SAJAN’S DAYDREAM
Hearing the annoying
announcement that his train was late, Sajan decided to enjoy a quick snooze on
the hard stone bench provided in the station. During this short nap, Sajan had
a strange dream- that a small girl was pleading for his help, “Please sir, help
me. I am scared.”
The dream seemed so
real and weird that Sajan got up with a start and looked around him anxiously.
He breathed in relief knowing that it had been just a dream. There were no
girls of that age to be seen on the platform.
As he was recovering
from this weird daydream, a train chugged in. Since it was not Sajan’s train,
he did not get up from his bench. But as the coaches were rolling past, he was
shocked to see a little girl in one of the coaches, sitting between two people…
apparently her parents… looking remarkably like the girl in his dream. Sajan
started sweating at this apparition appearing twice within minutes. It took
some time for him to recover, but as the train left the station, he again felt
relieved, dismissing it as a freak coincidence.
He was about to settle
down with a steaming cup of tea and the day’s newspaper when he heard her
voice, this time not in a dream, “Please sir, can you help me. I am scared.”
In a state of shock, Sajan
listened in a daze as she proceeded to state how she had jumped from the train
just after it started, to escape her kidnappers.
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