Scarlett's Doomsday - 1

Katherine shook her head in disappointment and pushed Scarlett away from her brother.

"What is wrong with you?", yelled Scarlett.

"How can you push a pregnant woman like this. You yourself are a doctor. Are you out of your freaking mind?", Scarlett retorted, taking a step back.

Raymond was about to say something when Katherine intervened.

"Please brother!!! Can I be the one to tell her? Looks like she loves to act out every single moment in her life", Katherine said and looked at Raymond with all smiles.

Raymond just gave a shrug and sat on a chair, waiting for his sister to reduce Scarlett's existence to dust. He very well knew how destructive his sister could be when she took matters to her own hands.

Katherine turned towards Scarlett and said,

"Are you done playing pregnant - pregnant? Or you want to play some more?"

"Well I have the whole day you see, so act as much as you want, but remember that everything that you are saying or doing is being recorded right here right now. So you can very well imagine how badly this can go against you".

Scarlett was shocked to hear such a rude response from Katherine and looked at her in disbelief. But she was all the way more shocked to see the look on Raymond's face who was sitting there all nonchalant, staring at her with such an ice-cold demeanor, like he loathed her for eternity.

All worried she turned towards Dr. Brooks who was sitting there with her palms resting on her forehead looking all pale and sick like she was awaiting her downfall which was about to happen any moment.

She understood that she was done !!!

She was done for good !!!

No amount of deceiving could help her now.

She slumped into the chair and covered her face with her hands. She was way too embarrassed now to face anyone. But before she could even think or strategize any further, Katherine pulled a chair from a table nearby and sat directly opposite to her and said,

"Good girl !!! Now that you are done showing us your acting prowess, can we get back to business and talk like adults?"

Scarlett looked up and saw the disgusted look on Katherine's face for her like she was some outcast who didn't even belong there.

But before she could explain or even begin to think about how to explain, Raymond spoke,

"Why the hell did you come back into my life? Who asked you to come back into my life?".

His eyes looked bloodshot with anger and repellency.

Scarlett bit her lips out of nervousness for she knew that her doom was awaiting her.

"Yeah, let's start from there". Katherine said.

Scarlett took a deep breath.

Tears were flooding her eyes and slowly started to crawl on her cheeks.

"I did all this for you Ray. I just wanted to get back in your life so bad. I didn't know what I was thinking. I just went with the flow and all this happened", she said and started sobbing.

"You know what I would have offered you a tissue right now, but what to do? My hands are hurting. So maybe it would be better if you start speaking now else you can do your sobbing part later in some dark prison cell," Katherine said and glared at her.

She was startled to hear the word prison. No way in hell she was ready to go there.

She understood that the only escape from this was to speak the truth. Nothing but the TRUTH.

She closed her eyes and recollected the series of events that had happened.

"A couple of weeks back when I was shooting for my reality show, I got to know that my cousin was taken into prison. He is the only family I have, so I immediately rushed back and tried to meet every official at it state penitentiary, but nothing helped. The bail amount was exorbitantly high and the officials were not at all cooperative."

"Which penitentiary are you talking about?", Raymond asked her interrupting in between.

"Auburn Correctional Facility. But why?"

"Wait a minute, so Anthony is your cousin?", Raymond asked all surprised.

"Yes !!!", Scarlett said and hung her head low.

"You never mentioned about him when we were together", Raymond asked all irritated.

Scarlett hesitated a bit and then said,

"You had a soft corner for me as I had no one in the world. So I wanted it to be that way. So, I never mentioned about him to you", she said with a guilt trodden voice.

"Wao !!! like brother, like sister huh !!!", Katherine said and chuckled.

"What? How can you say something like that Katherine?", Scarlett retorted.

"Well you can leave the what and how to me and continue", Raymond said all rudely not ready to take any more crap from her.

She paused for a moment and then said,

"I tried to pull whatever strings I could, but I couldn't help him out in any way. Then one fine day when I was coming out of the correctional facility, I saw a guy standing outside the main gate and was staring at me. It was weird because it happened the next day too. He didn't say anything but it was evident that he wanted something from me, but I chose to ignore him and left for home."

"The third time I went there to visit my brother, I saw him again outside. But this time he came to me and handed me a packet and told me that if I could do something as a favor then he can help to make arrangements for my brother in return. At first, I thought he was joking, but then I saw a blank checkbook inside that packet and I knew that he meant it. I was desperate to get my brother out and I was ready to pay any price that was needed.

"Who was the cheque from?", Raymond asked.

Scarlett paused a bit and said,

"I am not allowed to say that because if I do then there will be consequences"

"Well if you don't then there will be consequences right now", Raymond thundered and got up from his seat.

Scarlett gulped her own spit and said,

"It was from the Shah Enterprises, signed by Mr. Vikram Shah".