Arshi SS: Shadow of Luminance

Part 1

The light can be a guide to you in dark but can also blind your sight in it's extremeness.

With only the roaring thunder and the flickering lightening as companion in the lonesome night, HE drives through the path trying to wipe of some horrifying images that constantly reels before his eyes. As the fierceness of the down pour increasing with his every constricted breath his view of the road is not clear but when the lightening struck he gets the view of a hazy silhouette before his car.

"what the"

He uttered in annoyance and tries to take a turn but...

*CRASH*

8 months back

"hey Devi Maya" gushes a girl in her pink night dress and she paces the length of her room biting her nails.

She hears her bauji calling her from afar but she is too nervous to reply.

She chants her Devi Maya name and looks at the phone in her hand every now and then for any call

But wait it's not any other call but THE MOST IMPORTANT call of life. A call that could decide her future.

"arey paagli" a girl came in her room and snapped her head.

Suddenly the girl in pink turned and hugged the other one tightly in nervousness

"Jiji"

"Khushi back off you're choking me" saying that she pushed Khushi and coughed

Khushi: Kya jiji. You don't care about me at all.

Payal: Paagli get dressed and come down. Buaji is already mad at you for the jilebi mountain piled up in kitchen..

Saying that payal handed her the RED ANARKALI suit and pushed her to the bathroom

Khushi: But jiji my phone... I need to attend it. It's important.

Payal: Khushi it's your secret boyfriend right? saying that payal made a shocked face

Khushi huffed and tried to snatch her phone.

But payal pushed her into the bathroom and locked it asking her to get ready quickly...

At present

Khushi stared at the ceiling of her bedroom blankly. Something makes her extremely restless. She feels her whole world is going to crash. She suddenly jerks up and goes to the window to see the terrific view of dark nature which she feels is the projected view of her present inner self..

She rushes to her Devi maiya idol and folds her palms to calm her restlessness

She tries to take a pinch of her sindoor after finishing her prayer but the sindoor dibbhi topples off and falls to the ground...

Khushi gasped in shock but all she could see was RED just before she looses her consciousness and falls to the ground...

*SMASH*

light to be flashed upon...

This update is dedicated to lovely vani. Her encouragement is the main reason for creating this story... Hope i didn't disappoint the readers...