MN - Trapped in MAGIC.

1.Intuitions.

It was unusually dark.

The vast sky seemed as a black cloth spread over with no ends and no beginning, She stared at it for a while, there was something different, something hollow and something deadly, maybe an intuition that something is going to go very wrong.

"Nupur!!",

An elderly voice jolted her keen observation and alarmed she came inside, "ayi bauji!", she said with a calculated decibel measurement.

"ji bauji?", she rushed to the main lounge and asked wiping her hands from her duppatta, "beta chaat pe thi ap?

"gi bauji, bus kapre utarne gayi thi, jo subha dhoye they", she informed in her usual jubilant voice and her father shifted eyes back to TV.,

"bauji main soch rahi hon dinner main nayi dish try karon, kal hi sekhi maine, pari aur noshi bhi kab se keh rahin hain k kuch naya nahi banaya", she asked and Sashi Bhsuhan nodded "haan haan beta zaroor, per merey liye tu daal hi bana dena", he sighed and giggling nupur went in the kitchen.

Entering the kitchen, she opened her recipe book and following the directions, she was halfway the dish, waiting for the gravy to boil, when again the darkness of the night haunted her. She looked out of the small exhaust opening of the kitchen and the dark sky shook her within.

Jerking away the thoughts, she concentrated back to the dish, and now almost ready, she went away to call everyone for dinner.

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"bauji chaliye khana tyaar hai", she informed and went to her sister's room, "pari ,noshi, chalo khana tyaar hai, maine nayi Thai dish banayi hai", she entered the room and on hearing this news pari and noshi's faces lit up!

"wow didi you are the best", noshi and pari clung to her and she rubbed their backs, "acha chalo maska band aur chalo jaldi, thanda hi jaye ga", she pushed them both and they were on their way down, and before following them, her eyes caught the open window. On an impulse she took a step to close it but the view of the dark sky trembled her heart again and leaving it as it is, she rushed down stairs, allowing the darkness to enter the home.

~*~

"bauji ap bhi thora sa taste kar lo na", nupur insisted but Sashi shook his head, "nahi beta, mujh se ye tum logo k naye aur ajeeb khaney nahi khaye jatey, tum log hi khao", he said irritated and three of them broke in a giggle.

It was a treat to see his three angles smiling and giggling like this. These three daughters were the reason of his life, and their smiles, the power to move on. He could do anything to let these smiles stay on their faces.

Just when he was saying a silent prayer, four of them heard an unmistakable sound of door closing with force.

"ye awaaz ..", noshi asked slowly but they knew which door in their house had such a voice on closing, "ye tu chaat k darwaze ki awaaz hai!", pari finally mouthed the words going on everyone's mind, and nupur turned white, "main khula chor ayi thi aur ab.. koi ander a gaya hai!"

"OMG, mtlb koi ander a gaya hai?, koi chor ya ..

"ssshhh", alarmed, Sashi signaled pari to be quiet and holding their hearts, four of them followed the sounds, which made it clear that it was more than one person.

"ye tu teen char log rahe hain, aur ..",

Chup!", Sashi bhuhan got up and so did three of the girls, "tum teeno ander jao", he whispered alarmingly and Nupur's mouth was left open, "jaldi ander jao aur darwaza lock kar lo, , jaldi karo", he held nupur 's arm and nupur withdrew it, "nahi bauji, ap akeley yahan, nahi, main bhi ap k sath rukon gi".

"pagal mat bano nupur, behno ko le k ander jao, main police kop phn karta hon", he pushed them in the room and himself went in the other direction of the home. Nupur locked the door and hugged both her sisters, which were trembling.

She started to pray hard, recited everything she knew by heart, but somewhere she knew her prayers will not be listened, she knew something deadly is going to happen - she could feel it.

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