The inner sound of Sameer and the outer sound of birds woke him up, he found himself lying on the grass in the bed of dried leaves, he struggled to open his eyes, his whole body felt heavier for a moment, he was not fully awake at that time, sun rays were hardly reaching at him because of the shade of trees stood in front of him, he sat there forcing his body to turn as he wishes but his reflex system was not working as he wanted them to, after many struggles, he sat there, still he was unable to stand in his legs.
His hand was heavier than it was last night, he tried to pull his hand towards his head, and slowly it went there rubbing his palm at his head, the feeling of uneasiness passed to him, he was not comfortable sitting there, he moved his head to look aside, he noticed himself in forest, he passed a night in forest, he realized.
‘Don’t worry host, these will be for a while till your body will manage to have me.’
Sameer got scared, his heart felt a wave of cold allowing the cold to pass through blood to his body, his brain also got frozen, he tried to run but his legs didn’t even move. He looked in every direction with a scared face.
“W_who are you?” He cried.
‘Don’t worry host, I am your friend, who lives in you, accept me.’
The cold voice replied to him, a bone-chilling voice he felt. He tried to remember what happened last night but his memory was not supporting him. He knew everything before he came into the forest, but what happened to him after he entered inside? That became a mystery.
‘You will be rewarded with great powers, you have a new life.’
A voice came again, he still did not want to believe that it was coming from his head, he looked everywhere but his eyes didn’t move ahead of trees.
“W_who are you, why are you not visible?” He asked, his body was trembling with the upcoming fear.
‘You can call me Pisacha, I am here in your mind, you can have my powers in you, you can take your revenge.’
“What? In my mind? How’s that possible?”
‘It is, you are my host.’
“A kind of virus?”
‘No, I have possessed you.’
“What? A ghost, you are a ghost?” He said, desperately trembling.
‘Don’t be afraid, host, we both are the same, I know your feelings, and you can do whatever you want with them.’
“With whom?”
‘All of them who betrayed you.’
“How do you know I have been betrayed by someone?”
‘I am Pisacha, I know every detail of your life.’
“You were following me?”
A laugh he heard, he thought he had heard that before, a bone-chilling laugh it was, but this was coming from his head, so it was true something had possessed him.
“I don’t want you inside me.” He said after pausing for some time.
‘You reject power?’
Power, what kind of power he was talking of? He thought.
“I don’t, I don’t know what power you are talking about?”
Again a laugh, the same laugh that made him uneasy,
‘Try to lift your hand towards that tree.’
He did the same as Pisacha said, but then his body started burning, he felt fire in his hand, like it was going out of his body but that was burning him, after a while a beam of fire departed from his hand straight to that tree which immediately divided it into two parts.
His mouth remained open, he was not ready to believe what he had seen recently, he was thinking like he was living in a dream, and it just made him more fascinated.
“W_what w_was that?”
‘That is the advantage for you to have me’
He lifted his hand to his head. What was that? He was unable to believe it was best for him but he still didn’t know the voice in his head.
“Why are you here?”
‘I said to you, I am providing new life to you, host.’
“That is not the reason you possessed me.”
That laugh spread in the atmosphere once again, which was hurting his ears.
‘You are a smart guy, I know that too have some work here, I need a host, I have one now, you have me for power, you can take your revenge, I can complete my work then I will leave.’
The voice of Pisacha was assuring him, he took a long time to decide what was true and what wasn’t, and he didn’t know how to react to it.
“Is there any guarantee that you will not harm me?”
‘If I want to harm you I have done that before you woke up, but I didn’t want to harm you, I feel pity for you, so I want to help you, and in exchange, you will help me too.’
“What help you need, you are powerful.”
‘Yes, I am but I need a host, just be host to me, your life will be like a king, I will give you what you want.’
Sameer had to make a decision, he knew that his life was just disgusting from the last few months, so why not take a chance, although it was far better than what he was going to do, having powers like these was fascinating him, he thought of Ravi, his friend, he wanted to provide him the taste of betrayal, he thinks it was wise to accept the offer.
“What if I go against you?”
‘Going against me is like inviting sufferings you never want to be in, but working with me will provide you with a luxurious life, you will be the one who can change the world by snapping your fingers.’
That’s amazing, he thought, now it was great to accept him inside him, he even started dreaming of his life.
“I accept.” He said.
A smile came from his head again but no longer making him uneasy, he felt energetic again, he stood up, his body became weightless, he put his hand ahead towards another tree which effected same as it was for the first tree, he smiled, no it was laugh, but something was evil about that laugh.
“What else can I do with your magic?”
‘You can do anything you want.”
“For example?”
‘You can move anything, you can control elements.’
That was enough to bring a smile to his face of Sameer, it was going on just like any fantasy movie, he laughed, but not him actually that laugh was of Pisacha coming from him.
“Where were you all night?” Priya asked him, there was a presence of rudeness in her voice.
“Nowhere.” He said.
“What are you hiding from us, Sameer, where were you? Gambling?”
“No, are you mad? Gambling?” Said Sameer with both his hands in the air.
“You lair, I know you, after not having a job you will gamble, one day I think you will lose me on gambling, I think we will lose our child.”
“What rubbish are you talking about? Do you think I will gamble?” He said.
‘Your wife doesn’t trust you.’ said Pisacha with a laugh.
“I don’t trust you, you are a loser, you can do anything, I want divorce,” Priya said.
Again he heard the sound of the laugh, he started losing his temper,
“Shut up.” He shouted.
“What? Now you will not allow me to say anything? Disgusting Sameer, you are not a good husband.” She said, but Sameer lost his temper, he raised his hand towards her but put his whole force to prevent touching her cheeks.
Tears fell from her soft eyes,
“Now you will hit me, Sameer, I shouldn’t have married you, you are not worth it.” She said, getting out of his eyes, and going to the kitchen.
He put his head on the bed, thinking about her, and he realized his mistake of loving her, his love was not what she deserved.
‘Now you know, people care about money over man.’
“I know that now I know that.”
‘You should show her what you are.’
“What are you talking about?”
‘You know what I am talking about, you have my powers.’
“Disgusting, I will never do that.” He said.
‘Whatever you want to do.’ he said with a laugh, then became silent.
He thought for a while about killing her, but he knew he would never kill anyone, he didn’t want to kill, he couldn’t kill his love, but then he saw his hands which were crying for getting used once again and this time they prefer living things.
He stood up, walked towards the kitchen, he saw her, he assumed she was crying, he never saw her like that ever but after he lost his job, he saw how people reacted, why people respect, why they disrespect.
“Priya…” He shouted, his hand straight towards her, she turned back, her innocent face, her big black eyes, and one eye covered by her few hairs.
He put his hand down, he realized what he was going to do, it was not his moral to do that.
“Have you gone mad, idiot, watched any magic movie or what, doing your hand towards me to kill me, stupid, you lost your mind.” She said her words were like an arrow aimed at the heart but the only difference was words cannot kill him but arrows can.
He went ahead, far from her eyes, and he started hating her, he was not accepting reality, he didn’t want to accept, he didn’t want to think that his wife hated him, he was helpless.
‘So, why did you pull your hands down?’
“I can’t kill her.”
‘She disrespects you, she hates you, instead of supporting you, you don’t deserve her, she should die.’
“No, I am not a killer.” He shouted out loud, but then he realized that he was in the street and everyone was looking at him. He felt ashamed, he walked as fast as he could out of their eyes.
He heard the sound of laughing again,
‘You will realize one day.’
“What?” He asked but the voice faded away.
He sat in one park near his society, he was tensed about his situation, he didn’t know how to face them, he was afraid to face them, his boy, his wife, both are same, but very different from Sameer, the salty drop made a way out of Sameer’s eyes towards his nose, as the atmosphere he remained silent.
‘Silence will kill you again, it is the only wall which is standing in between, destroy it and you will live.’ said Pisacha.
“How to destroy the wall.”
‘Death. Of others.’
(To be continued)
