THE COLD ONE By Ainan Muhsenin Saif (Part 4) (Inspired by the Edward Cullen character of Twilit saga created by Stephen Meyer) The exam started. At first the students were confused (bibvranto) due to the presence of so many guard teachers but they were assured (ashash deowa hoyechilo) that the extra people weren’t really invigilators (guard teacher). After they had calmed (shanto holo) down and started focusing (monojog dilo) on their respective question papers, Abdullah decided to observe (porjobekkhon) the cold one for the rest of the exam. The name of the vampire student was Shoumik. After getting the question paper he read it once and kept sitting with his eyes closed for almost fifteen minutes. Then, he started writing. He sat straight, stiff (shokto) and unmoving, like a statue. His eyes looked dead and cold. His spider-like fingers held the pen gently and twisted to write with immense (prochondo) speed. It might have been some eye defects of Abdullah, but he saw that the boy’s skin colour kept getting brighter. Another peculiar (odvut) thing about him was that he didn’t seem to breathe. The movement of the shoulders and chest during breathing was very rare (khub kom) in Shoumik as if he was pretending (ovinoy korchilo). And, as he was pretending, his attention (monojog) wavered (kome jacchilo) and he gave unusually long gaps between his acting breathes. One other thing that was noticeable (kheyal korar moto) about him was that in a cold day like this, no smoke of water vapour (jolio bashpo) came out of his mouth like the other students. We all know that, during winter we all breathe out smoky breathe because our body insides are hot compared (tulonamulokvabe) to the outer temperature (tap matra). So, we breathe out smoky water vapour. Abdullah was thinking hard. All his knowledge was being tested in this case. He had never encountered (mukho-mukhi howa) any supernatural that looked so much human. He was starting to doubt (shondeho) whether Shoumik really was something supernatural or was there a logical explanation to all this. Three hours of the exam had almost passed. Suddenly, Shoumik got up and moved silently towards the teacher’s desk as silently as a fatal (marattok) snake and as smoothly as fluid water. He handed his answer paper to Mrs. Banik with the same passionate look in his eyes. He had the look of a lover. Otherwise, he looked dead these past three hours. Mr. Shadhu looked at her niece with an interrogative look (jiggashu chahuni). What was going on between her and this student? She scratched her neck in confusion and embarrassment (bibroto bodh) expressing (prokash korlo) without saying that she didn’t know what was going on. Shoumik had already moved back to his bench and he was packing his things to exit (ber hoye jaowa) the exam hall. The next thing that happened surprised even scared everyone present in the hall. Mrs. Banik started screaming on the top of her lungs with excruciating (prochondo) pain. She was grabbing (shokto kore dhora) her neck and thrashing her limbs (hat-pa churchilo charidike) sitting in her chair. She fell down on the floor in a matter of seconds. Abdullah and Mr. Shadhu removed (shoriye nilo) her hand from her neck with great effort (onek koshte) to see what was wrong with it. The thing they saw on her neck had shaken them greatly as it happening was impossible. There were a pair of bite marks of huge sharp teeth on her neck near the jugular vein and blood was pouring out, proving that it was fresh (as in she was bitten now.) Abdullah quickly looked for Shoumik but he was long gone. He was nowhere to be seen. Abdullah heard the myth that vampires were very fast. Well, it was true then. Cause, Shoumik had bitten Mrs. Banik so fast that no one even saw what had happened; he even managed to get out faster. Hearing Mrs. Banik’s screams, other teachers and many students had already gathered (joma holo) in the exam hall. Abdullah had to catch the cold one and solve this case. He quickly gave Mr. Shadhu a small notebook and said to him, “Everything is written in here. Please, do accordingly or we won’t be able to save your niece (vatiji)!” Saying this he ran out of the exam hall in search of the monster. By the time Abdullah got to the main gate of the venue, Shoumik had already gotten up on the back of a motorcycle ridden by another man and was speeding towards the main road. Abdullah ran as fast as he could behind the bike. At the same time a CNG (green baby taxi that runs on CNG), came up behind him and told him to get on. Actually, Abdullah had booked that CNG beforehand (agei) as he guessed (andaj kore niyechilo) that something was gonna happen today at the exam venue and he didn’t want the cold one to escape. As the CNG followed the motorcycle through the wall of cold mist (kuasha) of the cantonment, Abdullah was having a strange feeling that he would be able to solve this case by the night, INSHAH ALLAH!!! In the CNG, Abdullah did a couple of things. He opened his nepali tupi, rubbed (ghosha dilo) his hair furiously (jore) to make it look wild (jongli), brought out a rubber band and tied his beard collectively into a bundle (khopa badhlo), he took off his zipped (chain atkano) jacket, put it inside out (ulta korlo) so that the jacket was now black instead of white and he put it back on. He also kept the jacket unzipped. He changed his Chinese shoes with sponge sandals; he folded (botlo) his pants above his knees, brought a lungi out of his handbag and put it on over the folded pant. Lastly, he started eating a betel leaf (pan) to make his lips red. This was his way of putting on a disguise (choddobesh). As he was indeed following Shoumik, he should not know about it. After fifteen minutes of following through the waves of white fog (kuasha), Abdullah was standing in front of the BARD (Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development)’s humongous (bishal) main gate. The motorcyclist dropped the boy off here and went straight into the road inside, where most probably BARD’s offices were present. Maybe, he lived here, the boy. The guard wasn’t letting the CNG in, so, Abdullah got off, paid the money and quickly started following the cold one who had already reached the turning of the circular path that went right into the beautiful woods. They walked for almost five minutes. Shoumik might have walked straight and awkward but he was fast. Abdullah could hardly keep up. Although, he was in his forties, he was very fit and strong. But, following this boy was tough. After ten minutes, the boy started walking up a hill. It was situated (obosthito) almost at the other turning point of the oval (golakar/ dimer moto) road of BARD. Most probably it was hill no. 1. Shoumik entered the first building that came up the road. Abdullah followed. Damn it! I shouldn’t have given this part now. Anyway, as I have already given it, I shall not write any further. The rest will be explained later because if I give this part now, frankly (shotti bolte gele), it would very much tell the entire solution of this case that Abdullah would find out, after coming face-to-face with Shoumik. It was almost 11 o’ clock at the night, now. Mr. Banik had just seen the doctor off. The doctor was a close friend of his who treated Mrs. Banik for the past three hours. Yes, the doctor agreed that he had never seen such bite marks before. But, he couldn’t detect (dhorte parlo na) any poison or any other biological chemical that would hurt her. As long as no more blood was lost, she would be fine. To tell the truth, it was shock that made her scream like that. It took these past three hours to calm down Mrs. Banik to come out of shock. She was sleeping peacefully now, with a bandage wrapped (badha) around her neck. Mr. Banik wasn’t relieved (chinta mukto), though. Mr. Shadhu and Abdullah hadn’t still returned from where they had disappeared to. Earlier today, when Mrs. Banik was bitten, after people gathered around to help, Mr. Shadhu had disappeared telling Mr. Banik that he had some important things to do. Abdullah was also gone. These old people didn’t care if others worry (chinta kora) about them. Was this a way? Their mobile phones were also switched off. Suddenly, there were metallic clings (ting-ting shobdho) from the main door where a metal bell hangs from the door. It meant that someone had opened the main door and in the process shook the metal bell. Hence (shutorang), the metallic clings. But, it was impossible as the door was locked from the inside. Mr. Banik quickly went there to check it out. The main door was wide open but there was no one there. Only cold fog swept into the house from the cold darkness outside. He closed the door. But, did something really enter into the house. Again suddenly, there was a loud bang of a door being closed shut with great force, from the back of the house. He grabbed the cricket bat near the main door. He was scared, now. The mere presence (shamanno uposthiti) of another creature (prani) in the house other than himself and his wife was quite frightening (voyanok). Wait a minute, his wife! He quickly went to the bedroom to check on Mrs. Banik. Thanks to the creator, she was still sleeping peacefully. He quickly checked under the bed and around inside her room if anything else was there. No, nothing else was there. He closed the windows and locked the room from outside. Then, he went to the back of the house. His bat held high, ready to attack. As he slowly walked it felt like that there was something else there and it was right behind him. He abruptly (hoot kore) turned behind and also swung the bat at the same time. There was nothing there. It frightened him more. He knew that there was someone or something else in the house but not seeing it made it scarier. All on a sudden, there was another bang, it came from close by. He quickly ran towards the direction of the noise and found that the closed door towards the roof was also wide open. He ran up the stairs towards the roof. It was dark here and deadly silent. No, wait there was sound. It was the sound of footsteps. A tall dark figure was slowly moving towards him. He threw the bat at it and ran towards the stairs. He closed the door behind him and as soon as he did that he heard a terrible (voyanok) scream (chitkar). It was a man’s and it came from outside. Instantly (sathe sathe), he heard metallic clicks coming from the main door. He quickly grabbed a knife from the kitchen and ran towards the main door. He wouldn’t let that monster hurt his wife. Just like the first time, the main door was wide open. Oh no! There was more than one dark figure standing in the doorway! . TO BE CONTINUED… . Copyrights: Afia Haque.
Posted on: Thu, 01 May 2014 06:25:11 +0000
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