Pari ~ The MissingSoul

| Chapter - 3 |

The moment Raj’s black sneakers touch the ground, Pari squirms out from his arms. She moves away but keeps her dark brown eyes locked with Raj's black ones. The infirmary window has brought them behind the school where only huge green, leafy trees can be seen.

“What are you? Your eyes were red and you also jumped straight from the sixth floor without any help and that too carrying me.” Pari stumbles behind as she gets dizzy but still has a certain determination in her eyes as she stares at Raj through her half closed eyes.

“Pari!” Raj dashes in front of Pari within a blink of an eye and holds her waist to stop her from falling. Their breath mingles as their noses touch. Despite feeling a heaviness, Pari pushes herself  to lock her eyes with Raj. A layer of haze is covering her vision, yet she sees the red colour of Raj's eyes turning back to his usual black.

Her whole body numbs. Stuttering, she mumbles, Va... Vam...pire.”

Bringing her strength together, Pari pushes Raj back and moves away. She sways and holds her head keeping her eyes closed. Her legs tremble as she sits with a thud on the ground. Raj moves forward to hold her but she pushes his hands away. Squinting her eyes, she looks around but black dots start clouding her vision. She gulps down the dryness of her throat mumbling, “That night... it was real... not my hallucination. He killed Sohini... by sucking her...” Pari shuts her eyes with all her strength as if she is trying to remove a disgusting image.

“Raj!” Hearing a familiar voice, she looks up but her vision is already engulfed by darkness.

“Uncle! Thank God you are here. Pari... she saw...” Pari loses her consciousness as Raj continues, “...me, my real self.”

Pari lies on the ground with a thud sound which attracts their attention.

“Shit! Pari!” Raj rushes towards an unconscious Pari. He is about to pick her up but stops when his uncle signals him not to, using his palm. With furrowed eyebrows, Raj looks at his uncle who is staring at Pari's face intently.

“What are you trying to do?” Raj says while tapping his right foot.

“Sshh... don’t be so impatient.”

“We need to take her home. I just can’t understand why we are wasting time like this?” A suppressed growl comes out from Raj's throat.

“Don’t show me your anger. And she is going back to school, not home.” Raj's uncle looks straight into Raj's eyes which is screaming that there is no room for any more arguments.

Raj breaks the eye contact and moves his focus towards Pari who is still unconscious on the ground. Like a hurt child Raj mumbles, “But why? She has already fainted twice.”

“Raj. Don’t be a kid. She shall not know the truth.” Saying this, uncle kneels down beside Pari. He puts his left palm on her forehead and closes his eyes. Soon a purple glow illuminates beneath his palm.

“Uncle! You... this is wrong! Reyna will kill you for this.” Raj furrows while sitting on his feet on the other side of Pari. He moves his hands towards Pari's forehead but pulls them back without doing anything. After a few seconds the purple glow vanishes into the air just as it appeared from out of nowhere. Raj's uncle opens his eyes and removes his palm from Pari's forehead heaving a sigh of relief as the scarlet hue of his eyes become black.

“Uncle! This...” Raj begins but gets cut by his uncle who says, “This is for all of us.” Saying this, uncle turns towards the open window of the infirmary.

“But...”

“No but. Bring her back to the infirmary.” Uncle says as he jumps and enters into the infirmary like a wind.