Laughter in Darkness
A suspense, romantic and psychological thriller
By
Kotra Siva Rama Krishna
“Thank god! I could not expect a change like this in you again! I have behaved in such a nasty way with you.” Looking into her face, Anand said.
Sunanda closed her face in her palms, hissed out and then looked into the face of Anand. “I do believe you Anand. There is something paranormal here. We are having strange feelings here. We may have to be careful!” she said.
“Why you are thinking like that?” looking surprisingly into her face Anand asked her.
Then Sunanda told him how strongly she was feeling sexual urge. “Now that urge is that much in me that I am ready to satisfy with someone else also if you are not available.” She felt surprise that she did not bother what he would think of.
“Is it is a big matter dear when I am always ready to satisfy you to the maximum in the way you want.” Understanding her intention, simply making her lying on the bed, Anand said.
“It is not the big matter that I am feeling like that. It is the big matter why I am feeling like that only here. I never before have an urge like this.” Holding him with both of her hands while he was coming onto her, Sunanda said.
“Even before this, I have to do something.” he gently released from her hands, went near to the doors, closed them and latched them from inside.
Then how long it has been continued they both did not remember. But during the process, Sunanda stunned Anand. In fact it was Anand who was kinky and wanted to do odd things on Sunanda who never allowed him to do that. But then he was shocked even to hear the demands of Sunanda and she indeed forced him to do those things on her. It was just like she possessed by a devil! By the time it was finished Sunanda appeared satisfied but Anand was exhausted and completely drained of his energy.
“My god! What is this? I never did these types of things before however much urge I have felt! You made me shocked and stunned.” Looking at her with a disgusting expression in his face, Anand said.
It was just like relieved by the devil to Sunanda. “You are right. I am having a vomiting feeling now.” Closing her eyes Sunanda said with disgusting expression on her face also.
“Don’t feel too much bad. I can understand why it has happened like this.” Anand got off from the bed and dressed himself completely.
But Sunanda has left with no strength in her body and preferred to lay all naked like that on the bed. Both of them felt happy that no one had tapped on the doors of that room to open.
“You are right. There is something paranormal, something different here. A spirit possessed you and made you behave like that.” Slumping himself in the chair nearby to the bed, Anand said.
“I am afraid it may not stop just by this” Slowly Sunanda got off from the bed and dressed herself. Once she was sure that she was her usual self, she went near to the doors, released the latch and opened them wide. “What it may aim to do from now on I cannot say.”
“You are thinking too much and becoming paranoid.” Looking into her face with a smile, Anand said.
“You, yourself has said that there is paranormal here.” she came near to the chair beside him and slumped herself in it. “Then what is the surprise if it aims to do something bad to us?” with gathered frowns she looked into his face.
“What bad it can do to us?” he knitted his brows together.
“I cannot say about that” she once again closed her face in her palms and sighed heavily. “Anything we cannot guess.”
“Oh, dear” Anand put his right hand around her shoulders and said “What that much bad it can do to us in the sixteen hours or so of our brief stay here?”
She took her hands away from her face and looked into his face. “Even a minute also is enough if it wants to do bad to us.” She said.
Then they both heard the sound of earsplitting thunderclap and heavy sound of downpour.
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Half an hour or so before Emily, Sameera, Arjun and Madhuri have entered into the old woman’s room and Emily and Sameera has to put all their efforts to entertain Arjun and Madhuri. Sameera knew what would happen if they leave them both. Madhuri immediately go to her parents who were in the upstairs room at that time. Sameera saw Anand and Sunanda going into upstairs room. Even before that she saw some difference between them both and then they both wanted some undisturbed privacy to get settled. So using all her strength she was keeping Madhuri with her. If Arjun has been left he would go straight to his father or his grandparents. As they were sitting and chitchatting in themselves in the verandahh, Sameera did not want them also to be disturbed. As Sameera was troubling like that with them both, Emily helped her while talking with her several things.
“This is the very room where grandma used to be.” In the meanwhile Emily asked Sameera.
“You are right” Sameera nodded her head.
“And this is the very bed that she slept” Emily said again.
“No, it is not the very bed. We have changed that.” Putting her both hands on Arjun and Madhuri on either side, Sameera said. They both were on the either side of her and Emily sat opposite to Sameera.
“I see” Emily nodded her head. “This room is spacious enough with ventilation also. It would have been quite comfortable to grandmother here.”
“Absolutely” Sameera nodded her head. “Except the middle room downstairs, all the other rooms are spacious enough with enough ventilation. We can stay in them quite comfortably always.”
“But the locked room on the upstairs. We don’t know how it is.” Emily said.
“That room also would have been just like this. From outside it is appearing spacious.” Sameera said.
“Aunty, why should not we open that room and enter into it?” Madhuri asked her.
“Dead bodies, dead bodies are stored in that room. That room should not be opened at all.” Arjun said.
“Dead bodies, whose dead bodies?” with a surprising expression on her face, Madhuri asked looking into the face of Arjun.
“I don’t know the details well. My mom knows.” Looking into Sameera’s face, Arjun said.
“Is it is true? Are there dead bodies in that room?” looking into the face of Sameera, Madhuri asked her.
“You both shut your mouths. There are no such things in that room.” Sameera irritatingly said.
“But I read in the book….” Emily tried to say something.
“There is no proof whatsoever to that. It has been just assumed by one and all like that.”
“Then if we open the doors of the room and looked into, it will be cleared.” Arjun said.
“That decision has to be taken by your grandparents. Go and ask them. Don’t eat my brain away.” Sameera angrily said.
Then like a spring Arjun went away from that place and Madhuri also followed him.
“Let them go and do whatever they want. I cannot bear them anymore.” Sighing heavily Sameera said.
Emily was about to ask something then but they both heard the earsplitting thunderclap and the sound of heavy downpour soon afterwards.
“My god! Why this rain is just like the last time!” with a fearful expression in her face, Sameera said.
“Just like the last time when you visited this place. You people did not have sunshine even a single moment on that day.” Emily said.
“You remembered every tiny detail given in that book it seems.” Looking into her face with a smile, Sameera said.
“Yes, I felt very much interested while reading that book” Emily said.
Sameera nodded her head and remained silent. She did not know what to say thereafter.
“Anyhow aunt what is your opinion about the dead bodies in the upstairs room?” Emily asked her.
“What do you mean my opinion on that?” Sameera went near to the wall there and leaned on it.
“Do you believe that there are dead bodies kept in that room?”
“It is just a rumor Emi. I never believe in that. However queer that my great grandmother may be, she never would have done such type of a thing.” Sameera said.
“But what is the problem then to open the room and look inside?” Emily knitted her brows.
“I have to say the same thing to you also which I have said to my daughter” Sameera said “Go and ask my parents about it.”
Emily was about to say something then Rajesh and Tanuja entered into that room. “My god! Such a big rain! We could not sit in the verandahh.” Tanuja said.
“Where is your granddaughter?”
“Both Madhuri and Arjun are with Aravind in the middle room. They three sat on the floor there and playing. Don’t worry about them.” Tanuja said.
Tanuja and Rajesh slumped themselves in the side by side chairs there.
“Alright.” Sameera nodded her head.
“Aunty, I go into our room now.” Emily got off from the bed.
“What is the problem? You may stay here itself.” Rajesh said with a smile.
“No, I want to be with my mother now.” Going out from that room, Emily said.
“Better that she went out so” after Emily went out of that room hissing out heavily Sameera said.
“Why it is so?” adjusting herself to more comfort in the chair Tanuja asked her.
“She is suggesting to me to open the doors of upstairs room and see whether the dead bodies are in it or not. Just then the rain started and you people came here.” Sameera said.
“How did she know about it?”
“She read the book ‘A Mansion of Illusions’ thoroughly.” Sameera said.
“My god! How many people have read that book and came to know the awkward details in it.” hissing out heavily Tanuja said.
“and coming to know about us also.” Sameera said.
“Neither of you expressed your view like this before publication of that book.” Rajesh angrily said.
“Its alright dad. None of us are angry with you for the publication of that book.” Sameera paused for a moment and asked again. “I am also suggesting the same thing. We may better open the upstairs room and look into that. Our doubts will be cleared.”
“Anyhow Rajesh” Tanuja said. “Even while repairing and renovating this house also, why not you got an idea to open that room and look inside?”
“I have a subconscious feeling always in myself” Rajesh said “That it is not better opening that room and looking inside. I have said to Ratnam not to disturb that room at all. So it has been left like that without any disturbance.”
“I don’t believe in such type of subconscious feelings. If we give ourselves room to such type of feelings, we just don’t know where they take us ultimately.” Sameera said.
“I have not given place to any unwanted feelings in me.” Rajesh said angrily.
“No, you are feeling that something paranormal would become loose if the doors of that room are opened. So you never have thought to open them and look inside.” Sameera said.
“It is not like that. I never have felt fear to anything.” Rajesh became even more angry.
“Will you both please stop this? In my opinion also it is better to leave that room locked like that. We have enough rooms and space without putting that room also into use.” Tanuja said irritatingly.
Sameera did not say anything. She knew anymore discussion on that issue then would make her mother more fearful. To that matter she herself was feeling a sort of fear thinking about that room.
(I hope that you enjoyed upto here. I shall publish the next chapter as soon as possible. Please don’t forget to rate and review.)
