The Curse of ACHLYS

Chapter 3- Stranger

The prom night begins. Everyone was staring at me. It got a bit awkward so I went to Nohi,she was wearing a purple velvet gown with white laces on the border. She was looking pretty. She tagged me as a new shiny toy of the class on whom everyone's eyes were stuck on, lol.

I saw Shane standing alone grinning at me. His smile was something I can't resist. I went to him, he hold my hands lightly and kissed it. It was kinda looked very old fashioned but it was adorable.

A soft music was playing in the background and we were dancing but not in the crowd. We both didn't liked to have all the attention on us. His eyes were looking mine and mine was looking his. This was the moment which I had never lived but only seen in movies.

He was the one to break the silence. He told me about him, "I'm a old school type of guy" he said well I wasn't a person who craved for a dashing guy with lot of girlfriends. All I wanted was someone to understand me, to love me unconditionally.

"It doesn't matter, I liked you the way you are" I told him. His smile was now touching his eyes. It hasn't been a long time since I first seen him. But even the silence between us was charming.

"I- I didn't know how to say it but... I have started feeling for you. I haven't get this kind of feeling earlier. I'm glad I got a chance to meet such a wonderful person like you. I don't know if you had the same feeling for me but I need to confess you that I like you". This was probably the best thing anyone ever told me. I didn't knew how to respond to his confession but he was waiting for my reply. I looked up to catch his eyes he was continuously looking at me.

Blood flowed to my face making it blush. I never told anyone about how I feel, how could I do that this time. "I think that I so have the same feeling for you" this was all I could say. Now he was laughing. I have never seen him this much happy. We were having a nice prom night having hands in hands but suddenly the weather changed. Clouds were scattered all over the sky, the wind was blowing so fast that seemed to be unnatural. The thunderstorm was about to come.

Suddenly I saw someone watching us. It was a small heightened old man. Dressed in old clothes looked like four five centuries old. He was standing behind a tree looked like he was trying to hide. I told Shane about him. He did get a weird feeling from that old man."Come let's see if he wanted some help" he said. But as we turned to reach the man,he was vanished. "Where did he go?" I said. "Well it's quite late and the weather is also bad so I will drop you home". We reached my home.

"Good night". He said and kissed my forehead.

I was about to sleep but suddenly my windows started blowing by the wind. I moved to close them. And suddenly I shocked. It was the old man standing outside my house, looking at me. I was horrified terribly. I quickly ran through the stairs and opened the door because I want to meet the man to know what was his motive to follow me to my home.

I opened the door. But he was not there. I looked around but wasn't able to see him.

He was vanished.. again.

I couldn't sleep because my thoughts were wandering around that old man. But I had a relief I have Shane with me. And I was happy that I'm going to see him again next morning. I wanted to tell him about the man but I might put him in a trouble because whatever the man wanted, he wanted it from me. Otherwise he wouldn't come to my home.

Next morning I wasn't sure how to start a conversation with Shane for what happened last night. I might be very lucky that the man I liked, liked me back. I was inexperienced about relationships. However I went to school. On the way I again saw the same man after seeing me he tried to run away, I followed him "Hey, stop-stop If you want some help you can let me know but what're you following me..." I shouted, but he seemed to ignore every word I was saying.

But finally I catch him. "What's your problem, didn't you hear I was telling you to stop" I said to him. He was behaving very oddly. "I know the truth behind your dreams" he told me. My eyes were wide opened. What was that man saying, how did he know about my dreams "It can't be true, you are lying" I shouted. "Don't you see yourself running in woods" he said to me. "H-how did you know about this we haven't meet in my lifetime" .

"Nothing is hidden from humphy. So if you want to know the truth meet me on this address at 9'o clock tonight and don't forget to bring that boy with you" he told me by handling me a piece of paper where the address was written. "What it has to do with Shane" I asked. "It's a long story girl, it's better to bring that boy. This story revolves around you two".

At least I knew his name "Humphy".

I looked at the address it was- " Flaybrick Cemetery ".