I did not leave the flat all day. I was sitting in the house like an inanimate substance in fear and thought. Why did the incident of the night appear again and again in my imagination? I don’t feel so scared now, but I think maybe I was scared after listening to him last night, why now I’m less afraid of ghosts, but I used to have phasmophobia. Maybe my nerves got excited after hearing the man’s horrible words yesterday and hallucinating! Maybe, maybe not. But the day before that, there was no word of fear in me, so why did I see them? Or is it all wrong with the eyes?
I decided to go to his house immediately and ask the rest of the family members of the zamindar dadu about this. Even if the gentleman tells fiction, the rest will surely not tell, I left the flat with this hope before I quickly checked the time, it was twenty six minutes past four in the afternoon.
I am drinking tea with a serious face, Zamindar Dadu along with his wife and elder son’s wife are sitting on the sofa watching me eat. Seeing that there was nothing to do even if I felt sick, I quickly finished the tea. Leaning forward, I asked the landlord, “What happened last night?”
He replied quite casually, “Nothing, you suddenly fell senseless on the roof.”
I quickly replied “Then?”
Zamindar Dadu said “Then our doorman Khalil and I together brought you to the flat.”
I looked into his eyes and said, “Why don’t you believe it?”
The gentleman was a little shocked, and said in a serious tone, “If you don’t believe me, ask Khalil.”
The conversation is quite simple. I looked at his wife thinking for a while, she is the same age as the landlord’s grandfather. He glares at me. I approached him and asked, “Is what I see true?”
My head turned after hearing his answer! He said “Do your eyes ever see wrong? You are not alone. Many have seen them. They are my daughter and granddaughter’s souls.”
Why did Atna laugh when she heard that, but didn’t laugh. Self will return after death is the funniest jokes in the world. “Tell me the whole story. I want to hear it,” I said without smiling.
I saw tears in his son’s wife’s eyes, she quietly left the sofa and went into the room. The lady’s eyes also showed a clear pain. Zamindar Dadu is sitting quietly looking at the other side.
He started saying “My daughter’s name was Sufia Zaman. While in Inter, she got involved with her elder sister’s brother, later they got married as a family. They lived on the fifth floor, after a couple of years we had a daughter. When the daughter was around seven and a half, there were four people in our building. Bachelor boy comes to stay in the flat.”
The woman stopped, I was in a bad mood, why stopped without finishing the whole thing! Strange!
I asked calmly, “Then? Then what happened to Grandma?”
He started saying again, “We rented the six-floor flat. My daughter was very fond of this roof. She used to go to the roof almost morning and evening, water the flowers, iron the clothes. Two of the boys were drug addicts. Gazza, the smell of cigarettes and the roof. Couldn’t go. The girl called her twice, she didn’t take it too well. Then she took the candle to the roof and went to get the clothes Swarnali’s daughter’s name was Swarnali. She ate her seven-year-old grandson, and when Swarnali fainted, they poured kerosene on her body that night They left the flat so I didn’t notice the janitor falling asleep.
I noticed that the corners of my eyes were wet without my knowledge. How is the neck held? Even then, I asked with great difficulty, “Then?”
The gentleman opened his mouth, Zamindar Dadu began to say, “Long after they ran away, we felt it, his elder sister Ayesha was the first to feel it. While making the milk, she saw the door open and a slight burning smell coming from above. She ran and saw something on the body of the two mothers and daughters. There is nothing except for the bones. After a few months, no one can see them It stands, after a while it disappears into the air.
I poured water from the jug on the table and played it. I asked to get up from sitting, “Does it hurt?”
Zamindar Dadu said “No. But after these ghostly incidents, no one stays. They are afraid.”
I came closer to the door and asked, “Didn’t GD call the boys?”
They said, “I did it, but it didn’t work.”
I came out. Going up the stairs to the flat. Bhishan feels bad, he is afraid again, why does it seem like these are just stories to drive away the tenants! Again I thought that the gentleman does not benefit from this, on the contrary, it is a waste. I came to my flat thinking that I will see it once. Mother’s call came to end these thoughts. Mom said that she will return home at night. I should be careful. I put the phone down and sat down to read my mother’s yes.
When I get up from the reading table, it is eight o’clock in the night. Mom will come a little later. I suddenly remembered that there is a CCTV camera installed on the roof of the building. I ran towards the gate. I ran down the stairs and went to Khalil, the doorman, and asked, “Uncle, can you give me the CC camera pen drive? I will give it to you later.”
The old man, after saying, agreed. I rushed home with the pen drive. I turned on the laptop and watched the footage after seven o’clock last night.
Scene One: Zamindar Dadu and I came to the roof, and stood by the roof railing looking down.
Scene two: Landlord’s grandfather started talking, I was looking at him and listening to him.
Seeing the third scene, my hands and feet were shaking with fear.
I saw that the baby girl suddenly became visible. And looked at her grandfather and me. After I lost consciousness, I saw the zamindar dadu grab me, and the little girl disappeared into the air. Seeing this, I closed the laptop. My body was shaking and I was sitting on the bed when the bell rang.
Cring, Kong! Cringing!
Now it’s like I’m out of breath. The bell is ringing from the other side. Throbbing in the chest, the heart is jumping. I opened the door slowly. I saw mother and younger brother Nishan standing with bags. Amma entered the flat and said, “Why are you so sweaty? There is no electricity? It takes so long to open the door?”
I didn’t say anything and quietly went downstairs. After giving the pen drive to the janitor uncle, I came to the room and sat on the reading table. Mom and younger brother do not know about the two of them. I don’t want to tell you either, but I believed that everything I saw on the stairs that day was not my hallucination, it was really “the two of them”.
