Nightmare

Mrs. Poonam was pleading. She was crying and was continuously apologizing for the crime. Even her husband didn't support her. She was handcuffed by the police and was taken to the police station. She pleaded them to make a phone call. She dialed the number but the number was unreachable. She tried again but it didn't respond. Lady constable snatched telephone from her. She was crying and requested them to try again but they didn't listen to her. She was behind bars. Her dress was changed as other prisoners were dressed. She was given pathetic food. She was crying continuously. She was doing work in jail only. After two or three days, she was in court for the hearing. There, the judge had punished her under various IPS sections. She was given life imprisonment. She screamed. Her husband woke up and asked her what happened? She could simply reply," it was just a bad dream." She realized it was all a bad dream, a nightmare, nothing more than that. She was sweating badly. She drank water and tried to calm down. She took deep breaths. She literally panicked.

In the morning, she got ready. As nobody asked her whereabouts, not even her husband, she left silently without telling anyone.

She took an auto and reached the outskirts. It was some solitary place. She walked up to a small apartment. A man was there, doing worship. She went there and greeted him. He opened his eyes. He looked like he was a member of some drama company. He had blackened his forehead with some holy powder. His face was painted with a whitish-yellow color. He was wearing some beaded necklace. He was wearing a thread around his torso called Janeyu. He was wearing only one cloth, covering his genitals. Even his arms were having 3 lines made with the cream color. His eyes were swollen. He was having long hairs but his hairs were untidy and loosely tied. He was wearing large hoops in his ears.

He asked her why she had come there when he didn't ask her to do so. She told him about her nightmare. He asked her to relax and checked her hand. For 1 minute, he was pale but he recomposed himself and forced a smile on his face. He told her that her dream was just an illusion. Nothing that sort of was going to happen. So she just needs to relax. Nobody can steal her happiness. Her dream would surely come true. Now, God is happy with her. She immediately got relaxed as that occultist said this to her. She reconfirmed her." You said that you always believed me, so one more time. Nobody would come to know about our deed."

 She was going back home. That day only, news channels showed two girls were missing in the city from different places. Their parents were shown, they were crying and requesting to give back their daughters. It was just a coincidence that both girls were of the same age and have the same birth date. Investigations were going on.

 She got frightened but recomposed herself. She was chanting something and then she tried to make herself believe, 'Nobody can harm me. I am safe. Nobody can steal my happiness. My dream would surely come true.' She was trying hard to convince herself of this.

 Surprisingly that day her husband came early and when he saw her chanting something, he got a bit scared. He came and asked her what was she chanting? She said nothing and went for her work in the kitchen. When her husband saw the news, he was baffled and he cursed the doers who had done that. His wife was listening to all of them. She was teary-eyed. While cooking food, she got a finger cut. She thought that the curse has been started working. She was more scared. She started behaving weirdly. Her husband got some doubts but he ignored. He left for his Evening shift. She immediately dialed that occultist's number and told him that she was scared again. That occultist already knew what was going to happen but he remained silent. He asked her not to worry. Her husband came back home as he forgot his mobile phone. He listened to all of her conversations. "I am really scared. I don't know what to do. Even my husband cursed both of us for doing this act and I think the curse has started working on me. I m regretting my decision. I should not do that."

 Her husband interrupted her, "What had you done?" He was angry with his wife.

 She was shocked as she saw him there. "No. Nothing."

" Tell me you damn it."

 She confessed everything and cried," As you know, we are not capable of conceiving. I have tried so hard but couldn't. We had all our tests but they didn't result in anything. Somehow, I came to know about that occultist. I went to him. After visiting him two or three times, I completely trusted him. He told me that I have been cursed by some God, that's why I am not able to conceive. If I want to conceive, I need to give the lives of two girls to that God. Those girls must be of the same age and that particular date. I searched for them. In my own greediness and my longing for a child, I kidnapped them with the help of some people and both reached to death that day only."

" You want to be a mother and you snatched daughters from their mother's. How could I believe you? You are a bitch. You are a criminal. You should be punished."

" No!! Please don't do this to me. Only because of my longing for a child, I had done this. Please forgive me."

" No. I won't forgive you. Now, the police will take care of you."

 He had recorded all of their conversations and give that to police as evidence. Soon she was handcuffed by the police and that occultist had escaped.

She was pleading. She was crying and was continuously apologizing for the crime. Even her husband didn't support her. She was taken to the police station. She pleaded them to make a phone call. She dialed the number but the number was unreachable. She tried again but it didn't respond. Lady constable snatched telephone from her. She was crying and requested them to try again but they didn't listen to her. She was behind bars. Her dress was changed as other prisoners were dressed. She was given pathetic food. She was crying continuously. She was doing work in jail only. After two or three days, she was in court for the hearing. There, the judge had punished her under various IPS sections. She was given life imprisonment.

 Everything happened as she had imagined it in her dreams, except one thing that her dream ended but that punishment does not.