Grandfather's will
On that day Tushar's house was full of sorrows. His grandfather died at old age due to sickness. His grandfather started to get sick step by step for many months. Tushar saw every one wandering around his grandfather. Every one was sweet to him. But grandfather used to stay in old cottage. It was wrong to call it cottage. It was as big as palace. Full of servants! It was wonderful place. He wanted to stay in same type of big palace where he always dreamed to live. Tushar's father was not real son of his grandfather. He was taken as charity inside house. But his grandfather never let his father sense it. But then after some point all that wealth was going to his actual son only. On every day when he went there, he used to play there. He always sensed one thing every servant looked at him with anger. They felt that he was some thief. Kitchen used to be full of sweets. He used to love that smell. But whenever he went near it, cook used to give him a angry look as if he was some street dog. They always considered him with anger. He still remembered that day when they were making his favorite sweets in kitchen. He was too small. He always used to take sweets from plate at home. But he didn't went in that kitchen in that house. His grandfather told him that it was his house. But his Mom warned him against doing anything wrong. She told him that he must not touch anything in that house without asking her. He just kept watching that cook who was making sweets. Then after some point he went out. He started playing in that big garden. He was prince there. He started creating stories and pretending. He began to move like King. That cook who was cooking sweet started looking at him with anger. He didn't like it so he went in far away corner. He was so confused when he saw a small girl was playing there. He was confused. He never saw any child there. He assumed Mom's instruction regarding not touching anything was limited to goods. He was small boy of five years. He thought that he could play with her. He slowly went near her. He smiled. That girl returned smile. Then he did worst mistake. He asked her if she wanted to play catch and run. She said yes and they started playing. Soon they became good friends. He never hurt her. He was very small to understand those things which suggested wrong. They just played normal catch and run. But then suddenly out of nowhere her Mom came there. She gave him angry look and slapped him on cheek. He was so confused and in pain. He began to feel as if whole world was turning round. Her Mom began to scream "How did you dare to touch my Daughter!! She was not some cheap girl from your class." His father came running out with his grandfather. He picked up him in his arms. He said while crying " I was just playing catch and run." His father looked so angry. His grandfather " Stop nonsense. Look at age of boy. He didn't understand your mathematics of class." He was shivering. His father was so angry. He said goodbye. After that he never went there alone, his Mom was always used to stay with him. He never went there alone. Even he was scared to go there. He was more scared now that he knew meaning of it. He was so shocked even at thinking of those allegations at that age. He was glad that this was last time. He loved his grandfather but he didn't want to go there. But somewhere at his heart he felt that it was crime. But then suddenly his Mom screamed and pointed. " That was girl for whom you got slapped. Your..." Suddenly his temper reached to sky. He screamed on Mom. "Stop it Mom. Why did you like to humiliate me every time in public. Do you get happiness by it?" " But I was just warning you about her. I was talking to just you. No one else." He was so upset that he decided that it was best that he should avoid his Mom first so he went far away in crowd as possible.
Tushar started looking in that crowd. He saw that there were different people. Some were truly sad and few were pretending sadness. Then he suddenly located that Auntie who slapped him in childhood. He suddenly felt so angry. He started to sense that he was even feeling scared. He began to go away. Then he suddenly located that beautiful girl. He looked at her with shock. He smiled. He thought that she must be that small girl. He knew that he must not look at her but she was so beautiful. He felt just watching her would not do much harm. But then he sensed that this girl was shivering. He could clearly sense that room was too hot. No one could feel cold in that room. She must be sick. Then he sensed a strange look in her eyes. As if something was happening to her. She began to stand in strange way. He sensed that she was no longer standing like a girl. She lost that soft touch which mostly girl possessed inside them. But then he felt that he needed to become more modern with time. He needed to see that this was style of modern girl. But still he felt something was wrong. He didn't want to touch or approach her. He started to search for his Mom. When she suddenly started to talk in voice of man, " How hard you might try but you can't find it?" Then she started laughing. Tushar was so scared. She was talking in voice which sounded just like his grandfather. She started to laugh loudly. She began to walk in strange way like old man. She started to bend in strange way. She began to move in different way. She started to claim that she didn't tell anything. Suddenly she started to move ahead like grandfather. She began to move ahead. She started to go ahead on each point. She started to tell them. They were never going to get it. Every one started to get confuse. They didn't understand what she was talking about. But suddenly Tushar's father came near him, he started dragging him. Tushar's father started to tell him that they must went out. Tushar wanted to stay there. He wanted to see all. But he didn't want to take risk of standing there. He still remembered what happened last time. But suddenly his grandfather's real son Ankush appeared. " Shyam you can't go now. You have to stop with your son Tushar." Trushar's father, Shyam " Why?!! This is your property. I never have any claim on it. I just came here to pay respect to your father. That's all." Then another son Mukesh entered " And started going out as soon as you know that will is missing." " I don't know any thing about will. But I know one thing. If you don't find will that would give you his property in fifty percent." Ankush " Not in fifty percent. We need to share it with Kanti too. You know our sister had take enough. Now it must belong to us." Shyam " But I don't know any thing." " But you are witness to that will?" Shyam nodded. Tushar started to feel scared. He still remembered that slap. He didn't understand why did his Dad had to do it. But Shyam always did whatever his grandfather told. " So what was that will?" " I didn't read it. I just sign. But I have doubts that he might had left something to me and servants too. So I feel that it was better to be forgotten. You can take it all." " We are not doing charity, idiot. We want our money. Just tell us where is that will?" Tushar was so scared now. He touched Shyam's shoulder. " Dad let's go. We must not take too long. We need to open shop." Then Mukesh started to laugh. Mukesh " You are the one who got punished due to playing with my daughter." Tushar was so angry now. Tushar " Dad let's go. I don't want to talk with these people." Ankush " You can't go without telling about will." Shyam " But I don't know." Shyam was trying to keep every one clam. But Tushar was so upset by this. Tushar decided that he must get over it. Tushar " If Dad was saying that will have our name which we all know, why did he hide it if he knew? Now don't tell me that you people believe that we don't want heritage?" Now suddenly they looked confused. Shyam took breath of relief. Shyam " We all want that will. But it is truth so we are going away. Call us if you found will." They were about to go. When suddenly that girl screamed " Stop lying. You never wanted my money."Tushar and Shyam stopped. Tushar wanted to hear her and he knew that they didn't have option. If they ran away people would assume that they were criminal so they went ahead with Ankush and Mukesh. That girl was sitting on grandfather's chair. Ankush screamed " Radhika stood up from that chair. Purva drag her out of chair." Purva came forward. She was that lady who slapped her. He was so nervous. She was going to hurt that Radhika too so he went near them. He just wanted to protect that girl. But he was shocked when he went near them.
Tushar went near her with just one view. It was to help Radhika. But when he reached Purva already started pulling Radhika. Purva was strong while Radhika was too weak. He felt that he must came near them. He wanted to help Radhika. But then he saw that Radhika started laughing. He saw that she took some pose out of wrestling. She hit Purva in such way that she just landed on ground. Tushar was on just that spot. Purva managed to land on him. He tried to hold her but she was too heavy. He fall on ground. Tushar just managed to land Purva. Tushar felt so much hurt. He just wanted to push her away. Suddenly he started to suffocated inside her. He was feeling so much pain. But soon people removed her from his body. His every body part was paining. But he directly went in good book of every one. They began to trust them. His Mom came running towards him. Mom asked him when she confirmed no one was near.Mom " This is too much why did you went to save that cruel lady? She slapped you when you were little boy." " Mom no need to mention it and it was kind gesture." He decided that he must not tell whole truth. But his Mom smiled slowly. " Let me guess. You are planning to save that girl." " Mom now don't attach Radhika's name with me. Her Mom might slap me again." " Her Mom? Purva is not her Mom. She is their neighbor. She stay in that small hut near house." " Ohh!!" " I was showing you that girl." His Mom pointed out Purva's Daughter. She was not beautiful at all. He didn't want to comment on her beauty but he sensed one thing that she was never beautiful. Then he felt that might be because of her Mom. Tushar was so confused. " But how could that weak girl pushed in such a strong way. Then suddenly Radhika started talking again in male voice " I will not give any will to you until you don't tell me truth about your sin. I know you all have sin. You all have sin.." Then she kept repeating that sentence. After some time she began to faint and she finally fall on floor. Mukesh " Throw her out. She tried to hit my wife. Normally I like to call Police but today I don't have time to waste on it." Then many servant came there. They started to pick her up. But she didn't come in sense. Tushar was watching all with shock. But before he could think what he was saying he just spoke " But how did she knew about missing will?" Every one looked at him with shock. It seemed that they just kept thinking that Radhika was fraud. But no one thought that she might be genuine. She might truly hunted by his grandfather's soul. Ankush " Are you out of your mind? She might have heard us discussing?" Mukesh " No she was not near us. I have confirmed it." Then Purva's daughter Charu came there. Charu " Come on. Papa you can't trust a ghost? Can you?" Tushar felt so angry towards her. She was trying to spread poison about innocent Radhika. Radhika seemed so innocent and Charu seemed so ruthless. Tushar " So do you know where is that will?" Charu looked at him with confused expression. Charu didn't able to recognize him at all. Purva " Don't argue with my daughter like that?" Tushar's Mom " Come on. Now he is arguing not talking sweetly with her. What is wrong with that? We all want will if that girl have some knowledge then we surely need it." Every one in that room started to nod in agreement with him. Purva was clearly upset by her defeat. Charu " I know one thing that she is lying. I don't know why? But give me some time then I can prove it." Tushar was so angry with her. Tushar " I think we must talk with her. But any way it is not our property so it's your decision. You can do whatever you like to do." Mukesh " I don't know if that girl was telling truth but still I want to talk with her." Then they decided to call her back. Soon Radhika came back. This time she was literally shivering with fear. Radhika " Madam I am so sorry that I pushed you." Purva " How did you dare to do that? You are nothing but just piece of dust. Did you understood it?" Radhika started to hold her feet. Radhika " Sorry Madam. I just don't remember what happened. It seemed as if I am no longer myself. It always happened with me." Ankush " What?" " Yes sir. I just managed to become many people. My parents always hate this. I personally wanted to stop it. But whenever I went to funeral it happens to me." " What happen then?" " Nothing much. This comes and goes away." Mukesh was so happy. " She could talk to spirit. This way we know about will before Kanti enter in picture." Ankush " We have just one hour. It is not enough. Let's go outside. We need to see arrangement of funeral are proper or not." Mukesh nodded. Purva " Radhika you are not going anywhere." " But Madam?" " No but? Do you want to land in jail for hurting me?" " No..No I will stay. I will call my parents." Tushar was so upset by this. He felt so soft for Radhika. Charu " No need to start falling in love with that servant girl Radhika. She is lying. Don't encourage her." " Stop blaming her. You are just jealous of her beauty." "Ohh really so you feel she could talk to spirit? You are mad after her. Get lost you are nothing but a person who lived on my grandfather's kindness. But you never turn kind the way he wanted you to turn. Look at Shyam Uncle. He is so nice and kind." " Yes that's why your father and Uncle kept pushing him according to their wishes. Don't try that on me. I am not your servant. I like Radhika since I feel she is innocent so I will help her and I don't want your advice." Charu and Tushar shared angry look and went away as possible from other. Then soon every one gathered together. They all decided that it was serious issue. They decided that they must discussed it together. So they all sat around table. Ankush " We must arrange every thing properly for father's funeral. This girl must not become obstacle in it. Tushar, it is your job to take proper care of her." Tushar nodded happily. Charu " But you must not keep a girl in care of boy." Tushar's Mom " I will stay with them." Mukesh " No people will ask question. We can keep father's nurse with her. No one will remember her." Ankush " What are you doing? Do you feel people what is happening around? They must be discussing it by now. They all know about Radhika. It will be better if she came out with us and just sat there." Every one was so confused that they nodded. Then they went out pretending in such a way as if they didn't have any problem except sorrow of grandfather's death. Then Tushar suddenly sensed for first time. This Radhika had become ego issue between him and Charu. In this problem he totally forgot about grandfather. It was so strange that in world you manage to forget such important person just due to ego fight. He sensed one thing that he needed to get over it. He sat near his grandfather's body but he just felt anger about Charu nothing else. His mind was far away from sorrows of death. It was just busy with angry thoughts.
When finally all guest went away, all family members sat together. Even Kanti Auntie joined them. Since Radhika was no longer acting like grandfather so they didn't understood any thing. They decided to tell every thing to Kanti Auntie. Kanti started laughing " My god you are so desperate for will that you believe on that fraud. Look at that shivering girl. How can you imagine her to be our Dad?" Then suddenly Tushar sensed that some thing was wrong with Radhika. Radhika looked at Kanti with anger. " Kanti stop insulting me. That girl who never know how to act and got herself pregnant before marriage telling me how wrong I am?" Kanti was shocked. Her children and her husband started looking at her with anger. Kanti screamed " She is lying." But no one else was ready to support her. Tushar got that point. She was telling truth unknown to all. Kanti's husband stood up and left room. Kanti " Who told all this to her?" Ankush and Mukesh told " No one" in union. Purva " Are you mad? Why did we do that? We have one daughter and we don't want to bring bad reputation. " Ankush " And I never cared that much for you that I want to spread evil in your house. I mean why did I was to bring back your burden?" Kanti " Then who told her?" Radhika started screaming " I am your father stupid girl. I took you to Doctor." Kanti " Really which Doctor?" " Doctor Sharma who was my great friend. But I know now that you are still cheating on your husband. I regret that I married you off to such nice man and damaged his life." Kanti started crying. " No Papa I was not cheating on him. But he never had time for me. You know my husband he always kept going on business tour." Kanti's son " But Mom how could you act like that?" Radhika " Stop acting like angel. I know all about every one." Suddenly every one sat quietly. Radhika " This house is just big mess. No one is nice except my grand daughter Charu. She is only angel in family. But she never got what she deserved. She acts always nicely with every one. But still she was treated like caged animal. I remember how did this Purva scream when she played with Tushar. Every one saw slap on Tushar's face but no one saw fear in Charu's eyes. She was just locked in her house. She never felt any happiness." Charu screamed " Stop lying. My grandfather never say such things about his own kids." Radhika gave sad look to Charu " Look at this sweet girl. She is still defending scoundrels like you." Charu " My grandfather never swear." Mukesh " But for sake of Charu tell us about will." Radhika suddenly started to look pale and she fainted. Tushar ran to help her. But Nurse appeared there. Tushar " I think this entering of soul is too much for her." All family members started nodding. Nurse looked at them with confused expression. " What soul?" " She is possessed by our grandfather's soul." Every one nodded in agreement except Charu. Charu " She is lying." Nurse " It is not lying." Tushar " So even medical person support us. She is possessed." Nurse screamed with anger " I am not supporting your superstition. She is not liar. But she is not even possessed. She is just mentally sick." " But she knew every thing about us. She recounted every detail of our family. Even Kanti Auntie's pregnancy before marriage." " She must had known it in some way. At it is not that much hidden fact." Kanti " Who told it to public?" " Your Dad used to talk every thing in his last days. He just assumed me Kanti sometimes. Radhika used to came a lot to chat with him so he must had told it all to her." Ankush " I don't believe it. I want to call some one to confirm." " Let call some one who know these things." Nurse " I tell you better thing. Let me call Doctor. Just go and search your will with your own hand stop searching for shortcuts." They all looked at each other with confused expression. Then Nurse called Doctor. While Radhika started tell that she had enough. Radhika " Now I will show you that will." Every one smiled happily. Tushar was so excited. Only Charu was angry. Radhika started walking just like his grandfather and she slowly entered in room. Every one followed her while ignoring that nurse's advice. They all hoped that they would get will. Tushar wanted to prove her right. Mukesh and Ankush wanted to find will. Even Kanti decided to judge truth so they all entered in that large study room of grandfather which was so big and neat. It was just perfect room to study. It was full of books but for searching will it was hardest. Since it was hard to guess where did his grandfather kept that will. It could be in any shelf. But Radhika started to go there with full confidence and determination. Tushar was so happy about it and Charu was so angry about it. But still they followed her with their different motives.
When everyone entered in that room, Radhika looked around then she went in corner. Every one was excited. They thought that she would show paper of will. But she found grandfather's eye glasses. She gave smile of old man and said in strange tired voice of old man " In old age nothing work properly neither memory nor eyes. But I must feel regret. I lived happy life with wonderful wife. Kids you might forget your mother. But I never forget my wife. Any way after dying I will join her so it is happy moment of life. I just need to find that will. " Then she started searching around those books. She kept looking through each book. Charu " Can't you see? She is lying. She didn't remember anything. She is searching. We can do it ourselves too. " Charu went towards Radhika in anger. Charu" Stop this. Get out. I will found it by myself. "" As you wish sweet heart. You are always grandfather's little helper. " Then Radhika turned away from book shelf. Charu started searching in books. In panic she managed to drop few books. Then Radhika said in angry voice " Charu, enough. You managed to damage books. Now let me do it." Then Radhika carefully looked at those books. Finally she took out one book and then she searched inside. She took out one paper. Then she gave it to Kanti. " Your medical report." Kanti took it. It was medical report of her abortion. She started to study it. She never able to guess that her Dad kept it for such long time. She was so upset. It seemed like some kind of blackmailing. She started to feel shattered. She knew that her husband would never accept her now. She knew that her life was destroyed. But then she knew that she was never honest with him. In fact she never liked her husband. She forced to marry him due to that abortion. Her husband was nice person but he never had time for her so she was not going to miss him that much. Then she thought that it might be for her good only. Now they could move ahead. Kanti " Thanks Dad. It might help us to get divorce. Not from my side but from my husband's side." She gave one bitter laugh. Then Radhika took out another paper. No one was excited now. Since they all felt that it was just another piece of garbage but it was not garbage. Radhika smiled and said " Don't you want your will?" Then they all ran. It was truly will. They took it then suddenly Radhika started to faint. Tushar " So it was soul." Nurse " No. It was observation. I think you never had much time to visit your grand father." " No." Charu " He never cared for him that much. He just cared for this Radhika." " Will you stop at like some jealous person? Why are you standing against her on every point?" " Because she is liar." Nurse " No but because you might like him." " No I never did." Tushar " Will you stop this? I am not interested in her." Charu " Yes you are interested in just this fraud girl. Then you might take her with you." Nurse " I will she needed psychiatric treatment." Tushar " I feel she will be fine when she woke up." Charu " And she will immediately agree to marry you." Tushar screamed " Shut up." Then suddenly Radhika woke up, she was shivering. Her sound was too weak. Tushar sensed one thing Nurse was right she needed one Doctor. He just felt that it was physical. That burden of soul managed to damage her health. Tushar " We must call Doctor." That Nurse immediately did it. By then all other people got busy with will. Just Charu and Tushar were remained with Radhika. They took her in room. Tushar was watching her. She was looking like sleeping beauty. He just couldn't stop admiring her beauty when Doctor entered in room. Doctor " My god!! When did she come here?" Charu told him every thing. Doctor " She is patient of schizophrenia. She kept imagining that some soul entered in her body." Tushar " But how did she manage to tell so many facts?" " Schizophrenic patients are smart people. She must had worked here for long time during that time she managed to remember all this information." Tushar " But why did this happen to such beautiful girl?" " It is hereditary in her case. Her Dad had same problem. Her siblings are fine but she manage to share wrong genes. " Tushar " This is really sad." Doctor " But I must take her hospital while she is sleeping or she might not come there. But who will pay for it?" Then Ankush appeared " My father made that arrangement for her in will. We suppose to pay her medical expenses." Ankush was not much upset about it. Shyam came inside room with smile. Shyam slowly came near Tushar. " Your grandfather gave you this house." Tushar was so confused. " But still Ankush Uncle seemed happy?" " Since he got lot of things which were more costly. Most importantly Kanti got nothing so she is crying. But Mukesh is angry about it." Charu " I am glad. I will leave this house by tomorrow." Charu went out of room. Soon ambulance took away Radhika too. Tushar's Mom " I just feel that Charu was lot better than Radhika." Tushar " Why Mom? Because Radhika was mad girl? I accept I can't marry her due to her madness. But I can't marry to Charu too. I couldn't forget that slap Mom. I just hate her." Tushar said this and went out of room. Tushar's Mom screamed from behind " But it was her Mom's mistake not her." Shyam " Don't force or he will feel we are doing it for money and he will hate us too. Let him decide the girl he wanted to marry." Tushar's Mom nodded and started planning how did she was going to make changes in house.
The End
On that day Tushar's house was full of sorrows. His grandfather died at old age due to sickness. His grandfather started to get sick step by step for many months. Tushar saw every one wandering around his grandfather. Every one was sweet to him. But grandfather used to stay in old cottage. It was wrong to call it cottage. It was as big as palace. Full of servants! It was wonderful place. He wanted to stay in same type of big palace where he always dreamed to live. Tushar's father was not real son of his grandfather. He was taken as charity inside house. But his grandfather never let his father sense it. But then after some point all that wealth was going to his actual son only. On every day when he went there, he used to play there. He always sensed one thing every servant looked at him with anger. They felt that he was some thief. Kitchen used to be full of sweets. He used to love that smell. But whenever he went near it, cook used to give him a angry look as if he was some street dog. They always considered him with anger. He still remembered that day when they were making his favorite sweets in kitchen. He was too small. He always used to take sweets from plate at home. But he didn't went in that kitchen in that house. His grandfather told him that it was his house. But his Mom warned him against doing anything wrong. She told him that he must not touch anything in that house without asking her. He just kept watching that cook who was making sweets. Then after some point he went out. He started playing in that big garden. He was prince there. He started creating stories and pretending. He began to move like King. That cook who was cooking sweet started looking at him with anger. He didn't like it so he went in far away corner. He was so confused when he saw a small girl was playing there. He was confused. He never saw any child there. He assumed Mom's instruction regarding not touching anything was limited to goods. He was small boy of five years. He thought that he could play with her. He slowly went near her. He smiled. That girl returned smile. Then he did worst mistake. He asked her if she wanted to play catch and run. She said yes and they started playing. Soon they became good friends. He never hurt her. He was very small to understand those things which suggested wrong. They just played normal catch and run. But then suddenly out of nowhere her Mom came there. She gave him angry look and slapped him on cheek. He was so confused and in pain. He began to feel as if whole world was turning round. Her Mom began to scream "How did you dare to touch my Daughter!! She was not some cheap girl from your class." His father came running out with his grandfather. He picked up him in his arms. He said while crying " I was just playing catch and run." His father looked so angry. His grandfather " Stop nonsense. Look at age of boy. He didn't understand your mathematics of class." He was shivering. His father was so angry. He said goodbye. After that he never went there alone, his Mom was always used to stay with him. He never went there alone. Even he was scared to go there. He was more scared now that he knew meaning of it. He was so shocked even at thinking of those allegations at that age. He was glad that this was last time. He loved his grandfather but he didn't want to go there. But somewhere at his heart he felt that it was crime. But then suddenly his Mom screamed and pointed. " That was girl for whom you got slapped. Your..." Suddenly his temper reached to sky. He screamed on Mom. "Stop it Mom. Why did you like to humiliate me every time in public. Do you get happiness by it?" " But I was just warning you about her. I was talking to just you. No one else." He was so upset that he decided that it was best that he should avoid his Mom first so he went far away in crowd as possible.
Tushar started looking in that crowd. He saw that there were different people. Some were truly sad and few were pretending sadness. Then he suddenly located that Auntie who slapped him in childhood. He suddenly felt so angry. He started to sense that he was even feeling scared. He began to go away. Then he suddenly located that beautiful girl. He looked at her with shock. He smiled. He thought that she must be that small girl. He knew that he must not look at her but she was so beautiful. He felt just watching her would not do much harm. But then he sensed that this girl was shivering. He could clearly sense that room was too hot. No one could feel cold in that room. She must be sick. Then he sensed a strange look in her eyes. As if something was happening to her. She began to stand in strange way. He sensed that she was no longer standing like a girl. She lost that soft touch which mostly girl possessed inside them. But then he felt that he needed to become more modern with time. He needed to see that this was style of modern girl. But still he felt something was wrong. He didn't want to touch or approach her. He started to search for his Mom. When she suddenly started to talk in voice of man, " How hard you might try but you can't find it?" Then she started laughing. Tushar was so scared. She was talking in voice which sounded just like his grandfather. She started to laugh loudly. She began to walk in strange way like old man. She started to bend in strange way. She began to move in different way. She started to claim that she didn't tell anything. Suddenly she started to move ahead like grandfather. She began to move ahead. She started to go ahead on each point. She started to tell them. They were never going to get it. Every one started to get confuse. They didn't understand what she was talking about. But suddenly Tushar's father came near him, he started dragging him. Tushar's father started to tell him that they must went out. Tushar wanted to stay there. He wanted to see all. But he didn't want to take risk of standing there. He still remembered what happened last time. But suddenly his grandfather's real son Ankush appeared. " Shyam you can't go now. You have to stop with your son Tushar." Trushar's father, Shyam " Why?!! This is your property. I never have any claim on it. I just came here to pay respect to your father. That's all." Then another son Mukesh entered " And started going out as soon as you know that will is missing." " I don't know any thing about will. But I know one thing. If you don't find will that would give you his property in fifty percent." Ankush " Not in fifty percent. We need to share it with Kanti too. You know our sister had take enough. Now it must belong to us." Shyam " But I don't know any thing." " But you are witness to that will?" Shyam nodded. Tushar started to feel scared. He still remembered that slap. He didn't understand why did his Dad had to do it. But Shyam always did whatever his grandfather told. " So what was that will?" " I didn't read it. I just sign. But I have doubts that he might had left something to me and servants too. So I feel that it was better to be forgotten. You can take it all." " We are not doing charity, idiot. We want our money. Just tell us where is that will?" Tushar was so scared now. He touched Shyam's shoulder. " Dad let's go. We must not take too long. We need to open shop." Then Mukesh started to laugh. Mukesh " You are the one who got punished due to playing with my daughter." Tushar was so angry now. Tushar " Dad let's go. I don't want to talk with these people." Ankush " You can't go without telling about will." Shyam " But I don't know." Shyam was trying to keep every one clam. But Tushar was so upset by this. Tushar decided that he must get over it. Tushar " If Dad was saying that will have our name which we all know, why did he hide it if he knew? Now don't tell me that you people believe that we don't want heritage?" Now suddenly they looked confused. Shyam took breath of relief. Shyam " We all want that will. But it is truth so we are going away. Call us if you found will." They were about to go. When suddenly that girl screamed " Stop lying. You never wanted my money."Tushar and Shyam stopped. Tushar wanted to hear her and he knew that they didn't have option. If they ran away people would assume that they were criminal so they went ahead with Ankush and Mukesh. That girl was sitting on grandfather's chair. Ankush screamed " Radhika stood up from that chair. Purva drag her out of chair." Purva came forward. She was that lady who slapped her. He was so nervous. She was going to hurt that Radhika too so he went near them. He just wanted to protect that girl. But he was shocked when he went near them.
Tushar went near her with just one view. It was to help Radhika. But when he reached Purva already started pulling Radhika. Purva was strong while Radhika was too weak. He felt that he must came near them. He wanted to help Radhika. But then he saw that Radhika started laughing. He saw that she took some pose out of wrestling. She hit Purva in such way that she just landed on ground. Tushar was on just that spot. Purva managed to land on him. He tried to hold her but she was too heavy. He fall on ground. Tushar just managed to land Purva. Tushar felt so much hurt. He just wanted to push her away. Suddenly he started to suffocated inside her. He was feeling so much pain. But soon people removed her from his body. His every body part was paining. But he directly went in good book of every one. They began to trust them. His Mom came running towards him. Mom asked him when she confirmed no one was near.Mom " This is too much why did you went to save that cruel lady? She slapped you when you were little boy." " Mom no need to mention it and it was kind gesture." He decided that he must not tell whole truth. But his Mom smiled slowly. " Let me guess. You are planning to save that girl." " Mom now don't attach Radhika's name with me. Her Mom might slap me again." " Her Mom? Purva is not her Mom. She is their neighbor. She stay in that small hut near house." " Ohh!!" " I was showing you that girl." His Mom pointed out Purva's Daughter. She was not beautiful at all. He didn't want to comment on her beauty but he sensed one thing that she was never beautiful. Then he felt that might be because of her Mom. Tushar was so confused. " But how could that weak girl pushed in such a strong way. Then suddenly Radhika started talking again in male voice " I will not give any will to you until you don't tell me truth about your sin. I know you all have sin. You all have sin.." Then she kept repeating that sentence. After some time she began to faint and she finally fall on floor. Mukesh " Throw her out. She tried to hit my wife. Normally I like to call Police but today I don't have time to waste on it." Then many servant came there. They started to pick her up. But she didn't come in sense. Tushar was watching all with shock. But before he could think what he was saying he just spoke " But how did she knew about missing will?" Every one looked at him with shock. It seemed that they just kept thinking that Radhika was fraud. But no one thought that she might be genuine. She might truly hunted by his grandfather's soul. Ankush " Are you out of your mind? She might have heard us discussing?" Mukesh " No she was not near us. I have confirmed it." Then Purva's daughter Charu came there. Charu " Come on. Papa you can't trust a ghost? Can you?" Tushar felt so angry towards her. She was trying to spread poison about innocent Radhika. Radhika seemed so innocent and Charu seemed so ruthless. Tushar " So do you know where is that will?" Charu looked at him with confused expression. Charu didn't able to recognize him at all. Purva " Don't argue with my daughter like that?" Tushar's Mom " Come on. Now he is arguing not talking sweetly with her. What is wrong with that? We all want will if that girl have some knowledge then we surely need it." Every one in that room started to nod in agreement with him. Purva was clearly upset by her defeat. Charu " I know one thing that she is lying. I don't know why? But give me some time then I can prove it." Tushar was so angry with her. Tushar " I think we must talk with her. But any way it is not our property so it's your decision. You can do whatever you like to do." Mukesh " I don't know if that girl was telling truth but still I want to talk with her." Then they decided to call her back. Soon Radhika came back. This time she was literally shivering with fear. Radhika " Madam I am so sorry that I pushed you." Purva " How did you dare to do that? You are nothing but just piece of dust. Did you understood it?" Radhika started to hold her feet. Radhika " Sorry Madam. I just don't remember what happened. It seemed as if I am no longer myself. It always happened with me." Ankush " What?" " Yes sir. I just managed to become many people. My parents always hate this. I personally wanted to stop it. But whenever I went to funeral it happens to me." " What happen then?" " Nothing much. This comes and goes away." Mukesh was so happy. " She could talk to spirit. This way we know about will before Kanti enter in picture." Ankush " We have just one hour. It is not enough. Let's go outside. We need to see arrangement of funeral are proper or not." Mukesh nodded. Purva " Radhika you are not going anywhere." " But Madam?" " No but? Do you want to land in jail for hurting me?" " No..No I will stay. I will call my parents." Tushar was so upset by this. He felt so soft for Radhika. Charu " No need to start falling in love with that servant girl Radhika. She is lying. Don't encourage her." " Stop blaming her. You are just jealous of her beauty." "Ohh really so you feel she could talk to spirit? You are mad after her. Get lost you are nothing but a person who lived on my grandfather's kindness. But you never turn kind the way he wanted you to turn. Look at Shyam Uncle. He is so nice and kind." " Yes that's why your father and Uncle kept pushing him according to their wishes. Don't try that on me. I am not your servant. I like Radhika since I feel she is innocent so I will help her and I don't want your advice." Charu and Tushar shared angry look and went away as possible from other. Then soon every one gathered together. They all decided that it was serious issue. They decided that they must discussed it together. So they all sat around table. Ankush " We must arrange every thing properly for father's funeral. This girl must not become obstacle in it. Tushar, it is your job to take proper care of her." Tushar nodded happily. Charu " But you must not keep a girl in care of boy." Tushar's Mom " I will stay with them." Mukesh " No people will ask question. We can keep father's nurse with her. No one will remember her." Ankush " What are you doing? Do you feel people what is happening around? They must be discussing it by now. They all know about Radhika. It will be better if she came out with us and just sat there." Every one was so confused that they nodded. Then they went out pretending in such a way as if they didn't have any problem except sorrow of grandfather's death. Then Tushar suddenly sensed for first time. This Radhika had become ego issue between him and Charu. In this problem he totally forgot about grandfather. It was so strange that in world you manage to forget such important person just due to ego fight. He sensed one thing that he needed to get over it. He sat near his grandfather's body but he just felt anger about Charu nothing else. His mind was far away from sorrows of death. It was just busy with angry thoughts.
When finally all guest went away, all family members sat together. Even Kanti Auntie joined them. Since Radhika was no longer acting like grandfather so they didn't understood any thing. They decided to tell every thing to Kanti Auntie. Kanti started laughing " My god you are so desperate for will that you believe on that fraud. Look at that shivering girl. How can you imagine her to be our Dad?" Then suddenly Tushar sensed that some thing was wrong with Radhika. Radhika looked at Kanti with anger. " Kanti stop insulting me. That girl who never know how to act and got herself pregnant before marriage telling me how wrong I am?" Kanti was shocked. Her children and her husband started looking at her with anger. Kanti screamed " She is lying." But no one else was ready to support her. Tushar got that point. She was telling truth unknown to all. Kanti's husband stood up and left room. Kanti " Who told all this to her?" Ankush and Mukesh told " No one" in union. Purva " Are you mad? Why did we do that? We have one daughter and we don't want to bring bad reputation. " Ankush " And I never cared that much for you that I want to spread evil in your house. I mean why did I was to bring back your burden?" Kanti " Then who told her?" Radhika started screaming " I am your father stupid girl. I took you to Doctor." Kanti " Really which Doctor?" " Doctor Sharma who was my great friend. But I know now that you are still cheating on your husband. I regret that I married you off to such nice man and damaged his life." Kanti started crying. " No Papa I was not cheating on him. But he never had time for me. You know my husband he always kept going on business tour." Kanti's son " But Mom how could you act like that?" Radhika " Stop acting like angel. I know all about every one." Suddenly every one sat quietly. Radhika " This house is just big mess. No one is nice except my grand daughter Charu. She is only angel in family. But she never got what she deserved. She acts always nicely with every one. But still she was treated like caged animal. I remember how did this Purva scream when she played with Tushar. Every one saw slap on Tushar's face but no one saw fear in Charu's eyes. She was just locked in her house. She never felt any happiness." Charu screamed " Stop lying. My grandfather never say such things about his own kids." Radhika gave sad look to Charu " Look at this sweet girl. She is still defending scoundrels like you." Charu " My grandfather never swear." Mukesh " But for sake of Charu tell us about will." Radhika suddenly started to look pale and she fainted. Tushar ran to help her. But Nurse appeared there. Tushar " I think this entering of soul is too much for her." All family members started nodding. Nurse looked at them with confused expression. " What soul?" " She is possessed by our grandfather's soul." Every one nodded in agreement except Charu. Charu " She is lying." Nurse " It is not lying." Tushar " So even medical person support us. She is possessed." Nurse screamed with anger " I am not supporting your superstition. She is not liar. But she is not even possessed. She is just mentally sick." " But she knew every thing about us. She recounted every detail of our family. Even Kanti Auntie's pregnancy before marriage." " She must had known it in some way. At it is not that much hidden fact." Kanti " Who told it to public?" " Your Dad used to talk every thing in his last days. He just assumed me Kanti sometimes. Radhika used to came a lot to chat with him so he must had told it all to her." Ankush " I don't believe it. I want to call some one to confirm." " Let call some one who know these things." Nurse " I tell you better thing. Let me call Doctor. Just go and search your will with your own hand stop searching for shortcuts." They all looked at each other with confused expression. Then Nurse called Doctor. While Radhika started tell that she had enough. Radhika " Now I will show you that will." Every one smiled happily. Tushar was so excited. Only Charu was angry. Radhika started walking just like his grandfather and she slowly entered in room. Every one followed her while ignoring that nurse's advice. They all hoped that they would get will. Tushar wanted to prove her right. Mukesh and Ankush wanted to find will. Even Kanti decided to judge truth so they all entered in that large study room of grandfather which was so big and neat. It was just perfect room to study. It was full of books but for searching will it was hardest. Since it was hard to guess where did his grandfather kept that will. It could be in any shelf. But Radhika started to go there with full confidence and determination. Tushar was so happy about it and Charu was so angry about it. But still they followed her with their different motives.
When everyone entered in that room, Radhika looked around then she went in corner. Every one was excited. They thought that she would show paper of will. But she found grandfather's eye glasses. She gave smile of old man and said in strange tired voice of old man " In old age nothing work properly neither memory nor eyes. But I must feel regret. I lived happy life with wonderful wife. Kids you might forget your mother. But I never forget my wife. Any way after dying I will join her so it is happy moment of life. I just need to find that will. " Then she started searching around those books. She kept looking through each book. Charu " Can't you see? She is lying. She didn't remember anything. She is searching. We can do it ourselves too. " Charu went towards Radhika in anger. Charu" Stop this. Get out. I will found it by myself. "" As you wish sweet heart. You are always grandfather's little helper. " Then Radhika turned away from book shelf. Charu started searching in books. In panic she managed to drop few books. Then Radhika said in angry voice " Charu, enough. You managed to damage books. Now let me do it." Then Radhika carefully looked at those books. Finally she took out one book and then she searched inside. She took out one paper. Then she gave it to Kanti. " Your medical report." Kanti took it. It was medical report of her abortion. She started to study it. She never able to guess that her Dad kept it for such long time. She was so upset. It seemed like some kind of blackmailing. She started to feel shattered. She knew that her husband would never accept her now. She knew that her life was destroyed. But then she knew that she was never honest with him. In fact she never liked her husband. She forced to marry him due to that abortion. Her husband was nice person but he never had time for her so she was not going to miss him that much. Then she thought that it might be for her good only. Now they could move ahead. Kanti " Thanks Dad. It might help us to get divorce. Not from my side but from my husband's side." She gave one bitter laugh. Then Radhika took out another paper. No one was excited now. Since they all felt that it was just another piece of garbage but it was not garbage. Radhika smiled and said " Don't you want your will?" Then they all ran. It was truly will. They took it then suddenly Radhika started to faint. Tushar " So it was soul." Nurse " No. It was observation. I think you never had much time to visit your grand father." " No." Charu " He never cared for him that much. He just cared for this Radhika." " Will you stop at like some jealous person? Why are you standing against her on every point?" " Because she is liar." Nurse " No but because you might like him." " No I never did." Tushar " Will you stop this? I am not interested in her." Charu " Yes you are interested in just this fraud girl. Then you might take her with you." Nurse " I will she needed psychiatric treatment." Tushar " I feel she will be fine when she woke up." Charu " And she will immediately agree to marry you." Tushar screamed " Shut up." Then suddenly Radhika woke up, she was shivering. Her sound was too weak. Tushar sensed one thing Nurse was right she needed one Doctor. He just felt that it was physical. That burden of soul managed to damage her health. Tushar " We must call Doctor." That Nurse immediately did it. By then all other people got busy with will. Just Charu and Tushar were remained with Radhika. They took her in room. Tushar was watching her. She was looking like sleeping beauty. He just couldn't stop admiring her beauty when Doctor entered in room. Doctor " My god!! When did she come here?" Charu told him every thing. Doctor " She is patient of schizophrenia. She kept imagining that some soul entered in her body." Tushar " But how did she manage to tell so many facts?" " Schizophrenic patients are smart people. She must had worked here for long time during that time she managed to remember all this information." Tushar " But why did this happen to such beautiful girl?" " It is hereditary in her case. Her Dad had same problem. Her siblings are fine but she manage to share wrong genes. " Tushar " This is really sad." Doctor " But I must take her hospital while she is sleeping or she might not come there. But who will pay for it?" Then Ankush appeared " My father made that arrangement for her in will. We suppose to pay her medical expenses." Ankush was not much upset about it. Shyam came inside room with smile. Shyam slowly came near Tushar. " Your grandfather gave you this house." Tushar was so confused. " But still Ankush Uncle seemed happy?" " Since he got lot of things which were more costly. Most importantly Kanti got nothing so she is crying. But Mukesh is angry about it." Charu " I am glad. I will leave this house by tomorrow." Charu went out of room. Soon ambulance took away Radhika too. Tushar's Mom " I just feel that Charu was lot better than Radhika." Tushar " Why Mom? Because Radhika was mad girl? I accept I can't marry her due to her madness. But I can't marry to Charu too. I couldn't forget that slap Mom. I just hate her." Tushar said this and went out of room. Tushar's Mom screamed from behind " But it was her Mom's mistake not her." Shyam " Don't force or he will feel we are doing it for money and he will hate us too. Let him decide the girl he wanted to marry." Tushar's Mom nodded and started planning how did she was going to make changes in house.
The End
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