Laughter in Darkness
A suspense, romantic and psychological thriller
By
Kotra Siva Rama Krishna
Neeraja laid herself on the bed as soon as Rose went out of the room. Suddenly she felt sleepy and closed her eyes. Quite involuntarily her mind brought the memory of her experience in the bathroom once again onto the surface and she felt uneasy. All the time she was in that bathroom she felt as if someone was there watching her intently. Her cheeks once again blushed deeply.
She remembered her going into middle room downstairs just before going into the bathroom. How charming he was and there was indeed some mesmerizing power in his eyes. It surprised that he has interest on paranormal like that. She felt envy towards Sameera that she could get him as her husband. In fact that Sameera also was quite beautiful!
“You are thinking of me, are not you?”
She heard his voice just like a whisper in her ear. He came to know about her interest on him and came to her.
“Yes” she murmured. She did not want to open her eyes.
“Why, why you are thinking of me?” she felt his hand on her hips. Her whole body filled with a sort of thrill.
“You are so handsome! I am attracted towards you as soon as I looked at you.” She was talking.
“But I am married and I have a son also.” She felt his lips on her left ear as he kissed on that.
“That does not matter.” She hugged him with both of her hands and kissed fervently all over his face.
Then it started between them both and Neeraja suddenly came into this world and opened her eyes. There was no one with her at that time. Her whole body filled with sweat and with a burning desire! My god! How she had imagined it and how much she wanted it then, how much! Even she was twenty four years old, she was untouched till that moment. She never has thought about sex this much before and she never felt this much terrible urge either! She has become ready to have it even from a married man also!
“My god!” she hissed out heavily, got off from the bed and slumped herself in the chair there.
‘There is entirely something different in this house. That is what made me have these types of sinful thoughts and imaginations.’ She thought.
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When Rose went into middle room downstairs, there was no one at all. After taking a dress, towel, a soap from her suitcase there, Rose went straight into the bathroom there. She observed four directions carefully before closing the doors. She remembered involuntarily what Neeraja has said to her and feeling fear that she might also have such an experience.
That bathroom was indeed big having all the necessities. There was a huge mirror also in it. After freeing herself from all the clothes on her body, Rose switched onto the shower and water started pouring. She turned onto the hot water and her whole body was having a comfortable feeling while the hot water was cruising on her body so. The water was flowing on every part of her body without any partiality. After enjoying that sensation for few seconds, she started rubbing her body with the soap in her hand switching off the shower momentarily. Once she filled her whole body with the foam of the soap, she switched on the shower again and hot water once again pouring on it.
Then, suddenly then, she felt the touch on the back of her just on her hip. It was a human hand with warmth in it. The feeling was so clear and lifelike, it could not be her imagination! Rose felt a shock and remained stand still. It was just as if Neeraja explained to her. It was just like someone stood behind her and put his hand on her back. How anyone could enter into a closed bathroom? She immediately turned back but could not find anyone there at all and the touch feeling was disappeared just like in Neeraja’s case. Rose’s heart started beating fast. Despite being an experienced psychiatrist, how she was subjected to this type of hallucination?
Rose filled her heart with as much air as possible and hissed out. ‘I am also subjected to just a tactile hallucination. I am not going to give myself with these types of silly things.’ She decided in herself strongly and started bathing again. For few seconds she felt normal. There was no hard feeling to her at all.
Then she at once felt someone hugged from behind. She felt an utter shock and wanted to yell loudly but could not open her mouth at all. Her feet were just like glued to the floor there and her whole body was transfixed!
While she was dumbfounded like that and her heart beat was increasing, two hands started moving all over her body while something clutched her from the back. Slowly she was made lay on the floor there. She was sensing what was happening to her body but she could neither move nor see anything. While she was helpless like that everything happened to her and her cooperation to that was quite automatic! Everything was so real and lifelike! It took half an hour or so to all of that to come to an end.
When everything was finished and Rose came into this world, she found herself lying on the floor there spread-eagled and drained off all energy. That ghost satisfied its urge with her body to the maximum extent possible. Rose’s heart filled with shame and rage. She slowly got up from there, completed her bathing and dressed herself. Then she went out of that bathroom.
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“It seems that it has taken long time to you to complete your bathing.” Looking at Rose when she entered into their room, Neeraja said.
“My god!” Rose slumped herself in the chair beside Neeraja and covered her face with her palms.
“What happened Rose? Have you also faced an experience in the bathroom just like me?” looking curiously into the face of Rose, Neeraja asked her.
“Not just that. I have been raped in that bathroom.” Removing her palms from her face, Rose said.
“What the bloody hell you are talking?” looking into her face with a shocking expression, Neeraja asked her.
“That is what exactly happened to me.” Then in a measured tone Rose explained to her what happened to her in the bathroom. Neeraja clipped her lower lip between her teeth frames and heard everything quite carefully. Once Rose finished, Neeraja released her lip thinking deep.
“How you are feeling now?” after few seconds pause, Neeraja asked Rose.
“What does that mean?” with an irritating expression in her face, Rose asked her.
“What I really want to know is” Neeraja said with a steady voice. “Are you feeling disturbed, pain or ache anywhere in your body? Take few seconds, just concentrate on whole of your body and tell me.”
Rose closed her eyes and for few seconds there came deep frowns on her forehead. “I am feeling all normal, all usual. There is no disturbance anywhere in my body. I am not feeling any ache, pain etc.”
“That means there was no such ghastly thing happened on you. Don’t worry unnecessarily at all.” Neeraja said.
“This rape was committed by a ghost Neeraja. When it was committed by a ghost, there may not be any physical signs like that.” With a confusing expression in her face, Rose said.
“I am not going to agree with it. If there is a rape by anything, there must be some physical signs. As there are no physical signs at all on your body, I am sure no rape was committed on you.” Neeraja said with a firm voice.
“Then what the bloody hell of my feeling like that there? I was lying on the floor when I have opened my eyes. Why do I lie myself on the floor there?” looking angrily into the face of Neeraja, Rose asked her.
“I need not tell you Rose and you yourself know about it. I am feeling silly to say this to you but you were subjected to just tactile hallucination. It is nothing more than that.” Neeraja said.
“That was what my initial feeling. But how suddenly, without any reason, I could be subjected to that?” frowns gathered on the forehead of Rose. “I have been made laid on the floor by something unseen and quite powerful! All the time it was just like I was in sleep paralysis. I could not move any organ in my body. Then the atrocity happened on me. I..I…felt everything! When I came to my senses in full, my god!....I was just lying on the floor face-up quite helpless! I just cannot take it as a hallucination.”
“I can understand Rose. But you have not been subjected to any atrocity by any paranormal thing. We have to go more deeper in this matter if we want to prove it did not happen because of any paranormal.” Neeraja said.
“We go deep. I don’t want to think it has been happened on me by a ghost or something like that.” Adjusting herself in the chair for more comfort, Rose said.
“I cannot say the reasons but for sometime after entering into this house you have started suffering from acute sexual urge, are not you?” covering Rose’s face in her gaze, Neeraja asked her.
“I have to agree with you. Yes, you are right, I cannot say the time perfectly but I suddenly found this intolerable sexual urge in me recently. It is indeed unbearable I must say. It is quite surprising to me because in my whole life I never felt in this way before. Anyhow why did you ask this question?” Rose’s cheeks were blushed while saying that.
“I am also feeling in the same way recently.” With a troubling expression in her face Neeraja said. “Just like in your case I too cannot say the time it started” Neeraja paused for a moment and then said once again. “Anyhow it is not unusual that not just women, men also do feel sexual urge like this on some occasions. All the time you are just disregarding it and your body wanted a desperate satisfaction of it. Your subconscious cooperated with your body and you were forced to have that tactile hallucination.”
“Whatever you said is reasonable. But I still cannot think it was possible so.” Thinking deeply Rose said.
“Think yourself logically, you can understand. Moreover answer one more thing here for me. When the last time you did have it?” Neeraja asked her hesitatingly.
“What that bloody thing I have it last time?” Rose understood what Neeraja meant but she did not want to answer the question straight.
“I have to put it bluntly now to make you understand.” Neeraja nodded her head helplessly and said. “When did you have sex with your husband for the last time?”
“My god! What type of question this is by an unmarried girl supposed to have the age of my daughter?’ with a shocking expression in her face, Rose asked her.
“Answer my question please.” Neeraja was stubborn. “I said we have to go deep to prove that there was no paranormal behind your experience in the bathroom.”
“Alright, one month or so back.” With an uneasy expression in her face Rose said. “But as I have been completely with work pressure, I did not even think about it in this one month or so time.”
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