"Crimson Lies"
1. The Beginning of Forever
Ravi had always been a simple man. A 26-year-old mechanic in a small Indian town, he worked hard, loved harder, and trusted blindly. His world was small—his mother, his work, his dreams. But when Meher entered his life, everything changed.
Meher was not like the girls he had grown up around. She was dazzling, outspoken, and full of fire. She had moved from Mumbai after her father’s transfer and joined the local college. Ravi met her when her scooter broke down outside his garage.
"Can you fix it in ten minutes, Romeo?" she had said, smiling with a twinkle in her eye.
From that moment on, he was hooked. Their love bloomed quickly. Long rides, stolen kisses, whispered dreams of marriage under starlit skies. Ravi introduced her to his mother. He even began saving to buy a small apartment for their future.
But love, sometimes, is blind. And sometimes, it’s deadly.
2. The Ditch
One Thursday evening, Ravi waited for Meher outside her college. She was an hour late. Two hours. When she finally arrived, she wasn't alone.
She sat behind a man on a black Royal Enfield. She laughed. The man kissed her hand before speeding away. Ravi followed them like a ghost, his heart thundering in pieces.
They stopped at a café. Through the glass window, Ravi saw Meher kiss the man, her hand wrapped around his neck. The same way she had kissed him just two nights ago.
He didn't confront her—not that day.
Instead, he waited. Days turned to weeks. She avoided him with excuses—exams, headaches, relatives.
Then, one evening, she told him the truth over a phone call.
"Ravi, I’m sorry. I never loved you. You were... convenient. Sweet. But I found someone better. I’m going to marry Arjun. Please don’t call me again."
She hung up before he could say a word.
The phone slipped from his hand. His vision blurred. His chest felt like it had been stabbed. He screamed—a scream that no one heard.
3. The Murder
Three days later, Meher disappeared.
The town buzzed with gossip. Police questioned Arjun, Ravi, friends, and even college staff.
Nobody knew where she was.
Ravi didn't speak a word. He worked quietly. Smiled occasionally. But deep inside, something had snapped.
Because he knew.
He knew where Meher was.
Under the old well behind the abandoned church near the forest. Her body wrapped in a blue bedsheet. Her eyes still wide with terror.
He remembered every detail—the pleading in her voice, the fight, the blood, the final silence.
She had come to meet him one last time after he begged her. She laughed at him when he cried, mocked his love. Called him a "village fool."
In that moment, something inside Ravi broke. He didn't plan it. But it happened.
One strike.
Then another.
Then silence.
4. The Nightmare Begins
The town slowly forgot Meher. The case turned cold. Arjun left for Mumbai. Life moved on.
But not for Ravi.
He began seeing her.
In mirrors. In dreams. In reflections in the water.
At night, he would wake up to scratching sounds on the window. A soft laugh. The smell of her perfume.
One night, he found his mother’s photo frame shattered on the floor. On it, written in lipstick: "I’m not done yet."
Another time, he woke up in the garage—tools scattered around him, and on the wall, scratched with a wrench: "You loved me, remember?"
He tried to tell himself it was guilt. Just guilt. Hallucinations. He wasn't mad. He couldn't be.
But then his mother saw her.
Standing at the edge of the field.
“Meher came back?” she asked innocently.
Ravi’s blood froze.
5. The Truth Unfolds
Ravi began to lose his mind.
He locked his doors. Smashed all mirrors. Burnt the blue bedsheet in the backyard. But her voice still echoed.
Then, one evening, a knock on his door.
Police.
“Mr. Ravi, we found remains near the old church well. A passerby noticed something strange.”
Ravi tried to act shocked.
But then came the second sentence.
“And we found a phone beside it. Belongs to Meher. There are messages. Voice recordings.”
His world stopped.
They played one for him.
“Ravi is scaring me. I think he knows. If something happens to me... please tell my father.”
He denied everything. Cried. Pretended.
But the evidence was stacking.
Blood on his garage floor. A customer saw Meher going into the garage that day and never coming out.
They arrested him that night.
6. Jail and the Haunting
Prison was hell. But what Ravi feared most wasn’t the beatings, the isolation, or the cold food.
It was Meher.
She followed him even there.
The inmates whispered about his cell. They claimed they heard a girl crying every night. Some refused to sleep near him.
One inmate was found dead one morning—his face twisted in terror, eyes bulging, nails clawed into his neck.
Ravi knew.
Meher had claimed another.
He tried to kill himself. Slit his wrists.
But he survived.
“I want to confess,” he told the police.
7. The Trial
The trial was publicized like a movie. "Lover turns killer." Headlines screamed.
Ravi confessed everything.
The judge sentenced him to life imprisonment.
The court was packed. Arjun sat in the front row, eyes cold.
As Ravi was led out, he looked up once. For a moment, he thought he saw Meher, standing at the back, smiling.
Her white dress stained in blood.
Nobody else saw her.
8. Years Later
Ten years passed.
Ravi was still in prison. A quiet man now. A shadow of what he once was.
One rainy night, he was found lying unconscious in his cell. Foaming at the mouth.
He died within minutes.
The guards found something horrifying.
Scratched into the concrete wall of his cell, over and over:
"I’m sorry, Meher. Please let me go. I loved you."
The doctor who examined his body said it looked like he had died of extreme fear.
No poison. No wounds.
Just... terror.
9. The Real Twist
Two months later, Arjun was arrested in Mumbai.
Why?
Because during a routine data check, a cybercrime officer found a deleted folder on Arjun’s laptop.
Inside were videos of Meher.
Being abused.
Threatened.
One video, recorded secretly, showed her crying and saying: “He said if I leave him, he’ll kill me. I’m scared of Arjun. I want to run away.”
The last video had a time stamp: one day after Meher had supposedly died.
That meant only one thing.
Ravi didn’t kill her.
Arjun did.
He had framed Ravi brilliantly. He had followed Meher to her meeting with Ravi, murdered her after Ravi left, and planted the evidence.
Ravi was just a broken-hearted boy who begged for one last chance.
He never raised a hand on her.
10. The Final Horror
The case was reopened. Arjun was sentenced to death.
But before that could happen, he was found dead in his cell.
Cause of death: cardiac arrest.
But the last thing he had written in his own blood, using a piece of sharp glass, were the words:
"She’s here. She’s mine now."
Witnesses claim his cell door opened and closed by itself moments before his death. A guard on duty quit that night, claiming he heard a girl laughing behind him when no one was there.
Epilogue
Sometimes, love turns to obsession.
Sometimes, betrayal gives birth to madness.
But sometimes, the dead don't stay buried.
Meher was failed by everyone—the boy who loved her too blindly, and the man who possessed her like a trophy.
But in death, she became something else.
A whisper in the dark.
A crimson lie that stained every soul it touched.
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