Now for the tiff with my colleague…it got sorted out by evening…I understood, my irritation was due to this bitter ache in my head…and his irritation was as I guessed right, A fight with his wife…Reason being, “He was late to reach home the previous eve…He been to some friends who flew in for some exhibition…” …The wife was informed…but she didn’t take it in good spirits….I suppose…Anyways, as a final say…wife reacted and he reacted…and so now its silence between them for the time being…uhmm…normal husband-wife fight…hope and wishing him good luck to sort it out soon…Anyways, I and he spoke and our irritation was solved…
Back to my YESTERDAY…By afternoon, he gave me a call…his bro is coming down from another city and he needs to go with his bro to the exhibition…He wants me to take his car in the eve…He will pick it up later from my place…FINE…It was lunch time…Our offices are in two different Towers…so he came down in his car to pick me…One of my office mate joined me to have lunch at the Mall…So, we together dropped back my colleague at his office building and was heading towards the Mall’s Food Court…Suddenly I thought of getting for myself a bottle of water…and for my office mate a Coke…We stopped the car in front of the building with the Grocery Store…
I rushed in…(our lunch break was fast getting over…)…I made a sudden halt in front of one of the glass doors inside the building…I could see the long corridor…I could see quite some glass doors…I could see nothing else…No Grocery Shop…No Café…Nothing…A sudden blankness engulfed me…a terror passed thru me…I was lost…I was trying hard to think…WHERE AM I…WHAT AM I DOING THERE…I knew I came to a shop…but I found no shop in there…I trying pulling open one of the doors in that dark corridor…it didn’t budge…a fear went past me…Was I in the wrong building... I found myself rushing out of the door…
I could see nothing clear…Maybe the Sun’s rays was scorching my eyes…I was just muttering… “The Shop…???”…I remember myself pointing to the building entrance…a passerby heard me (I suppose)…He replied… “The owner’s uncle passed away…so the shop is closed for today…”… I got the answer..but still I was blank at mind…I dint know what was I supposed to do next…I could see some cars parked in front of me…
I vaguely remembered getting out of a car and walking towards the building…With that thought, I just opened the first car and got inside and sat in the passenger seat…There was no driver…I thought…WHERE IS HE???...but WHO HE…I had no answer for that question…I was just blank…I looked around to see if anybody was around…
I saw someone waving at me from another car…Finally it dawned on me…that was my office mate…he was actioning as if WHAT ARE YOU DOING…and I realized…Gosh, I am in the wrong car…I rushed out and got into my colleague’s car…(thank god, the owner of the other car was not around...) I could hear my office mate asking me… “What was that??? What happened to you??? Why did you go and sit in that car..??? You didn’t even realize that you were getting into a white car instead of this Grey…??? You are CRAZY…."
I was shocked rather than embarrassed…I knew everything he said was absolutely true…WHY??? HOW COULD I???WHAT HAPPENED TO ME???WHERE WAS MY SENSES???...WAS I CRAZY???
I agreed with shame, that for some strange reason, I was lost…I just couldn’t understand what happened to me those few minutes…I was JUST LOST….Am I soooo careless….??? I don’t know…But I could hear my friend laughing and , “It is so easy for somebody to kidnap you…The kidnapper have to do nothing…You will just go and sit in his car and he can drive off…”
His words were going above my head…as I was still immersed in my thoughts…I was still trying hard to find an explanation for what happened few minutes back…I owe no explanation to anybody else…But ME…I needed an explanation…Was it some sort of Alzheimer symptom…??? Or was I just careless…Or was it a prank by the bright rays of the Sun…Or was it the Headache giving some Hallucination…I really don’t know…All I can recollect was a dark corridor and some locked glass doors…I don’t even remember seeing through the glass doors…I just felt as if one of those scary dreams were coming to life…
As I am sitting here right now with a bad head ache, in front of this computer monitor, jotting down my horrifying encounter, my mind is still wandering off…Still looking for a Logical Answer...Afterall…
4 comments:
Hey,you create scary stories out of your fertile imagination with head aches,tiffs,coleagues car, white car ,closed shop thrown in.You create a gripping scene making the reader rivetted to your blog.What is the idea? You write amazingly well and that is your strength aided by a creative mind.
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Hey Dost,
That was not a creation of my imagination. It is exactly what happened to me ystrdy afternoon...Even now, I get a shiver remembering myself trying to pull open the glass door of the closed shop...and finding myself in that dark corridor...God knows, why I went blank there...But I really hope there is some genuine and logical reason for that. I dont want to end up being called NUTS by others...uhm...
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You evoke some incredible scariness. Nice post.
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