Chapter 1: The Umbrella
17th June, 1952
7:00 AM..
It was an alarm's noise.
*beep beep beep*
Alarm was ringing. It was the early morning, 7 am. The regular morning. Regular day. And he could hear a women's shouting.
"Wake up"
It seems to be a women shouting for him to wake up, but he kept sleeping.
Alarm's noises intensifies, so did the "wake up" calls for him
*beep beep beep*
Wake up..
*beep beep beep*
WAKE UP!!
And it went silent for a moment. The calm moments before the storm.
......
And he gets slapped, three time with no interval.
*slaps 3x*
Followed by the loud questions, or angered voices.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?? ARE YOU NOT GOING TO THE SCHOOL?
WHAT ARE YOU? AN ANIMAL? GET UP NOW!
"YES MOTHER.. WAKING UP" Ishan responded to her mother.
Ishan's house had two floor, and his room was at the first floor. His mother, like usual morning, had to came to his room in order to wake him up.
"Get down quickly and do your breakfast and go to your school. IT'S ALREADY 7"
Ishan was a high-schooler. He kept pushing himself and became academically good. He was 4th in his class academically.
Apparently Ishan's school entry timing is 7:30 AM and after 7 45 you are not allowed to enter.
The day was sunny, joyful. He looked out from his window, looking at the pale, not too bright sky, as it was the early morning.
Ishan got down, and he greeted his mother.
"Morning mother..." while yawning
"Morning morning, now get dressed and finish your breakfast and get going" She says while working on the food, in the kitchen.
"Where is Teeshi? She is not to be seen anywhere" he asks his mother, as he couldn't find her younger sister, Teeshi anywhere, usually she would've been doing her breakfast by that time.
"She is not feeling good so she is just sleeping"
"Oh. Is she alright?"
"hmm. it's nothing serious, she is just having some fever. I've given her the meds so she could be fine by the noon"
"oh- ok." by that Ishan gets going, in order to bathe. And he finishes his chores at house.
Ishan, after finishing his breakfast now, gets going to the school.
Even though weather was clear, he picked up an black umbrella. It was an old style umbrella, a typical granpa type umbrella.
Apparently for him, that umbrella meant a lot and he takes it to school just in case it started raining, daily. In June? Don't ask me his thinking.
Anyways, with that, he leaves the home "I'm leaving!!"
As he was stepping out the house, a weird thing happened to him, the moment he stepped out the house, he felt a sharp pain in his neck and his neck started burning while he started to hear a 'noise', something along the 'white noise'
that one will hear in radio.
But, He didn't thought of it much because he was already getting late, and ran straight to the school. Because his mother is .... eh...
Let's say if she get any complains from the school, he is done for, haha.
Ishan was an above average student, in his final high school year, an active, extroverted guy.
As he got close to the school's 2nd entry gate, he heard a scream, he, looking for the voice's origin, he started looking surrounding. And he hears,
"HEY... RETARD, WAIT FOR ME"
It was his best friend, named Arik.
- TBC