The Secrets of Confessions ✔️

Chapter 30: Accuracy Questions

I'm back here again. There's no question about it. I know where I am, and I don't know whether I want to be here or not.

This may be a good thing, because I can ask some people how everything went down. The bad thing is, I don't know if everything will be a hundred percent correct. A girl can dream, but let's hope those dreams are valid.

I can feel the warm sand beneath my feet, as I stare right at the blue ocean that's shimmering in front of me. All I have to do is wait for her. She'll come to me and then I can finally get some answers. That shouldn't take long, because before I know it, I hear light crunching behind me.

I turn around, and my mom is walking towards me, looking as young and fresh as she always has been. She gives me a smile, and then comes to sit down right next to me. "You know, Ashmita, I appreciate your curiosity in the case. It makes me smile that Mason has raised my daughter so be so curious and intuitive."

I smile, while trying not to think about the fight that I just had with Mason the previous night. "It's all so complicated. There's so many different motives, and everyone is a suspect. What should I do?"

My mom looks at me, with slightly hopeful eyes, and says this. "Ashmita, you're not on the right track. You're pretty off. I'm going to give you some hints. One, reread my diaries. There's hidden meanings in so many things, and you're interpreting a lot of them wrong. Two, look back at everything that's been said to you. There's hints. Pick them up. You have to think really hard though. They're almost hidden. That's all that I have, honestly."

I sigh, and sit back a little bit. Everything seems so peaceful here, and it's such a pleasant contrast to all the chaos that I've been feeling. I look back at my mom, who just has the slightest smile on her face, as she stares out in the open ocean. "What if I don't figure it out? What if I can't figure it out and Arjun will still be labelled as a ruthless killer? What will happen?"

My mom raises an eyebrow, and says, "Ashmita, you're such a smart girl. I would be surprised if you didn't figure it out. And second, karma will come. I know it's delayed by almost 17 years, but it will come. And you can help karma deliver its blow."

I stand up from the sand, slightly angry. I can't say I should help karma deliver its blow when it already did on my mom. I mean, she's one to speak about karma when it happened to her because she destroyed her marriage. Plus, how can I trust her after everything involving her marriage was lied to me so far? "How can I even trust that you're telling me the truth right now? All my life, I've been lied to when it comes to Arjun, and now it comes to the case! How do I make sure that I'm not fed any more lies?"

My mom stands up to comfort me and reassure me, as I stare at her with an angry look on my face. She takes a deep breath, and says, "Ashmita, I get where you're coming from. And I'll admit this. I screwed up. I really screwed up. I don't blame you for being angry with me. I can't blame anyone for what I've done. It's all my fault, and I can't express in words how sorry I am. But, I'm going to tell you this. Arjun may seem like someone you can't trust, but you should. I'm not saying this because I owe him for breaking his heart. I'm saying this because although he may seem like a hardened criminal, he's got a big heart. I can tell that if I didn't screw up majorly, he would have loved you to death. I can already tell that he loves you, and he's slowly loving you more everyday. I know that all your life you were told to not trust him, but honestly, don't believe that. Almost everything he has done has never been in intention to hurt people."

I calm a little bit at that notion, because I know deep down that Arjun isn't a bad person. Just someone who was thrown into bad circumstances. I know that he would have been a fantastic father if he had the opportunity.