"What? You went to her home to talk to her late husband? Did I hear it right?" the bewilderment in her face is amusing to me.

"Another proof. Your ears working the best. You heard it right Ola. I went to her home to talk with her late husband."

"Did you talk with her late husband?"

"Yes, I talked with her late husband Nick Harrison."

The bewilderment and surprise in Nova's face reached its motto. "You....you talked with her late husband? You talked with Nick Harrison as Nova is talking with him?"

"It is not like that." Then I have explained to her how I have talked with Nova's husband.

"Have you lost your mind? Are you thinking that you really talked with that Nova's late husband?"

"With whom else I have talked then?" trying not to laugh I said.

"My god!" Viola squeezed her eyes shut and put her head in both her arms. "How can I convince you that there are no devils like things? That Nova is suffering from a psychological disorder. She is just imagining herself that she is talking with her late husband. How you are thinking that you have talked with her late husband I cannot understand."

"But there are similarities Ola. Aunt said that there was a woman in my dad's life and she died in an accident. This Nick also said that there is a woman intends to take revenge on me. I am thinking the woman said by aunt and this woman referred by Nick both are the same."

"First tell me one thing. Do you believe that there is ever another woman in uncle's life after your mother's death?"

"I never can believe that. But I cannot disbelieve aunt either. What is the necessity to aunt to tell me lies?"

"I am not saying that aunt said lies to you. It might be true that a woman moved like that with your father. It need not necessarily be love between them both. There may be so many other reasons also for their behaving so."

"You may be right." I nodded my head. I don't know what to say. Viola's theory also is appearing reasonable and satisfying to me. I never can think of my dad spending time happily with some other woman. But the problem is the evidence is so strong against my dad.

"But it is so convincing Ola. Why should that Nick tell me like that?"

"You have not talked with any Nick, Dazzle. You have talked with Nova only. Even Nova also may feel that her late husband talked with you through her, but it is surely only Nova no one else. Nova surely imagined but felt it real that her late husband talked with you through her. She behaved like that in a dream like state."

"Whether it is Nova or Nick I cannot say but it said my life is in danger."

Frowns gathered on the forehead of Viola.

"My dad wrote in his diary that death is dancing around me."

Viola picked her lover lip between her teeth frames.

"I am feeling fear that something may happen to me."

"Nothing happens to you." Viola took my hand into her hands and squeezed it while looking assuredly into my eyes and is saying. "As long as this Ola is with you nothing can even dream of to do harm to you."

"You are really a very big hope to me. I always be quite thankful to you."

"Shut up." Viola immediately got off from the chair leaving my hand. "You should not use that word. It is I who has to use it. It is I who must always be thankful to you. Without you and your father I don't know in what position I am now. You both have helped me in fulfilling my dreams. How I ever can forget about that?" Viola is emotionally asking me. "You are really a great friend. You helped me on many a time in more than a way. But I cannot do anything to you. I cannot even make you be relieved from your psychological problem."

"Oh, Ola. It is not your mistake at all." I am hastily saying. I don't like at all Viola blaming herself so. "Don't think like that at all."

"I still remember the day when I have heard the news of the plane crash. The death of my parents. I became all alone. I have no properties left. By the time of death of my father, our family is in full of debts. Our father has got heavy losses in his business. Your father has cleared all those debts. He took me to this home. He got me joined in the same school you were studying then. He treated me also as he treated you."

"Its alright Ola. There is no necessity to think all about that now." I am feeling uneasy while Viola is praising me and my dad.

"No Dazzle. Let me pour out my feelings. Let me unburden myself. I never have said my true feelings to you. Let me do that atleast for once." Viola breathed deeply and hissed out. "I always have great respect on your father and he deserves it completely. In the same way I am indebted to aunt also. I have become another daughter to her. God might have felt guilty taking away my both parents like that. So he blessed me with this many number of good people."

I also often think in such a way. God might have felt guilty taking away my mother at such a tender age of me. He blessed me with good dad, good aunt, good brother and a good friend like Viola. I am just listening like that while Viola is praising my dad and me. I am feeling fear how long she continues it so!

"What you both are doing now?" my aunt entered into that room.

'Thank god!' I am feeling relived. "We are just having a friendly discussion between us both." I said.

My aunt's face is calm and peaceful with a pleasant smile and she sat on the bed nearby. "What that friendly discussion, may I know?"

"Please don't ask." Feeling fear that Viola may start all that saying once again I said hastily.

"I am just remembering the times when I came to the house. How I have been welcomed into this house, how I have been treated by uncle and you, how immediately Dazzle accepted me as her friend...."

It is happening as I am feeling fear.

"I too can remember all that so clearly. You have become another daughter to me after Dazzle. Yes, Thomas looked after you also so well......" my aunt is saying now.

"Better we do stop all that. All of us can remember all that so clearly. There is no necessity to bring back those memories now." I am not liking much that praising.

"Its alright dear. If you don't like we stop. Anyhow tell me where you have gone in the evening. Viola and I were so much tensioned about you in fact." My aunt is saying again "I Don't say that you did not tell us that you would be away. Even with information also your absence created tension to us."

Now I am looking into the face of Viola and she started saying what I did and what happened.

"Really you have talked with that woman's late husband?" with surprise frowns gathered on the face of my aunt.

"Yes, I did." I nodded my head.

"Then you have to be careful Dazzle. I believe what that Nick said. I am also thinking in the same way." The expression in my aunt's face turned one into fear.

"First tell me, are you believing that Dazzle really has talked with Nova's late husband?" as I am expecting Viola intervened and asked my aunt.

"If not, with whom else she talked?" with a straight frown on the forehead my aunt asked Viola.

I am smiling now as I just cannot stop.

"Oh, aunt please." Viola irritatingly said. "Dazzle and that Nova both are thinking that Dazzle has talked with that woman's late husband. But in fact Dazzle talked with Nova only. No one has come onto the body of Nova. There are no devils or spirits or souls like things."

"Then how does she know about the woman? There was indeed a woman after Dazzle's mother in Thomas' life."

"That is just a coincidence. Nothing more than that." Viola is exasperating. "I want to talk with that Nova."

"Please don't do like that." I am hastily saying. "Nova just helped me. She is just in the idea of helping me and did it so. Even it is not her late husband I talked with, there is no mistake of her in it."

"I am not intended to accuse her Dazzle. I just want to know to what degree she is suffering from that psychological disorder. She needs urgent treatment. Otherwise......"

"Just stop......" I am irritatingly started saying cutting her off. "Neither that Nova nor I need any treatment. We are in all respects normal."

"Talking with a dead person is normal? She is surely suffering from a psychological disorder."

"Alright, alright even then too there is no necessity to you to bother about it. She does not turn harmful to any of us."

"If not now, she very soon shall turn like that. Psychological disorders like those must not be neglected."

"Please stop all this." I am yelling loudly. "I don't want this discussion go further anymore. I don't like you do anything with that Nova without my knowledge."

"I never do anything to that Nova without your knowledge. But..." Viola is trying to say something with an assurance in her eyes. It seems she does not at all affected by my bursting like that.

"Better stop that Viola atleast for the present." My aunt intervened. She turned towards me and said looking into my face. "Take all precautions that are necessary Dazzle. I am also strongly feeling that your life is in danger."

***

I sat bolt straight on the bed and I know the reason why I woke up. It is the same weeping sound. I am hearing it again. It is more clearer than before. I am becoming more and more nervous hearing that sound like that.

"I don't leave you. I don't leave." I am hearing words also this time. Very clearly. Where from that sound is coming? I got off the bed immediately and came out of my room. I am not going to leave it on this day. I am walking fast towards the sound that is coming.

"Your father killed me. I killed him. I took my revenge on him. I don't leave you also."

"It's a lie. My father never killed anyone." Without my intention I am yelling.

"Your father killed me. I killed him. I took my revenge on him. I don't leave you also." But it is saying the same thing again and again and I am yelling loudly. "It's a lie, it's a lie." I am running. I just don't know what I am doing and where I am going. That woman's voice and weeping sound suddenly stopped.

"Oh, Dazzle. Please stop." I turned back. It is Williams who holds my hand strongly. "Just see where you are now."

I see and my whole body shuddered with fear. My god! I am at the parapet wall on the terrace. There is no surprise if I jump over the parapet wall!

"Oh, my god! What I am doing?" looking into the eyes of Williams I asked.

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

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