*Featured story in Wattpad India reading list in horror genre.
* 26 on 20/09/17 in horror.
Rita was about to sleep when Jenny's message popped on her phone's display.
She unlocked her phone and when she saw her message, all colour drained from her f...
Finally the day arrived when Rita had to shift in that flat. She checked out from the hotel and called a cab.
On reaching at society's entrance, she found Rajat waiting there.
Apparently he had to take signature of her on some legal documents and also give her the keys.
"Hello madam...good to see you" He welcomed her with big smile.
"Hmm...same here. Lets go up. I will sign papers there only." Rita stated.
"B-but..mam. I mean...okay...no problem." He agreed but he looked nervous.
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On reaching her floor, she walked to her flat's door and opened it with new set of keys which Rajat had given her.
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Previous day, she had done some quick shopping and bought a small Wooden table and two chairs and moved it here so that she can relax till her furniture and other stuffs reaches Mumbai which she had booked with movers and packers. It was already on its way to Mumbai from Delhi, and was bound to arrive by evening. Till then, she decided to use that table and chair.
She sat on it after cleaning dust from tissue.
"Mr Rajat..you too should sit down." She requested.
"Yes mam"..He acknowledged.
"Where do I have to sign?" She asked him.
Rajat showed her pages on which she have to sign. She read them thoroughly before signing it.
"Mr Rajat...I will need two copies of it. Could you please arrange it or mail it to me?" She asked.
"Of course...I will do it. You don't need to worry. Anyway, I need to leave now. Call me if you have any problem." He said as he stood to leave.
Before leaving, he once again turn and glanced at room which has that mirror. He was looking at it strangely, she noted that.
"Weird." She muttered to herself after he left.
After locking door,she gave a once-over to her new home.
"Lets get to work. So much to do here. It will take more than an hour to clean whole flat." She said to herself.
She found an old broom kept in kitchen. May be last occupants have forgotten it. She thought.
After two hours of continuous cleaning and dusting , she almost gave up. Her clothes ended up drenched in sweat.
"So much dust, that also when this flat was closed since one year." She wondered.
But after her so much effort, it looked much better than before.
But, that awful odour which she felt since her first visit was still lingering. Surprisingly, during cleaning she didn't find any dead rats or other things which could have cause it.
"Maybe it is because this house was closed from so many months." Thinking that she sat on the chair to relax.
"I really have to buy room freshener as soon as possible. This smell is really disgusting." She reminded herself before closing her eyes. She didn't realised when she drifted to sleep.
She woke up startled by her phone loud ringing.
She picked it up. It was from movers-packers. Apparently, they had came and were waiting for her at building entrance as guard wasn't allowing them to get inside.
She got up and quickly went downstairs. She explained guard that they have came with her stuffs. Before going back, she also asked him for setting up intercom connection as soon as possible.
It took approximately two hours for unloading furnitures and other stuffs and then move it up in her flat. They even set up everything nicely.
After they left, she glanced at her flat, which now seemed like home. But, she knew that she still need more things to do.
At evening, she went to nearby supermarket and bought some veggies along with kitchen and bathroom supplies. And, of course two cans of lavender room freshener.
"Mission successful." She grinned and patted herself.
After reaching home, she made herself a cup of tea and ordered a pizza. She was too tired to cook 'full fledge 3 course meal' and that also just for herself.
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One thing which seemed weird to her was that she wasn't getting any more dreams of Nani since the day she had came to see that flat.
She knew that she should feel happy about it that medicine finally were doing it work but on contrary, it made her sad with realization that what if she never sees her nani again. Atleast, in her dreams she wasn't alone.
She was asleep when her eyes opened due to feeling of sudden discomfort. Weirdly, her room had became very cold. It was strange because it was month of may. Even her a.c was off.
She pulled her cover till her neck. Sadly, it didn't helped much. She was still shivering.
"I must have forgotten to close hall's window." Thinking that she got up from her bed and walked outside to shut them.
To her surprise, not a single window was left opened. She thought maybe temperature outside must have dropped. Since she is new in this city, thats why she was feeling strange. She walked back to her room and during that she spotted something unusual.
The area around mirror was way more colder than other areas.
Out of curiosity, she touched it. It was chilling cold. Reflexly, she jerked her hand back but strangely it got pulled again to the same spot which she had touched before.
She gulped and tried again, but it was getting more harder to pull it back. She couldn't understand what was happening.
"Oh God..help me...Ah..nani...ah..ah." A plea for help escaped her trembling lips.
To her surprise, suddenly her hand was jerked back and she fell down hard on floor.
She winced due to pain. She looked at her hand. It seemed normal. She looked back at mirror. It too seemed normal. Other thing which she sensed was that room's temperature was normal again as if it wasn't chilling few seconds back.
She got up, and walked towards hall and sat on sofa pondering what the hell just happened. She somehow could tell that, something was weird about that mirror and, it wasn't her imagination.
Although, she tried but couldn't get back to sleep whole night.
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A.N:-
Bit spooky... right? I tried my best to visualize and write it ,but...may be since my vocabulary is not that good, you may find mismatched words. But, if you liked it, then please vote it. Any suggestions or questions, feel free to message me.
P.S: I will upload next chapter in one or two days or may be tomorrow if I get time.
