The story briefly
Williams was a thirty years aged clever, rich and educated businessman. Something he had seen in their old palace made him lost his mental balance. He became mild mad, just remained staring ahead blankly. He had been admitted in Black Ant Mental Care where he was entrusted to Rose who was the practicing psychiatrist there. Rose could make Williams to come to his senses but he forgot everything that happened before that incident. Rose and her senior Charles strongly opined, forcing Williams to remember either that particular incident he had seen in the old palace or about his past before that incident would have serious damaging consequences to him. During the treatment Rose and Williams fall in love and Rose later became Williams' wife. As the time gone by, a situation has come that Rose has to make Williams to remember that particular incident along with all his past by putting him in deep hypnosis. How his life was affected and her life was affected was the story of the novel ‘Rain Flower’ A spicy Romantic Thriller.
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“Yes. Tippu met me.” Micheal said when John asked him. “Whenever he comes here, he sure meets me. I am the only close friend to him here.”
“What you both have talked? Did he say where he was going?” John again questioned him
“Who are you? Why do I give answers to your questions?” They both were in the small bar of that village.
John told him about his mission. Micheal worried more on hearing that. “Surely Tippu is in some danger.” He said.
“Why you are not drinking much.” As John was very liberal with his glass he said. John was entertaining him in that small bar with his money and giving him company for courtesy’s sake.
“I am worrying about Tippu a lot. He may be in danger as you said. I cannot concentrate on anything else.” John found that very convenient to lie to him.
“Yes, I am also very much worrying about him.” Making very heavy sip of his drink Micheal said.
“First tell me what you both have talked.” John got irritated.
“Sure I do tell you.” He paused for a moment and then said. “He behaved very strangely here. In fact whenever he comes to the village we both go to a woman here and have it jointly. We did not do that this time.”
“What?” John disgusted on hearing that. ‘Is he talking fact or rambling in the slumber of drinking?’ he could not understand.
“Yes, I am telling you the truth. He would not come here often. But whenever he comes, we don’t fail to do that. She likes him a lot as he gives her lot of money.”
“Alright.” John irritated even more but controlled himself with difficulty.
“I too go to her once or twice in a month. But she did not like me as much as she liked him since I cannot give much money.”
“Alright. It is not important. Tell me, what you both have talked.” John used his all will power not to lose his patience.
“He said he did a mistake. A grave mistake which he should not have committed.” His voice slurred as his drinking became heavier.
Suddenly John became alert. His interest picked up at once. “What?”
“He was not clear much. He did not say much either. We both have talked in this bar itself. Just like every time he bore all the expenditure.”
John impatiently waited while he took another big sip. “Tell me.” He poked him on his right shoulder with his right hand.
“He told me that he made his master to see something. It did not go as he expected.”
John felt as if he received an electric shock. “Did he say like that to you?”
“Yes.” His speech became even more slurry as he drank too much. John started feeling he would not be even that much sober for long to answer his questions.
“What he made him to see and where?” as his heart beat with increasing speed he asked him.
“He did not tell me about that. He was not clear about anything” ‘I already told you.’ Look was on his face.
“But he said he would not leave him.” He further said after a pause.
“Who?” John expected such answer and asked him.
“He said some Chief. Only that much. He did not tell me more.”
“Chief?” John asked for clarity.
“Yes, I think I heard it like that.”
“Why they do kill him for that?” John asked but understood his position became beyond answering any questions.
“No. I cannot remember anything more.” He slumped forward on the table
***
“I am not going to let you drink anything until you answer all my questions.” They both sat in the house of Tippu’s aunt. When Micheal pleaded with him to go to the bar John said.
“But I cannot remember anything more than that.” Micheal said.
“You might have heard something vital and forgot. Do you know in what a grave danger your friend is?” John seriously asked him.
“Yes, answer his questions and save your friend.” Tippu’s aunt said. “I am also very much worrying about Tippu.”
“But what can I do if he did not say anything more than that? It is not my forgetting about things. He just did not say anything more than what I have said to you”. Micheal irritated. He was waiting expectantly to go to the bar again.
John coxed him, cajoled him and asked him in many other ways and understood what he was saying was the truth. Then he gave him some money to go to the bar.
“Don’t you come this time with me?” Micheal asked him.
“No, I cannot. I have to go.” Saying a goodbye to the old woman there he came out of the hut.
Micheal hurriedly came after him. “Just wait.” He said.
“What?” John asked him irritatingly.
“If you are interested, we both can go to that woman.” Micheal said looking into the face of John. “She is very beautiful.”
“No. I am not interested.” John moved away fast from that place.
***
He was in her arms, her smooth body enveloped him and she was planting hot kisses on his face. He too kissed on her both eyes and he reached the backside of her left ear and kissed on the tender skin before biting it a little. There was a yell from her with pleasure and he was sensing her body undulating under him.
The heat of her flesh was giving him unbearable joy. Strong pleasure waves were sweeping all over his body. Suddenly his body slackened over her and he became like an emptied balloon. He wanted to slide on the side of her, but her grip tightened around him even more then.
He woke up from the dream. He realized that it was not just a dream but part of his past. He wanted to get up from the place where he was. His mind sent strong suggestions to his body to move but it was not. It was just like glued to the chair he sat. He realized that he was in his study room seated in the chair there and slipped into sleep then got a dream like reality. What he could not understand was why he was not able to get up from the chair.
He was trying his level best to free himself from the hold. It was just like that he was held with ropes. He could not even open his eyes. He never had felt it like this. Was he afflicted with a new disease? He was confused and started worrying. His heart filled with fear and he desperately wanted to be free.
He at once startled and came into this world when he sensed a hand on his shoulder.
“You are sleeping in the chair itself?” Rose asked him squeezing his shoulder.
“Oh! You! You saved my soul. I suffered hell till now.” He explained to her what happened. “I am feeling fear that I have been afflicted with a new disease as if this memory loss is not enough for me.”
Rose laughed and said. “You are unnecessarily worrying. It is not at all something that you have to feel anxiety.”
“Then what it is? You do take everything easily. You don’t know how much I have suffered.” Williams got irritated.
“I can understand.” Rose was still smiling. “But it is not a disease. It is not something that you have to feel anxiety. Everyone feels it at some point of time or other. It is called as sleep paralysis.”
“You are saying it as paralysis and not dangerous. How a paralysis cannot be dangerous?” Williams confused.
“I did not say simply paralysis. I said sleep paralysis.”
“What is the bloody hell of difference between sleep paralysis and physical paralysis?’ Williams was still irritated.
“Before you understand the difference between these two terms, you have to understand the sleep process. When you sleep, in fact two things do go into sleep simultaneously, one is your mind and the other is your body. Only if these two sleep at once it would be a proper sleep. And when waking up also it happens in the same way. Your mind and body do wake up at the same time.
Sometimes your body goes into sleep but your mind will go into only semi-sleep. It still to some extent works. In such situation you get dreams. As your body is sleeping it does not obey the orders of the mind then. That is why you don’t run even you get a dream that you are running in the street. The most lucky part here is whether the mind is in semi-sleep or deep sleep your body does go into full sleep. If it does not happen like that you start running when you get a dream that you are running. You try to do everything that you are doing in a dream.
Sometimes your mind wakes up first but not your body. When your mind wakes up that you can know about the surroundings, about yourself, about where you are and you desperately try to move. But as your body does not wake up it would not cooperate with you. You do have a feeling that you are tightly tied with something. You cannot even open your eyes.” Rose’s elaborate explanation came to an end.
“Exactly that was the situation I have faced. You just cannot imagine how much I have suffered.” There was satisfaction on his face as he knew that Rose understood his problem.
“I can imagine. Because occasionally I too suffer with this. In fact it is quite useful to us.”
“How this sleep paralysis is going to be useful to us?” Williams surprisingly asked her.
“It makes you to stick to the bed restraining from doing whatever you are doing in a dream. If there is no sleep paralysis you do everything that you do in a dream. In fact you can come to know about this sleep paralysis only when your mind becomes completely sober but body sleeps. If your mind is in semi-sleep that means in a dream state, you cannot be known about this sleep paralysis at all.”
“Interesting explanation indeed!”Williams nodded his head. “But still I am feeling fear that I may have to face this experience in future also.”
“Even in sleep paralysis also you do one thing for sure that you can control. That is breathing. Take long and deep breaths. That makes you conscious of your body and you can come out of this sleep paralysis.”
“Alright, I sure shall try it.” Williams laughed.
But he forgot to discuss about the dream he got just before that sleep paralysis with Rose then.
***
“Bastard, scoundrel. I never have expected him to be so. My brother loved him a lot.” After hearing what John has said, Jasmine raged.
“The point we need to know is, what that Tippu made your brother to see in that old palace.” John said as if he did not listen what Jasmine said.
“Only two people can say about this. One is my brother and the other is this Tippu.”
“No. It seems some more people also know about it. That Micheal mentioned a name Chief. Micheal said that Tippu felt fear thinking that Chief would do something bad to him. I am thinking that Chief also may be known about what your brother has seen in that palace.” He paused for a moment and said “There is no surprise even some more people also know about it.”
“How you can say so?” she curiously looked into his face.
“Just my thinking. I cannot say the reasons.” He hissed out.
“Who is that Chief?” Jasmine knitted her brows.
“He could not tell me about that as that Tippu himself did not tell him all. Only with lot of difficulty I could manage to abstract this much information from him.”
“You did a good job.” Jasmine smiled. “You are going to get the reward for it.”
John thrilled thinking what it was.
“How it would be if we say this straight to your brother?” John queried.
“We are not going to do anything like that until we put it into the notice of Rose.” Jasmine said with firmness in her voice.
John did not say anything to that. He was silently staring at her. In his psychic vision he was making her nude.
“Why you are looking at me so?” Jasmine asked him angrily.
“For nothing.” He smiled. “Tell me what is our future program then?”
“If we find out Tippu he does tell us what our brother had seen in that palace on that day.” Jasmine said.
“I do doubt it on two grounds. First, that Tippu became inimical to your brother. Knowing fully well whatever Williams going to see would have a bad affect on him, he made Williams to go and see it. Then even we do get Tippu, I am not thinking that he would tell us what Williams had seen in that room in that palace on that day.”
“If we make the police give him a little treatment, everything shall come out. Its alright, what is the next ground.”
“Tippu expressed fear at Micheal that Chief may do something bad to him. I am thinking that bad means death. Whoever may be that Chief he might have sent our boy to the heaven by now itself.”
“Why do we come to conclusions without doing our part of work first?” Jasmine angrily said. “We do give a police complaint first and then see what happens.”
“Alright” John nodded his head.
“Even before giving that police complaint, we do talk about this matter with our Rose. We shall see what she says.” Jasmine said.
“If you are having that much confidence on her, I have no objection whatsoever to that.” John said.
(……to be continued)
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