First our pleasures die
- and then Our hopes,
And then our fears -
and when These are dead,
The debt is due, Dust
claims dust,
And we die too.
WARNING: The contents and images of this story may cause some pain
and fear to some readers. Therefore I request those who are under treatment for
psychosomatic disorders and cardiac problems not to read this story. Anyone
going ahead are doing so at their own risk.
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Driving away all the
darkness and driving away all the silence in the room,there was a sudden
lightning followed by a huge thundering sound in the sky that sent ripples
across the whole frame of Rahul…..
The atmosphere that was so
chilly till that time became breezy resulting in a heavy downpour outside..
Rahul could not withstand
so much of lightning appearing so suddenly in the field of his vision that was
filled with lot of darkness till a moment ago..
His whole body started to
shiver terribly…
But shivered..
Not with chills..
And..
Not with fear..
And definitely..
Not with the thunder and
lightning..
But..
But..
With the sight of a dark
ghostly image that suddenly appeared on the white walls of the class room like
a flash during that lightning..
It literally stopped
Rahul’s breathing for a moment..
He had very clearly seen
it..
Very very clearly seen
it..
It was like the face of an
old lady with her whole hair scattered over her shoulders..
And that lady in the image
clearly stared at him for a moment during its brief appearance....
He too had seen the face
of that image very clearly..
And then along with the
lightning that image too vanished..
It was a damn scary and
hair rising experience for Rahul..
But what was that damned
image..??????????????????
Huhhhhhhh………..
He was too scared to
analyze that..
Unfortunately..
Poor Rahul could not
realize that it was actually the image of the dark bushes of the large Banyan
tree in the school compound behind which the lightning occurred..
And as a result when its
image reflected on the wall it appeared like an image of an old lady to the
fear filled mind of Rahul..
That is all..
But with that scary effect
and with terrible jerks in the whole body..
Rahul started shivering
like a patient who shivers with severe convulsions during an attack of
epilepsy. He was involuntarily grinding his teeth and his lips were constantly
shaking with an unknown fear..
With the inner walls of
his head diabolically squeezed by terror..
With his stomach set on
fire with anxiety..
With his chest clutched
with heaviness..
Rahul was fully loaded
with agony….
And that agony was
terrible and a bit too much for Rahul..
Unable to withstand that..
He started pulling his
hair with both the hands and suddenly broke down into uncontrollable tears and
wept loudly..
Pathetically and painfully,
calling his beloved mother whom he thinks is the only force in this world who
can save him from that misery..
His whole pain filled
voice was circulating in the room hitting the four walls very violently..
He wept and went on
weeping till his eyes started to overflow with tears..
Loads and loads of tears…
Though dark those tears
were clearly visible to the darkness…
And through the darkness..
To the dark cat..
That was observing him
silently from a distance....
But that dark cat was not
looking at Rahul and not looking at his tears..
With the whole hair on its
body fully rose…
It was looking at..
Rahul’s future..
His fate, his destiny…
His nearing end and his
total destruction..
With occasional thunders
and lightning..
It was raining very
heavily outside..
Though drenching in heavy
rain the dark cat was still un moved and still observing Rahul,his sad fate and
his sorry state..
On the other hand..
Rahul was weeping through
a hell of tremendous intra psychic stress and was totally unmindful of all the
things around..
He was growing restless
second by second and could not sit stable at one place..
As part of an involuntary
body reaction he closed his eyes tightly..
Opened them immediately as
that ghostly image was haunting him when he closed his eyes..
He wanted to get up and
move but was blinded by the darkness around and could not move..
He is thirsty,he is
hungry..
And he is what not..
What a situation for the
young mind of Rahul..
Terrible…Terrible..Terrible……
To be or not be..
To move or not to move..
To be here or to be
there..
To believe or not to
believe..
To live or to die..
A sort of a complete
parenthetical inter position..
Terrible…Terrible..Terrible……
Humanity can survive
anything but suspense…
Humanity can survive
anything but helplessness..
And humanity can survive
anything but loneliness..
And unfortunately Rahul
has to battle against all those three evil elements of Nature in order to
survive..
And he has no other way
and has to survive till God interferes..
But when will God
interfere..
Will HE or wont
HE……..?????????
Suspense again..
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Continued in The Untold Misery Of A School Boy-Part-Seven