Two Days Later

Everything was normal between Richard and Pamela. They were talking normally like any other happy couple except that Richard was considering spending more time outside the house. His reasons were not just about Pamela, rather he was curiously and constantly thinking about meeting that strange guy he met several days back and was really looking forward to clear the knots that were tied so closely in his mind.

Pamela was too happy and busy with her own self that she simply did not care about what her husband was doing or what he was thinking. She was spending most of her time on social media and was constantly sharing her pictures of their recent trip with her friends and uploading them on all social media platforms.

Richard, who had joined the school again, was desperately looking forward to meet the suspicious guy but he wasn’t getting enough time to manage and plan all of this stuff just by himself.

One night, Richard woke up in the middle of the night and got kind of disturbed. He suddenly realised that he was not even at rest while he was asleep. In that moment, he got kind of obsessed that he simply left the house to make sure that he would resolve his mind’s agitations by hook or by crook. He saw that Pamela was sleeping tight, so he simply got up and went towards the door of his house to answer his own made up queries.

One hour later, he was at the same place where the festival held few days back. He wanted to make sure that he would seriously try to find that guy and bring an end to this superstition that was not letting him to have any kind of peace in his family life and in general as well.

He tried really hard to find that person by looking around everywhere at that place and asking people about that guy by describing his strange appearance to them.

It took him nearly one hour to find that guy and he then got hopeless eventually, thinking that it wasn’t happening for what he came there for. He however, unfortunately found that same guy as he was walking towards him. Richard stood up quickly as he saw him.

As Richard started walking towards him, the strange guy waved him to stop and pointed towards another direction indicating as if they would meet after a while.

Richard and this mysterious guy were seated face to face after a while. This strange and mysterious guy then said to him,

“My name is Wallace; I am someone who can see the future.”

“Mr Wallace,” Richard said to him, “I am very much worried since a few days from the day I met you. In fact since many days, but I want you to know that it is all happening only because of you.”

“Do I know you? Have we met before?”

“Excuse me?” Richard felt kind of angry on this.

“I’m just asking you that have we met before.”

“You tell me, have we?”

“I meet plenty of people every day and wherever I can see or sense any kind of danger in someone’s life, I just tell them. Maybe we have met like this. But I don’t think I can remember anything like this.”

“Okay, anyways,” Richard spoke out trying to get to the point, “just answer me that what do you see in my future? Please.”

“How about I tell you about your past first?”

Richard got really curious and interested on what he just heard. The different kinds of emotions that were revolving around his mind and his heart could not let him concentrate on what he was being told. So he simply asked,

“How are you going to?”

He didn’t notice it but he had actually interrupted Wallace while he was talking. Wallace was silent and he asked Richard,

“Can I complete first?”

“Okay, go on. Just complete what you were saying…”

“I can tell you that you have a wife and you two have been recently married.”

Richard was quite impressed as he heard this.

“Who are you?” Richard asked him.

“That’s not something relevant here. You went to a trip with your wife quite recently.”

“Oh, my God! How do you know that?”

“The different kinds of people who are conducting these activities can be asked these things in a cross questioning procedure but these can be quite problematic when it comes to singling out questions like these.”

“What?” Richard got very surprised on what he just heard and felt confused about that.

“I’m just saying that I need you to be more careful.”

“What on earth are you trying to say to me?”

“I am just saying that you don’t even have a slightest of a clue regarding what can happen around you. You are surrounded with evil spirits all around yourself.”

“Evil spirits? What do you mean by that?”

“You do not have the idea of what can happen to you…”

“You are simply building up the suspense now; I just want to get to the conclusion.”

“The different kinds of people who are looking forward to make sure that different kinds of occasions are being met and these can be resolved with the help of different communications.”

Richard moved back a bit and wondered in his mind,

Is this guy even sane? What kind of rubbish is he talking? Is he actually talking to me or someone who is not even around?

“Yes, I am talking to you,” Wallace replied.

“Oh, my God! Did you just hear what I said to myself in my mind?”

“The different kinds of voices that are happening around here, I am aware of all of them. I can listen to everything that you cannot listen to, that no one can listen to…”

“What is all this? Do supernatural things live around?”

“You have no idea about that,” Wallace replied looking up at the sky.

Richard was quite terrified but at the same time he was very impressed with this guy and wanted to talk even more with him.

Wallace broke the silence by saying,

“I just know that you had a wonderful trip.”

“Wonderful?”

“By you I meant that you as a couple. Your wife had a great time. She was very happy throughout this time but your weren’t…”

“Okay, yeah, that is true actually,” Richard responded trying to hide his emotions and face expressions.

“And I seem to think that throughout your trip you two were fine. Both of you had no conflict of any sort in your entire trip. And your wife was extremely happy in this entire time. This actually happened when you both were about to leave to come here.”

“Oh, dear Lord!” Richard spoke out loudly even though I didn’t have to and didn’t want to.

Richard couldn’t help it as he was literally helpless and he couldn’t resist his sense of getting shocked on what I was learning from this mysterious guy one thing after another. The different kinds of emotions that were echoing around in my mind were actually making my heart beat run so faster.

“How are you feeling?” he asked me.

Richard did not respond to him.

“You are sweating,” Wallace continued, “you seem to appear as if you just stepped out of the swimming pool.”

“Please tell me, Mr Wallace. Please tell me.

What are you?”

“What am I? Or who am I?”

“No, I want to know that what you are…”

“I am a human being just like you. I am just an ordinary human being like you but I have a connection. I basically have a communication with these supernatural beings.”

“What kind of communications?”

“I’m sorry but I don’t share this kind of information,” Wallace replied.

“How come? You have shared plenty of stuff so far…”

“Actually, I haven’t,” he responded. “You have no idea. You really have no clue. Literally no clue. I haven’t shared even one percent of anything with you about what I actually know about you.”

“You are a different human being. You are not someone ordinary. You look quite horrifying to be honest.”

“These things should not be your concern now, are they?”

“Who sets these rules?”

“Alright,” Wallace kind of changed the mode of the conversation, “we have had enough conversation for today. I am leaving now. You must also leave. But we will meet again.”

“Mr Wallace please, you can’t leave me like this to wait for an accident to occur or something of that sort…”

“I’m not saying that such accidents will necessarily happen with you but I am definitely asking you to be careful and keep your eyes open while you are walking alone.”

“Mr Wallace, when can we meet again?”

“Don’t worry, we will meet again really soon. Go home right now. Your wife is waiting for you at home.”

“Who?”

“Pamela is waiting for you.”

The curiosity in Richard’s mind was simply rising up. He said to Wallace as he stood up,

“I am leaving now. But I want to say one thing before leaving because I am more than just sure about it.”

“Okay, go on I’m listening.”

“I just know that you are not an ordinary human being. In fact, you are not at all a human being.”

“Can you define what a human being is?” Wallace asked him.

“It is a specie made of flesh and blood. And you are definitely not that. I can tell you that for sure.”

Wallace chuckled for a little while and then said,

“Is that so?”

“Different kinds of people who are capable of communicating with supernatural beings, no one can classify such people as human beings.”

Wallace took out a knife from somewhere around his pocket and sliced his hand’s wrist slightly. Blood came out in a shape of small fountain.

Wallace asked him,

“What would you say now? A human body made of flesh and blood just like you.”

Richard was horrified by looking at that guy cut his hand and he was left speechless for a while but he was also quite depressed as he was leaving in a state of major curiosity. And wanted to know everything that was bothering him.

The different kinds of emotions that were still echoing around in Richard’s mind were kind of making it difficult for him to speak further.

An hour later, Richard finally reached his home after his confusing meeting with Wallace and when he came inside of his home he saw that his wife Pamela was wide awake and she was waiting in the living room for him desperately. In that instance, he remembered Wallace’ words,

Go home right now. Your wife is waiting for you.

Pamela is waiting for you.

Richard held his head in stress and said to himself,

“What on earth am I seeing? Oh, God…”

Pamela responded to him,

“What happened? Is everything alright Richard?”

“Pamela, I so wish that I could say yes. I wish I could lie to you, but I just simply can’t…”

“What is it Richard? What is it that’s bothering you so much?”

“I am fine. I don’t want you to worry about me. Just assume for now that I am fine and everything is okay.”

“I am your wife Richard.

If you won’t share your stuff or your worries and problems with me then with whom will you share all this stuff…”

“You are right, Pamela.

I know… But this is simply breaking my heart and I just can’t understand…”

Pamela came closer towards him and said to him,

“Don’t worry, Richard. Everything will be fine. Come along with me, let’s talk this over…”

“No Pamela, I really appreciate your efforts of trying to help me in this situation. But I am too much stressed right now and I don’t know that if I will be able to share this stuff with you or not. I will have no other option but to see that you will be distressed like myself. I don’t want this to happen to you.”

“Richard, stress is just not a contagious disease…”

“Yes, I know but superstition is…”

Pamela said getting a bit irritated,

“I want you to know that I am there for you only if you would cooperate with me and....”

“Pamela… please understand… our love life is about to get ruined anytime soon.”

to be continued...