Hari's Mysterious Church

A Story 

It is a cloudy dark night. A man is standing in a terrace, he takes a cigarette packet from his pocket and takes and lights a cigarette from it.He is having a good view of the night town from the top. After taking a few puff of the cigarette and a few looks into the town he turns back and moves towards the stairs down. He walks down the stairs and there one man notices him and come towards him and address :

“Hari how many times I have told you that this 5cm needle will make your life shorter, at least stop  smoking inside the hostel.”

He then takes one more puff and reluctantly crushes the cigarette  and continues to walks down.

He reaches the lower level of the building and a man after seeing him come towards him and hands over him a key and says

“Hari she is waiting inside the hotel ,here is the key, when she goes just lock down the hotel and switch of the lights , I will be there in my room”

For this he nodded and entered the hotel. It  is dimly lighted  inside. Only a girl was inside the hotel. She is seating in a table with a lighted candle before her. He joins her and says:

“sorry,iam late”

For this she replies:

“It’s not a new thing Hari, I am used to it “

“hey, are you angry with me”

“nope, have only a doubt that how long this relationship will go.”

“I think you really are moody today, anyway I will make you happy,now just hear to my magical words”

“oh God, started again”

“I will make you motivate”

“please don’t make me cry”

“you better hear, all right let’s get started, have you heard about the sachintendulkars success mantra? It is his burning desire which made his carrer, like that you should also have some burning desire in you”

To which the girl smiles and replies him in a very unusual way

“huh, burning desire”

As she spoke these words, the candle flame burned fiercely, her face is seeing through the flames and again she spoke those words

“burning desire”

When she spoke again it seemed like her face is burning inside the flames.

On spur of moment it seemed like the candle was growing and its going to hit me, I closed my eyes and moved down and when I opened my eyes I was totally somewhere else, it’s full dark in here, I am not able to see anything, but in a corner I am able to see a lighted candle, someone is holding it ,I am not able to see the face of the person holding but its coming near me. I swiftly ran towards every possible direction to find the exit. It felt like I am running inside a big hall but I  couldn’t find the exit of the doomed hall. Still the candle was haunting me I was running around the hall, all of a sudden from the dark someone  holded my hands and pushed me towards a corner , with the force I crashed with the door and the door was broken and I was out .  I was in shock , not able to grasp what happened I just looked around me and there I saw a old man dressed liked a pastor coming towards me and holding  my hands he started to walk in a hurry away from the hall.

I after taking a relief of sigh enquired:

“Father how did you know that I am trapped inside the hall”

To this the pastor replied:

“son it’s not a hall, actually it was an old christian church which was burned with two people, a men and a lady.”

After hearing this he stopped the pastor and asked:

“is the man’s name hari?”

“yes it is. wait how did you know that ?”

Then i  woke up....     

                                                   

                                                                                        by Rahul Dq