Friday, July 06, 2012

Beyond Explanations - 4 (The Red Circle)

Please read Previous Episode

Gurgoan 7pm. Cold evening

Sameera came to the living room and she was in a beautiful blue saree.
She had two cups of steam emerging tea.

"Samy you look gorgeous" Josh was constantly staring at her while snaffling the hot cup
That made her to establish all the worlds girlish shy blush rosiness.

They both rested on the couch watching each other and sipping the hot liquid.
Samy broke the silence "Did you guys bring Sudhir back to hospital"
Josh said "Yes we had no other option so after talking with him for 1 hr, we took him back to the hospital"

Samy "Are you going to tell me what he said about Meghana"
Josh "Hmmm..Ok listen carefully.This might be disturbing to you."

He paused for a while and moved near Samy and had a long sip from the cup before placing it on the table top.
"Meghana was his only daughter and he calls her Miraa.And she lost her mother when she was 5"
Samy Smiled and asked him "So where is Meghana now"
"Don't know" Josh continued "There was this day when Meghana went to school and never returned back.And when Sudhir checked with the school authorities they told him that there is no such Meghana in their school.He then went to police station to file a missing complaint and a also a complaint against school.Later the police authorities held him.The school authorities and the police together proved Meghana never existed and made him insane.Post that he has be kept in the Dr.Krishnas Asylum"

Silence.

Sameera broke the silence "Josh this is cannot be true."
She jumped out of the coach and brought back the notebook with the arts from Meghana
"Look at this picture.Meghana drew this for me on my birthday.The date Sudhir said that Meghana did not return from school is 20 days back from my birthday"

They both turned the pages of the note book backwards slowly from the page the Meghana was holding.
The clock struck 10 PM and they both agazed and stopped starring at a page.It had a picture drawn with a block written 'School' and a block written as "Bathroom".In between there was a red circle and pictures of three humans.And on of them was colored red in the body and dark navy blue in the leg.

"Is this your school uniform color.What a weird combo" said Josh.
Samy sipping her tea and said "No its not our uniform color.I know.Its our school watchman who wears this pattern all the time to school" she paused for sometime in deep thought and added "his name is Veera".

"Ok common lets go" charged up Josh
Samy asked "Where"
"To your school and lets meet Veera" excited Josh
"Are u insane.Its 9 PM and its damn cold outside.And by the way what makes you think Veera is still there working in the same school"
"Hey Samy don't you need to get in to GSA"
She smiled and hugged him "You really do all this for me !!.I love you so much da" and she without hesitating kissed him exploring his in-self.

Josh wearing his jacket said "There should be someone in charge of watching the school at night.We shall check with him about Veera" and he called his friend Thiru to be ready so that he can pick him too.

Josh,Samy and Thiru got down their car and went straight to the school gate and banged on the gate.
A young man came out of a small room along side of the compound wall.

They introduced themselves and inquired about Veera.
He said "Am Shanmugam and actually my father is Veera.He is not living in this town anymore and i have been warding this school in his place for the past 8 years."

He seemed to be friendly.Josh pulled out the notebook and showed him the picture.
Shanmugam laughed out loud and said "Sir ,are you after something believing a kids silly art"
Thiru giggled sneakingly and Samy said "Shut up guys.Josh lets go ,this is going no where"

They started to walk, and then Shanmugam shouted at them "Sir ,there is a small garden in the place where a red circle was in the picture.This garden was built by me and my father when i was a kid approximately 15 years before.You want to see it.We also have lights "

Josh ran back to Shanmugam and said "Yes we want to see".
They all went inside a small gate and Shanmugam switched on the lights.They saw a beautiful garden planted with all kinds of flower plants.

"Ok.Josh. that's it lets go" said Samy losing her patience.She got nostalgic looking at her school.
"Mr Guard.Can i get one rose plant" asked Thiru to Shanmugam.He acknowledged happily and said "Let me get a shovel" and ran away.Josh starred at Thiru and he blushed.
Shanmugam came back and started to excavate a rose plant along with the roots.He digged hard and they all heard the shovel striking something metallic.

Josh quickly cleared away the sand particles to expose a man-hole and all of them looked at it and thier eyes fiiled with fear.And it was painted RED.

..still to continue..Next Episode

3 comments:

Privy Trifles said...

This is simply exciting. You have built up the tempo very well till now......how far is the next episode...please please put it up soon. Cannot wait to read it!

dakaltiz said...

machi...story is getting more complicated....:)

Why should Sudhir lie to these guys? Is Mira Sameera's other personality?
Y did u introduce Thiru?
How did Veera die?

U better have answers for all these questions...

It would have been better If you had explained the Josh-Sudhir interaction in 1st person POV.Isn't that core to this series?

I suggest you create a separate blog for multi-series posts, I feel some of your regular one post following fans would be disappointed with this format.

logic said...

@Me:
Thanks for following up and encouraging comments

@daks:
Thanks da.Points noted.Problem is its difficult to capture everything as its already 4 the part now.But will do justice to most of loose ends in the last part.