Too Late....

Rishika came out of the room & looked at Jack and went towards him.

"Guess, I'm Rishika. I wish, I was not. All my life they say I don't deserve to be happy. I'm toxic to people, ruin their lives."

She looked around the place and say, "so this is the end of mine. This is the place where I end up, after ruining so many lives."

Jack can see in her welled up eyes, that she is very scared, & she is accepting the punishment. Then he heard her asking him something,

" say something good about me. Anything doesn't matter if it's small. There must be something good in me, that you would have noticed."

Jack can sense that she is asking because she herself doesn't know if there is anything good in her. Jack wants to comfort that scared little girl, who is standing in front of him asking for his confirmation, to tell her that she is not a that bad person as others her to be.

" You, have very innocent & beautiful eyes" Rishika felt relief she gave him a very beautiful smile, genuine smile, she wiped her tears, but then breaks down listening to his words.

"You, have very innocent & beautiful eyes. But behind those eyes, it is full of lies, betrayal, manipulation that it can drive others to do crazy things. Like, your father tried to kill you. Like Paul, who loves you so much, but you provoke him so much that he raised a hand on you. Your, brother did the right thing to get rid of you. You deserve to rot here. Now, if you are here, reflect on your actions. Recall all those people do whom you wronged."

Rishika looked at him and nodded her head, "Am I really that bad? Guess, I'm. Jack, I'm no one to ask this from you, but still. Take care of yourself and the man who is standing behind me listening to everything. Take care of him. I love this man a lot. Thousand times I can die for him. Thousand tortures I can endure for him. My hearts beat is for him. If anything happens to him, even a single scratch on him, you will answer me. If I can kill Chase, then I can kill anyone for him. Just take care of him."

Paul froze listening to her and felt proud that she still loves him, & at the same time angry for killing Chase.

Whereas Jack felt guilty.

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Rishika was asked to change her clothes, she was given a white gown.

When she came out she saw a dark-skinned man, waiting for her. He asked her, " do you remember me? Last time, I didn't get the chance to introduce myself, I'm Tom. "

Getting no response from her, he continued, "A few years back in front of the restaurant, you gave my kids a food packet. And gave me your earrings. Those earrings changed my life. Now, I have a decent job, home, and everything. "

Rishika was trying very hard to recall this man or incident, but she couldn't recall anything. Her memories are mixed with Shreya and Rishika. She apologetically said, " Sorry, I can not recall you. Can you please help me to escape? I don't want to be here, I'm scared."

The man looked at her with pity and shook his head. "I can not help you now. But when you will come out of after three years, then only I'll be able to help you. I can not lose this job."

She nodded her head. Then the man looked around making sure that no one is around. "Look, little girl, I don't have time. But you listen to me, after an hour they will lock you. But remember my words no matter what happens once you are locked in your ward, just remember do not answer to anybody. Things are crazy here."

Rishika was terrified listening to him, she asked him, "to whom I don't have to answer."Before he can answer her, nurses came for her.

The nurse gave her a pen & paper, and asked her to write a letter or poetry anything, she wants. So in case, if she die here before the time, or someone came looking out for her, they can give this thing to them.

Rishika got confused, she doesn't have anyone to write a letter. To whom she will write. No one is coming to save her, or no one is coming to meet her. After a lot of thinking, she wrote the letter. Tears were falling down on the letter, it gets wet from her tears.

Within five minutes she wrote the letter. And gave it to a nurse. Then the nurse made her sit on the chair and cut her nails. She felt like they were preparing her for, God knows for what. She doesn't care now. She feels empty from inside.

Nurses were combing her hair when she heard nurses talking to each other. "Thank God, I listened to my intuition and went home, my son was having a fever. He was crying for me."Nurses were kept on talking among themselves when Rishika very curiously asked her, " How do you know that your son was sick. You just said that you went home because of your intuition" Nurses looked at her, then one of them said, " it's mother's intuition. When a child cries, mothers can sense, that their child is in a problem. That's a connection between parents with their children."

Rishika looked at her and thinking very deeply. She was then asked to get up. They were moving forward where Rishika can see all sorts of mental people doing crazy things. She was shivering from inside.

Fear, this what she can feel. A constant battle was going inside her. Soon she came into a corridor, where she noticed the silence. Even she can't hear the footsteps of her own. She was surrounded by dark thoughts.

Her intuition was telling her, to get out of from here, the warning which Tom gave was kept going on in her head. She doesn't belong here. But her intuition was silenced by the feeling of guilt, for ruining so many lives. Soon she enters a room and didn't realize when nurses left her there.

.....

Rishika looked around the room and saw it was very big. It's a kind of white room when she turned around to look at the door behind her and found there is no door just the wall. Everything is white in that room.

There is no other color in that room. Now, she understands what Paul meant by there will be plenty of light.

After an hour, She noticed in a corner there is a paper plate, in which there is plenty of food for the whole day. She saw it was her favorite white pasta. She quickly ate the half pasta, when she felt thirsty.

She saw a white container thinking it was water. Without looking into it she quickly drank the liquid, but soon spit it out. It was not water but it was milk inside it. She looked for water but found none. She was thirsty, but can't drink milk.

Then she realized, everything is white here. Even her food was also white. She didn't find any other vegetables inside the pasta

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One month later...

Rishika was trying to listen to anything by holding her ears against a wall. But there was silence. She has not seen a person in one month. She has not heard any kind of sound. Every day she wakes up, she was treated with silence.

How her food gets replaced every day, she doesn't know. She got tired standing against the wall. She backs down from the wall and went to have her food. This time it was bread, of course, the corners were cut. Every day she was given white food, sometimes only rice. But there is only one constant thing, white milk.

She has lost the count of days. She doesn't know whether it was day or night. She begins to break, she started losing control over her emotions.

"You love Avantika, if you can't be my brother, then you don't deserve to be my brother. You should not live, Bhai" with this Rishika pushed Rishi from stairs. Blood was coming out of his head, but she stood there and smirked.

Rishika again wakes up from the dream where she intentionally pushed Rishi from the stairs and sends him into a comma. But this time she is not denying, cause this time she really believes that she really did that. And feeling guilty of her actions she was sobbing. There are lots of dreams which is becoming her truth.

" Rishika, please don't. I love Paul, and I'm pregnant. "Begged Shreya.

" tsk...tsk... But I also love him. And I want him. If this child comes out, I can never get him." With this, she pretended to push Shreya, and in her defense, Shreya lost her balance and fall down from the escalator.

Rishika wiped her eyes recalling how cruelly she provoked Shreya. She was saying sorry to Shreya in her. Her truth has diminished somewhere, where she doesn't even want to find out.

...

" You came again," asked Charles, Paul's father from Rishika.

"I want him. And I'm ready to do whatever you asked. I'm ready to destroy June & April. " listen to this Charles asked her to prove her loyalty. He asked her to kill Avantika. And within a few seconds' images in her mind, changes where she was about to shoot Avantika, but Sanjay shot her.

Rishika doesn't fight with herself anymore, instead, now she really believes that this is how things happen on those days. There is no one who will tell her that this never happened. Who will tell her that what she is thinking is wrong, cause only she knew her truth. But her truth has been manipulated. Her truth has lost the battle, with all the lies from which she is surrounded. It's all in her mind.

Rishika got frustrated, with silence so much, that she started clapping to listen to the sound, but she realizes that no sound was coming from her hands while clapping. She got scared, she furiously started clapping to listen to the sound, but she heard no sound. What she doesn't know that the sound was coming from her hands but the silence of the room and the silence in her, is not allowing to hear the sound. At one point she was scared that she has become deaf.

...

6months later...

One day she opened her eyes, and her eyes widened, with what she saw in front of her. She immediately gets up and bang the walls furiously

"let me out...let me out..please, please..... I'm begging you all to let me out." She was furiously banging on the wall when someone touches her from behind. Rishika didn't turn around just stood still.

Fear can be seen on her face, with tears in her eyes she turned around and saw the room was full of all other Rishika's. The room was full of different versions of Rishika. There was 10years old Rishika, and then there was one Rishika who just got r.a.p.ed by uncle sitting in a corner, and then there was one Rishika who is in England.

There were at least 10 versions of Rishika from different age groups. They all are looking at her.

Soon Rishika felt someone was pulling her gown, she looked down and saw 8years old Rishika.

"Hey, today is my bhai's birthday. Have this cake."Rishika looked at the cake which was just a loaf of white bread. She noticed that all Rishika's are in a white dress. She looked at them and shouted grabbing her head, "Ahhhh...

"

And soon all Rishika grabbed their head and shouted, "Ahhh...." Just like she did. She got terrified looking at them like this. She whispered to herself, 'No... They are not real. "

But soon there was a fight, among all Rishika, claiming that they are real Rishika. Another one is not real. Rishika sits down and rocked herself back and fro comforting her,' it's ok they are not real. I don't have to answer them. Tom asked me to not to answer them."

She looked around terrifying that all Rishika's are fighting with each other claiming that they are the real ones. But soon they all stopped fighting and looked towards her. They surrounded her and started shouting you are not real Rishika.

Rishika didn't answer them and shook her head. She was trying to not answer them and she gets success in that.

Soon Rishika saw all other Rishika was doing their work. Lil Rishika was eating bread, enjoying it as if it's a real cake. Whereas one Rishika was in a corner crying because of ****. Another Rishika was serving milk to other Rishika.

.....

Every day she saw a new version of Rishika with others. There is always an addition in a number of Rishika. All Rishika was getting along with each other. She always ignored them. But how long she is going to fight this. She also wants to talk to them but knows that she will make fool of herself. Sometimes she felt, is she the real Rishika.

Rishika was sleeping when she felt someone was tracing her face from her fingers. She opened her eyes and saw a very different version of herself in provocative white clothes. She got scared looking at her.

"Hi, Rishika... How are you?"Rishika sits in a corner ignoring her. But she sits beside her. "Look at them, all are boring. No spark in them. I can get rid of them for you if you want. "

Rishika ignored her. "Look at that Rishika, she is just crying, still not believing, that she just got r.a.p.ed."

Both Rishika looked at her and noticed that Rishika. Both felt pity for her.

"You know I'm, not Rishika."

Rishika looked at her with a confused expression, "I'm a very deep dark thought of yours, who wants revenge, I'm Ishika. Not Rishika."

With this, she saw Ishika getting up, and then she saw Ishika clapping her hands. Soon all other Rishika vanished. Ishika turned towards her and with hard expression, she looked at Rishika."Whether you want it or not you will submit it to me. "

Rishika yelled, "No... Never..." But soon realize that she just answered Ishika. She looked towards Ishika, who was smirking. "But you already did, Rishika, just now."

Rishika immediately banged the walls until her knuckles bled & cried herself. She whispered those words which she never thought she will use."Maaaa a....please....hear my voice. I need your help. Mummy ... Please, I'm sorry. Please come and find me. Maa "She cried her heart out that thinking that maybe her mother will also get the intuition and send help for her, begged her to listen to her voice for help. But no one came to help her, she was stuck with Ishika forever.

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Hey guys,

When I wrote this chapter at that time, it was really hard for me. I had very little time & needs votes, and I was way tired.

Guys do leave inline comments. Hope you liked the idea of different version of Rishika. That part was my favorite in this chapter. And when she asks Jack, to tell something good about her.

Which one is yours? Do tell me.

As I said, I have done a lot of research, then when I get to know about this white torture room.

Thank God, it was not legal. Now why I used this thing, because my whole story is based on the mental health of the girl. I can not give her electric shocks. It was way cruel. Also, this is also cruel. But I 'm done with physical pain thing. I hope you liked the idea of the white torture room.

Do tell me, what are your views.

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