Day 11 negative

It happened

“What did I see?”

“Everything was so burry. My dreams are getting foggier day by day.”

“Tree…. Yeah…… There was a tree. It was getting removed.”

“That tree looked oddly like Vayu. Don’t tell me. Vayu will get cut down!”

“No no, that can’t be. My dream only shows harm to humans.”

“Yeah. I might be misremembering things. No way Vayu could get removed.”

“But, what if what I saw is true. I can’t wait to find out. I must go to see it for myself and do my best to stop it.”

“Before that, I think I should inform Yoru. No, I might not have enough time for that. I must go immediately.”

I chose to change my clothes and get ready as quickly as possible. There’s no time to eat or take a bath.

“Maa, I might be back late. Maa? She not home. I don’t have time to wait. I must hurry. I’ll text her later.”

I never has much stamina but I didn’t have time to worry. I sprinted with all the energy I had without a care for anyone other than Vayu.

“(VAYU!)” I screamed internally the moment I reach there.

But I was the same as always. Nothing changed. Maybe, just maybe, what I saw was wrong. No that can’t be. Maybe I am early. Yeah, that should be it.

“I should text my mother while I wait.”

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An hour after Dhwaj left

“Hey, Shiroy-kun. Come out.”

“Oh, It’s Yoru. I’m sorry but Dhwaj is out somewhere and he didn’t tell me where he’d be. All he said was that he might come home late.” Miss Shiroy said

“Shiroy-kun, out, without calling for me. Its……. strange.”

“Maybe it’s something serious. I should go look for him. As his only friend, it’s my duty.”

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I wait under the shades of Vayu. Simply waiting for what I saw to be realised, just so that I could at least try to stop what was about to come.

My mind filled with thoughts, my legs shaking like crazy, I was in a complete state of anxiety.

“So, what is it this time?” a voice whispered to me. “Is it more important than me?”

It was the voice of my deceased cousin. Ever since the incident that happened after her death, I happened to hear and see her every time any incident having connection to my dreams puts me in anxiety.

“Come on now. I know you can hear me. Stop ignoring me.”

“So, what did you ask me again?”

“To stop ignoring me?”

“No, before that.”

“Oh, I was asking about what made you so tensed this time?”

“It’s this tree. His name is Vayu.”

“So, is it more important than me?”

“Maybe, maybe not.”

“That’s not an option. I need a clear choice.”

“Well let me think.”

I always wondered if she is a spirit, or a fragment of my imagination. I mean, do spirits really exist?

“So, tell me, what’s your answer?”

“Oh that, I mean, you’re already dead, and Vayu’s still alive—”

“You don’t have to rub it in you know.”

“But, that’s the truth you know.”

“Let’s change the topic. I’m hurt.”

“Okay okay.”

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“Do you remember what you did on 4th July?”

“What do you mean? Today is 4th July.”

“Just check it. Today’s 5th.”

“So, what happened yesterday? I can’t remember anything. Do I, have, DEMENTIA.”

“That’s not the case.”

“So what is the case? And how do you about this case you talk about?”

“For the answer of your first question, you were experiencing side effects of your dreams, and if I tell you properly, you have been for a long time.” “And for your second question, I have told you long ago that I am always besides you. Except times of privacy. So you don’t have to worry about that.”

“That’s a relief I guess.”

“You don’t have to worry about anything, my Onii-chan.”

Hearing that, I feel sick. I would’ve vomited if I didn’t hold my mouth.

“Don’t say that, and, how do you even know Japanese?!”

“I just told you, I’m always besides you, so it would be obvious that I would learn it. And I always wanted to say it.”

“If you wanted to say it so badly, you could’ve just used Ani-ue or something. It would’ve been less uncomfortable.”

“Okay, I understand. Next time I’ll say what you suggested all right.”

“Now that’s over, kindly make me recall about yesterday. And sit down while you’re at it, seeing you float is starting to make me feel worse.”

“Okay, so let Sonia’s reminding lesson begin.”

She then immediately started blabbering about everything about yesterday in absolute detail. If she wasn’t dead, I would’ve definitely called her a stalker.

Let me summarize what she said. So, it’s like this. Yesterday, the people from the badminton club of his high school came to Yoru’s home to request his help in management. It was the summer break for them. And the badminton club had requested to practise or something during their break for 2 weeks and yesterday they need extra hands. So, Yoru forced me to tag along.

After helping the members of badminton club, we chose to play a bit. Initially, the members were against me helping on the first place but they still took the extra hand as it would help. The reason they didn’t like me was because I didn’t go to high school, which would immediately make me a degenerate. After the help, they didn’t mind me getting involved. We played our first game as doubles. Yoru and me together against other members of course. Yoru did most of the work, so I got to let loose.

After the match, the cocky team captain chose to play against me in singles. Losing doubles 21-4 is humiliating huh. Anyways I accepted, he thought I was an easy prey because I barely did anything in the doubles. As you might’ve already guessed, just like any other sports anime protagonist, I destroyed that pile of trash 21-1. After all I’m the self-proclaimed ‘field changer’ of my previous middle school. And it seems like that cocky captain actually heard of me before. I didn’t know I had a reputation for being terrifying. And a lot of conversation happened, we came home and that was it. Nothing special.

“Do you have anything left?”

“Not as much as I remember.”

“Okay”

“That’s it?”

“I mean, yeah”

“No compliments for your amazing sister?”

“I guess you deserve some compliments for all you remember.” “Okay, you did a good job.”

“Tee-hee.”

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“Hey, look at the time. It’s already evening” Sonia reminded me of the time.

“Yeah, you’re right. Seems like what I saw was not true. Nooo no no no, that’s impossible. Maybe, what I saw will happen in the future. Yeah, that’s the case for sure.”

“Probably.”

“I FOUND YOU!! It should’ve been obvious where you would be. I wasted my time searching around the neighbourhood for nothing.”

“Yoru?!”

“Yeah, it’s me alright.” “But the important part is, why are you here suddenly.”

“Just felt like it.”

“don’t try to hide anything from me.”

I explain my reason why I hurried my way here and got a bit of a scolding from him. It’s actually quite rare for him to scold me. Generally, it’s the other way around.

“He’s Yoru right?”

“Yeah, I think you should know it already since you’re always around me.”

“Just confirming, nothing else.”

“Huh, who’re you talking to?” Yoru spoke

“Oh, just my deceased cousin, the one I seem to be able to see and hear when I’m anxious. I think I told you about her before”

“Hi, Shiroy-kun’s cousin. Can you hear me? It’s nice to meet you.”

“Tell him to call me by my name. Ani-ue”

“She’s telling you to call her by her name. It’s Sonia by the way.” “And you! Please, I request of you to not call me that, it’s better that before, but it’s still uncomfortable.”

Then both of them started having a conversation for what it felt like a week which was actually just 15 minutes. And we went home. The End (of the day).

Memory Lane

My parents adopted Sonia after her parents died in an accident when she was 5. She was hated by the rest of our relatives thinking she was the reason behind their deaths. I was 6 at that time. She was just a child when it all happened. There was nothing she could’ve done to save them. Yet, those adults have the audacity to say that she was the reason behind their deaths. My parents were already disliked by a lot of our relatives because they managed to be better than them. They didn’t know the sheer struggle my father had to face so that he could study in Japan. I heard from my grandfather that my grandmother passed away while he was studying in Japan. And, since it was expensive to take a trip from Japan to India, he couldn’t even come to see grandmother for a final time. According to my mother, father was crying for an entire week. Not, because grandmother passed away, but because he couldn’t say a final farewell to her. He constantly heard scones form his relatives during the entire of study in Japan, but even after he returned. If he hadn’t met mother during those times, he would’ve been broken, shattered to pieces. He luckily had a younger brother who took care of the rites in place of him. And his daughter is Sonia. Both my parents knew how hard it is to not being able to do anything even after you lost your loved ones.

The relatives who once disliked father, now started harassing him. Saying things like his bloodline is cursed, or that he’s the reason behind the death of grandmother. Of course, not all relatives were terrible, 2 of our maternal relatives were kind, but the rest were like that of my paternal relatives. He protected both me and Sonia from all those scones, all those terrible things and much more I can’t recall.

Years went by, grandfather passed away, we shifted to the hilly state of Himachal Pradesh, far from our relatives. Sonia became 9 and next month I was going to be 10. We were pretty close, no one in our tiny family saw her as adopted. I vowed to protect this happiness of my dear sister. But, as you already know, I couldn’t protect her. Even though she was just a child like me, she didn’t cry from the pain during her dying moments, she smiled at me and said that my vow will remain true if she died with a smile. Tears were flowing to my eyes, to prevent her from seeing that, I turned around saying I had to go to the bathroom. And cried a lot after that. I used to think that only the weak cry, and it just proved my point. I was weak.

After that you already know what happened, but let me add some in-betweens. After Sonia died, my relatives laughed, saying that what they said was true and that it’s better that she died, one disgrace gone. My father had to hear all that, at every moment, it were me, I would’ve broken down ages ago.

To be fair, now that I think about it, all I have now is just admiration for my dear sister.