The Cursed Silence

Day 5 : Ritual

I called Ramesh to my house . As being aware that the authorities will hunt him down , I helped him to climb up from Amit's room window so the cameras won't capture anything

" Dad , do you think all of this is happening because of dadi ? "

He took a long pause , he took a long pause and said ," I don't know .. she ... she was always interested in black magic but I ... I just don't know what thing has been latched upon my family ... I just want it to end ... to take my life instead and forgives my children "

" What they said about , Amit ? "

" Suicide ! "

" Bullshit , they are lying ... I ... I knew him closely , he would have never ever done something like that "

" I thought the same way about you're aunt .... everyone ... everyone think they knows exactly about every single member of their family and there's always something or someone to break the notion .... I just wish your aunt could have atleast answers our questions "

" She could ... " Ramesh says jumping off from the couch," Dad ... dad what if we could somehow talk to her ? "

" What are you saying , she's dead ... you saw if yourself "

" The locals says she was into witchcraft and it's an old belief that once someone involves themselves in such a thing , they always are stuck between the two worlds ... they cannot escape , they need us and they latch upon us for this ... remember her last wish was to stay for atleast seven days "

" Hmm . It's only been Four "

" What If she's still here "

" Ramesh . I really don't think any of that would work , it's all just ... I don't know ... I don't believe in any of that "

" Naaz . Look around you for a moment , do you really think that you don't believe in that stuff .... your house is a living example of witchcrafts , the ... the dead cat ... the goats ... all the animals and the destruction ... what you think all of this is for ? "

" It's only to satisfy the other God " dad said

" Exactly , so if there's a even one percent chance ... then why we should not take it ? I mean do you have any other plans ? " He was actually right , we didn't had much of options
We went old school with this one . Due to lack of equipments we used everything from the house within ,
At first we cuts out all the lights and brought up the candles from the store room , India families always have bunch of candles they have saved for the upcoming Diwali . Ramesh used some weird application on his phone which switches on radio stations constantly and my phone was used to record all of this ,
We sat across the dead cat and created a homemade ' Quiza Board ' , the alphabets were written by all of our bloods

" Now , we wait " Ramesh said and we all looked at the clock , he said that we should start in afternoon around 3 : 33 .
We were calm as nothing much happened until it was time

" No matter what , do not break the circle " Ramesh said as we proceed to fix our fingers on the Quiza Board

" They teach all of this in Schools now ? "

" No dad . Movies "

" Guys , Concentrate . One question at a time , hmm ? Who's going first "

" I will " Dad said ," Pffts "

Ramesh immediately intrepts him ," Remeber uncle , you have to trust this ... you have to make them believe that you are one of them , hmm ? "

" There have been series of different events and occurences inside this house . Locals says and everyone believes this house to be haunted but I don't belive it .... if it's my mother's spirit then one thing I would knew for sure is that ... she could never have hurt someone .... " Dad gasps ," My first question is , Mom ? Are you here ? "