The Host

She was a very beautiful girl, but a widow staying alone in a castle kind of banglaow that her family owned at that time. She was not really a smart girl and she didn’t had much relationship to her neighbours either. She was living kind of lonely life in a house with big corridors and a big courtyard in the front of the house. The house was protected by big fences and walls all around the houses. There was water bubbling small pool in which few gold fishes were seen, which will come out of the water surface all the time in the look out of food. Then there were beautifully arranged trees and green plants just below the fences and walls down under. But though in all together it was beautiful, the whole place was shady bit and loneliness was felt by everybody who were part of that house.

The girl who is the heroine of my story was the mother of two. Both were the naughtiest of their kind is what she had to tell. If she is not looking after her kids, they will definitely end up in a mess. Her elder son once burned up quarter of her house in an effort to do his school experiments. I forgot to mention one thing, after her husband passed away our Aisha, that’s our heroine...was not sending her kids to school. She started making them study at home till the tenth standard and when they will be matured; our Aisha will send the elder son for graduation in art and the younger daughter to medicine. She didn’t want to change her kids wish and inject her own. So that was her wish about her kids. After she took this decision, she was so careful on her kids and she wanted to pay an extra attention to anything and everything and especially on their studies. She perfectly knew that their kids are growing without a father and they should not be having any feel that they missed their father. This was our Aisha in total, but in addition to that she was very less talking, very hard working and lovable person.

Daily her maid will come to house to clean her house, after all she definitely needed a house maid to maintain such a big house. The maid will come early morning and then will do all the cleaning and the required works to make the day ready for our Aisha. She will leave by the late night. She was living inside a remote area where this house also was located. She was actually got the house maid job in our Aisha’s house from her mother. In fact, the maid's mother was also working in our Aisha’s house. When Aisha came to this house, it was this maid's mother who was working there along with the maid right now. Then when current maid's mother fall in sick, she took in charge of the house. She perfectly knew our aisha's character..so she was also not talking much in that house. Aisha always maintained a balanced diet for her kids and she wanted to maintain her kids very well. She was very strict in family such a way that she will not even suffer the least cleanliness act done by the maid in the house. So definitely it didn’t take much time for our maid to put our Aisha a nick name 'crack-mam'. She used to get blast for anything and everything for the cleanliness on a daily basis.

The maid one day asked why she is not sending her kids to school. Aisha told home studies are enough. Maid didn’t ask much questions to her as it may end up in her shouting on the maid. And time has passed by, our Aisha’s kids were growing. And Aisha was all set for her kid’s future studies. Though she will not allow her kids to send out of her house at any cost, she was more than happy if their kid is going out for further studies. As i told previously, our Aisha was keeping a low profile in that area and she had windows and doors always closed.

If her maid opens her window, Aisha would start shouting like anything. Her kids used to ask for playing outside which Aisha never allowed them to do. So Aisha was living a lonely life after her husband's death. The maid who is coming to her house was her only relief.

One day our maid asked about this to aisha, 'why cant you go outside and mingle with the neighbours, the neighbours call her house a ghost house'. Our aisha never believed in ghost stories and she was only worried on her kids studies on priority. And more over when her husband married aisha and took her home, she had a post graduate degree in phsychology. She even wanted to do a reasearch on that, but she bounded by her family and the love of her husband. In fact it was huge loss for her when her husband passed away. While crying out loud that day, she took a decision to make her kids life beautiful as much as she will be able to do. She was kind of strict but she loved her kids, and might be a crack to the neighbors as her maid tells. And it was that day her kid had to search for admission in a medical college.

She actually was trying to do all the related preparation to do that as early as possible, she was going up in stairs..and that was the day she heard the first noise in that room. She used to lock that room, but she heard the sound of two kids playing around. He perfectly heard that sound, defenitly it was not the sound of her kids..he run to the door and sneaked through the key hole. She could saw the hands of a girl who was tryng to play piano, while another hand of kid dragged outside her sight through the keyhole. Our aisha rushed to her room to take the key of that room and came back to open the room. When she opened the room it was empty, dark and nothing was there to make a kid cheer. As nobody has entered in that room after she locked it after her husband's death, it was nothing except total dark in that room. She was bit afraid and worried as so many thoughts were going through her mind. And she was bit afraid as she heard the maid as there are ghosts in this house. But she never felt or never was fearful of a ghost till she heard this sound. She told this incident to her maid. She was also bit afraid and when time passed by..everybody forgot that incident. Our aisha was proceeding with her kids exams for her future stidies and the target date of examination was coming nearer. Then one day what happened is that by the evening time aisha was going to another room. Then in the slight darkness she saw at the end of corridor two people staring at her, one was smoking and the other one was discussing something to the other one. Aisha asked who you are..? and runned to that guy. But by the team aisha could reach the end of corridor, they were totally disappeard. She was afraid in darkness that night was feasted in front of her. She was afraid of every sound, she was afraid of dark and more and above she was afraid of her kids future. This time she was sure that there is ghost in this house. That night she couldnt sleep. She was crying in that lonliness, she was thinking of her husband and the lonliness he gave to her. She was in total fear and the anxiety over her kids future was another thing that she was always worried of. She wanted to get a priest to do some kind of excrcism. She did some study over her scintific thoughts. Though she was educated, how somebody can overule what she has seen with her eyes. She told to her maid that 'There are ghosts in this house and she need the help of a priest so that she can live in this house properly'. Maid promised her to look out for a priest and will make all arrangements at the earliest.

She was living in fear, as the day passed by she started hearning more noises and sound for which she never could find a reason except darkenss. She was afraid that she will get mad. She was crying for a help to the maid to get somebody who can help her. Maid at last got one name from her mother who was really good in doing the excorcism. Though her mother was not really aware whather he might be dead or alive though. But our aisha told her to bring that guy somehow. That night when she was teaching her kids, she heard a noise upstairs..when she was reaching to the room, she was hearing it better. She run to the room and she sneaked through the doors key hole. It was the two guys who she has seen on the corridor along with two kids. The kids hands were seen by aisha before she remembered. She went down to pick her kids in a fear and she took both of the kids to that door along with the key. She managed to put her kids on her back and then tried to open the door, she was also holding a knife and an old pistol what her husband had. But the door was not opening with the key what she had. She looked at the key number, yes it was the key. She tried pulling the door out, but it was not opening. It was locked from outside. She was feeling like her head twisting and the entire world is falling on her head. But she balanced her mind in sometime and came back to normalsituation. She wanted to escape somehow, she listened and sneaked through the window. The two guys were discsussing something, there was a light back of them, because of which she could see there face, but not the bottom parts. One was smoking the cigars and other guy was listening to him. He was talking about this house. As per him this house was so costly and very old and he was fascinated by the made of the house and sculptures it had inside. He wanted to make house in a good shape. He was telling he found ghosts in the house. The sombody was talking from the back, which our aisha couldnt see well. He was actually coming to the sight of key hole talking something. He was claiming that he can do excorism to make the house clean and to avoid any kind of ghosts. Then he was asking for few items, which our aisha was not able to understand. Our aisha was actually looking a perfect time to escape from them holding her kids back. The priest who was seen on the key hole was doing some magic kind of things and thrown some water to the keyhole. Aisha felt a bit of wet by that water as the priest done it through the key hole. Aisha wanted to listen to the rest of the things, she wanted to take care of her kids, she in fact wanted to look in the kitchen to see if everything is perfect to have their kids dinner. She wanted to do so many things, but she was not able to do anything. She was not even able to move from there. She has heard of some kind of holy water before, she knew that the priest thrown some kind of holy water over her. But she couldnt understand why the priest was not effacted by the holy water, while she was burning. Her kids started crying by the sound of some magical words that the priest was shouting outside the door. Our aisha was worried and she started crying loud. She wanted to escape, she wanted to live with her kids. Her kids were the only ones what she had. She was worried and she was angry. With all the energy what she had rest in her, she woke up and tried to open the door. It was not opening though, she cried, she hitted the door. Nothing was happening, she was becoming weak. Her kids were slept in sometime. Before going to sleep, she wanted to see her kids face once more. But she was not able to see anything except darkness.she was in another world, were only darkness were filled. She had no idea, how she moved out of own house. But she was so tired and she again went to sleep after few seconds of thought..and she started sleeping.