Sarah started recovering from her confused state of mind. She made her mind and started to attend her classes. She concealed her crush on Lan and started to ignore him and started moving from him.
Lan's heart was worried. He could notice what Sarah's doing. He cannot understand why Sarah avoided him. Lan was bit angry on her. When Lan went near her, every time she ran away from him, feeling scared.
Lan cannot understand. Sarah did the same thing for three days. Finally, Lan wanted the reason. He stopped Sarah when she went home from the university. Sarah stood as if she saw a ghost. Her pupil of her blue eye dilated. Sweat came from her forehead fallen from her chin in drops.
She heard her heart beating audible.
Lub tub lub tub(heartbeat sound).....it ran faster.
"Wh...w....what? Why y.....you....sto.... stopped me?" , Sarah's voice stammered.
"Why are you going far away from me? Not even speaking with me?", asked Lan raising his eyebrows.
Sarah swallowed her saliva a bit. Sarah went near him trying to touch him. She pointed her index finger towards his shoulder. She felt him. She asked him, "Are you...you...a ...gh...ghost?", in a deep fear with innocent face. Lan felt, "what she's doing, was she mad ? what happened to her?", within himself.
"What happened to you? Are you alright?", Lan shouted at Sarah.
Sarah hid what happened and why she done like that to Lan and told a different reason to him. Lan's picture which she saw in the witch like lady house flashed her several times.
Lan knew that she's hiding something from him.
Sarah pretend herself as she was speaking with him as before. Lan noticed that but he didn't express it.
Lan say a golden Locket in her neck. It is very attractive with minute art work in it.
There was a blue stone in its front sparking.
Lan extended his hand to touch her locket. But Sarah restricted and went away.
Sarah was very tired that night. She went and slept without even having dinner. Sarah had a dream. The big black cat with green eyes was standing at her right, its mouth opened wide, her mother's face came out off it, she saw her mother extending her hands and calling her she started stepping towards her with happy face, "Sarah, my child , come to me", Sarah went near to it. Buttercup brought its chew toy and put it on her face made her to awake. Sarah's dream disappeared. Sarah shouted at her dog as it disturbed her mother's dream.
Sarah haven't got her mother's love from her young age. She longed to see her. She decided to go to the house again. She took her buttercup and few torches, a candle and a match to lit it.
Sarah sat on her bed, holding her locket and prayed for a minute and started to go.
The sky was dark, the streets are empty, only she and buttercup on the streets.
She stood in front of the witch like lady's house and watched a while. It was quiet. Looked terrible as haunted. A wild wind blew, the wooden windows splashed in the wind. Its glasses were broken.
Bats flied atop that house. She made her heart strong grabbed buttercup's belt in her hand tight and walked towards the front door slowly step by step.
She opened the broken door and lit her torch. She walked carefully and climbed the stairs.
She found a new door locked with a bronze lock. She searched a tool to open it. She remembered that day Lan opened the front door with hammer. She ran down to get it. She took that hammer, its really heavy. She tapped the lock forcefully using the hammer. The lock unlocked.
She slowly removed the lock and opened the door. The door was completely dusted with webs of spiders. The room was filled with pictures, and many beautiful boxes. There was a majestic bed filled with dust.
Sarah waved her hand and removed the web on her way. She went near to those pictures. She lighted the candle she brought with the match she had. And placed it on a table .She took her hand kerchief and smoothly rubbed the dust from it. It was a picture of a couple. When she looked keenly. "M....M....Mommmmmmmmm....
D....D....Daddddddddd", she shouted in shock.
Once again she opened the locket to check whether it's them. She was nervous, she opened the locket with her hands shaking terribly in fear.
"It was them", she said herself.
She similarly took that dirty handkerchief and rubbed all the pictures gently. She could see her happy parents. The pictures was filled with happiness. She was thinking why her granny told anything about it.
She saw so many small boxes there. She saw a silver box which attracted her. She searched key of it but couldn't found it.
It was very late that night. She decided to leave the place taking her parents picture in her hands
She called buttercup,"Let's leave !". They both left the house and reached home at twelve.
She's tired and threw herself in the bed. Buttercup wanted her to eat her dibner, so it pulled her hair. She didn't raised. And it pulled her locket. Her locket fell down. It break and something came out.
Buttercup barked fiercely. Sarah awakened and asked, "Why are you barking buttercup? I am sleepy", and buttercup grabbed her and showed something. Sarah opened her eyes and saw that. And it was a small key which was inside her locket these days. Sarah thought that it would be the key of any of the boxes there.