Haunted By Unknown

49. diary

I am so sorry. I thought to update yesterday as new year special but I had been too busy. So don't get mad.

Happy new year guys. Let's believe in ourselves and make this year beautiful with our happiness and peace. So now we will jump into the story....

Arjun tried to relax seeing nandini outside in the lawn who was talking to her neighbour. He felt it was a wrong place but mohit forced him to come here.

At first Arjun thought to choose sampath's home. But his mother is very religious and will eat their brains with her beliefs. They thought about danush but his brother is having exams and their arrival will disturb him. The boy likes them a lot.

Finally they thought to go out since they can't choose mohit's home. Nandini is recovering now and they don't want her to get emotional. But mohit assured them she won't mind and pulled him till here.

"Sister do you have anything to eat?" Danush asked nandini.

"What else do you want to eat?" Sampath yelled as the chocolates, chips, and pizza was already on the table. Also he was munching few chips.

"We are too many" danush said making nandini to laugh.

"I will get something for you" nandini said laughing. Mohit smacked his head for stressing his wife.

"I thought she would run away from us and won't hear us" danush said innocently.

"Why would she run from her own house?" Sampath scolded him. Danush showed his pearls to hid friends.

"If you ask her or even speak to her, I will permanently plaster your mouth" mohit warned him.

"Arey how will I kiss my girlfriend then?" Danush asked them.

"He is worried about kissing but he's not promising us he will shut his mouth" arjun scolded him.

"Why would he shut his mouth" sampath said.

"We should have brought disha and kept her beside him. It would have shut his mouth" mohit muttered.

"Please get her mohit. I am unable to contact her" danush caught his chin. They got angry and throwed pillows on him. He caught them and ignored all his close friends are glaring at him.

They talked, cursed and fought among themselves. When nandini came back, the four friends sat normally as if nothing happened. She shook her head and placed maggi for them.

"Thank you very much sister" danush told her.

"Thank you. But I don't like my room untidy" nandini smiled at him.

"We will clean it" mohit promised his wife.

"You should" she told him firmly and left. All let out their breaths and relaxed. Mohit took the diary and opened it. Danush grabbed the pizza and told his friend to start.

March 29th, 1992

Does god wants to punish me for some mistake I have done? Or it is simply my imagination?  I saw vinamra today walking into the vacant room next to me. She wished me good afternoon and went to her room. Is this hallucination? Am I losing myself into the depression? Or this is a new plot god has created for me? I don't know. HE never talked with me.

April 4th, 1992

It turns out that fate has the worst part saved for the end. Why do I sound so different? As if I do know she came here to kill me?  She had come here because of depression like me. But why is she in depression is unknown. I am living in mental hospital since few months. So I know nothing what happened in the outside world. What made her drench in depression.

April 21th, 1992

I don't know what to believe and what not to believe. Am I seeing vinamra? Or some one else with that name? Or seriously am I hallucinating?  Why did she tell me that her best friend was killed in front of her and she is having very bad nightmares that her parents admitted her in this mental hospital. What is true?

April 23rd, 1992

Today I opened my feelings with the doctor. She listened for a while and spoke up. I don't know what to do. What she said surprised and shocked me.

"You are sure your friend's name is vinamra?" Doctor geethika asked me.

"Yes doctor. I am sure"

"You used to call her vinnu?"

"Yes. She used to call me nandu. She said only best friends call with pet names"

"I am asking you not because I wanted to prove she is not vinamra. Your best friend took the room next to your room" she said slowly. It shocked her because she was already informed that vinamra tried to kill her.

"She was joined in the hospital because she has bipolar disorder. I will make sure she is not in same floor with you. But be careful" geethika advised me. I was glad she did not stamp me as insane but confirmed that vinamra had indeed is in next room.

But I am not sure how she is diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Her brother denied his little sister can hurt others. He even said that the boy is missing and not dead as prithvi said. What made her open herself in front of everyone?  Did she hurt gopi? Or her mother?

July 4th, 1992

Vinamra seems to be good and doctors said she's improving. I was glad that she's recovering. But it is pity that her parents won't visit her like her brother. He did not speak with me but I cared less. He's not my real brother.

Still it is surprising that her parents won't see her once.

July 26th, 1993

Tomorrow is the day of my release. Release into my old world. I have been so close with patients here. Most of the patients here have became like kids after loosing their families or kids. Others are mentally retarted and have to be taken special care to adjust into the outside world. They have separate rooms in upper floors where there are classes for them. The teachers teach them how to do their own works. Later they will be taught to make candles, diyas, small handicrafts to earn money. It is pity that almost all the children and youngsters are poor people.

Many of the parents left them in hopes that they will learn something. But I did heard there are few kids whose parents left on only one intention. To lessen their burden. It was stupid of them to think in that way but atleast they left in right place. The children don't have to worry much. They have good people to look after them.

This is the last day of my disturbed life. I am leaving my past and going into my new life. I am happy that prithvi will marry me in fourty days. It will be different or I may not cope with my new environment. But I have my prithvi and it's more than enough for me.

I am going to be mrs. Prithvi soon.

"What is there more to read now? She gets married and have children in few years. This book is a waste one to us" danush said sadly. He completed the food and now started sipping cool drink. He can't drink other drinks in the house.

"No danush. Nandana had died and is in that hospital" sampath said.

"How do you know?" Danush asked him.

"Idiot who saved you on that day? Who changed those children's minds and send them away to play?" Mohit asked him hitting his head.

"Oh that girl is Nandana"

"Yes. Now she is in mental hospital and is helping us. So it means she died there"

"It means she did not leave the place" arjun said.

'Now where does gopal fit in the story?' Arjun wondered. Till now he had been a good guy. But why vinamra's parents,  his grandparents are not visiting her is a new question.

'What could be the reason?' He asked himself.

Mohit decided to continue the book and fortunately they are at the end of the binded diary.