1 A Strange Finding...

As soon as she entered, she opened the door and found something really very strange which she wasn't

supposed to. It was...

The story began on 16th March 2014. Everything was just normal, it was the time of spring and I loved

to observe nature. Flowers were blooming and the trees were talking in a melodious shiver. But there was a

really strange feeling I got on that day while I was in the park, dozing under the Banyan tree.

I was a 17 years old highschool student named Ren, Ren Dorsan. Not a quite social butterfly and even lacked

confidence. I was the quiet kid in my class. After many sufferings I experienced till this age, it made me

trust nobody and act like an abnormal kid but I can say that I had a good heart. Death of my father in

an accident,at the age of 6. Poverty my mother and I experienced after that. Social insults and many

other reasons made me quite like what I am today.

Now the only person I care for and love the most is, My Mother.

My mother, Jess Dorsan was also like normal mothers until my father died. Her love for father made her

deeply affected mentally. Just because of her mad obsession for my father, she never married anyone else

and chose to live alone with me. Hoping for a better future for me.

11 years have passed since my father passed away, it was 16th March 2014, a bright Sunday. I woke

and ran down to get something to eat, but there was nothing, only a piece of bread. As my mother was

still sleeping, I thought of staying hungry so that mother could eat it and I kept a note saying that, "I'm

going out for a while, and I ate my breakfast... The last piece of bread is for you."

After writing it, I ran outside and started walking. The blooming park stopped my foot. I thought of

observing the beauty of it, so I sat under a Banyan tree and dozed off. Thereafter I had a really strange

dream about my father which woke me up. Ever since the death of my father, I never had any dream

about him. It was REALLY STRANGE.

I saw my father crying for help, as if someone was pulling him towards something dark. After thinking

about it, I realised that it was almost midday and I started walking back home with a really hungry

stomach.

While walking on the street to my house, I saw a strange looking man wearing torn clothes and broken

specs. He looked dirty and creepy. As he came near, he whispered something," It was not an accident, it

was the work of evil". His voice sounded like a 60 years old with a Spanish accent. No sooner did he

pass,than I turned back to look at him with a strange and scared expression. But he was nowhere to be

found, as if he disappeared. It made me freak out and so I ran to my house, faster than a horse.

Days passed and I still remembered that incident, those words were rolling in my head ever since it

happened. Making me not able to sleep properly every night. There was something I found in my pant's

pocket after reaching home that day. It was a small rounded marble like ball with a shiny structure. It

glowed in darkness, and was coloured in bright blood red colour. I found it cool so I kept it in my room and

also used to play with it, but it was really tough to break unlike a normal green marble.

I surely was a quiet kid in my class,but I had a friend whom I actually loved but she was unaware of it.

She had the prettiest smile and grey eyes, everytime I looked at her, I felt a tickle in my belly and my

heartbeat surely rose. Her name was Anna, Anna Smith. I told her everything that happened in my life

and so I told about what happened that day. I also showed the blood red ball-like marble structure I

found in my pocket and she was amazed seeing it. Her eyes glowed out of excitement while seeing the red

marble.

So,she decided to go to that place again and find more marbles and that man. Even though I was really

scared to do that, I had no chance to deny it as I loved her so much. So we decided to go out next Sunday,

which was on 23rd March, exactly one week after that incident happened.

Today was the day, I was nervous but still had a happy thought about spending some time with her. We

met at the park around 10am and started searching the park for more marbles but we weren't successful

in finding even one and it was already 11am. We decided to look for the man now, so we started looking on

the streets, near dump areas, near sewer but we couldn't find him either. With a sad face, we were

walking back home. Thereafter I told her, "We will again go to find them, after everyone sleeps!" and she

got excited again. I was very happy to see her pretty smile back and so we decided to message each other

after their family sleeps.

Midday became midnight in a blink. Although I told her that we will go, I was scared indeed. She messaged

me at 12am, saying that her family was asleep. But my mother was still awake as she used to take brain

medicine which made it hard for her to sleep, so I told her to wait for a short time because my mother was still awake. Time passed and it was now 1:30 am and then finally my mother slept, until we were on a

phone call. As my mother slept, I told Anna to sneak out of her house and I was coming to pick her up.

Her excited voice gave me strength to walk to her house at such a time. I also took the blood red marble

with me and walked to her house. Five minutes,that was enough to reach her.

After meeting her, we went to the park in a haste but this time I felt strange just like after I had a

dream about my father that day. The Banyan tree gave me that strange feeling. Anna was excited as

always because she loved such adventures,but who knew how things could turn.

We started to walk towards the tree and I felt a swoosh of wind pass through my ears, I ignored it. As we

reached the tree, it felt like something was hiding on the branches of it, something dark, smoky. I was

frozen while looking at the tree or maybe lost in my own thoughts until Anna called out my name.

I felt the presence of someone apart from Anna, it surely didn't delight me and Anna was too excited to

notice anything. It was almost 2am and it felt like someone just ran behind us. I asked Anna, but she still

didn't notice or maybe I was hallucinating. She decided to dig near the tree, so I agreed and we started to

dig.

But The Very Next Thing We Found Was... A SKULL.

We both got scared as that was the spot where I slept last week. Anna noticed my pant's pocket, it was

glowing red. I panicked and took that ball out, but it was glowing too much.

I threw the ball and we started running back, but this time we both saw the strange man. He was looking

creepy as always, but there was something different on his face this time. It was an expression of Fear.

While running, he came to us and grabbed my arm. I shouted and so did Anna but he put his hands on my

mouth and stopped me from shouting and pushed Anna on the floor,I collapsed.

At Morning, around 9am, I found myself on my bed in my room. "Was it a dream?" I told myself. I walked

out of my bed with a confused mind thinking about what happened yesterday. While walking downstairs I

heard my phone ringing, I ran back to my room, towards my phone and picked it up, It was Anna.

Anna wanted to meet me as soon as possible, so I agreed to meet and told her " I'll be there in 30 minutes."

Just after saying this, mother entered. Without saying anything, she opened the door of my cupboard to

find a cloth but there wasn't any cloth.

I was about to walk down but the loud scream of my mother stopped me. I panicked and went to my

mother to see what's the matter.

A big inhumanly looking skull with the blood red marble was in my cupboard.