Night At Forest

"It was such strange and horrible night I can remember.", said Shreya sitting with two of her friend Kriti and Riya at the hostel room. "It was just like a dreadful dream but we are filled with excitement whenever recall it.", Kriti continued. "Yes because it was you because of which it occurred.", Shreya replied. "Hey, can you please tell me what had happened? You are making me feel guilty for not joining you.", Riya exclaimed. Shreya continued telling the incident,

"Tired with the boring assignments we had decided to do something exciting after our first-semester exam finished, and then decided to go for tracking. As parents would never allow us to go far and looking at the pocket-size we decided to go for a small trip of 2 days and 1 night to Polo Forest and booked tickets with the help of a tour planner. We joined to join one another group which was also a college group. Finally, the day came and we left for Polo Forest on 5th January early morning at 5:00 am.

Finally, we reached Polo Forest took our tents, obviously, I and Kriti were in the same tent, had breakfast and went for hill climbing. Struggling climbing over the rocks in the cold gust of winds it was great fun. And how can we forget the funny talks with groups which were like salt in food. We finally reached hilltops clicked many photos and our energy level had almost dropped down to zero like our water in bottles. It had been afternoon and we sat there for talks and rest. There our tracking instructor told that it is believed that ghost comes to the hill adjacent on the night of amavas. There are no reports or incidents but it's just believed for a long time with talks of local people. Horrified by talks everyone decided to talk about something else. We came down had lunch, walk in the evening, campfire at night. I cannot forget the shining stars but no moon. Yes, it was the day of amavas. We noticed there itself."

Shreya paused and Kriti started, "When everyone slept, Shreya and I left for climbing that hill in excitement. We were very eager and excited and thus did not think much about what could happen. As it was forest and complete silence we could listen to the sound of various insects and creatures. We kept moving ahead through the scary bushes and trees as our torch showed the path. It was too cold and there it felt someone was following us. Unexpectedly my torch stopped working but Shreya's torch was luckily working and mobile network lost. Shreya suddenly fell and someone as if had started dragging her. We managed to get out of it but we had got so much frightened that started speaking Hanuman Chalisa loudly. We saw a big rock rolling down towards us in light of the torch and rescued ourselves. Our mind stopped working and we began to run down the hill. But we lost our way. Lightning began to occur. We could only see lots of trees surrounding us. We were so frightened that we were shivering. Then we don't know what happened. When we opened our eyes it was morning. Everyone had surrounded us. Some local people had brought us there. We had a high fever and we were with tracking instructor in the whole remaining trip."

"That's too deadly. And what about the wound Shreya had by dragging?", asked Riya. "Surprisingly when I woke up no wound marks were there but it was paining a lot", answered Shreya. "Oh God I am happy for not joining you both. Have you informed your parents about it? " Riya exclaimed. "What do you think?" Shreya and Riya both spoke out together and laughter spread in the entire room.