The next morning when I woke up my mom was opening the door of my room, turning on the lights and coming toward me.
I had never seen my mom coming to my room without knocking as she thought that entering someone's room without their permission was bad manners but that day she was looking angry as she come towards me and asked me to get up, take bath and come to her room as quickly as possible.
Now I was getting curious about what my mom had to talk about with me. I get up quickly, took bath, changed my clothes and walked toward my mom's room.
The moment before I was going to knock on the door, I heard my mom talking with my father regarding that house which everyone in our city, especially people in our society, where my house was located, believed that house to be haunted.
I knocked on the door of the room and my mom asked me to come in.
It was a small room with a bed placed on one side along with two chairs beside the bed and a dressing table at the other end of the room. My father was sitting on the bed and my mom was sitting beside him on a chair.
My mom asked me to sit down on the chair next to her and after taking a deep breath, was trying to calm herself. Few minutes of silence and then she asked me to answer her correctly what she was going to ask while my father was staring at me and looking angry too.
"Did you visit or stopped near that house which we requested you not to stop by while giving you permission to go with your friends to the nearby city Lodhran?" My mom asked.
Her question shocked me, my body started shivering, while trembling I told her that I visited that house and started telling her about what happened that night.
As I continued telling about that night, the facial expressions of my parent were changing rapidly. They were looking worried and were looking at me as if something bad was going to happen.
The moment I stopped speaking my mom ran towards the window so as to look outside. It seems like she was looking for someone outside, like someone standing outside our door. She covered the windows with a curtain and asked me to listen to her carefully and then she started speaking,
" A long time ago, maybe 25 years back when I was of your age I had 3 friends, my best friends who died because of the mistake I make and all those friends had to suffer, I still can't overcome the regret I had of making that mistake.
I also thought that the house which seems haunted was just a story and that was my mistake. I visited that house and within a year I lost all my 3 friends and your father too had lost 2 of his best friends while trying to discover the truth behind those locked gates"
She paused for a while and then again started speaking.......
While I was listening to her and was shocked on hearing what she was saying.