Suspense Story – “CRAZY DAY, ENLIGHTENING EVENING”
© Anand Vishnu Prakash, YourStoryClub.com
Now, Aaron happened to have two friends. David aged eleven and younger to him, the other was the same age as Aaron. His other pal’s name was Lucas. David seemed to be more mature for his age with a vast in-depth knowledge of the Bible and its verses. He was a very philosophical minded kid. Always happened to be fond of the stars and wore a ‘cross’ around his neck at all times. While Lucas was a brash kid, who used to go around thrashing other orphans who did anything ‘evil’ according to him. He thought of himself as an ‘instrument of God’, who was here to bring the people to justice who committed any kind of ‘sin’. His way of bringing them to ‘justice’ was by beating them up, no matter how many times he was punished for beating the other children up, he still returned to the same habit. Lucas told Aaron that from now on, if anyone disturbed him, he was there to beat them up. This attitude didn’t quite seem to please Aaron. He seemed to be perceived as ‘evil’ himself by Aaron.
After chatting for a long two hours, Aaron decided to get some fresh air. David decided to join in while Lucas didn’t care much to join them. But, David suddenly remembered he got some task to finish so even he decided to stay back as the next day was ‘Monday’, and, he would be punished in failing to submit his homework on time. Well, so Aaron was by himself again. Contemplating about what happened. The whole day was totally crazy for him. Right from the early morning till now, weird things had happened around him that was unimaginable just the day before. He wanted answers real bad.
“why the hell am I being targeted God! What have I done?”
‘Ahhhhhhhhhhhh’, he shouted while at the same time he desperately cried. It had a very cleansing and purifying effect on him somehow for reasons unknown. He felt lighter than ever before. It was late in the evening, it was getting dark outside. So he decided to go back to his dorm and study the ‘Holy Bible’ for a while. This sudden urge was not regular in him. He didn’t care to read the ‘Bible’ before. That evening, he wanted to read it real bad. Maybe because unconsciously; he wanted to be like David, who knew the whole bible and, yet happened to be younger than him. Or was it an unconscious ‘Envy’, one of the 7 sins? Or straight out the snake episode and the washroom thing that occurred, both stirred something deep within his soul. It could be any one of these, you decide.
It was just the ‘Awakening’ of Aaron. The chosen one; with a destiny that would take him on a spiritual journey of a lifetime. He was on his way towards a soulful journey that would shake his very core and, make him understand the necessity for the existence of; good and evil and the forces at work behind the scenes.
So that whole day had been quite crazy for Aaron, everything that happened was totally otherworldly and esoteric without any explanations. Neither could he ever imagine that such events might occur one day in his life. The day started like any other but turned ‘grotesque’ for him. But then again, it wasn’t as boring as the other days. Quite eventful, wasn’t it? Now all he could hope for was that God kept him safe from malefic and malevolent ‘spirits’ and ‘Satan’. He was quite hoping that whatever happened with him wasn’t because of any such entity. He thought long and hard about all the events that followed that day, while quietly sitting at his corner bed with the Bible in his right hand, looking out of the window, reminiscent of those nerve-racking events he witnessed and trying to decipher a meaning out of it as to WHY?
Aaron had a hard time trying to keep all that mysterious and horrifying incidents to himself; after all he was just a thirteen year old boy. Daniel, a boy living in the same dorm spotted Aaron sitting there at a corner with a confused and disturbed expression on his face. It was quite evident from his face. The dorm had double decker beds, total of twenty. So there were forty kids in one dorm with a very scarce amount of space to walk. The walls were of a boring beige hue with cracks and crevices. It was rather quite un-interesting. Above the main entrance of the dorm there hung a cross. Daniel was a friend of David’s, since they shared the same double decker bed. Daniel called on to David and pointed him towards Aaron, since he noticed David hanging out with Aaron earlier in the day.
(David runs toward Aaron out of curiosity and eagerness to know what was exactly wrong with him.)
David: Hey, what’s up Aaron? From the look of your face it seems like something is really bothering you! What’s wrong brother?
(Aaron seems lost and confused; he continues staring out of the window)
David: (Puts his right hand over Aaron’s shoulder and shakes him out of his trance)
Hello? Hey! Are you alright? You seem lost.
Aaron: (With a blank expression on his face looks toward David)
Oh, yeah. Just a bit tired that’s all!
David: (With an excited expression after spotting the Bible in Aaron’s hand for the first time ever)
Brother, something is surely wrong. I bet. I never saw you with a Bible before! That’s weird. Please tell me what is it? I am your friend right? Just let it flow! Oh yes, if you need any help with the Bible there, you can always call on me. I feel like a prodigy, the whole Bible is inside my head. By the way is it the Old Testament or the new one?
Aaron: (After being silent for a while)
Nothing, just weird things happening around you know! (While internally considering if he should share it with David, after all it’s too hard to contain it inside by oneself without sharing). I have the Old Testament with me (With a little smile).Though I haven’t read it much you know? I don’t know much (With a sigh).
David: Well at least it seems like you are interested in reading it! But how did this sudden transformation happen? Christians either read it when they follow it in a hard-core way and the others hold it when in some sort of a trouble. Something has happened to you! I am not moving until you tell me about it! What kind of weird things?
Aaron: (Thinking long and hard about the promise he made to the Sister about not discussing anything about the happening with anyone in the town, finally gives in and decides to share it with David. He seemed like the trust-able kind to him. Even though quite young yet he seemed more mature than the 15year olds around.
(…and Aaron tells everything that happened that day to David and begs him not to tell the others. David was in a hypothetical state of mixed emotions, both in awe, shock and horror.)
David: (With his eyes and mouth wide open and shakiness all over him)
That’s pretty scary actually! I don’t know how you were able to contain all of these, without sharing with anyone. If it happened to me, I would have been in a coma by now. I will pray for you Aaron. Don’t worry things will be alright. God works in mysterious ways so does the Universe. May God, The Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ protect you from malevolent energies and entities! You saw a serpent make a perfect circle on you. Well it is known as ‘Oroborus’. Don’t worry that was a blessing from God. It wasn’t the serpent of the Garden of Eden; in that case it would have spelt trouble. I believe you don’t have any Idea what ‘Oroborus’ means, isn’t it?
