The Zhai - episode 1

(Friends this is my first attempt to write a story for others to read. I'm not very confident about it. So please tell me if you don't like it, I'll stop posting more.)

(J        Jyotirmayi Prahlad
Yuvi     Yuveraj Kohli 
Arjun   Arjun Mehta 
Zakir   Zakir Rehman 
Munna  Mohammed Ishmael 
Arya   Aryavir Sharma)

Prelude
‘So you’ve come back Arjun’, said the woman. Everything was eerily silent. The light was greenish and he felt as if he was underwater. It sort of closed in on him that he couldn’t see anything beyond the green colour. He could hear the anklets of the lady. Probably she has started dancing. Would she destroy this place? 

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‘Are you really as stupid as you look?’ said J. She was angry that Yuvi had spoiled her beautiful Monday morning. Everything went on well, as planned and she believed in the proverb ‘All’s well that ends well’.

‘Look I’m not being superstitious or anything okay?’ Yuvi said. He was scared that what they did had come to haunt them.

He looked at the sky, at the scorching sun above and checked the time in his watch. It was quarter to eight, in the morning. He needed to convince J before he dropped her at her college fifteen minutes from now. He heaved a sigh.

‘Diya thinks that I stole the diamond and she says-‘

‘Cut it off, it’s natural for her to think so. I mean nothing happened all these days and you’re worried about last week’s incidents?

‘J please’, he pleaded. ‘Do you then think that Arjun’s accident was just an accident?’

‘It’s not about my thinking it’s the fact. It was his fault in the first place and don’t say it was because he touched that thing. Any sensible person’d’ve known that taking a call while at the wheel is risky, got it? And as you can see, Yuvi, nothing happened to any of us, especially me, considering that I was the one who came up with the plan and took you all there.’

There was a tense silence inside the car, the two people inside thinking about the same thing. They didn’t notice what everybody else, from the traffic constable and the security personnel at the USIS to the commuters of the city’s infamous MTC, were looking at.

Unusually the sun was happily melting the tar roads so early in the morning. The sudden heavy shower did nothing to decrease the heat. A few observant people noticed that there was not a single cloud on the sky.

Yuvi stopped his vehicle near Gangotri. J got down and looked at him.

‘I know you’re worried Yuvi. But please think. We went there, did what we planned to do, and came back unscathed. Its over, it’s a closed subject. And remember all’s well that ends well, okay?’

He watched her cross the road and walk into the college. Then he looked at the sky and heaved another sigh.

‘All’s not well J and definitely, this is not the end’.

Tags: fiction, zhai, mystery, emerald, adventure, myth, supernatural powers

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