Echoes of the Unknown

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                                         Echoes of the Unknown

In the swimming competition, John was ready to swim in his final competition which was held in Austria. But suddenly he drowns out of nowhere and dies on the spot. Everyone was shocked as John was not a person to get drown. He was an incredible swimmer. John Pattison was born in England in 1981 in a middle-class family. His father was a teacher and his mother was a dancer. He also had a sister who was a dancer like her mother. But his father stopped his sister’s dancing profession and gave her hand to a wealthy family. However, after Mr Pattison gave his daughter marry John’s mother stopped talking to her husband as she wanted her daughter to represent her dancing career further. In the meantime, John gets full support from his father to pursue his dream of being a swimmer. John joined a prestigious institution to further his training in swimming.  Soon Jenny comes and cries seeing the lifeless body of her husband. And John’s sister and brother-in-law also arrive at the incident but as soon as they spot Jenny his sister starts accusing him of killing her husband. Jenny stood there motionless. While training for the swimming John meets Lura and Jenny who becomes his closest friend after spending much time in the institution. Laura was the daughter of the principal of the swimming institution and Jenny is a couch for girl swimmers. Jenny Steward is a hard-working girl from a poor family with only her mother. She lost her father when she was only 3 years old. However, her father’s death was mysterious too. On the other hand, Laura Newton was a wealthy girl pursuing a degree in fashion design. John was a very highly ambitious guy he soon professed his love for Laura seeing her wealth but Laura rejected his proposal as she knew that he asked her to marry seeing her property only. Jenny is a shy girl who secretly has a crush on John but she never confesses it to him. When Laura informs Jenny about the proposal of John she becomes hurt and decides to remain friends with John. One day Jenny left the institution mysteriously which Shocks both John and Laura.  In the meantime, although Laura initially rejects John’s proposal marries him. John becomes really happy. But one day Laura discovers that she is suffering from tuberculosis which is an incurable stage. But she hides it from John and starts to distance herself from him. This hurts John. Laura dies and this makes John devasted. At her funeral, Jenny also arrives but her heart breaks when she sees Laura’s dead body. After a few days, Jenny comes over to John; 's house for confirmation. As Jenny supports John in his difficult time he asks Jenny for her hand in marriage. Jenny didn’t accept it because she was hurt when he expressed his love for Laura and now he wants to marry her because Laura is no more with him.  At present police tries to find the clue as far who kills John. They have two suspect who have motive one is his wife but if she refuse to marry him why she identifies herself as his wife. In the meanwhile a figure is following Jenny and as she enters the home comes and try to shoot her. Suddenly she laugh and both of them prepare for celebration of John’s dead. But soon police arrives and arrest both of them but the face  of the man shocks the police to the core. Mathew Savator a wealthy business who is a spoil brat has a casual relationship with Laura. But when Laura becomes serious with John he becomes obsessed with Laura and threatened to kill her but she promise him to gave money from John and reveal that she is marrying John only for money. She faked her disease and death and in this plan Jenny too involved who was heartbreak John has gave to her. So, as far plan all the three plans to kills John. Although initially Jenny reject John marriage proposal Laura convinced her for the plan. At first Jenny marries John and transfer all his property to Jenny. Then that day Jenny poisons John in the swimming pool before his big day. In the mean while Mathew opens the oxygen through which John might survive. As John goes to swim after he take his first dive he dies due to the poison present in the water. However there is still one surviver his sister. Laura one day push his sister from a stair case in a shopping mall from behind without her knowledge. Police never find any trace of Laura. Laura is even today roaming freely. Today Laura becomes the sole owner of the John’s property. Although Mathew and Jednny make plans with Laura. Laura secretly planning vicious and dangerous plan inside her mind. The incident happens five years now and Laura is now happily marries to an old man who is a millionaire and enjoys his wealth and after few days the person too dies. But on the day 27 August 2009 Laura was arrested by Switzerland police and she was hang to death on 25 february 2010. After reading the article a figure is smiling and soon reveal the identity as Laura. Actually the girl who was arrested by police and encountered was Laura’s sister Megan. Megan and Laura were twin sisters while Megan was a good girl Laura was very evil. The girl who reject John was Megan but Laura make a fake rejection because Mathew , Jenny and John were unaware of Megan and Laura as two different person because they never meet the sisters together. Laura get Megan marries the old man who use to torture her and also had an extra marital affair with Laura. Laura kills everyone one by one for property even her sister. Police never able to trace her and she stillcontinues her crimes and people like Laura are very dangerous who still exist in the world. But one day Laura gets brain humorous and dies in John’s apartment after which the apartment goes to the government house. Today the home has become hotel. But the guest still feels the presence of Laura’s evil soul roaming and haunting the hotel. 

October 25, 2024 17:31

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