The Mysterious Disappearance Of Rob

Chapter 4: Tim reveals his story

Josh insists Rob to get a glass of water. Rob gets it and they first sprinkle a bit of it on Tim, to wake him up from being unconscious.
He sits up, drinks water hurriedly, struggles to breathe initially and later gets normal. He has a horrified look up at his face. He seemed like something happened in that short interval of time. Josh and Rob are curious to know what had happened with Tim that made him unconscious.
Josh tells him "Tim, some horrifying things has been happening to Rob and me too. Based on your words and your reactions, we feel that you are having a similar experience. Please tell us about what is happening from last few nights"

Tim starts off with a low tone, "Just giving a thought about what's happening frightens me. I am really fed up with the sleepless nights that I have passed for some days now. My home remains completely calm until 2 AM.
It is only after that, when violence starts ruling out the house.
It is the time, when I would have finally managed to get asleep after being worried about what awaits me. Loud noises of books falling down from the rack, the pendulum alarming violently, doors moving back and forth continuously is what that haunts my mind."

"One day, something woke me up at the middle of the night. The time was 2:08. I was very thirsty. So I headed to the kitchen room, opened the refrigerator and drank two glasses of chill water. While drinking I heard a fade noise. I thought something had fallen down. But only when I came near the door to return to my bed is when I realized that the kitchen's door had been locked somehow. I tried to open the door but it didn't. So I gave the door a big thud to see if the lock had been jammed. It hadn't. Some moments later, I kept hitting the door three to four times out of fear. Surprisingly the door opened, and I went back to my bed, and slept."

"I came to college leaving behind the memory of what had happened the previous night. I self-consoled myself that either the door lock or the door was damaged and hence it didn't open up when I tried for the first time.
I was wrong."

"It was in the night at around 10:20. I had just had my dinner. I was about to Skype my brother, who stays back in Ottawa, Canada. By then I remembered that I had ironed some of my clothes required to attend the felicitation programme of my father, for his sincere service in the army. Our closet is a massive room, where you can walk in of it to further divided small compartments. I went there into the 'Tim's section', to keep the clothes."

"What happened when I tried to come out of it is something which I can never forget. Through the small hole over the door I could see someone walking about. His eyes were pitch black, he was lanky and he had something in his hand. The door was locked. It seemed as if he was waiting for my arrival and locked the door so I couldn't escape out easily. I walked backwards out of fear. Unfortunately I stumbled upon something. He noticed me, came near the door and said "You have been chosen, for there are no ways to avoid it.""

Tim was sweating profusely. And so was Josh and Rob.
Now they know the reason behind those THUDs.
The exact time and incidences that occurred with Tim explained the thuds heard in Rob's house.

"So that's why you and I used to hear the thuds" said Rob
"Yeah. But the voice? What did it mean?" said Josh
(Silence captures the room)