THE MASSACRE ON THE BUS.

Part 1 : Wake up Daddy.

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"श्री गणेशाय नमः"

It's almost afternoon. Check the time, Lyla. Don't be too late, otherwise, we will miss the bus. "Daddy, I am ready. I just came in a little while." "Honey, is breakfast ready?" Honey replied, "It's time for everyone's lunch." These two father and daughter are having breakfast now. "Here's your breakfast!"

"Daddy, how do I look?" I chuckled and said, "Just like Lyla." Now we are having breakfast together. "Peanut, are you ready for the new Thor movie ?" "Is this even a question worth asking, daddy?" "Of course I'm ready," Lyla replied.

"By the way, Daddy, how many days of leave did you get?" Lyla asked. "As much as you have got, peanut," I said. "Mum, are you not coming with us?" Layla asked. "Baby, who will stay at home then?" she said. "Breakfast is done."

"I think we should go now, Peanut." "One sec, Daddy," she kissed her Mumma on the cheek. "Ok, Mum, ciao! See you in the night," Lyla said. "She said take care of our little life & I love you." I moved towards her, kissed her, and said, "Love you too, honey."

We live in a Mesons small town of Hangel city. The nearest cinema hall is about 70 to 80 km from our house. It is almost in the city's area. So we take buses to go there. Lyla holidays were going on. So I decided to go see a new Thor movie in the cinema hall.

We are at bus stop "Daddy, look, the bus is coming," Lyla said. I lifted Lyla onto my lap, then entered the bus and sat in a seat. "Ticket, ticket, ticket..." the conductor asked for ticket. "Brother, give two tickets, one half and one full I said.

Hey Lyla, listen, come with me, I'll show you something. I took Lyla to the last seat of the bus. She said, "Dad, what do you want to show me?" Lyla, there will be some pain but it will also be fun. Just wait for the bumpers. When the bumpers come, we go a few inches up from the seat and then suddenly fall down. Bumpers come then we bounce few inches from seat."Ouch!! Daddy, my entire digestive system shook," Lyla said, laughing. And then we came back to our seats.

There's a boy age of 8 the same age as Lyla sitting behind Lyla's seat. His mother was sleeping. He called out to Lyla, "Hey girl, what's your name?" "I'm Lyla," she replied. "What! Laila?" he started laughing after hearing her name and making fun of her. Lyla gazed at him angrily and replied, "It's LYLA, not LAILA." He said, "Ohh! oh! ok ok, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have laughed. By the way, I'm Vihaan." He asked Lyla, "Where are you going?" She replied, "Daddy and I are going to the city to watch the new Thor movie. And what about you, where are you going?" He replied, "Home, the place where I belong."

They were talking for a long time. "Lyla, get some nap, there is still plenty of time left to reach Hangel city." "Yeah, daddy! I'm sleeping," she said. After Lyla went to sleep, I lovingly told the boy, "Hey lad, if you talk to my daughter again, I will throw you out of the window, you dig it or not ?" he replied yes uncle i dig it. Now, go to sleep like your mother."

The time is around 5:30 pm in the evening. There is still about 1 hour left to reach the city. I also fell asleep for some time and woke up after 10 minutes. Then I gazed around in the bus; all the passengers were different. Then i call the conductor. "Oh, hello conductor," I said. He turned and I saw that the conductor was also different, as was the driver.

I asked the conductor, "Can you tell me how much time it will take to reach the city?" The conductor replied, "It will take about 30 minutes." I responded, "Okay, thanks for telling me."

The bus is passing through THE BLACK WOOD road. There's fog all around the Black wood road , so nothing could be seen clearly. Abruptly, an arrow came and hit the driver's head. The bus goes out of control. People started sneezing out of fear. I say"Calm down, everyone! Just hold your seats tightly, the bus is about to hit a tree," Daddy what's happening? Lyla asked fearfully. "Aww, peanut, don't be afraid. Everything's gonna be okay. Listen, just hold your seat tightly, okay? I'm with you here." Then the bus hit the tree hard.

After the collision with the tree, the front part of the bus was shattered. Some people were injured inside the bus. I say "Lyla, come, we have to go," a group of people came towards the gate of the bus. The gate is locked from the inside. They shot a bullet at the gate.

The group enter the bus. Some of them are tribals and some are terrorists. The leader said, "Please sit at your place and I'm apologize to give you suffer on your safar." "My boys! It's time to fulfill our purpose. Kill everyone, no one should be left alive."Then they began the massacre.

( Safar is Hindi word which represents a travel or journey)

In the bus So many people killed brutally, and some are badly injured, and I am injured too. A tribal man caught Lyla. Lyla was screaming with fear, "Daddy, save me! Save me!" I kept crawling towards Lyla. till then, he stabbed his spear into Lyla's stomach and ran away. "No! No! No... Lyla!" I crawled towards Lyla, took her in my arms, and tried to stop her bleeding. She said in a faint voice"Daddy THE VALKYRIE is summoning me, THE GATE OF VALHALLA is open for me."

"Daddy, do you hear me, Daddy? Wake up, Daddy! Wake up, Daddy!" Lyla continues to say. Lyla sees that my body starts trembling. I'm dealing with Lyla's death in my dream. She went frantic, tears fall from her eyes, and again she said, "Wake up, Daddy! Daddy, do you hear me, Daddy? Wake up, Daddy! Wake up, Daddy!"

Vihaan peers over at our seat and sees Lyla sobbing. He asks,
"What happened, Lyla?"

"My daddy is not waking up," she said in a faint voice. "I have an idea. Let's try to spray some water on his face," Vihaan said.

Lyla takes Vihaan's water bottle, pours some water on her hands, and sprinkles it on my face. My eyes open and I begun gasping rapidly.

"Are you okay, daddy? What's wrong with you?" Lyla asks.

"Are you okay?" I ask Lyla and kiss Lyla on the forehead, then hug her. "Yes,I am okay ,"Lyla replied.

I am horrified by what I saw in my bad dream. Then I said, "Lyla, come on, we have to get off from the bus at the next stop." And we got off from the bus at the next stop.

"Daddy, why did we get off the bus? Aren't we going to watch a movie?" Lyla asked. "Nothing, I had a very bad dream on that bus, so we got off. And we will definitely go and watch the movie. Look, the other bus is coming."

The bus came, and we entered, sitting in the middle seat which was vacant. I called the conductor for the ticket. When the conductor turned, I was shocked to see that he was the same conductor and all those people who appeared in my dream. Then I said to myself, "We should not leave that bus."

......TO BE CONTINUE.

The story has written by
Digvijay Singh Kushwah.