"Mommy, I am home..." Banging the door open, Eldoris entered the house.
What she saw made her froze.
The whole house was silent. Then only sound were the ticking of clock and the pounding of her heart was heard.
'The lights are still on.' She comforted herself.
Taking deep breaths, she moved forward.
"Mommie..... Mommie.... Mommie? Mommy?.... Are you there?"
PLAA....
Clattering of plates was heard from the kitchen.
Alerted Eldoris stopped in her track and instead turned cautiously towards the kitchen. She was just about to enter the kitchen when....
SHAAA....
A shadow sped past her; taking her breath away. Her whole body was stiff.
"There is nothing over there... There is nothing over there. It was just my imagination...." She again comforted herself.
'Huff...huff....huff....' Hard breathing sounds had already started to hear. And by this, all the courage of Eldoris went away.
Clenching her fist, she tried to calm down and act as if nothing happened. She wanted to move away in search of mom. But for the bad luck, she was unable to move.
"What is happening to me?" She asked herself.
She tried her best to move. But unfortunately, nothing happened.
'Eldoris, you can't lose. You can do it' she motivated herself. But her mind was getting crazy.
'What is going on here? Why she couldn't move? And what the thing that sped away?' She had a lot of questions in her mind. But who could she ask? And her main priority was to search her mom!
TAK...TAK.....
An unknown footstep started to get closer and closer. And with every footstep, heart pounded with more and more force.
Next moment, the footstep stopped behind her and a warm breath could feel on her back. And now, she was too horrified to turn her head.
But...
A breathing sound neared her ears.
"Hello dear..., Long time no see...."
A chill had run down her spine.
The voice was deep and cold. It was as if of dead.
She lost the control of the body. She was though unwilling, her body was turning around against her like.
Then what she saw, made her dumbstruck.
It was her mother!
Or exactly, a lady who disguised as her mother!
The eyes which were dislocated, started to fall down. Blood was oozing out of it. There was a deep wound over her bust as if something pierced through it.
Eldoris was scared, but she wanted to ease her mother, the most.
When she was just about to touch her mom...
SPAAH.....
She was beheaded.
"Noooo..." Eldoris jumped out of the bed.
She looked at the bed side to find her mother. To her shock, she wasn't there!
She was just about to create a commotion, when she saw her mother standing in the doorway the kitchen; stunned.
"Mother..., Mother..." She called plaintively. But it was of no use. This made Eldoris to panic more. "MOTHER...." She yelled.
Eddile, who was stunned still, was awakened by the yelling of Eldoris, ran towards her daughter.
"Are you okay...?" Hugging her tightly, Eddile asked. " Do you know, you scared me to death."
Warm tears had started to fall from the duo. Both were equally panicked.
"It's okay…it's okay... Am here... No need to fear... Let's sleep... Everything is fine..." Her mother comforted.
Both mother and daughter pair sat still for a while until Eldoris went into deep sleep.
Eddile put her down to bed.
Looking at Eldoris, who was sleeping peacefully, she was petrified. She still can't believe what she had seen. The horrible memories of what happened few minutes ago flashed across her mind...
Eddile was awakened by the strong wind outside, which was causing the windows to clatter.
Closing the windows, she went to the kitchen to some water for herself. When she returned, what she saw was something that she couldn't forget in her whole life.
She first saw was Eldoris getting lifted in the air by the wind. She wanted to go over and pull her down to the bed. But someone blocked her. She was frozen and was not even able to lift a finger.
She then wanted to shout. But to her shock, she went completely mute. She didn't knew what was happening to her, and she didn't knew what to do. She was completely helpless. And in the first time in her life, she was feared of the death. She didn't want to lose her only child!
Then what she saw next was more terrific.
Eldoris body started to glow. Second by second, it was turning blue as if she was poisoned.
Eddile was panic-stricken. She became more restless when she heard Eldoris calling her out in sleep.
Eddile lost all strength. She prayed to all the gods she knew, for the life of her daughter!
And just after the prayer, the girl feel down on the bed, completely normal. But Eddile was still froze, confused; trying to figure out the situation.
"She needs to take Eldoris to the doctor next day" she reminded herself to try to forget what just happened now.
"I am just tried... Seeing things... " She consoled herself.