The clock was striking 11 at night when Yohan finished his dinner and got a call. "Brother!'' a yell came out from the phone...Yohan confused asked "What are you up to? Why have you not slept yet? Are you drunk? The voice from the phone spoke "I just wanted to surprise you am returning from Devevue...It's my semester break...I thought of surprising you at home but the train got so late that I am afraid so going home alone"
"Oh..ok...Yona am coming to get you at the station if you arrive then wait for me near the...umm...old Peepal tree. I am trying to reach asap". The call eneded and Yohan immediately took his car keys from his study table and went to the garage...but mistakenly left his phone in his room. He was driving as fast as possible...while thoughts about the station flushed in his mind. It's been 8 years since he had visited the station himself. His father used to take him to the station when he was a child and he always disliked that place. The station was very old with a few people roaming especially at night. The air was cold and eerie. He stopped thinking about all this when he finally arrived at the station half an hour later.
He saw his watch it was exactly 11:30 he put the car keys in his pocket and walked through the entrance of the station and as he entered there he was able to connect the place and its surroundings with his memory. He was walking slowly as there was no sign of train and could feel the cold air and could hear the squeaking of the air from the cliven branches of old trees. When he was passing by the ticket counter he was more disgusted the counter was made of bricks the plaster over it broke off. The corners of the counter were broken and covered by weeds. Soon he reached the the Peepal tree which he remembered so well. Although he knew the train did not arrived yet but by stupid human curiosity he asked a lone man sitting on a bench, "Well mister, did the train from Devevue departed this station?". There was an utter silence the man did not spoke. Yohan could feel that somthing was off. The man looked like a beggar, his shirt was torn and his jeans were extremely dirty and spread with mud. He touched the man's shoulder and repeated his question. The man looked at him his eyes were blood red and had numerous scars on his face. Yohan was at first terrified but then calmed. The beggar started murmuring "That driver hit her and drove away I will wait for him till I could finally kill him that's when I would be able to reach my sister again".
Yohan got more curious but when he was going to ask something a sound of the train honk came he looked that way and saw the train stopping his sister coming out of the gate surprised. Yona asked him "Ohh My God...Brother how did you knew that i was coming!?" Yohan replied, "Hmm? What? You called me Yona what mischief are you doing?''
"No I never called you I was thinking about surprising you".
"Yes you did..." Yohan couldn't complete his sentence when his eyes went up to the bench again to find no one. The man was gone out of their sight. Yohan started feeling sick and asked Yona to talk about all this later...
It was 1 in the morning when they finally reached home and both of them went to sleep in their own rooms. They did not talk much and morning came shining brightly upon them. It was 7 in the morning when Yohan woke up and collected the newspaper to and at the first page the first heading of the first news was "Poor Brother and Sister family crushed by the train! The time of death written there was "yesterday evening at 9:39 p.m." That's when Yohan got the shock of his life...
