Nanhi
It all started with our trip to my mom’s place. We used to
go to my mom’s place every year. There
was a beautiful house near the colony, which we loved. It was a khaali house
and we always used to admire it and wanted to buy it some day.
In one of such visits, we thought of going closer to the
house .Nishant told me that lets have a closer view as we are going to buy it.
When we went closer, I tried to peep inside the house to see how it looked
inside. As I peeped in, I saw a small girl, 3 or 4 yrs of age sitting on a chair
in front of a table. She was such a sweet girl that I could not stop looking at
her. She was adorable. As I was wondering what this little girl was doing
sitting inside an empty house, I saw my maid, who had accompanied us, fainted
at seeing this girl. It was then that it struck to Nishant and me that she was
not a little girl but a spirit. At this
very moment, she came out of the house and stood in front of me saying- Aunty
please play with me, I want to play. We did not know what to do. One thing that
surprised me was that although we knew that she was a spirit, we never felt
scared even when she stood in front of us. She looked so innocent and lovable.
Since our maid was unconscious, we told the little girl that we would come back
to play with her.
So, we left that place and went back to my mom’s house. This incident stayed on with us and we could
not get over it somehow. Nishant and me
had several rounds of discussion about buying the house. We then got to know
from the neighbours that the house was said to be haunted although no one had
ever seen or witnessed any strange incident around that house ever. Even after listening about the house being
haunted, we were so much in love with that house that we decided to buy it.
We once again went to check out the house and to our
surprise, saw that little girl still sitting there as if waiting for us. This
ghost girl never made us feel scared, rather she was adorable. When she saw us,
she again came out and held my hand, requesting me to play with her. This time
I played with her for a while. She was delighted. I felt the same way. I could
see the expression of approval on Nishant’s face too. We then returned back
home. We told our daughters that soon they were going to meet their friend.
When they asked her name, I told them, her name was Nanhi.
Soon we shifted in
our new home, the home that we had so much wanted to be in. We did not want to
disturb Nanhi so we decided to move on the first floor. The day we moved in,
Nanhi came to us. She was very excited. She asked me if she could stay with us.
She told me that she has been living alone in the ground floor and hates it, so
she wanted to stay with us. We agreed without hesitation as the house was her
after all and there were many rooms to accommodate all of us comfortably.So, we
gave a room to Nanhi and one room to our kids. We all were happy with our
house. Our life once again started running smoothly. The kids would go to
school and Nanhi would stay back with me helping me here and there and
entertaining me with her lovely talk.
Our life was going smooth and we all were very happy when
one day when I returned home after getting
my kids from school, I saw three pandits
sitting inside my house. I rushed inside and asked them what were they doing inside
my house and they told me that they had come to take away the spirit that was staying in the house. I felt very scared for Nanhi and scolded them hard and asked them to leave my house. I ran inside to look for Nanhi but Nanhi was nowhere to
be found. I felt helpless- this is when I wake up from my dream feeling shocked
and helpless.
Wanted to share this dream with everyone. This is a dream
that I saw a few nights back and I actually saw it like a movie. I do not know
from where did it come to my mind, but it came with a pleasant feeling. Even
though it was a filmy dream, I loved Nanhi and the fact that I am so scared of
ghosts, still I did not get scared of Nanhi, made me feel really nice. I do not
know if this dream is way too dramatic, the fact that it left a strange feeling
in me, a feeling where I really wanted to protect Nanhi and the feeling that
somewhere Nanhi had not been able to live her childhood and was trying to do so
by living with us and playing with us, hit me hard and has still not left me. I
have loved every bit of my dream and wanted to pen it down. Hope my readers
like it too.
