Girl That Came In The Night

We all went out for a vacation after a long time. We visit our outhouse after so many years. But, I felt happy that I got a chance to visit that place again because it was really close to my heart. I didn't felt it's been too long since my last visit.

 I didn't remember the timing exactly but I guess it was around 12. It was completely dark there. We all were sleeping in the lobby. Suddenly I woke up listening to somebody's footsteps. I didn't get the courage to open my eyes to see who was there. There was a sharp bright light near the main door. I didn't know how I woke up and peeped through the door which leads towards the main gate. I saw a small kid of 3 to 4 years of age. She was as beautiful as a doll. But I couldn't saw her face clearly. Suddenly she screamed. And I screamed too out of fear. I tried to wake up my mum, dad but nobody responded. It was like they were dead because they were sleeping as such without a slight change in their posture. I got scared again. But, it was way too more scary than seeing a doll screaming. 

The next day, I woke up and saw everyone crying aloud. Firstly I couldn't get what was happening. When I came to know, it was nothing less than a shock to me. My grandfather passed away. I couldn't get whether to tell them last night's scene or not. I was confused. But I told my mummy about it but she refused to believe it. She said it was my imagination, nothing more than that. I mixed up the two scenes - that doll one and my grandfather's death. I came to put up a statement that that girl cum doll had killed him. But nobody believed me. It was like either they didn't want to listen to me or they didn't believe what I told them. I didn't know how to do, what to do. After his body's cremation, we came back. Without telling my mom, I had informed some of elder people in our neighborhood about it and thank God they believed me. 

 That night I was more scared already because of the previous night scene and then dada's death. I couldn't sleep for a second and I held my mom so tight that it was hard for her to breath. But I couldn't do anything else. I didn't know how I got to know that that doll would come again - this time to take my mother's soul along with her. I simply couldn't let that happen. So the same scenario happened.

A bright light towards the main door alerted me. Without losing a second, I ran towards her. What I saw, I couldn't believe , she was a girl of 3 to 4 years and physically handicapped. I didn't know what to do, how to do, whom to tell, whom to not. I ran behind her to catch her. But, I lost her in a second. She was nowhere to be seen. But, I was sure , she was in our lane only. I saw her turning towards lane. Those elder people believed me and one by one, everyone in our colony came out on the streets. My parents even scolded me there to stop that shitty drama.

Every house of the lane was checked thoroughly on the order of one of those uncles. Only one was left. Everyone started bitching about me as they got nothing suspicious. But, I was adamant that something was still missing. When everyone was about to leave, I saw somebody's shadow on the first floor in the dim light of the bulb. Again I screamed and everyone came into action just to got hold of her, who she was, from where she had come. We caught her on the first floor itself. When we confronted her, what we saw left us shocked. She wasn't a girl anymore. It was just a lifeless body. And then the part of the floor where she was standing broken and her body fell down. I screamed again.

I saw myself on the bed , with my mom in our own house. It was 7 in the morning. I checked the date . It was the 27 June 2019. It had been 10 days since my dada had passed away.