Finally at the right opportunity and after escaping the prying eyes of his friends Vijay managed to find Priya alone. After a long span of time they both were meeting face to face.
‘How are you?’, Vijay enquired for her.
‘How are you keeping?’, Priya stared straight in his eyes.
Perhaps she was searching for her own reflection in his eyes.
‘I am fine’, Vijay too was staring at her eyes only.
Some moments passed off in silence. Vijay carefully looked around and after confirming that nobody was attentive about him, he said,
‘I wanted to tell you something’.
Priya didn’t utter a word, and started looking down. Once again few moments passed in complete silence. Perhaps he was trying to compose his words. Once again Vijay looked around carefully. This time he noticed his mother approaching him.
‘It doesn’t seem possible here at this place’, he depressingly said. ‘Anyway, do one thing. Tomorrow evening at 6 pm……where can we meet? Where?’.
‘At our usual place’, Priya suggested.
‘That’s right! Our usual place! Ashok Park!’.
Noticing that his mother is coming closer, Vijay escaped from there by saying, ‘I will wait for you there’.
When Vijay’s mother arrived there Priya was still looking down. She had not got a single opportunity to talk. She glanced in the direction where Vijay had gone. He was going toward his friend’s group. Suddenly he stopped and even he glanced at Priya.
By this time, Vijay’s sister, Shalini, had reached up to the first floor, walking behind that young boy. There, she looked around everywhere in the balcony. Nobody was being seen around there. Only the noise of laughter and talk of the people gathered below on the lawn were being heard.
Once again Shalini’s mind developed some doubts.
‘Nobody seems to be here. ‘Where is my mother?’, Shalini gathered some courage to ask.
That young boy stopped and said, ‘She is there. Inside the room’.
She glanced at that boy and tried to grasp what was going on his mind. Both of them stared at each other. But she could not sense anything of his mind. Neither did she feel anything malicious or objectionable in his eyes.
‘What a doubt-prone my mind is’, she thought and warned herself.
That young boy turned and started walking ahead. She also followed him. After walking for some distance, he stopped in front of a room. Even Shalini also stopped behind him.
‘Your mother is sitting inside’, he pointed at the door of the room.
Shalini went in front and pushed open the door. It was already open. She once again turned and looked at that young boy.
‘Go inside’, he ordered while standing outside there.
She looked at him with questioning face.
‘Go inside. I will continue to remain watchful and alert here only’, he ordered.
‘Watchful and alert?’, Shalini felt surprised.
‘Yes. Watchful and alert! The times are like that!’, he said mysteriously.
Shalini could not decipher anything from that mysterious voice.
‘Whatever it is…….’, she thought and ignored him.
When she started going inside, that young boy said once again,
‘And yes! Do not forget to lock the door from inside after entering there’.
Shalini once again paused and asked, ‘Why?’.
‘Do whatever that is told to you. Don’t ask too many questions’; the voice of that boy had suddenly turned harsh.
Shalini went inside the room mechanically and locked the door from inside.
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The voice of that young man itself was so overpowering that he had left Shalini completely captivated by it. Afraid of that overpowering voice, Shalini went inside the room and instantly she locked the door from inside. But there was complete darkness inside the room. A question popped-up in her mind, ‘Why must have her mother called her here in this darkness?’.
‘No! No!’, fearsome thoughts came to her mind again, ‘there is something malicious in all this’. She turned back to open the door and suddenly she saw some figure sitting there in the darkness on the bed there. She turned and looked at that unrecognizable figure but it was difficult to understand who it was in that thick darkness. She tried searching for the light switch but it was located right above the other end of the bed. She could not gather courage to go there and light it.
Standing there in the darkness, she gave a call, ‘Mother!’.
But there was no response. Now she gathered some courage and went near the bed to put on the light. She reached up to the switch and put it on. A ray of bright light spread throughout the room and the darkness vanished. Now she could clearly look at the figure sitting there on the bed. He was some another youth sitting there. He gave her a pleasant smile and said, ‘Welcome’.
‘Come and sit here’, he said.
Shalini and that youngster stared at each other. There was a captivating charm in his eyes. She could not remove her eyes from looking at his face. Shalini sensed that there was such a thrilling magic in his voice that she was mesmerized so that she went and sat near him on the bed, at least, as far away from him as possible.
‘There is nothing to be afraid of’, that young man assured Shalini and she felt slightly relaxed and the fear in her mind subsided a little, if not vanished completely. That young man now moved near her. Even she started staring straight at his eyes. Slowly she started sensing that his eyes were turning feverishly red. Even the expressions on his face changed radically. Now she, however, electrifyingly startled when she realized that the red colour in his eyes was nothing but the lust in his mind. She had now managed to get rid of the charm he had overpowered on her mind and she started to get up from the bed. But it was too late because by now that youth had already leapt over she and she were left with no other weapon to retaliate except only to scream as loudly as she could.
After intimating Priya to meet him next day at Ashok Park, Vijay had escaped back to the group of his friends when his mother had approached him there. After reaching among the group he had once even glanced at Priya and she too was looking at him only.
‘So? Is the mutual dialogue over?’, one friend clipped.
‘What?’, Vijay tried to plead innocent.
‘Man…….when a cat sips the milk it closes its eyes thinking that even others have closed there eyes’, another friend tried to be funny with Vijay.
‘What cat…….what milk are you guys talking about?’, Vijay tried to act innocent again.
‘From your actions it is visible that soon you are scheduled to follow the suit of Rajesh. Nothing bad about it. Now that Rajesh has got married you should be the next’, Vijay’s friends were not allowing him to close the topic.
When Vijay was about to react over it, he heard a loud screaming of a woman’s voice from the building adjacent to the lawn. The entire noise of laughter and gaiety spread over the lawn was suddenly silenced after hearing that scream.
‘What has happened?’, majority of them asked.
But even from such a far off distance Vijay had recognized the voice of his sister.
‘The noise is probably coming from the first floor’, somebody whispered.
‘Let us go there’, another said.
‘Some serious problem seems to be there’, yet another joined.
Vijay rushed fast toward the staircase of the building and others followed him quickly. All other guests standing in the lawn who were stilled by that scream too started running after them. However, the senior citizens among them sensed the impending danger of all of them gathering over the first floor and hence they stopped others except those who had already reached upstairs and tried to calm them down.
Vijay and all his friends had, by now, reached on the first floor and were trying to find out the direction from where that noise of screaming still coming. Soon they got their answer and started running.
‘No! No!’, fearsome thoughts came to her mind again, ‘there is something malicious in all this’. She turned back to open the door and suddenly she saw some figure sitting there in the darkness on the bed there. She turned and looked at that unrecognizable figure but it was difficult to understand who it was in that thick darkness. She tried searching for the light switch but it was located right above the other end of the bed. She could not gather courage to go there and light it.
Standing there in the darkness, she gave a call, ‘Mother!’.
But there was no response. Now she gathered some courage and went near the bed to put on the light. She reached up to the switch and put it on. A ray of bright light spread throughout the room and the darkness vanished. Now she could clearly look at the figure sitting there on the bed. He was some another youth sitting there. He gave her a pleasant smile and said, ‘Welcome’.
‘Come and sit here’, he said.
Shalini and that youngster stared at each other. There was a captivating charm in his eyes. She could not remove her eyes from looking at his face. Shalini sensed that there was such a thrilling magic in his voice that she was mesmerized so that she went and sat near him on the bed, at least, as far away from him as possible.
‘There is nothing to be afraid of’, that young man assured Shalini and she felt slightly relaxed and the fear in her mind subsided a little, if not vanished completely. That young man now moved near her. Even she started staring straight at his eyes. Slowly she started sensing that his eyes were turning feverishly red. Even the expressions on his face changed radically. Now she, however, electrifyingly startled when she realized that the red colour in his eyes was nothing but the lust in his mind. She had now managed to get rid of the charm he had overpowered on her mind and she started to get up from the bed. But it was too late because by now that youth had already leapt over she and she were left with no other weapon to retaliate except only to scream as loudly as she could.
After intimating Priya to meet him next day at Ashok Park, Vijay had escaped back to the group of his friends when his mother had approached him there. After reaching among the group he had once even glanced at Priya and she too was looking at him only.
‘So? Is the mutual dialogue over?’, one friend clipped.
‘What?’, Vijay tried to plead innocent.
‘Man…….when a cat sips the milk it closes its eyes thinking that even others have closed there eyes’, another friend tried to be funny with Vijay.
‘What cat…….what milk are you guys talking about?’, Vijay tried to act innocent again.
‘From your actions it is visible that soon you are scheduled to follow the suit of Rajesh. Nothing bad about it. Now that Rajesh has got married you should be the next’, Vijay’s friends were not allowing him to close the topic.
When Vijay was about to react over it, he heard a loud screaming of a woman’s voice from the building adjacent to the lawn. The entire noise of laughter and gaiety spread over the lawn was suddenly silenced after hearing that scream.
‘What has happened?’, majority of them asked.
But even from such a far off distance Vijay had recognized the voice of his sister.
‘The noise is probably coming from the first floor’, somebody whispered.
‘Let us go there’, another said.
‘Some serious problem seems to be there’, yet another joined.
Vijay rushed fast toward the staircase of the building and others followed him quickly. All other guests standing in the lawn who were stilled by that scream too started running after them. However, the senior citizens among them sensed the impending danger of all of them gathering over the first floor and hence they stopped others except those who had already reached upstairs and tried to calm them down.
Vijay and all his friends had, by now, reached on the first floor and were trying to find out the direction from where that noise of screaming still coming. Soon they got their answer and started running.
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Vijay and all of his friends rushed in the direction of the noise of screaming and came near the room’s door. Still lot of people had gathered there running behind them. It was indeed very wise of the senior citizens to prevent all the crowd to rush on the first floor because it would have caused some confusion and also some mishap. Vijay tried to push the door but it was closed from inside. Few others started knocking on the door but Vijay had no patience to wait for that long a time. Even if he was to have patience it was of no use at that particular moment of time. Along with two of his other friends, Vijay simply dashed against the door with such a powerful strength the latch inside broke down and the door opened. Immediately thereupon, Vijay and his friends pierced inside the room and others too followed them. A crowd of people thus invaded into the room. After seeing the scene inside the room, Vijay cursed himself and repented for bringing Shalini along with him there whereas there was a wide expression of curiosity and fear on some other bystanders. Inside the room, on the bed, Shalini was alone screaming and cursing somebody as though some invisible entity was misbehaving with her. Even after Vijay and all of his friends rushed inside the room, Shalini had continued to scream and shout ferociously.
‘You rascal! Leave me! Leave me alone!’, Shalini was screaming.
Vijay went near her and tried to put his palm on her shoulder. But she firmly resisted and continued screaming. All of Vijay’s friends and other people stopped there and were utterly confused.
Now Vijay held both of Shalini’s shoulders firmly in his grip and shook her. All the people gathered in the room were staring at Shalini and Vijay with surprise in their eyes.
‘Shalini! Shalini! Please wake up! See for yourself! There’s nobody here!’, Vijay tried to make her aware of the reality.
‘Vijay! Look at that son of a bitch! He is trying to rape me’, Shalini continued to yell. Once again Vijay shook his sister holding both of her shoulders firmly.
In the meantime, Vijay’s mother reached the spot.
‘What happened my dear child?’, mother tried to console her.
Held in her arms, Shalini started crying vociferously while saying, ‘Look at that bastard! He cheated and induced me to come here!’.
‘It is fine! My child!’, mother tried to sooth her, ‘We will hand him over to the cops’.
‘That is what I had warned you’, Vijay annoyingly said to his mother, ‘not to take her with us. She has not only spoilt the whole function here but has ruined even my prestige!’.
Till then, even Priya had reached there and she calmed down Vijay first by patting over his shoulder. Then she tried to console Shalini by moving her palm affectionately over Shalini’s head.
‘Isn’t she taking the medicine course nowadays?’, Priya asked Vijay’s mother in a lowered tone.
‘What shall I tell you, my child’, Vijay’s mother tried to reply, ‘she doesn’t take the medicine nowadays’.
After seeing that weird instance, the discussions started among the people gathered inside.
‘Nobody is here! Why was she crying and screaming then?’, said one gentleman.
‘Is she affected by some ghost?’, another curiously asked.
‘No! It appears a typical black magic case’, yet another man expressed.
‘Don’t talk anything nonsense Mr. Shyam’, somebody reacted, ‘you are such an educated man’.
‘What education matters here?. What else is this to be called other than an evil effect of a ghost? This girl gets induced to come here alone and then the latch gets locked automatically from inside?’, Mr. Shyam tried to explain.
Some of the men there were looking at Shalini with eyes filled in hatred and disgust while few others were sympathizing with her.
‘She must be insane! She herself must have locked the door from inside!’, yet another opined.
‘Not insane! She must be suffering from hallucinations’, somebody rationalized.
‘Hallucinations? That necessarily means she is insane!’, the same man argued.
Vijay’s mother had turned furious after hearing all these remarks.
Priya requested all of them, ‘Will you all please go out of the room?’
Even then nobody was willing to move out of the house. Finally Vijay’s mother angrily reacted, ‘You fools! Why don’t you first get yourselves out of the room? Let some fresh air come inside the room. Can’t you see how perspiring my daughter is’.
After hearing this emphatic request, all the people got silenced and started slowly moving out of the room, assuming as if not only Shalini but also her mother might be to be indeed insane.
‘You rascal! Leave me! Leave me alone!’, Shalini was screaming.
Vijay went near her and tried to put his palm on her shoulder. But she firmly resisted and continued screaming. All of Vijay’s friends and other people stopped there and were utterly confused.
Now Vijay held both of Shalini’s shoulders firmly in his grip and shook her. All the people gathered in the room were staring at Shalini and Vijay with surprise in their eyes.
‘Shalini! Shalini! Please wake up! See for yourself! There’s nobody here!’, Vijay tried to make her aware of the reality.
‘Vijay! Look at that son of a bitch! He is trying to rape me’, Shalini continued to yell. Once again Vijay shook his sister holding both of her shoulders firmly.
In the meantime, Vijay’s mother reached the spot.
‘What happened my dear child?’, mother tried to console her.
Held in her arms, Shalini started crying vociferously while saying, ‘Look at that bastard! He cheated and induced me to come here!’.
‘It is fine! My child!’, mother tried to sooth her, ‘We will hand him over to the cops’.
‘That is what I had warned you’, Vijay annoyingly said to his mother, ‘not to take her with us. She has not only spoilt the whole function here but has ruined even my prestige!’.
Till then, even Priya had reached there and she calmed down Vijay first by patting over his shoulder. Then she tried to console Shalini by moving her palm affectionately over Shalini’s head.
‘Isn’t she taking the medicine course nowadays?’, Priya asked Vijay’s mother in a lowered tone.
‘What shall I tell you, my child’, Vijay’s mother tried to reply, ‘she doesn’t take the medicine nowadays’.
After seeing that weird instance, the discussions started among the people gathered inside.
‘Nobody is here! Why was she crying and screaming then?’, said one gentleman.
‘Is she affected by some ghost?’, another curiously asked.
‘No! It appears a typical black magic case’, yet another man expressed.
‘Don’t talk anything nonsense Mr. Shyam’, somebody reacted, ‘you are such an educated man’.
‘What education matters here?. What else is this to be called other than an evil effect of a ghost? This girl gets induced to come here alone and then the latch gets locked automatically from inside?’, Mr. Shyam tried to explain.
Some of the men there were looking at Shalini with eyes filled in hatred and disgust while few others were sympathizing with her.
‘She must be insane! She herself must have locked the door from inside!’, yet another opined.
‘Not insane! She must be suffering from hallucinations’, somebody rationalized.
‘Hallucinations? That necessarily means she is insane!’, the same man argued.
Vijay’s mother had turned furious after hearing all these remarks.
Priya requested all of them, ‘Will you all please go out of the room?’
Even then nobody was willing to move out of the house. Finally Vijay’s mother angrily reacted, ‘You fools! Why don’t you first get yourselves out of the room? Let some fresh air come inside the room. Can’t you see how perspiring my daughter is’.
After hearing this emphatic request, all the people got silenced and started slowly moving out of the room, assuming as if not only Shalini but also her mother might be to be indeed insane.