My Life is a Perfect Lie

Episode 14

I and Kabir sit in my apartment at midnight. We sit in the living room, on the floor, all lights and fans switched off, unlit candles around. We sit in the middle. Kabir holds a book and reads from it, "It says if the spirit is within you, upon asking it'll lit the candles"

"Okay"

"So, I'll tell the spirit to lit the candles. And it'll confirm that you are possessed"

"Okay, wait I am scared. What if I am actually possessed? like I know I am but confirmation... is... "

"Don't worry. Once it's confirmed. We can talk to it and find out what it wants"

"What could it possibly want? "

"I have read somewhere that the things they want might be like  fulfilling their unfulfilled desires or revenge or they need a house as in a human body to live in etc "

"Okay"

"Shall we begin?"

"Okay. No, wait",I exhale through mouth and continue. "It's not dangerous right? it's not that we'll lose out lives if something goes wrong, right? "

"Don't worry Candace, I got this "

"Okay"

"so, shall we begin? "

"Yeah"

"Oh spirit within, ignite the candles. Oh spirit I call upon you, light the candles as a sign of your existence "

"What are you doing? it's not working "

"Shhh... Cooperate, candace"

"Okay", I look around to the candles.

"May be you should keep your eyes on candles, may be that'll help the spirit to light the candles"

"What do you mean? "

"I mean, the spirit might be confused which candle to light first or may be it couldn't see the all candles so it doesn't know how many candles are there to light"

"What are you saying? makes no sense to me"

"Okay, forget. Just do as I say", He points at the candle on my right. "Look at this candle and now think of lighting it"

I see the candle. I imagine its wick catching fire. My eyes on it. The tip of the wick turns yellow and I see a full fledged flame raising from it.

"Oh my God ", I startle and throw my head backwards.

"It's working", Kabir says half excited and half scared.

"Yeah"

"Try another one"

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah"

"I... I think... "

All candles in the room lit up.

"What did you do? " , Kabir asks almost shouting.

"I didn't even look at them. I only thought of them as lit candles"

"Oh my Candace, the spirit is there. It's a sign"

"Oh my God, what do we do now?"

"I think we should ask her questions "

"Really?"

"yeah. Let's ask her"

"How do you know it's her*? It could be him*"

"Because she sincerely obeyed us. She lit the candles"

"Oh okay", I say rolling my eyes.

"So, the spirit I ask you what do you want? Why are you inside Candace's body? "

I sit there motionless, waiting to see some extraordinary thing. Nothing happens.

"Oh the spirit, I ask you again tell us, tell us. what do you want? "

Suddenly, we hear someone cry.
We hear more people cry.

"Candace, there are multiple spirits inside you"

"What? "

"Yeah, can't you hear? "

"I can, but it's not coming from inside me"

"What does that mean? "

"It means, the noise is coming from outside "

We stand up and go to look outside the window. We see two women crying beside an ambulance. Two men put a man laying on the stretcher inside the ambulance.

"I think someone died", Kabir says with a low tone.

"Yeah", I sigh.

The older woman falls down on her knees. The younger woman bends and grabs her shoulders. Both cry out loud. An old man points to my building. Probably, he asks them to go inside. He looks sad frustrated. Both the women don't move. He kneels down and cups the old woman's face.
"Be strong Merry. Be strong for the ones with you in this world", I say my eyes still on the couple.

"What? ", Kabir says stunned at me

"Is it that difficult to lose a loved one? "

"Yeah it is. But I am not taking about that"

"what? "

"You can hear them? "

"No, I can't "

"How did you know what he said? "

"I just felt it"

"What do you mean you felt it? "

"I don't know. "

"May be it's that spirit"

"Have you ever lost someone? "

"Yeah. It feel very bad, dude"

"Who? "

"My mum. She passed away three years back. I cried like a baby"

"Oh"

"Have you lost anyone?"

"No. I mean yes, everyone"

"What?"

"I mean, I don't remember. My family or friends. I don't remember anyone. I don't know where are they or are they dead or alive"

"That's sad, man"

"Yes, man. Last thing I remember is I was stuck in a plane crash ruins. That's it. I don't remember anything before that.  And I never heard or saw any missing reports of myself or anyone looking for me. So, I assume everyone I knew died in that plane crash"

"I am sorry, you had to go through all that"

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