When I was at the age of thirteen I had to come to Kavali to see movie and taken ticket for first show. There is a special that I dared to come to the town by bicycle having learned newly the riding. Some of our villagers were working as clerks, helpers in shops, stalls, some of them as tailors, as masonry and labour. They will return to home to night. The shop workers normally leaves the shops at 9.00 PM and will leave the town at the time of ending the first show every day along with persons who came to see cinema. With the hope of company of such persons to return to our village I dared to see first show. If not I never thought to come cinema lonely at night from our village because there would be dark and scaring situations way-long. And some body says that there were ghosts at graves nearby the trunk road situated at turning of our village road. This was also one of the causes that the shop workers were waiting for company up to first show ending.
Unfortunately due to power-off the ending of cinema was delayed half an hour. As I was not having a wrist watch, I could not know the exact time of ending cinema. I asked some body to know the time and on hearing from him I trembled and rushed to main road by taking bicycle from the stand. No body was seen at the place of waiting the shop workers normally. On enquiry it was known that they have already passed just before my arrival. I ran to the town limits at the northern side for them and despaired. They were no to my sight and could not be identified in the darkness. I felt very tension and made up my mind to go forward and to face the troubles if any happens there to.
The road was also single way with ditches here and there. I begun to ride my cycle with high speed and ringing the bell continuously. There was a distance of 2 KMs to the turning road from Kavali. I has already passed one and half KM. But my cycle stopped suddenly. I got down and pushed forward. But no use the cycle rasping the road. I got sweated. How can I overcome the problem. ‘ God save me’ prayed to God. At that moment I observed my surroundings and known that I was very near to the graves where the ghosts might be there according to the speaks of some body. Meanwhile I felt very nervousness and I could not move my legs even a little step. Stayed there as an useless being. There I saw a pair of human beings. They were seeing like shadows. I abused my self for the non-sense action I had done. Thought that this was the correct punishment to me for my inaction. I did not believe the words of well-wishers and alertness against the ghosts there. It might be my fate that I had to sacrifice my life this way. No more thoughts to restore. I had lost my energy until bottom of my capacity. The two shadows were coming forward towards me. I frightened very much …… we will meet later on for the remaining.
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