Revenge

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
--William Shakespeare

She walked through the hallway,it was dark except for the low light flickering in the ceiling.It seemed damped and cramped.A smirk appeared on her face and a satisfaction filled her heart.He got what he deserved.

She sat in front of the plate-glass window and waited.She saw him walk up and sit down just opposite to her.The room was silent audible only through a phone attached to the wall,she picked it up and pressed it closely to her ears.

He was wearing an orange suit-pajama and she could see a ray of happiness in his eyes.She thought to herself,this wasn't going to last longer.

"Hii, Janet" his voice welcoming but jaded.

"Hii Don,how are you? you look awful."She replied with a pleasantness.

"Its not good in here Baby! I miss you.."

"I know!" her voice plain and camouflage by slight enthusiasm.She did not want to break the ice so soon,instead she wanted to sit back and relish it slowly.

"I dint do it,you believe me right?" he seemed apprehensive and deary.

"Of course I believe you,and I know you dint do it!" but this time her expression were more vengeful and nocent.

"I'm glad that you have stuck by me throughout,I love yo..."but before he could finish she spoke,

"Hold on Don! not yet,I have a surprise for you."

"A Surprise! What is it?" he seemed curious and all engaged.

"I know who has murdered Valerie."the calmness in her voice persisted.She dint seem moved nor intrigued.

"Who is it?Did you tell the attorney? Tell me who is the son of a bitch" he shouted out.

She stared at him for a second and her expression changed roguish and malicious and a smile appeared on her face.

He looked at her from the other end,confused and in dismal.

"It was all planned,you see!" anger and hatred started to fill up her heart and she was nearly shrieking out.

"What are you talking about?"he was getting impatient.

"I killed that Bitch! I did and I'm happy I did something like this.She deserved it and so do you!"

"What..you!...Why?" stunned at what he had just heard.

She started narrating her plan.She had always thought of Valarie,her step-mother to be an evil woman,it was her father first and then him.

"Why! because she was a bitch,she must rot in hell and so do you for sleeping with her"

His expression changed in a second and he was terrified at her expression.She had known it all along,everything between them,about how he lied to her and had been sleeping with Valarie behind her back.She had loved him,truly but after what he did to her she hated him even more.

Don and Janet had been in a relationship,even when her father wasn't much approving of him.She was disturbed and lonely before Don,since childhood and it was him who had filled her life with happiness and what seemed to be 'Love'.But she dint have the slightest idea that everything had been camouflaged,it was all a lie and full of false promises.He never really loved her,because if he would have,then he would have never slept with that woman.

Valarie always took away those people she loved the most.She had lured her father into falling in love and since then he gave least attention and care towards little Janet,taken far away from her.

Janet was strong,she could let that go,but how could she let this one go.She cannot always hurt her.She had to do something to put an end to all of it.An end to all Valarie's evil deeds,and it was then she came up with the plan.

She had been following her whereabouts for quite sometime and kept clear records on every people she met.And to make things work out smoothly,she acted to be in her good books until the final end.

"You set me up!"he whined from the other side.

It was her 22nd birthday night,when she decide to put the whole act together.She and Don went to the club to celebrate and there she got him drunk to the extreme limit possible.She could see he was no longer in his senses.

She hailed a taxi and got to his apartment.There she laid beside him and slowly undressed him.He was enjoying it,and she hated him that much more at that moment.He soon fell asleep and she thought,it was time to hit the hot iron.

She dressed herself up in his clothes and locking the door behind her,headed to Valarie's apartment.It was Saturday night.Valarie had this superstition that Saturdays were a bad, ominous day for her,so she generally stayed back,and as expected she was home.

It seemed as if the Gods were also on her side,her plan had fallen just perfectly and on the right day.She thought,this cant be all coincidence! She was destined to die and it was going to be this very night and she would stab her to death.

She took a deep breath and rung the bell.Valarie appeared at the door and welcomed her in.She had imagined stabbing her already numerous times in her mind,it was time to do it for real.She slowly walked and stopped right behind her.

"I have something for you" and saying this she instantly stabbed her on her neck and then many others on her stomach and chest.She watched her bleed to death,blood oozing out and a horror in her eyes,cooled her thirsty heart.

She thrust open her handbag and changed into her own dress and tugged the blood stained clothes and the knife,that she had borrowed into the polythene and back to her bag.Without wasting another second she quickly stepped out and back to Don's apartment.

She skillfully opened the door using her pair of keys which she had made herself a copy during her previous visit,to be used just for this day.She softly and slowly walked past the kitchen and into his room,placed in the polythene right underneath his bed.

She then left and re-entered the club and stayed there till morning.

She then called up 911 and informed them about,how she had found her dead on reaching home from the club.

Later the investigation led to Don,placing him as the murderer.Photos of him and Valarie in obscene poses were found at his apartment with the clothes and the knife,from his kitchen which was used to kill her,had finger prints of him all over.

"How could you do this to me?" Don yelled.

"How could I do this? how dare you cheat on me! You are that dog who licks those bitches arse,so you got what you sowed."She snapped.

She had placed everything at the right place that would put him to the scene.She dint want to keep any loose ends and neither wanted anybody to have a second thought over it.So she had dropped off those photos that she clicked,when she had caught him cheating for additional effect.Her plan was neat and properly phased and she knew nothing could out beat it,practically nothing and the rest the power of money would handle and complete.

"I will tell the attorney everything.You are not going to get away with this!" he warned her.

Instead of being scared she was calmed and assured him that she would make sure he stays there for the rest of his life.

"I will get outta of here" he snarled angrily.

"Money is evil, Don.And of course who knows that any better than you.If I can hire an attorney to get you into jail,then you very well know I can even get someone to finish you!" her face was filled by sudden contentedness and she seemed composed.

She dropped the receiver onto the table and got up,turned to her heels and walked outside.A fresh breeze hit her face softly and she thought to herself, 

'what goes around,always comes around!'

He stood there transfixed in shock and remorse and her evil laughter echoed in the void room.

Note: The protagonist and all other characters or the events described in the story are fictitious.Any similarity to any person living or dead is merely coincidental.