It's 12a.m at midnight when Lucas fern checks his phone as he recieves a text while sitting on the chair with piles of case files scattering all over the desk with a lamp standing alone which is becoming a bit dimmer from lighting nonstop for a whole three and half hours.When the clock strikes 12 it will become the Halloween's day.
He drags down the notification bar on the screen of his phone and clicks on the text notification.And the text reads,
'Happy Halloween,dear Ferny!Will you send me flowers today too.You always send me white chrysanthemums.I'm getting bored of it,send me white roses this time.' Lucas widens his eyes when he sees the text and makes him wonder for a while.
After some minutes, he comes to his senses and starts typing,'Who is this?' While waiting for the reply, he's lost in his thought thinking about who might be the sender.To his surprise, the person even knows his pen name given by Sandy and no one knows it except himself and Sandy.It's been a while he hasn't been heard it since the day his friend has passed away.
He checks again on his phone if there's a reply from the sender.Ten minutes has passed yet he gets no reply.Then he decides to call to check who's messing with him.When he's just about to click the call icon,a notification pops up on the screen.Yes,it's the reply from the unknown number he's been eagerly waiting.
'Isn't it a little too harsh of you to forget me that soon.I thought you'll be remembering me till seventy.I expected that you'd recognise me right away as I've dropped some hints on the previous text.' Seeing the text Lucas get some mixed feelings.He's frustrated to think that someone is playing with him using his dear dead friend.At the same time, he's anxious to think that the sender's way of talking ressembles that of his friend very much.
Then he types out of frustration,'Who the hell are you?How dare you pretend to be my friend and do pranks on me!Just get lost!'He puts down the phone on the desk,puts off the lamp and goes to the bed and lay down facing the desk standing at a distance beside the bed.Actually he's also frowning at himself as he's not able to solve the case of his friend's death even though he knows something was off with it.
While he's getting emersed in the thought of his friend, a string of tears runs down from his left eye.Then his eyes slowly close and he falls asleep in few minutes.Eveything gets still then, the sender also doesn't give a reply. The only sound in the room is his breathe which is hardly audible.
'It's a bright summer morning,a young teenage Lucas comes running to Sandy's home with a trophy in hand wearing a medal on his neck.Sandy's Grandma welcomes him and with a worried face talks about Sandy not returning home since last night.Lucas comforts the old lady and ensures him to bring him home for sure.
He then heads to school to find him as Sandy creates a hideout at the school's rooftop and he often spends a lot of time there so he expects to find him there.When he reaches the school,horns of ambulance and police cars has filled the whole campus.He rushes into the crowd of ocean to find out what's happening there.He suddenly hears someone mentioning his friend's name and saying he has died of jumping from the rooftop.
Then he breaks through the crowd towards the direction where his friend is lying cold with a white cloth covering over his whole body.The police stops him but he announces them that he is his best friend and let him have a look on his friend.The police agrees and he approaches the dead body with full of hesitations.
His whole body is trembling,the red watch on the left hand of the body adds up his fear more as it's the same watch he has given to Sandy on his birthday last year.Mustering all the courage that has left in his body he drags down the cloth to see the face.When he sees the pale face of his friend, every emotions left his heart and his mind goes blank.
Even after seeing the truth laying before his eyes he can't believe that his friend is no more.He just sits there still,he can't even shed a tear as all his emotions go mute.His eyes linger towards the direction where the ambulance leaves carrying the dead body of his friend.
Then everything just passes by so fast without being much consciousness.His Grandma has been gone in comma after having a stroke hearing the news of death of his precious grandson.The next time he finds himself having a conscious thought is when he's sitting at the funeral hall of his friend crying all day long looking at the photo of his friend smiling among the bed of white flowers.'
The alarm of the tableclock wakes him up when it strikes 6 o' clock in the morning.He wipes off the tears on his face and make himself calm down with a big sigh.Then his mind wanders,
'Ah...another nightmare again.' He's been dreaming this nightmare in recurrance for the whole eight years.It's about the events occured on the day his friend died and the consequences followed after his death.
He remembers while freshening himself in the bathroom about his life after his friend's death.He was transfered to another school and repeated a year as he became mute and refused to talk to anyone.He took the college entrance exam after that as fulfulling the wish of his friend.They made promises to each other to study at the same college. His parents liked him to become a doctor and often nagged him to forget about the death friend in order to have a better focus on his studies but he didn't like it so he ran away from home to study law and become a lawyer.
He's always very grateful to his uncle who sent him money that time to fulfill his dreams.He's working as a surgeon in the hospital where Sandy's Grandma was being treated.Lucas visited there from time to time to have a chat even though he got no reply, it relieved him somewhat from the pain of losing his friend.She also passed away that year when he was running away from home after being regaining consciousness for
about a week.
He had tried to reopen the case of his friend as soon as he became a lawyer but it was failed to do as there were no proper evidences and witness to prove that it was not a suicide case.Being a friend with him for some couples of years,it's hard for him to believe that he would have committed suicide.Sandy wanted to attend the college and get a descent job after graduation to give his grandma a good life so he wouldn't decide the idea of dying and leaving his grandma alone. But there's no other option for Lucas than try to believe it's a suicide case.
As usual he dresses up in black suit and get ready to visit his death friend to offer flowers.While he's trying to buy flower at a flower shop,it suddenly reminds him of the text he recieved last night.He shakes off his head a little and buy the bunch of chrysanthemums and take his leave.He drives with the windows down feeling the refreshing breeze of summer morning.
As he enters the city where the memorial park is located,a series of past memories starts displaying in his mind giving him nostalgic feels.The familliar road where they used to walk a lot when they were attending schools,the malls where they used to buy things a lot,the park beside the river where they used to hang out during holidays and many more, though a lot of changes can be seen there.
He misses it a lot as their family moved out of that city one year later the incident of his friend occurred.He parks his car at the parking lot and starts approaching at the memorial park.He offers the flower at his friend's cymetery and starts talking,'Hey Lupy,how have you been?Got a bunch to tell you,so be ready to bear my lengthy talk.'Then he talks about the text and nightmare from last night, he also talks about his life these days and how this city is changing every year when he visits.
He comes back and start working on the cases scattering on his table as usual while the city is busy celebrating the Halloween's eve.As he has a trial next morning at court,he just focus on his work not caring about time.Amidst his busy work, he gets a sudden call from the same number from yesterday at the same hour,12 a.m at midnight.He picks up a call with curiosity and a familliar voice speaks,'Hello!Dear Ferny, it's been a while.Sorry for calling you this late,it's the only timing I can reach you so...Ok,tell me, are you cooling down a bit now?You seemed to be very angry last night. Ah,and I get the flowers you've sent this morning.So bad,chrysanthemums again,hehe...'
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN !
ParanormalLucas Fern, a lawyer in his mid-twenties recieves a mysterious text from an unknown number which he later finds out that the sender is his best friend,Sandy Lupine who had died eight years ago.He reopens the suspicious death case with his friend and...
