The Fake Ghost👻

The Fake Ghost

It was a cold winter night and I was reading a book. The doorbell rang. I peeped through the magic eye and saw my friends there. I opened the door and called my friends inside with smiling face. After seeing them I could recall that I had only invited them to my house to enjoy first day of winter holidays. I offered tea and some winter specials for warm up and decided our plan for 2 to 3 hours.

I brought my Ludo board and we all started playing Ludo. It was a very tough game never before against my friends and finally I won the game. Then, we played Carrom, in which I came second because I used easy techniques whereas Harman was using advanced level techniques.

It was 10:45 p.m. and we went down with our parents and my little sister. We sat near the fireside to warm up ourselves. We also had a lot of fun together outside. Finally, we were tired and sat down around fireside and discussed about our school activities.

While we were discussing about existence of aliens, suddenly we saw an odd thing behind the tree with some creepy noise. But we could not recognize it as it was very dark there. We all were scared and the other fireside where my parents were sitting was little far. We could not gather courage to reach them. We had a debate on whether ghosts exist or not. The thing was so scary that resisted us from seeing that sight again. After sometime, my parents patted on my shoulder and I was frightened.

We explained the matter to my parents in details and requested them to come to the tree along with us. My parents came to the tree but couldn’t find anything there. My parents told us that there is nothing to worry and told us to come back home. The next morning, me and my friends came back to the spot and questioned each other who would be there behind the tree. We were so horrified that we did not come down to play for a week.

After a week, our school had begun and it had become a very huge dilemma for us to come back from the bus stop to our house. On the first day of school, we all were walking together in a group but Harman was walking freely and relaxed on the road as if he was not worried what happened last week. So, something was suspicious about why Harman was not scared of all the incidents that we saw.

I felt even more suspicious about Harman. Except Harman I called all my friends to find out the mystery or reason behind why Harman is not scared. After all the negotiations one of my friends Adithya told me to reminisce that when they all were at my house, Harman was there but when they came down with my parents, Harman wasn’t there. Now, my doubt on Harman had turned into belief.

So, the next morning we all went to Harman’s house to discuss the incident happened last night. When he went to bring water for us, all of a sudden, we saw a scary mask lying in the corner of the room underneath the clothes. We all understood and without discussing anything about the incident, we all left his house. We made a same plan to scare him. The next day, I went to Harman’s house to invite him to my house for a night stay.

It was evening and we all were waiting for Harman but Harman didn’t know that Adithya, Tanuj, Vivaan and Chirag were also there. It was night and Harman had slept but I was pretending to sleep. All my other friends were hiding in the next room and started to make noises. Harman woke up and asked me what was that sound. I told “Which sound Harman? I cannot hear any sound!” After some time, Adithya was standing near the curtain with a knife in his hand and a torch lit by Tanuj. Harman was not only scared but also started to sweat as he saw the shadow and he found difficulty in breathing.  

After we all had scared and frightened Harman with disparate techniques, we all revealed the truth to Harman that it was my plan to scare him because he had also scared us. We all asked Harman that why did he scare us so badly. He told us that it was a part of fun.

Now, we all had got to know the long and the short of the matter that Harman was the suspect who horrified us with his tricks. We all weren’t scared of playing down now and started enjoying same as before.