My missing little brother ?

THE RUN TO MYSTERY!

"It was a night when we had just returned from the 28th annual fest of our University back to our dorm. I hope you remember that we shared the same dorm? " ,

Smiled Eva , questioningly, Millie, laughing, replied " Yes, I do remember that !! ,

Eva went on ,

"we were so tired that we had retired to sleep , so soon, even without changing our outfits, and if my memory serves me right, it was half-past twelve when we had heard a sudden knock at the door , so continuous ,so rapid as if the person would smash it within minutes ,moreover what added to our fright was, we both were alone since the rest two dormates we're already on leave . We didn't dare to open the door, but later on the knock was accompanied with a faint voice , It said , "please open the door, I am Ifa "

listening to the very familiar tone , we had immediately made her way in , we opened the door to find Ifa, drenched , since it was thunderstorm that night, frightened and almost devastated as if traumatized by something that caught her eyes. She crying, ran in and closed the door herself, She turned to hug us , shivering from top to bottom. We made her sit down ,made her change her clothes and gave her hot tea, It was almost 1:30 in the morning, it took almost one hour to cool her down from the trauma ! .

After asking her what had trembled her to terrors , she narrated the entire incident, as to there was a boy, She said his name was..... Jack , she had already once placed her gut feelings before us that while returning home, or to dorm, to University, wherever she went she had a..."

"excuse me, madam, I guess this belongs to you?"

came an interrupting voice forcing them to stop their convo midway. Eva,turned to the voice, It was a hotel staff who had a piece of crushed , though folded paper, in his hands extended towards them, again repeating, he asked,

" Mam, does it belong to you ?, since it was lying side by your feet, a gentleman sitting at the back saw it fly from your bag ",

he said pointing towards Millie.

Eva quickly took the paper from his hands and thanked him ,saying ,

"sorry for the trouble , she is indeed very careless of her stuffs " ,

Millie, giving an ear to it chuckled,

Eva turned back to have a look on the very gentle ,gentleman who had a keen observation , to find seats back empty , turning towards the staff, she enquired, "Sorry, did the gentleman already leave?",

the staff looking back in astonishment replied ,

"Oh, I guess he did, just now because until the very moment he was here , listening to our convo, a weird sort of guy indeed",

Eva asked ,

" may I know , what made you say that ? " ,

replying to Eva, the staff again running his eyes around to check, just in case he finds him ,

" cause he didn't order anything , he just came a few minutes after you both , sat for some time , called me to alert you regarding the piece of note , and now he's gone ".

" hmm.... indeed a quaint behavior, I guess he was spying on someone here , abreast helping us ",

chortled Millie, wording this.

Eva thanked the staff , the staff soon left , bringing back Eva's mind to the old conversation, she had stopped halfway, "Millie , bring your ears back, let me continue"

Millie's giggly reply,

" Already at your service, signora"

Eva continued,

" she always had a feeling as to she being trailed by someone , though not practically saw that ' someone 'around, but her intuition called out to her everytime.

Days passing she had been insecure, she had approached us with the matter, but we couldn't report the case , as of no evidence was till date ever traced .

But things didn't run the same that night, as usual, Ifa was shadowed by the same feeling of being continuously watched upon ,what added to her fear was that she was all alone there sorting out the last bits of costume in the costume room after the performance. As usual she staying put continued her task hoping to be safe, but minutes later she heard the room door close behind her , she couldn't see who was it as the door was covered by the racks of clothes from where she was standing, moreover as per the time she and only a few girls that too they were at the auditorium were present, comforting herself to the belief that the intruder must be one amongst the girls, but on the safe side cautiously hiding herself inside the cupboard nearby , she peeped out through the creek to have a check.... , to her worst luck the sight of an anonymous guy with a knife had Ifa have an extreme panic attack.

The guy seemed to be searching for someone and here probably Ifa, later He indeed justified by saying,

" Ifa , I know you are here, but I don't understand, Why would you hide from me? , I am Jack, your so committed follower. I don't like to be played, So please I request you to step out and let's have a talk. ??".

Millie interrupting added,

" What a dumbass fellow is he?, won't people be afraid of seeing someone Storm Into the workplace and that too holding a knife ?, Would anyone dare to befront him?",

Eva nodded and went on,

" the creepy words of his had Ifa confirm her beliefs that she was so right with her conscious past days that she was being stalked upon and the worst condition now was that the stalker was in front of her and that too with a weapon and she all alone. She worked her brain to somehow get out of the situation, but that was impossible until he was guarding the door, to Ifa's luck, impatient Jack, started to leave his spot and move forward and that too , to the other side , away from her.

Outside was thunderstorm pouring, the probability of power outage at its peak and if that could happen, it could somehow favor Ifa to sneak out from there, but she didn't wait, as Jack walked to the other side clearing the doorway, she slowly stepped down from the cupboard, opened the door.... a loud 'bang ' .........,

drawing the attention of Jack to the side, Ifa, standing in front of a broken vase Jerked out, down from the table , shocked, unable to move, staring at Jack, startled .

For Ifa her best, she could run either to get caught by him or to escape the one last time, off....... goes the power and total darkness everywhere, a favour indeed done by the nature , utilizing the time she ran towards the side of window hid behind the boxes, her foot stumbled on something, she felt it with her hands and that was a steel rod , she , taking hold of it, tried keeping calm , calm to the notion that now she also had something to defend herself incase....

The window was locked, so escaping through it was next to Impossible, all she thought to do was to track Jack as to where he was and then aim for the door, Her intellect had her right ,Jack's Laughter confirmed the fact that he was standing beside the door, if she had run to the door She would have been caught . Jack was mumbling, as not to try ,escape ,since it is not possible by any means, thereby the path of the sound confirmed his position. Working out her brains, she came with a plan of breaking the window with the rod that she had got hold of earlier ,so that the sound of shattering glass would pull him to the spot , just in case if someone else hears it they could also reach the spot and by the time she could slink out of the door , accordingly she had her scheme worked out ,escaped from him and finally ran to us that night.