A short story: based on re_l life events

om Jangir
4 min readJan 7, 2021

Just like previous days, Lakshman opens his eyes while sleeping in bed. Lakshman saw the revolving fan scattering light periodically and try to see its three wings by rolling his eyes to catch the speed of the fan. He turned his head towards the left and capture the alarm clock placed on the wooden table just having an inch gap from his bed. It seems like he uses the bed as a chair to study his Bansal classes notes. It’s 6:00 a.m. indicated by the minute-hand of the alarm clock. He can listen to the sounds of birds from the window just in the back of his head. Ohh… It’s the bird’s sounds that wake him up. There is dim light coming from the window proving the sun is still in between to rise. He can also feel the sound of the fan coming after a regular interval of time. He is still looking at the alarm clock showing 6:07 a.m. Clock second-hand sounds simultaneous with the sound of birds and fans. Suddenly a very sharp noise comes which completely woke him up and makes his heart beat faster. He calms down after getting his alarm clock off. Yeah, last night he set the alarm for 6:10 a.m clock. Now He is in no mood of sleeping. He moves his head from the pillow and moves up sitting on the bed. His thoughts are working faster as he can simultaneously focus on the sounds of bird, fan, and alarm clock beep but skipping the second-hand moving sound. He moves his hand towards the alarm clock and shut it down. he can smell the cool & fresh air coming from the back window showing morning rays through its maze window. He can focus his mind to think and believe that it’s not early morning rays but it’s evening light showing the sun is going to off. But the fresh air fails him. The back window is the only source of light in this small room. Now the fan is revolving in front of him through the reflection in the front mirror of almera. His eyes are closing down. He opens his eyes and saw the clock and says “Ohhh nooo, it’s 8:00 a.m.”. A sound comes like someone place a container on the single room metal door with blue paint. A knock-knock sound on the door towards the right of the back window. “Ohh… breakfast tiffin has come. Sunday’s breakfast always have some special dish”. He opens the door and sees the sun, trees, and many of his roommates inside their room similar to Lakshman’s room. It is a row of rooms with greenery outside the room. He takes the tiffin placed down and places it on a wooden table with his big ass on the bed. He opens the tiffin “Ahh … it’s kheer my favorite”. He finishes the breakfast and places the tiffin at its previous position. Now He moves to the left of the door along with the white wall. After a few steps, he can see the wash-beason towards its right where the wall ends. He moves towards wash-beason and saw his face in the mirror embedded in the wall. He can see the mark on his head mark similar to harry potter’s mark. His big nose, small eyes, black hair visible diminished. He moves his hand towards the mirror and rubs it. ahh, now he can a clear view of his face. “Good morning Lakshman,” one of his roommates says. “Good morning “ Lakshman replied. Lakshman again saw his face with a big nose and irregular black hair. He opens the tap “ahh it’s so cold”. He washes his face. He again moves towards the right and turned left towards its room. Now he can see the group of his friend standing in a dense circle with something mysterious in the middle. It is very unusual. He comes closer towards the group and tries to saw in the middle and he saw a kheer lying on the cemented ground flowing from the opened tiffin. Just towards its left, he can saw the mouth of the cat in the middle of the group of people. The brown cat mouth is white and has some kheer pieces on it. The cat is not afraid and is not moving. The cat is sleeping. How can a cat sleep in this fresh air? “Poor dead cat “ a sound comes from the group. “Don’t open your tiffin… Don’t eat anything..” says a person in a very loud voice. Suddenly heartbeat starts faster with fear. He moves towards its door and opens it. Now he can saw a person which is very similar lying on the bed with his legs outside the bed. He can see the very familiar person with big ass, black hair. It seems like the person is sleeping on his bed. He turned his body to see his face. and saw “BIG NOSE, SMALL EYES AND A HARRY POTTER MARK on his head

To be continued…

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