A Ghost's Unfulfilled Wish - 2

Chapter - 2

John felt his name was echoing all over he was agitated, his wife walked in and said "you are late... and how come you are sitting so relaxed?" He ran to his wife and said "Jency can you hear that? She said, Hear what? He replied" listen carefully someone is calling me by my name" she laughed and he said "I am serious now stop laughing", she said "John do you remember you got a new toy for Liya last week? Look she is playing with that" John said "what am I talking and what are you saying?" She said "I will tell you give me a minute", she called her daughter Liya and asked her to get that doll which her dad got her, liya got the doll and Jency called out John's name and it started echoing; John took a deep breath and smiled looking at Jency, she started teasing him.He got a call from Ajith, john said "now Ajith has saved me from you, I shall leave and you can continue teasing me once I am back". He ran out saying bye Liya, bye Ziya.

John started his bike and while riding he laughed at himself thinking how he was frightened. He reached the place where his friend was waiting for him, Ajith gave him a deadly stare, John said "sorry dude, come-on let's go, they must be waiting for us".

They both reached restaurant, where his 3 other friends (Sean, Ahilan and Sandeep) were waiting for them, they greeted each other and sat down, they ordered some starters, hot drinks and started discussing about their present life, work etc and then the topic slowly moved to their college days, those sweet memories, ex girlfriends, their failed loves all looked so excited while the discussion moved to college days but John looked so lost, Sean asked john" is all fine with you dude?" John said "yup I am fine Sean" Sandeep softly whispered "what happened John? Roslyn's memories?" John nodded his head and walked away saying I will go use the washroom, Sandeep too walked with him.. John splashed water on his face and looked at the mirror he couldn't see his image all he saw was Roslyn's face, he blinked his eyes twice and looked at the mirror and now he saw his own reflection. Sandeep asked" are you ok John?"." No dude I am not" said John, "Everything happened because of me, I am unable to erase her memories from my mind, even now like an idiot I sit and search for her on all the social media sites, I still feel bad about myself for what I did?" To which he Sandeep replied but listen and they heard Ajith yelled "what are you both discussing here come on let's go, it's once in blue moon we get such chance let's not waste our time" and took them with him.

Looking at John; Ahilan said "here is our college days hero, all girls were behind him starting from Juniors to seniors", Ajith said "oh yes do you remember Roslyn? Our Sean tried to impress her so badly but she didn't even look at him, she was so much behind John", Sean said" yeah I was skeptical about them, but I still wonder what happened to her?" Why did she...? Sandeep interrupted "Sean forget that ask Ajith how many love failures he's got in his life?" They all aughed out loud and Agilan said "failures doesn't matter Sandeep what matters is with all those failures he still managed to have a love marriage". They were all having fun except John, Ajith asked "why do you look so disturbed?" John managed to say "I am having a bad headache and that's it". Sandeep slowly whispered "John now forget all that and try to be normal if not everyone will start questioning you". John sipped water and keeping Roslyn's thoughts aside he joined the gang and happily spent time with his friends.

Finally they winded up, John said "Sandeep why don't you stay with me for some more time?"Sandeep said "I can John but you will again and again talk about Roslyn so you better go home spend sometime with your daughters, you will feel relaxed", John agreed and started his bike, he dropped back Ajith from where he picked and finally reached home.

He knocked the door, Jency opened the door, smiled and asked him "so how did you enjoy your day with your friends?" He said it was good and walked straight into his room, changed his dress, freshened up and hit the bed, he closed his eyes by then his daughters Liya and Ziya jumped on him, he gave a pat on their cheeks, they forced him to come play with them, he managed to convince them saying "it's already 8pm you both go have your dinner and sleep I am a little tired but sure let's play tomorrow" they agreed to him and went back to the hall.

Jency made her little ones to eat, she put them to sleep in their room and walked into her bedroom.

John had not even switched on the lights in his room, the minute Jency walked in she screamed

JOHN, JOOHN!!!. John who had almost slept opened his eyes in shock and he saw his wife screaming he ran to her asking what happen Jency? Her eyes were closed, he shook her "Jency what happened?" She said "someone is standing near the bed", he looked at the bed but didn't find anyone, he switched on the light and checked again but no one was around, she slowly opened her eyes looked at the bed and said "I saw someone was standing beside you", he said "beside me?Who can get into our room? may be it's your imagination", she repeated "no John I clearly saw someone standing", he made her sit and gave her a glass of water, she kept repeating that she saw someone, John tried to divert her mind, he got food for them, while eating John convinced her saying " looking at your own shadow you might have gotten scared", Jency smiled saying "yes may be John but I got too scared", John started pulling her legs they both laughed out loud and now, on the spur of the moment John felt some third person's presence in the room.