And then .......

Her name was Elena. She was beautiful. Her green eyes, her flowing blond hair, her velvety smooth skin, her curved lips, the small ear rings adorning the perfectly shaped ears. She had a beauty spot on her left cheek, a tiny little black spot guarding it from the evil eyes. Her voice was like sweet music. Whoever looked at her would just want to be in her company forever. And what a wonderful speaker. She always seemed to have all the right words for any occasion. She was always immaculately dressed, every dress happened to be made just for her. The colors be it glowing white or the passionate red or the flowing blue or the serene black, were just glad to be her choice.

One Day she met me. I was standing on the bus station when she came walking. It was like time had stopped, like everyone had disappeared, it was just us, Elena and me. The glorious pink top and the cute blue jeans seemed to have such a good time. The siren glanced briefly at me. The eyeliner on her eyes was eager to get in touch every split second. And then her lips moved. As she spoke the pearls started making way for her luscious tongue.

"Hello are you there?", she asked.
"I am sorry", I managed to speak.
"Do you know whether the bus no. 588 to New Hampshire has gone by ?"
"No, infact I too am waiting for that bus", I lied.
"Oh, OK thats nice", she smiled.
'What are you going to speak. Its better to shut up, you always mess up when you open your mouth in front of girls. Oh my god, she is so beautiful !! Maybe I can start a topic about bus and its timings, like its always late and stuff ! Bull shit, what a useless topic. What else to talk then? I got to talk to her today, after all she made eye contact today, spoke to me today. Maybe I should ask something about ... '
"So you got college in New Hampshire?", I spoke slowly.
"No !! Do I look like I am in College?", she giggled.
"You are not?", I was surprised.
"I work at the college library as the main librarian for the past 2 years", she told nicely.
"Thats nice. I like reading a lot!", I stuttered.
"Oh really? What do you like reading?", she asked.
"Hmmm, loads of stuff, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Philosophical, Management, etcetera", I confidently replied.
"Wow, you are a real reader! Who are your favorite authors?"
"Leo Tolstoy, Jane Austen, John Grisham, Micheal Crichton, Sidney Sheldon, Peter Drucker, loads of them actually, I could go on all day"
"Hey I love Leo Tolstoy as well, Wow, very few people read Leo these days, he is such a soul touching writer, I just love all his writings !!"
"But I love to read Anna Karenina, I just can't find that book !", I told genuinely.
"I have that book, hey why don't you come down to my place tonight, we would have a great time reading Leo together, what do you say?", she eagerly asked.
"Hmm, I don't know, can I let you know by 3 this afternoon, I have some other commitments, maybe I would have to postpone them!", I lied once again.
"Yea, OK fine with me, you can call me at the college library" she sounded disappointed, "Ask for Elena, Oh, I m so sorry I did not tell my name, Its Elena, how about u?"
"My name is Adam", I smiled.
"Hey our bus is here. Come on!" she eagerly told.

I don't know what we talked for the next 45 minutes. Time went away so quickly, she kept talking, the hair flying in the air, the hands moving excitedly, the eyes fluttering. My heart beats had stopped, I couldn't believe she was sitting next to me. She smiled and waved when her stop came and I felt as if my life going to end right at that instant. I only remember her saying "Don't forget to call me! Bye, Adam". "Yea I wouldn't. Bye, Elena", I almost choked.

We did manage to meet that night. As usual I was awestruck by her beauty. I was lost in her eyes. She started reading Leo and I could see her lips making the words. I don't know what she was saying but it sounded so nice, a smile grew on my face. I unwound myself, laying out long on her couch, slackening my arms on the sides and started listening with my eyes closed. The words came down as honey on the top of cream, ever so smoothly. Sleep came over as easily as her voice. Her soothing voice relaxed my tense body and in no time I was in deep sleep.


I awoke with a start.

2:13 AM.

Whoa, that was fast ! I was such a Dumb Ass, she called me to her house and here I was sleeping on her couch. Oh my god, need to get some water. Damn, no lights. "Ooohooo", damn this table had to be right here only. Oh shit that hurt man. "Oh man !!"

Whats with the switch. Shit I think theres no light here. Wheres my mobile, could get some minimum light with this.

"NOO, YOU CANNOT DO THIS", a shrill voice filled the room.
"WHO ARE YOU TO TELL ME?", a coarse voice annoyingly asked.
"NO, HE IS A GUEST, I CANNOT DO IT, YOU CANNOT DO IT TOO", the shrillness increasing.

I managed to slowly walk towards the sounds. It did not sound very good and fear had taken over my movements. I felt numb and cold. I opened the door slowly and managed to peep in. And then it happened.

The overwhelming figure started slashing the other odd shape. The hands were moving with great speed and the sharpness of the long nails started hurting the shape. Within seconds, blood started coming from the chest, the heart had popped out. I could see it right near my eyes, fluttering. The shrillness which had filled the room was beginning to be deafening. My eyes could not withstand the strains of the sounds and tears started coming out. My hands were so numb I could feel the blood freezing within. The hands of that figure were brutal, she had slashed apart all the parts of the odd shape. A loud shout and then there was only the fluttering sounds. All the organs were lying disseminated in front of my eyes. The lungs, the intestines, the tongue, the brain, the heart. I could not stand the sight. I vomited. But the figure was not done, with one of her hands she opened something near the window, and suddenly something came out. It had numerous legs, was blackish in color and moved quickly to the lying parts. I could see them crawling over the organs one by one. First the intestine, then the lungs, then the brain. Something shined, I realized one was near the heart, which was close to me. I shrieked. The odd figure was alarmed, she turned. She seemed different. I saw HER !!!!

There was something unnerving about her. She did not have her left eye!! There was a gaping hole in her left eye. There was blood coming out of it. The blood defying the laws of gravity was flowing towards her ears. Her ears too had been cut in half. Her hair had turned into strands of jute rope. It could cut someone if one tried pulling it. Her teeth were badly mutilated and were blood stained. It was like she too was feeding on the dead. Her torso was badly scarred and blood was oozing out from everywhere. I froze in terror. She did not shout but started muttering something. I started running, I could feel the crawling bodies coming after me. She was standing where she was. I felt overpowered. Suddenly, I felt a pinch on my leg. The pain increased to my forelimbs and I collapsed. I could not feel my legs. There was however a small needle like poke on stomach. I turned to see that, the crawling beings were moving on my body. I moved my hands with fury to scare them off. But they were pinching me everywhere. Slowly my body was paralyzed and the figure came near. She smiled showing her horrible teeth and terrible cut tongue. Moving one hand in fury she stashed my chest open throwing out my heart ........... AAAOOooooooo I saw my heart laying there ................................ And Then . ............................








I woke up scared, sweating, shaking.