Chapter 7: Epilouge

“What happened next?” he asked her

“She went inside the room and stopped in side, the dead bodies were lying in front of her. She was speechless and turned back to the crowd. She at once closed the door, people outside were knocking, banging, pleading to her to open, but she didn’t open. Then one of them saw a light in one of the upper floor rooms and an image of her standing near the window. She was still and not moving anywhere; suddenly she went inside and closed the window. Then they could see, something hanging from the roof of the room. It was quick to realize that, she hanged herself from the roof. People saw this whole this speechless, helpless. There was nothing much they could to save the family. They cursed the night and cried for loosing this family all together. Their anger was then moved to Raghu and they thought, he has done everything. Raghu lived in the house just below the house. It was the first house from the Sarpanch’s house. The mad crowd went to that house and started banging the house. Without any clue, Raghu opened the door and suddenly one farmer dragged him outside and all of them started beating. One of them questioned him, why he was not in the fields today. His father was not well, so he stopped to take care of him; he tried to convenience the crowd. He also said that he met Sarpanch sahib in his house and told him about his absence. Hearing this crowd lost their senses and started beating him to death. After he lost his senses, they took him inside the house and locked the door from outside. One from the crowd ran to this house and brought a bottle filled with kerosene. They poured the kerosene on the house and lit it from outside. Raghu got his senses back and went to the window; he saw fire coming out and started crying for help. People moved away from the burning house and were standing. Raghu was pleading to the crowd for help but no one turned out. Then he tried to get out but was not able to unlock the door. Soon he realized that all his efforts are waste and his whole family was going to die. He shouted to the crowd, “The way you people killed me and my family without knowing the truth, I curse this village that from now you will also never know the truth and will die searching it.” With these words, fire took the whole house in itself along with the people living inside it.”Rekha stopped suddenly.

“I have to go inside, I have left with lot of work to complete and I have to give food to my parents.” She said looking to the door.

For Tejas everything was falling in the correct place. He looked at Rekha and asked, “Its being lot of time, and we are sitting outside. If you don’t mind, can I come inside the house and get some water to drink also I can ask you some questions, while you complete your work and also I can meet with your par ants also...”

“Do you really want to come inside? And meet my parents” Rekha asked mysteriously

“Why not? If it’s not a problem for you people!!” Tejas potentially asked

“Certainly not!! You are more than welcome!!” She smiled at Tejas and holded his one hand and took him inside.

Tejas could feel a sense of dipretion inside the house. The house was dark from inside and there was a scent of blood from every where. Rekha’s voice came from behind, as she guided him to sit in a place, “I know this place is bit dark, but my parents don’t like much light.”

“Not a problem...” Tejas showed the gesture. Rekha came to him with a glass of water and gave to Tejas. He took the glass from her hand and began to drink. The water was clod and sweet, which relaxed Tejas very much.

He suddenly asked Rekha, “I want to ask you something, regarding the story!!”

“Yes… go ahead” she replied at once.

“Firstly, what was the name of Sarpanch’s daughter? And secondly, how do you know exactly what happened that night?” Tejas completed with a silence.

A blur voice came from somewhere, “Sarpanch had a daughter named REKHA and it is me who faced the entire thing”

Hearing this, glass fell down from his hands. Tejas started panicking.

“All this time, I was talking to the dead… oh god and now I am going to die” Tejas started shouting. Suddenly he saw three body figures coming out from the dark.

“You don’t have to get afraid from us, we are not going to harm you” One of them said

Tejas realized the white shadow, he often saw on the edges of the well was one of them. He accidently shouted, “I have seen you many times from my house. You are the same, whom I saw on the well.”

“Yes, she is Rekha.” The same one said.

Soon, Tejas felt a drift of unconsciousness coming on him and his eyes getting heavy and heavier and he fall asleep.

Time flew and a honking woke him up. He found himself sitting in a bus and the bus was standing in the city bus stop. He tried to remember, but couldn’t remember what happened to him. The last he could remember was, he was walking towards the Sarpanch’s house.

He came out of the bus and got his whole luggage. He could hear, someone saying “Go and never come back!!”