Catherine went to see Maria the moment she reached her house, Maria stood up after seeing her. "Cath!" she held back tears.


    "I have heard everything, tell me what happened?" said Catherine.


    "I have been shocked four times already in the last six months. You called our parents assholes, but they are worse than that. Which good parent sabotages their children''s life just to have the satisfaction of having total authority. Now, they have fixed my marriage with a guy I haven''t even met yet. It''s probably some guy who they can easily manipulate and control."


    "Calm down a bit and tell me what happened in detail."


    "I talked about moving out on a fine evening..."


    "No, you can''t," said Cera.


    "What do you mean by I can''t? Are you forgetting the fact that you have no authority over me? I''m going to do what I like to do," she walked out, "and I thought you guys changed," she rolled her eyes.


    She heard a piercing noise as she walked, and looked back to see her mother''s hand stabbed with a kitchen knife. She ran to her mother seeing this. "What are you doing?! You could die ya know," she took a piece of cloth and started wrapping her mother''s hands.


    "Yes, then why would you do that?"


    "What do you mean?"


    "You stabbed me with this knife," said Cera with a blank expression.


    "No I didn''t!"


    "Yes you did, and that''s not the only thing you have done. You have become too violent and..." Cera stood up with the knife still pierced in her hands and started throwing things, "...threw all this stuff today."


    "Mother... stop it," she said in pure horror.


    "Now that the preparations are done, it''s time to call them."


    "Call who?"


    Suddenly Maria felt the presence of someone behind her and quickly looked back, but she was too late, her father had already knocked her out with a chair.


    "When I woke up, I was in the hospital, mother convinced everyone I did this and I got the tag of mentally unstable..."


    Maria took Catherine''s hands in hers. "Can you kill me painlessly, I don''t want to live like this anymore!"


    "You''re Not the one who deserves death, in fact you deserve to live peacefully even more than some other humans. That''s why, don''t say that," she gave her a big hug, "I will always be there for you, sissy."


    Maria broke down in tears. "Thank you very much, Catherine."


    Catherine went to the living room and called out for her parents. "Mother! Father! I want to talk to you!"


    Cera came to the living room. "Looks like someone is pissed at us. It''s not like I care anyways," she said coldly.


    "You will pay for making my sister cry! You filthy old woman!"


    Those words triggered Cera. "How dare you call me that! I will determine your punishment soon!"


    "But I have already decided your fate, so pray for my mood to change." Catherine left the town that day and disappeared for days.


    Catherine came back after a few weeks and went to Maria''s room. "Pack your bags up, we are leaving this shit hole."


    "Catherine! You are back?!"


    "And I''m back with the solution for all of our agonies," Catherine smiled.


    "Hearing your words, I thought you were going to do something cruel."


    "Yes, I have only told those things to keep her from harming you anymore."


    Maria took her luggage and started to pack her clothes. "I''m more than glad to accompany you to even hell, if it means getting out of this place."


    "The place we are going to is definitely not hell, it''s heaven compared to this. I was on a run to secure myself a job, and I have even managed to get you a job too!"


    "That''s amazing!" They walked past Cera and got out of the house. To their surprise, she didn''t say or do anything.


    They started living in the town next to Nishille. Things were going smoothly for them as they were able to smile genuinely after so many years, until one day...


    "I NEVER EXPECTED THIS FROM YOU, CATHERINE. You took bribe money from a lady for doing your own job, that''s pathetic!" her Boss said.


    "No sir, I never took any money from anyone."


    "Stop lying!" he banged on his table. "You are fired."


    "Sir, you should investigate it more, or else let me investigate so I can prove my innocence."


    "Investigate? What do you want to investigate? What would a random woman achieve from doing all that."


    "So, I can suffer," she said in a low voice.


    "Huh? Anyways, enough talking! You are not my employee anymore, you can leave."


    Catherine saw her mother waving at her from afar when she got out of the company. ''Of course it''s you.'' She got back to her apartment and got the news that her sister was fired from her job as well.


    "What are we supposed to do now?"


    "Don''t worry, we will just look for new jobs, simple as that," Catherine smiled. They managed to get into new jobs but the same thing ends up happening every time. One unfortunate day, they were kicked out of their apartment for no reason and without any notice.


    "Why are they doing this to us?!" said Maria.


    "So, we will go back to them."


    "That wasn''t what I wasn''t asking."


    "Let''s fulfil their wish," she looked at Maria. "Let''s go back," she said in a cold voice.


    "Stop joking around! You-"


    "I AM NOT JOKING AROUND! Just... Come with me."


    Catherine and Maria got back to the house, Cera ran to them as soon as she saw them. "My children are back, thank god!" she grinned widely, "so you see, we might not need you in our life, but you will always need us."


    "When is father coming?" she said in a cold expression.


    "Tomorrow night..." said Cera.


    "Guess I will wait till tomorrow."


    "For what? For seeing your father probably I guess," said Cera.


    The next night Catherine and Maria ate dinner with their mother. "By the way Maria, your groom is still waiting for you, we have to fix a date soon."


    "I have already fixed a date," Catherine smiled creepily.


    "That''s great..." said Cera. ''Why is she acting weird,'' she thought. Suddenly Cera got a call from her husband. "Oh alright," she hung up the call. "Girls, your father is coming back in ten minutes."


    "I see," Catherine stood up and went inside. She came back after a while with a kitchen knife in her hand. "So, what will be your last words?"


    "What do you mean?" Cera stood up and walked to her. Catherine pierced the knife through her stomach, Cera fell to the ground.


    "I guess that should kill her," said Catherine.


    "Catherine, what did you just do?" said Maria.


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    "Me? I just killed a bitch, you saw that, didn''t you? Don''t ask me such questions. Now all we have to wait for is..." they heard the calling bell. "Oh, he''s already here, go and open the door for him, let me get the axe."


    "No, stop it! You shouldn''t kill anymore people, you-"


    Catherine knocked her out. "Sorry, I don''t have time for your nonsense, sissy." She picked up the axe, hid it behind her back and went to unlock the door.


    "Oh hey, took you long enough, where''s your mother?"


    "I will send you to her right now," she swung her axe at him and it pierced his head, killing him instantly.


    Maria woke up. "Catherine!"


    "I''m right here, and my jobs are done," she was sitting right behind her.


    "You have killed father too...?"


    "Yes, now call the cops on me. By the way," Catherine smiled lightly, "live life on behalf of me too."


    "No!"


    "No? You don''t want to? Fine then, but call the cops fast.


    "That''s not what I meant, what exactly happened today will be a secret between you and me. Let''s twist the story a little bit."


    Present


    "Then the story you have come to know was created," said Catherine. "Misty, you like licking justice''s ass right? Tell me, was what I did crime or justice?"


    "I don''t know about that and I couldn''t give two fucks about your personal life. It''s true that you had horrible parents, and they deserve to die the most gruesome death, but there''s a catch! Having horrible parents doesn''t give you the right to kill an innocent man!" said Misty.


    "Now, don''t speak to me like I am some psychopath or something. I didn''t kill him for the kick, even though I did get it. I killed him because he wanted to dig up the past. What''s the use of such a thing? Especially since the dead are good for nothing pathetic parents. A bad parent is worse than a criminal. I tried to deflate his intentions, I told him to stop digging up the past but he didn''t listen!"


    Days ago


    Catherine saw Satoshi while jogging and he walked past her. "Wait!" He stopped. "I want to have a chat with you," she said.


    They both went to a place with no crowds. "What are you trying to do?"


    "Nothing," said Satoshi.


    "You have visited my sister two times already. If you are someone who thinks too much into the picture, I want to assure you that everything is fine."


    "I don''t think so, as far as I know, your family definitely isn''t like how it is said in the file. Your mother and father always loved each other, they neglect their children but they really loved each other, that guy won''t kill her. Like said in the case file, you and your father have a bad relationship, but it''s the same for your mother. I''m looking further into it."


    "Why? Let''s just say we really did something but don''t you think that they deserve it? They were such shit parents."


    The day of the Murder


    He secretly went closer to Catherine, and gave her a note. Catherine opened the note and read it. "Meet me in the living room at midnight."


    She inspected the floor a lot. "What are you doing? Catherine?" said Alex.


    "Oh, uhm... I was checking out these beautiful floors."


    The night of the Murder


    Catherine was looking at the sky standing on the balcony. "Don''t eat the fudge," she heard Satoshi''s voice and looked back at him.


    "Why? Are they poisoned?"


    "I''m not like you, it has a high dose of sleeping pills, I want to have a nice long chat with you."


    ''Everyone except Vishnu ate the fudge, but that isn''t enough. I want all the time I could get to convince him,'' Catherine thought. Catherine went to the kitchen and opened the fridge and took out the fudge.


    "Oh, I thought you weren''t going to have it."


    "Nah, I love it," she took the fudge to her room and went back to the kitchen. "Mary, I have washed the plate I used to eat the fudge, don''t tell me otherwise tomorrow."


    Mary was busy with the kitchen chores, "alright."


    She waited for everyone to get to sleep to go give her fudge to Vishnu. She knocked on the door, and he opened. "What''s up? Catherine?"


    "Would you like some fudge?"


    "Uhm alright," he took it from her hands. "Thank you."


    She went to the living room at midnight wearing a hoodie.


    "Why are you wearing a hoodie?" said Satoshi.


    "Well, it''s cold."


    "Hm." He looked at her firmly. "I know that you are the one responsible for both your mother and father''s death."


    "Hmm, alright."


    "Alright?"


    "Well, Maria already told me that she told you everything. Can''t help it when your sister is a little bit naive," Catherine shrugged.


    "Catherine, surrender to the police."


    "No way! Have you even got an idea, what you are asking me?"


    "I''m not asking you to kill someone, it won''t hurt to turn yourself in, right?"


    "Dumbass, it''s not about me, if I turn myself in now, she will be sent to jail for lying for the sake of me. She would be marked as my accomplice! She never wanted to resort to killing till the very last seconds. I don''t want such a person to go to jail!"


    "Alright, I''m fine with her not going to jail but I want you to be free of guilt. You don''t deserve to be guilty over such assholes."


    "I would never feel guilty for killing my parents. Also me turning myself in is basically telling the police that she helped me hide evidence. Knowing her, she will probably fumble even if we have a plan."


    "It''s not about guilt," he looked into her eyes, "do you know the speciality of truth?"


    "It always finds its way."


    "Exactly, if you don''t come out right now, truth will see the light one day, and the consequences may be big."


    "If such a thing happens, let it be, but I am not betraying my sister by revealing our secret."


    They discussed it for the next thirty minutes.


    "You still don''t want to give yourself in, huh?" He walked back. "Guess I have to give my evidence to-"


    She took out the gun she took from the mansion, it had a silencer. "Satoshi!"


    She pulled the trigger just as he looked back.


    Present


    "I just wanted to save my sister, that''s all," she sat down on the floor. "So, what are your leads on me?"


    "Lead no.1, you took the fudge which contained the drugs and took it to your room to eat, you never do that. Lead no 1.5, you gave the same fudge to Vishnu and pretended that you ate it yourself, the CCTV captured you giving the fudge to Vishnu. Lead no.2, Satoshi was investigating you just before dying and in the end he did find out you are a murderer, you just killed him to keep it secret. Lead no..."


    "Nah shut it, I''m bored already. You, Mary and Cheng will die here today, that will shorten the people who know our little secret. Once I''m done killing you, I will get rid of Trevor. I''m sure that by now, she must have spilled everything to him already! After killing you all I will just surrender saying I did this for fun and they will trust me.


    Catherine took out the pistol and was about to pull the trigger, just then Misty ran to her. "Idiot!" Catherine pulled the trigger.


    Misty successfully tackled her. "Well done, Cheng, Mary!" She locked her to the ground.


    Cheng knelt down and looked at Catherine. "You know, it''s best to not fight it, she knows a special martial art form."


    "I would say kidnapping us was your dumbest decision," said Mary, who came behind Cheng.


    Catherine grinned. "Yeah, you guys win at the end of the day, but I saw through your same old trick of faking deaths."


    "It wasn''t my idea this time, neither was it Trevor''s, it was Cheng''s. He said it will make Maria spill easier, we all thought it was a solid plan."


    "Honestly, you kidnapping us wasn''t so bad of a plan but you weren''t sneaky enough and we found out what you are up to," said Cheng.


    "We threw away the drink with the drug, took out a new drink and pretended to be unconscious. Misty advised us to empty all the bullets from the guns," said Mary.


    Just when they were talking, Catherine pulled out a knife and stabbed Misty''s thigh and tackled her. "Shit!"


    "I still have this upper hand of having weapons." Cheng tried to get closer. "Don''t you dare come near me, I will kill you all. I''m going to do that either way," she smiled creepily. She raised the knife high and went for the heart, but she was shot on her arms right before she was able to stab Misty.


    "Get off her, or I will shoot you in the head!" It was Trevor, he ran to them. "Are you all alright?"


    "Well, I''m alright apart from this stab to my thigh."


    "Well, at least you are alive."


    "Why were you so fucking Late!"


    "I''m sorry but I trusted the cops, but they were only able to track your phone, not the tracker I gave you. Now they will barge in once everything''s over and will act like a hero."


    "Guys," said Catherine, they all looked back, "will you keep this a secret to ourselves! Like my parents'' death and stuff, don''t tell the world what really happened that night. Let the world think I killed Vishnu and Satoshi because I''m a psychopath."


    "What are you ... talking about?" said Misty.


    Catherine smiled. "I have enjoyed the time I got to spend with you guys."


    "Wait stop," Mary ran to her.


    Catherine pierced her own throat with the knife on her hands. They all watched as she died.


    "I.. wanted to talk about it.. to her," said Mary.


    "She would have most likely gotten a death penalty either way," said Cheng, hiding his pain.


    The police barged in. "Everyone, hands up!"


    Trevor sighed. "As I said."


    One week later


    Camila put a bouquet on Satoshi''s grave. "Mama... is going to Japan, and I will only come back once a year to see you. I''m here to say goodbye," she turned around to see Misty standing behind her. "Oh Misty, I have been wanting to meet you! Thank you for solving my son''s murder."


    "I''m glad I was able to," Misty smiled.


    "It''s time for my flight, bye," Camila patted her shoulder.


    Misty put a bunch of red flowers on Satoshi''s grave. "I hope you are at peace." She looked a little farther and saw Mary praying in front of Catherine''s grave stone, she walked over there. "Praying for an evil soul, that''s just like you."


    "Maybe she was evil, but won''t you agree with me when I say that every one of us loved to be around her. All these things wouldn''t have happened if she had better parents," said Mary.


    Mary and Misty got out of the graveyard together. Misty saw Alex waiting outside with his car. "Aren''t you gonna visit their graves?"


    "I already did, she was taking so long, so I decided to wait outside."


    "How long have you been there, Mary?" said Misty.


    "Like thirty minutes," said Mary.


    "Mary, you guys just started dating and you are already irritating him," said Misty.


    "I am not irritated at all, I am glad she''s here at least."


    "I see, you still aren''t over her fake death."


    "And he''s still mad at me for keeping it a secret, I mean it happened so fast, how can I find time to tell you?"


    Misty laughed. "I mean, I can''t blame him for being upset."


    Meera and Tony were standing in front of Vishnu''s stone slab praying for him. "I hope you are finally at peace, Vishnu," said Meera.


    "I will always cherish the days we have spent together," said Tony.


    Trevor visited the prison to see his friends. "Yo, criminals."


    "Only you? I''m so bored of seeing you and Misty, bring us someone new," said Akbar.


    "Maybe officer Fred should pay you a visit, with his special physical therapy. By the way, where''s Ralph?"


    "He''s still not over all the deaths," said Evelyn.


    "Tell him to not be so harsh on himself, he should just have some remorse."


    Two months later


    ''It''s been two months since everything ended and I haven''t seen them much since then. They will just come by for a coffee and leave but that doesn''t mean we are not close anymore, we are still in touch,'' Misty thought. Trevor opened the cafe door and got inside. "Hey, long-"


    Trevor cut her off. "You still help officer Fred with investigations?"


    "Uhm yeah?"


    "Then, let''s create a detective agency together. We will solve cases together there." Trevor walked back fast.


    "Ooh, somebody is missing me, I see," Misty smiled.


    "It''s not-" he saw Misty''s smiling face and couldn''t blurt out anything else. "Alright, let''s start our new beginning together," Trevor smiled.