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Hello Everyone!😃 Got some free time, so wrote an OS on NiBir!😊
Hope you all read it, and please do give your views. Critics are heartly welcomed!😃😃
I know I messed it up at end😭, but what to do, I am not at fault!😳
ThankYou!😃
The Teddy
Nisha and Kabir, the famous Tom and Jerry couple, of Jaipur, and before you guess, let me confirm your predictions, yeah, famous due to their professions in archery and choreography, respectively. And Tom and Jerry, because they were the constantly nagging yet supporting and always there with each other kind. Their lives were not monotonous, though, but was far from adventures. But as they say, can everything go on to be unusually smooth for their lives?
Two and a half years into their marriage, and two of being irrevocably in love with each other, their came two damn scary nights in their life. And now let me narrate, those helluva nights.
The chilly late December night, Kabir walking towards his sweet home where his wifey was waiting for him. He knew he was going to be bashed as soon as he steps into the home, for what he had done. Yes, he had forgotten his wifey's birthday which was supposedly that day only. He himself, was utterly confused, when he saw Nisha a little angry and yet hopeful, early morning. He thought that to be the irritation that surged in her due to his late night dancing classes, but got to know the real reason, when in the late afternoon, the cousins gang had called him to be present in the Gangwal's house in evening. He in his usual Kabira attitude, joked around about it too, but his face straightened when he got to know the reason of the party. Collecting the last night events, when she had asked him about the date, when he, in the midnight, as he had woken to drink water, had found her talking to her cousins on phone, when on his question about having a phone chat so late, she blankly told him that her cousins are those who love her. Shit! Deep deep Shit! Kabir cursed himself now. Why on Earth he had to forget this day only! To top the anger her wife was brewing in, he could not make to the party, due to the meetings he had, on two most important dancing shows right now, and which were impossible to be delayed. He had tried his best, to talk to her since then, pretending that he was making a false attempt to show as if he forgot her birthday. But can Kabir ever in his life lie on face to his darling yet devil wife!? She had cut him off, saying that their was no need for him to come home tonight, as she had her cousins who made her birthday really really special! Dejected, depressed, our very own Kabira was making his way to the home now, against her warning, after purchasing a cute pendant for her, and buying her favorite spaghetti pasta, for a candle night dinner, which would be possible only if she let him to! And after so long a backdrop story, I am back to the moment when he is just five minutes away from his home. Fear, depression and tiredness, all visible on his face.
He was just about to enter the last lane, when his eyes caught a cute, yes damn cute Teddy thrown on the road. The teddy resembled the same one which his wifey had seen while online shopping, but had gone out of stock the moment they were about to add it to cart. He remembered her fallen face after that, she really really loves soft toys, no exaggeration. Thought at a time, he had thought that such things won't be her favorite, but after him proposing her, he had seen a completely different side of Nisha, who was touched by the small, very small moments of their life. He smiled thinking of the day he proposed her and was adamant now to persuade her to forgive him. The teddy seemed the best possible option, and he without a second thought, kept the teddy in his bag. Determined, he walked a few more steps and ended at the door of his house.
"Knock-knock", no answer. "Knock-knock" again, yet no answer. God, she is damn angry. He called her on her mobile phone. No response. Messaged her. No reply. But wait, where were his spare keys. He tried to open the door with them , but no use, seems his wife has put an extra lock from inside. Hush, he really has to do a job calming her down, how he wished him to be the one who wished her first, taking her in his arms and placing a soft kiss on her forehead, cause he knew she loves his tender love. He moved to the window of thir room, but found it to be bolted. God! He moved to kitchen's window, and for His mercy, it was open. He jumped inside without making noise. He tiptoed to their bedroom and found it to be empty. Placing his bag aside, removing his shoes and socks, he wondered where was she. Neither in the hall, nor in the washroom, her phone was on the couch only.
Terrace left only. He took the pendant and moved towards the terrace. He found her sitting on the swing, looking at the twinkling sky. She looked upset. Another wave of guilt washed through him. He tiptoed to her and stood behind her, the next moment. She was so engrossed in her thoughts that she didn't even notice him till he slid the pendant on her neck. She swirled locking her eyes with his, and he moved forward kissing her on cheeks, "A very happy birthday, Love! I am really really sorry".
She looked at him again. Tears started inundating her eyes, but she controlled herself. "Stay away from me! How did you get inside?", she literally pushed him away and moved ahead.
But before she could move further, he caught her hands, and turned her towards her again, "Sorry na, Nisha! I don't know how I forgot".
She interrupted, cutting him off, "Yes! Why would you? After all, who remembers his wife after two years of marriage. I am the only fool".
"Nisha yaar", he cupped her face, continuing, "I promise yaar this won't ever happen again! Now please smile na, see your birthday is not over yet! It's 10:30 only".
"Seriously, 10:30 only! Today when I wanted to spend the whole of the 24 hours with you. You come to me at 10:30, saying the day is not over yet! You are impossible, Mr. Kabir Kumar", she continued boiling in her anger.
"Nisha, please yaa! If only I remembered the day, I would be with you myself. I am really sorry. Now please yaar cheer up. Don't be so sad. See i am very sorry!", he said cutely pulling his ears, making a puppy face, knowing that this melts her down instantly.
And yes, she did start to sympathize with him, but again, no, she remembered herself that she had be angry.
"Are you done? I am tired and want to sleep. You must be tired as well, go doze off on the couch.", she retorted and went downstairs, leaving Kabir dejected.
"Kabira, think of something else too!".
As she moved to the bedroom, she found it messy, which just worked like oil in the already burning fire. "Kabir", she shouted.
Kabir appeared before her in no less than a fraction of time, thinking of the reasons her wife would shout at him.
"What the hell do you think of yourself? What have you done to the room? I cannot understand what in the world you were searching that the whole room turns mess", she rapidly shouted, letting all her anger out.
"Nisha, I didn't do any such thing."
"Yes, the room says I don't want to look clean, and the pillows fight with each other. Yeah!"
"Yaar, I am honest, i didn't do anything".
"And why do I trust you?"
The words pinched. "Nisha, I am your husband. You can trust me. You know yaar I am not lying".
"Yeah, such a husband, who doesn't even remember his wife's birthday."
"Nishaa!"
"What, only this was left na, you fighting with me today, I knew it would turn this way, that's why I told you not to come home today! Last thing, fight with your husband on your birthday" and she started cleaning the mess, mumbling some words to herself.
He knew she was hurt, and he had to calm her down, but for it, first he had to calm down. He took a deep breath, and walked to Nisha. "I would clean the room, Nisha! You sit."
She ignored him picking the vase from the floor. He continued helping her.
Ten minutes or so, the room looked back to normal. She tried moving out of the room with her pillow, but was blocked by him.
"What now, what do you want?"
"Apology", he said again with that puppy face.
She ignored him again, and started moving out, but he back-hugged her.
"Accha chal okay! Take your time! But there is no need to sleep outside! Okay?"
She closed her eyes and placed her pillow back on the bed.
She was about to move on to the bed, when he held her hand and said looking deep into her eyes, "Nisha, I am sorry! I love you". He completed kissing her fingers.
Her anger had finally started to subside. She was about to speak something, when her eyes caught attention of his bg, and saw a pair of eyes from them.
"What is it?", she moved towards the bag, opening it.
And her face regained that precious smile she always wore, as soon as she opened the bag. "Aww! Teddy", she exclaimed, her eyes gleaming, "Kabir you brought it?"
"Umm, yeah, kind of!"
"It's too cute, Mr. K. Aww," and she started playing with the teddy the next minute.
Kabir was literally surprised, he knew she loved soft toys, but to such an extent. "No!". He felt a little weird about it. Just when she came up to him, with the teddy in her hand, and placed a soft kiss on his cheeks. "I love you K and dare you forget my birthday next time". She said brimming with joy.
'She is literally a kid. A moment she is too angry on me, and another, too happy. I definitely do love her', he thought, just when he saw her kissing the teddy.
"Now are you done with the teddy? You can look at your husband too?"
"J huh! Mr. K"
"Whatever"
And she placed the teddy on the couch, and hugged him, "I missed you today"
"I am sorry. Happy Birthday!"
"Thanks. I loved the pendant"
"I am glad. Hungry?"
"A lot. You?"
"Yup and see I have got pasta. I know you won't have made anything for you, as you seek ways to get away from kitchen"
"Shut up!", she eyed him.
"What? It's true", but finding her staring at him, "Ok baba joking! Done. Don't get angry again. It's a task to persuade you"
And they both laughed, and after having a cute candle light dinner with a little bit pulling of each other's legs, and doing the dishes, they both laid in each other's embrace on the bed.
"Nisha, are you free this weekend?"
"I am free only on Sunday, Saturday there is a sports meet in a school"
"Oh! So we would celebrate your birthday on Sunday! Just you and me okay? I will make sure to have no work on that day"
"Aww! My cutie K! It's okay. I love you!"
"Yup I know!", he said kissing her forehead, with a smile slowly turning into smirk. And was just about to advance towards her lips, when the teddy, and the things kept near it, fell down, startling them.
"Must be kept in wrong way! Mr. K even God doesn't want you to kiss me"
"Accha! Mrs. J", and he kept the things back on couch, and was just about to move again to bed, when he felt something soft gripping his hand. He turned but to his surprise, nothing was there. 'Really tired you are, Kabir', he thought to himself and moved to bed and drifted to sleep, with Nisha in his arms, not before wishing her birthday again, and kissing her cute nose.
Nisha, woke up in the midnight, due to some whispers. She got off the bed, switching on her side lamp, closing the windows, when she felt something moved past her. She immediately turned, and found the teddy on the floor. She smiled taking it again and placing it back on the couch. She looked at Kabir. Literally cute, he looked, and was so deep in his sleep, she knew the work stress these days was too high. She moved to his side of bed, kissed him on forehead, and then moved back to her side. But found the teddy on the bed. "Strange isn't it? Hadn't I kept it on couch?", confused, she put it again on the couch and slept again.
Everything was a hurried task next morning, because she had to leave early for academy. After she left, Kabir was in room preparing the dance schedules for the next year, when he felt extreme discomfort, like someone staring at him for so long. He turned to only find the teddy sitting on the couch. Moving to the kitchen, he came back to the room and just avoided slipping on the floor, due to water spilled at room's entrance. "Weird, It was not there when I went out", and again found the teddy on the floor near him."Woosh Kabir! You have gone mad!"
Nisha returned to home at about 6, and to her shock, again found her room in a mess.
"What the hell Kabir! You can't behave wisely! You are so dead today!", she murmured in irritation. Changing, and moving to the kitchen to prepare dinner, she was busy humming a song and cooking, when she heard some noise from the bedroom. As she moved inside, she found her mobile phone on the floor broken into pieces, and she found the teddy again there. "Oh! Why do you keep moving here and there..huh!", she said cutely oblivious to the reality. "Uffo! Now this mobile phone"
"Wait a minute, coming", she opened the door about two hours later, hearing to the rapid knocking and found a frantic Kabir. "Nisha, what the hell were you doing and why is your mobile switched off", he bombarded her with questions.
"Yaar Kabir my phone broke today"
"What? How? And you didn't inform me about that. You know how worried I was. After all the strange things."
"Kabir..calm down. I am perfectly fine. And when i have no phone, how could I inform you?", she said cupping his face.
"We are buying a landline connection tomorrow", he stated bluntly.
"Accha ok! vaise You were worried for me?"
"Uh! No..Why would I be!", and they both launghed.
"And this reminds me, what made you bring disaster to my bedroom today?"
"Wait...What are you talking about?"
"Oh! So innocent na! Let it be, I don't want to fght with you today too!"
"Hmm.."
"Uhummm"
And they laughed again, the kind of things only they understood.
In some 30 minutes, they both were happily sitting on the bed of their bedroom, having dinner together, talking about their day, and random stuffs. At some times, Kabir felt uncomfortable due to the teddy, feeling like it made some movement or like it was staring, but discarded the thoughts. Nisha found him lost and just placed akiss on his cheeks abruptly, Kabir was surprised, "Uh..uh! So my wifey wants to have some romance".
"Only if my hubby wants too!", she blushed.
Kabir neared her and just placed a soft peck on her lips, sliding his hand through her waist, and was about to kiss her, when boom, the photo frame on the wall, which hanged just above their bed, fell and hit Kabir's head. The distance was not much, but the incident shook them both.
"Kabir, are you okay?", Nisha asked frantically.
But Kabir did not answer, rather looked at something on the floor.
"Nisha, wasn't this teddy on the couch a lil while ago!"
"What, Kabir?"
"Nisha, I find something very absurd with this teddy. It has started scaring me now, I think we should not keep it"
"What?You are scared of a teddy! Kabir this is a non-living thing, and that too so cute"
"Yeah Nisha, I know. But still, weird things are happening since yesterday night and there is this teddy there always"
"Shut up! I love this teddy, I am not gonna leave it"
"but Nisha"
"I forgave you yesterday just because of this teddy, remember"
Kabir made a face.
"Look Kabir, all the things you are thinking is just a figment of your imagination. Nothing else. Ok! And see, you bought it to me as my birthday gift, how can I throw it away?"
"Yaar but Nisha, I didn't buy it. I found it near our house discarded, and it seemed just like you wanted and I eas so tempted to keep it, that's how it came with me"
And Nisha rolled with laughter, "Huh, see you only are saying that this teddy is so good that you fall in love with it at the first sight. Hai na?Ok, now I want no more arguments. Show me your head. Does it hurt?"
"No not at all, th fall wasn't strong. You sure about the teddy na?"
"Kabir, stop behaving like a 5 year old"
"Oh..ok!, so where were we?", he said bringing himself closer to her again.
"Nope..Mr.Kumar, I think I have to do some kitchen work, till then you can make the bed"
"Ok, Mam", he said cutely and the duo launghed.
But as soon as Nisha left for the kitchen, he looked at the teddy again and found his smile weird. It seemed a little too wide. He brushed off his thoughts and continued his work.
After being done with the chores, they decided to watch some of the episodes of their favorite series on TV, but Kabir's attention was still a little on the teddy. Later, they boh dozed off in each other's arms.
But again, he woke up hearing some rapid noises, as of someone laughing wickedly. He turned on the lights, and looked at the teddy, whose eyes instead of being back, looked red, like of a fire burning with vengeance. Fear surrounded his mind, he moved forward trying to pick up the teddy, when it shifted away from him and fell down. He bent forward to pick it, but rather his foot hit one of the legs of the couch, "Aah!", he winced in pain, rubbing his foot with his hand. Listening to his cry, Nisha woke up.
"Kabir, what are you doing? And what happened?", she came to him, making him sit on couch and rubbing his foot.
But he didn't reply, his gaze constant on the teddy.
She followed his gaze, "What, Kabir? Seriously! You are not mad over the teddy yet?"
But he didn't reply. She sighed, and moved to the kitchen to bring some cold water.
Meanwhile, Kabir again tried to pick the teddy, when to his utter disbelief, the teddy stood up on his foot and moved away. Kabir just could not trust his senses and went numb. He closed his eyes and sat on the couch thinking it to be yet another imagination. When Nisha cousld not feel anything unusual, why did he?
He was sitting on the couch busy in his thoughts when he heard Nisha's scream,"Kabir!". He opened his eyes instantly to find Nisha, who just pushed him with herself to save him from the vase directed at him. Then, they both heard some gruelling noises, as of someone speaking way too harshly, and found the teddy moving towards them, with its smile a pure wicked one, from ear to ear, blood dripping from one corner of the smile. They both were scared, would be an understatement, they both just held each other's hands tightly, not knowing what to do, while the evil teddy kept moving towards them.
Just when he was about a few steps away from them, it sprang upon Kabir's neck and he felt an extreme discomfort, like someone strangling him. Nisha just tried her all strength to pull it apart from him, after a lot of struggle, when she finally, managed to freed him, she threw the teddy away from him, and just hugged him patting his back, and crying, "Kabir you are okay? I am sorry. I am so sorry.", she cried inconsolably. "Shh..Nisha, calm down", he finally managed to say and hug her back. Thy saw the teddy moving fastly towards them again, they just held each other's hands and ran as fast as they could. They finally stepped out of the house, but the teddy froze at the door's entrance. Not knowing what to do, they did the only one thing that came in their minds, (and what they had seen in movies too :p), they just held each other's hand and chanted the name of the Gods they believed in, and to their shock the teddy didn't run away from them, they just picked it up and left it at the same place from where Kabir had picked it up, hoping against hope that they don't get to see it again.
The one thing that came clear to them was 'When logic doesn't work, belief does and that it is the strongest of all'.
Once home, they hugged each other, assuring other of their presence. For a few days, the fear was constant but God's grace, and they didn't come across that teddy ever again.
Horror, is entertaining only in movies, but in reality, a teddy standing on his feet, smiling and walking can be as horrifying as death.
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