6 Chapter 5

<Racheal>

I've been crying non-stop after recalling the incidents of those nights. I think it's the guilt and the regret coming in the form of tears to deepen my pain. Since Joe's death I was always thinking about the incidents or more of mistakes that happened at the heat of the moment. And everything pilled up in me, is flowing now without any dead-end.

Both of us are silent in the room, sitting in the same places for a long time. When I lift my head, I see Alina wiping her eyes. I understand I was crying for a lot of reasons but why was Alina crying? God alone knows!

And then I finally hear Alina clear her throat and talk in that same soothing voice of hers. How she does it, no idea! "Racheal, you need to calm down dear, please. I'm really sorry about bringing up the topic now. But I had to do it. That night there was one last call to your telephone from the airport, asking you to come by and take Joe's belongings. As this number was the last call Joe made, they thought you were closely related to him. But, after that call you probably threw the receiver to the floor, the force of which broke it. When I came home next day morning, I found it lying on the floor. But I hadn't noticed that the wires were also cut. All of which says the phone has been dead for two weeks now. You never noticed the phone and didn't repair it either. So, there couldn't be any calls made or received from that phone."

Her sentences are making me go crazy now. Yes, I hadn't noticed the telephone in the mornings to check if it was fine. The only times I ever went near the stand was at 2 am to pick up the call. Now, she says there can't be any call made or received. Then, what were the calls at 2am. An activity of the ghosts? Ohhh damnnn! Is Joe trynna be a ghost and troubling me? Is that what all of this is? Fucking hell!

<Alina>

Racheal's face is totally unreadable now. I think she is just trying to digest all the facts that I have told her. But this reaction from her is too much for what I have told.

"Racheal, you okay?"

"RACHEAL! are you okay? Ohh God! You are shivering."

I move towards her couch and try to hug her. Her skin is cold as ice and damn she is just acting crazy.

"Alina, Joe... JOE is trynna kill me! Yes it's Joe!"

I understand nothing is her sentence. Though I try to make sense of it, nothing makes any sense. "Rachael, calm down first and speak a bit slowly and maybe even more clearly. Lemme understand what you are trynna say."

She lifts her head, looks into my eyes. When I stare in those greenish eye balls, I see fear, extreme fear that's making her go crazy.

She swallows first and starts slowly, "Alina, Joe has turned into a ghost. It's him who has been calling me at 2 am every night. He speaks crazy sentences, like 'you are a crazy bitch. You are not alone' and blah blah blah. That's him. Totally him. That telephone, that's where he called me to tell about leaving me, breaking up and then the death, it probably turned him to a ghost. Now he is trying to kill me. Right? This is what's happening here. I'm sure. Aren't you? Alina, speak something. I'm right, am I?"