Ann and I

13.Did I Scare You???

The blood is blurring my sight ...the rain is cold and hurting like needles... And my mind seem to be filled of.. Cotton.wool .. Disoriented.. Still not able to comprehend What I saw... Ghosts and these spirits have always been a part of my life.. But never like that ... I have never gone their home.. And that man..was... Human.. Tearing in the flesh of a poor innocent bird, eating it alive ...... And then.. He was gone... Was I hallucinating???.the wind lashed against my face ... I never knew or thought where I was going but my instincts told me to just run..like a monster rising against the sky, The wall came into sight. My only way to get out of this nightmare . My heartbeat surged with a mad frenzy. I grabbed the wall stones greedily and soared up. I hooked and clawed my way up in a jiffy with all my might. Jumping down and grazing my knees the most dumb way I could, I gathered whatever energy was left in me to continue running. The track of time, distance, direction were all, Gone .. Lost.. My senses were all dead..so I ran... This is one of the things I have known . I know how to run... Like a gazelle....... Even when I have little worth living for. Running and running in the rain.... I am left with a little sense of direction now . Dazed ..confused and hurt. Some time more. My legs are going to give away. The blood blurrs my vision . The mouth of that man.... Filled with gore.. tearing the flesh of a peacock is what keeps on coming again and again in my mind..bile comes up in my mouth and I vomit.. Utterly exhausted and almost numb..I have lost all.. All logic and strength too . it's as if a madness has overcome me..as if I Would stop, I Wud die.. I reached the road outside the school and could run no more... My legs feel like dead lead. I stumble on the footpath and lay there for a while gathering my breathe . Ken.. . Did he knowingly caused the trouble??? But as much as I could feel, he was a lost spirit. Confused, tormented and scared. No, he didn't do it deliberately. A little away from the school was market and after that a temple and a video game parlour and then... The place I am caged at. Mercy's hell. She reigns as Lucifer there. The market place was deserted. A few shops with dim bulbs on the verge of closure. Disoriented, I kept on walking . Out of many cars parked in the dark Street I am moving in, one was parked with a tarpaulin shack between it and the pavement. It was all vacant but for a little rickety table kept beside it . It seemed dry. I would claim my muddled thoughts if I take shelter in that nook for a while. Do I want to go back to mercy??? Was that man a dream??? Would those hundred of ghosts and restless spirits follow me??? I could not say. My forehead was still bleeding
. The shock was still settling in and I started moaning for my grandma. Why would she send me in this hell. The rain came to a slow stop and the clouds scattered away for a while. Little silent puddles of water and the blue fog enveloped the Bazar in a mysterious silence. Though I am adapted to cold, the wet clothes and hunger gnawing Made me miserable... In this whole world I had no one to ask, no one to hold my hand, no one to care and no home to go to. I pressed my forehead to against my knees and silently shrieked for my grandma.
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I must have slept dreamless for a while because I suddenly jerked up to the noise of feet running toward me. I huddle tightly in the shack. The voices seem to be coming nearer... Humans. Males. Their shouts are incoherent yet their is panic they are swearing badly and telling each other to save their lives... Perhaps they are running away from something... Their footsteps fade away and a brief silence followed. But brief. As the silence before the storm. I am so dazed and disoriented that I peered out of the shack. Nothing. I got up and came out of my hiding place. What were they running away from???.. And suddenly a noise. of someone running... and this guy emerges out of the haze shouting, swearing and cursing with a breakneck speed. Tall and burly, bellowing like a bull. Mouthing obscenities I have never heard before but could percept as very... Bad. His long hair covered his eyes and he stood with his legs apart. A menacing iron rod hung limply in his hand. " come along you #&(****, @@@₹#@,he abused and abused challenging the people who were obviously running away from him. When Noone responded to his open challenge he held the iron rod with both hands and threw his head back to laugh . A throaty, mighty laugh. I was so engrossed in watching him that I never noticed that I have moved out. More out. More then I should have been. He roared with laughter for a while... And then his eyes fell on me..
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Down clanked the iron road and his eyes widened out in horror. The lips turned a big 'o'. Face all white and he stood petrified for a couple of seconds.. Just looking at me . In a strange kind of weird way... It was.... Well.. funny. We were locked our eyes for a weird second or so.. And then.

" aiyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee... Mummy, mummy, mummy". I couldn't believe my eyes when this ....this man scampered like a wet rat to the rooftop of a car !!!! calling for his... Mom!!!!!!. He now sat on the roof top of a car. With legs all up and mouth all agape. I was so concious that I didn't know whether to run or stay??? Step away or ask for help???. It was so weird..
He now closed his eyes and started chanting God's name. Shivering. I decided to wait ...
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Author's notes

glossary

Temple _ religious place for worship(hindu here)
Bazar_ a marketplace

In india its quite normal to park your cars in the street.

Its normal too ,to have a roadside shop/ shanty.

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