Chapter 1
{The known stranger}
"It's your birthday di..." Ragini said... " I know...how many times more you gonna repeat your party chants" swara said annoyingly... " Oh|! Please di... it's your 20th birthday can't we throw a small party... please... please... please..." Ragini said... " Offo...stop right there you know I don't like these idiotic things...well if you are insisting so much then I prefer to come to your birthday party...is that okay..." Swara said... Well this was it for ragini she started jumping like a kid on bed..." Yahoo... hurrah... Di will come in my birthday party I am sooo happy di...thank you so much... I love you so much..." Ragini said... " Oh! I love you most chooti..." Swara said... " Di... Don't call me chooti at least in college...it's so old fashioned..." Ragini murmured... " Uhh...! What do you think... I will destroy my chooti reputation in college...no way that's why I found a new name for you..." Swara said sweetly... " Aww... Please tell me I wanna know..." Ragini asked innocently... " Well... What about monkey..." Laughing swara said... " Di... I am gonna kill you" ragini said throwing pillows on swara...which obviously led to a pillow fight...
" Swara...ragini how much more time you both need to come down..." Sharmishta asked in a irritated manner " oh! These two will never grow"... " Oh! shit di whole room is messy...mom gonna kill us..." Scared ragini said... " Mom just give us 15 minutes we are coming down... just don't come up..." Swara said hurriedly but it was too late shomi was already in the room... " My goodness...swara...ragini what's all this...did any strom came inside this room..." Sharmishta asked angrily... " Sorry mom it's my fault I started it...". Ragini said... " No mom it's my fault as I called her monkey... don't be angry on chooti..." Swara said... " No mom di just pulled my leg...I overreacted... It's my fault..." Ragini said... " Oh! God save me...stop playing your emotional blackmailing game with me...as I am already out here..." Shomi said teary eyes..." Just go and get ready for college..." Shomi said... " Plan successful..." Both of them whispered to each other with a winning smile...
At the dining table...
"Mom...Di gonna attend my birthday party this year..." Ragini said with a grinning face... " Really...? How did this happened..." Shocked sharmishta asked... " Hard work...Mom...hard work..." Ragini said with a proud face... " No mom don't faint...she just irritated me soo much with her party chants that I gave up this time...and who turns 18 everyday that's why I promised to come..." Swara said... " Oh... that's the truth... I also thought ragini and hard work are like two opposite directions..." Sharmishta said laughing hard... " Mom..." Ragini said annoyingly... " Okay...okay...if you are also attending the party then why don't we celebrate it in our house only..." Sharmishta asked... " Oh! Jezz am I alive or it's some kind of dream..." Ragini asked innocently... " Yes you are alive and it's reality..." Sharmishta said laughing... " Thank you mom... I love you two so much..." Ragini said excitedly... " Di...if I am not mistaken it was a fortnight yesterday... what's next in the episode of your historical dreams..." Ragini asked curiously... " Well you two won't believe me but yesterday night I didn't had any of those dreams I just slept so relaxed after 2 years..." Swara said with a relaxed face... " Well it's a good news..." Sharmishta said with a fake smile... " Okay maa...byee or else we will be late..." Swara and ragini said...
She knew nothing in their life happens without any reason she still remembers that day when swara told about these dreams after her 18th birthday...
"Good morning shona... what happened shona you are up this early..." Sharmishta said... "Nothing maa..." Swara said... Maa I wanna share something with you..." Swara said hesitantly... "What happened shona don't hide anything from me...tell me why are you so scared..." Sharmishta said worriedly... " Maa I am having some weird dreams like... someone tracing a girl who looks exactly same like me...a man comes on a horse to save me... those weird clothes there way of talking everything is so weird it hell scare me...maa" shona said teary eyes... " Shhh...shona beta calm down..." Sharmishta said worriedly... " Maa you remember my 18th birthday it all started that day I was sleeping when I felt someone was laughing sweetly I woke up with a jerk...but there was nothing around me... I saw ragini was sleeping peacefully on the other side of the bed... I ignored it drank water and was back to sleep... I slept peacefully for 15 minutes then again I heard someone laughing I woke up with a jerk but this time everything was different even the era... I realized I was the one who was laughing I was dressed up just like some princess...
" nyantara... nyantara beta where are you going..." A woman dressed like queen asked... " Maa I am going to nearby fair with my friends... I promise I will come before the sunset...no need of those idiotic soldiers..." Nyantara said with a puppy face... " No none of these tricks will be useful this time you have to take them with you or else no one will go anywhere..." Queen said firmly... " Maa ambika is also going with me you don't need to worry if anything happens she will handle it..." Nyantara said... " I know she is a good warrior but with you she also becomes child..."queen said... Meanwhile ambika comes there... " Maa don't believe in your daughter's skill let us go..." Ambika said... " No... nothing will work this time... " Queen said... " Okay maa... We won't argue more..." Nyantara said... "Ambika let's go... Or else we will be late for play... I mean fair..." Nyantara took ambika aside and wishpered something in her ears after that both went smiling from there... "After this my dream broke maa..." Swara said... " Maa I shared it with ragini...she said not to worry as it's just a dream and when next night I didn't noticed anything unusual I thought it was just a dream so I tend to forget it... but now things are different maa" swara said... " Maa these dreams comes in a cycle after every 15 days in night the dreams comes..." A frightened swara said... " Don't worry shona it's just a dream...let it be a dream... don't let them overpower you...you control them they should not control you..." Sharmishta said giving her strength... " No maa these dreams are out of my hand I am not able to stop them from overpowering me..." Swara said... " Maa I even saw someone was trying to kill me when a man on horse rescue me I was not able to see him... I only saw his eyes... Those deep brown eyes were saying many unspoken words to me..."swara said... " Shona just remember one thing in your life never run behind what you see at first sight... nothing remains constant..." Sharmishta said...
These dreams were no harm to shona but why did then it stopped maybe I should consult her again...
" Ragini walk fast we are already late..." Swara said ordering her... " Offo swara is it my fault that the tires got punctured..." Ragini said annoyingly... " No ragini but we have to reach on time now walk fast..." Swara said...
" At last we reached... Now come I will show you your way to classroom..." Swara said... " Swara I am no kid now I can figure it out on my own..." Ragini said making silly face... " Oh! I know go figure it out... it's 5 steps from that corridor..." Swara said grinning to ragini... " Swara..." Ragini said... " Well I am already late I have to run or else...Mr. Gupta gonna kill me..."
She was walking hurriedly in corridors when she collided with someone she thought her back's gonna break now...but to her surprise she didn't fall down instead she felt she was in someone's arm...she opened her eyes and saw deep dark brown eyes...
In some deserted temple...
" Fate have brought them together again...durga maa... The story which was left incomplete 100 years earlier will complete this time... They will set everything right soon our village will also take breath after years.." an old lady of 100 years was talking to durga maa idol...
People say eyes are the doors to someone soul...two eyes met giving unspoken silence to each other...will these two souls identify each other...
Edited by elsanna - 8 years ago
