New year - part 5 - IS EVERYTHING OKAY?

I used to live a normal life with my family friends and all the people I love. Those days were full of joy, happiness and hope. Yeah, it's true that I was a man with a lot of future plans, was the one who had a bright mind. But that man has made everything inverse. That light and sound fetched me an impossible fate. Brought me to an impossible world where I am the only owner of the entire earth but have nothing to speak of. It conquered my life, belongings, family, friends and all including my hope and desire to live. Not thought about his appearance again. But it happened. Happened yesterday again in the same way it did. He came again followed by the same harsh sound and intense flash of light which at last made me blind thereby to the state of unconsciousness. I still couldn't able to win him or have a word. I am sure that I am in front of him, the ruthless hell opener, a powerless and helpless fellow who is entreating for his life to come back. I awarded him the award of best villain in my life. I still don't know these things happening are real or just my mind, don't know what happened and what will happen but I am sure that I hate that man the most. And only hating is what I can do. Just going with the flow of destiny is my destiny!

I opened my eyes, saw the rising yellow on my window plane, felt the cold, breathed the air but not heard the alarm. The alarm, which is produced by mom and which had the duty of waking me up for a few days. I frowned thinking about the difference. Actually then I got my complete consciousness. My bed is no longer a stony one! It is as smooth and soft as I have been desiring for almost five days. I couldn't able to believe it. I stood up fast and tried to pick the pen on my table. Again it shook me. 

I can now pick a pen! 

Something I don't know how to say has started spreading in my mind. I know only that it is far more than happiness. My eyes started doing the same course of action they often do to get me some relaxation from the pains.

Am I in my real life?

My shivering voice echoed all around the room announcing my return. I couldn't stop, so I ran to the kitchen to check mom.

As I entered the kitchen I saw her doing the cleaning work with greater enthusiasm. I called her from the back in a dry sound. I saw her shocking and turning to me at the same time. I was shocked too. I saw the tears in my eyes in her eyes. She is crying and coming towards me for embracing. I too reflected on her. It was a sweet-bitter experience of life which a fierce amount of people gets. My eyedrops travelled all the distance of my cheeks and fell on her head. She turned her head up and started asking with a slow hissing sound :

"Where were you, dear Oliver?"

Wiping the path of my eyedrops with the shoulder, I uttered as a reply:

"I was in somewhere impossible mom. We will talk about it later."

Mom continued hesitantly increasing her emotions two times more :

"Do you know how scared I was for the past two years on thinking about you?"

That words sprouted out a new mystery on my mind.

Oliver: "What do you mean by two years, mom!"

Mom: "Don't you know, it's gonna be two years by tomorrow, the new year day, since you have been missed"

Darkness again conquered me. I went and looked at the calendar. That was too painful. I lost my past two years somehow within a few days. Today is 31st December of 2023 which means mom was right!

I yelled out in a scary voice breaking that silence:

"What the hell!"

Mom stay back in a startled face and asked what happened. But I can't able to say anything unless yelling, again and again, the word mom with bettering the sound. Mom was being scared. I could able to read that fear from her face. She called, again and again, my name. I suddenly went nearer to her and said with opening my eyes the utmost I can and clutching my teeth:

"That was him, that was him, I know! I know... He ruined my years, my life. No no no, our lives!"

I pursued crying with my hurting heart saying again and again "mom!". I am again being a psycho. It is better to say that the situation is making me be so. Frightened mom made a call somewhere, to someone. I don't know who was and did not memorise what she said because I was busy shouting, laughing, and crying one by one.

Moments later, some neighbours started rushing to my house to control me but I ran out of the house and continued running with no aim and hope as well as no control over myself.

I reached my office because I have to see Alice. With crazy behaviour, I entered the main entrance of the office. I saw my co-workers, sir and all gazing at me in another manner. If I am correct they have gotten the news of what happened at my home, with me and my mom. They gathered around me saying calm down. But, instead, their murmuring sounds made me angrier and violent. I shouted out:

"Where is my Alice?"

I smelled her out. At a nook of the gathered crowd, watching me with a scary face which is exactly the same mom had today morning. I ran to her with loud noise and reached near to her throwing the people on my way away. As I reached her, I asked that frightened woman in a calm and gentle voice :

"Alice, what you were supposed to say to me that day. On 1st January 2022 at the Cups coffee shop"

I got no result unless the sound of my heavy breathing and the heartbeat of the feared Alice. So my next voice became loud and with unmeasurable rage:

"Say to me!"

She started silent crying with the flow of tiny drops of water from her admirable rounded eyes. Then I calm again down :

"Oh baby girl, don't cry, I am not gonna hurt you but you have to reply to me, would you?"

Again I got not what I wanted to hear. Her weeping was the only thing making the situation, not silence. Thus, the intensity of my rage considerably increased.

"Would you, you bloody..."

It happened before I complete that line, something small but painful substance stabbed up on my back and soon I fell asleep.

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