The girl from the last train

 

Image courtesy : Kuldeep Jadhav

29 August 2011 Autumn (city)

Crowd : hubbub…. (Noisy sound)

Professor : Everyone, please sit down. 

Me professor Meera Dixit, I have been teaching human psychology to students for the last 6 years. You people sitting here are very eager to know my past. Some of you believe in it and some do not. Now also my legs tremble when I remember that dark time. May it be just a story for some of you but me, it was a horrifying and heart-melting incident of my life.

Even though this story starts with love and affection, it ended terribly and with losing lives. It must end like this only because the " truth hidden in dark always finds its way towards the light of darkness, especially the evil truth." And when it comes out it costs many lives. The cause of this awful incident in my life was the guilt of my close person. You will get introduced to him and everyone very soon except the one girl and the reason for it is lethal for everyone who presents her.

Prof. Meera: I…..cough-cough…

(One stand from the crowd)

Prof. Please tell us something about Maya.

Prof. Meera : ahem..ahem…Maya…(gasp).

Crowd: hubbub…

 Next morning

St. Carnell's University

Kresha : Hi! Abhinav, hi bhumi.

Bhumi : hi !

Abhinav : hi !

Kresha : Guys you heard the news?

Abhinav : about prof. Meera? Ya !

Bhumi : Ya yaar, she was such a wonderful person and a teacher at this university. 'Rest in peace prof.'

Kresha: I was present in that auditorium and I saw her when she was taking her last breath. She was well and speaking about her freaky past then suddenly she started coughing and was unable to breathe. There was not a single sign-on on the stage that could tell the reason for her death. Also, she was not having any disease or something, she was well mentally and physically too. Then, how did she die?

 Abhinav: Hmm, that's a mystery now? But we don't have to think about that. Let's go to the lecture now.

Bhumi: Yes, Kresha.

(Narrator speaking)

Every incident, whether good or bad, needs a reason to happen. Here Kresha is the person who became the reason to wake the evil truth from sleep. Her beliefs and curiosity to know about spiritual things made her life horrible. Well, it's not her fault to have believed in such things because death is not the end. After the death of professor Meera, her mind stuck on the fact that how without any evidence she died. Some days passed and she came up with the decision to find the reason behind the death mystery. Her step in this took her unknowingly to the edge of the mountain where a single mistake will take her down to death.

 

8th September

Kresha : ring.ring. Hello! Abhinav, I want your help. Can you please come near our university gate? 

Abhinav : Ya! Yea! Sure, I and bhumi are in the nearby restaurant. We are coming in a few minutes.

Kresha : okay. (Beep)

[In few minutes]

Bhumi: What happened to you Kresha? Are you fine?

Kresha : Nothing, I am fine. I have just called both of you to come with me to the residence of professor Meera.

Abhinav : I told you kresha it's not our duty to think about it. Why are you… and what will you do there?

Kresha : We will meet Mr. Naveen. There may be some kind of evidence or something we will have. I am pretty sure that it was not a natural death...ugh. It was...something unusual happened with the professor.

Abhinav : ok! Let's go there and see what you get there!

[At Mr. Naveen's house]

 Kresha  : (ding-dong, ding-dong)

Naveen : yes?

Kresha  : Mr. Naveen?

Naveen : yes.

Kresha  : We were your mom's students. We came here to ask you something about the professor.

Naveen : Please come inside.

Kresha  : Professor Meera was really a good person. I was present in that auditorium, I stood up to ask her a question. She was fine, but suddenly she fell. As I know she was healthy and excellent, how did this happen?

Naveen : I am also in a circle of questions. Police said it was a heart attack that came due to stress. But she was physically excellent then also…(whimper). 

Abhinav : Please don't lose hope.

Naveen   : But I was unusual with her behavior in those days.

Kresha : What kind of behavior?

Naveen :  Two-three days before 29 August, I felt very weird about her.  She was behaving like she was worried about something.

Kresha : Worried?

Naveen : Ya, and I think she was worried about that book only.

Kresha : The book?

Naveen : hm, She has a book which she wrote when she was learning in college. She always keeps that book in her locker and allows no one to enter her room and touch it. And in those days, she was more fearfully guarding the room, especially the book.

[Someone at the door: ding-dong]

Naveen : Excuse me.

Naveen : (at the door) Come inside aunt.

Guys, she is my aunt.

[Everyone  hello, hello.]

 

Aunt : Namaste!

Naveen : She also lost her daughter last month.

Kresha : Naveen Ji do you have that book with you now?

Naveen : yes.

Kresha : If you don't mind, can I see that book? I know it's your personal matter but please I want to know what happens with the professor.

Naveen : sigh... Ok, wait it's in the locker. It's the only thing that I need to keep safe as my mom keeps. Please keep it safe and return it shortly.

Kresha : I will return this to you tomorrow. 

Naveen : Once I stealthily noted the locker number when she was opening it. Okay, sigh... take.

Kresha ,took that book to her home and decided to read it in case she finds any clue or something about the death mystery. She convinces her friends to come to her home to read that book. Bhumi and Abhinav also became curious after viewing that book title.

[Same day evening]

( At Kresha's house )

[In the following continued story, the narrator of the story is Prof. Meera Dixit]

Kresha : So, let's start.

Abhinav & Bhumi : Hm…

Kresha : "Secret of Maya." I think it is about Maya's mystery….let's turn the page.

Bhumi : look at this page it's like someone has pasted it with their hands.

Abhinav : Look what is written on it!

( Narrator speaking )

"If you are reading this page then you're going to die shortly".

( They ignore the warning and turned the page )

Today 18th July 2004 it was raining heavily. After finishing my college lectures, I was waiting for the bus at the bus stand near the college. There was also a boy standing under the shelter of the stand, maybe he was also waiting for the bus. I am writing about him because he got filled at the first glance. Although it was not love-shuv but something it was which I fell inside. I think it was a kind of attraction I felt. For 15 minutes both were standing in silence and I was looking at him with quiet eyes then my bus came and I went from there.

Today is the 19th of July and you know what happened today? I saw that boy again in front of my college, he was coming out from that IT company. He must be an employee there. But I don't know why I felt happy when I saw him, maybe...whatever the reason... Today also we stayed at that stop and today also my bus came and I went from there. He must have joined that company now only because I never saw him before.

Today 26th July was the happiest day of my life because…

Kresha : See guys someone has torn the between pages. Riaz asked me for a coffee. This was one of the events which aroused the uncommon string between us.

The more we will meet the more I can get to know him.

Today 27th July was a poor day because Riaz didn't come to the job and we didn't meet after college. When I made a phone call to him, his friend picked up the phone and said, Riaz, is in the hospital. He will call you tomorrow (beep). I was shocked and questioned too about Riaz. Let's see tomorrow, what happened to him.

Today 1 August Riaz has gone to "Seisoom," (village) to meet his grandma. I am feeling empty today. He said if possible then only he will come tomorrow evening because there is only one train from 'Seisoom' to 'Autumn' and it is in the evening. I hope he will come tomorrow only.

It was a very gloomy day of life because the person whom I trusted and fell in love with made me disappointed. He has done the guiltiest thing which broke me from inside.

It was a late night at 10:30 pm and I decided to pick up Riaz from the station. When I reached the station there was not a single soul present on the platform. Then after 15 mins, the train came but Riaz didn't step out from any compartment. I looked here and there for a minute and started looking inside every compartment. Due to the last stop of the train, it stops for about one and half hours at the station for changing engines and waiting for signal availability. So, I started checking out every compartment from the first one. After digging from first I saw an extremely dismaying thing in the last compartment. I saw Riaz unconsciously lying on the floor and his clothes were stained with blood. There were also marks of blood present on the other side which looks like someone has been beaten very brutally then gets dragged and thrown out from the train. I got scared and my whole body started shaking. I thought that Riaz was no more and I started looking for someone to help but there was no one, only three people were standing there beside the engine. I shouted but my voice didn't reach, I was moving out of there to call them then suddenly my eyes got on the Riaz phone and I saw that the video recording was on. It was stuck into the corner of the seat and the camera was facing towards the bloodstained side. I took the phone and saw that recording. my heart fainted after eyeing that. I saw that one girl was crying, requesting for life, and Riaz was beating her. He thrashed her first then brutally raped her. He was behaving like an animal, he disheveled, thrashed, dragged, and cruelly raped her. I got filled with whimper breath, sound, and anger too. Then suddenly I noticed that Riaz is becoming conscious. I grabbed his phone in my pocket and moved from there, deemed that I never came there. I told those three people that in that last compartment one man is lying unconscious.

I decided that Riaz should be punished for his inhuman sin. Firstly, I told everything to  'Mukul' (Riaz's best friend) about the night incident and asked about Riaz's manners behind this cruelty. He reveals the unbelievable truth about Riaz which proved him guilty and innocent both at the same time. He told me that Riaz has "Borderline Personality disorder" in which the person changes his personality for a short time with the change in people and sins happening in the surrounding or inside the person. Whatever happens, it gets emotionally attacked on the person due to which the person changes his behavior according to his emotional mentality. He also told me that that day we were in the hospital for his treatment only. Whatever happened in the night was not the fault of Riaz, it was his disorder that forced him to do that. I was shaken upside down after hearing this.

After getting all the stuff I knew that Riaz was not actually guilty.

The sun dropped down and the dark with little light arose. We three were at our own home and suddenly Riaz called me. He was gasping with fear and repeating only one thing, "Someone is trying to kill me, please come and save me." I ran to his home and when I reached there, I saw that he was sitting on the bed with fear and all the things in the house were disheveled and broken. He was also having scratches on his hands and face. I asked him, what happened? He replied the same thing, " Someone is trying to kill me, please come and save me." After a few minutes, Mukul came there and he also asked him the same question on which Riaz again replied the same line, " Someone is trying to kill me, please come and save me."

We both made him comfortable and decided to take him to the doctor.

We took him to the hospital and the doctor said that he must have been filled with fear from inside due to something which must have caused the emotional change. He has the disorder of changing personality so this type of incident is common in this case, before also I had mentioned to you Mukul.

After hearing from the doctor, we thought that it happened due to his disorder only but we were wrong. The same night when I was alone in my home, I felt that there was someone present with me who was unknown. I was feeling very strange and fearful that night, then something unexpected and lethal happened to me.

When I was sleeping on my bed some anonymous voice started coming to my ears. I slightly opened my eyes in half-sleep and I saw that a girl was standing at the door and saying, why are you quiet even after viewing what happened to me? Then until I opened my eyes fully, that girl suddenly vanished from there. I thought that it was my fallacy in my sleep but then suddenly that girl fell from up and seated on my chest, she was trying to choke my throat. I was near death but then someone hit the doorbell and she again disappeared like she was never before here. With a panting heart, I ran to open the door, Riaz was standing at the door. I told him everything and he said that you have experienced it now but I am undergoing this for many nights and you both were not believing me. I think something strange and deadly is going to happen to us.

Now listen, Meera I have called Mukul also, he will be here soon. I know one person who is a specialist in finding the reason behind this type of thing. His name is father Kristen. I am pretty sure he will help us.

After Mukul came we moved to meet father Kristen. There he asks about our problems and we recite to him everything about our past. Then he told us an unbelievable and shocking reason for all the strange things happening to us. He said that all this is created due to the huge guilt of Riaz. Your mistake is punishable and yet it is not punished, "the dead but innocent is living with us." That night whatever you had done with that girl was not the girl's fault it was you and your disorder. She wants justice now and, in her way, it will be taken by killing you. The culprit needs to be punished or until that you all are in the death circle. To get rid of this situation you need to serve your life to her.

But father Kristen, what is my fault? I had done nothing. "May she want something from you." Is there any solution? "Of course, yes, it has but I need some time to find it."

We returned to the home with a fear of death. In the night when I was lying on the bed for sleep after writing my events in the book, I started hearing the same anonymous sounds. The sound was not clear but it was like someone is talking with me, Slowly slowly the sound became clear in hearing and it was that girl who was crying (whimper) and saying, "Why did you write about me now everyone who will read this will come to know how I was dead, you need to die now so that no will write it." I got off the bed and went into the kitchen to bring kerosene to burn that book. But suddenly she drew me from my legs and held my throat tight with her hand, "saying, you tried to burn my truth, it is my past and no one can read it or can erase it." Then before she would kill me, Riaz and Mukul came and Riaz threw something at her and she vanished. They came with a remedy that can save our lives.

They said that the father Kisten told us that she wants to kill everyone anyhow and the only way to save our lives is to make her fool. She only wants to see you dead and if you make her fool by showing you dead, she will go.

'But the problem is how we can be dead without dying.'

Riaz showed us three bottles of drugs. It was a " Neuroleptic drug."  He said that after taking this drug we will be unconscious for some time; our heartbeat will be slowed and our breath will be near negligible. Our body will act like we are dead and after some time we will be normal, it will be the ride of death. Firstly, we need to take the dose of the drug and afterward, we have these dice given by the father Kristen. We need to roll these dice and at the same time we have to chant the phrase 3 times 'Maya, please come we are praying for you to come.' If her name comes on every side of the dice then it will mean that she heard our voice and she is coming. Until she reaches us, we will be dead and she will think that I got justice. Father said that after doing this she will not go forever, whenever someone will read her name and her incident in the book she will come to know. The person who read her life will die.

If you are reading this then it means I am dead. My reason to write the further story is to get you to know the full event so you may survive through this.

The next night at 3:00 am we decided to face the fear. The drug takes approximately one to one-half hours to react so before 3 only we took the dose and gathered at my house. We stand in the circle and moved our one hand in front for holding the one-one side then rolled the dice and also started chanting the phrase 3 times 'Maya, please come, we are praying for you to come.'' The dice stopped rolling, her name appeared on it and we were almost unconscious. I…

Bhumi : (turning pages) there is nothing written further.

Kresha : She was writing this till last and there is nothing written further because she became unconscious due to dose.

Abhinav : They all saved that night and after that, no one opened this book. Then how a professor, Riaz, and Mukul died unnaturally.

Kresha : Don't know but I think now we are going to die because we awakened her.

 

 To be continued….

Written By : Kuldeep Jadhav