The Untold Misery Of A School Boy-Part Six

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.

                                       - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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