There was a room at the end of the book shelves in the Library, where I got my part time job. A room full of mysteries, and a board in front of the door ;
'DO NOT ENTER!'
Even the library head set the rules that no one could enter that room. A warning ⚠ for me, but it led my curiosity run wild.
So my impulse made me open the door. Dark as it was, I couldn't see anything from outside. And, so I entered. I entered inside the mysterious room. My instinct warned for one last time,
'No! Don't do that! '
'It can be dangerous! '
But my curiosity led me inside, and I realized that I made a huge mistake. A mistake that can't be unturned or unchanged. Suddenly, The door got locked. The only light that was coming from the opened door also vanished. And then I started to panic.
'What!!? What's just happened? '
'How can the door be closed by itself?'
And then little by little fear came inside me to reside.
'What am I gonna do now?'
I promptly ran towards the door, or was I?
It was so dark, and I couldn't see a single thing. But due to the situation I was in, my sensitivity to feel things increased rapidly. I tried searching for the door with my hand moving all over the place.
'oh, yes!' I got to hold of the door knob after many tries and struggles.
'Oh dear!' But it was locked from outside.
I shouted from inside;
"HELP!",
"Is anybody outside?"
'Oh, no! What's happening? Why can't I hear my own voice?'
I tried calling again ;
"Hello! Is anyone there outside??"
'What the heck is happening? If I can't even hear my own voice, then how can people outside can hear? '
I touched my vocal cords.
"aaaaa.... aaaaaa....aaaaaa.....haah!!haah!!haah!!"
I started panting heavily after so much shouting, and I sat down. Then I stopped. I could feel my vocal cords moving.
' Thank goodness! That means there is no problem with my voice... '
But I got scared. And My unheard shoutings turned into cries and my unheard cries turned the form of sobbing. Then I got exhausted and stopped. This took a while me.
'No! I can't do anything just from sobbing! I have to do something to get out of here.'
I got all my of my thoughts back together and slapped both my sides of my face to wake all my senses. It was so dark to see anything, nonetheless to perceive. After sometime, I regained some strength. I stood up and tried touching what I could.
A long time passed by, and my mind blanked out too. But a small Ray of hope was still there. A hope to get out of this darkness and this mysterious place. With a ray of hope in mind, I began searching my Pandora's Box of light.
Sometimes I bump into something hard, but when I tried touching it I couldn't find anything. Sometimes I fell down. I could feel the pain but could not see anything. But I kept trying.
Like a blind man, only depending on the sense to touch to understand something, I kept waving both my hands all around for a long time. I tried to move as much as possible by counting steps and some sense of direction in my mind. But I could not get to touch any wall. I wondered, why? Still I continued my blind search with the little amount of hope.
'Oh! I felt something hard.
What is it? A box? A trunk?'
I moved my hands all over it to find its handle.
'Oh! I found the handle.'
But suddenly my wary mind warned me about it.
Then I thought 'This is already bad. If something more worse is gonna happen, then I can't help it. Anyways let's hope for the good and be positive. '
With this thought and my fingers crossed, I tried to open the box. But it got stuck somewhere. With the darkness all around me I struggled to open it with all my strength. And then with all my hopes going down, at last I opened the box.
'WOW! what is this?'
As I opened the box;
wssshhh...... pppp..... bang!!!
"Huff!!... Hufff!! ... Hufff...!! "
"What just happened??!!"
"Where am I?"
I looked around and found myself inside my room.
'What the hell is going around? Wasn't I just inside a dark room. And I can even hear my voice. '
"aaaa...aaaa..."
'But wait a minute!! Something seems off!!'
I got up off my bed and looked in the mirror. Then I looked at the calendar and checked the year. "kyaaaaaa.......!!"
I was shocked and I freaked out. It's 2012. That means I became the 14 year old me.
'What just happened? How is it even possible?'
I got confused.
Then I heard my Mother’s voice who was knocking the door very loudly.
"What happened? Why did you shout? Open the door!"
I didn't know what to do. But my mother demanded me to open the door. So I got towards the door and cleared my voice, and then opened the door.
"Ahem... Hmm... Nothing happened Mom. I just had a nightmare."
Well it was really a nightmare. But I knew I could not say that.
"oh! Don't worry! Don't get scared!"
Them she gave me a big hug.
"If you want you can sleep with me and your Dad. "
But I kinda rejected that offer as I was totally confused to take any decisions then.
"No Mom it's okay. I'm okay now. You can go back to sleep. And sorry for waking you up. "
"Why are you saying like that? Anyways if you have any problems, call me or your Dad at once. OK?"
"OK! Alright! So, now again good night!"
"Good night!"
Then I closed the door. And then I lied on my bed and I got lost in my thoughts.
'So, that means I got swept inside that box like thing and I came back in time. I mean I was 22 years old just 5 minutes ago, and now I am back to my 14 years old self. Then was that box a time machine or what?'
'Hmmmm.... That makes some sense. But it is also some kind of non sensical logic. So what is it? '
That night I didn't get any sleep.
'So what was that? Is this some kind dream? Or was that some kind of dream. '
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I hope everybody like this story. Since I myself want to know where could I progress this story, so I am thinking of continuing it as a novel.
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