4 The Rumors

When the slight beam of light fell on my eye lids , I slowly opened my eyes to finally see the room . My arms were wrapped around my knees to prevent shivering and I slept in that posture whole night .

'Am I dead ? allready ? ' was the first thought came in my mind ....

I tried to get up and sit straight , I was still dizzy so I pinched myself to confirm that I was alive . And yess , surprisingly I was alive . I spined my head to look around , the interior of mension was not as horror as it's exterior , It had few spider webs in corners , it was quite well ventilated for air to pass in may be that's why the house of cold last night even without any fan , it was huge and empty as I thought , it didn't had any furniture not even a sofa . There were two stairs at both the sides and four big chandeliers on the celling making a diamond like shape together . This mansion was more like a royal castle or may be it looks like that because it's resembling a structure of 90s houses .

I applied force to pull my butt which was stucked on the floor since night to stand up but my effort was useless coz my pelvis along with my legs got partially paralysed , my lower body was hurting , it felt like every part of me was resisting to move so I decided to crawl . Rubbing the corners of my eyes for a better view and looking down at my legs I realised that my body was covered with a brown blanket , I didn't remember myself fetching a blanket to cover up myself , I am pretty sure I didn't even moved a bit from this place last night then who did this ?

No , ghost of the mension can't do this coz all I heard about him is not impressive , According to what I know he is not some one to show this much affection coz he is famous for killing and eating up living beings that is the reason even animals and insects also resist to reside at this part of the town . One can't even get network here and that's why last night I was unable to contact anyone to rescue me from here , and even if I had no one would have helped me out .

After having a brief conflict of thoughts I delayed that ' blanket ' part and finally I crawled up to the distance of door which was unfortunately quite far from the place where I was leaned before , however after reaching there I was able to assemble little balance to stand on my feet but not straight .

I placed my hand on the door knob but I was not sure if I could open it remembering the last night's incident when all of them tried hard but couldn't managed to disclose it , but surprisingly in my case the door was opened with just a slight touch on the knob .

I was not strong enough to do something which a group of mascular men couldn't then how ? , ' if not me then who was it to close the door from inside at the first place ? ' ' May be that was an effect of blowing wind '. All though it was not a satisfying answer ... I gave myself a conclusive nod and stepped out .

Stepping out from the mension I came to know that I slept pretty more then I expected , eyes disturbing Rays of of sun gave me a glimpse of time it was then , I heard lots of chirrup sounds of birds but I didn't know from where they were coming exactly . I turned back for paying an honour and discovered a pillar of Crimson colour at the center ' may be this is what on which my head strucked and I was leaning afterwards '. Anyways , after saying a last thank you and goodbye to the invisible owner of the house I left that place .

Area No : 34 , this junction was always in black list of the public of this town ,

it was said that a foregin couple once came to explore this town , unable to find any hotel at late night they decided to stay at this mension but after spending few hours there they booked a return ticket and flew back to their country . ,

Once a rich Marchant wanted to buy that mension , he also paid a good amount to the dealer and shifted to this area with his family but after five days a news article arrived that the Marchant and his wife died and unfortunately his son was safe and sound and later on taken care by a nearby orphanage .

Few years ago , a trader opt to take shelter in this mension at night and in right at the morning he was caught running out of the residence while screaming loudly in an unknown language by the locals , then he was admitted to a mental asylum .

, this are few excerpts from the rumors about this residence which I have been hearing since childhood but yet I was not convinced with them .... how could I when my experience in that house was totally reverse and safe indeed ? also I can say that the so called horror mension actually protected me from pests barking at it's door . And the best part is that I didn't had anyone who will be waiting for me , who will be expecting an excuse from me for not being at home last night , this one fact that ' I had no one worried for me or trying to contact me several times ' was one among those truths which used to make me sick and sad but this time it was something I was feeling good about .

Walking on the street I faced too many uneasy stares , every person on the road was making me uncomfortable with the way they looked at me , but soon I realized that it was not them .... it was me who was making them feel uncomfortable because of the avatar which I gained after waking up . My hair was messed up many locks of my hair were hanging from my forehead which were covering the front of my eyes and trust me it was not looking sexy anymore , my pretty dress which I ironed before wearing barely had any shine remained within it , maskara I applied under my eyes which was also beautyfying the top of my eyelids was now looking like a paused glacier one could easily recognize that I cried a lot by one look , my strawberry red mat lipstick which was previously making my lips kissable was now gone , I must have eaten it up unknowingly like I always do ,..... so ultimately my avatar was equal to someone coming out of a horror fiction , if someone would have seen me coming out of area No:34 than I would have been declared as a visible ghost by local people of town .

But nothing was bothering me at that time , they made me feel like I was an alien exposed to the humankind which certainly made me laugh inwards , I signed with the thought that at least now I was safe after being chased by those pests but if this romurs were true then the fact of ' being completely untouched by any nightly creature even after spending a good time under the most restricted and controversial roof ' still bothered me .

May be those rumors are just samll incidents in exaggerated version or may be universe was fed up of punishing me for god knows what mistakes I had made ....