Promises Made and Broken

Horror And Humour

"I have to be home in half-an-hour. So, we don't have time to go to that silly place of yours, Arundhati." I said for the hundredth time.

Right now I was skipping my maths tuition which was about to get over in 20 minutes. And I had to reach home in 30 minutes.

"See, it's not my mistake that you lied to your mum to come out with us." Arihant kept his eyes on Arundhati's phone, playing MiniMilitia.

"I didn't lie. You kidnapped me." I pointed at him accusingly.

My phone vibrated in my jeans pocket. I unlocked it to see a picture of Arrav and Vani. Mum wanted a picture of them both together to add in the family photo collage.

It's been three weeks since his departure and saying that I miss him will be an understatement. Because there are no bounds to how much I miss him everyday at the dinner table or while I'm watching Harry Potter.

"Whatever. Stop wining, absconder. We are going. I'm calling Milli and Avdhesh." She snached her phone from Arihant's hands, making me snap out of my thoughts.

"Do you realise the game was still on..? Now I'll die." He wined.

There was a bombardment sound and Arundhati turned the screen towards Arihant with a devilish smile. His character had died.

"I'm dead." He stated dryly. "You are going to jail."

Ignoring us, she called Milli. "I'm calling them. Arihant, let's go." She stood up announcing and pulled kunal with him. "Get off your ass or we are leaving you." She added.

"Let's all think logically now." I said calmly. " I'm absconding. My mum has no clue as to where I am. It's dark already. And it will take about 20 minutes to go to that place. Plus that place is bloody tormented. What if some spirit wants to posses to you?" I blabbered.

"Firstly, you're already tormented, I don't think the spirits will want to posses you, Abani. And secondly, stop being a baby and get off your ass or as Arundhati said we're leaving without you." He stated. "There's only so much of girl drama that I can take." He dramatically held his hands up in surrender.

Is he being serious??

"You are more of a girl than we are Arihant, so shut it." Arundhati turned to and poked his chest.

"I agree with her."

"What are you doing there? Why are you still sitting?...?" Arundhti faked shock.

To this Arihant just rolled his eyes.

Arundhati turned to face him, smiled widely from ear to ear and gave him the middle finger.

We got into Arihant's car and he drove us to wherever he was supposed to be driving to.

It took us about 15 minutes to reach there. 15 minutes of fighting. Both of them argued all the way till here about who was 'more of a girl'.

There was a big peepal tree in the middle of the road. This place was isolated. Everything was so calm, so perfectly tranquil with uninviting air around it.

We parked along side the pavement.

It was the Sector9 Metro Station, known to be one of the most haunted places of Dwarka.

We got down and the wind gushed making a shiver run down my spine. I pulled the sleeves of my sweater and hugged myself.

"My baby cold?" Ravi put her arm around me.

"Your baby scared." I dryly said. To this, she giggled and tighten her grip on me.

"Hey..Abaaaniii" Someone called out my name loudly.