DAY 2 WEDNESDAY

DAY 2

When Priya reached home, it was past midnight. It had been a long day and Priya had smiled the whole day. Three flops in a row, Priya cannot possibly afford to let herself go haywire. She hadn’t let her nerve loose for an instant except when she had met Rocky and told him the truth. After the shoot was over, she had again told Rocky the same thing inside the make up room. Priya had doubts whether Rocky had believed her story; he must have thought her drunk, as always. She was, but nevertheless, she was saying the truth.
Rocky entered his room and keeping the keys on the table let himself loose on the couch. It was a hard day and the job of an assistant is tiresome to the extreme. While he gazed at the ceiling, the words told to him by Priya lingered in his ears.
“Someone else.” “Ambalika!” But how is that possible, thought Rocky. She is an actress for God’s sake who is portraying a character, so what if the movie was based on a true story and the character she was playing was raped and murdered. For a second, Rocky thought that she was saying the truth and he had goose bumps! Rocky felt relieved to believe that she was lying as she was drunk. Maybe she was hallucinating.
Priya went to the washroom to freshen up. As she was about to get undress and enter the shower, the lights went out. She opened the bathroom doors. She heard something. “Hello”, she was nervous.
With a towel on, she came out of the bathroom and felt her way towards her bedroom. It was at that moment that she realized she wasn’t alone…