As soon as his clock read half past 5 he was already out of his office and into the car . He wasn't able to concentrate on work after what happened today , whole day was literally wrapped in layers of anticipation and he was on his way to unwrap and see what it holds .
He didn't take any driver along with him , he himself drove to the unknown place where a stranger called him , sure it could be a trick of his buisness competitors to kill him but anything or anywhere where there is mention of his wife that's it , he can't thing much logically after that , then whatever he does its straight from the heart .
He stopped at the given address , it was a small wooden house with no houses or colonies nearby .He got a weird feeling looking at the residence . how can someone live so isolated in this dark outskirts of city.
He got out of his car and approached , he knocked on the door gently , when he got no response he knocked this time a little stiffly but still there was no response . Now he started feeling as if he was fooled and someone will appear from behind the trees and will stab him to death .
but he was not a coward to walk away ,he needs to find out the truth .He rotated the door knob trying to open and luckily it was unlocked , he got inside , there was nothing but darkness all over .
His footsteps on the wooden floor was the only noise that can be heard .
"Is someone here ?"he called out loudly his voice echoing through the whole house .
" Hello ? "he called again but the answer was same , silence .
He went to the room that was attached to the hall and as soon as he entered he was stunned . He stood there like a rock unable to take in what his eyes showed .
A women laying on the bed with knife stabbed on her chest , blood all over her and over the bedsheets . He held the door for support as his knees were on the verge of giving up because of the sight in front of him .
He gulped and slowly went towards her , she was dead . He started breathing heavily and started to run away but in the process he caused the nearby lamp to fall with a big sound . All the glass pieces were scattered on the floor . His moments were haulted when he heard a ear piercing cry of a baby .
He turned back with widened eyes . It took him a moment to comprehend what was going on .
He ran in the direction of the sound , it was coming from a door in the corner of room but it was locked from the outside , the cries becoming louder with each passing moment .
He kicked and kicked till the door was barged open and his eyes wandered all over the bathroom and was stopped on a pile of clothes in the bath tub , small hands and feets kicking out of it through the spaces in desperation. He quickly went towards it, removed the clothes from the small body . The baby's face all scrunched up and red from crying . He held the baby in his arms and walked outside of the house . He wanted to lay the baby on the backseat but the baby was way too much wiggly
so he held him to his chest and tied the seat belt around him stabilizing the baby in the process .The cries were somewhat subsided and there was just occasional squeal that the baby made . He made sure that the baby was safe before driving away from there.
He carefully got out of the car with baby sleeping on his shoulders , he shut the door quietly and unlocked it with one hand, and walked inside . Everything was dark meaning his mother was already off to sleep today ,great that one time when he needs his mother's help and she is asleep , now he can't wake her up in the middle of the night and give her a baby to take care of . He was not good with babies ,maybe because there were not much around him. He was the only child and neither did he any cousins to experience the baby handling this .
He took the baby to his room and gently laid him there in his bed .
" look at the little guy that we have here crystie " ,He said as he started his one way convo with his wife
The baby was sleeping peacefully with no worries of the world .
He removed the dirty clothes of baby and wrapped him in fresh white towel as he didn't have any clothes for him . He then changed himself and came back laying next to the baby in the bed . He looked at the baby , he seems to be more than a year . He didn't know what to do with the baby , his mother was dead , he lost the most important person of his life just like him who lost his crystal , so they shared something common with each other and maybe that was the reason he was so emphathetic to the baby .He didn't know what his next step would be , he held his tiny little finger and the baby quickly grasped it making him smile. He felt wrong for leaving the body of that girl there without informing anyone but he was scared that he would be dragged into this murder and then all the name that he has earned over the years will just go in vain . He wrapped the baby with blanket and just looked at getting lost in his world of thoughts