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Chapter 29 - “The Last Message and the Vanishing”

After Amar left, I also went back home, but…

since returning, my heart started feeling heavy and sad.

I had never seen Sahil flirting with any girl before,

but seeing him for the first time with a girl—and with an engagement ring—was very painful for me.

Day and night, I kept thinking about how I could confess my feelings to Sahil.

Meanwhile, I became friends with him through social media.

There, we shared our nicknames with each other.

For a long time, we kept chatting like that—sharing and solving each other's problems.

He told me all his struggles…

that he had no interest in girls.

Instead, he liked boys—and the person he liked was his best friend.

But that friend liked girls.

So he didn't know what to do.

I advised him not to hide anything from his friend and to confess everything honestly.

At first, he didn't agree,

but after some convincing, he accepted my advice.

He organized a party and invited everyone from the orphanage.

And there, Sahil told Amar everything about himself—his feelings—

except that he loved him.

Listening to all this, I realized…

that the person I had been talking to on social media all this time

was none other than Sahil.

After knowing this, I never confessed my feelings to him…

nor did I ever meet him.

There was no point in meeting anyway.

So I decided that I would just remain his friend.

He would stay happy in his life…

and I in mine.

But I couldn't continue like this for long,

and I left the city.

After a few months, he sent me a strange message:

that his life was in danger, and I should come to his house (along with his address).

I saw that message a bit late.

When I read it, I immediately went to his house.

But when I reached there… I saw a crowd gathered outside.

There were police and an ambulance as well.

Two severely burnt people were being taken to the hospital in the ambulance.

Later, I found out…

those two people were none other than Amar and Sahil.

I went to the hospital to see them.

They were under treatment.

I paid their bills and waited for their recovery.

The doctor said their condition was very critical,

and they would regain consciousness only by morning.

So I stayed in the hospital, waiting.

In the morning, I saw chaos everywhere in the hospital.

When I asked what happened,

I was told that two patients had gone missing—

Amar and Sahil.

I even filed a case against the hospital for negligence,

but nothing came out of it.

From that day till today,

no one knows where they went

or who took them.

At the police station, Suman saw me filing their missing report.

Later, she came to meet me at my house.

"Hi."

"Hi… who are you?"

"I am Amar's girlfriend."

"Are you Suman?"

"Yes… but how do you know?"

Then I told her everything about myself.

From Suman, I came to know about the Vijay fraud case.

I didn't know anything about all this,

because a few days after that party,

I had completely distanced myself from Sahil.

I neither read his messages nor replied to them.

For a few days, he kept messaging me continuously,

but later he stopped.

And then… that last message came.

I asked Suman,

"Did you ever find out what really happened to them?"

She told me—

Amar needed money to marry her.

He had applied for many jobs, but didn't get any.

One day, he came to know about a competition conducted by Vijay Hospital.

So he filled out the form.

What happened to him there…

he never told Suman.

But after returning,

he became extremely irritable.

Sometimes his hands and legs would shake,

and sometimes he would start screaming loudly.

When Sahil found out,

he went to the hospital and questioned the management about Amar.

He tried to find out what they had done to him.

But they refused to tell him anything.

As time passed, Amar's condition worsened.

He almost lost his sanity…

and even started harming himself.

Seeing this, Sahil did everything possible for his treatment.

He took him everywhere he could,

but nothing worked.

Finally, Sahil filed a case against Vijay Hospital.

After the case began, it was revealed

that Amar wasn't the only one—

everyone who participated in that competition had suffered the same condition.

The case went on for a long time…

but in the end, all of them were acquitted in the Vijay fraud case.

Sahil couldn't accept this.

He went to the hospital and got into a fight with them.

At that time, a meeting was going on there,

and Inspector Vishal—who was handling the case—was also present.

He arrested Sahil for assault.

Suman got him released on bail

and asked him everything.

But since she was pregnant,

Sahil didn't tell her much

and asked her to leave.

Later, Suman also came to know about the incident involving Amar and Sahil.

And now, she came to me…

wanting to know—

Where are they?

And what really happened to them?

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