Someone is trying to kill me. I escaped from them and reached one place. That place was completely dark and I could hear strange sounds.
Ignoring those sounds, I started walking forward. Suddenly, I felt someone place their hand on my shoulder from behind.
With fear, I quickly turned back, but no one was there. I continued walking and saw a room. When I opened the door of that room, I suddenly woke up. It was just a dream.
By the way, I haven’t told you who I am.
My name is Shiva. I’m a computer engineer. Except the spelling of the word “computer,” I don't know anything about computers.
I studied engineering just because I needed a degree. Every night when I sleep, I definitely get some weird dreams.
I searched on the internet “Why do we get dreams?”
Some random people said and from some articles I learned:
"When we cannot do the things we want to do, that pain stays in our mind and heart. Our attention and thoughts stay on those things, so they appear in dreams."
Many people said many things, but I didn’t understand what to believe.
Even though I studied engineering, Earlier I used to roam around with friends, doing nothing. Eating, sleeping, roaming that was my life.
But one day, because of a small fight, I ended up at the police station. I called my friends and relatives for help, but no one helped. Finally, I called a lawyer I knew and somehow got out from case.
That day, I understood when you are in trouble, the people you trust won’t stand by you.
After that, I started working in a small company, staying away from everyone, living close to my own life.
Like every day, today also I left for the office and waited at the bus stop. Suddenly, an old man came and asked, "Hey boy, how are you?"
I was shocked,"Who are you? Do I know you?" I asked.
He said, "You are Suri’s son, right?"
I told him, "I don’t have parents. I’m an orphan. My name is Shiva."
But the old man kept looking at me and said, "No, you ARE Suri’s son."
I said no again and walked away.
That night, I had the same dream someone trying to kill me, me running into a dark place.
I ignored it. It’s just a dream, I thought.
But next day on the way to office, some people actually started chasing me to kill me. I ran from them and met with an accident. People around called an ambulance.
When I opened my eyes, I was in the hospital. After a week, I returned home. I went to the police station to file a complaint.
The inspector looked at me and said, “What Kailash, why are you here?”
I said, “Sir, my name is Shiva, not Kailash. Someone tried to kill me.”
The inspector asked, “Your father is Suri, right?”
“No sir, I’m an orphan,” I said.
Then the inspector told me to file a complaint and leave.
But after reaching home, I remembered that the old man at the bus stop also said the same that I was Suri’s son.
I immediately went back to the police station and asked the inspector, “Who is Suri?”
The inspector said:
“Suri is from my village. Everyone knows him.
But last year he died from an electric shock in his field.
He had only one son Kailash.
Kailash finished engineering and working in Hyderabad.
I went to Suri funeral there I saw Kailash. Kailash looks exactly like you.”
I asked, “Do you know where Kailash stays in Hyderabad?”
Inspector said "I don't know, I have Suri’s brother-in-law let me call to him"
Inspector called and enquired about Kailash.
“Kailash works at Google and stays in Kukatpally,” he said.
I asked for the Kailash number, I took it and left for Hyderabad to meet Kailash.
I reached Hyderabad, took a room in a hotel, and slept.
At midnight, I suddenly woke up.
When I opened my eyes, I saw myself standing in front of me. I got scared. I went closer thinking it was a mirror but it wasn’t.
That person who looked exactly like me said, “I am Kailash.”
When I tried to touch him, my hand passed through him. I realized he was a spirit.
I asked, “What happened to you? How did you die?”
Kailash said:
“My mother died long back. My father Suri raised me alone.
I studied hard and got a job in Google.
Last year, when my father died, I left property everything to my uncle and returned to Hyderabad.
In college, I loved a girl named Prathyaksha. We studied together and later worked in the same office.
Six months ago, I went to a pub for my friend’s birthday party. It got late. I went to the cellar to take my car.
There, I saw someone murdering a man. I secretly recorded it on my phone.
But they saw me and chased me. I escaped from them and went to office next day, copied the video to my office computer, later I went to the police station.
After giving the complaint at the police station, I was returning to my room. On the way, the men of the person who committed the murder kidnapped me and took me to their hideout.
After reaching there, I came to know that the inspector was also their man. They broke the phone that had the video in front of me and killed me too.
At that moment, to protect the truth, I became a spirit. For the past six months, I have been watching and learning about all the crimes he committed.
I have been waiting for just one chance to make sure he gets punished.
He has a rice mill in Guntur. Using that rice mill as a cover, he is producing illegal drugs and exporting them to foreign countries, hotels, and pubs.
In Guntur, I saw you. I was shocked… you look exactly like me.
To my question “Even after killing me, how can I make sure he gets punished?”, the answer appeared in the form of you.
I had to somehow bring you to Hyderabad.
“I am the one who made you get a dream that someone was trying to kill you. I made the old man at the bus stop talk to you like that. I sent men to attack you so you would go to the police station. You learned about me, and then you came to Hyderabad,” Kailash said, revealing how he became a spirit.
I told Kailash, “You are struggling so much to protect the truth. Whatever help you need, I will do it, Kailash, “I’ll help you. Tell me what to do.”
He said, “Go to my office tomorrow. Take the video from my computer. I collected all evidence of his crimes.
Give everything to the Governor. He deserves punishment, not death. He should live with the guilt.”
The next day, I went to Kailash’s office. I took the video, and as we were coming out, Kailash suddenly stopped after seeing Prathyaksha standing there in pain.
I told Kailash, “I will go and tell Prathyaksha the truth.”
But Kailash said, “She should not know the truth now. First, that man who killed me must be punished. After that, you must marry Prathyaksha.
I have seen you. I know what kind of person you are and how you became alone in life. You are a better match for Prathyaksha than me.
If these two wishes of mine are fulfilled, I will happily leave this world.”
As Kailash said, I prepared everything the video, the proofs of his crimes, and the details of his illegal properties. Then I took the Governor’s appointment, met the Governor, told him the truth, and gave all the collected evidence.
Just like Kailash wanted, the man was punished and Kailash dream was full filled and he's sprit left from the world.
After that, as Kailash wished, I married Prathyaksha.
After our marriage, the feeling that I was cheating Prathyaksha kept hurting me like a question in my mind.
Unable to bear it anymore, I told her the truth that Kailash was no longer alive and I am Shiva.
After I told her the truth… Prathyaksha told me the real truth.
Prathyaksha said:
“It wasn’t someone else who killed Kailash… it was my father.
In the pub, I saw my father kill someone. I was the one who recorded the video.
To protect me, Kailash made himself visible to my father’s men so that they would chase him instead of me.
Later, I gave the video to Kailash… but unfortunately, I lost him.
After that, I couldn’t forget Kailash. Knowing that my father killed him, I suffered every day and couldn’t do anything.
One day, Kailash appeared to me. He told me that my father must be punished somehow.
From that day, I used to tell Kailash everything about the crimes my father had done.
One day Kailash spoke to me about you. He told me to marry you. At first, I didn’t agree, but Kailash convinced me.
Shiva, I married you for Kailash… but the care and love you showed me made me fall in love with you.
I love you, Shiva.
Wherever Kailash is now, he must be happy,” Prathyaksha told me the whole truth.
A year later, we were blessed with a baby boy.
Life is moving happily now.
The End...
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