Bhaskar helped me up to my room. I had my dinner in my room and went on with my work on my presentation on my laptop. I still could not shake off the feeling of being watched in my own room. I closed the windows and covered them with curtains. I even tapped my in-built webcam of my laptop.
After sometime, I suddenly heard a loud crackling sound. It gives me goosebumps all over my body. The hairs on my body strung up. I slowly put my legs down from my bed and hold myself on support of the long stick. It was striking 1a.m. in midnight. The bell of clock was going, 'Ding-dong, ding-dong'....Wait, wait, wait! Why does it feel like I am writing a horror story? What if it is an intruder? Am I going to die, now?'
I continued to limp as I walk and stepped out of my room, when suddenly my other leg got bumped to the wooden bim at the door and I stumbled only to be caught by Bhaskar at my waist.
(In my mind) 'I looked at him. He looked at me. I looked at him and he looked at me. I looked...aaaaaaaaaaa.'
'Do you want your other leg to be broken too or what? What are you doing, here? If you need something, you could just call me.'
'I.. um. Eto.. brother is gone? I mean he left?'
'Nope. He is now sleeping in the guest room, there', he point the door behind him.
'Ooo.'
'What oooo? What?'
'I just heard a loud crackling sound. So I thought an intruder entered or...'
'Hmm...it's the sound of that accessory on my roomdoor. It was hung there by my previous nanny. But, now she is up there' said Bhaskar pointing up with one finger in the air.
'I am sorry.'
'Oh! It's okay, idiot!'
'Let me take you into your room now, my queen.'
I blushed the hell out like a tomato, maybe redder even than that.
'Are you blushing?'
'Blu-Blushing? Are you an idiot or what? It's obvious because of the hot environme-'
'Pfft-'
'Are you enjoying teasing me, now?'
'So, you are admitting that you love the title, my queen.'
'Damn it, why are soo handsome, now?'
'Why? Was I not, before?'
'Did I say that out loud?'
'Unfortunately, yes!'
I couldn't look at him in his eyes only to cover my face with the goddamn curtain hanging on the metal rim of my doorway. But, unfortunately, my situationship with my embarassment didn't stop there. Why would the GOD would ever stop giving me troubles?
'Aaaaaaaa! A cockroach! A cockroach!' I yelled as I jumped on Bhaskar's arms.
Bhaskar too was scared of cockroach which jumped from curtain to floor, then and thus, he was literally loitering around the whole floor with me in his arms to protect me and himself from it. The event didn't stop until my brother came out of his room with a cleansing mask over his face, on lips and under his eyes with a slipper to kill the cockroach.
We jumped at the sight of him, thinking him as a ghost due to our human eyesight in dark. Hearing our scream, he literally got a heart attack took in return as he jumped on his own place. We lost our words on what to do, or say right after that only for me to yell, 'Cockroach! Your feet! Brother, your feet!'. Thankfully, that fellow enemy insect got murdered at the end by my brother, under his slippers after causing such a chaos. We all started laughing at each other seeing the conditions we were at that time as Bhaskar and I bowed down as my brother's aura.
Maybe! I felt relieved for that day due to that joyous laughter in union with my crush and my brother but the doubt on Rahul and now on Ajay too increased day after day.
(To be continued)