Half dead

Anonymous experience

Night, cold, probably one of the worst winter's I have ever witnessed. I was sitting at platform no.2 at the new Delhi railway station with my jacket on, eagerly waiting for my train. I arrived at the railway station apparently 1 hour early as expected. It was just the night lamp that brightened the station and few passengers who were eager to board their respective trains. To pass my time, like all people prefer, I took out my I pod and plugged in my earphones. It was 10-00 pm and I closed my eyes, lost in the melody of green day. Just as i was engrossed in my music someone patted me on my shoulders. I shrugged and got up to see who is it. To my surprise it was a magnificent woman in her 20s with a pink toot bag of Zara and looking glamorous in blue top and black denim. Very polietly she asked me to shift and get seated and reciprocating as a gentleman I placed my luggage down to make some space for her to sit. She was fabulous and looking impressive. It seemed like some fairy from my utopia. I extended my hand for some general exchanges like name etc etc. You see in india it is not easy for a person to get close to a lone yet gorgeous girl until you are Shahrukh khan or something but there was something in this girl that appealed me. She was nice, her name was Aarti and she was a fashion designer by profession. We had a great time with each other and in that little span we came quite close. Then suddenly I asked her that if she is having a relationship and that was the time when everything turned upside down. She became intense and what she told me was much deeper than what it actually was. She was happily in love with this guy called kabir, who was a son of millionaire Rehman Afsal. They ought to marry but his father was not in favour of this marriage. Kabir thought of running away and marry her but his father somehow got that news. What he did was unhuman and beastly. He with his 3 servants raped her on the night of their plan. It was the time when my eyes filled with tears. I was speechless and thought that how could someone be such a beast. "What happened after that?" I just asked and she replied sitting next to me. "The next day when I logged a complaint against his father? He retaliated to this and made a mock of me. I was numb and half/dead. No one listened to me and with no option left I decided to end my life. Dear sometimes it's not what you see that is true it is the meaning of what you ought to do." She ended up saying and I cried. She very lovingly put her fingers onto my face and I drifted off to long unending sleep. Suddenly I sensed some sensation in my feet and I woke up. The platform was same as that when I drifted off to sleep. When I looked here and there in search of her I couldn't find her. In disappointment I sat down and checked my watch and that is when my head span. The clock showed 10-01 pm. I checked it with fellow passengers and they also said the same. I thought how could it be just one minute. All that Aarti kabir story in just one munute. No I was seriously confused. In that utter confusion i sat down and recalled everything that she said. And then I remember she ended her story just when she said she was about to die. It hit my head, she was a ghost, who is haunted. I was scared badly. I left that seat and just when I was about to leave my book fell and a page opened that read……………“I MIGHT NOT LIVE BUT I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU KABIR BECAUSE IF I AM NOT ALIVE, I AM HALF DEAD AND THIS TRAIL WILL CONTINUE”