep. She started to dream.
The year was 2038.
Marin could see a woman weeping. The weeping woman is sitting opposite to a man.
"Marin why are you crying?" the man asks. Dreaming Marin realizes that the weeping woman was her. She is in the future world.
"He had killed my family" weeping Marin says.
"Who had killed him?" the man asks.
Dreaming Marin couldn't find who the man was.
"My father, Milan had killed my son and husband." weeping Marin says.
*********
Marin woke up suddenly in fear. She was sitting on her bed. The room was dark and she switched on the lights. Though she was in an air-conditioned room, her body was full of sweats. She will never forget this type of dreams in her life forever.
In her dream, she was in a bad situation which was faced by Paigne in the past.
Despite the sadness and horror of the dream, she wanted to know who her husband was.
But she deleted that thought from her mind and got to her feet. That dream made her sleep vanish. She searched for the wall clock and found it on her right side. The time was 2:30 am.
She decided to examine her room.
There was a 16 inch television, opposite to the bed. She noticed a mirror placed left to the bed. There was also a closet near to the mirror. She decided to open it. To her luck, the closet was open and it had three rows.
She opened the first row. It was empty and she noticed a small dead spider lying inside. She closed it and opened the second row. Again it was empty.
Finally with the hope of discovering something new, she opened the third row. This time she found a group photo. She took it. There was a couple with their two children. Marin recognized the two children at once. They were Greyson and Lavan. Then the couple should be Henry and Preethi. Marin saw them for the first time.
Henry. He was the man who received the gun from Franklin to kill someone and it was seen by innocent William Dravid.
'Why did Franklin give the gun to Henry? Whom did they wanna kill?' thought Marin.
She kept the photo inside the closet and she required some fresh hair. She decided to go to the terrace. It would be very cool outside but she decided to go. She turned off the air-conditioner and opened the door.
There was an electric bulb at the ceiling and it provided enough light for her to find the way to the terrace. Her instincts warned her not to go outside during night time. But she didn't change her idea of getting some fresh air. Her ultimate aim was to plan something to come out of this deadly web.
She found the staircase which would lead her to the terrace and walked up. There was a door and it was luckily opened. She pushed the door wide open. Fresh air smashed her and welcomed her. She decided to walk around the terrace.
The terrace was big enough to walk around and the night sky was beautiful. In the corner of her eye, Marin noticed a guy standing and staring at the dark sky. That made Marin frighten for ten seconds. But she came to know that the guy was Greyson.
She went near to him and said, "What are you doing Grey?"
Greyson was taken up on seeing Marin and said, "What are you doing here Marin?"
"I've come here to get some fresh air and to plan."
"What do you gonna plan?" Greyson asked.
"We have to save our families."
"Two things are barriers for us to plan."
"What are they?" Marin asked.
"First one is that Paigne had not done anything wrong. But we are planning to stop her. Second one is that Franklin had given a gun to my father to kill a person. Who was that person?" Greyson said.
Marin considered for a moment and said, "You are right. But we have to save our family members."
"You are not getting it Marin!" Greyson snapped.
"I got it Grey." Marin said.
"Stop calling me Grey!" Greyson warned.
"OK." Marin said.
They stopped their talks for a moment and stared at the black sky. Suddenly an idea arose in Marin's mind. She said, "Greyson you had mentioned me that you have a friend who is a gadget specialist, right?"
"Yes" Greyson nodded furiously.
"Can we seek help from him?"
"Oh! Sure" Greyson replied. "But what do you gonna do with his gadgets?"
"Let's kidnap Paigne and Fatan and let's stab them."
"Hey have you gone mad? How is it possible to kidnap and kill older persons?" Greyson remarked.
"You just request your friend about it. We have to finish it soon." Marin said in confidence.
"Look before you leap Marin." Greyson warned.
"I've looked and measured the depth of it and I'm red to leap, Greyson."
"Then it's your wish." Greyson gave in.
"What's the name of your friend?" Marin asked.
"Marcus Red" Greyson replied.