Similar sound

There is something special about horror stories. 90% of the people will say that they don’t believe anything called ghost, but the moment you talk about something supernatural, something that can’t be described by the known forces of nature becomes a point of interest to all the people. Now as I have said so far you must have guessed the story is not a same old love story that you usually come across my blog (if you have ever read one that is). And also one more thing I guess I have given a nice intro to hold my reader’s attention, as it is a horror story.

Shree was watching a horror flick in her laptop in the evening. The story was of a girl who was killed in some a day after her marriage and then later on she became a ghost and used to haunt all men n women who used to cross the place of her accident. The acting seemed to be more comic than horror. Shree felt disappointed for spending the entire evening in such a below standard movie. Now she suddenly realised that it’s almost 10.30pm and she hasn’t yet ordered her food for home delivery as her mother was out of station. So there was only one option left for her, go to a nearby restaurant and buy some food.

She quickly took some money in hand and went out. She realised that she hadn’t changed her brother’s track suit which was quite over sized. But it was too late for any fashion parade she thought and started to walk quickly. She reached the restaurant in no time and ordered her food. Now while paying for the food, she realised that she didn’t care to bring her purse in the hurry and had a 500 rupees note. When she produced it in front of the shopkeeper his expression changed into a disgusted one.

 “kya madam102 rupay ka bill hua hai iske liye itna chutta kaahan se denge aapko!!” he said

“please bhaiya dekhiye na. I dnont hav any other note” Shree managed.

After a few minutes of argument the shopkeeper gave up and gave her the change and she could sense her victory.

On her way back, just after taking a few steps the lights went out. It was pitch dark. She wondered how come the shop she went just now closed down so suddenly. Taking a few more steps, suddenly she remembered about the film that she was watching. How coincidental it was that in the climax of the film when the hero returns to his house there is a sudden load shedding. And then the ghost of the girl chases him through the graveyard in the darkness. She wondered how come every horror flick has to have some chase sequence in a graveyard! Thinking all these she suddenly felt a chill in her spine. She felt some one was following her wearing an anklet (or payel), that the Indian dancers used to wear. And again coincidental how the dead girl in the film used to follow her preys. She consoled herself by saying that possibly it was someone who was wearing those anklets and there is nothing abnormal about it. To conform this, she suddenly stopped walking and turned back to see. But the moment she stopped walking the sound of the anklet also stopped. This time she lost her nerve, and started to sprint towards towards her house. And as soon as she started running the sound of the anklet grew stronger, as if the person or whoever it was also was running after her.

There was nothing but darkness and a figure invisible chasing her. Her heart was beating fast as she came to a stop in front of her house. The sound had stopped, she felt relieved and sat down on the street. The light came back. She had lost all her energy and power but a chilly feeling was still there as soon as she thought what might have just happened. She felt unsafe outside and quickly got up to go inside. The moment she looked up in the light street lights, she saw a face half burned and a blood dripping from the other side. Shree went unconscious seeing this horrible scene.

Epilogue:

One of shree’s neighbours found her unconscious in front of her house the next morning. He called some other people to take her inside her house. Shree was lying fainted right in front of the boundary wall of their house, which contained the poster of a horror film having a very ugly burned face on it. And when they lifted her to take her in, tons of coins came out of her pocket which she got from the restaurant, it’s quite strange that anklets and a lot of coins make similar sound !!

Idea from : darna zaroori hai.