Back To School

She flipped her eyelids to open slowly. Rays of Sun were falling on her. She flinched a little. Raindrops were falling down in heavy force and its sound was also reaching her ears. She was not understanding anything. "Why was she lying here in her four-poster bed at her hostel room at this odd hour of a day??!!" She asked herself. "Do Mrs. Mcgullicardy punish her again??!!" Roma was thinking by herself. She was trying to get up when someone stopped her. She stiffened up by such sudden touch but got assured to see her roommate and best friend Myra. Myra Jefferson was the person who stopped her to get up.

:Uhhu, you are too weak. You should not get up now. Just lie down and relax, okay? Even evil Mrs. Mcgullicardy gave you one day sick leave." She told her in worried voice.

"What happened to me?" Roma asked her.

"Nobody knows." She nodded her head in utter dispointment. "Some persons discovered you lying unconcious inside the deep of the forest outside the school compound."

"Am I hurt?" By telling this Roma lifted both of her arms to check for any physical injury.

"You was left there unharmed." Myra told her.

"Oh, ok." Roma whispered timidly.

"Could you remember anything? I mean do you recall any moment?" Myra asked her.

"How long am I missing from here?" She cleverly dodged the question and asked her another question.

Myra shrugged her shoulders. "Just three months."

"But.. But.. I can't recall anything." Roma made her big eyes more wide in shock.

"What the hell was going on here??!! I was missing for three months but I don't have any memory of those months." Her angry brain was shouting inside her. "What happened to me in three months??!!!"

Myra patted her friend's right shoulder in order to assure her. She did not understand what to do except that.

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Call Of Devil, Devil Comes

"Myra get out of here."

A harsh voice rang on both of the girl's ears. Both of them got scared and became lifeless for a second. Then Myra ran out of the room without uttering a word.

Roma looked at the disappearing shadow of her friend in utter shock. Why on the earth Mrs. Mcgullicardy was so harsh on her?!! What was going on here??!! What she wanted to hide from everyone??!!

She gulped nervously. What was her evil class-teacher was planning to do with her now?!!!

"Madam, please spare her. She was innocent." She told her nervously.

All of a sudden her piercing eyes got soft. She looked at her with unnecessary softness in her evil eyes - "Don't worry. I am not punishing Myra for helping you."

Roma looked at her with wide eyed and mouth agape. What happened to her evilness??!!

"Thank you so much, Madam." She gulped and told her.

Mrs. Mcgullicardy stared hard at her face for a second or two and then whispered to Roma - "You are welcome."

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Zynx Took Birth

When Mrs. Mcgullicardy left, Roma sat alone on her hospital bed. She just could not trust her own eyes. How the evil classteacher suddenly changed in this way??!!! She till now never liked her, then why??!!!

All of a sudden small "Tweep. Tweep" sounds reached her ears. She tried to concentrate on it. It seemed like some infant bird was happily chirping. She looked towards the direction of the sounds in vain. The sound came from inside her bed. No, not inside but actually from beneath her bed.

She peeped beneath and what she saw there took her breathe away. A small snake like serpent was chirping happily. Its body was very colorful exactly like a rainbow. Its small eyes fell on her for sometime and looked at her bewilderedly.

Then it bolted towards Roma and jumped on her lap with loud "Tweep" sounds. It twirled on her legs happily.

She put a shivering hands on its forehead and it surrendered itself to her happily.

"Do you think I am your Mom, little one?" She asked it who in response looked happy in her eyes.

"Okay, then. I accept the post of your mother." She sighed hard while it by opening its long tongue licked her hands.

"I will call you Zynx then." By telling this, she sighed again and put it into the fruit basket near her hospital bed.

Her brain told her that this small serpent baby would help her in near future.

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