I was just standing and staring at a stone heart with lots of confusion and terror. There was a flow of thoughts and questions which were going inside my mind. My mom came behind me and told me that I am supposed to spend my night in her bedroom,so that she could look after me. And she also said that she will throw out that jinxed stone in the garbage in the early morning. While on my mom's bed,I was lying with deep thoughts and past memories with realisation of how things have passed abnormally. While lying I was just making sure that I don't fall asleep because I was afraid that I may have a similar type of dream again. That burned face was stuck in my mind. But the things which make me even wonder is that stone heart gifted by Zain in 8th standard on friendship day. We used to be best friends since our kindergarten. He used to be very intelligent and had a handsome face. He was one of the finest people, I have ever known in my whole life. He died 9 years ago because he was suffering from lung cancer. We were also very good family friends of each other. That's why my dad also went to samshan ghat ( the place where people are supposed to burn dead bodies according to sanatana dharma). And what happened during the time of heading towards shamshan ghat,no one could believe their eyes. For literally three times the dead body fell down on the ground. It was not like the body was alive, in reality it even started to decompose. My dad also told me that the
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Zain family has put lots of kerosene oil, so that dead body will catch fire easily and it has but after five to six minutes later. There was a gust of wind and it started to rain. That was very weird because that was a time of mid winter. All men were in one small steel roof waiting for rain to stop. But it wasn't for the next three hours. And they were simply standing there watching a thunderstorm and a half burned body. That scenario was very disturbing for all of them, who were presented there. And when rain stopped they have done whatever was supposed to be done.
