Feel in Bones..

February 21st '09
Location : Garuda Mall , Bangalore.

It was a lovely morning , although quite sunny too , but Saturday has become one of my favourite days , ever since I've joined internship. They use to say , you can never imagine "What it means to be in S/W industry, unless n untill you too are riding in d same boat" ....Now I can very well identify with it !!

Neways, day started as usual , with a cup of hot ginger tea, aahha :-) , followed with a nice n a bit heavy breakfast with aloo paranthas , butter n curd ...u r on cloud 9 , indeed.

In order to fight the nagging boredom , we planned to do something ...but then we started floating this question to each other.

Me , being ever ready to go outside , inspite of bad mood , health blah..blah..started with the suggestions ,"Let's go to some Mall , maybe Bangalore Central or Garuda "

Ajit, as always , was ought to show up his enmity in goin to places like this aka shopping , Biswa is also one creature all time , charged up , full of energy , I wonder he wears some pumping shoes or what ..hehe ;-) , Poonam is a darlin' u may say , she'll probably never counter else's opinion.

All said n done , n we finally boarded the volvo for the place , after a hustling bustling ride , we got down at our stop , Lifestyle Mall. You've to take d road down to walk upto Garuda Mall.

So, here we are 3'oclock , at Garuda.

"What to do now", was the question flaring everyone's mind. "I'll check something in MNG" , told Poonam , but then that means a round of trials n in d end whole exercise will go in vain , cos there might be a slightest of something that she won't like n d poor thing will be dropped as not selected.

Then came d guy's thoughts , you seriously can never actually understand wat may b crossing their minds , not bcoz its complicated as woman's but bcoz there is hardly they can think of apart from a very short list : girls around & drinks , n d list ends !!

Ajit didn't had lunch or d wonder breakfast which we 3 of us had , so was hungry & was set to have a snack before anything , So , I asked Biswa n Poonam to check for wat we can do next n Ajit n me moved towards foodcourt.

As expected , there was no movie tickets available at that time , but as always , this information came from them after a long time , by this time Ajit has finished his meal n I was done with Dhokla...hey if I am stayin back , dat means m also gonna hv smthing ...

Being done with hunger cure , unquiet Ajit asked to come n check out d place...Believe me a replete man is so easy to handle with .. We went to 4th floor n alas !! found there r no movie tickets ...
"Hey , this is the Scary House I was Talking about" , told Ajit.
We all knew , me n horror doesn't go well , ever. So , without any pause , he asked me to keep calm n be courageous enough to atleast try n attempt the things , dat are actually out of my syllabus n thoughts . I was simply speechless n it was actually very easy for a person like me to come to a conclusion saying , "koi chance nahin hai, main nahin jaungi" .

The notion of FEAR makes me sick , I know. But then , making no delays , he called them both , Biswa n Poonam to come upstairs , aha ya they went down , coz most obviously she was looking hard for treasure trove there , as always.

N you know what , even they reached us with a Blink of an eye , poor me :(

Then , as we proceeded towards the ticket counter , I was getting more n more edgy , n constantly repeating the same phrase , of course "Main nahin jaungi yaar, please" . But I feel as much as I was reluctant to go , they all were all bent on giving it a shot.

And then , soon , we all 4 were standing in d queue , waiting for the gate to open , to let us in....awful !!

The Moment Came , Gate opened & the guard there asked us to move in , & I inescapably stepped into the door with them , I was holding Ajit's hand , as firmly as I can..

Before I can actually realise , I was inside it , with the entry door locked from outside . For the first time ever in my life , I actually felt , i may never come out of this HELL.

It was thoroughgoing darkness out there , the entire scene goes like this :
Total Dark , screams of people , monstrous lights , egregious things and objects lying here n there summing up an appalling surrounding.....Even now I can feel those things around me , we were standing there in the middle of all this and no one from us knew where n which direction to move....Suddenly , Ajit's phone rings and I was like , "How can you attend a call in middle of this ghastly place" , and guess what , the call was from , Courier Waala , he was expecting some courier from home , he picked up the call but from nowhere ,I really don't know from where, from the red coloured walls,I don't wanna mention the 'blood' word here , this screaming skeleton came in front of us n we went weak in knees , of course he'd hung up by now. N guess what , "Oye !! chal hatt" , was what Ajit said , here goes my first scream of the evening , I literally wanted to clench on Ajit , but as we had to move ahead too , we walked a step further , I was able to hear the dismal voices of Biswa and Poonam , I closed my eyes and was only listening to Ajit's n Biswa's discussion , Poonam was mostly silent , not much shrills . Then came something , that whispered into our ears "whooooooooo" , I shouted badly , but somewhere I knew , there is no point shouting my heart out , but still dat was d only option , I felt, might help me overcoming it.
"Oye yahan pe ek laash hai, dekh dekh" ...
"Ajit please aise na bol, please aaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii"
"Chal chal haan idhar hi chalte hain...."
"Nahin please yaar, nahiiiiiiii"
"Oho , par raasta bhi yahi hai"
I knew , there's no getaway.....Step by step we were moving further , thankfully Biswa n poonam were there behind me n Ajit in front , but you know what , I don't know , were the skeletons and objects were manually driven or by motion sensoring , but at each step someone or something gonna hit you or scare you or simply come in front of you , n drive you to be scared to hell....

Initially , Ajit, Biswa n maybe poonam too , were not apprehensive and were not so panic-striken , but after I guess 3-4 min of that frightful journey , there was no exchange of words between us , the only voices were of screams , horror pieces being played , By now it was almost 7 minutes over , & then to everyone's gloom , Ajit, who was leading us till now , told "Yaar aage toh rasta hi nahin hai.." n we went weird.....
And then came Zoom....a flash of light , with a creepy bisected body, resembling human !!

But that was end of it , n "Arre hum aa gaye , wo dekho gate hai wahan..." , these words from poonam came as a life saver !!!
N I decided to open my eyes , but , aahhhhhhhh, came a shout with those screams from those semi human bodies and skulls or skeletons roaming around and touching us .......I again went into darkness of my own mind....But then , the gate was near to us but closed ...... Wonder Why ????
M sure , by this time , who so ever goes there , will definitely want to run outside , "Yeh band kyun hai yaar?? , arre ek lady hai wahan dekh , dekh" , Poonam made things easy then..
N Finally, we were out ....out of that shit....
"Hey look at her , she's crying man..." , "is it ??" , "Yeah the girl out there , she's crying, hooo" , pointed , a group of kids awaiting their turn to feel the danger , towards me .

"Oh ho , koi nahin , arre rone ki kya baat hai , koi ni..." ,
"Priyanka , kya hua , koi ni...." ,
"Chal ..it's okay , it's over now...."
Ajit , Poonam n biswa were trying to comfort me , but in vain , I really don't know, wat else to do , I was so helpless !!

We went downstairs , straight out of the Mall , on the road , but that feeling of fear was engulfing me ....still.... no help !!

It was for the first time in my life , that , I felt , a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., I was not able to make out whether the threat was real or imagined , but one thing is for sure , the feeling or condition of being afraid dreaded me........