"Why should not I? What is the problem in believing in those matters?"

"My god! Williams. Those matters are not in existence at all. They are just the creation by the sick imaginations of some people."

"I never do agree with it like that. You don't know about these matters Ola. So you are talking like that."

Viola hissed out heavily and said. "I know about those and in fact I researched on them. Those things are never in existence. I know how and why they have taken birth also. People want to get things in shortcuts. So they created things like these."

"Alright I agree." Williams nodded his head. "People want to get things through shortcuts and for that they created black magic, voodoo like things. But if they don't work, how and why they do follow and practice them? They may be created by people but they work also."

"People who follow those black magic, voodoo etc. put efforts also to get the things done but think they got them only because of this black magic etc."

Viola's explanation is not agreeable to me and I am seeing the same expression on Williams too. "I don't agree with you on this Ola. If they want to put effort also why they do follow these black magic, etc?" I said.

"But that is what actually happens." Viola said "Following these black magic, voodoo etc. give those people new enthusiasm to do whatever they are doing. As it is so most of the times they achieve what they want."

"One thing Ola." Now I am saying loudly. "These black magic, Voodoo, etc. are used mostly to do harm to other people. What do you say to this then?"

"That is what I am asking. Why this young man is showing interest in such things which would be used to do harm to other people." I am feeling surprise in Viola's turning the matter like that. She has realized that she is beaten off.

"No. These things are not used only to do harm to other people." Williams defensively said. He is surely not liking Viola's invading like that on him.

"Then tell me how they are useful to us?" Viola challengingly asked him.

Why all this? I am bewildering seeing all that. What happens suddenly to Viola? Why this turn? She may be in love with Williams but invading on him certainly would not be helpful. I am thinking it is the time to drag back Viola from what she is doing and just waiting for an opportunity.

"I cannot explain all that to you now and you are so narrow minded."

"You are saying I am narrow minded?" anger is mounting in Viola.

"Enough Viola." I am talking firmly. "Why you are doing all this I cannot understand. There is no necessity to him to explain all this to us."

"But Dazzle...." Moving her hands Viola is trying to say something to me.

"Just shut up and stop here." I am feeling bad as I never have expressed my anger like that on Viola.

"Its alright Dazzle." Now there is a smile on the lips of Williams. "As she said we both grown together and she is a good friend to me. But it is rather sudden and I am completely unprepared. I sure do explain to you both what I am doing and what type of benefits we can get from these black magic, voodoo etc. sometime later."

"Especially to Viola." I am saying. "I don't know why but she is very much interested in knowing what you are doing."

Now there is surprise on the face of Williams and I turned my face to Viola and started looking into that. There is a twinkle in her eyes and smile on her lips. I turned my face and looked at Williams. There is a smile on his lips also this time. It seems that they both understood something without explicit about it. I also understood that strongly.

***

Now I am in the room of my dad and I am not feeling comfortable and convenient. After my dad's death I got it locked and could not open it and enter into it often. I still can remember how many times I entered into my dad's room and have pleasant discussions with him. How intimate we both used to be! It is not surprising that a dad and daughter being intimate like that but I always think the relationship between my dad and me is peculiar and special. Our dad is a special dad to me. He always gave more importance to me than the businesses and I know it was all because that I have lost my mother in my very childhood itself. I am still feeling very much surprise how my dad remained unmarried all those years. He was that much rich, handsome, educated and he can have any type of woman he wanted. But dad never even thought about another woman until his death. If he had any connection with any other woman other than mom, I could know about that and I am confident about that.

Different types of feelings are engulfing me while I am going through the effects of my dad in his room. The thing what my dad so desperately wanted to discuss with me is making me mad. Only with the hope that I may get some clue about that I entered into the room of my dad again. The things that my dad used at one time are creating a sort of uneasiness in me. They are reminding me strongly that my dad is not there to use those anymore.

Now I am looking into the one of the cupboards in my dad's room and there is the diary he used to write. My dad is not a regular writer of the diary. I have already gone through that diary for once and I could not come to know anything useful so far in it. The matters he wrote in them are mostly related to our businesses and those too are not very important. My dad very well knew that it is dangerous to put important matters in diary especially those related to business.

I am looking into the diary again. I am reading the paragraphs I have already read with a hope that I may find something new which I could not find earlier. While I am reading like that suddenly I stopped at one page. It is the very last page in the diary. How could I miss that page previously I cannot understand! It is the very last thing that dad wrote in that diary. It is really very much surprising that I missed it last time. My eyes are now devouring the words there.

"I don't know...I don't know ...whether Dazzle believes it or not.....I myself cannot believe this at all.....my god....how it has been turned out like this!..... is this all true? Or am I just imagining? How much I am wishing that it is all my imagination. But it cannot be. Dazzle's life is in danger. Death is dancing around her. It is really difficult to convince Dazzle about this ....I know Dazzle does not believe this at all.....I myself who is the witness of it cannot believe it....then how does Dazzle believe it....I want to write all this here....Dazzle reads this and know about it....But Dazzle does not believe it....I cannot convince Dazzle to believe it...Anyhow I try to write it here."

My heart beat is increasing and I have got a reeling sensation. My dad wrote this all just before his death!

"But I am feeling this damned heart ache again....I just cannot escape from it....I am not able even to hold the pen with my hand." Here dad's writing is just scrawls making it quite difficult to understand. I can understand that he was suffering terrible heartache while he was writing like this.

"Dazzle darling. Pardon me. I cannot write anymore. I cannot concentrate on that. You promised to me to come here as fast as possible. But I am not expecting to live that long. Bye Dazzle....Good bye forever." Here the writing is very difficult to understand. By this it can be known how much my dad suffered to write that.

Tears are flowing down on my cheeks. My dad suffered hell while writing those few sentences in that diary. I understood even more that dad wanted to tell me a very important thing. What is that? My life is in danger. Surprisingly I am not feeling fear to death and I am feeling terribly sorry for my poor dad as he suffered like that just before his death! The irony is even in whole of that writing dad did not leave even a small clue in it. Dad did not do that purposefully. He wanted to write that in the later on paragraph but he could not. His heart attack did not let him do that. I am reading the same paragraph again, again and again while tears are flowing down on my cheeks.

"Dazzle's life is in danger. Death is dancing around her." my eyes are fixed on that. Slowly I am started feeling fear. What really my dad did want to say to me? There is no surprise if my life is in danger. There are so many enemies to my family around. If some of them are trying to kill me there is no surprise at all.

But it is not appearing like that. If my life is in danger because of some outward persons my dad would not have suffered like this. Something strange is in all this. Something I cannot even guess can happen. My dad witnessed something. Something strange, something that cannot be believed at all. Dad very strongly said I don't believe it. Why dad felt I don't believe it? What things I cannot believe at all even my dad said about them? My head is breaking into pieces. With whom I have to discuss this?

***

"Dazzle, what all this is? Why your dad has written it like this? It is so much perplexing to me" reading the same paragraphs again and again Viola said.

"Why did not he say anything about this to you people also?"

"He has a firm opinion that you don't believe it. He wrote in it strongly that you don't believe it. He is of the same opinion that we too also don't believe it. Just because of the opinion that we don't believe it, he did not say anything at all about that to us." Hissing heavily out Viola is saying. "I cannot think in any other way."

"If he just lived one day more he sure would have shared that thing to me."

"You are absolutely true." Viola nodded her head. "But Dazzle I want to say something to you."

I am listening quite carefully what she is saying. "It is more important than to know what your father wanted to say to you." There is a pause. "He wrote that your life is in danger and death is dancing around you. Please be careful Dazzle, please be very careful. I just cannot tolerate if something happens to you." Putting her hand around my shoulder Viola said.

I am also feeling fear but Viola's feeling about me is moving me. "I shall be in my care. Don't worry." Kissing on her cheek I said.

(..........to be continued)

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