Farmhouse part 2

FIR was filed. When Jatin s parents called to wish him on his 25th birthday they expected the happy voice of their son which the most pleasant to them, but instead were answered by the mournful voices of his friends. The news shattered them. The light of their life was blown off by some evil force. And Janvi of course was the most affected. They had dreamt a life together. She was hit very hard and dragged out of her dream, their dream, back to the cruel world.
They had decided to wait there, at the farm house. Wait until Jatin s parents could finish the formalities and get Jatin s body. When they reached the farmhouse it was past 3 am. Their eyes were burning. But sleep was something which would not come close to them tonight. Janvi had taken it well tonight. They had not spoken a word to each other since they left the hospital. Janvi was the first to speak. “Sanju, who takes care of this farmhouse when we are gone? We have never seen anyone around, but the place looks clean and well kept always.”
“We have a servant. He takes care of this place. He does not stay here though. We do not like anyone to interfere when we are here. So we have given him a place to stay. It is close by. Why did you ask that?”
“Well, if there is no one else in this farmhouse, and if you servant did not come here before Jatin had the cake then one of us must have mixed the poison in the cake.”
“Sanju please tell me that you did not poison him because of that stupid fight of yours last week, just because he hit you” said Saakshi with fear in her face.
“what are you talking about? I am a sensible person ok? We keep fighting always. That s how it has been since we met. Why would I kill him for a stupid fight? He is….” His voice faded away. And then after a moment regained his tone “He was a very good friend of mine. I would never have wanted this to happen to him.”
There was silence again.
And this time it was sanju who spoke, with a very thoughtful tone “wait a minute. The cake was with chootu all the time. And even when we came here, when we were decorating the hall he was missing for a long time. He had all the time he wanted. He could have easily mixed the poison.”
Chetan s expressions did not change. “I knew this would come up. The blaming game. We can keep blaming each other for hours, for any number of reasons. I can continue the game if you want to. If it were one of us then it could have easily been Saakshi. I am not a chemistry person. I do not know what crocin has. Whereas Saakshi knows a lot about it. She has specialized in pharmacy. Right now she could easily give us a list of chemicals which can easily kill a person. But apply your brains. Sanju, suppose that this was your birthday party. Out of us 5 who would have tasted the cake first?”
“well I would cut the cake and let saakshi have a bit, then may be you guys, and then I would have, or rather you people would stuff it into my mouth.”
“Exactly!! That s what each one of us would do. I mean, cut let everyone have a bite and then get it stuffed in our mouth. Janvi has Jatin ever not let you eat the cake frist?”
“No that has not happened. In our group it has always been me to eat his birthday cake first.”
“So….”
“So you mean to say that I poisoned the cake and hence did not eat the cake first?” asked Janvi in a shock.

“No!! I didn’t mean that. We were blaming each other thinking that one of us was planning to kill Jatin. But all of us know that you would taste the cake first, so we would not have added something to it to kill Jatin. We would have added something, hoping to kill you!!!”

to be continued.....