PROPHETIC NIGHTMARE

Hey!! It’s me the narrator of the story. I’m gonna tell you about someone’s life but before that I’m gonna tell you about this world. Our world has a small difference; but it has a big problem. Our world has big buildings, trees and on those tree I see a birds chirping, then I see an accident and then Avengers. Wait! Wait!! Wait!!! No, we don’t have thanos level problems, so they shouldn’t be their, maybe they are just some kids playing in costumes but we do have one problem. Problems name is Prophetic dream. Now what is the meaning of Prophetic dream. It means they are thought to be dreams that have foretold a future events. Now you must be thinking that it’s great knowing the future, actually, it’s not that great because, it does not show when your gonna win the lottery, or when our country is gonna win the ‘IPL’. It shows when and where you are gonna die. Yes! The dream that shows our death, After so many centuries people begin to call this dream (Phenomenon) as Prophetic Nightmares. After dream, just in week your dream gets real with exact situation that’s how dangerous is this problem, and even if we know that we can’t change the future, most of the time. Now its time to take about our protagonist. His name is Raj Patil, age 16 in high school. His life is fulfilling and satisfied until he had that dream. He is sleeping on his desk, the window is half open, the breeze comes and soothes his face and then someone walks close to him and start shouting. “raj, why are you sleeping in my class , wakeup before I assign you double homework.” teacher yelling at raj. Other students “haha” “Sir if your gonna take time waking him up can I take a nap too?” haha “Shut up” sir yell at everyone. Raj suddenly gasping. (gasp!!). “Raj what’s happening wakeup” teacher said while pushing raj. Everyone gets confuse “raj, are you alright just wakeup man, if its prank you might get into trouble.” raj holds its stomach tightly, he start to gasping but he is not waking up. “Bad move kid you should have run, instead of trying to save to her” an unknown man. Shhtaab! Shhtaab!! Shhtaab!!! “Ahhh!!” Raj woke up in scream, he was scared and shocked. he didn’t realize that it was just dream. He heavily breathing. Teacher ask what happened and take him to staffroom. All teachers have gather after hearing about his situation. “Raj, Sit here calmly, drink this water slowly and tell us what happened?” vice principle ask. Raj drinks water (gulp!) “ ahh! Thanks” he says. “What happened to you in classroom, first you where silently sleeping and all of sudden you started screaming, Raj you have to tell us what happened? what did you saw?” Vice principal asks. “I… I didn’t understand what happened, I was just sleeping then all of sudden I saw an old man. He was stabbing me and laughing” Raj scared and feared replies to them. Everyone silently and intensely looks at each other. Because even if raj says he doesn’t understand, They understand his situation, and what is happening with raj but they can’t tell him. “Please, can you call my parents.” Confused raj ask teacher. Raj’s parents come to school. Raj’s Mother is a house wife, her name is Lakshmi. And his father works at bank, his name is Omkar. They sees raj sitting one chair. His mother lakshmi comes to him and ask “raj, what happened? we hear something happened to you, are you all right?”. “yes son, if something happened you, you have to tell us.” his father. Raj who trying get over that shock, didn’t understand himself what is happening with him. Raj’s teacher come forward and say “raj was having a dream and said he died in that dream. we think that it might be prophetic nightmare”. As raj’s parents hears that they fall into an dark pit. There son has seen the nightmares that are seen as dream but most of the time they get real. There are only slim chances that anyone can survive after seeing that nightmare. Sob… sob… Lakshmi starting to crying, Omkar is trying to calm her down but he himself is shocked and scared about news. Everyone is on the edge they can’t console anyone. The room feels like it engulf by some dark fantasy evil because of that everyone is in bad mood. “Mom, why are you crying as if I am already dead (heavily breathing), mom, dad, just because I saw my death doesn’t mean I am going to give up, I will live. Just because I saw a nightmare doesn’t mean I will be scared forever. Let’s go to police station they might help us now.” Lakshmi wipe her tears and says “yes, your are right, we will not give up, lets go to the police station.”. Raj and his parents go the police station. (Background) “sir please take my report my wallet has been stolen”, “sir , someone stole my bicycle today.”. Raj has calmed down and come to the police station. “wow its so lively in here” raj says while looking at the situation inside. Lakshmi run towards police and says “police officer, please save my son. he saw prophetic nightmare one hour ago, please sir save him.”. Police officer who get cases about fake nightmares all the times replied without concern “sigh!! Every one have dream about their death these days”. Omkar “no sir, my son really had death dream, if you didn’t do anything he will die sir. please sir.” Police officer says “ sir I know your worried, but don’t worry it’s just your sons imagination nothing else.” Raj yells at police officer “smack!! What do you mean it just imagination, you mean that fear I feel in my dream was just imagination or the pain I had when that man stab was just hallucination, Sir I know some might come to you telling about their fake nightmares but I am not faking it, its real.”. Police officer “hey kid, stop yelling its police station not your home.”. Omkar stops raj and says “sorry sir, I apologies in his place sir, please he is just scared sir, please listen to us one time and you will know.”. Police officer “mam will listen to you request, she is in that cabin just wait for while, someone else also had the nightmare. first mam will talk to them. After then you talk to mam about you problem, mam will determine if it’s real or not okay. Go sit.”. Raj and his parents where desperate they get in the cabin without asking officer. (Open door) mam get frustrated and angry she ask “who are you people, and why did you just barge in here can’t you see there is someone else in here.”. Raj and his parents get flustered. They were about to apologies, but raj see a girl siting in chair, a girl that he didn’t know before but he recognize her somewhere. They both eyes meet each other. Raj remembers, and both girl and raj point at each other and says “hey! its you”. Sudden change of situation leave every one in surprise, how do they know each other. Every thing is calmed down. “First let me introduce my self I am Head police officer Bharti shukla I usually handle nightmares. So how do you two know each other?” bharti ask. “hello I am Hema Chanchlani, this morning I saw him in my dream”. Bharti “wait are you saying he is the one who killed you” Hema get nervous and said “no… no he didn’t kill me he was trying to save me in my dreams.” Lakshmi “what are you even saying mam, my son is not murderer he will never kill someone.”. bharti “mam, I am sorry, its just my work, I have to suspect everyone, now raj why did you try to save her, did you know her by any chance?” raj replies “no mam, I don’t know her.” Bharti then ask “then how did you recognize her.” Raj replies in nervousness “well I saw her in my dream, when I was getting stabbed and I look around, I saw her dead on my right sides and that’s all I know about her.”. Bharti “hmmm so you can say that first hema was killed then raj was killed after her. You both do you know the man who killed you” raj and hema shakes their head. “But we have to know who is he.” Nayan (hema’s father) ask “how will you know?, can you make his sketch” bharti respond “yes sir, I can’t but I am going to call a sketch artist he will draw his sketch and until then I will ask the kids about the killers behavior”. Omkar ask “wait, why behavior?”. “sometimes sketches aren’t perfect we need his behavior to identify from our files to see if he has any records or not. So hema and raj you have to tell me how he exactly killed you” bharti says. Sharda (hema’s mother) “why are you reminding them of such horror terrifying thing. (Sharda tightly hugs hema) you don’t know how much she was terrified this morning”. bharti “Yes mam your right, but mam how can we know if she didn’t tell us”. “I will tell” raj replies. Raj “I remember his words he was saying that I shouldn’t have try to save her, instead I should have run and he was laughing. I think their was one thing that seems odd.”. Bharti ask “what?” raj says “it’s stabbing. He was stabbing me so many times in my stomach. I thing that’s his way doing it. Think, he didn’t know us so he wouldn’t hate us either so that must be his signature or something” bharti ask “hema, did the same thing happened to you too”. hema nervously nod her head. “hmmm very well then you both seat their and wait, until the artist the come, After we get sketch we will start the investigation.” Bharti tell that to everyone. Hema and raj siting beside each other. They are glancing and staring at each other. They had an awkward silence for a while but hema broke that silence. “so why don’t we formally introduce our self, my name hema chanchlani, I am student in saint high school. Raj replied “Ok, my name is raj patil, currently a student in guru govind high school, nice to meet you.”. Raj says “well, its quiet bizarre right, that even if I don’t know you, We were trying to save each other.”. Hema replied “I don’t think so because what I saw in my dream was, you trying to save me and I was just being burden to you. You know that old man was totally fixated on me but instead of running away you try to fight him but in the end up dieing too. We might destine to die.”. Her word poke like needle to me. Even trying every thing in dream I wasn’t able to defeat him. Can we be saved? Those word come in raj’s mind. Slap!! Raj slap himself and think “if you think like that and do nothing then you will die for sure so don’t lose will.” Hema is confused, she don’t under stand why did he do that. After sometime artist came. Artist “tell me how he looked as detailed as possible”. Raj and hema start to describe him, middle age man in his 50’s, long eyebrows, height is about 5 foot. After describing sketch get complete. Bharti remember something after seeing sketch. Bharti started searching the files, she found a file. Bharti “See! this was case two year ago, an middle age man name Aman khande, killed five people with knifes, he uses knifes to stab people repeatedly, it his way of pleaser, we have his photo see if is him or not”. Raj and hema see the photo and they shouts together “It’s him! We are hundred percent sure, it’s him.”. Bharti look nervous, bharti “if it’s him then it kind of problem”, Raj “what kind of problem?” bharti “this criminal’s file nick name is butcher. he stop killing two years so we don’t have any clue that were he can be” Omkar says “what! you don’t know where he is? If he is criminal he should be in jail” others “we try to catch him two years ago, but he was smart, so he stopped killing the moment he realize he is gonna get caught, so he just vanished, after that we never found him.” bharti said. Raj “so the person we are looking for is a murderer, but he did not kill anyone in two years that means we are his bohni (bohni means first) I guess.” Omkar says “raj don’t say that you are not going die, police will save you”. Bharti “yes don’t worry raj we have one week, see raj if nothing happed to you both, for one week that means we change the future, so we will protect both of you for least a week.” “So what we should do for I don’t think just waiting in my home for criminal to be caught is best idea, I mean its shouldn’t be that simple.” Hema said to bharti mam. Bharti replied “yes, your are right, then why don’t you go somewhere else for week, yes, you both should go somewhere for a while you will be not together” Raj “I don’t think that’s a great idea”. bharti replied “what! Why did you not like staying somewhere else for week.” Raj “no! I am talking about both of us going, someone should stay in town so future won’t change drastically.” Bharti “hmmm! he might be right but then who should stay”. “me!” raj suddenly replied. Omkar says “What! why? no raj its dangerous in here what if he attack you in night, no raj.” Raj smiles and replied “dad don’t worry he won’t attack” Omkar “and why”. Raj replied “Because I am gonna live in this police station for coming next week” “whaaaat” every one’s reaction. Omkar “son are you alright? Because your talking non-sense right now”. Raj replied “no dad, I am ok, just think dad police station is most safest place I could have, just think, I will have 24/7 police officers around me, no criminal will able touch me here.” Omkar “yes! I didn’t think like that at all, you are right we will bring food to you every day so just stay here ok.” Bharti “are you not going to ask us? Sigh!! Ok for week you will stay with us here for week and Ms hema will move.” After talking so much to our parents bharti finally let them go. Hema and their parents leaving first because they want to do packing. Raj and his parents come to say bye to them, raj turned back and was going in, suddenly hema comes and grab his shirt from behind, she put her head on his back and said “raj I don’t know if our plan will work or not because the only person who I saw and who can save me is you, so please save me.” Raj turned back and grab her hand and replied “hema I promised, the dream that you saw will never become reality, I will not let your dream become reality I swear on my life.” That day I swear I will save her at all cost. They go home and my mom and dad also go home they were crying, my mom even insist that she will stay with me but mam can’t let every one stay. Every thing calm down and that’s how first day on my nightmare ends. Next Morning. “What is going on? Why is that kid is sleeping here? Do you think it is some kind hotel, get him out right now.” Someone is yelling. Bharti replied “sir it’s about nightmares, he is here for protection, just a week sir, please sir,”. that person again “if he wants protection we can provide police officers, why he is in police station tell him to leave”. As this all commotion is going on raj eyes opens. yawnnn! Raj stands “sir my name is raj patil, sir please just for week I want to stay here.” bharti “he is DSP, raj did you wake up?” raj replied “well yes, it was so much noise in here how can I not wake up”. “Hey kid I don’t care what happen to you, just leave this police station, this police station is for criminals not for you so go home” DSP yell and replied. Everyone get sad, they look at raj with sad eyes because they can’t do anything. Raj whispers “ok then I don’t have choice”, snatch!! raj took the gun from DSP, everyone gets surprised DSP. "hey kid give me the gun back” every one else “yes raj give sir’s gun back”. bharti ask “raj do you know consequence of you actions” raj replied “bharti mam I know, I will go to jail” DSP says “kid if you go in jail, it will ruin you career” “sir I know but its better than dyeing”, raj points gun at roof, “sir I know about this bullets, you have to report about what happened to them, so I will get arrested for stealing gun and without Beal I will be in jail for long time” raj says. DSP replied “wait kid, this bullets and roof are important to me so tell me are you really that desperate not leave this police station”. Raj nod his head. DSP replied “ok kid I give up, give me the gun and I will give you the permission to stay in police station” raj replied “promise me if I give you the gun you will not kick me out” DSP “yes I promise” raj slowly take gun down, and give it to them. Everyone calmed down. DSP “hey kid!” raj instantly says “sir you promised me you will not kick me out” DSP yell “first listen kid if you are gonna stay never disturb anybody, let them do their work, don’t be hindrance to them if I receive any complaint I will kick you out” raj smiles and replies “yes sir”. DSP leave. The tension in police station was high because of raj action slowly calm down suddenly ring… ring… ring… raj’s phone start to ring, raj check his phone it was an unknown number, raj nervously pick up the phone click… “hello who’s their?” the sound replies “raj its me, hema”. raj took breath in relief and says “oh it’s you, I almost had a heart attack, hema how did you get my number?” hema replied “I ask bharti mam” raj “ok” hema asks “so are you okay their, I mean is everything all right their”. Raj thinks ‘Is she worried about me’. raj replies “well I am all right despite the hectic situation a moment ago” “wait! what do you mean, please tell me what happened” hema sound worried. By hearing her being worried raj smiles a little bit and said “well nothing happen to me. DSP sir came in police station, they didn’t like me being in police station, so they were insisting to me to go home” hema replies “so are you really going home? Don’t go it might dangerous outside because of that killer, why didn’t you tell your dad or I can tell my dad we will request for you” raj says “no need, I already solve that problem. When DSP sir were kicking me out I just grab his gun and threaten him to shoot bullets on ceiling nothing else”. “huhh! Did you just use word ‘just’ for all of that, you must be alright then” hema says that with happiness and shock on her face. But the most shocked people were the police who were siting next to him all that time. Raj says “My life hasn’t been boring so if your are bored I wouldn’t mind sharing some wisdom of life” hema giggles a little bit and replies “please enlightened me. oh almighty” raj replies “oh! Your are catching on”. Raj and Hema were talking for at least for an hour. Bharti mam come in police station. Bharti “isn’t he talking for half hour” other police officer “not half hour, they talking for like 1 hour, 14 minutes to be exact” bharti replies “well he don’t have anything else to do so let him be”. Raj “hema, I am still not used to it that I might die in a week. And on top of that I never had any girlfriend before. life do suck.” hema replies you are not alone in this, I am in this boat too. Alone.” raj “believe me when I say this, I will date anyone if they ask me out, I might date you too.” Raj’s thoughts in his mind ‘oh s**t! I just blurt it out without thinking, what if she think that I am weird or something’. Raj awkwardly says “well I just…”. hema replies “that’s not a bad idea if we both are single and we both only have a week then why don’t we date each other for 7 days”. raj is surprise beyond world, in raj’s mind ‘Wait! What! Why! What happening? Am I getting girlfriend? I am not ready yet but she just ask me out, did she like me? But we just meet one time on and this out first talk on phone. wait she said for 7 days, doesn’t that means she is just looking for relationship for 7 days, yes does not like me but what if she does, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,’ as all this battle going in my mind about she like him or not. She ask raj on the phone “should we date each other.” “yes” raj instantly replies. Hema says “ok then lets call later, mom is calling me” raj replies “ok” hema “bye, raj." raj “bye” click! Call ends. Police officers who were listening to his whole conversation says “congratulation kid, you have a girlfriend now.” raj replies “what’s their to congratulate about having girlfriend. it not a big deal ok.”. “yah, it not a big deal” police officer says in sarcastic tone while seeing raj’s happy and smiley face.