The Accident
1098 Words
'Huff Huff'
Jay was panting heavily. Everything around him was quite dark. He could hardly even understand what was going on.
"My heart...", his heart was pumping the blood 3x times faster. Moreover, the tension that he had in his mind just kept increasing.
He looked here and there and panicked because it seemed as if he was locked inside an endless abyss.
"Brother..."
All of a sudden he heard a voice that was calling him from the behind. He looked back almost immediately but found nothing other than darkness.
"Brother, here..."
This time he heard the voice from his front. He turned his gazes towards the area but yet again there was nothing to be found.
'What's... what's going on?', he asked himself in his mind. He was totally confused at the situation he was in.
"Brother!!! Save me!!!", all of a sudden he heard a familiar voice which was similar to that of Lily.
The scream was loud and the moment Jay heard it, he looked back only to find Lily extending her hands forward.
Jay could see her clearly and thought that she was asking for help. He extended his hands too in order to grab her, but he failed to reach her since his legs didn't move.
"Wait... no... Lily!"
He stared at Lily who was getting sucked by a weird black portal.
"Brother!!!", she kept screaming at the top of her voice but it seemed like it was no use because Jay failed to move his body forward.
"No..."
"No..."
"No!"
'Huff Huff'
Jay was now panting once again heavily. He was totally covered with sweat which he just noticed.
He looked here and there and found out that he was in his own room.
"Wait... what... what was that?", he was totally confused now once again.
"I..."
"Wasn't I just in a weird place?", he asked himself but then again when he thought about it, he realized that it was nothing more than a dream.
"But... why did it feel as if it was real?", he said.
He then stressed his mind to think about it a bit more but in the end he couldn't understand it.
Previously he had been called by Lily and since then he wasn't feeling good for some reason.
Also, he had seen many prank of hers, in none of them did she cry so desperately.
Furthermore, none of the previous pranks hurt him in such a way. So this time he was forced to think about it again and again.
He just walked out of his room and moved towards the washroom and cooled his face by splashing some cold water on it.
He then walked out of the room and went and sat in the living room or the hall where the T.V. and a sofa was provided.
The house was not that big or grand, it was just above what a middle class family could afford.
"Let's forget all these and take a look at T.V.", he said to himself.
After switching on the television, he felt bored because no good program was going on.
He took a look at the clock that was hanging on the wall in order to check the time and found that it was already 11:45 PM.
"Ah, that was why no good movie or program was being shown...", he wondered as that was the usual case as to where he lived.
"But this is weird... it has been too late, shouldn't they be home by now?", he asked himself.
'Has the train been delayed?', he thought.
Basically his parents supposedly had to come by plane, but this time with a change of plan, they chose the route of trains.
'Let's check if the train is delayed or something...', he took out his phone and then looked at the timings and arrivals of the train.
He kept scrolling and was searching for the train which he thought about.
"Ah! The train has still not arrived...", he said with a low voice.
"Sigh, this means that they will be here by tomorrow...", while saying this and sighing in relief, he sat down on the remote that was kept on the sofa due to which the channel changed all of a sudden.
He picked the remote and then was about to change the channel because right now some weird news was being broadcasted on the screen which he had no interest to look into.
But then unknowingly his attention got captured by the news when he heard something about an accident.
'A train that was supposed to arrive at XX station has met an accident in a tunnel...'
'Casalities...'
The news continued and it told about many things.
"Huh...?", Jay was completely frozen when he heard that news.
"Did mom and dad's train get delayed because of this accident which took place in the same route as that of theirs?", he asked himself.
It was too much of a coincidence that the train took the same path as that of the train in which his parents were supposed to come.
His heart beat increased and the adrenaline secretion knew no bounds. His pupils dilated while he was getting goosebumps.
He was now waiting for just one thing while hoping for the positive news and that was about the train number.
Each train had a distinct number with the help of which one could find out which train it was in reality.
'The train number is...'
The news reporter was now going to tell the train number to hear which Jay was waiting.
Only he knew as to how difficult it was to pass those few seconds which seemed like that of years or even centuries!
'AXD1907019', that was what the reporter said about the train number which was basically a code.
Jay read out the number and then took a look at the train number in which his parents were in.
The number of the train in which his family was coming was 'AXD1907029'
"Sigh... Wow...", he was surprised to see the difference of just one single number.
Jay sighed in relief because it was not the same number. He now understood that nothing might have happened to his parents because of the accident.
He just relaxed and was about to switch the T.V. off when suddenly the last thing that he heard made him literally turn into a statue.
"I'm sorry, the number of the train is AXD1907019. I repeat, the number of the train is-", the reported said.
"No..."
"This... this is a joke right...?"
"..."
To be continued...
- Writer
