Suddenly One Night
Ajoy generally returns from the office at 5 p.m. His work starts 10 in the morning. He is an officer in the railways. In his career of 10 years, he has often seen many people committing suicide. Sometimes their mutilated dead bodies appear in his dream. It disturbs his mind often. After he returns from his office, he often talks with Arunima. Arunima is the second woman he can trust and as she takes care of his son. They sleep in different rooms. Arun sleeps with Arunima only. Ajoy sleeps alone. He often watches T.V. till 12 and sometimes 12:30 and then goes to sleep. Arunima usually goes to bed early at 10 p.. She also wakes up early in the morning. Arunima is a voluptuous lady. She also goes to gym regularly. She is now 35 years old. She is the sister of Ajoys mother. Ajoy loves to listen to Western classical and Indian pop music. He also loves to read ghost stories. He comes regularly to Kolkata Book Fair. Ajoy is a slim person. In his childhood, he often suffered from several chronic illnesses. He also has a history of heart disease and hypertension. Ajoy loves Arunima as she fills the place of his wife.
One day after he returned from his work, he could not undress himself. After he took the lunch, he fell asleep. Suddenly around 9 p.m., he woke up. He heard a song coming from the bathroom. He slowly went towards the bathroom. The door of the bathroom was half open. In his drowsy condition, he saw a woman full naked. He screamed, Hey! Who are you? The woman had a long hair. She was naked. She was bathing and Arun could only see her back. Suddenly the woman said. Come and kiss me. Arunima was in the kitchen. She heard Ajoy talking. So she said, Would you like to have dinner now? Meanwhile Ajoy went closer to that beautiful woman. The woman was bathing. She told him to scrub her back. Arun was hypnotized. He was doing what the woman said. After so many years from sex life, Arun was quite excited to touch that woman. He said, Ah! You have a great body! But when the woman turned, he was frightened to see his dead wife. Her face is looking horrible. She was smiling. Her eyes are red as blood. Two tooth have come out from the corner of her lips. Her hair is blood red. In her life, she used to apply Garnier dye to her beautiful hair. Her name is Suchitra. Ajoy screamed, Suchitra! Its you! How can you come here? Suchitra said, I came here to see how you are living! She added, I think you poisoned me! You took the opportunity of my disease. Isnt it true? I can see men can do anything for their benefit. I accept that I am not as beautiful like her. But that doesnt mean that you will murder me? I am telling you I will make your life a hell! Ajoy protested, What are you saying? There is nothing between us! She and I sleep in separate rooms! Suddenly the ghost disappeared. Arunima came to the bathroom and knocked at the door. Arunima said, With whom are you talking? Ajoy came out hurriedly from the bathroom. His shirt and pyjamas drenched in water.
Arunima took a towel and told him to open his shirt. She wiped his body. Then told him, It is winter now. Change your clothes or you will catch cold. She and Ajoy took the dinner together as Arun has fallen asleep at 9. His school starts early at 7 in the morning. Soi he has to wake up at 6. Meanwhile Arunima asking Arun, With whom are you talking in the bathroom? Ajoy told her, There was no one. She said, I think you need some sleep. Ajoy went to sleep. Arunima usually sleeps wearing a night dress. The dress is a sleeveless long garment. On that night, she fell asleep as usual. Arun could not sleep in his room alone for that incident. He passed the night on a sleepless pillow. As he was closing his eyes, he can hear the words and his dead wifes ugly face. All of a sudden he woke up and screamed. Arunima came from the next room. She consoled him. She embraced him, brought a glass of water and consoled him. She patted his back and told him to sleep. Again he screamed. Then she took her pillow and came to sleep beside him. Arun put his hands over her hand. Then he embraced and kissed her and said, You care for me a lot. Would you like to marry me? She smiled and replied, My parents were so much worried about my sisters marriage. After her marriage, they died. I was studying Bengali Honors. I had to leave my study half way. I have to think over the matter.
In the next morning, Ajoy went to work as usual. Arun returned from his school. He went to play with his friends. His father came and took some food that Arunima has prepared. After serving the food, she went to the bathroom. He was washing his hands and found a song coming from my bathroom. After some time, she came out and was going to the dressing room to wear clothes. Ajoy came suddenly and saw her wearing clothes. He came closer to her. She also could not resist touching her and
Arun came from his friends house. He went to his study room.
Arun was sleeping that night when he heard a scream coming from the kitchen. He saw Arunima quite frightened. She was pointing a knife. She said, That knife flew towards me! Arun said, Are you crazy? She said, Its true. I heard a voice that told me to leave you or otherwise face death. Oh, please help me! I am very frightened. He said, This is the ghost of my wife. She appeared in the bathroom last night and also frightened me! She was talking of a revenge she want to take!! She said, I think it would be better if we consult a ozha (magician) He said, What can an ozha do for us? I cannot believe this supernatural things. After a lot of quarrel, Arun agreed to meet an ozha.
In the next morning, they met an ozha at the bazaar. The ozha said, Your wifes spirit can only be calmed if you perform a religious ritual. Ajoy said, How much will it cost? He replied. It will cost nearly Rs. 10,000. After thinking of the cost, Ajoy though it would be impossible to meet the expenses. He thought it would be better if he consult a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist resides in his neighbor. His name is Tom Jackson. Ajoy went to him the next day. Tom asked, What happened that night? Tell me some about your past life. Ajoy told him everything. After some time, smoking his pipe, he replied, Ghosts are not present in real life. It is just a product of imagination. So you need a psychiatric treatment of 1 year. I am giving you some medicines. They are mainly sleeping pills. From next week, I will start the counseling session.
One year passed by, after psychiatric treatment, Ajoy is now in normal condition. The ghost never appeared in his dream now. He is leading a normal life. His son is also doing well in his studies. In the next month, he is marrying Arunima.
After his marriage, Ajoy is leading a normal life. Arunima loves him as before. They are leading a normal life. Arunima in the meantime has got a call center job as she had a good command over English. They have a maidservant in their home now. She lives with them day and night. One day Arunima went to shopping in a nearby shopping mall. She prefers to shop from there as it is cheap rather than the bazaar. It was raining heavily. In the evening, she went out for her night shift. Her night shift is from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. The maidservant named Jaya asked him to take the dinner. She cooks the food now as Arunima is working. She cooked 4 chapatis, a fish curry, and a cup of milk. She is fair complexioned. She was wearing a night garment and the garment is so thin that her figure can be seen through it. She had nice breasts and her body has a beauty which is generally not present in any other maidservants. Suddenly the rain came around 10:30 p.m. and she went to collect the clothes from outside. She got drenched. When she returned to the room, Arun was sleeping in another room. Ajoy was smoking after the dinner. She saw her drenched and took a towel and went to wipe her. Ajoy had a muscular figure. The girl could not resist touching him. Then gradually Ajoy took off her dress and she allowed him to do it getting somewhat hypnotized. She touched him and felt a chill down her spine. Ajoy wiped her totally and she went to change in another room. She forgot to close the door and Ajoy saw her body from the darkness in the corridor of their house. He felt very excited and thought this night he will touch her. Around 11 p.m. the girl went to sleep in another room and Ajoy in another room. He began thinking of her. Suddenly he creeped into her room and saw a dim light in the room. He saw her night garment has gone up to her waist and he saw he buttocks. He felt very excited. He slowly went to sleep by her side. Suddenly the girl also felt something and sprung up but then she allowed him to do whatever he desired as she secretly loved him.
A few months passed by and another week of night shift came and Arunima went to do her work. She went away. Then the maidservant told Ajoy that she is pregnant. He became very tensed. To hide this affair, he thought the only way to get relief from her is to kill her.
He went to his office the next day and for some work, the boss told him to go to Hyderabad. He thought it is a nice idea. He also thought not to return any more. He told his wife that he will return next year. He packed his bag and went away. He felt a relief as he avoided making another murder. In Hyderabad, he did a multimedia course from a reputed institute. He began working part time in a small private firm. Then he applied online to a job abroad. It was a great luck that he got a chance to go to America. He went to New York to join the firm.
He became very happy. He joined there and forgot his past life. He forgot about his second wife and the short affair that he had. Everything in his life changed after he joined the company in New York.
