Ghost Calls by hima (read people like a book .TXT) 📕

and Arjun were waiting on bikes for us. Rajiv and Rihana joined us soon enough.

Sonali went on Rohan’s bike. Neha smiled at me and opened the door. “Where are you going?” I asked. “I’m bored with these four wheelers. I’ll have a change for today.” She said and hopped onto Raj’s bike. He smiled and an unknown wink passed between Raj and Rohan.

“Hey, DB. Come on, Karan will give you a ride.” she said. DB left me alone with Aryan in the car.

“Come front, it seems there will be none with us.” Aryan said. I shifted to the front seat. I was thinking about the secret exchange that happened between Raj and Rohan. “What are you thinking?” Aryan asked.

“I was just thinking about the secretive wink that passed between Raj and Rohan when Neha hopped onto his bike.”

“What’s there to think Raj likes Neha and Rohan knows about that so he is teasing Raj when Neha hopped on?”

“Wow! You know everything.” I exclaimed. “My sister and you think that you know everything but you still don’t know a thing.” He smirked.

“What?” I asked. “Nothing…” We travelled one hour before we reached the beach house. It wasn’t as big as their own home but big enough for all of us. It was a wooden house. The furniture inside was wood too. There are total four bed rooms. Rajiv, Aryan and Arjun shared one on the left to us. Karan, Raj, Rohan shared the bedroom right next to them. Neha and I shared the one on the right corner. Sonali, DB and Rihana shared the one next to us.

Apart from the four bed rooms, there is a huge hall and a kitchen room. We sat watching movies for a while and then returned to our beds hoping to have day full of fun tomorrow. I wasn’t able to sleep because of the frequent sounds of the waves near to us and the moonlight filtered in through the glasses.

I was staring at the moon very intently that I didn’t notice our door creaking open, I panicked and shouted at once when someone jerked me. Neha woke up too.

“Why did you shout?”She asked. I was staring at Aryan standing in front of me. She turned towards my stare. “What are you doing here?”She shouted at him. “I was just checking whether you slept or not. I mean I’m your elder brother so I have responsibility towards you…”he said.

“Is that so? I was sleeping well until you came and disturbed, now go back to bed.” She said. He walked away, “Close the door behind you…”she screamed.

She hugged me tightly in sleep and I drifted off to sleep thinking about the funny incident. I woke up startled when I heard someone scream. I ran outside my room and I saw Rajiv putting Aryan’s hands in the cool water.

“What happened?” I asked running towards him. I saw the milk spilled all over, I understood what happened. I rubbed his hands with cold water; he withdrew his hand in pain. I never saw him in so much pain; his eyes were moist with water. Involuntarily, tears rolled down my eyes.

“Who asked you to do this stuff?” I shouted at him. “What’s all this shouting about?” Neha came in rubbing her eyes. “What happened?” she hurried towards Aryan. I searched all the shelves frantically but couldn’t find anything suitable.

“Does anyone have here any cream that contains alovera?” I shouted. DB ran inside to bring the cream.

I snatched it away from her and applied the cream over his hands. “See how useful I’m?” she asked. “Yeah! Yeah! You are really useful…”Neha smirked.

“What’s up, bro? Are you hurt?” Neha said poking his hand. He winced in pain and I slapped her hand away. “Neha…”I shouted. “Sorry, mother.” She smirked.

I sat him on the chair beside the kitchen counter. “Father forgot to tell the housemaid here to come this day, I was hungry so I thought I could drink some milk.” He replied meekly. I glared at him. He remained silent.

I boiled the milk and gave everyone milk; I prepared the flour to make Rotis. The girls joined to help me and I gave them instructions about what to do and how to do. Db was chopping the vegetables to prepare curry while Rihana mixed the flour and made balls, Within 30 minutes we prepared breakfast.

We sat by the dining table, boys arranged plates and glasses. I served everyone and sat to eat myself. Aryan was trying hard to eat since his hand still hurt. I took his plate and put the rotis in his mouth.

“Oooo… I wish I hurt my hand too.” Rohan said. “Yeah! Everyone won’t be like Megha, Sona will ask you to eat with left hand if your right hand is hurt.”

We all laughed at once. By noon Mr. Mehra sent a cook for us, we got ready and left for the beach, we sat on the beach and at regular intervals I applied Burnol to his hand. In the evening we started a campfire and played truth or dare.

First, the bottle pointed towards me. “Is there any wish in your life?” they asked me. “I just wanted to see how my parents looked like and know what my surname was.” I said.

Everyone sat silent and silent tears slipped through Neha’s eyes. I spun the bottle to divert them and it stopped pointing towards Rihana.

“Tell a truth about your relationship?” they asked. “I’m a year older than him.” “wow!” DB exclaimed.

They spinned the bottle and it’s Karan’s turn. “I loved a girl who loves someone else.” He answered. “Who is she?” He silently stared at me. Did Karan love me? Why didn’t I know that?

Neha chose dare and Raj asked her to kiss the coolest guy in the group; she kissed her brother, Aryan on the cheeks. “Not brother…” Raj complained. “You should have mentioned that before.” She smirked.

Aryan’s turn, “Wait, I have a question for my brother.” “Whom will you choose if you have to choose between me and Megha.” “That’s ironical, you both are important.” He complained. She cut him off. “Now if we are to be hit by vehicle and you can save only one person at that time. What will you do?”

“I’ll push you aside and I stay with megha so that at least we can stay together in death.” I stared at him. Is he really serious about me? Does he love me that much to give away his life?

“Wow!” Everyone exclaimed.

Db’s turn. “Have you ever loved anyone?” Raj asked before Neha could shut his mouth. Db started right from her first class, Neha tried to stop her but she continued. “I’m going to bed…” Neha exclaimed and left yawning. One by one everyone started leaving…DB ran after them to finish the list.

I stayed back staring at the waves, Aryan moved close to me. “Are you… serious about what you said?” I asked tentatively.

“I said so many things which one do you mean in particular?” he asked. “About dying with me…” I mumbled. “Are you going to die soon?” he asked. “No…” “Then why do you think about that when time comes you will know the answer yourself.” He said.

“I never knew anyone who loved me so much…” I said. He smiled gently. “Me too…” he said staring at his wounded hand.

I stayed up for a while and fell asleep on his shoulders. He must have carried me back home because I woke up in my room. Boys went playing in the beach and we sat on the shore until Neha came and when she came she dragged us all inside. Boys warned us not to go deep inside so we had to stay in the hollow waters. After a while we got bored and went back to the shore, we shouted for them to come so that we can play volleyball.

I was drying my hair sitting on the beach when I felt a shadow on my face; I rose up my eyes to see Aryan taking off his tank top. I stared at his well defined muscles.

“Come on, Megha. Let’s play.” Neha called. I got up and walked towards them. “Hey, I don’t know how to play, I will sit and watch.”

“I have a better idea, why don’t you guys play, we will just have a walk and see if there is anything else to see here…” he said.

He pulled me up and we started walking towards the cliff. “I think you should put your shirt back on.” I said blushing hard. He saw me blushing… and smiled at me.

After we are far away from them, he took my hands into his. We sat on the nearby rocks. I felt my throat dry. “I want some water.” I said.

“I’ll get you…” he said running back. I sat there for a while when I heard strange sounds from the nearby place, I started following the sound. I climbed up the cliff and the sounds grew even louder until I reached a cave, the cave was dark, I couldn’t see anything. “You should listen to me… there is no other way for you.” An intense voice said.

“Who is there?” I asked moving further into the caves. I saw tiny flickers of light as I walked more into the cave. “Hello…”I called. “Get out from here you silly girl…” I heard the intense voice again. “Who is that?” I asked taking a step further. Then suddenly a pale white face shimmered before me. He is a small boy. I stared at it blinking carefully moving towards it. It tensed and moved back. “I won’t hurt you…” I said carefully walking towards it.

It roared at once and an immense amount of energy hit me and threw my body, I was floating in the air for a second, then I could see bright light coming from the cave and then I felt the heavy winds tearing my body and finally I felt the salt water over my face. Before I even realized I was drowning, I tried to push up to the surface but the waves were heavy they came crashing down on me each time I rose to the surface.

I was about to give up when an unknown face pulled me up and carried me to the shore. I flickered open my eyes. He stared at me with his deep blue eyes. He turned his face away from me. “Your friends are coming; I’ll leave you with them for now.” He said getting up. “Who are you?” I croaked. “Don’t go on hunting for the ghosts again…” he said kissing me tenderly which sent warmth into my body as an instant energy.

“Megha…” Aryan panicked seeing me. He hugged me strongly as if an unknown force is pulling him away from me.

“I’m okay…”I said. He let me go still holding my hands tightly. He scooped me up and carried back to the house though I said I was well enough to walk. Neha came hurrying towards us as she saw me.

“What happened to her?” she asked. Aryan ignored everyone and took me into my room and sat me on the bed. Everyone rushed in. “What happened?” They asked concerned.

I stood up to show that I’m perfectly okay but that was a bad mistake, I must