Trickster

On one bright sunny day, I got a call from my old friend, Avni, she is very close friend of mine, but due to our busy schedule, we stopped interacting with each other, though it was always nice to hear from your bestie, and I excitedly received her call.

Hi Avni, how are you, wats going up? She equally got excited on listening my voice and said, Hi dear. I am good, you tell, she wanted to meet me, so we made plan to meet, the next day in the afternoon.

I scheduled my day accordingly, and went to meet her, as decided on our yesterday's call, it was in Café Coffee Day, we hugged each other and then we memorize those old days, when we used to spent hours gossiping, roaming and shopping...

I noticed, she was quiet, and started gazing outside the door of CCD, as if she was waiting for someone, I intervallic her thoughts and wanted to know why she is not herself...

Hey Avni, what happened, I asked her, she looked at me very openly and said she was talking to someone, on internet, who lives outside India and they were in touch with each other since, one month or so, and now he is fascinating her to accept gifts, which are relatively expensive, and soon he will going to dispatch these to her.

I kept silent for few seconds, and then, I asked her, but what is the concern and why you are upset and most importantly what you want me, to do!

She kept herself in pause mode, her silence put courage in me to say, “Are you serious”, how can a guy in one month, can send you so many gifts?

Her mouth jittered, she then told me the fear of whole incident, it was regarding receiving of gifts, which she can only get, once she'll pay the shipment charges of 10,000 Rs., which her boyfriend has assured to send that in the same courier box, but that will be in dollars, and the challenge of converting those currencies in Rupees, is bothering her the most.

It was then, the thought of trickster came to my mind, I told her not to receive any courier and I requested her to tell that guy, that she doesn’t want gifts. I watched her a while, she was quiet.

But later, she agreed and insisted me to meet again tomorrow. I agreed and grabbed my bag from the back of my chair, and I left.

On my way back home, I was thinking, how can this be even possible, that someone who lives too far and didn’t even know my friend appropriately, can send gifts, I raised my eyebrow, usually my style of overthinking, it is impossible in this real world.

Next day to my surprise, my friend called me in the afternoon and started laughing, I asked her what happened, is she ok? She said, that I was right and I saved her, that guy already dispatched those gifts with the courier person, who called her and asked for money against that parcel, she firmly denied and asked him not to call her again, but he was continuously insisting her to receive the parcel and give him money, she got angry and then she threatened the courier boy, by saying, she will call the police now, with this, he got scared and requested her not to do that, since someone asked him to do this and this is their only source of earning money, with such frauds. And of course, this is not the end…

“Umm, wow, “I breathed. We both laughed a lot, then I thank God, that he saved my friend.

Later a thought came to my mind that, when the Lord gives you his spirit, he provides a power to change circumstances, and after all “All's Well That Ends Well”.

Next day, It was 2 in the morning, and my doorbell rang, though I was awake at that time, working on my novel, I got up in shock, and started wondering if it was my misconception, I was sitting in the same spot for quite long and was waiting for it to ring again, after few seconds, it again rang..

Oh my gosh, I got up from bed in fear this time, I want to go and check, but it was raining outside, lightning and thunder scared me more. I somehow gathered some courage and went outside; I used my door's peephole to look outside.

But I couldn't able to see anyone this time, again doorbell rang, I feel anxious and stressed, my brain floods my nervous system with hormones and chemicals. It was that time, when I wanted to shout for help, but I couldn't able to, also no one was there outside.

At that time, I need someone who can keep up with me, I want someone who pushes me to my breaking point, where I just want to scream. After few minutes of staring at door, when nothing happened, I decided to close my work on novel and then I went for sleep, though it took me almost half an hour to feel sleepy.

Next morning, I woke up at 9 am, it was late from my usual time. I got up fast, and, while going to the washroom, got a call from the security guard, he told me that I have got some problem with my door bell, since it is ringing on its own due to some technical fault, and he has already called someone to fix it.

I laughed so hard and thanked God. Later, realized mind is a mysterious and vague thing, which is created by the brain, though it can operate with some independence from the brain. In fact, the mind can change the brain and same happened last night with me, it created monsters and ghosts inside my mind, who won.

This will not be the ending, now not just day, shall be loved, but night too shall be considered beautiful and all its fear will be gone!