MESSENGERS

It's late night when I completed a webseries and the time is 1:21 AM when I finally looked at the screen of my phone before pressing the power button to close my eyes and sleep.

I slept well and woke up at 8:30 AM and my mom told me to bring some milk packets from dairy parlour. When I came back thay are in a hurry and my mom and dad are in panic. My mom saw me and said " son we are leaving to our native palce for an urgent work. You fresh up and there is chapati mixture in fridge , make as many as you want and heat the chicken curry and finish your breakfast. Afternoon you go out and bring whatever you want to eat with this money from the nearest hotel" and gave 200Rs. They took off in the car waving thier hands and giving some precautions.

What would you do if your parents aren't at home and you are alone in the house. Don't think of HOME ALONE adventures or SOMETHING else. All you need to do is to be safe, I think so.

What I did is, I locked the front and back gates and went to washroom to fresh up. After doing all the work I opened the fridge took out the chapati mixture and chicken curry outside and took it to the kitchen. I started making chapati mixture into small pieces and took the chapati roller to flat the pieces. I kept the pan on the stove and started to roast the chapati. After a certain time I made 5 of them to satisfy my tummy and heated the chicken curry and served them in a plate and I'm happy as my favourite combo is ready to eat. I took out my phone and opened camera, clicked a snap to post it as status in WhatsApp. I opened WhatsApp and clicked on the pic and wrote "MORNING" as caption and before uploading it "Is it necessary?" my conscience asked me. I was like "yeah, it's not" so I dropped it and started to eat. Then I heard the sound of someone opening the main gate. As the curtains closed I didn't seem them properly but all I did notice is one of them was male and another was female. They tried to open the front gate but they left it as it was locked and walked through the corridor and reached the back gate. It was also locked and I saw them and they saw me. When I saw thier face , it was dark. On seeing thier faces fear ran through my body. Thier face was like as if danger/fear had a face it would be like them. They were hardly above middle age. When they noticed me the man started 

"Hey boy, open the gate"

"Who are you and why should I open it?" I replied

"We want to talk" the woman broke her silence 

"What do you want?" I raised my voice 

"First open the gate and then we will talk" he lifted his voice

"No way" I resisted

"Don't test our patience, open the gate now" the woman shouted 

"Why the hell should I open and who the hell are you people?" I yelled 

"He's not listening, break the damn gate" she ordered him 

The man picked a rod and started to break it down.

" Hey stop! What are you doing? Stop it" I shouted 

I tried to hold the gate closed with my hands and then he grabbed my hands and started to pull out of the gate.

" Stop you are hurting me. Let me go" I yelled out of pain 

But he didn't listen and started to pull more hard 

"Aaaahhhhhh........." I shouted and suddenly woke up on my bed. 

It was all dark around and I searched for phone and I pressed the power button. The screen showed 2:41 AM on it. I can feel the sweat and that fear is still there. My heart was pounding and my pulse was fluctuating rapidly. I hold my head in my hands and "relax it was a nightmare". After sometime I went back to sleep and I don't know how I slept after all that. By morning I forgot those faces but all I remember was DARK. I went to my mom and told her about all the nightmare and she said that they must be the "MESSENGERS FROM HELL". At first I was surprised and confused but later I felt like "HELL WITH THE HELL, WHY SO SERIOUS?"

                                            -bkk@006