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The Man, The Monster and The Hanging Man
#WritcoStoryPrompt6
I can never forget the joyous days of my childhood, especially the summer when all we did was swim in the river or lie on it's edge watching the sun sets. Those 8 hours a day school times which was way less stressful as of now, playing pranks on our least favorite teachers, those royal last bench fun, sleeping in boring classes like a boss and the same time bring out an Oscar worthy performance when got caught and getting thrashed by that teacher. Huh good old days which will ever be nostalgic. My whole life events drifted past in front of my eyes right from my school days when I was a nobody, those college days where my evolution into what I am right now started apart from my All India Rank of 7 and the me now who is a successful actor after a lot of struggle, I thought all those hardships might have hardened my heart or at least I hoped so but now hear I am, all I see is a rope in front of me and myself standing upon my bean bean bag checking to see if everything will just go fine and painless as told by Google.

(Some random news channel on TV)
Breaking news: People's favorite Bollywood actor found hanging in his apartment. Sources claim that it is a suicide due to depression. More updates coming soon. Stay tuned.

A strong smell of coffee pierced through my nose as I was enjoying my morning coffee sip by sip until I heard the news. Its really a sad news and I felt that media should handle it really careful instead of trying to make this too a usual drama. I always had the habit of reading the newspaper of an hour before I take my shower and drive to my office and today was also no exception until a call came by and I had to report to my office a bit sooner. I had to report a bit sooner today because the actor's case was handed over to me and since it's a high profile case there's always a pressure and its never gonna go away until the case is closed or given to someone else. I had to rush to the crime scene where the body was put to rest near the bean bag which he must have used as a support instead of a stool. The fact that I was also one of his fan made the crime scene really miserable but I pulled my shit together and started examining the details in and around the area for clues. We found a neatly written suicide note placed conveniently for us to find, no blood, no dust or dirt, the room was really clean. It was too clean for a couples room and I don't wanna believe that the actor really cleaned his room to its Pristine condition before he hanged himself to death. Something was not right around the crime scene and I could definitely feel some foul play. On top of everything the body didn't have any strangulation marks or any signs of poison which is fine for a suicide but the only thing that bothered me is that neither his eyeballs nor his tongue were sticking out of the body which is unusual for a death by hanging. Since we couldn't conclude anything without further investigation, the press was told what they had been saying the whole day but it's not what we believed. There was definitely a foul play and this is not gonna be an easy case to conclude anything with almost the whole country as an audience watching the show.

(chapter 2 revelations coming soon)
© sinnerman