Fear in the Dream!

‘What the fuck?’ I said to my friend.

‘Yes, what the fuck.’ He said.

We ran across a ploughed fiend and reached to the railway track within seconds. The transportation was faster than that of light.

I was sitting in my room. I don’t know how it looked like. It was just a room at the first floor of a building which was situated in the middle of the field. The farmer had ploughed the field and a fresh rain had showered the mud grains. The grains were dry. May be the rain had arrived few days ago and sun had dried the mud powder which is suitable for farming.

I was lying in bed or doing something. I don’t know what I was doing actually. My friend was also doing something. Don’t know what. But he was talking of some magazines. He was in a cheap half sleeve shirt and a pair of shorts. I was wearing the same dress. Mine was little dark because of dust that had layered on my shirt and shorts because I was habitual of wiping my sweating face with the sleeves of my shirt and some games in the dust had left my shorts dirty as well.

We saw a huge train which had just jumped off its track. It was red in color and was bigger in height but smaller in length than the trains that we have here in India. I signaled him to help me to save the people. But we couldn’t see anybody looking out through windows of the train.

‘W-h-a-t t-h-e f-u-c-k?’ He said.

‘Yes, what the fuck.’ I said, running towards the tail of the train. The engine had left the compartment behind and it only had slipped off the track. We saw a gap between the two increasing.

‘Look,’ He said to me. I turned to him and began to run like a madman. He ran to somewhere and went invisible. I don’t know where he had disappeared. I ran with all my might. Within seconds I had covered miles. I had seen the engine running in my direction. I got it. It was about to run over me. I escaped. It ran behind me off the track. I couldn’t understand how it became possible for the engine to run down the ploughed field. But it ran. And it ran comfortably.

Now, I had reached to my village and didn’t look behind because engine was still running towards me as if it had decided to kill me. And I knew the reason why it wanted to kill me. It looked like a man with big head and without body. The engine was occupied by a human head.

I slipped into the first home which was at the outskirt of my village. Village started from only there and ended to the bank of river Ganga. My home was somewhere at the other end near the bank. And there was a solid road from the outskirt to my home. And I thought if I run down a solid road then it won’t take the engine much time to catch me and trash me under its wheels.

On the way, I had understood why it wanted to kill me. I had been speaking lots of bad things about the organization in which I was working. I dint like it because of partiality and many other things that were discouraging me. I was getting less focused on the work just because the organization was not giving me what I deserved. And it had sent the train to kill me. It followed me like a dinosaur.

I found my cousin at the entrance of the house and didn’t tell him why I was running away. Generally I don’t visit his place though he and his family like me and my family.

‘Let’s go to your home.’ He said.

‘No.’

‘Why?’

‘I don’t want to.’

‘Oh, don’t fool me. Let’s go. I know you spend most of your time at your place whenever you visit village.’

He forced me and I couldn’t say no. But smartly, I chose the way which was very narrow. It was not actually a road. It was the boarder of the banana gardens which formed a narrow way on which only one person could walk. We rode bicycles down this narrow lane when we were kids to prove we were good bicycle riders.

The engine stood at the main solid road and looked confused as it couldn't run down across the banana gardens.

On the way home, he had asked me to say hi-hello to other village people whose houses were coming on our way, among banana gardens! But still I din't feel safe.

But I was in hurry and I wanted to reach to my place where my mother was waiting for me. I didn’t understand how she came to know that I was going to visit village though it all happened in seconds. She had made rice, daal, aaloo fry, chutney and achar for me.

I kept meeting people and moving on but my cousin had also disappeared on the way. Don’t know where!

Now, my place was one kilometer away and I had to walk full one kilometer and it was turning dark. I moved with a fear in my mind that anytime, the engine could run over me!

Before I could reach my home, something else happened.

I opened my eyes and found myself sleeping in my bed. I removed the sheet away, switched off the AC and looked to the wall clock and found it was forty five past six. I was late. I'm habitual of waking up between five and six. But it was Sunday so it was ok. I went to kitchen and switched gas stove and put a tea pan on it. I poured milk into and added water, sugar and tea leaves into it, slowed the flame and moved out to balcony. I stood there and looked to the trees and visualized my dream twice.