WHEN THE HAND APPROACHED ME

A Story by MISS.GRANGER

It was really gloomy that day but after giving it a second thought the sun was rising even more brightly than the usual days.I got off from the bed quickly freshened up and studied for a while after that i thought it would be perfect to take a nap but my nap converted into a deep sleep and i was dreaming something weird someone was calling for me but i wasn't able to respond and suddenly i opened my eyes and everything was vague because probably i was half sleeping then a hand with wide palm and long fingers felt on my shoulder.I clearly felt it but when i turned towards it no one was there.I was only one in the bed actually in the entire room it was only me.My eyes were left wide opened and i just ran out from the room and washed my face several times to calm and relieve myself that may be it was also just a dream .so i moved on from that incident.Everyday was passing smoothly again and one day after having a heavy dinner i went for a small walk on the terrace then i saw a shadow on the adjoining wall but i saw it with my side eyes and whenever i tried to look at it directly it just disappeared and appeared somewhere else so i tried to look at it again and again and finally i was able to see it but it was quite small so i looked at it clearly after going a bit further and the shadow could be of a man or woman i wasn't sure but i considered it as a man's shadow and the shadow was turning its hand towards my shadow and i just screamed so loudly and closed my eyes and when i opened my eyes there was only my shadow.i went downstairs and called my mom and told her everything although she didn't believed me but she came next morning because I was scared and my voice on call was trembling.After that one week passed and i was enjoying with mom while eating her delicious food,one night i and mom were watching movie together and she told me to close the doors i have two main doors so i closed them and heard a sound like water flowing sound so, i checked the bathroom and washbasin but no water was flowing there and only one tap was left to get checked the one which was outside of the house main door and inside the main gate and i decided to check it although the tap was useless because from it barely water came out so sometimes i left that tap open so i was going towards the door and the sound increased and i thought"yes i was right". I opened the door and it was completely unconvincing view there was not a single drop of water on the floor down the tap and suddenly the whole colony was blacked out and again a hand touched my face i screamed and passed out there and when i tried to open my eyes it wasn't opening completely i saw mom was sitting beside my bed and she said "am going to cook for you something darling you should rest a bit more". and my eyes unwillingly got closed i was in a very dark place and very creepy voice whispered to my ear"DO YOU WANT HELP ME" my throat was burning i couldn't answer and barely i opened my half eyes and i was on the edge of the bed and said "I WANT SOME WATER FIRST"but the creepy voice said "ANSWER ME FIRST OR I WILL THROW YOU FROM THE BED" so i tried to call my mom but my lips and body were like sealed and my body was almost on the edge of the bed but a hand was holding me back from falling and all this time my mind was talking to that voice and it was continuously asking me "YOU WANT TO HELP ME OR NOT" i just somehow i got off from the bed and ran out of the room.My whole body was paining and i was so scared and trembling in fear my mom saw me and asked what happened why are you like this she was tensed but i was so shocked that i couldn't say a single word and after that day i start forgetting half or one hour of my everyday no matter how hard i tried i couldn't remember that one hour from my everyday and suddenly a memory popped out in my head that when i was stuck on the bed before getting off from the bed i accidentally said "yes" and then these skipping memory hours started and after a month again i had a dream and in my dream i was at the church everything was blur but i saw some red stains on the floor of church and when i woke up i had numbers written on my palm by cutting it i freaked out but hopefully i noted down the number and treated it and by next morning a news came that a crooked father of the church died and his heinous acts were revealed. i thought i should call on that number but it was wrong number and for many nights i couldn't sleep.so one day i was changing my email password and i thought i should write my name in numbers according to the number of each alphabet then i got reminded of that number which was written on my hand "20811411251521" and finally i got to know that it means THANK YOU and again the voice whispered "NEXT IS YOU".