The shopkeeper replied, "Son, ten years ago, Amardeep had a massive fight with his mother."
When Amardeep was 11 years old, his father passed away. At that time, his sister Twinkle was probably 1 year old. His mother raised him and her sister Twinkle all by herself. They were very poor.
Working from morning until evening teaching children at a small private school in the village was Amardeep's mother's profession. Working hard all day amidst a low salary and the noise of children, she somehow managed the household expenses. With that meager salary in the name of a school, arranging two square meals a day was also very difficult for her.
"The real fight started when Amardeep turned eighteen and his mother decided to remarry a wealthy man from the city."
Amardeep was against this marriage. That afternoon, a lot of debate was going on inside the house. There was silence all around, but the sounds of screaming were coming from their house.
Amardeep shouted and said, "Mom, you cannot give anyone else the place of a father."
But his mother was completely fed up with this poverty of the village and the life of a low-paid teacher. Shouting in anger, she replied, "I care about you and your younger sister Twinkle. Going to the city will make Twinkle's future. Do you want to starve here?"
Amardeep felt that his mother was doing all this only for money. Taunting Amardeep that afternoon, the mother said, "The expensive phone in your hand today is what I got for you by teaching children day and night in the school and saving every single penny of mine. If it were any other woman, she wouldn't have done even this much for you."
Amardeep felt very bad about this. In anger, he threw that phone right there on the ground and shouted, "I don't want anything from you!"
He walked out of the house empty-handed in the afternoon and never returned. After Amardeep's disappearance, his mother got married and went to the city taking Twinkle with her.
The shopkeeper finished his talk and started staring steadily towards Evan.
The shopkeeper asked, "Son, what is your name?"
Evan replied, "My name is Evan."
The shopkeeper asked again, "And where have you come from?"
Evan said, "I have come from a nearby village."
The shopkeeper asked the last question, "But how did you come to know about this Amardeep?"
Evan replied, "Sir, I had heard from some people that I look exactly like Amardeep. People used to say that he was from this village, so I just came here to know the truth."
Hearing Evan's words, Raju did not ask any question.
Evan had only brought Raju along by telling him that they were going for a walk. Twinkle had not told Evan anything about her mother's and Amardeep's fights, nor had she told anything about her mother's remarriage.
The two of them came out of the shop.
Evan started riding his bike and Raju sat behind.
Many things were going on in Evan's mind on the way.
He was thinking that perhaps that night Amardeep was going to fight with that rich man whom his mother was going to marry.
With these questions, Evan reached home and went to sleep.
The next morning, it was 8:30 AM.
Evan got ready, wore his clean school uniform, took his bike, and left for the city school.
Passing through the village roads, he reached the school at exactly 9:15 AM.
As soon as he parked his bike in the parking lot, he saw Zoya.
Zoya was looking very cute and beautiful today.
Her deep eyes and the innocence of her face were making her stand out the most in the entire crowd.
When Zoya saw Evan, she felt that Evan was looking even more handsome and charming than before.
In his neatly groomed hair, Evan's face was looking very attractive.
Seeing his tall physique and the sparkle of his eyes, Zoya kept looking at him for a moment.
Coming close, Zoya smiled and said, "You have come at the exact right time today! Yesterday you didn't even pick up my call."
Looking at her, Evan said slowly, "Hey buddy, yesterday I went a little far away with Raju. The phone was on silent, I just didn't realize it."
Both of them moved towards the class.
After the class ended, both of them went to the canteen.
Sitting there, Zoya looked deep into Evan's eyes and spoke her heart out, "You know Evan, when you are not around, my mind doesn't engage in anything. Just your thought brings a smile to the face. I don't need anything else, I just need a little bit of your time and your company. You will always stay with me like this, right? Because without you, my day remains incomplete."
Evan felt Zoya's words and smiling lovingly, assured her that he is always with her.
The dismissal bell rang, so Evan picked up his bag.
He said "Bye" to Zoya and ran towards the parking lot.
The sun was starting to set.
Riding on his bike, Evan was going towards his village at a very high speed.
Just then, a vehicle passed very fast right past him.
Anil and Aarav were sitting inside the vehicle.
Seeing Evan's face, the wits of Anil and Aarav flew away.
Anil said in panic, "Aarav, did you see? Is this him?"
Aarav replied, "No, that cannot be. If he were alive today, his age would be 28 or 30 years, but this boy is looking only 18 years old right now. This cannot be that boy, his face is just matching."
Actually, these were the same Anil and Aarav who, ten years ago, were passing through that same path where Ishan had killed Amardeep and fled with Vikas and Arya.
Anil and Aarav were going from the city towards Ishan's village that night itself. After reaching there, both of them saw a lot of fresh blood in the middle of the road and stopped the vehicle.
Both of them got down from the vehicle and followed the blood marks inside that same old hut where Amardeep's body was lying.
Reaching there, Anil and Aarav first lifted Amardeep's lifeless body and dragged it towards their vehicle.
They put the dead body inside the vehicle.
After keeping the dead body, Anil ran back towards the hut and threw soil on all the places wherever blood was filled.
Then he ran and came onto the road and threw soil on wherever blood was smeared on the road as well so that no evidence remains.
After this, both of them took that boy's dead body in their vehicle and disappeared from there.