Laughter in Darkness
A suspense, romantic and psychological thriller
By
Kotra Siva Rama Krishna
“Whatever you are saying is interesting to me. If the talking is like this I have no objection.” There came a happy expression in the face of Tanuja.
“You yourself can say the answer also I think. Go on with it.” looking into the face of Neeraja, Rose said.
“People always do want thrill. They get it easily by thinking about paranormal matters. During the process of thinking about the paranormal and getting the thrill they wanted, they have created these zombies, spirits and several other things.” Neeraja said.
“So far it comes to zombies I agree with what you have said. But spirits’ issue is in circulation for a very long period of time. Even in religious books also they have been mentioned. The popular religious belief is people who die without completing their full life term would become as spirits. I cannot agree that they were the creation of sick minds.” Sunanda said.
“Why should not it is so? People want this type of thrill from a very long time back and created spirits during thinking about paranormal. Don’t think minds behind the religious books are sane minds.” Sameera said.
“This is blasphemy! You are daring to sacrilege the religious books also!” Sunanda said.
“We need not go that deep. I may not answer many of your questions either. But in my firm opinion there is no paranormal. Seeing spirits and talking with spirits are all nothing but a psychological disorder.” Neeraja said with a firm voice.
While Neeraja was saying like that Sunanda looked into the face of Aravind but there was no change in his facial expression.
“Are not you going to comment any on this?” she asked him.
“She expressed her opinion. Every one entitles to…” he tried to say something more.
“Please stop. You need not tell me anything more.” Sunanda yawned heavily. “I want to go to the upstairs and take rest there. I am feeling sleepy.”
“It is seven in the evening and full of darkness. You have got those bizarre experience in the upstairs room itself. Still you can dare to go there?” looking into her face, Sameera asked her.
“I was inspired by what Dr.Neeraja said. There are no zombies or spirits. I do go and take rest there.” She got off from the chair she sat and walked towards the staircase.
After Sunanda’s going towards that way, without making any noise Anand also got off from the chair and followed her.
“If you people don’t mind I also want to take some rest.” Rose also got off from the chair and Emily followed her.
After that Rajesh and Tanuja also got off from the chairs and went into their room and Arjun followed them silently.
“I want to go to my parents. They are in the upstairs room now.”Madhuri got off from the chair and said.
Sameera clutched her right arm with her right hand strongly. “No, I want you to stay with me. You have to tell me the stories that you heard from that Emily.”
“Let her go, what’s the problem?” looking into her face irritatingly Aravind said.
“It seems that Sunanda and Anand went into that room with a specific purpose Aravind. It is my duty as a friend to Sunanda to see that there would be no disturbance to them now.” Looking meaningfully into the face of Aravind, Sameera said.
Aravind nodded his head and smiled.
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“Oh, you came. I know that you follow me like this.” Looking into Anand’s face with a smile, Sunanda said.
“I understood why you have said it like that. No one would feel sleepy at seven in the night.” Sitting beside her and putting his both hands around her shoulders Anand said.
“Alright, alright.” Kissing on his lips strongly Sunanda said. “I just don’t know but I have to say one thing here. Everything is appearing quite unnatural to me here.”
“Let me know it first. Then I tell you whether it is natural or unnatural.” Laying her gently on the bed and placing himself beside her, Anand said.
“The urge in me is trebled. I am feeling fear ever it would be satisfied completely.” Hugging him strongly and putting her right leg on his hips, Sunanda said.
“The urge in you is always very much. You are a nimpho and you too know about it. Every time I have to beaver to satisfy you in full. In fact I have a doubt ever I satisfied you in full.” Anand said.
“Don’t worry, you did.” Sunanda kissed on his both cheeks. “But this time I am having new desires.” Then she explained to him what she was thinking.
“We behaved widely on this day but not this much. These are not unnatural or unusual. But we never did like this before.” With gathered frowns Anand said. “I don’t think I can like them much either.”
“If I insist, what do you do?” with a questioning expression in her face, Sunanda said.
“Alright then.” Anand said tightened his hug around her as tight as possible for few seconds.
Then it started between them and Anand indeed struggled and disgusted also in the way to do Sunanda asked him. He just could not understand how she had got such desires. He just flabbergasted when she also did those things on him. It took nearly one hour to complete it and by that time he drained of his energy completely.
“What you have said is absolutely true. There is something unnatural in this place. You never have made me do in this way before. My god!” Relaxing himself on the side of her Anand said.
“I am sorry. I indeed have troubled you a lot.” With a worrying expression in her face, Sunanda said.
“Alright. Anyhow tell me whether I could satisfy you completely or not?”
“You did. It is to my heart’s content. But I have to be frank with you on one thing.” Crooning even more into him she said.
“You know that I like frankness all the time.”
“Neither you nor any of my boyfriends prior to our marriage could satisfy me as much as that ghost.” She said with a small voice.
There came an instant shocking expression on the face of Anand. “But it was just a dream!”
“I am not convinced it was a dream Anand. It did not appear to me like a dream at all.” Sunanda said. “It was very much painful and disgusting also but some paranormal creature satisfied me and satisfied itself fully.”
Anand hissed out heavily. “Whatever you may say but it was just your subconscious imagination. Nothing more than that.”
“Alright, alright.” Sunanda said. “Are you still feeling anger on me that I have sexual experiences with boys prior to my marriage?”she was looking straight into his face.
“No, of course.” Anand nodded his head. “I understood the uncontrollable urge of that crazy driving force. Everyone in my family have such immoral experiences including myself. I am not feeling bad either towards you or towards my family members or towards myself either.” Then he got off from the bed. “Did you notice one thing? We have not taken any precautions.”
“I noticed it of course.” Sunanda smiled “What’s the problem? We can have another one. We can afford.”
“I am thinking one devil is enough to us.” Anand said dressing himself up.
“Not enough to me.” She too got off from the bed and adjusted herself. “Anyhow where is our devil now? is it is with my father?”
“She was in the verandah by the time I started from there. May be with your father or that Sameera and Aravind.”
“If you don’t mind will you please go and see what she is doing? I am indeed feeling sleepy now.” Laying herself once again on the bed, Sunanda said.
Without saying anything to her, Anand went out from that room.
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Madhuri thought that Sameera was indeed interested in knowing about the stories told by Emily and she said to her those stories one after one. Two purposes were served by Sameera’s asking her like that. First she could stop Madhuri from going to her parents while they were busy with that thing. Second, she could know that Emily did not say anything unwanted to the kids.
While talking with Madhuri so, Sameera looked at Vinod who sat in a chair a little far to them and sleeping. On one or two times Madhuri tried to go to her grandfather but Sameera stopped her as she did not want his sleep to be disturbed.
“Very peculiar guy indeed, is not he?” while looking straight at Vinod, Sameera said with a small voice to Aravind.
“Whom do you mean I cannot understand.” With a surprising expression on his face, Aravind asked her.
“I am going to that Emily.” Madhuri relieved from her hold and ran towards the room of Rose, Neeraja and Emily.
“Madhuri please stop. Don’t disturb them now.” Sameera got off from the chair and tried to follow that Madhuri.
“Let her go, no problem. That Emily also would have some time-pass.” Stopping her by holding her right arm with his right hand, Aravind said.
“It is not just that.” Then Sameera explained to him what gone in between Tanuja, Sameera and Sunanda regarding Emily and their kids.
“Don’t worry too much. By whatever so far we have heard from Madhuri, I understood there was nothing dangerous from Emily to our kinds. At the most our kids and that Emily can spend another three or four hours together before we move away from this place. What danger would come by her then?” he pulled her into her chair again.
“Just see how peacefully he is sleeping without a care of the world! Very few people can be like that.” Once settled again in the chair, once again looking at Vinod, Sunanda said.
“It is not unnatural feeling sleepy like that sometimes.” Aravind said. “You have been saying about some peculiar guy, who is he?”
“Cannot you understand still? It is he. That Vinod uncle.” With a meaningful smile on her lips, Sameera said.
“Why you are thinking that he is peculiar?” Aravind knitted his brows together.
“What else? My dad has an illicit intimacy with his wife but he never has taken that seriously. He always behaved in the same way with my father. I still cannot understand how he could remain like that while his wife alive and working in my dad’s hospital like that.” Sameera said.
“We all know about it in full. It was so at one time but they stopped it.” Aravind said. “Vinod is not a peculiar guy, he is a great guy. He could understand the human weaknesses more than anyone else.”
Sameera hissed out heavily. “I cannot understand this as you understood. I just could not tolerate it for a long time. Especially when I have seen that Malathi and my father both….” She tried to say something more.
“Need we talk about that now? It was finished in all respects. That woman Malathi is not even alive on this day.” With an irritating expression on his face, Aravind said.
“I agree. I have made terms with that situation on that day itself and afterwards I have not felt any anger or hatred either towards my father or mother or that Malathi or towards that Vinod….” She tried to say something more.
“Why so? How you shed your anger and hatred towards those people like that?” with gathered frowns, Aravind asked her.
“Because I understood. I understood it is to the humans to succumb to sexual weaknesses. That is why….”
“A long time before our Vinod uncle understood that point.” Aravind interrupted her again. “So he excused his wife and that Rajesh also. Don’t forget he is a psychologist. He can understand the human weaknesses better than us.”
“You are right, I agree.” Sameera nodded her head.
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