08-10-2018(09)

Date: 08-10-2018, Team Revelations day at the college.

Time: 01:00 pm

Location: CGS College Auditorium.

"Arjun! Where the fuck are you? Announcements started half an hour ago, and shortly they will take attendance! Idiot! Hello! Hello! Are you there?" Julie was shouting on the call she connected to Arjun when she received a voice mail from Ayesha. "Hye there, Arjun is occupied right now! Please don't even try to call him again! You are damned disturbing us! Yeah! If you think it's urgent, dare to leave a voice message on my phone bitch, not on his!"

"This Bitch is losing her mind day by day! Have you listened to this mail! I advise not to cause you definitely won't stop yourself from killing her this time for good! I'm gonna enjoy strangling her to death with my own hands!" Julie frustrated.

Location: Susan's Icecream Restaurant

"How is it? How is my story? Do you like the legend thrill in it? You should agree about it! It was quite a story! I don't know whether it was a real one or just a story to scare kids to bed! When I was a five-year kid grandmother used to tell me that story when I used to whine and throw fits about everything! When I used to talk back, and never stopped talking, neither happy nor grateful, and always wanted something else, something more, something something something until you came bringing life into me and made me all yours!" Arjun asked Ayesha with an enquiring smile.

"What...! Jaan! You violated the ITS (Icecream Time Stories) terms, conditions, guidelines, and regulations all at once by telling me a story that you don't even know whether a real one or just a fictitious one it was! You are hurting our ITS time!" Ayesha replied harshly expressing her sadness on it.

"Oh, no! Her CD (Contentment Degree) is dropping! Can't you see that, you idiot! Her smile is fading from your Cutie's face, and you know how dangerous it sounds!" Arjun's NC (Negativity Consciousness) shouted at Arjun alerting him the peril at that situation.

"No! No! No, baby! Please don't turn bad on me! Cause I can't take sad on you! It was just the beginning of a never-ending series of our world! It was not our story! It was just the simplified dawn in it! Okay Lil, let's leave it there! Forget about it! Now, I will tell you a real story that happened in one of our friend's life! And believe me when I say it fits exactly in our ITS collection and I am sure it will bring my Cutie Pie's smile back on!" Arjun started telling a true horror story to Ayesha to make her mood happy, trying to feed her with her favorite flavors of Icecream.

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He was in the fifth standard while his brother was in the third. The school bell ranged louder that day. It was their weekend bell. He was told to meet after school for an assignment. So, He rushed out of the class to the office room. There, standing, holding an umbrella in his hand, was his dad talking to the principal.

His dad picked them up from the school, and the three of them started home from school, at six in the evening with his mind thinking about the nightmare he had last night. In that nightmare, he was running out of an old, scary, and half-demolished building towards his grandma's house. He was about to tell his dad when he got distracted by his friend waving his hand standing on the sidewalk.

His mom's native is a village, 50km from Vizag, where his grandma lives. When he reached home, his mom was packing their luggage. "Haven't I told you to be early? we have to leave within an hour!" His mom shouted at his dad.

"Where are we going this weekend?" he asked mom, curiously. "To attend your aunt's wedding, we are going to our village," she said with a hurried smile on her face. At seven in the evening, his dad, mom, brother, and he started from their home to his grandma's village.

After entering the village, they have to cross a turning where the road is pretty bad and believe me when he said there were rumors that many people died at that turning.

After crossing it, there was a speed breaker in front of an old abandoned building from where his grandma's home is only a few feet away. It was ten at night when they reached there. His aunt made a variety of items for dinner. Eating up to the brim, he chatted with our aunt, uncle, and relatives. He and his brother both slept, cuddling their grandma, listening to her bedtime stories in her room.

On the next day, when everyone was busy with the wedding arrangements, they both were playing, running on the road when his brother fell at the speed breaker. "What happened? How do you get this?" asked his grandma on seeing his brother's knee bleeding. "He fell over there!" he said, pointing at the old building.

Her face turned pale with fear. She ran into the house and brought turmeric water and performed a Nazar ritual, thinking they got an evil eye on them.

As usual, they slept in their grandma's room, cuddling up to her, listening to her holy stories instead. That night, they both woke up for the toilet but couldn't find the way to the washroom. Then their dad came asking, "why are you roaming at this time of the night?"

"We don't know where the bathroom is!" he asked their dad. "You should have woke me up as the first thing!" holding their hands, dad was taking them out of the house.

When they asked their dad why he was taking them out, he said, "Toilet in the house is under maintenance. So, we are going to use the toilet in our school."

"Is that old building a school? Is it ours?" he started asking when his brother saw their dad sleeping on the floor along with the others in the main hall.

"Brother! Our dad is sleeping over there!" his brother looked at him in fear, and when he turned back, he saw a butchered arm holding his hand, and a woman was laughing standing on her head upside down with her feet in the air outside the main door.

They screamed out of fear and started crying, getting their whole family to woke up and came running to them, asking what happened to them.

When they explained everything, their grandma told their mom to perform the Nazar ritual on them one more time, but this time with more spirited items and warned them both. "Don't you ever dare to go there!"

Being frightened, they both cuddled over their mom and slept in the main hall where all the family members were sleeping. After some time, when he was about to fall asleep, he got tickled with someone's hair falling on his face.

When he woke up, he saw a butchered head with blood dripping from it, hanging to the fan. He forced close his eyes and hugged his mom even more tightly. Only then, the poor frightened Rahul could fall asleep that night.

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To Be Tobied...!