It was too dark, I was running hither and thither as the destination was still an unanswered question in my mind. Somehow I reached in front of an archway which read ‘Railway Station.’ I entered without a second thought and ran to the platform, and gladly for me, there was a train, and without looking around, I hopped into the train and found myself a seat. After settling down only, I gave my attention to my body. I wiped the sweat from my brow with a shaking hand. I can feel sweat dripping down all over my body. The train started moving, and I looked out through the window. Everything outside was flashing away. With each passing tree and house, my brain started recollecting what happened a few hours back. Everything was coming back to me like flesh memories, why I was sitting on this train, and why I am still in a daze.
I was bought up in a very conservative household, and my parents are very strict about everything. I was very much okay with that life, and I was happily living my life until one day he came. He came every day with my dad. Whenever that stranger is around, my dad acted weird. He did everything that the stranger told him to do. Me and my mom hated the stranger, but when we talk about the stranger my dad will burst out with anger, so we stopped talking about the stranger.
One late night when my mom was not around, dad came in with the stranger. When the stranger is with dad, he looks at me differently, in a very weird way. After opening the door for both, I came back to my room and lay down on my bed. Suddenly I sat up straight cause I felt a chill down my leg. When I sat down, I saw it was my dad who touched my leg. I was getting a bad vibe, so I asked him why he is inside the room with the stranger. But he was not listening to my talks, rather he was looking at me in a filthy way. I was puzzled about what to do. I got out of bed and told him to go out of my bedroom. But the stranger was cheering him to do the opposite. He was coming closer and closer to me, and grabbed my hands, and pushed me into the bed. I shouted at him to come to his senses, but he was under the influence of the stranger. He tore my top, I was crying, struggling, and praying to God to help me. And suddenly I got hold of the stranger, then I didn’t hesitate a moment, I smashed the alcohol bottle on my dad’s head and started running out.
Suddenly the train stopped with a jerk, and I came back to the present. The train has reached its destination. That’s when I noticed my surroundings. There were not many people on the train. And it was dark, lonely, and creepy inside the train. I started feeling anxious, I wiped the tears that were shed unknowingly, as my vision was getting unclear and probably my eyes would be bloodshot. I took a deep breath, altered my emotions, and while I labored to breathe, a sob escaped my throat. After five minutes I moved towards the door, I leaned forward and looked out on the platform, it was too dark and lonely. I had no other way, slowly I stepped out of the train. As I let go of the door’s handle, something got hold of my hand. A sudden chill ran down my spine, I looked back into the train to know what was holding me back. The moment I saw the face, I froze, my body went numb. Everything around me was clouded and a tear rolled down my cheeks. Before that tear fell on the ground everything went pit dark.
