A small boy
Jagdish started to search for his shirt. He sensed one thing that it was not going to be easy to find it. He always kept seaching for it. In life he didn't got anything easily. He always needed to struggle for every thing. He always had to do everything in his own way. While his younger brother Ravi was sleeping peacefully. But then he was lucky than his elder brother. But then elder brother always managed to get things as per his choice. He knew how to boss on all. But Jagdish never minded it since he also helped him. His elder brother Prashant was different in every way. Prashant started his business already. He had made so many influential friends with his talent that he managed to start his business. He didn't even need help of Dad. So he was hero in eyes of Jagdish. A perfect example to follow in life Jagdish liked him. He wanted to do something like him. But then he knew that he was not like him. He was soft by nature. People loved his softness but worst thing was that they even used his softness. He knew that he needed to act little bit harsh. He needed to call his Mom to find that shirt. He was getting late for school. But he just kept searching. He knew that his Mom was too busy. She was cooking those foods which smelt so much tasty. He felt that she was doing great work for them. He must not disturb her. He started to search for his uniform. Finally he found it. He got ready. He started to go out when his Mom called him. He didn't want to be late for school so he just ignored it. He started going out, when Mom came out with tin. Mom " Will you open it for me?" " Mom I am getting late. Just give tiffin." " That's why I am asking you to open it. I can't cook without sugar." " You are telling me my tiffin is not ready? Why didn't you ask Dad?" " You know your Dad very well. He did not help at all. Just open it and every thing will be ready in two minutes." " No need." He just took bag and wanted to go out. But then he looked inside eyes of his Mom. They were full of tears. He took tin and started to open it. His hand started to pain. It took some time but finally it opened. His Mom ran inside. He sat outside in hall. He needed to catch his bus. He didn't want to be late. He could wait for ten minutes. He just took out one book and started reading. Then he saw his Mom ran inside to wake up Ravi. He knew that she was going to help him with every thing. She never had time for him. He went inside kitchen. He looked at his empty lunch box. He saw his lunch. He decided that he had waited for so long he should just fill lunch box. He looked in pots. It had every thing that Ravi liked. Ravi never are his lunch box if Mom didn't fill it with his favorite food but he always ate it. He was so upset. Still he took that lunch box and filled it. He started to go out when he heard his Mom was telling Ravi that he must woke up. But he knew that Ravi would reach school on time since Mom would manage every thing. He just took his backpack and lunch box. He went out of house while banging door as loudly as possible with one hope that his Mom would hear it. But like every day she didn't hear him and he went away. It was not new for him. This was happening every day since Ravi was born. Before Ravi he was important to them, but now every one was so busy. Ravi was getting spoiled day by day. But no one interested in stopping it. He just stood on bus stop. He sat there alone waiting for his bus. He never took school bus since it took long round while this bus reached quickly. But Ravi took school bus since he was always late. Jagdish had many things to do at school while Ravi was not interested in those things. But still Ravi get good marks so his every mistake was forgiven. Jagdish just hated it. He wanted to run away from this situation. Then suddenly he sensed someone was sitting near him. He turned but no one was there. He was so scared and confused. Then bus came he just ran inside it.
When Jagdish sat in bus, he was so scared. He just did't understand his fear. He shouldn't believe ghost. He couldn't sense some feeling. He thought that some one was sitting near him. He sensed that some one was there. He was sure but then on other hand he was sure that no one was sitting. He saw many times. But he knew no one was there. He sat there and started to watch out of window. He started looking around when he saw a small boy in next cottage. He was riding on bicycle. It was cute scene. He was looking out when suddenly that small boy smiled in his direction and he started screaming" Bye." It was so strange. That unknown small boy was smiling at him as if he knew him very well. It was really strange. First he sensed someone sitting near him. Now this unknown boy was smiling. He sensed one thing that he was thinking too much. He started to play on mobile. He became busy. He forgot all until conductor didn't come to him and said " Are you awake? Don't you want to go out of bus? Your bus stop had arrived. " He was so shocked and confused. He didn't understood anything. He just ran out of bus with his things. He clearly heard from behind. Conductor was telling to some one " This mobile is spoiling young generation. " But he knew that it was not true. He was still confused. He knew that he was confused due to that small kid. He went in classroom but he was tense. His friend Tushar came near him with foot ball. " Are you going to just sit here? Come on you need some air now. You need to come on playground or you will never able to get any girl in life. Don't you want a nice wife?" He started laughing. Jagdish hated it when they started discussing such things. He didn't want to remember his thoughts about romance since he knew that he needed to concentrate on career now. He needed to just focus. All boys didn't seem to take life seriously but he took it very seriously. He wanted to complete his education. When he looked around, he saw just careless kids who didn't took life seriously but he took it. " No thanks. I will do exercise during my football practice." " Of course. You are champ of our foot team." Then Tushar started laughing. Jagdish was selected in team but he was not good player and every one knew it. Jagdish knew that he needed to taunt Tushar but he never did it. Tushar knew that he would not saying anything so Tushar just began to enjoy this. Now a days Tushar began to do this just to show his frustration. Jagdish knew that Tushar wanted to show him that he didn't belong to Tushar's crowd. But Jagdish knew that very well. He never went that much near them. Jagdish just turned his attention to his book. Tushar heard other boys were calling his name he went out. Jagdish always wished that only if he managed to change this seat. He didn't want to sit with Tushar. They were nice friends in beginning but then Tushar started to mix with wrong crowd. Tushar's friends were telling him that he was some one great and he kept telling it to Jagdish. Jagdish wanted to change his seat but he knew that it would look wrong since he was sitting with Tushar for long time so he couldn't say this. He had to tolerate him. Tushar started to move ahead when he suddenly came towards Jagdish again. Tushar " I was thinking we should sit on separate seats. What do you feel?" Jagdish smiled. Jagdish " As you wish." " But question is that who would sit with you?" Tushar said this and started laughing. Jagdish didn't answer. But he was so angry. Jagdish wanted to scream on him. But then suddenly Tina came there. Tina " Are you going on playground or not? Those screams are disturbing us." Tushar smiled and went away immediately. Jagdish thanked his stars. Jagdish sensed one thing that he couldn't get rid of Tushar so easily. He had to accept it. He started to concentrate on book again. He just wanted to forget all his problems. He just kept telling himself slowly they would go away. He would settled best way like Prashant but he had to study for it so he concentrated on book.
Jagdish kept thinking every time. He would answer them one day. But then he never managed those guts. He never even tried to answer them. But he was so scared when he saw Tushar really went to teacher. He felt whole class would feel he didn't able to adjust with any one. He didn't want to be felt alone. He needed one best friend. He decided that this situation was worst. At beginning he had worst best friend now he even managed to lose him. He felt that it was worst situation in which he had no friend at all. He began to feel strange way in his stomach. He began to sense as if whole class room was moving around. He immediately closed his eyes and managed to calm his soul. He needed to learn every step. He needed to keep peace of mind. He started to sense one thing that he was so upset on every point. But he needed to feel normal. Then he heard teacher was calling him. He started to stand up. His heart was racing so fast. He felt as if every one could sense it. He stood before teacher. But his teacher didn't seem to notice any change in him. Teacher " Jagdish from today you will sit with this new boy." Teacher pointed to another boy. " Nitin." He was small timid boy with glasses. He gave weak smile to Jagdish. Jagdish returned smile. Jagdish felt little relieved. Jagdish went back to his bench. He took every thing with him. Then he start shifting it on another bench which teacher pointed. He was scared in heart. Nitin looked like simple boy. But Jagdish was always scared making friendship with Nitin. He started to keep his things. Nitin immediately made place for him. Nitin even started to help him to settle on bench. Nitin started to talk by himself " Hello Jagidish. I am sorry because of me you need to shift away from you friend. But then you need to sense that I need new friends. So will you make friendship?" Jagdish looked at him with confused expressions. Jagdish " Tushar was not my friend. Once we use to be friend but now he entered in new group. He is not interested in keeping friendship with me." Nitin looked shocked. " I thought you both are good buddies. Tushar even said you become teacher." Jagdish gave one sad laugh. " Yes, he liked to sit with me since he could talk to me in way he like and I never able to return his answer." Then Jagdish immediately sat on bench. Jagdish sensed one thing that he had told too much to Nitin. He knew that now Nitin was going to dig more. He started to just writing in notebooks. After that Nitin tried to talk with him many times but he just kept quiet. But Nitin didn't seem ready to give up. He just kept following him. Jagdish felt at beginning that he was acting like dog. But then Jagdish felt he was acting like Tushar. Tushar always treated him like dog. So Jagdish smiled towards Nitin and shared lunch. From that day Jagdish hoped that he would make new nice friend. It was so refreshing for him. He had so many troubles in home but in school he slowly started to enjoy friendship. Nitin used to sit with him. Whole time they used to chat about their life. Nitin used to tell about those books which he had read. Jagdish used to tell about his books. But it didn't continued for long time. One day Jagdish's nightmare became true. Slowly Nitin started to join other boys. He was so upset on that day when he came to school. He saw Nitin was not there. He went in corridor and started waiting for him. He felt Nitin was late. When other boy came near him, " waiting for some one?" " Nitin." " He had came in school before you. He dropped backpack and went to play with Tushar and other boys." Jagdish " Ohh." He managed to hide his disappointment and sat on bench. He started studying. That day Nitin was not interested that much in talking to him. Nitin was just thinking about how did he suppose to play on playground. Jagdish sensed one thing. Nitin was no longer his friend. Jagdish once again returned to his shell. He started to sit all alone again. He just wished only if he had some friend. But then he knew that he couldn't get one. Since he was not that much good, no one wanted to become his friend. He started to study more seriously. He decided that he must forget this game of friendship. He never won any thing so he would never won a friend.
Jagdish kept moving ahead every day. Jagdish was not happy with what was happening. Every one started to ignore him. But he kept quiet. He kept going until one day he sensed it again. He sensed someone's presense near him. He was sitting in bus. He looked around in bus. His bus was fully empty. He was sitting alone in that bus. This never happened. His bus mostly loaded with people. He was so confused. He looked around when conductor came near him. He had pass so no question of ticket. He asked him" Why bus is empty?" " I don't know may be last bus was late. " Conductor started arranging his money. He got busy with his work. Jagdish was still confused. He started looking around in bus. He started counting empty seat. Most of them were empty. He looked around in bus. Then he sensed that he didn't looked ahead. Few people were sitting on front seat. But he felt that most of bus was empty. He started to look around. It was strange. Bus was not totally empty. But it was not normal. He looked out of window. He once more saw that small boy was riding that bicycle. That small boy was riding once again in so early morning. It was really strange. He started to sense that it was really strange. A small boy was riding on such early in morning. He couldn't believe some family let him ride such early in morning. He didn't find it convincing. He started to look at that boy carefully. He saw this boy was taking his bicycle to different corner. He started to turn behind but his bus came far away. He couldn't manage to locate that boy. He felt that some thing strange happened. It was totally shocking. He sensed pressure on his soul. He felt so sure that some one was with him. He just ran out of bus as soon as he came near stop. He didn't look behind. He just went straight in school. He didn't look behind even to check things. He just kept moving ahead. He entered inside classroom. He started to read his books. But he was shivering. He still started to feel that this boy was following. That small boy was not real. He began to feel that something was totally wrong with that small boy. He began to sense that small boy was not normal. He was so confused. He knew that spirit didn't exist. Then Nitin suddenly put hand on his shoulder. Jagdish screamed. Nitin started laughing. Nitin " Are you afraid of me?" Jagdish just sat on bench. Then Nitin became interested again. Nitin just loved to hear gossip. He decided that he could join game later. After all he was just referee of empire not as important as other players. He started to sense that Jagdish would give more interesting tale to him. Jagdish started looking at him. Jagdish's eyes were clearly telling that he needed just little push and he would say it all. Nitin knew that Jagdish was nice boy. He used his all information to impress Tushar. But he never shared those evil things which he said about Tushar since Nitin had his morals. Nitin decided that he might share this tale with Tushar. If Jagdish was scared without reason, they could laugh on it. Those boys loved to joke on other people. Nitin sat near him. Nitin " I can't force you to tell but I can advise that it would be better if you tell me. It might reduce your tension little bit..." Nitin started to talk sweetly and Jagdish just decided that he must tell it all. Jagdish told him all step by step. He never sensed that Nitin was laughing. Nitin " Come on. You can't see ghost like that. You are day dreaming." This was first time Jagdish was happy when Nitin joked on him. But when Jagdish smiled, Nitin felt scared. Nitin sensed that Jagdish was not joking. Nitin started to think about that house. Then he suddenly remembered. This was that house which was empty for long time. But no one was interested in purchasing it. Nitin never knew reason behind it. But suddenly Nitin felt that it could be ghost. On that point Nitin felt strange breathe on his neck. He screamed loudly. Nitin " You are right that boy is here." " What? It is not possible. He is in that house." " No he followed you idiot. Don't you sense it. Just tell him to go out." Jagdish started laughing. " You are cracking joke. Right?" Nitin kept screaming " No I am not. Tell that boy to go." Nitin just kept screaming. Slowly whole class gathered. Even teacher came still Nitin just kept telling that boy was there. Finally teacher touched his forehead. Teacher " You are having fever. " Then a peon came and took Nitin to home. It was worst for Jagdish. He was glad that Nitin didn't said things clearly. He didn't want to be blamed. He kept looking around. But he never felt any feel of that boy. It was strange. He felt that ghost just in bus or in that house. He didn't understand logic behind this. But he decided that from tomorrow. He just started to take different route with auto to avoid that house. He didn't want to take risk. He decided that he could find students who would share auto with him. He knew that he might reach late due to it. But he would did it any way.
Jagdish was so tense from that day. He kept thinking that teacher might call him. He just kept looking behind his back to see if that small boy appeared. One day finally teacher called him. "Jagdish tell me what did you tell Nitin? Why did you scared him like that? I never hear any complaint about you until now. But this is too much." " I didn't lied. I saw that boy." Then Jagdish told every thing to teacher. Teacher " Come tomorrow with your parents." Jagdish was scared now. Jagdish " Teacher I am sorry. I told every thing to Nitin." Teacher " You saw it actually." " Not saw. I felt. But I saw that boy in that house." Then Teacher asked him number of his Mom. He gave it. Teacher took it and called her. Jagdish hated this. But he knew that he could escape it now. He just kept waiting. Teacher " Go to your seat and start reading lesson." He nodded but he was so scared. He just tried to concentrate on book. Then he suddenly saw his Mom. Teacher called his Mom. It was worst news. Soon Teacher started to discuss things with Mom. Mom looked tense. Mom kept looking at him. Then Mom came to him. Jagdish " I am sorry Mom. I didn't want any thing bad to happen to Nitin." " I know but did you still saw that small boy." Jagdish felt searching for that feeling. " No Mom. I saw him just on that road." His Mom nodded. From that day his Mom started paying attention to him. Jagdish began to like it. He didn't want that boy now. But then he began to feel that it was strange. Why did he kept seeing that boy. Then one day his Mom took him to psychiatrist. Jagdish talked with him for long time. Psychiatrist " But why did you feel that you are imagining?" " Because I felt that feeling of some one sitting with me." " It is possible that you are depressed so you wanted some one so you felt." " No..it was not like that. Some one was there." " So you believe in ghost?" " No.." Psychiatrist smiled. " Stop panicking like that. I am not going to punish you. Just tell me what happened." " I saw that boy and.." " Not that. Your true problem. What is irritating you?" " Well My mom.." Then Jagdish started telling him every thing. " So you are feeling depressed. You wanted more attention." " But I don't lie for it." He turned to his Mom who was sitting near him. Psychiatrist " Who said you lied? No you didn't you just imagined one friend." Jagdish was shocked. " So that boy was my imagination." His Mom interrupted " No. That boy is existed. He stayed there. He played his bicycle too." " But Nitin said." Psychiatrist " You don't need to worry about Nitin. He had different problem. In fact I can say you are in better situation than him." " I don't understand." " Nothing is wrong with you. You are just depressed. You are trying to find some friend. I will help you with that skill." Then psychiatrist turned to his Mom. " I like to talk with him. If you don't mind, will you go out?" " Sure." Then psychiatrist began friendly chat. Slowly Jagdish began to tell him every thing. Jagdish sensed one thing step by step that it was helping him. After that Jagdish started to go by same bus. He saw that small boy. He did bye to him. He never felt any body near him now. At beginning he used to feel need of attention but now he knew that he needed to move ahead in his own way. His Mom couldn't help him for entire life. He didn't want to become weak like his Ravi. Ravi was named after sun but never woke up on time. He didn't want to become so slow. He started to get ready. He even started to pack lunch. He knew that it was hard to get friend. But now he started to talking with every one. He didn't try to create friend. At beginning some asked about Nitin but slowly Nitin was forgotten. Soon it became clear that Nitin was not coming back to school so Jagdish started sitting alone on bench. But now he didn't mind. Since he understood that person needed to become best friend of his own soul first. Then person could get as many friends as he want. Now he sat alone but still every one was friendly with him. Since he chatted freely without hurting any one but even answer them properly when they tried to hurt him. It worked in perfect way for him. Now he was happy again. He didn't want to become like any one now. He wanted to just become himself in life.
The End
Jagdish started to search for his shirt. He sensed one thing that it was not going to be easy to find it. He always kept seaching for it. In life he didn't got anything easily. He always needed to struggle for every thing. He always had to do everything in his own way. While his younger brother Ravi was sleeping peacefully. But then he was lucky than his elder brother. But then elder brother always managed to get things as per his choice. He knew how to boss on all. But Jagdish never minded it since he also helped him. His elder brother Prashant was different in every way. Prashant started his business already. He had made so many influential friends with his talent that he managed to start his business. He didn't even need help of Dad. So he was hero in eyes of Jagdish. A perfect example to follow in life Jagdish liked him. He wanted to do something like him. But then he knew that he was not like him. He was soft by nature. People loved his softness but worst thing was that they even used his softness. He knew that he needed to act little bit harsh. He needed to call his Mom to find that shirt. He was getting late for school. But he just kept searching. He knew that his Mom was too busy. She was cooking those foods which smelt so much tasty. He felt that she was doing great work for them. He must not disturb her. He started to search for his uniform. Finally he found it. He got ready. He started to go out when his Mom called him. He didn't want to be late for school so he just ignored it. He started going out, when Mom came out with tin. Mom " Will you open it for me?" " Mom I am getting late. Just give tiffin." " That's why I am asking you to open it. I can't cook without sugar." " You are telling me my tiffin is not ready? Why didn't you ask Dad?" " You know your Dad very well. He did not help at all. Just open it and every thing will be ready in two minutes." " No need." He just took bag and wanted to go out. But then he looked inside eyes of his Mom. They were full of tears. He took tin and started to open it. His hand started to pain. It took some time but finally it opened. His Mom ran inside. He sat outside in hall. He needed to catch his bus. He didn't want to be late. He could wait for ten minutes. He just took out one book and started reading. Then he saw his Mom ran inside to wake up Ravi. He knew that she was going to help him with every thing. She never had time for him. He went inside kitchen. He looked at his empty lunch box. He saw his lunch. He decided that he had waited for so long he should just fill lunch box. He looked in pots. It had every thing that Ravi liked. Ravi never are his lunch box if Mom didn't fill it with his favorite food but he always ate it. He was so upset. Still he took that lunch box and filled it. He started to go out when he heard his Mom was telling Ravi that he must woke up. But he knew that Ravi would reach school on time since Mom would manage every thing. He just took his backpack and lunch box. He went out of house while banging door as loudly as possible with one hope that his Mom would hear it. But like every day she didn't hear him and he went away. It was not new for him. This was happening every day since Ravi was born. Before Ravi he was important to them, but now every one was so busy. Ravi was getting spoiled day by day. But no one interested in stopping it. He just stood on bus stop. He sat there alone waiting for his bus. He never took school bus since it took long round while this bus reached quickly. But Ravi took school bus since he was always late. Jagdish had many things to do at school while Ravi was not interested in those things. But still Ravi get good marks so his every mistake was forgiven. Jagdish just hated it. He wanted to run away from this situation. Then suddenly he sensed someone was sitting near him. He turned but no one was there. He was so scared and confused. Then bus came he just ran inside it.
When Jagdish sat in bus, he was so scared. He just did't understand his fear. He shouldn't believe ghost. He couldn't sense some feeling. He thought that some one was sitting near him. He sensed that some one was there. He was sure but then on other hand he was sure that no one was sitting. He saw many times. But he knew no one was there. He sat there and started to watch out of window. He started looking around when he saw a small boy in next cottage. He was riding on bicycle. It was cute scene. He was looking out when suddenly that small boy smiled in his direction and he started screaming" Bye." It was so strange. That unknown small boy was smiling at him as if he knew him very well. It was really strange. First he sensed someone sitting near him. Now this unknown boy was smiling. He sensed one thing that he was thinking too much. He started to play on mobile. He became busy. He forgot all until conductor didn't come to him and said " Are you awake? Don't you want to go out of bus? Your bus stop had arrived. " He was so shocked and confused. He didn't understood anything. He just ran out of bus with his things. He clearly heard from behind. Conductor was telling to some one " This mobile is spoiling young generation. " But he knew that it was not true. He was still confused. He knew that he was confused due to that small kid. He went in classroom but he was tense. His friend Tushar came near him with foot ball. " Are you going to just sit here? Come on you need some air now. You need to come on playground or you will never able to get any girl in life. Don't you want a nice wife?" He started laughing. Jagdish hated it when they started discussing such things. He didn't want to remember his thoughts about romance since he knew that he needed to concentrate on career now. He needed to just focus. All boys didn't seem to take life seriously but he took it very seriously. He wanted to complete his education. When he looked around, he saw just careless kids who didn't took life seriously but he took it. " No thanks. I will do exercise during my football practice." " Of course. You are champ of our foot team." Then Tushar started laughing. Jagdish was selected in team but he was not good player and every one knew it. Jagdish knew that he needed to taunt Tushar but he never did it. Tushar knew that he would not saying anything so Tushar just began to enjoy this. Now a days Tushar began to do this just to show his frustration. Jagdish knew that Tushar wanted to show him that he didn't belong to Tushar's crowd. But Jagdish knew that very well. He never went that much near them. Jagdish just turned his attention to his book. Tushar heard other boys were calling his name he went out. Jagdish always wished that only if he managed to change this seat. He didn't want to sit with Tushar. They were nice friends in beginning but then Tushar started to mix with wrong crowd. Tushar's friends were telling him that he was some one great and he kept telling it to Jagdish. Jagdish wanted to change his seat but he knew that it would look wrong since he was sitting with Tushar for long time so he couldn't say this. He had to tolerate him. Tushar started to move ahead when he suddenly came towards Jagdish again. Tushar " I was thinking we should sit on separate seats. What do you feel?" Jagdish smiled. Jagdish " As you wish." " But question is that who would sit with you?" Tushar said this and started laughing. Jagdish didn't answer. But he was so angry. Jagdish wanted to scream on him. But then suddenly Tina came there. Tina " Are you going on playground or not? Those screams are disturbing us." Tushar smiled and went away immediately. Jagdish thanked his stars. Jagdish sensed one thing that he couldn't get rid of Tushar so easily. He had to accept it. He started to concentrate on book again. He just wanted to forget all his problems. He just kept telling himself slowly they would go away. He would settled best way like Prashant but he had to study for it so he concentrated on book.
Jagdish kept thinking every time. He would answer them one day. But then he never managed those guts. He never even tried to answer them. But he was so scared when he saw Tushar really went to teacher. He felt whole class would feel he didn't able to adjust with any one. He didn't want to be felt alone. He needed one best friend. He decided that this situation was worst. At beginning he had worst best friend now he even managed to lose him. He felt that it was worst situation in which he had no friend at all. He began to feel strange way in his stomach. He began to sense as if whole class room was moving around. He immediately closed his eyes and managed to calm his soul. He needed to learn every step. He needed to keep peace of mind. He started to sense one thing that he was so upset on every point. But he needed to feel normal. Then he heard teacher was calling him. He started to stand up. His heart was racing so fast. He felt as if every one could sense it. He stood before teacher. But his teacher didn't seem to notice any change in him. Teacher " Jagdish from today you will sit with this new boy." Teacher pointed to another boy. " Nitin." He was small timid boy with glasses. He gave weak smile to Jagdish. Jagdish returned smile. Jagdish felt little relieved. Jagdish went back to his bench. He took every thing with him. Then he start shifting it on another bench which teacher pointed. He was scared in heart. Nitin looked like simple boy. But Jagdish was always scared making friendship with Nitin. He started to keep his things. Nitin immediately made place for him. Nitin even started to help him to settle on bench. Nitin started to talk by himself " Hello Jagidish. I am sorry because of me you need to shift away from you friend. But then you need to sense that I need new friends. So will you make friendship?" Jagdish looked at him with confused expressions. Jagdish " Tushar was not my friend. Once we use to be friend but now he entered in new group. He is not interested in keeping friendship with me." Nitin looked shocked. " I thought you both are good buddies. Tushar even said you become teacher." Jagdish gave one sad laugh. " Yes, he liked to sit with me since he could talk to me in way he like and I never able to return his answer." Then Jagdish immediately sat on bench. Jagdish sensed one thing that he had told too much to Nitin. He knew that now Nitin was going to dig more. He started to just writing in notebooks. After that Nitin tried to talk with him many times but he just kept quiet. But Nitin didn't seem ready to give up. He just kept following him. Jagdish felt at beginning that he was acting like dog. But then Jagdish felt he was acting like Tushar. Tushar always treated him like dog. So Jagdish smiled towards Nitin and shared lunch. From that day Jagdish hoped that he would make new nice friend. It was so refreshing for him. He had so many troubles in home but in school he slowly started to enjoy friendship. Nitin used to sit with him. Whole time they used to chat about their life. Nitin used to tell about those books which he had read. Jagdish used to tell about his books. But it didn't continued for long time. One day Jagdish's nightmare became true. Slowly Nitin started to join other boys. He was so upset on that day when he came to school. He saw Nitin was not there. He went in corridor and started waiting for him. He felt Nitin was late. When other boy came near him, " waiting for some one?" " Nitin." " He had came in school before you. He dropped backpack and went to play with Tushar and other boys." Jagdish " Ohh." He managed to hide his disappointment and sat on bench. He started studying. That day Nitin was not interested that much in talking to him. Nitin was just thinking about how did he suppose to play on playground. Jagdish sensed one thing. Nitin was no longer his friend. Jagdish once again returned to his shell. He started to sit all alone again. He just wished only if he had some friend. But then he knew that he couldn't get one. Since he was not that much good, no one wanted to become his friend. He started to study more seriously. He decided that he must forget this game of friendship. He never won any thing so he would never won a friend.
Jagdish kept moving ahead every day. Jagdish was not happy with what was happening. Every one started to ignore him. But he kept quiet. He kept going until one day he sensed it again. He sensed someone's presense near him. He was sitting in bus. He looked around in bus. His bus was fully empty. He was sitting alone in that bus. This never happened. His bus mostly loaded with people. He was so confused. He looked around when conductor came near him. He had pass so no question of ticket. He asked him" Why bus is empty?" " I don't know may be last bus was late. " Conductor started arranging his money. He got busy with his work. Jagdish was still confused. He started looking around in bus. He started counting empty seat. Most of them were empty. He looked around in bus. Then he sensed that he didn't looked ahead. Few people were sitting on front seat. But he felt that most of bus was empty. He started to look around. It was strange. Bus was not totally empty. But it was not normal. He looked out of window. He once more saw that small boy was riding that bicycle. That small boy was riding once again in so early morning. It was really strange. He started to sense that it was really strange. A small boy was riding on such early in morning. He couldn't believe some family let him ride such early in morning. He didn't find it convincing. He started to look at that boy carefully. He saw this boy was taking his bicycle to different corner. He started to turn behind but his bus came far away. He couldn't manage to locate that boy. He felt that some thing strange happened. It was totally shocking. He sensed pressure on his soul. He felt so sure that some one was with him. He just ran out of bus as soon as he came near stop. He didn't look behind. He just went straight in school. He didn't look behind even to check things. He just kept moving ahead. He entered inside classroom. He started to read his books. But he was shivering. He still started to feel that this boy was following. That small boy was not real. He began to feel that something was totally wrong with that small boy. He began to sense that small boy was not normal. He was so confused. He knew that spirit didn't exist. Then Nitin suddenly put hand on his shoulder. Jagdish screamed. Nitin started laughing. Nitin " Are you afraid of me?" Jagdish just sat on bench. Then Nitin became interested again. Nitin just loved to hear gossip. He decided that he could join game later. After all he was just referee of empire not as important as other players. He started to sense that Jagdish would give more interesting tale to him. Jagdish started looking at him. Jagdish's eyes were clearly telling that he needed just little push and he would say it all. Nitin knew that Jagdish was nice boy. He used his all information to impress Tushar. But he never shared those evil things which he said about Tushar since Nitin had his morals. Nitin decided that he might share this tale with Tushar. If Jagdish was scared without reason, they could laugh on it. Those boys loved to joke on other people. Nitin sat near him. Nitin " I can't force you to tell but I can advise that it would be better if you tell me. It might reduce your tension little bit..." Nitin started to talk sweetly and Jagdish just decided that he must tell it all. Jagdish told him all step by step. He never sensed that Nitin was laughing. Nitin " Come on. You can't see ghost like that. You are day dreaming." This was first time Jagdish was happy when Nitin joked on him. But when Jagdish smiled, Nitin felt scared. Nitin sensed that Jagdish was not joking. Nitin started to think about that house. Then he suddenly remembered. This was that house which was empty for long time. But no one was interested in purchasing it. Nitin never knew reason behind it. But suddenly Nitin felt that it could be ghost. On that point Nitin felt strange breathe on his neck. He screamed loudly. Nitin " You are right that boy is here." " What? It is not possible. He is in that house." " No he followed you idiot. Don't you sense it. Just tell him to go out." Jagdish started laughing. " You are cracking joke. Right?" Nitin kept screaming " No I am not. Tell that boy to go." Nitin just kept screaming. Slowly whole class gathered. Even teacher came still Nitin just kept telling that boy was there. Finally teacher touched his forehead. Teacher " You are having fever. " Then a peon came and took Nitin to home. It was worst for Jagdish. He was glad that Nitin didn't said things clearly. He didn't want to be blamed. He kept looking around. But he never felt any feel of that boy. It was strange. He felt that ghost just in bus or in that house. He didn't understand logic behind this. But he decided that from tomorrow. He just started to take different route with auto to avoid that house. He didn't want to take risk. He decided that he could find students who would share auto with him. He knew that he might reach late due to it. But he would did it any way.
Jagdish was so tense from that day. He kept thinking that teacher might call him. He just kept looking behind his back to see if that small boy appeared. One day finally teacher called him. "Jagdish tell me what did you tell Nitin? Why did you scared him like that? I never hear any complaint about you until now. But this is too much." " I didn't lied. I saw that boy." Then Jagdish told every thing to teacher. Teacher " Come tomorrow with your parents." Jagdish was scared now. Jagdish " Teacher I am sorry. I told every thing to Nitin." Teacher " You saw it actually." " Not saw. I felt. But I saw that boy in that house." Then Teacher asked him number of his Mom. He gave it. Teacher took it and called her. Jagdish hated this. But he knew that he could escape it now. He just kept waiting. Teacher " Go to your seat and start reading lesson." He nodded but he was so scared. He just tried to concentrate on book. Then he suddenly saw his Mom. Teacher called his Mom. It was worst news. Soon Teacher started to discuss things with Mom. Mom looked tense. Mom kept looking at him. Then Mom came to him. Jagdish " I am sorry Mom. I didn't want any thing bad to happen to Nitin." " I know but did you still saw that small boy." Jagdish felt searching for that feeling. " No Mom. I saw him just on that road." His Mom nodded. From that day his Mom started paying attention to him. Jagdish began to like it. He didn't want that boy now. But then he began to feel that it was strange. Why did he kept seeing that boy. Then one day his Mom took him to psychiatrist. Jagdish talked with him for long time. Psychiatrist " But why did you feel that you are imagining?" " Because I felt that feeling of some one sitting with me." " It is possible that you are depressed so you wanted some one so you felt." " No..it was not like that. Some one was there." " So you believe in ghost?" " No.." Psychiatrist smiled. " Stop panicking like that. I am not going to punish you. Just tell me what happened." " I saw that boy and.." " Not that. Your true problem. What is irritating you?" " Well My mom.." Then Jagdish started telling him every thing. " So you are feeling depressed. You wanted more attention." " But I don't lie for it." He turned to his Mom who was sitting near him. Psychiatrist " Who said you lied? No you didn't you just imagined one friend." Jagdish was shocked. " So that boy was my imagination." His Mom interrupted " No. That boy is existed. He stayed there. He played his bicycle too." " But Nitin said." Psychiatrist " You don't need to worry about Nitin. He had different problem. In fact I can say you are in better situation than him." " I don't understand." " Nothing is wrong with you. You are just depressed. You are trying to find some friend. I will help you with that skill." Then psychiatrist turned to his Mom. " I like to talk with him. If you don't mind, will you go out?" " Sure." Then psychiatrist began friendly chat. Slowly Jagdish began to tell him every thing. Jagdish sensed one thing step by step that it was helping him. After that Jagdish started to go by same bus. He saw that small boy. He did bye to him. He never felt any body near him now. At beginning he used to feel need of attention but now he knew that he needed to move ahead in his own way. His Mom couldn't help him for entire life. He didn't want to become weak like his Ravi. Ravi was named after sun but never woke up on time. He didn't want to become so slow. He started to get ready. He even started to pack lunch. He knew that it was hard to get friend. But now he started to talking with every one. He didn't try to create friend. At beginning some asked about Nitin but slowly Nitin was forgotten. Soon it became clear that Nitin was not coming back to school so Jagdish started sitting alone on bench. But now he didn't mind. Since he understood that person needed to become best friend of his own soul first. Then person could get as many friends as he want. Now he sat alone but still every one was friendly with him. Since he chatted freely without hurting any one but even answer them properly when they tried to hurt him. It worked in perfect way for him. Now he was happy again. He didn't want to become like any one now. He wanted to just become himself in life.
The End
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