Hotel Stanley

“Come on man let’s go” William said.

Me and William are travellers. We love to travel and explore new places. This time we have to drive from Agartala to New Delhi which is nearly 2444 km with a target time of 1day and 20 hours.

“Is everything is checked? Fuel, tyre pressure, foods. Everything?” I said.

“Yep, lets get this journey started.” William said.

“Brhuummmmm” The car started with a roaring sound. And we are off.

We started our journey at 5 am sharp.

“We have to book a room for tonight” William said.

“Sure.” I said.

It was 8pm and we are driving for 15 hours non stop.

“I think we should stop now. I am totally exhausted.” William said.

“Yeah me too. Search for hotels nearby.” I said.

“There is a hotel 1km ahead of us ‘HOTEL STANLEY' but it is written its no more exists. And there is another hotel 10 km ahead of us” William said.

“ No more hotels around.” William said.

“ Ok let’s drive for another 10 km.” I said.

Just after a kilometre we push braked our car. It was HOTEL STANLEY in front of us.

“But it no more exists. Its written in the website” William said.

“Maybe thay don’t update their profile information anymore. Let’s stay here for tonight.” I said.

We parked our car and moved towards the hotel reception. There was a old man in the reception.

“Welcome sir I am Stanley the manager of this hotel how can I help you.” The receptionist said with a horrible sound.

“Ahhhh.... We need a room here with two single bed.” I said.

“Sure sir. Anything else?” Stanley said.

“Dinner for both of us in our room with two drinks.” I said.

“Room no 105. Go upstairs and then left. Your dinner will be there in next 30 minutes.” Stanley said with a deep and horrible voice.

“Pretty cool Hotel isn’t it?” William said.

“Yeah how well decorated. It really deserves a 5 star rating.” I said.

We moved towards our room and after 20 minutes the room bell rang.

“Room service. Your dinner is here sir.” A voice came from the other side.

“Wait I am coming” I said.

I opened the door and there was just a trolley with food and two drinks. And there was no one not even the delivery boy was there. I also checked the corridor but I didn’t find a single life.

We ate our dinner and moved towards our bed. 

It was nearly 3am I got up to go to toilet. As I moved out of the toilet I got suddenly shocked. There was a boy who was on my bed playing with his toy.

I slowly moved towards William's bed. And the boy was just staring me. We was bleeding from his eyes.

“Hey get up brother get up.” I said.

“What happened?” William said.

“There is boy. I my bed. His eyes. Bleeding.” I said. Completely panicked.

“What?” William got up with a flash.

“ I think you are too drunk. There is no one on your bed. Go and sleep brother.” William said.

“But I saw him” absolutely freaking out.

“Come on man no one’s there. You just need a proper sleep. Let me go to the toilet.” William said.

William moved towards the toilet. And just after a minute I got a sound from the toilet.

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhh......” It was William.

He got out of the toilet. Totally scared and panicked.

“There is a boy. I saw him. In the mirror. Bleeding. From eyes.” William said.

“Run brother run” I said.

We ran like there is a mad bull behind of us.

“What happened sir?” Stanley said as he was on the reception desk. He was also bleeding from his eyes.

We ran towards our car, started it and zoomed off the hotel complex.

Completely scared and panicked we saw a patrol pump in front of us. It was 4am and we parked our car on the patrol pump and closed our eyes on the car seat.

“Knock Knock” Someone was outside of our car window.

It was 7am in the morning and he was a boy with written INDIAN OIL on his tee shirt.

“ What happened sir? We found both of you in the car. Is anything ia wrong?” The boy said.

“ Tomorrow we were in the HOTEL STANLEY” I said.

“Wait. Can you repeat the name again.” The boy interrupted.

“HOTEL STANLEY” I said.

“What sir. HOTEL STANLEY completely burnt away in due to a fire.” The boy said.

“What. When?” William said.

“Its been 3 years now” The boy said.

I started my car and zoomed towards HOTEL STANLEY. I stopped my car in front of the hotel.

We shocked as we saw the HOTEL is completely burnt. We entered the hotel. Everything was completely burnt away. We slowly moved towards our room 105.

Our bags were still there and there was a note on our bag.

“THANK YOU FOR VISITING HOTEL STANLEY.”