Sakshi looked at her brother. He looked lost. It seemed as if he was not here. There was something going in his mind. "What happened, Vicky?", she asked. Vicky replied,"Nothing!" He walked away hurriedly. There was definitely something he was hiding. "What is he hiding? Why is he not sharing it?",she thought.
"He's been acting strangely since the morning.", Sheila spoke. "I asked him so many times. He didn't say anything.", she continued. "I felt the same. I will talk to him in sometime.", Sakshi said. The sun set down. The sky turned violet pink to dark blue with moon and stars shining bright. It was the time for the devil to wake up from it's slumber.
Everything looked normal. Sakshi had forgotten the afternoon ordeal. Everyone were busy with fun activities. After playing game of UNO, they began watching a movie. It was a comedy movie. Everyone were having fun oblivious of what was going to happen next. It was silence before storm.
In midst of watching a movie, the voices of actors in the movie became deeper. It was masculine femine mixture. Shekhar switched off and on the TV to check what was wrong. It was still the same. Then he tried to flip the channels to see whether voices in other channel were the same. It was same. The kids got scared while the adults were surprised. Shekhar switched off TV to ward off the children's fear.
Suddenly lights began to flicker. The TV automatically switched on. The channel began to change automatically. A deep voice screamed from nowhere. Everything including the whole house started shake. Everyone cried in fear. They held each other and stood in center of the house. The children were protected by human chain formed by Sakshi. Sheila noticed that they had forgotten to get their mother who was resting in her room.
"What about mother? She is in the room. Someone, go and get her.", she cried. When Shekhar was about to bring her, mother arrived from her room. Her hair was untied in bun like she used to. Her eyes were red. She stomped towards Sheila and screamed in unrecognizable voice. It wasn't her. She was breathing heavily. The flares of wrath blew from her nose. Sheila was stunned.
(To be continued)
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