NO ESCAPE

I CAN'T ESCAPE...

To escape fear, you have to go through it,
Not around it.

-Richie Northan.

She played it...I could escape this house physically but not mentally. Why I even asked my Grandpa about it. Why he even told me about it. I was in a world which I never expected to be. I was in her world...in her own world. In which she tried to explain me about her past. Why was she telling me everything? Why she believed me?. The haunted house was now a pleasant one. The bedroom was fully clean. I walked down the stairs. Everything was normal I saw Divya walking here and there and thinking about something. I went more closer.

"Do love stories even exist in early 1900s...though I had a arranged marriage with him but why do I love my husband so much...OH Divya are you mad, a wife loves her husband" she said. Her smile made everything more good.

"Okay I am leaving bye Divya" her husband said as he walked down the stairs.

"Bye...I...love..." Divya tried to say.

"From where are you learing english?" Her husband said and laughed. I still didn't knew his name.

"Malik, for you a letter has arrived from sahib" a worker there said.

He handed the letter to his Malik.

"Mangesh beta" he started to read. Finally I knew his name.

"Are you not getting late" Divya said.

He nodded and kept the letter in his pocket and ran. I went behind him.

Some people were peeking as he got out of the house. Mangesh caught them seeing. He went closer to them.

"I always see you guys standing over here? Any reason?" Mangesh asked.

They shook there head together. Divya opened the door.

"Take care...bye" she said and smiled. When she came out again those people were looking at her.

Mangesh nodded and said bye she closed the door.

"Can you stop staring at my wife"

"What can we do she is so beautiful, not only us but that famous monk also comes this way daily to see her. Like a fucking monk also stares" one of the person said and laughed.

"Don't even say like that understand, her husband is standing right in front of you people and you speak like that"

"You just got her beacuse you were rich, otherwise there were a lot of lovers romaing around her bungalow and that lovers now roam around your..."

"Who is that monk?" Mangesh asked.

"Ram baba"

"Oh I believe him a lot, even people say he is like a God how can he do it" Mangesh said.

"Is he is the God of lust" all of them laughed.

Mangesh ignored them and went ahead in his way.

He walked through the bushes. He met Ram Baba. He was the same who I met with my grandfather but he was just a little young that time. His big beard was not white color. I hated him that he kept his name or copied it by a lord's name. Who these people think they are? A fucking God?

"Jai ho Baba ki" Mangesh said and folded his hand.

He kept his hand on Mangesh's head.

"Beta I want to tell you something" Monk said.

"Yes Baba tell me"

"Your wife does not deserve to live you need to kill her" the monk said.

There was a silence for 2 minutes, Mangesh's mouth was wide open.

"What....what are...you saying?" Mangesh said shivering.

"Beta...she will kill you someday or she will just destroy your life somehow...she is a witch of your life"

"She is angel of my life Baba...what are you saying?" Mangesh said trying to control his anger.

"She should not live..."

Mangesh shook his head.

"She can't die...she can't...if she dies I am dead too...I can't live without her"

The monk put his hand in his small bag and and he had a black Tika on his ring finger he put it on Mangesh's head. It did something inside him. His eyes wide open he was rather expressionless. He nodded and nodded again for no reason.

"Go..kill her" he said and gave a axe to him. Oh now this so called monks keep a Axe with them.

He took it and turned around. He was not the Mangesh I was with just with few moments ago. His went back to his house. People kept looking at him. I went behind him.

"Didn't expect you to come home so early" Divya said. She was sitting on the dinning table in between the two stairs she was seeing the album. Yes the same one I found in the boxes.

Mangesh didn't say anything he went more close to her.

Divya came to give a hug. He screamed out and cut her head with the axe the blood split on his face but still he didn't had any guilt any expression. Who had he became? I was not able to digest anymore. But then Mangesh threw the Axe away and took her in shoulder and came out of the house the blood falling here and there. The people ran towards their houses. He walked towards the monk. I saw a person slowly coming with Mangesh he was almost 5 to 6 meters away. He decided to hide in the bushes. Then he kept the body infornt of the same monk. Mangesh fell down . I saw her body and I screamed out. I couldn't see this anymore.

I just couldn't...