Their mother lost consciousness after she spoke. Shekhar sat next to his mother on the bed while Sheila rushed to get medicines and glass of water. Sakshi took the kids into their room and comforted them. Later she visited Vicky at his room. Everyone were confused. "What was happening"., they thought.
They were deeply disturbed. Everything was normal till yesterday. With the house shaking, the TV flipping channels itself, the light flickering and then their mother acting weirdly, nothing made sense to them. There were too many questions to answer. Apart from this, they were very worried about the children.
When Sakshi entered his room, everything was scattered. Vicky sat on his knees on the floor. His face showed stains of tear droplets. Sakshi felt sorry. She had thought that bringing him home would change his mood. But it was making him more depressed. She gently touched his hand to let him know her presence. He looked up and said weakly, "I am sorry. It's all because of me."
Sakshi hugged him and consoled," Don't be too hard on yourself. What happened yesterday or today was not due to anyone. It was beyond our understanding." " No! I bought the miseries on our family. This demon... is causing all this. This is not happening yesterday. It's happening since six months. It killed my friend and now it is torturing mother.", he cried.
"What are you saying? Have you gone mad?", she asked in bewildered tone. He looked at her with fear. He feared about what she would think of him. He feared whether she would believe him or consider him mad. He feared a innocent lie about the trip he had taken with his friends and hidden truth about the demon would break their relationship. But he couldn't stay quiet any longer. "Remember, I told you I was visiting Jog falls with friends. I lied to you. We had visited a small house in a village outskirt of city. It had a room that was haunted by dangerous demon as per the folklore. It was just for adventure and to see whether that folklore was truth or lie. It killed Ronny. Then it followed me to the city and tortured me. Now it's behind mother."
Sakshi listened intently. She was shocked. She slowly understood the illusions she had yesterday, weird behaviour of her brother and the reason behind why his room was always cold. She didn't know whether she should yell at Vicky for his carelessness or console him for bearing the torture of demon without letting his family know. She hit him mercilessly on his back and then hugged him. They cried relentlessly.
(To be continued)
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