"I spy you!" - 41

“Are you mad? You were not even there when he fell down! If you say what you told is right, then how do you think you have killed him?” asked Vasu exasperatedly.

“I added poison in his coffee” Amruta said grudgingly.

Vasu faced Amruta and said, “Will you please get up and help me in reviving him?” in a pleading voice.

Amruta smiled sadly and said, “Well, let me give this farce called marriage a logical ending”  and then sat in front of SahishNu.

After two minutes of thorough checking, Amruta said, “Vasoo, he is gone! We have to do something to get this body out from here!”

“Body?” Vasu felt as if a load of ice cubes fell on her suddenly.

“Yes my dear, my husband is dead and made me a widow” Amruta said sarcastically and stood up and came near Vasu and touched her arm.

Vasu looked at her blankly.

“Look Vasu! This is tough! But fortunately I know a lot of people who could help me to get out of this crisis if I pay them some money. But I need to do this alone. Do you understand?” She and then she kept quiet for a few minutes.

Vasu looked at her as if ‘What is the next step?’

“Listen to me carefully. I just need you to go to a movie and leave me here to deal with this situation” said Amruta. She was looking dead serious in taking up this. Was there a relief in her face? Vasu could not tell.

She took her purse and left the house. She thought that she could have made a mistake. But she alone could not handle a dead body. Added to that Amruta was clear about her ‘known’ people many not like to have Vasu when they move the body of SahishNu.

She went to the theater, took a ticket and sat little away from other people. The movie started. But she could not follow even a single scene.

Her mind was in her house. Was Amruta able to dispose the body? What if police come and ask about his whereabouts?

Her inner voice told her that she had made a mistake by coming out like that. How much did she know Amruta? Hardly a little more than 2 months. She felt that she should immediately return to the house and be part of the operation.

Or still better... why not hide behind a tree or rock and watch what she does?

She decided about that and left the theater in the middle of the movie and rushed to reach her house. She must have gone for half an hour. She came near the house. It was getting dark. She looked at Amruta’s house. There was light in her house.

Amruta saw Vasu and smiled. “You have just missed him... I mean his body was carried away by the people I told you just now”