Kennedy Overhears
An hour later, while Kennedy is leaving Allison’s home and walking towards the roadside, he hears a voice of a woman fighting with a familiar voice of a man. He walks towards them, behind their house and sees Claude in engaged in an argument with a blonde haired lady.

Claude holds her arm in anger and says:

‘Why are you making it such a big issue, you’re over reacting like old people’

‘Shut up!’ she says angrily, ‘I’m not making it, it already is. Your wife Allison is pregnant with your child and you are not worried about it’

‘Look Molly, this had to happen one day’

‘You are promising me since five years that you would never let this happen, and now you’re pretending as if you’re totally innocent’

‘Ok please just shut up for a moment’ he says getting annoyed, ‘what do you want? Do you have any alternative or a suggestion for me?’

‘Yes ask her to abort this child or else I’m telling her right now about all your history with me’

‘Go ahead then, tell her I don’t care about what she’ll say’

Kennedy gets shocked hearing their conversation. But he gets rather happier because this incident might lead to Allison’s divorce.

Claude stops Molly from creating trouble and says:

‘Calm down, I know what I have to do…first I’ll ask her to do abortion, if she doesn’t agrees…’

Kennedy gets alarmed hearing what he said and rolls up his sleeves preparing to fight.

Kennedy seems Suspicious

That evening at Allison’s home, she is cooking the dinner at the kitchen. She hears her doorbell ringing. She leaves the kitchen and goes to open the door for her husband. As she opens the door, she sees Kennedy in an awful condition. Kennedy’s body is sweating all over and his eyes have sort of tears in them. She gets surprised and asks:

‘Kenny are you ok?’

‘I wish I was. Anyways can I come in?’

‘Sure, why not?’ She says leaving the door opened for him.

He enters inside walking painfully and goes to her living room. She shuts the door and follows him.

Kennedy sits on a sofa and asks her to come along and sit with him. She sits right next to him on his left side and looks at him,

‘Kenny you look so tensed, what’s going on?’

‘You’ll know’ he hardly says ‘but first I need to talk to you…Allie my love tell me something, if today would have been my last day with you what stuff would you share or what would you talk about?’

‘Why are you asking such a question?’

‘Please let me know?’ he says closing his eyes.

‘Oh…last day with you, then what’s happening, are you dying or are you just departing?’

‘It’s nothing like that, just imagine you’re seeing me for the last time’

‘Well in that case’ she says thinking for a while, ‘I would like to tell you that no one in my life has looked after me as much as you had…you never told me in our relationship period that you love me so much and instead you just sacrificed your own feelings for me. That day when you told me that you’ve been in love, I also slowly realized that I loved you more than I ever loved Claude. And your absence made my feelings stronger…you know because absence makes the heart grow fonder’

Kennedy smiles hearing this stuff and says:

‘Allie tell me something, if I commit a mistake that can never be replaced, but in purpose of your favor then would you forgive me?’

‘How come in my favor? But I would definitely forgive you no matter what loss you do me’

‘Allie please never stop loving me, because I won’t stay with you for long…if something happens to me then you have to be strong thinking about how much we are without each other’

‘Kenny what is it with you? You seem very suspicious today, you are talking things which don’t seem to have any concern’

He looks on the other side and smiles wiping off his tears. He takes out the art gallery photograph from his pocket and looks at it. Seeing it, Allison says:

‘You always keep this souvenir. I guess this one’s your favorite. I’ll show you mine’

She leaves the room and goes towards her bedroom.

Kennedy stands up and leaves the room. He sees her coming from her room towards him. She shows him the heart shaped necklace and says:

‘This one’s my favorite, this was the most lovable gift you ever gave me’

Kennedy gets Arrested

The doorbell begins to ring continuously, they get disturbed and Allison goes to receive the visitor. As she opens the door, two cops enter inside and sort of seize him by making him kneel on ground.

She gets shocked and tries to stop them. They put handcuffs on his forearms. Inspector Lon enters their home with Molly and they both look at Allison.

‘Inspector what’s going on? Why has he been arrested?’

‘Do you know what happened this afternoon?’ Molly asks, ‘Your lover Kennedy killed your unfaithful husband Claude’

‘What the hell are you saying?’ she replies angrily.

‘You may ask him, today when Claude and I were having an argument, Kennedy interrupted us and killed your husband by stabbing him with a dagger’

Allison badly gets shocked and realizes that he did what he had blackmailed her about earlier. She looks at Kennedy, and sees him nodding his head sadly. This gives her a confidence of him being a criminal. So without thinking of anything she just says to inspector:

‘I don’t have any statement, just arrest him away’

Within few minutes, they arrest him away by taking him to the police station along with Molly in their vehicle. Kennedy is having that heart shaped necklace in his pocket.

Moments later, Allison is walking alone at her home getting all confused, still not believing what just happened earlier. She was thinking about why would Kennedy have murdered her husband. She still has faith in him that there must be a strong reason behind this. She remembers his words,

‘Allie tell me something, if I commit a mistake that can never be replaced, but in purpose of your favor then would you forgive me?’

These words make her realize that the purpose in her favor must be something that favored Claude’s death to her.

Kennedy Reveals the Truth

Next morning, outside police station some cops are roaming around, whereas Inspector Lon is having a phone call conversation regarding Claude’s murder case. After finishing the phone call, he orders his cops to bring Kennedy outside from the lock up.

However, Allison arrives there in her car and jumps out to talk to Inspector. Inspector turns around and sees her coming towards him, he gently says to her:

‘Ma’am I’m really sorry for what you lost, don’t worry the criminal will be punished by today’

‘No inspector please…trust me the criminal is not responsible for what happened yesterday. Just let me talk to him once and then maybe you’ll have to change your decision’

‘You’re saying this? I don’t get it, are you in favor of him?’

The cops bring Kennedy outside and take him in front of Inspector and Allison. Allison asks Inspector:

‘Sir can I talk to him alone for a while’

Inspector and other cops leave them, after putting handcuffs on Kennedy. While he is standing in front of Allison he utters:

‘Allie I didn’t do this intentionally, I didn’t wanted you to become a widow in this state of pregnancy. I’ll just disclose something here…

Claude stopped Molly from creating trouble and said:

‘Calm down, I know what I have to do…first I’ll ask her to do abortion, if she doesn’t agrees then I’ll just kill her child with this dagger’

He took out a dagger from his pocket and showed it to her.

I got alarmed hearing what he said and rolled up my sleeves preparing to fight. I went in front of them and grabbed Claude’s collar. He tried to resist, and Molly pulled me from behind. Claude held my hands tightly and said:

‘So you heard what I’m about to do with Allie’

‘I’ll never let you do this, and don’t you dare call her Allie’

He hit me hardly with his hand that I fell on ground. He took out his dagger to kill me but I kicked him that his dagger fell on ground. Then he wildly compressed my throat and said:

‘After killing you I might kill your Allie as well’

I got even angrier and then hardly held the dagger in my hand, which was lying next to me’.

He stops narrating the incident.

‘So then you stabbed him?’ she asked.

‘Yes…today Allie I’m seeing you for the last time therefore I have sworn that I would not speak any lie’

‘I know you’re not lying, but tell me was Claude really trying to kill my child’

‘That’s what I heard…anyways Allie promise me that you’ll always love me and be strong no matter what happens’

‘I will, I promise’ she cries.

The cops come and take him away. They make him sit inside their vehicle, and leave the place for central jail. Allison keeps on standing for a while and cries as she sees her love for the last time.

This time she realizes that she had lost him second time but forever.

A Month Later

One month passed since the day when Allison saw Kennedy for the last time. Allison is getting ill, as she is about to give birth to her child. She has no idea about what has happened with Kennedy, she is resting at her house since a month without any nursing.

Until one day, her doorbell rings. She goes to see and gets quiet surprised that who would it be when she has no more relatives left in San Diego. As she opens the door, she sees Inspector Lon standing outside,

‘Good morning ma’am’

‘Sir I’ve been expecting you since few days, please tell me where is Kennedy? What are you people doing with him’

‘Ma’am it’s my painful duty to inform you that…’

‘That what?’ she asks eagerly.

‘That afternoon when you saw him for the last time, we were taking him to jail. We parked our vehicle at a ship harbor, where he tried to escape us…’

‘So? Then what?’

‘Then while he was trying to escape us, he tricked us by jumping into water’

‘Wait a minute’ she asks getting confused, ‘you are saying that he escaped from your car, how come that happened so easily?’

‘The cops allowed him to jump out of the car, because he had handcuffs on. We were sure that this was an impossible task for him to escape our force in that condition. But maybe he was trying to commit a suicide or something, which is why he jumped direct into water and drowned’

‘Oh no!’ she cried, ‘Now where is he?’

‘He was rescued by our team and then admitted to hospital. But I’m very sorry to tell you that his condition got worsened and he couldn’t survive the…’

‘Shut up!’ she cried angrily, ‘I don’t believe this stuff, prove it to me’

‘Ok come along with us to a cemetery’

She leaves her house door open and walks towards their vehicle.

Few minutes later, Allison and the Inspector enter a cemetery, where he leads her to a grave. She reads the words:

‘Kennedy Ipkiss…died aged 28’

She keeps on standing for a while, but totally unconscious. She talks vaguely:

‘He’s gone? I don’t…I don’t believe this truth’

Then feeling a sort of pain and getting ill, she fells on ground and faints.

to be continued...