"In the neighborhood where lights sparkle brightest yet darkness prevails the night most

Do not walk alone they say because you might meet the charming deadly Ghosts"

ahhhh!! (someone screamed)

"Oh shut up Dev, it is just a story. right grandma?" Rani asked her Grandmother.

As seen here Rani is brave girl who believes in facts and logic unlike her twin brother Dev who is a scaredy cat.

Rani and Dev were visiting their Grandparents for summer vacation.

In town of "bhootgarh" which means empire of ghosts.

The Grandmother's name was Meera.

She spend all her life in the this town bhootgarh.

An old town far from the urban lifestyle.

In the foothills of the Great Himalayan mountains range.

The town was famous for its Roses and infamous for its stories.

Stories of Ghosts, Stories of people fighting ghosts, Stories related to Roses and thier connection with ghost.

Rani was an History major in school and science minor.

More than loving this stories, she was seeking them with intention of proving them or denying them completely.

Her sweetly yet dashingly handsome brother Dev was persuing the computer engineering and devices.

The both visit the town once in every two years since there childhood.

It was place they grew up with best memories of thier childhood till the age of 18.

"oh, my little rani" grandmother (Meera) while patting the back of Dev said " Don't be so rude to your brother, this are true tales everyone in this town knows all about them."

"but nanu (way of calling grandmother) this are just stories made by the men of old days to keep the trade of the town intresting, there are no concrete evidence for it." said Rani.

As she speaks this words, suddenly the window on the left side of the living room, sheek open and sweet smell of the Desi Indian Roses overwhelms the whole room as the cold breeze flew in.

Rani felt a sudden embrace on her back as soon as the cold breeze touched small of her back and as the enchanting scent of Rose went up her nostrils she was mesmerized.

For few seconds she became quite.

She started walking towards that window as if to see weather someone was waiting for her like Romeo outside the window of Juliet.

Completely aware of her steps, her foot hits the wall "ouch, aaah it hurts my toe nail it's broken." Rani cried in pain.

"haa, how whose the cry baby sister and more than cry baby you are lost doll, didn't you realise that you were walking in the wall" said Dev making fun of Rani.

" I thought you would stop but I Guess the ghost took a toll on you for defying his existence" said Dev with a victorious smile.

"How do you know it was he not she?" question rani.

" oh come on did you forget the story Nani told us about the charming Male ghost who owned the scent of Rose"

Looking at confused Rani

"Remember when we visited in vacation of 6th grade, when were 12 years old, and when you fell down from the tree house and got the bruise on your shoulder which kind of looks like dried lead".

Rani looked the bruise but couldn't recall anything about it.

The scar was indeed there all this time but she never wonder how she got it until now and how she didn't remembered anything about that vacation?

and why did she walk towards the window smelling the roses? where the stories about town true? or there is something she is missing?

"Moon shines in dark sky between the twinkling stars,

when I think of you I desire the two worlds together which are far apart."

The next morning...

"hello, good morning did you sleep well children?" grandma Meera asked to the two sleepy heads walking in for Breakfast.

In the bhootgarh as mysteriously mystical the nights are, the mornings are pleasant and relaxing.

The cold brush of clean air wakes you up in the morning as the sun peeps in through the doors and windows.

The musical chirping of birds.

A complete soul quenching experience one feels away from the rushed city life.

Rani and Dev always loved how alive the town made them feel which quite contradicted with it's name.

" hey nanu good morning, we slept quits peacefully after so long time" said Dev bowing down to touch the feet of his grandmother.

"yes, but rani didn't I guess look, how tired she looks?"

to this Meera turned to Rani " dear Rani why do you look so lost? come here eat this warm Paratha( a flat Indian bread stuff with potato or beans), you will feel better".

" Thanks nanu it must be because of the journey we had yesterday" says Rani still baffled due to last nights experience.

"knock knock, I heard the birds of the city Nest are visiting after long time…" everyone turns to the door and see "oh my god Jay it is you, how have you been?" asks Jay as see moves forward to shake his hand.

"As you can see I have been well and just started to take command of my parents Rose perfume business in town"

" Yes I remember we visited your factory one time, isn't it almost in the next town ?" question Dev to Jay just recalling to old memories.

" Yes it is but we just bought a new car so it's not a big issue and plus I love going along the way admiring the long fields filled the roses of all kinds and colours, taking in the fragrance." says Jay.

" Really, that's true the atmosphere here really pleasant" rani says while smiling at jay.

" Come in Jay have breakfast with us I would feel very wronged if you don't have this parathas with us

" Meera takes out another plate from the kitchen and serves the meal making it impossible for Jay to deny it.

" Ohh nanu, is there anyone the town who can say no to you, I guess I have no option now"

Rani and Dev laughs..

" So tell how was last night, did the ghost of bhootgarh came to welcome you Rani"

" Please don't joke about it She is already freaked due to last" Tells Dev almost making it look like funny thing.

" Come on there nothing like that, Don't mind it my crazy twin here"

" no no there his not something to joke, there more than enough tales in town like this why don't you tell me what happened and I can help if we can't find something behind just like the old times?"

"be it day or night, the smell of my love shall reach with all its might"

"you are on right path, just keep walking towards me"

the shadow fades away.

The medical sciences has advanced but there are still something it cannot explain completely.

The village of bhootgarh has many just mystical secrets that are unknown to the world.

Rani was surprise but not shocked on her first day back. she had already visited the town many times but a part of life that is forgot comes fresh when the fragrance of those purple roses clears her clouded vision.

Rani, Dev and Jay were now set on mission to discover the truth which was known but never proven.

After few days one night that shadowy figures enters her room. The scent of his presence wakes Rani up. She could see nothing but his silhouette.

A normal person would scream on top of their lungs if the saw the intruder. Rani was not that person she herself felt so.

The figure in dark was moving closer to her, Rani's heart beats were throbbing at highest pace they have ever been in long time. She wanted to move, she wanted to say something, something was holding her still.

The night was drenched in darkness. Hard to see a thing and harder to figure out what it is.It was hard to see who the figure was, a person?

a shadow ? or the infamous ghost of bhootgarh?

The figure kept moving closer and closer, at a certain prolonged peak of time it was just a breath away from Rani.

It whispered something and left as soon.

Rani couldn't figure out what it was and immediately she tried to speak up and ask what it was again.

It was to late, in the fringe of the second the shadow disappeared.

Rani was furious and petrified. She decided not to wait for the day to break anymore.

She got of her bed and took her phone lying on the side table of the bed. She decided to go out and find the answers herself, She didn't even bother to think of anyone else not her Nani, nobody.

The clock on the wall of oposite to window showed 3 o'clock and not a second more.

She opened the front door to go towards the fields and the forest beyond the fields. She wanted to go the place that kept demanding her presence not calling her but demanding her to be there.

On the other side of the door there was utter silence. All of the town had fallen asleep. Only the howl could be heard clearly through the deep forest across the field of those purple Roses.

She was furious but this silence made take pause.

She realised that it's middle of the night.

She all alone by herself.

What was she doing? was she hypnotised that she decided to follow the sounds only she could hear?

As soon as this realisation started hitting her conscious, her feet started to move backwards.

Suddenly, the a different smell flew past her, just a whiff of it made her forget everything again and again she was on her way to the deep forest.

what was it that didn't let her go back?

was it the voices inside her mind?

or was the Ghost of the town really mesmerized her?