A Gift

People say that when someone gives you any gift it means he likes you and respect you. But what happens when a gift is given just to destroy. This is similar story of Kolkata. this is a story of a 20 years old boy, Birju. Birju was a local citizen in Kolkata. He was very talented and intelligent boy but due to house purposes he could not concentrate on study properly. there were only 2 members in his family, Birju and his mother. His mother was a tailor. His father opened a tailor shop before dying but his father's younger brother had done case on him for capturing the shop. half of his mother's money get wasted for completing lawyer's fees for the case. So for completing the fees Birju work in a pizza shop at night as a delivery boy. Birju has only one dream that he want to travel all around the world. To fulfill this dream, he started collecting money by doing other work. Few weeks passed, one day Birju and his mother was eating food. Suddenly Birju's mother's phone ranged. the lawyer was calling them. his mother picked up the call and said "hello".

The lawyer excited , "hello mam I have a good news for you". she asked "what". The lawyer excited , "we have won the case!, ". Birju and his mother shocked by listening this. they both were full of joy. The mother excitingly said, " take a holiday from pizza shop today, we will celebrate the victory at night. Birju called his boss for holiday and got a leave for one day. Birju and his mother celebrated at night by cutting a cake, eating snacks and by watching TV. now it was time to sleep. Birju started thinking while laying on bed that now his dreams will get done while thinking he fall sleep. Next day when Birju comes home after school he saw a box laying on a bed when he sees it from near he found that it was a gift with paper. some words have also written on paper. They were (For:-Birju From:- your lovely) Birju started thinking ", who kept this here may be a surprise gift is given by my mother", . Birju started to opening the box by thinking that his mother kept this gift. when he opened the gift he was shocked. there was an Empty glass bottle. Birju was confused but he thinks that his mother has done up prank on him. By thinking this he opened the bottle. A strong smell came out of the bottle. when Birju smell that fragrance he lost his consciousness and fainted on the spot. after some time, when he waked up, he saw that he is laying on a bed. his mother was sitting next to him.

he asked her , "what happened to me, ". " I don't know", . she replied. " But I saw you fainted when I came home. I have called the doctor. he will arrive soon, ". " no thanks. I'm fine now, ". Birju said it with a smile. he had forgotten about that gift and a glass bottle after he fainted. after sometimes he forgot about that whole incident . at night Birju waked from his bed to drink water. he was feeling thirsty that time. he took a bottle from desk but the bottle was empty. he went to the kitchen to drink water. he filled a glass with the water and drinked it. but when he drinked half water and look into the glass he was shocked because there was blood in glass instead of water. the glass fell from Birju's hand because he was stunned. his mother quickly came into kitchen by listening the breaking voice.  she asked him "what happened". "there was blood in glass"Birju was afraid. "what?". "yes there was blood". mother said softly"oh Birju. you may have seen a illusion. its okay I will clean it". "but but" Birju wants to say but he stopped from next day birju started having some weird feelings. sometimes he feel that somebody is following him when he goes to College. sometimes he feels that someone is whispering in his ears. Now, Birju's health was getting bad to worst. He did not talk to anyone, always stays in his room and even does not eat. His mother was worried for him by his behaviour. One day, His mother came back to home from his shop. She went to the kitchen for drinking water. But she saw that Birju is sitting at the corner of room facing downwards. She quickly went near and said , "Birju! She just said this that Birju jumped on his mother and scrached her. She quickly pushed Birju in his bedroom and locked the door. Birju started pushing and punching the door angrily. His mother was crying outside with pain and sadness. She called many doctors but some refuse to checkup because Birju also attacked on them and some treatments didn't worked done by the doctors. She thinks"I have to save my son whether it costs". She called her friend and told her the whole story and asked her for any solution.

Her friend told her, "a saint lives on mountain which is 6km away from your house. Go ask him. They might have a solution for this problem". Birju's mother took him to that saint. there was a dark cave. when they both entered the cave, she saw that saint is doing meditation. when Birju saw that saint. he started getting angry. he was trying to get out of there. he was saying to his mother horribly, "leave me. I said leave me". But his mother hold his arm tightly. when they went nearer, the saint suddenly came out of the meditation. Birju was getting more angry.

The saint took holy water from a bowl and threwed it on Birju. Birju suddenly fainted and fall that time. The saint said to his mother, "Come on full moon night . We have to do a ritual to cure him. "Full moon was after two days. Birju's Mother had no choice. She locked Birju in his bedroom for two days.

After two days, she had taken Birju to that saint again. the saint had kept all the things used in a ritual. A ring made of white powder, a dead chicken, two bowls one filled with holy water and another with oil and some more powders. The saint said to Birju's mother, "take Birju into this ring". But when she tried to take Birju into that ring, he started getting angry again. His eyes got full white, some scars were also coming on his face. He tried to run by pushing his mother. The saint suddenly poured some oil in his hand, spoked some mantras and threwed that oil on Birju. Birju started shouting like a mad. Looks like his skin started burning. He automatically came into that ring and sat there. the saint started speaking some mantras and throwing some oil on Birju.

Birju was trying to get out of that circle but he couldn't. After some time, the saint picked up some blood of dead chicken in his hand. By seeing that blood, Birju was afraid. the saint spoked one mantra again and threwed that blood on Birju. He started shouting again. His mother was scared watching all this. Then a black smoke came out of Birju's mouth and suddenly disappeared. then Birju fainted on the spot. The saint told his mother , "His uncle had done a black magic on your child. "She was shocked by listening this. , "But now that spirit has gone". the saint replied. After some days, Birju and his mother heard the news that Birju's uncle has died insane. Birju's mother get her revenge.