Story by: Agastya Bahuguna

Continued Part of IS IT REALLY SANTA (2022)

Dated – 25^th of December 2025 (After 4 years!!)

Last Christmas I gave you my heart,

And the very next day, you gave it away,

This year to save me from tears-

I gave it to someone special…

- Last Christmas, Wham!  

If I can’t mend the heavens above,

I will stir with the underworlds.

- Sigmund Freud

Dhokhe ka jo dard hai mujhe jane nahi deta

Jiss aag mai jalte hain ham, usse bhulane nahi deta

- A quote from a poetry book I saw in BHAY: THE GAURAV TIWARI CASE (Series)

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PROLOGUE I

10 years ago..

Somewhere in the woods.

KATE’S P.O.V.

He had it in his hand. It was a gun. My heart was in my mouth, hammering, trembling with palpable fear. For I knew any moment now and I will be dead.

He loaded the gun. My mind racing with dread – so gravely that I was barely breathing. He aimed the gun towards me.

Ron and Jim shouting almost blurred in the background, they made every attempt to free themselves but failed.

And me? At gunpoint. Events slowed down in front of my eyes. Tears rolling, blurring my vision.

And then I heard it..

Gunshot.