(Chapter 02)
(Scene 07)
-2 hours and 33 minutes left till Faruq's Birthday-
Date: 17th June, 2027
Location: Torture Room
Time: 09:27 PM
(Torture Part II)
The Tick is holding the neck of Amir and dipping him in a drum of water.
Amir doesn't move at all. The Tick thinks to himself,
"Something is definitely wrong with him,
It's been more than 5 minutes.
Normal people would be dead by now.
But he doesn't struggle or wrestle at all. Is he dead?"
Then The Tick lifts up Amir's head from the water thinking he is dead.
But as he does that while holding Amir's hair, an evil smile on Amir's face shakes his
heart from the bottom out of fear.
Amir smiles and says with a disappointing voice,
"Done already?"
The Tick's face becomes pale, without any further delay, he grabs Amir's hair more
tightly and shoves Amir's face again in the water and thinks to himself,
"Nah, I'm thinking too much.
It might be a trick of him,
So let me hold him for some more time—"
As he is dipping Amir in the water, his sweats filled with fear are escaping from his
head and dropping on the floor. But Amir isn't moving at all, as if he is just relaxing.
Fear is wrapping and changing The Tick's facial expressions. His breaths are
becoming heavy as if he is the one who's in the water. His grip from Amir's hair is
getting weaker. Now he starts to yell like an animal running from its predator and
pushes Amir's head deeper in the water.
(Scene 08)
-AT THE SAME TIME IN ANOTHER ROOM-
(Interrogation Part III)
Date: 17th June, 2027
Location: Interrogation Room
Time: 09:27 PM
The clock is running and the recorder is recording.
The Leech is listening and Faruq is speaking.
The light is flickering while the spider at the corner is hunting.
On the floor, blood from Faruq's leg is dripping and painting some haunting
structures.
The Leech laughs out loudly and says,
"So you wanted to commit suicide by drowning, but you didn't.
Then what happened?"
Faruq looks at the clock, pauses for a moment, takes a sigh and starts talking again.
(Scene 09)
(Faruq's Testimony)
—12 DAYS left till Faruq's Birthday—
Date: 6th June, 2027
Location: Amir's house
Time: 03:00 AM
—Amir's HOUSE—
A small single room with an attached bathroom.
No balcony. Only one window on the right side.
One single mattress on the floor in the right corner.
One study table and one desk at the left corner.
Each table has one chair in front of them.
Two lights , one on the right wall, and one on the left wall. One of them is switched
One ceiling fan in the middle and one table fan on the floor and an air
conditioner on the right side of the room.
The smell of cigarettes is floating in the air.
The ticking sound of the clock on the wall can be heard clearly in the silence of the
night.
Amir is sleeping on the mattress, covering himself with some blankets.
The Air Conditioner is running at 16 degrees Celsius. The table fan on the floor is
running at full speed facing Amir. Suddenly sounds of knocking at the main door
break the silence of the room. Amir opens his eyes and stares for a few seconds.
Everything is silent, he closes his eyes again to sleep. Again the knocking sound
breaks the silence. Amir gets up and lights up a cigarette. Then he looks at the clock.
It's 3:00 AM. He stares at the clock and smiles mysteriously.
The sound of knocking gets a little bit louder now, Amir takes out a knife from under
his pillow and gets up, opens his room door, then walks the hallway to the main door
and opens it.
There he sees Faruq. His clothes are completely drenched in rain and his eyes are
soaked in tears. His face looks lifeless and his body looks aimless. Tears have started
running from his eyes.
With blurry eyes he is looking at Amir and with a cracked voice he says,
"Amir—"
Amir hides the knife behind his back, walks up to Faruq and slaps him hard to bring
his senses back to him. Then with an angry but calm voice Amir says,
"Stop crying like girls!"
Faruq has become shocked; He can now think straight– so he stops crying, wipes his
face with his hand. Amir throws a towel at him, then starts wiping Faruq's head and
face, while still holding the cigarette in his mouth.
Suddenly someone from inside the house peeks and asks Amir,
"Who came at this time, Amir?"
Amir replies while wiping Faruq's head,
"My friend–"
The man asks again with a doubtful tone,
"You had never brought your friends before!
I can't even see the face because of the towel,
Are you sure it's not a girl?"
Amir looks back at the man, then removes the towel from Faruq's face, grabs his
beard and says sarcastically,
"You see the beard?
or should I take off his pants to show you his dingdong?
Just go and sleep!"
The man doesn't say anything, just stares for a second and goes back inside the
other room.
Faruq asks with curiosity,
"Who was that?"
Amir replies while fixing Faruq's hair,
"The home owner, I'm just renting one room. Come inside-"
Both of them enter Amir's room.
Amir pulls out a chair for Faruq to sit. Faruq sits on the chair and starts looking
around the room. Amir takes out some clothes from the drawer and stands in front of
Faruq. Faruq is trying to act strong but his eyes are getting wetter.
Amir gives the clothes to Faruq then sits on one knee on the floor and observes
Faruq's eyes and pale face. Then he says with a cold but kind voice,
"What happened?
You know, Tears don't solve— but waste time!"
Faruq now breaks down and bursts into tears. Amir slaps him again — but this time,
it was just a gentle slap. Then Amir says with an angry but soft voice,
"Told you not to cry!
Are you going to make me repeat the same thing for the third time?"
Faruq looks down. Amir with his own t-shirt wipes Faruq's face.
Then rubs his head. After that, opens and passes Faruq a bottle of water. Faruq takes
the bottle and drinks a few sips. Amir is staring at him with such kind eyes and kind
Smile, as if a mother is watching her child who's in pain.
Then Amir says with a low voice,
"Now take a deep breath and start-"
Faruq takes a deep breath, looks at Amir and starts speaking with a sad voice,
"You know my mom had been ill since last month"
Faruq takes another deep breath and continues,
"She died last night."
Amir stares at Faruq like he knew it would happen.
Amir passes him the cigarette. Faruq takes the cigarette, smokes a few puffs,
gives it back to Amir and says hopelessly,
"My step-father tricked me-
to sign some papers saying those were for mom's medical issues.
But those were actually for the ownership of the house and properties-
that my late-father gave me a long time ago."
Amir bends the cigarette out of anger with a straight face staring at Faruq.
Faruq continues speaking,
"Now he has kicked me out of the house-
after taking all my money and stuff.
I have no place to go or any money in my name."
Amir doesn't say anything. He gets up, walks to his bed.
Turning his single bed into a double bed– he says,
"Two of us will fit here,
and my mom gives me some money every month.
We can survive together."
Amir walks up to Faruq and puts his hand on Faruq's shoulder and says with a
kind voice,
" So don't worry.
All your problems about staying and food are solved"
Faruq looks at Amir and says with confused voice,
"But Amir—"
Amir with a straight face grabs Faruq's cheek with his right hand and says with an
angry voice,
"Amir what? I know what you want."
Amir gets a little closer and continues speaking with the same tone,
"Revenge, right?
You want revenge on that corrupted minister's pawn right?"
Tears have started falling from both of Faruq's eyes.
Amir slaps Faruq harder than before and speaks with a cold voice,
"Told you not to cry,
and listen, REVENGE is like a circle;
Once it starts there's no fucking end!"
Then Amir takes away his hand from Faruq's cheek and puts both of his hands on
Faruq's shoulders and speaks with a kind tone,
"But don't worry,
God isn't blind and Karma is a Bitch,
Just wait for them."
Faruq's eyes can't stop the tears, they are falling without making any sound.
Amir gently wipes some tears with his hand while holding Faruq's cheek and says,
"I know, these tears are for your mom.
But tears won't bury the dead"
Looking at Amir, Faruq speaks with a low cracked voice,
"They didn't even let me bury my mom—
or get close to her grave.
I have no one else in this world."
Amir gently puts Faruq's head on his chest and says calmly while stills rubbing
Faruq's hair,
"Don't make me a stranger.
And don't worry about anything as long as I'm alive.
Even if I die, I will make sure you can lead a good life-if The Almighty wills-"
Amir then takes a step back, sits on the floor on one knee, looks at Faruq's eyes
and asks with a hopeful voice,
"Have you forgotten about JANNAT?
Your lover and future wife.
You need to live for her.
When you guys are getting married?"
Faruq looks at Amir with sad eyes and replies,
"We were planning on getting married this month?
But now everything is ruined."
Amir taps on Faruq's right shoulder and speaks with a heavy voice,
"Hissh, we will figure everything out, don't worry"
Faruq looks sad; Sitting like a lifeless doll, staring at Amir with so many unspoken
words behind his blurry eyes.
Amir gets up, holds Faruq's arms and helps him to get up, then he says with a calm
voice pointing at the study table,
"I know you are starving.
There are some pieces of bread and bananas on that shelf.
But first— take a shower."
Faruq is silent. Amir looks at the clock and says,
"It's getting late already, you need to sleep-"
Faruq replies with a cracked voice,
"I don't think I will be able to sleep tonight-"
Amir smirks and says,
"I know, that's why I have something special for you-"
Amir walks up to the study table, pulls the drawer and takes out a bottle of medicine
and speaks with a smile,
"They are my homemade sleeping pills,
If they can knock the fuck out of me with just one pill-
then I think only half of one will be enough for you-"
Faruq stares at the bottle and ask with a low voice,
"What if I take two?"
Amir smirks like a clever wolf and walks up to Faruq and whispers to his right
ear,
"You will fall asleep in less than a second and will wake up in afterlife"
Faruq looks at Amir. Amir is smirking . Then he says,
"I will leave them here, take half of one pill after showering.
Now go for the shower, I need to sleep too-"
Amir throws a new towel and some clothes of his at Faruq, and pushes him to the
bathroom. Faruq goes inside the bathroom, looks back at Amir and closes the door.
As he was closing the door, Amir notices a black blurred shadowy figure behind
Faruq, that disappears inside the bathroom as soon as Amir notices . Amir smirks
with wide eyes as the light of his room starts flickering. He puts his hand on the
bathroom's door and recites some Arabic words.
Then the light stops flickering. Amir removes his hand from the door, but sees his
hand left a red mark on the door. Amir looks at his palm. His palm is filled with
crimson blood. He glares at blood and starts breathing heavily like a hungry animal.
Then slowly he tries to lick a little bit of blood from his palm. But the moment his
tongue touches the blood, his heart starts pounding like crazy.
In a hurry Amir puts his t-shirt in his mouth to bite and then rushes to the study
table while breathing harshly like a hungry angry predator , takes out two pills and
shoves in his mouth. The clock is ticking as his breaths calm down. Amir takes a
deep breath, then looks at the clock, It is 3:33 AM.
"It was not my blood, it was Faruq's"- Amir thinks to himself while glaring at the
clock. Then walks to the bathroom door and starts wiping the blood from the door.
Everything is silent. The sound of Faruq's sobbing leaks through the door and
reaches Amir's ears.
Amir is silent and thinking of something. Then walks up to his study table, opens a
drawer, puts his right hand in there, searching for something. Then he takes out a
piece of ear-bud, puts in on his right ear, taps on the side of the ear-bud and starts
speaking with a low-cold voice,
"They have started their moves, now play ours"
Amir removes the ear-bud and puts them back, then walks up to the calendar,
which is hanging on the right side of the wall. He stares at the dates for a second and
smiles with all his teeth, looks up at the white ceiling and speaks with a
chilling voice,
"The festival has begun. Now which sheep should I cook first?"
Then he smiles without making any sound while slowly rotating his neck clockwise.
(Scene 10)
-AT THE SAME TIME IN A DIFFERENT PLACE-
Date: 6th June, 2027
Location: A secret room
Time: 03:33 AM
-THE SECRET ROOM-
"How long will you hide from us?"-- A mumbling sound can be heard over and over
again in a room where only a single candle on a small table is highlighting a few
parts of it including a skull beside it. The surroundings are filled with darkness like a
nightmare. The mumbling sound makes the air heavy and mysterious.
A chair is swinging back and forth like a pendulum. The smell of burning papers
takes you to a new dimension that mortals neither can see nor go.
A man is sitting on the chair, on his lap there's a skull that he was petting
and smiling creepily while mumbling.
A handsome man in a full black outfit stands behind that man's chair.
Then the handsome man speaks with a low voice,
"Master Jamal,
The sheep has gone to the monster's den.
We finally got the solid location"
Master Jamal smiles creepily while sitting on the chair.
Then he bites his own thumb and blood comes out slowly.
He puts some blood on the forehead of the skeleton while smiling creepily. Then
speaks with a delightful voice,
"That's really a great news, Alpha!"
Alpha stares at the skull on Jamal's lap and says in a cold voice,
"Should we act now, master? It will be like killing two birds with one stone"
Jamal looks at Alpha, then smiles evilly and whispers,
"Nah, not now; Wait for The Elite Master's order,
let him suffer more. More pain for him is more gain for us.
We will act when the time is right."
Alpha speaks with a worried voice,
"But master,
what if the monster hides again?"
Jamals now starts laughing out so loudly that the sound breaks the tension of the
room. The air is vibrating and becoming heavy. Then Jamal stares at Alpha's eyes,
gets up from the chair, walks up to him, puts the skull on Alpha's chest and
whispers in a creepy tone,
"He won't, as long as the sheep is alive!!!"
Alpha smirks, rubs the skull with his left hand and says in a low voice,
"Your father's pawn has done a great job,
I need to reward him."
Jamal walks up to the table and puts the skeleton beside the candle and speaks in a
deep voice,
"He will get it when the time is right."
Then from the corner of the table beside the candle, he picks up two photos and
starts burning them, while mumbling something in another language— a forbidden
language that's not meant for humans. He smirks as the individual photos of— Amir
and Faruq, are burning slowly.
(Scene 11)
(Faruq's Testimony)
-Back In Amir's Room-
Date: 6th June, 2027
Location: Amir's house
Time: 03:57 AM
-Back In Amir's Room-
Faruq gets out of the shower. Lights are turned on. The room feels heavy but silent,
As if there's no one in the room but at the same time it feels like the room is
filled with beings or creatures that human's mortal eyes can't trace.
The ticking sound of the clock feels louder than before. Faruq walks towards the bed
and sees Amir. He is sleeping on the bed like a new born baby. Faruq puts the towel
on the chair beside the study table. Then he opens the drawer to get the pills. His
eyes look soulless. He takes the box of pills without making any sound. Then he
looks at Amir. He is still sleeping.
Faruq takes out one pill, and stares at it with eyes full of depression. Then takes the
bottle while thinking to himself,
("What's the point of living? It's better to never wake up.")
Thinking that he takes loads of pills. Then stops for a second, a tear drop falls from
his left eye. He takes a deep breath and raises his hand to his mouth.
As he is about to swallow them, Amir grabs his throat from behind, squeezes hard
and whispers to his right ear-
"They won't take you to the place where you should go!"
Faruq starts choking. All the pills drop on the floor. Faruq starts tapping Amir's
hand to let go of him as he can't breathe. Amir's eyes and smile are getting bigger as
he is seeing Faruq's suffering face struggling desperately just to breath some air and
survive. Amir says coldly,
"OW the soul wants to live even if the mind doesn't, huh poor body-"
Tears are dropping from both of Faruq's desperate eyes. Amir gets closer to Faruq's
ear from behind and whispers.
"Put them all back-"
Then Amir releases his grip from Faruq's throat. Faruq falls on the floor. And starts
breathing heavily as he finally gets some air.
He looks back at Amir, Amir is standing and staring at him with cold eyes. Amir
asks him with a straight face,
"Why you desperately struggled to breath,
If you were going to commit suicide?"
Faruq can't talk, as he's still breathing heavily. Then Amir kicks Faruq's shoulder,
and so he falls down on the floor and coughs. Amir speaks again but now with a
much colder tone,
"Cause at the end, No mortal wants to die!!!"
Faruq starts to put all the pills back in the box while Amir is staring at his weak body.
Then Faruq gives Amir the bottle after putting all the pills back inside. Amir takes the
bottle and puts it back in the drawer. Faruq gets up and starts massaging own throat.
Amir looks back at Faruq, gets closer to him and in a calm voice he whispers,
"You know I don't have the patience to keep you in check.
If death is what you wish for, then just ask me–"
Faruq looks down with guilt on his shoulder and apologizes softly saying,
"Sorry Amir"
Amir walks to his right side and whispers,
"Save that for later—"
Then Amir hits some specific nerves on Faruq's neck, making him unconscious
and grabbing his body as he was falling.
The room gets silent, dead dense silence dances without senses for a few seconds.
Amir can hear his own breathing and beats of his own heart. The ticking of the clock
is getting louder. Amir puts Faruq on the bed.
Then stares at Faruq for a while and notices something in the right pocket of Faruq's
trouser. He puts his hand in that pocket and takes out something. It's Faruq's phone.
Amir's eyes get bigger, he starts scratching his own head.
Then stares at Faruq's unconscious face and with an evil smile– pulls out the knife
from his back, unsheathes it, and runs the knife softly around his neck without
cutting. While smirking he says coldly,
"Told you not to bring your phone in my house! Foolish sheep."
Then he looks at the calendar with a mysterious look, then again looks back at Faruq,
and whispers to his unconscious ear,
"You have put me in great danger without knowing, you foolish sheep!"
Then Amir rotates Faruq's body, lifts his shirt slightly and checks Faruq's back.
There he sees a demonic symbol like a reverse star in black paint on Faruq's back.
Amir gives a creepy smile and whispers to himself,
"I knew it"
The room feels heavier with a laughing sound which echoes through the bones.