"Not only you, but all of us need to move on, and I'm pretty sure that even one of us haven't move on then we won't be able to get out of this room and we'll be stuck here forever" Akito said to every one of occupants of the room and again he made everyone go into deep thought.
"How do you know that for sure?" asked Aryan.
"Like how I said earlier, I'm not sure about anything, carefully listen first and then talk, everything that I've said so far is my own conclusion but at the end you all have to decide by yourself what you're going to do" Akito answered.
"Is there any particular reason you think that all four of us needs to move on together?" asked Nafeesa.
"I think there's a reason why we all were put together in this room, if the aim was to make us move on then why didn't they put us alone in a room, we could've done it even then, but maybe we all are put here to help each other to move on and I repeat it again I'm not sure of it" Akito answered.
"Thanks for telling us" Nafeesa said to Akito.
"Let's see we've already tried crying and venting out our frustration, what else could we've left?" said Aryan.
"Can you even take things seriously?" said Akito.
"Who said I am not taking things seriously, I'm taking everything seriously, see I'm all serious now" Aryan said making a frown.
"Just ignore him, how to get out of this room should be the only thing in our mind right now" said Nafeesa before they could start fighting again.
"Ma..aybe we can...talk about it?" said Mia out of the blue.
"What do you mean?" Nafeesa asked her gently.
"I've heard that talking about things....helps in moving on....isn't that what we want to do right now...we can talk about our....lives and....how we....died" replied Mia.
"That might actually and after all we're sort of dead, so we can freely talk about our lives and on the off chance that we're not dead then this is just some freaky lucid dream, so if we talk about it, it will remain inside our head" remarked Akito.
"Okay then I'll go first, I really want to get this off my chest" said Nafeesa.
"No problem here" replied Akito.
"I'll go second" Aryan said and no sooner did he did that than all the eyes in the room fell on him because of his unexpected reluctant free participation.
"What?Why is everybody looking at me like that?? I just want to get out of here and the sooner I'm done with the, the faster I'll get out of here" Aryan spurted out.
"Then..I'll go last...if that's...acc...ceptable" said Mia and again all eyes turned towards the direction of the speaker.
"So it's decided, I'll go last, so why don't you go ahead and start your story?" Akito said to Nafeesa.
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Nafeesa starts talking about everything that has been told in the chapter 'Failed in War' and her feelings through all that.
She told them about the good time that she is going to treasure that she spent with her father, like preparing meals with him and playing with him.
She told them about the war and how it started or atleast as much as she knew and how most of the people didn't even chose any sides and how they still had to suffer the consequences.
She told them how she and her father survived starvation and also about the terrorist group that had taken over her town and how her father planned to escape it.
She told them every single detail about how the plan took place and how it failed miserably leading to her father's death and her own .
She told them how she felt angry at herself when she died because that had made her father's death meaningless and also how she feels like she failed her father.
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"It was not your fault that your father died, there was no way that you could've know that there were more terrorist in the tent, so don't blame yourself, you did all you could do" said Akito gently to Nafeesa.
"Don't blame yourself, by the way you talk about your father, he would've never wanted you to blame yourself " said Mia to comfort Nafeesa.
"And you're definitely not a failure of a person you were able to survive in a war torn country for so long, if it would've been someone else they would've not been able to survive for a day" Aryan said to encourage Nafeesa.
"Thank you everyone, it means a lot hearing all of this from someone else's mouth" Nafeesa said with a tear trickling down her cheeks.
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Aryan started talking about everything that has been told in the chapter 'The Betrayal' and his feelings through all that.
Now it was Aryan's turn to tell the story of his life and how it came to it's bitter end. He told them evry single thing, his life with his grandparents and how he had to leave them because of his "parents".
He told them how he felt lost in his new home and how his parents neglected him, he also told them about their "big secret" and how it made his life more difficult.
He also told them how he met with Rita and how quickly they became friends and how she betrayed him and caused his death. He told them that he wanted this all to be some really bad nightmare because he couldn't imagine her betraying him.
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"That explains the anger issues" Akito said to himself quietly.
"What did you say just now?" Aryan said in an angered tone.
"Calm down!! I said that Rita was a b**ch to betray you like that, she shouldn't have done something like that" replied Akito .
"Yeah I agree with Akito and if you ever need a friend then you can come to any of us, because I consider evryone in this room a friend" said Naffesa with a gentle smile in her face.
"Y..Yes you can... come to me...as well" said Mia.
"As annoying as you are, you seem nice nad decent so you can count me as your friend as well" said Akito.
"Thanks" said Aryan with tear in his eyes which he quickly removed.
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Akito started talking about everything that has been told in the chapter 'Fame and Shame' and his feeling through all that .
He told them about the time when his life was normal and when he was surrounded by people who actually loved him. He also told them about his grandpa and how he used to tell stories to hime whenever he visited him.
He told them how his rise to fame started and how he started to drift away from the people he loved and cared about the most and started neglecting them.
He told them how he the rise to fame had made him go into doing all sort of bad stuff like alcohol and drugs.
He told them how his picture of doing drugs got leaked and nobody wanted to work with him anymore and how all of his friends in the stardom cut any connection they had with him
He told him about his grandpa's death and how he regretted spending so less time with him and lost himself after that and overdosed himself with drugs. He also told them how he regrets many of his action and on the off the chance that this was a dream, then after waking up he would make sure to make everything right.
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"It must've been hard to go through all that alone, but you're not alone anymore you've us" Nafeesa said.
"Yeah and as you said before we're friends now and you can count on me to have your back" said Aryan with prideful smile.
"I'm kind of regretting saying that now" said Akito to himself quietly.
"The w...way you talk about...your grandpa i can say this much that he wouldn't...want to beat yourself like this" said Mia.
"Thanks everyone" Akito said to everyone with a smile.
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Mia started talking about everything that has been told in the chapter 'Karma Is A Bully' and his feeling through all that.
She told them how her parents used to pamper her all the time during her childhood and how she loved them so much.
She told them how this pampering got inside her mind and how she started bullying in school and using her so called boyfriend. She told them that how she regretted this and how she never had any true friends.
She told them about her father's accident how it had left him in a comatose stat and how everything in her starting to go off rails from there onwards.
She told them how much she missed her dad and how her mothe's behavior towards her changed and how she started to hate everything about her life.
She told them about the whole incident of how she found her mother with another man and their conversation and how she died running from those two men.
She told them that she regretted many of her decisions and if she could then she would take them back in a blink.
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"How you used to behave in the past doesn't matter, all that matters is that you've changed and you regret your actions" said Nafeesa in a consolidating manner.
"You're not alone anymore, you have us as your friends" said Aryan.
"Yeah you have us and as far as I can see you're not the same person as before" said Akito.
"Thank you everyone " said Mia crying.
She pulled all the three of them in a group hug with newfound strength and others didn't had any choice but to give up and hug her back.
As they were hugging something started to happen to them, their bodies started glowing.
"What is happening?" asked Nafeesa in panic.
"I think we're moving on, if i had known that just talking about your life would get me out of here then I would've done it from the get go" said Aryan.
"It's kind of suspi..." said Akito and before he could compete his sentence he was transpoted into a different space along with the others.