Place behind the Shadows

^^^People always runs in a rush in their lives, without noticing the little enjoyable moments happening around them. Then they think why the another person is looking so happier than them!?^^^

That day, after a long talk with Mr. Lahiri, It was late evening. On the way home in darkness, Ankita saw a Great Yollow Headed Hornbill setting on a pillar of the rest house gate. It was creepy still in pose, staring at her continuously.

Seems like......, it's trying to say something...!

Ankita whispered.

Then, she noticed a figure running inside the house, she could barely see it in the blue lights of the garden.

Is that.. Is that a child out there...?

HEY! WHO IS THERE..!!

She shouted on him.

It was a childish figure playing around in the garden. And then,....... It just vanished in a glance of eyes. The Hornbill also wasn't there at all, it was vanished too.

Did.. you.. see.. something.. inside.....?

A voice came from her back.

She turned, and it was Mr. Nath, her old neighbor standing with a stick. She knows him as a neighbor & seen many times around but, this is her first time meeting with him in person.

Ahh! No! my imagination maybe!

She replied.

—Ankita right....? After a long time..! You really grown-up.. Happy to see you healthy.

It's feel like that night,.. Don't you think Ankita? Really peaceful and dark, the twilight has already gone....

Sometimes I really think if that happen again...!

Mr. Nath said, sadly by staring at the sky.

— What is he talking about? What night!!

A...! How he even know me!!

Grown-up??

Ankita was confused with so many questions in her mind. But, before she could ask something, he was gone.

...Several days passed......

Spring festival is coming and schools already declared the holidays...

One night, when Ankita was in deep sleep her bedroom window started vibrating badly. She woke up with a knock on the window, and when she looked at the window which was open, It was a little boy standing outside smiling towards her.

Hey......!! You are the new girl here, right....??

—His voice...., it felt so familiar to her. She might have heard that voice somewhere before but, can't remember where?

Who.. WHO ARE YOU..! AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE AT THIS TIME...?

—I'm the boy from the Rest House. I saw you watching me yesterday evening, Um.. did't you..? COME WITH ME, I HAVE SOMETHING TO SHOW YOUH...!!

CLOSE YOUR EYES!!

He jumped down by holding her hand tightly through the window.

Ankita get more scared because it was second floor's window. When she opened up her eyes she was standing infront of the rest house gate. The gate was wide open. And something was really odd with that very moment she could feel it. When she stepped inside, suddenly the insects stopped singing and the whole environment got tight silent, Even the wind stopped blowing.

You know? The sounds really makes things scarier then they actually dose.!

The boy spoke up from behind her.

I think you're feeling much relax now.., Hey, Now when you're here let's play together.

By saying that, that boy ran into the garden.

Ankita was still a bit scared, unable to understand what is really happening, She slowly followed him inside the garden.

These flowers, They're looking so healthy...

Someone must be behind this healthy looking garden!? Is that the boy? No! Not in the world, a kid in his age taking care of a whole garden on his own? But, I have to admit this is nice to walk in the air full of beautiful smells.

Come to think of it, It is kind of relaxing walking in a garden full of flowers at late night like a dream.

Like  A  Dream..

Yea... Is it a Dream? Am I dreaming? It can't be real right? Jumped from second floor window and standing here in one piece!.

—HEY GIRL...! Come here! You are so slow!

Come fast.!!

The boy called her from the other end of the garden. After crossing the garden, she found herself in a hidden place, that beautiful back yard of the rest house. A wide open area with a huge old dried pool in middle of it, surrounded by deep bushes of the garden and various large trees, totally unseenable from outside.

I didn't knew this house has a pool inside!

I don't think anyone even know about it!

It was looking so different from the rest of the garden. The yard was full of dry leaves with a thick layer of dust,

It seems like even the wind has'nt touched this ground for a long time.

literally kinda portraying the actual age of the rest house.

—It used to be very beautiful place just some years ago.... look...!!

the boy replied with a deep exhale.

Right after he said that, all the Doors and Windows started vibrating badly by making a irritating high pitch noise, they all opened at once with a big thrust of air.

.......................................

Ankita woke up next day morning, with a sight headache on her bed.

Wait.., is that all was just a dream?

Well, what else it could be. But, even it was almost like a nightmare, It was beautiful experience. But if it wasn't a dream then, That boy really got to be something...!

She left the bed in a blink of eyes to tell the whole story to her grandma but, she didn't believed her, saying it was just a dream. But, then she realised and went straight to the Mr. Lahery's, hopping he might be the only person who's going to belive this story of her. But when she just stepped out of her door, she saw Mr. Lahiri standing out side down under the Pink Trumped Tree suspiciously staring at the Rest house. When she saw upward at the window she got shocked too.

The window... It.., It's open!!

It means all that I saw last night was real in life. No doubts about that!

& also something is written there... (My Name Is Greel, see you again)

...Episode Ended...

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