I really escaped by the skin of my teeth today! If that pile of clothes hadn't been there, my game would have been over today. But now the biggest trouble is, how will I go to that basement to study again? After the drama that happened today, these people will keep an eye on me like a hawk. Now, every step I take must be taken very carefully.
Anyway, today is my sixth day in this world. This means when I sleep tomorrow, I will reach my real world... to my Aanya.
Anyway, right now I was in my room with Mamma. She had me lying next to her and was telling a story as usual. There is truly some magic in Mamma's voice. While listening to her stories, it feels like I am getting lost in the peace of some other world. Like every time, as the story is about to end, I don't know why my eyelids start getting heavy and sleep begins to take me into its embrace. While watching her silently, a strange thought came to my mind. Truly, how lucky I am... I have two mothers. And this one—after that, I fall asleep.
Suddenly my eyes opened. I looked out of the window—the sun hadn't come out yet, but that thick darkness of the night was no longer there either. A blurry light was spread all around, as if the sun was just about to come out. I looked at Mamma sleeping beside me and thought, 'Perhaps this is the best time to slip away from here.'
I tried to slowly get out of Mamma's grip, but it wasn't that easy. Even while sleeping, Mamma had held me so tightly that it became difficult to move even an inch. I didn't give up and started a full-on struggle. After a lot of struggle and tugging, I finally succeeded in freeing myself from under her hand.
I was just getting happy over this small victory of mine when suddenly—Mamma's eyelids flickered!
My life almost left me. Before her eyes could open completely and see me standing there, I jumped back onto the bed with the speed of lightning and lay down covering myself with the sheet as if I had never gone anywhere.
As soon as Mamma opened her eyes, I said with an innocent smile, "Good morning Mamma!" She also looked at me, smiling with sleepy eyes, and said very lovingly, "Good morning son!"
Right now I am sitting at the dining table and Mamma is right beside me. She is feeding me breakfast with her own hands, exactly like a small child is fed. Now obviously, in this body I am only two years old, so I will have to bear all this. Today a strange silence is prevailing in the house. Perhaps because today 'Energetic' Thomas is not at home. Usually, Thomas stays in his fun mood all the time and when he is around, it is almost impossible for peace to remain. But when I saw him serious yesterday, to be honest, I was a bit scared.
The person on whose face I always saw a big smile, yesterday for the first time I saw that terrifying anger on his face. Seeing that changed form, I realized how scary he can be when he is quiet and serious. Mamma was silently feeding me bites, but the fatigue and worry of yesterday were clearly visible in her eyes as well. In the absence of Thomas, this silence was giving me peace, but at the same time, it was also reminding me of that scary scene from yesterday.
I was lying on the bed, but my legs were resting upwards on the wall, exactly like a small child. I was thinking that now I am in my room, but don't know where Mamma went and has left a fortress of 11 maids here for me. Now I don't understand how I will escape from them and get out? But I will have to go.
I really have to know how I can come and go here after all. I had tried to find out in the real world too whether this thing happens only with me or with someone else as well? I had a suspicion that maybe everyone is able to do this, and I am the only fool who doesn't know about it. But whenever I asked such a question to a friend or an elder, they would be surprised at first and then say— "It would be fun if that happened!" Then they would ask me, "But why are you asking like this?" Now I wouldn't tell them that I can move back and forth between two worlds! So I would just say— "No, just like that."
But I will have to find out what my purpose here is after all, that I can come here. And it is quite strange that if 1 day of the real world is equal to 7 days here, and then when I sleep here, it's not like if I spent 1 day there, I would reach here after 7 days—no, I wake up here the very next day.
According to this, even if I have spent only 3 months in my real world, they have become equal to 2 years according to this place. This means I now have a total of 18 years of experience—16 years from there and these 2 years from here. Although, this 2-year experience is that of a child so it's not that useful, but whatever it is, it's fun here.
If there is any tension, it's only about that exam bet that I have placed for 1 lakh rupees. Now I don't know what will happen, but I will find out the secrets of this world only from that book, as to what is here. I never thought that there would really be magic here, which Mamma often used to tell me in stories. This is no less than a great magic for me and I will have to learn everything here quickly.
So now I will have to think of an idea to get out of here... and just then, that same smile came on my face again, and that too, a dirty one.
The End.