Storieo

Author: Rohan Singh

  • Blue 

    *silence* Everything feels cold, I feel like I’m surrounded by something and I’m…..”WATER!!” A gush of panic takes hold of me letting my survival instincts take over me. I frantically kick my legs and flail my arms around to get to the surface. “Why am I breathing…”, I just notice the air bubbles rising from my nose. It’s a mayhem in my brain. There’s water all around me, and somehow…. SOMEHOW, I AM BREATHING UNDER WATER!

    My situation is a strange one right now, I am surrounded by water it feels like I am drowning in a giant ocean of some sorts, but am I really drowning? The last thing I remember was staring at my mail folder for the design requirements of the upcoming car, but my memory feels hazy after that.

    “I was starting AutoCAD and then my Soul asked whether I wanted a cold coffee.” “HUH?!” I screamed as a new fear implanted itself in my mind, my wife is she also trapped in this ocean? I look around trying to search for her but all I could was constant emptiness or rather the empty ocean. “This is strange”, there weren’t any fishes around, “What is this godforsaken world, where is Soull!!”

    While I am nervous about what’s going on around me and overthinking about the worst of situations, I heard a faint call following it my eyes wondered to the bottom of the ocean where I saw it. “Light?” it was sparkling so bright to be coming from the depths of ocean. “Maybe an underwater exploration vehicle”, I mustered up my hopes thinking that there maybe be a chance to find out what’s going on or rather optimistically “get rescued”, I muttered.

    It was really different, somehow, I felt attracted towards this light as I kept following it, swimming deeper and deeper and the light grew brighter and a smile escaped my lips as I reached out my hand towards it as if it was calling me to itself. “Good morning.…”, a bright flash enveloped me, it was then I looked at them those deep and black eyes of hers, my home. My Soul was cradling my head on her lap. “What were you doing”, she looks at me with her very old smile the one that captures my heart every time I encounter it. “I was……”, I paused and looked at her,”….drowning in your eyes.”

    “Oh stop with those cheesy lines.”, she giggled as I proceeded to hug her and let my exhaustion take over me again. “Time to sleep I guess”.

  • Breathe

    I took a deep breath as I realized, “I am being followed”, my adrenaline surged making my body boil, pumping blood furiously. “Just keep walking, just keep walking”, I fiddled my fingers through my phone reaching out for the SOS button. “Find a way, get lost somehow”, I searched through the dimly lit alley searching a miraculous portal to escape. Funny how I knew, exactly what was in store for me.

    His eyes were a darker shade of brown, somehow the glare they threw was enough to pierce through your heart. The first day I met him I approached him a faint little smile and the look he shot, “Damn…”, I muttered under my breath at the depth of that stare, “Calm down Aria, he’s just anti-social, I guess?”

    ……that brown shade…, it was him, little did I know, or maybe I did, the very day he looked at me. I reached for my pepper spray; thank God I am prepared for such situations. “Now get awa- “.

    ” Iron… ahh hurts….”, jumbled thoughts kept invading my mind as I tasted a not so strange sensation, “Blood…”, I came to my senses slowly as I whimpered through the searing pain all over my body. “A cut on my left hand, my jaw feels kind of dislocated… two teeth not present, clothes…”, I gasped, I was all naked, “abused me…”, I took a deep breathe and tears shed through my eyes, in sheer anger though, “Why me….”, I examined my body all bruised and battered sniffing through my gagged mouth. I was whipped across my back and burnt, he singed my leg with a hot pipe, I guess. “Ah…”, a cry left my throat as my little finger surged, “He took out my nail”, I started drifting off into nauseousness again but he came.

    A tight slap ran across my face making me jolt back to my senses. “Wake up princess”, I gulped at the smirk adoring his lips. “ Now say Good Morning back to me. “, he slipped away the gag from mouth and looked in expectation. “Aww, let me give you a little good morning kiss”, he leaned in on my neck and without a thought I plunged my mouth against his neck and sunk my teeth deep, taking a satisfied breath, as I saw the blood spatter from his Carotid artery. Surrendering to the pain,  I fainted as I saw his hand reach out.