Ruxburton Scott was at the court of law. He was a suspect for robbing a bank. He was guilty, but he was highly intelligent and knew how to slip away from such situations. He had a partner, Mick who watched the bank for days. Mick was an experienced spy.
At the day of the robbery, Mick went in disguised as a clerk. Ruxburton was in a van with a sniper. He loaded his gun and shot the cameras and the alarms.
Then Mick took out his hand gun and shot the people in the bank. Once the field was clear, Mick hacked into their computers and had the vault opened. Without wasting any time, he stole all the money and ran to the van.
Ruxburton was selfish. So, he killed Mick and kept the loot for himself. As the fingerprints and other evidences left at the crime scene all pointed to Mick, he got away. He got away that night, but the guilt still stuck in his heart.
He started to think that it is fine to commit crime, okay to lie and get away. But he was wrong and somewhere deep inside him, he knew that. More and more crime led to more guilt. Just like a cup — you can’t fill it more than its capacity, if you do, it overflows.
It was a tough day for Ruxburton. The sweat from his brow dripped down his face. His body was shivering; his hands were cold, his heart beating fast. He dropped the bloody knife from his hands into a pool of blood, near the body of his own brother.
This was it! He couldn’t take any more guilt. He was scared, he felt guilty for the first time in his life, and he regretted. The guilt, the lies — it all broke him down.
He didn’t have anything else to do. He turned himself in, to the world. He told the truth. But even the truth couldn’t save him from all the lies he had hidden.
People might forgive you. But you will never forgive yourself. You will always live with regret and the fear of what you did, throughout your life.
So don’t do it, don’t lie, before it’s too late, because once you’ve done it, you won’t be able to do anything about it. Even if all is well, it won’t end well.
Abhimanyu Prakash, IX, Clarence High School, Bangalore
