It was already 10:30 pm, and Ramu's mother was yelling from downstairs to wrap up his work and to go to bed. But for Ram, he was indulged in the thing that he loved the most in this world, besides his grandma and his puppy Cuba. He was reading the new sci-fi book on Aliens, he has borrowed from his school library and, it was his way to read them in one stretch. But unfortunately, not today, as the thudding sounds of approaching footsteps, send a chill through his spine, and in a spontaneous act, he threw the book to the other side of his bed and readily sought his bedsheet and mimicked sleeping. Through the hole in his bedsheet, he could see his mother coming and inspecting his room and leaving after closing the glass window. Suddenly he looked at the mirror on the opposite wall which reflected the glass window holding a small potted plant on its side corner. He could see the dancing images of trees and leaves in the dark windy night.
While drifting slowly into sleep, he was awaken by a knocking sound. His gaze firstly went towards the door, even though he couldn't see anything in the darkroom. Upon switching on his bed lamp and moving towards the door, he understood that the sound, now even more audible was from somewhere else. He stepped out of his room and looked downstairs, but all he could see was darkness. Since not very courageous, he didn’t take up the adventure to go beyond the field of reach of his bedlamp light, hence jumped back and closed his door. Upon jumping into his room, his sight immediately caught on the wall mirror, which showed his glass window, wide open, and an incomprehensible thing sitting on his bed. He felt numb, even unable to scream. He didn’t even move or tilt his head towards the thing but could see the image in the dim light through the mirror. Soon he saw the thing approaching towards him. Ramu even amidst his fear could comprehend that it was not a human, as which human had arms and toes with three fingers, that too with the body color appearing as of a blue-green tinge under the available light. Now when the thing was actually close to him, he stopped his physiological analysis and rushed towards the door and jumped outside. With the limited voice he could produce, he screamed out, but none of them were answered. So what lay before him was a darkness stricken stair. But even before he could figure out anything, the thing now having reached very close pushed him forcefully to the deep darkness which now appeared like an endless pit, with the creature spitting out some weird fluid. Ramu covered his face while falling into the deep darkness.
He felt a huge slap on his face and steadfastly opened his eyes. He could see his mother beside him with a glass of water in her hand. She scolded him for throwing the book on the floor, which brought him to the conscious present. He took a sigh of relief when he realized that none of them were real….but only A DREAM…SO WEIRD.
So after many yells, as usual, he got ready for school and went to water the plant nearby the window, which was still closed. But the glass fell on the ground spilling everything, as Ramu was startled to see a print on the misty glass, which resembled a three-fingered hand….. Was it a cat or……..??
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Anjali
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