REBORN

"By the power vested in me by the United States federal law, and after having cross questioned and examined the accused Monika , I hereby verdict the accused obviously has forgotten some of fundamental values of life and is responsible for heinous act of ending a life. However lacking circumstantial evidence , and in witness of honourable jury, I hereby announce that defendant in this case be awarded in minimum of 2 years of rigorous Reformation, one to be followed by the next consecutively without the chance of parole! " Judge Stephen penned his sentence carefully. He struck down on Monika fate not because he wanted to pull out a criminal off the street, but rather to reform one. He looked over defendants bench, When disappointed writ large across the lawyer face. "I request the marshal to escort Ms Monika and transfer her to Correctional facility and immediate effect! " Monika, 29,she was known in her circles, wore the regulation prison grays. Looking at her slender built, blonde hair and elegant gait, one could never have believed what she had been accused of a murder. Her face was pale and the pain was unbearable but who was to listen, the day 7th of march, valentines day and if add to the insults to injury, her fate had been sealed with mere stroke of judges pen. She stood up numb and hopeless as a dread filled her mind and her heart. she turned one last time to look at prince and Alice who sat at the plantiffs bench . when there eye crossed, Alice felt she had seen a pale ghost. The hate in Monika eye scare her witless. Instinctively, she shrunk back into herself, as if to hide away on her own guilt, but mustered her courage in the court room filled to brim and suddenly scream. She turned one last time to look at Harry in the jury and then shifted her focus to Alice, who sat at the plaintiff's bench. When their eyes crossed, Alice felt like she had seen a pale ghost. The hate in Monikas eyes scared her witless. Instinctively, she shrunk back into herself, as if to hide away from her own guilt, but mustered the courage in a courtroom filled to the brim, and suddenly screamed. "Monika, You did it! Why look at me now? You are being punished for your crime. And if it were up to me, I’d put you away not for 2, but forever where you belong! “That’ll be enough out of you Miss Alice!” Judge Stephen word was law. His decree was followed by instant pin drop silence. As for Kate, she could do nothing but bite into her lips, and she bled as she stared dead straight at Monika, fired by an unflinching hunger for vengeance. And then, two agonizing years passed. At the luxurious third floor of the lias International Hotel, a themed engagement party was in full sway. Guests tangoed in a cacophony of confetti and champagne. Outside the main hall door, Monika held her belly as she made a phone call. "Are you all set? Do not delay for even a second, or I’ll be exposed! Get me out of here as soon as possible!" She hung up the phone and pulled up a small mirror from her makeup bag. When she looked at her face, she smiled. She looked good. The two years at the correctional facility had regimented her body into a fighting machine, ready for anything. She suddenly realized that she hadn’t smiled like this in years, and raised her head to look at the couple. “Alice!” Alice could have recognized that voice anywhere. She felt as if the world had stopped spinning, but when she turned and saw a pregnant woman staring back at her and Jason Lee, her fiancé’, the sight left her both perplexed and bewildered. “Getting married now, are we? But you’ll first have your day of reckoning! Both Alice and Harry looked at each other, trying to find answers they didn’t have. The guests watched spellbound at a scene they couldn’t have imagined in their wildest dreams. "Mr. Harry, you're pretty right for me, moneybags, but are you right for the baby in my belly?!" Hearing that, the guests exchanged stunned and awestruck gazes. Harry froze as he watched a heavily pregnant woman walk towards him. Her tears rolled down her cheek and she looked worn out, exhausted and desperate. In her thoughts, Monica was enjoying the agony she was putting Alice and Harry through. Monika, stiffened at the sudden appearance of this strange pregnant woman, gripped Harry's arm tightly. "Harry, who the f**k is this?” Monika wasn’t flinching, and no one dared to approach her. Who would want to accidentally harm a pregnant woman? It seemed surreal, like a scene out of a Hollywood matinee. "Why moneybags, don't you want me? Will you now abandon your own flesh and blood?" Harry finally jolted out of his limbo and could only squeeze out a stunned reaction. "I don't know her!" "You lying bastard! Is she pregnant with your child?" Alice as so furious that she couldn't say a word. She knew that Harry rubbed shoulders with the who’s who and led a carefree lifestyle. What with the business and high-class circles, he could have committed a mistake. She also suddenly wondered if it was the same Harry she had loved. Monika observed that Harry was in a torcher, and so she pressed on, squeezing out two streams of tears which rolled down on her face. “I could've given Streep a run for her money, right about now!” She thought to herself and smiled. "Harry, wasn’t it you who had promised me a future? How dare you now stand with this woman, having abandoned me with your unborn child? Did you think it was so easy to get away?” "Firstly, I do not know you! And secondly..fuck you! because you are lying, I don't even know you!" Harry retorted with a sense of panic. His palpitations were about to burst through his chest, as if he were guilty, and he could’ve been. After all, there were so many women who were in love with him. When Harry senior, his father, assessed the situation, he immediately jumped in to douse the fire. "Not again! Security! Quickly drag this crazy woman out. I've seen too many trying to pass off as my son's girlfriends!" Jr seconded his father. He wasn't stupid and knew the first priority was to get this stranger off the scene. "Yes! How did this tramp get through? Pull her out, NOW! " Monika was quick to know that the curtains were about to fall on her façade and collapsed to the ground, as if writhing in pain. A concealed bag of chicken blood ruptured, just as she had planned, and flowed out from under her dress. A collective gasp echoed through the decadent setting. "Ah, my baby! Harry. Why? What did I do to deserve this! Recognize your child, I beg you for the sake of our baby!” In an instant, the entire audience was in chaos. Some guests even pulled out phones and called for an ambulance. Harry quickly hurled forward to aid Monika. This startled Alice and convinced her he was really having an affair with a pregnant woman. "Harry. Did..you cheat on me? This is so over." With that, Alice ran back into the dressing room, distraught. Monika plan had worked out perfectly.Garry, with his palms drenched in blood, looked at Monika and then turned toward the dressing room but decided to be by Monika side. White coats rushed into the room and quickly placed Monika onto a stretcher. Unbeknownst to most, from behind the silken curtains of a first-floor suite, Harry watched the riveting scenes with a peg of Jack and downed it in one go. 'My girl, you made a big splash the moment you bobbed your head out of the water. You really want your revenge, don’t you?” Monika lay on the stretcher and heaved a sigh of relief as she removed the bag of blood and the fake belly. "This thing weighs like… “It’s nine months old?” Seated on the side, Jess , who was wearing a nurse's uniform, took off her hat as she spoke. "Girl, if you work this hard on every client, we can retire in a year and live on cocktails in Maldives!" "wasn’t this hard enough for you?" Monika took out a makeup remover from her bag and began to apply it across her cheeks, while Kayla checked her phone and confirmed. "Finally! We have another client! Good money!" Monika had befriended Jess in prison. They had gone in together, come out together, and since they had a criminal record, they were also jobless together. They had together started a nondescript detective service called ‘leo’, and specialized in helping people solve everyday problems. A brainchild of Monika vengeful intentions, the agency helped the two earn a decent living to support themselves in suburban New York, in a bid to roll out the ultimate plan. The first client was one Mrs. Lary. Same douche, different day as Jess would put it. After discovering that her husband Ben had been cheating on her, she had contacted ‘Leo’ for the job, and expected meticulous tracking of her husband’s every move. The price for the services? $20,000. "We’ve gotta go bigger!" " Slam on the brakes Monika, $20,000 is big! With this money, we can settle right here, and not move to the Bronx!" "Fine, get me leads on this Ben!” Jess didn’t doubt her one bit and her eyes lit up at the prospects of another easy profit. She knew that Monika knows the espionage game well. It was all about Hook line and sinker, and Ben was going down. That evening, Monika and Jess discussed plans and a holiday in Maldives over dinner when Kate’s phone suddenly rang. It was an unfamiliar call. Jess looked at the caller and answered cautiously. She looked Monika straight in the eye, and a second later, suddenly hurled the phone on the couch and hugged Monika and shouted. "Monika! We're going to be rich!"