Diatribes of dreams

Chapter-1

Chapter-1
That unusual dream
A dark shady night it was At around 11Pm, Walking alone on a dimly lit street looking forward to an endless road suddenly it felt like a strike of lightning bolt he could see nothing but bright white light blinding him. Took him back in time. Several memories Some good but mostly harsh felt to happen again making him suffer his worst experiences. He could feel the chill in those memories .He felt to be surrounded by all the flashbacks he never wanted to. Still smile was there on his lips trying to confront them with his only one good memory. Unable to bear it he started to run fighting with his condition and in no time found himself on busy road. Not much traffic but according to time it felt unusual to see this much rush on outskirts of city. Cars were running fast, It had started to grow colder as winter was approaching. Panting heavily started to walk again slowly approaching towards a figure of man standing at end of street. His face couldn't be recognised. He went close to him really close, out of nowhere a knife came in his hand and stabbed the figure in neck. Suddenly sirens started to ring loudly. He was now lying on his bed, alarm ringing. He got up, panicked by the horrible dream last night switched off the alarm and moved towards the bathroom. Aamir is a man of wit and determination, software engineer in a reputated company in Delhi. He belongs to a small town of Rajasthan. Strong built, Tall, half shaven beard he pulls off with pitch black hair. Sitting at the table alone having toast with orange juice all as usual but still unusual because of the continuous creeps from the dream he had. Consoling himself that it was just a dream, left for Office at 8:30 AM. As soon as Aamir left the building he noticed a weird hooded man standing on the edge of his street. But he didn't pay much attention as he was already running behind his schedule. He managed to get to office in time. Whole day at office thinking about the dream he passed. His peculiar behaviour got noticed by one of his favourite colleague Vedika

Vedika was an independent girl working in the same Company as Aamir She is from Bangalore and was working for just her own pleasure unlike that of Aamir. Vedika was the first person Aamir interacted in the city when he came. She was very humble to him and they used to had sort of fun things like riding bike in evening spending time in park. She was the friend he needed to make him feel more of himself. She comes from a well to do family.
Vedika went to Aamir's cubical to ask if he was alright to which he responded affirmatively. But she had an intuition that he was hiding something from her. So she invited him for a coffee in the evening. "Sure I'll be at your place at 7" said Aamir excitedly trying to hide his nervousness
At 5 Aamir left office and to his surprise the same hooded guy was standing across the street. "I sort of remember that figure" He said to himself. He started to move towards the figure slowly. He looked left and then right and moved straight to cross the road but the mysterious man was gone. From there he headed straight to home as he had a promised vedika a coffee this evening . As soon as he got to his apartment he kind of felt something mysterious but considering it as aftermath of the dream he ignored it.
"I will soon be having coffee with vedika" he murmured pulling of his pair of trousers. By 6:55 P.M. he was at her door gazing at his watch waiting for the needle to hit 7 (he didn't wanted to seem much desperate). Even before he could knock the door swung open and there stood Vedika in a white t-shirt and a green skirt. She had wavy hair falling along her shoulders. Aamir stood there with his mouth half open at her glance and his hand hung in mid air ( the same way it was for the past three minutes watching time). Vedika gave him a confusing glance.
"I was about to knock" he said hurriedly
"Uh-huh?" she wondered
"Come on, get in" she said and went in again. Aamir followed her.
Her Apartment was cleaner than ever. As he stepped in he noticed that she had it refurbished. The hall had a couch in centre facing T.V and back towards the entrance door and kitchen at the corner. Near kitchen a round dinning table for four (though she lived alone there).
He was just looking at the new arrangement and soon she too entered the hall from a door near T.V. It was her bedroom he knew.
"So I'll get the coffee" she told him "U may sit there" she mocked pointing at the couch.
"Oh yeah" I forgot its clean today
He sat there for a while watching T.V. when she came back with two mugs of coffee. "What's on T.V." she asked handing him the Mug. "Nothing much was just checking out some news" He replied switching it off.
"So how come it strike your?" he asked her
" Strike what? Coffee?" she exclaimed
With a grin on his face he replied "No! About finally cleaning your mess" and soon the both were laughing hard. As he recalled he had never seen her house this clean before it was always covered with her clothes lying on the couch and chips packets lying on the floor.
"I've decided to change myself" she declared proudly "No more waking up late. No more junk food. Will be regular at gym and most importantly will keep my place clean"
They both took a large sip of 'yet being ignored' coffee, looked into the eyes and again there was a bust of laughter. But vedika looked determined this time
Another sip of coffee and vedika said hesitantly "er what was bothering you at office this mornin"
"Nothing"
"look! I am your friend, you can talk to me if something is bothering you or if you need some help" she said in a consoling way
"oh it was nothing! Trust me, I just hadn't my sleep last night" he lied.
She pretended to believe him but was still suspicious. And Aamir too knew that she will not gonna believe him this easily. They spent the whole evening gossiping around. The sun had already set. They had their dinner by 8:30 P.M.
As soon as hour hand struck 9, Aamir stood up " I should be get going now" he said. Vedika insisted him to stay. But Aamir wanted to reach home before roads get barren though he wanted to spend Some more time with Vedika.
He get on his bike and headed towards his apartment. Riding fast, thinking about the evening he had, forgot completely about the horrible dream he had last night. As soon as he reached his building, he noticed the hooded guy but it was too dark to inspect so he decided to better head off to the bed

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