My missing little brother ?

VOGUE : PARANORMAL??!!

Galleria Alberto Sordi ,the huddled centre of major shopping outlets, swarmed by constant hubbubbing of people passing by. A blurry picture screened inside Millie 's mind.

"' braccialini ' ahh! ,the store ! , I always wanted to visit in, I could spend by the day in front of it and could sweep by customers easily , yes ,I will go there today!"

Millie murmured to herself ,a random destination that blew past her mind. Advancing downstairs , to the store she was asked to go to , by the smirky lady at the front lounge ,reception.

Time to time, fixing up her broken spectacles, managed to be taped on for time being use, as she was so reluctant to put on her new contact lens, received this morning , awaiting to showcase it on some special day ahead.

A sudden flash of light on her face, startled back , Millie shielding her soo precious , though assisted, her eyes, by her hands.

"Is it the holy door ! " muttered her mind

" that i had once read in a book , where one could talk to the holy divine, the most Supreme Soul, was it the door connecting the spiritual World ? "

an accompanying voice of male soul heightening her beliefs to satisfy her ,that , yes indeed, it was what she had read of , the paraspiritual world !

So excited, she keenly devoted her attention to the voice , only to hear a very , typical, usual query,

"who are you ?, Why are you here ? "

The query indeed cleared her ,out of her so - called, short - spanned ,paraspiritual world .

Millie , barely able to keep her eyes open requested

" uncle ,Could you please spare my eyes?, I can't see anything" .

Seconds past ,the light, re-routed from Millie's eyes ,to her footwear.

Again blubbering the selfsame question , a security guard , who with his age old antics of flashing light on face , merely blinding the person in front , though the downhall behind was completely well lit. Now , retrieving his torch back to the path of gravity he added ,

"are you here to steal something?",

Millie, giving no room for suspicion , cleared her way by firmly putting on,

" Oh, no Uncle ! ,don't get me wrong , I'm here for a part-time job" ,

handing forward the envelope to the guard she added ,

"here is my 'get through' letter, you can read it ,"

the guard, smiling, started walking back Millie, hurriedly folded the letter back in, catching pace with the guard ,she asked,

" I am here to fetch my costume from 'downstore' ,could you, please help me guide to the place?"

continuing his walk, the guard at his late 80s, with a slouch on his back paced past an old wretchy shop ' downstore' ,it read , halting , staring at Millie ,as if wanting to hear something ,

Millie's senses had alerted her to ,thank him ,so accordingly ,she bowed down respectfully and thanked him, a well mannered girl indeed.

Millie ,back to target ,slowly pacing into the shop, looking around to find tonnes of clothes ,smushed in, diving ,betwixt it ,she fetched up a bunny costume, pleased by it , though a dusty smell ,swished past her nose , patting off the dust , she puddled up to fold the costume into her bag and set off ,to run upstairs ,because, she was constantly ringed by something eerie, something spooky ,what added to it was, the guard was nowhere to be seen, just within minutes later, she had entered the shop, the place around was also soo lonely adding on the spooky aura ,on a safe side and not to add onto any danger ,she sizzled off, as soon as possible .

It was 12 noon, at home was Steel her impatient little brother ,restlessly longing for her arrival ,to proceed on with the scheduled discussion ,talked over the same morning, simultaneously , vibing along to his favorite tunes, played on their ghostly ,black and white T.V ,yet another, old antique tool surviving till date.

He had skipped classes for the day, with an excuse of helping his parents , at the field, so smartly ,skipping both ,he swayed through the vibes, at home,alone, his parents unaware, we're out for their usual midmonth purchases.

Belonging to a farmer's family , lacking a stable form of earning to the fam- budget , after her schooling , Millie ,had secretly managed to book in part time jobs, but her hard lucked fate , continuously got her dejected.

The current offer she visited for , had stumbled at her so anonymously that she hesitated at start but situation pushed her in.

Steel restlessly ,standing up, headed to the dine table ,he began gulping up the, set up lunch meant for both Millie and him , but in haste and frustration ,unknowingly clean swiped the entire table within minutes, happy with his content tummy ,he set himself, off to his usual dozing world.

Meanwhile the situation weren't at ease with Millie , climbing upstairs ,

minute by- minute, turning back in fright , to check, just to confirm ,no one trudged behind .

Suddenly 'Thump' , as if hit by some cemented pillar, Millie fell on the ground, pained, she looked up just to find a hand, down to her ,to help her?, the so-called, helping hand ,belonged to a teen boy, handsome by face , well off by clothes, standing still in front of her.

Collecting her intellect to sense, the so called human pillar that had thumped her so harshly , Millie ,with the support of the ground ,stood up back by self , pushing off his hand.

The boy stood staring at her ,hands drawn back into his pocket, the other hand by his side , that had a bunch of pamphlets, advertising some upcoming shows ,by pics over .

Millie ,angrily questioned,

" were your eyes on a trip to somewhere ?,Couldn't you see me coming up?"

giving an ear to it ,the boy, with a tint of smile on his face, handed over the pamphlets still staring at her.

Millie, uneasy, hastly collected the papers not looking to his face ,dodged off ,from the shop quickly .

Walking through the busy streets ,time to time, pulling up her long squalid, semi- bloated bag ,slipping off her shoulders , she looked around to gaze, on the live city atmosphere ,she observed people passing by, some in call, soo in work , some having their eyes stitched on phone , so reluctant to even look up, yet skillfully paving way.

Admiring , the lurking professionalism, around her, Millie oathed to be one among them in her future, well off, majestically walking around, minding her own business.

Whining through the streets,luring the magnificent set up, just to tempt , those with a holed pocket, she began to slow down her pace getting pulled away by the fantasies around.

Though fantasizing the things around, Millie's sixth sense discerned that she was being trailed , she turned around ,halted to see if her intuition was indeed right?,but proven wrong shortly, she continued trudging , reaching past a spectacle shop, trying to have a view in, but suddenly ,a sought of push from behind, had her half built goosey spectacles fly to the ground, She ,knelt to the ground wandered her hand to get hold of it, and aligned it back on her nerdy eyes, startling view, the spectacles had shown her , she spotted the very same spooky teen boy whom she happened to meet at the store , talking to her parents, who at the market were purchasing, just some distance in front of her.

In order to escape from getting caught, she paddled to the nearby store, unaware the very same spectacle shop that she had gazed through . In hurry, the thought sleaked off her mind as to why and what the boy was talking to them ? ,all that mattered most for her at that time was to somehow escape from the scene , so conducive to conceal the secret kept from her parents, as according to their perspection their studious daughter was at the library, preping for her upcoming exams.

A voice shook Millie back to senses from her trance state ,

"Mam, Can I help you? "

asked the lady staff who had taken in charge of her customer Millie ,

Millie ,moved to the voice and smiled , speaking, covering up the situation,

" Can I have a look on the latest available contact lens here?"

the staff replied

"for sure mam, have a seat i will bring you recent collections" ,

sitting down , peeking across the crowd to spot her parents, she hastily turned her head to the other side upon spotting them walk past.

" Mam, here you go"

Sounded the same extra polite tone, collecting herself back again, Millie had her eyes run over the collection , just shortly to spot the very same one she had received this morning .

she enquired

" can I know the cost of this one?" simultaneously having a dekko look out through the door just to confirm her parents had indeed walked past.

"Good riddance" , she murmured

" sure" ,

interrupted the timbre

" It's 45.60 € for 12 piece set with discount ,would you like to buy it mam?" Glamshook Millie had dozens of thoughts floating in her mind , one amongst it , as to why her parents had to spend so much??

" ma'am. Excuse me, "

the sound brought her back to the ground Millie replied

"ah ! sorry , will try it next time. Thank you for your help "

Millie added ,the lady replied politely , "You're most welcome , do visit us soon ".

Millie hurried out hastily, grabbing up her bag , her pace from slow trudges had shifted to hurried stamps .

Mix of emotions baffling her, she ran to the pre-schedule spot ,the mall.

Finally , reaching the safe vibing place, she paced to the ladies washroom to get changed , whilst putting on her clothes, moving on with her thoughts saving it for another time . Catching her attention, a piece of paper, something written on it ,flew to the ground , Millie soon picked it up to have view on what it was , flying off from such a very old costume , she read , while adjusting up her spectacles

"I knew ,you would come soon ......." !!