Ravi immediately turned around and he saw his reflection in the mirror. Ravi moved closer to the mirror and came to know, that the reflection was looking slightly different. Ravi's expressions were surprized, but the reflection was smiling. Before Ravi could say anything, the reflection said, "Ravi, you know why I called you here... You will come to know now soon..." Suddenly two hands came out of the mirror and they caught hold Ravi's neck...
Ravi just got out of his sleep and sat on the bed. Sweating and shivering, Ravi looked at the wall clock. It was 12 in the midnight. The t.v. was on but the screen had gone black. "Ohh... I just slept while watching the t.v. and saw that horrible dream..." Speaking to himself, Ravi took out the c.d., then switched off the c.d. player and t.v. Checking everything is ok, Ravi went back to sleep. He was changing sides frequently as due to the dream, he was not able to sleep...
Ravi heard sound of water drops. He listened carefully. The sound was coming from the washroom. "I had checked all the taps before sleeping, then these water drops..." A shiver ran inside Ravi. Slowly he moved towards the washroom. The sound of opening door was also a bit scary. Ravi peeped inside. The water drops from the tap were falling in the bucket. Ravi felt a bit relaxed. Closing the tap again he turned back...
In the wall mounted mirror, Ravi saw an image of a woman. Ravi was able to see her floating hair but her face was not seen. Ravi got speechless and kept looking at the image inside the mirror. He thought, "If the image is in the mirror... t...then w...whosoever it is... it is behind me..." A drop of sweat ran behind his ear. Ravi suddenly turn back but there was nobody. He again turned towards the mirror but the image was also gone. Ravi was litrally bathing in his sweat. He closed the door and jumped on the bed...
Ravi even had no courage to look at the bathroom. Turning towards the drawing room Ravi closed his eyes tight and just lied on the bed. He opened his eyes slightly and saw the door was opened a bit. Seeing the open door Ravi was astonished. "I had closed the door, then how come it is open... Is s...omebody outside the room..." A shiver went across his body. Ravi approached the door. He opened the door with a whisker. There was total darkness in the hall with graveyard silence...
The silence was so deep that even the, "tik tik..." of the clock was sounding creepy. The hall was totally sunk in darkness. With the dim lights coming from outside the building, Ravi's eyes and ears were searching each and every corner of the hall. When Ravi was satisfied that everything was ok, he turned back to his bed. At the same time, "Khallllllllackkkkkk...." Ravi was stunned with the sound and he just went unmoved like a statue...
The sound of breaking of the glass was coming from the kitchen. Taking the help of the wall, slowly and steadily Ravi was moving towards the kitchen. Ravi's heart was pumping. The darkness, the "tik tik.." of the clock, the silence and now the broken glass sound had increased his fear. Ravi reached the kitchen and peeped in slowly. There was nothing that can be afraid about. A sigh of relief ran across Ravi's face. "May be its all my imagination..." Thinking this Ravi turned back...
The same image was standing in front of Ravi that he had seen in the wash room mirror. The hands of the womans' image was soaked in blood and was coming towards Ravi. A creepy chill went down Ravi's spine. His eyes and mouth were wide open with fright. Ravi wanted to scream but words were no where to be heard. Ravi was stunned in silence like a lifeless statue...
It was 5 o'clock in the morning. Ravi opened his eyes. He found himself in bed. The incident that happened in the night was still fresh in Ravi's mind but as the night had ended, he was feeling little calm. Ravi came out in the drawing room. He saw, there were a bunch of people over there with some policemen. Just in the centre of the hall, there was a white cloth spread on the ground. Ravi's wife Jyoti was sitting on a chair and a lady constable was noting down something...
Jyoti started talking, "I was on a trip with my friends. It was very late in the night when I returned. I reached my bedroom where I saw Ravi was constantly changing sides. I went to the washroom to get fresh. I came out when I saw Ravi was peeping inside. Seeing my image in the mirror Ravi was shocked. So I just left and went to the kitchen to drink water. The glass slipped out my hand and broke after hitting the floor. I was lifting the pieces when a piece sliced my hand and it got wounded...
I was about to wash blood out of my hands when I saw Ravi standing behind. I went closer to him but Ravi got so much afraid that...... I had told him so many times, not to watch horror movies in the night. He must have seen a horror movie last night and......" Trying to pacify Jyoti the lady constable said, "Jyotiji, fear is the most dangerous enemy. Your husband also became a prey of that fear..."
Ravi was surprised with all that was happening. He started thinking, "How does Jyoti know all that happened in the night...??? Why no one is noticing me when I am just in front of them...???" As Ravi was engaged in thoughts, the white cloth on the ground moved away a little. Ravi was left astonished in silence with what he was seeing... Ravi saw himself lying down on the floor. He was fast asleep in the cluches of death...
@ Aniket Parshuram Apte.
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