WORLD BEYOND

07) WHAT IS HAPPENING?

 
 
 
Felix was shocked for a while. For the first time in his life, he grew a big doubt about his mom. Why she had a hidden passage in her room? Why did she hide all those things from him? What is happening?
 
Felix looked at the door of the secret passage. He closed it without making any sound. And then he saw that the surface of the door was covered with a tapestry. Nobody could understand that it was a door unless it was opened.
That old tapestry covered with a heap of dust had hidden everything perfectly from everyone’s eyes. Felix realized that he had seen this tapestry many times whenever he entered his mom’s room. It had been always there, a faded image of a man wearing strange clothes.
  But Felix never paid an attention towards that. It was just an old portrait for him until now.  “But I never thought about such a thing. Who knew that this old, dusty tapestry was a secret door!” he thought.
 
“Mom had hidden all these things from others eyes. But she might have not opened this for a long time. If not it couldn’t be so dusty and dirty. She hadn’t even try to clean this. I am sure that she is hiding something big. Very big.” Thousands of thoughts came to his mind.
 
 But before he could conclude anything he heard his mom’s voice. A shivering voice calling his name with fear.
  “Felix where are you son?”
He could also hear Aunty Jenny’s high voice and Uncle Larry’s old, trembling voice. All were calling him with fearful voices.
“Well, I can’t get caught by staying in this room. I must slip into my room however” Felix thought. He knew that mom and others hadn’t come to the up stair yet.
 
“Before they come, I should escape”

And within minutes he could hear the footsteps on the staircase. He didn’t wait more. He quickly opened the door of his mom’s room, ran to his room and fell onto the bed to pretend that he had been asleep; deeply asleep for all these time. Now he could hear the footsteps on the staircase. They were getting closer and closer. Felix tightly shut his eyes.
 
One, two, three. The door handle turned and the three scared people entered into his room.
 
“Felix, where have you been?” his mom shook his shoulder. Now it was Felix’s turn. He pretended as if he was waking up difficultly from a deep sleep.

“Ohh!  Mom what had happened?” Felix acted his best.
 

“I asked where you have been?”

“I said you, I went to the garden” he replied in an innocent voice.

“You are going to say that you had been digging in the garden for all these time. Felix tell me, where have you been?” his mom asked in a rather angry voice.
 

Felix tried to look away from her eyes, he couldn’t lie to her. But he knew he had to.

“Mom, I was not in the garden for all these time”
 
“Then where have you been?”
 
“Why are you scared mom? I was just in my room, sleeping” he yawned.
 
“You slept? With that dirty clothes? And didn’t you hear we all screaming for such a long time?” mom pointed her finger to Felix’s dirty clothes.

 “Umm.. I felt lazy to take a wash” and he understood that it was the time to
end this.

“So I will go to take a wash now. Mom I am sorry if I scared you. But I really didn’t hear you all” Felix said giving a look at Aunty Jenny and Uncle Larry who were standing at the door step with confused eyes.
 
 

His mom finally nodded her head. “OK. Felix I accept your words this time. But don’t make us scared again in this way. If so I will have to punish you. Now go and have a wash and come to the dinner” she got up from Felix’s bed.
“Come down after that. Dinner is ready” she said and left the room.
 
The other two also followed her.
“Ok mom” Felix said.
“I am sorry mom. I had to lie you because you do me the same” he thought.
 
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  Felix came back to his room after the dinner. In the dinner time also he had to answer his mom’s questions. He gave short answers and escaped. He carefully locked the door and opened the locker in his table. Felix took that yellowish papers out from that. He was quick enough to hide them before his mom came.
 
“What may be these things?”
He took out the first paper. It was an article. A newspaper article.
 
“WHO IS THE HERO BEHIND THESE THINGS? A STRANGER SAVED THE CHILDREN FROM A BOAT WRECK”
 
The article’s date was not a recent one. It was a day of 18 or 19 years ago. Felix read it. It was all about a boat wreck, an unknown man who saved the lives of the children, their parents thanking to him, how that person disappeared without any sign and so on. Felix didn’t feel that it was important, so he put it away.
 
Then he unfolded the other paper. It was also like the previous one. Old and yellowish.
“What! This is also an article” Felix started to read it.

“Another strange happening. The hidden hero is back!”
  
It was again about a strange person who had saved a group of teens from a gang of thieves. That person’s secret nature was again highlighted in the newspaper. And he had disappeared without any clue again.

“What rubbish! Why did mom…….or that person……….no no it’s mom I am sure. But why did she keep such things? What is the importance?”

Felix thought, thought and thought.
 
He took the other piece of paper. “Another article again. What nonsense!”
But he continued reading.                                              
“WHAT HAPPENED IN THE YESTERDAY NIGHT? A LIGHT AND A TERRIBLE SOUND! WHO DID THOSE THINGS? GHOSTS OR ALIENS?”
 
Felix felt something familiar in that article. But he couldn’t understand what was that.

“Ah! There is nothing familiar here. It’s just my mind. But……..but I still feel it. Shit!”
He lost his patience.

“Some crazy person might have collected these rubbish. Oh! I misunderstood my mom. This is just rubbish”

He took the papers to put them back. Wait a minute. He felt something hard under that article.

“What is this time?” he carefully took away that thing. It was another old paper. But it was harder than the previous ones.

Felix looked at it. OMG! It was a photo. A photo of a couple. Felix looked at it with a keen interest. There was a man. He was finely dressed. He had a dark, black hair and icy blue eyes. Even in that old,faded photo Felix could sense the brightness in those eyes. They were just like telling a story to him. That man was extremely handsome.
“Unusually handsome. I feel...... ummmm I don't know” Felix thought.

And seeing the lady sitting next to that man, a cold shiver ran over Felix’s body.

“Mom!”
But her face was blurred. It was like someone had tried to destroy it purposely. But Felix was familiar with her image.

“Mom. It’s mom. Isn’t she? Then who is this……… this man standing next to her.” Felix’s head got full of such things. He couldn’t stand anymore. So he sat on the floor.
“Is that….is that my father? No, no it can’t be mom. I.. I didn’t see that lady’s face. But what if it is my mom? What is she hiding from me? Ah I can’t think”
He remained silent for a while. It was a cold night. But Felix was sweating. He took a deep breath and stood up.
 
“I must tell these things to someone. I need someone to help me, to find these secrets” Felix thought.
“But to whom are you going to tell these things?” a voice inside his head asked.
“To your mom?” that voice echoed again.
But Felix talked this time.
“No. It’s no use of telling anything to mom. If she wants to hide these things from me, she will not tell me a word”
“To whom then you are going to tell?” the voice asked again.
There was a pause. Felix took a decision.

“To Dave” he murmured.

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