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"Thank you so much, Anju," I gave Anjali a quick hug when my phone started to ring with Mayank's name on it.
"Gotta go, bye," putting on my medium-sized heels from my room, I slipped the envelope from the nightstand that I was going to give my friend into my back pocket, I rushed down but not before accepting the call, "I'm so sorry Mayank! I am on my way. I will be there in fifteen minutes."
I knew it was impossible to reach there in fifteen minutes but I had to tell him a time to keep him calm. Poor guy was already dying of agitation, "Rynah pleaseyaar, don't do this to me. I can already feel my heart experiencing a seizure. I will die of hysteria here... Nothing is ready for the party yet! What should I do? Prerna will be disappointed with my preparations. Completely disappointed. And you aren't here yet..." I heard my name being called in the background but I was so engrossed in Mayank's rants that I didn't hear my mother call my name.
I rushed out of the house, still trying to comfort him, "Mayank, relax. I'll be there soon. And Prerna would be very happy."
I was almost jogging now when I heard the loudest barks ever. And turning to look at the source was my biggest mistake.
My eyes widened and my heart froze. On its own accord, my legs ran as fast as they could carry my body over the high heels, adrenaline rushed through my veins. Screaming like a Banshee when a huge street dog chased me down the road, barking wildly, I ran towards the only resort that was available to me.
The only gate slightly left open at the end of the road. At that time, I hadn’t noticed the empty watchman's cabin playing an important role in the path of changing my destiny.
Without thinking much, I pulled open the gate before pulling it shut behind me. My breathing was ragged, while relief was slowly seeping into me. I couldn't believe that I made it to my safe haven on my heels!
The barking of the dog continued on the other side of the gate, making me turn to face the gate and peep through what little space was present between the metallic design. It looked like an old dog, shedding its body hair and unfocused eyes. I was cent percent sure that it was a mad dog.
"Just go away will you!?!" I exclaimed, throwing my hands in the air, "Seriously, why does my day have to start this way?"
The ringing of my phone caught my attention.
As soon as I received it, Kush bombarded me with his questions, "where are you? Did the crazy dog chase you? Did you even see a dog? Did your mom warned you about it? I told her to warn you about it."
"oh, I was chased by it..." I mumbled pouting.
"What?" There was silence on the other side of the line for a while and I thought that he did not hear my reply but he proved me wrong when he started to laugh mercilessly. His laughing sound increased in volume, irritating me.
"Are you going to keep laughing at me like that? Or are you going to help me? I'm still trapped inside some mansion over here and that dog is still barking at me," I gave another glance at the dog as goosebumps crawled all over my skin.
"Did it bite you?"
"No, not yet."
"Then I am not going to endanger my life. My existence is precious, after all, I am one of a kind," I gave a flat look to no one in particular but hearing his words I so wanted to strangle him through the phone.
"Anyway, it will run away after a while. So chillax, and stay put in your place," was what he added when he felt my anger radiating through the communicating device.
Saying 'arrivederci', he ended the call. It was confirmed, he just wanted to have a good laugh at my expense.
"Kush! You idiotic fellow! Wait till I kick you to the moon and back!" I was angry and frustrated. Without another thought, I let out a frustrated scream but immediately stopped when I realized that I was at an unfamiliar place. Well, looking around it now just took my breath away. It wasn't a mansion, it looked like a modern-day castle instead. Aunt Lasika's house felt like a toy house before this one. The well maintained green lush of life, the exotic exterior design, the expensive artifacts, and fountains got me thinking if I by any chance died and went to heaven.
"Wait a minute, where am I really?" I wondered to myself. The silence in the atmosphere sent a chill down my spine. For the first time, I felt the power in the air that I had never felt before. Anyway, no matter how tempting the place looked, it was better if I got out of here as soon as possible. I didn't want to end up in jail on trespassing charges.
The dog had stopped barking, so I peeped through the gate again to see if it had already left me alone. Relief engulfed me when there wasn't any dog in the line of sight.
I cracked opened the gate and searched for it again only to find nothing.
It must have chased after something else...
Sighing out loud, I walked out of the gate, not without whipping my head constantly to see if the rabid dog would jump out of somewhere, before hailing for a cab that I seemed to have found by pure luck. I bet my whole year’s luck was maxed out by this incident. I couldn’t help but glance at the mansion behind one last time. It was 'the Raivardhan' mansion that Anjali stalked into every evening. The ones who live here must be super lucky ones.
Only if I knew this thought would come back haunting me real soon.
I thought that no one knew that I had stepped into the boundary of the Raivardhan mansion, the place which was off limits to any general public, except me as there was no one there to witness it. Not even the scary watchmen I had seen the previous day. But I was wrong. I was dead wrong.
What I didn't know was that there were three pairs of eyes watching my every single movement. From the time I walked through the gate, I might want to change that to‘run’through the gate like a mad lady till the time I walked out, I was being watched. And also heard. How embarrassing...
Only if I had known.
