“That boy really needs to learn some manners, walking out of the house like that, who does he think he is?” Samir’s mum said in a very infuriated way.
As Samir arrived at the gates of the college, he was in a horrendous state due to what he had seen on TV. The pictures that were shown were exactly like the ones he had seen in his dreams. Was it a coincidence or was it meant to be? As the final bell rang, to notify the start of college, Samir started rushing, as he wasn’t to be late on his first day. Out of the blue he felt a bash on his shoulder and heard a shriek,
“Watch it idiot, at least have the courtesy to say sorry!” shouted the girl. He glanced back and saw an attractive girl with a smile to die for. He raised her up and apologised to her,
“No worries, but you can be a gentleman and help me pick up the books I dropped, if you don’t mind,” asked the girl,
“Sure,” replied Samir. As they both went down for the same book, they caught a glimpse of each other’s eyes, they stared deeply into one another and all was silent, finally Samir broke the silence,
“Do you have a map by any chance?” The girl asked in a befuddled way.
“No, why?” Samir paused for a moment and in a heartfelt voice responded,
“Cos I got lost in your eyes.” The girl started laughing,
“That is the cheesiest chat up line I’ve ever heard and you don’t even know me,”
“Even if I did know you I am sure I’d be saying the same thing anyway if its names you’re after, I’m Samir and you,”
“I’m Aisha and how are you?”
“I’m fine and you”
“I’m good; besides it was nice for the introduction, but I need to get to my class, don’t want to be late for the first day, so bye” as Aisha walked away Samir found one of her books on the floor which she had left behind,
“Aisha…you left you’re…” she turned back in reply to Samir’s call,
“Left what?”
“Nothing…forget it,” replied Samir as he dropped the book into his bag and walked away.
Samir arrived at his class a few minutes after the meeting with Aisha. Knowing he was very late, he settled himself at the back of the class next to a girl who much reminded him of the beauty of Aisha. Something about his girl made his heart beat faster and faster whenever he looked at her, sometimes it felt like she was a magnet to his eyes. He could not stop looking,
“Come on Samir, get a hold of yourself, what are you doing? At least ask her what her name is,” mumbled Samir under his breath,
“Sorry did you say something to me?” asked the girl next to Samir in an exceedingly sweet voice.
“Err no, I mean yes. May I know what your name is?” Samir replied in a timid way,
“Course, I’m Shahina and you are…?”
“Nice name, I’m Samir,”
“Thanks, so you planning on being this timorous for the rest of the year, cos you are going to be sitting next to me for that long,” laughed Shahina,
“Yeh, I mean no. I’m not really like this; its just first meetings and I kind of find it hard to talk to girls like you,” Samir replied, still diffident.
“Girls like me?”
“Well, what I mean is that I find it hard to talk to girls as beautiful as you. Beauty such as yours can even make flowers blossom in the dessert and eyes such as yours can make it seem as if I’m looking into heaven.” Samir’s voice was getting more confident and sweet after each word, he could see that his words had touched Shahina really deep within. She kept quiet, as she did not know what to say. Samir felt like he had said enough, so he got on with the work that had been set. Whilst getting out his books he found the one that he had hidden from Aisha, he got it out and turned to the back of the book and wrote a small message on the back,
“Your eyes are like the stars on a beautiful dark night
Your lips are like roses within my sight
By looking at your beauty there is only one thing I can mention
You are one of god’s finest creation.
Your beauty is like an angel from the sky
My love for you will last for eternity and never will it die.
I have never seen such eyes or such a smile
I have never witnessed such beauty not even for a while.”
Samir’s lesson had gone very quickly and his friendship with Shahina had quickly grown to be very strong in a short period. Both of them were inseparable, the only time when you’d see them apart is when Samir would be on the look out for Aisha, maybe wanting to give the book back to her or maybe wanting to declare his love for an angel such as her. Two days gone by, when Samir finally noticed Aisha, he ran towards her, as he didn’t want to be parted from her for any longer. Aisha caught a glance of Samir and walked towards him,
“Long time no see.” Said Aisha
“I know, anyway I wanted to give something to you,” replied Samir,
“Really, go on then show it to me.” Samir brought out a flower and shows it to Aisha,
“Come on Samir that is so old. A flower? I’m sure you can do better than that,” said Aisha,
“This flower isn’t for you though Aisha, I was just showing this beauty how gorgeous you are,” Samir responded, “and I also wanted to give your book back to you.”
“Thanks Samir, you’re such a charmer,” replied Aisha, “hey, what’s this message you wrote on the back?”
“It’s truly many of the things that I feel for you, and will forever Aisha. These past few days have been so hard, everyday I would go out of class simply to look for you. Every time I mentioned your name to myself, my love would grow. Words however special... could never even start to tell you all the love I have for you within my heart. However, there is one thing that I can say to you that will merely tell you how much I care for you. Loving you could take
my life, but when I look into your eyes, I know you're worth that sacrifice, I love you!” Samir said every one of these words with the most earnest voice. Silence fell as Samir awaited an answer from Aisha, her eyes were gleaming but she didn’t know what to say. Samir moved stealthily towards her and went over to kiss her,
“Samir! What you trying to do?” screamed Aisha at the top of her voice,
“I thought that’s what you wanted, you kept so quite, your eyes were lustrous, and I thought you felt exactly the same as I did, so I went over to kiss you.” Replied Samir,
“Felt the same, how can you assume I felt the same. Well yes, I did once when we first met. If you had said all this then we could have been together, but now Samir you are too late… I don’t feel the same not anymore”
“Why? Why am I too late? There is nothing stopping us, we can be together, we can have it all, but just don’t say no, please” Samir was on the brink of crying, he couldn’t handle being rejected again,
“Because,” Aisha hesitated, “because I’ve found someone, someone who loves me just as much as you,”
“so what if he loves you, he cant love you more then me and like you said before, you once did feel something for me, we can build on that one time” cried Samir “just please don’t leave, please!”
“I have to Samir, don’t make this harder then it already is. He’ll probably be waiting for me, I have to go, bye Samir bye”
“If you want to leave then leave, but can you at least tell me who it is you’re leaving me for?” asked Samir,
“You might not know him, but if it makes you feel better, it’s Danny from your class,” replied Aisha “I hope you’d forget about me Samir. I wish for you the best because I know whatever girl does get you is going to be very lucky and I know that girl is not going to be me Samir, bye.” Aisha walked away after saying her final words, she looked back many times with tears falling from her eyes, she tried to smile but that was too hard. Samir was on his knees with his arms out still hoping she would change her mind and come back running into them. But the closest thing he got to his hope was a breath taking smile from Aisha which made him cry with love even more,
“Aisha!” Shouted Samir powerfully but there was no reply. Samir got up, tears still falling from his eyes; heartbroken again as he was when Catherine walked away. Staggering from side to side, he approached home in a devastated condition. His mind was dizzy and his eyesight was fading away, he knocked on the door and as it opened, he fell into his mums’ arms.
“You were in my mind from the first day my eyes set upon you; From then on I knew my love was true. Here you posed with your tender lips so sweet enough to kiss, along with your beautiful figure impossible to even miss. These are merely some of the things that I feel for you Aisha and I know that in my heart, this feeling will never go absent. No matter how far you would be away from me and no matter how much you try to deny it, I know I love you and you love me.” Saying these words Samir grasped Aisha in his arms and brushed her hair with his finger. As his lips went closer to hers, a bloke of similar build to Samir came and threw him to the ground.
“What you trying to do man, can’t you see that she don’t like you, she don’t want you. So leave her alone!” shouted Danny,
“Or what!” replied Samir vigorously, “what you going to do?”
“What am I going to do to you? I’m going to do what I exactly do to a biscuit in the morning, break it!” responded Danny with Aisha still held strongly in his arms,
“Go on then tough guy, all words but no action hey” shouted Samir violently. Danny came running towards Samir as he was saying those words, but Samir was too quick. He grabbed Danny’s head in one arm and with his other hand, he pulled out a cold silver dagger stained with blood all over. He pierced the dagger straight into Danny’s head, twists and turned it, but the solidity of Danny’s head split the dagger in half, blood spurted onto Samir’s face again he licks it off. Abruptly Aisha came onto Samir and slapped him on the face,
“You satanic monster, you murderer, how could you do this!” yelled Aisha, Samir dropped Danny’s lifeless body onto the floor; he grabbed Aisha in his arms and stroked the broken dagger upon her face smearing it with Danny’s blood. She tried to get off him but Samir’s grasp was too strong for her to even move. Aisha bitted Samir on the hand and was instantly thrown onto the floor. She tried to crawl away but Samir stamped on her foot, Aisha screamed with pain,
“Is it hurting sweetie?” laughed Samir, “since you admitted you liked me, well a little bit I promise you. I will make your death nice and quite”
“Samir, leave me alone, your scaring me” shouted Aisha, “what has gotten into you? You’re not like this”
“What has gotten into me? You really want to know what has gotten into me?” asked Samir,
“Yes, Samir, I do,” responded Aisha,
“You have Aisha! You have! Since the first day I saw you I couldn’t get my eyes off you, I fell in love at once with a girl who I adored and when I declared my love for you, I get rejected. Do you know how many times I have been rejected? Enough times, and you’re asking me what has gotten into me, well I have just told you,” shouted Samir, his voice getting louder after every word. He jumps on top of Aisha holding the dagger in his hand,
“And now I think its time for you to die!” shouted Samir, before continuing with his actions he gave Aisha one last kiss and finally stabbed the broken dagger into her chest. Samir ripped of her upper clothes and engraved the shape of a heart onto her torso. Samir finally got up laughing manically and walks away into the mist.
“Samir, Samir get up! What has happened to you, please son wont you get up, not even for your mum?” cried Samir’s mum beside his bed, “please bheta get up.”
Unexpectedly Samir jumped up as if he just had a nightmare, the light was shimmering from the window and cold air was rushing in.
“Mum, what just happened, how did I get here,” asked Samir puzzled,
“You fainted yesterday when you came through the door son, what happened to you, what were you doing?” Samir’s mum was on the brink of crying; Samir took her into his arms and hugged her tightly,
“Nothing mum, I’m sure it’s all been taken care of,” whispered Samir as he looked at the switched on TV and saw Aisha’s deceased body with a heart engraved into her chest. Samir’s mum left the room knowing her son was finally back to his normal self. Samir got up; he opened his bag, took out his phone and phoned Shahina, a person he knew he could trust. An hour after calling Shahina he heard the doorbell ring, his mum in the garden was unaware of Samir asking Shahina to come over. He opened the door,
“Samir, what’s wrong? Why do you seem so worried?” asked Shahina,
“I’ll tell you, but I’ll need you to come up with me,” replied Samir, they both went into his room and he shut the door behind him,
“I’ve noticed something’s not right about you Samir, I couldn’t say anything because you always used to walk away looking for someone you wouldn’t tell me about, who is this person, why do you look so scared?” asked Shahina anxiously waiting for a reply, “Samir you could at least say something because this is eating me up. However, if you will not say something then I will. I love you Samir”
“You love me?” baffled by what he just heard Samir didn’t know what else to say,
“Yes Samir I love,” replied Shahina,
“Since when?” asked Samir still puzzled,
“Ever since we used to laugh and cry about small things, I have loved you. Ever since the day you said all those sweet things I have loved you. When we used to sneak out to the terrace and count the stars, I have loved you. Now, I myself have forgotten since when I have loved you. I can only say that I love you and only you. Every time you look at me I always get a feeling inside that you too love me, is this feeling true Samir, is it?”
“I can’t believe you felt like this for me, why didn’t you say before?” asked Samir,
“Just tell me, do you love me or not?”
“Shahina since the first time I saw you I knew I was in love, every time my eyes caught a sight of you they would stare and stare until you was out of sight. Even mentioning your name to myself felt special, it was as if you hypnotised me with your beauty...with your eyes...with you. I just could not get you out of my mind.
My first and last words of the day...my first and last thoughts of the day would be about you. I just could not go to sleep without thinking of you. I prayed to god that one day you would be mine and I would be yours... I felt as if I couldn’t live without you...This feeling that I was experiencing was so special I wanted to tell everyone about how I felt about you but I just couldn’t describe the full extent of my feeling by words.. It was a feeling that I never felt before... But what I could tell everyone was that you were the one, you were the one and only, you were the one that I love and desire. You were unique you were special you was just you. But the only thing that stopped me from declaring my love for you was fear.” replied Samir in one of his sweetest voices,
“Fear! Fear of what?” asked Shahina befuddled,
“Fear, fear of your death Shahina, fear of your death!” Replied Samir, in a weak voice,
“What you mean my death? How can loving me, bring me death?”
“Anyone who I love gets killed Shahina!” cried Samir, “they get killed! Catherine; I loved her so dearly but she rejected my love called me many things, she died the next day. Aisha; the girl who I used to go and search for in college, yesterday was when she rejected me for another boy, now her and that boy are dead. Look at the TV, if you don’t believe me!” Instantly Shahina turned round and saw a boy with a head split in half, next to that boy a girl half-naked with a heart engraved into her chest, lifeless as can be.
“But how do you know that they’re connected to you? It can all be a coincidence Samir, a coincidence,” asked Shahina.
“They’re not coincidences Shahina and I know that because I dreamt their deaths. The night that they reject me, I have visions of killing them. They seem so real and when I wake up their dead. How can that be a coincidence? Oh, Shahina this is doing my head in,” Samir replied, each of his words creating more confusion between the both of them.
“Samir, are you sure you’re not imagining this, I mean why? Why is this happening?” asked Shahina. From her voice, Samir realised she was getting scared, he tried to drop the subject but Shahina wanted to find the underlying cause of the mystery.
“I know! Samir, why don’t you dream about my death, and then you can see what happens to me?”
“No Shahina. I can’t take such a risk. What if you really die then I won’t have anyone in my life, I can’t take such a risk Shahina, not one that will affect my life forever!” cried Samir, thinking about the consequences and his loved one dead.
“I won’t die Samir, when the effect starts taking place I’ll shout for you to wake up then nothing will happen, nothing.” Samir tried not to believe in what Shahina was saying but her voice seemed so positive, as if she knew what she was doing.
“How do you presume I to go to sleep then?” asked Samir,
“I’ll show you!” saying this she swung a punch at Samir's face putting him to a deep, deep sleep, “I never knew I had that much power, cool.”
“Don’t try and run away from me Shahina. I will get you, one way or another,” shouted Samir. As he was running tears were falling from his eyes, he didn’t have the strength needed to harm a loved one such as her; the previous girls were just an example of love, but not the real thing. Maybe this was the reason for these dreams and their deaths. However, Samir knew why he was in this particular dream and the sooner he got it over with the less pain will be inflicted on his heart. Unexpectedly he bumped straight into Shahina, he looked at her for a while thinking of how to do this without killing her. He grabbed her in his arms held her tight, still tears falling from his eyes, he slapped her. She looked at him not hurting at all and he slapped her again, repeatedly. Suddenly she let out a powerful scream. Samir didn’t know what he had just done, he was slapping her so lightly, Shahina let out another powerful scream, this time Samir was extremely confused, he didn’t even touch her.
“Samir! Samir! Samir!” Shahina shouted even more powerfully. Now he knew what was happening, the voices seemed so real, because they were real! Rapidly Samir woke up, his
head still feeling woozy and his face hurting like hell, he goes in search for Shahina. Taking every step with vigilance, he tried not to make any noise. He followed the sounds of the screams to his mother’s bedroom, his heart beating faster and faster and faster. His breathing getting coarser and loud. His mouth was getting dry. He didn’t have any clue what he was going to do next, but he knew he had to do something. As his hands went closer to the doorknob, shivering. It all of a sudden flung open and hit his head. Samir fell onto the ground. As the door opened wider, the killer of the two girls came out. Samir looked up at himself, as he looked down on him. He couldn’t believe the similarity between him and the murderer, it seemed like he was looking straight at a mirror. Samir got up, and looked into the room and found Shahina perfectly fine and well. He looked at the twin again still amazed. Samir then saw his mum coming upstairs. He didn’t know if he was to hide his discovery or to let his mum see it, but it was too late she already had.
“I can’t believe this is happening, after all these years I finally get to see you again, Salim,” cried Samir’s' mum as she ran towards this person and hugged him.
“Mum, what you on about, all these years? Who is this murderer?” asked Samir bemused.
“I am not a murderer!” shouted Salim.
“How can you say you’re not a murderer when you just tried to kill Shahina, right in front of me,” responded Samir aggressively.
“I was not the one killing her and the other two girls, it was your mind. All I did was enacting what you were thinking, brother,” replied Salim with a grin.
“Don’t you call me brother!” shouted Samir.
“Why shouldn’t he call you brother, he has all the rights to, you murderer!” shouted Samir's mother with a crying but powerful voice.
“What do you mean; I’m the murderer, he killed them all not me,” replied Samir on the brink of crying.
“You see Samir, you and your twin brother were born with a rare condition. You were too weak to do anything such as murder because you didn’t have the moral fibre within yourself to commit a thing like that, but you have an evil heart Samir. This made you dream about murders and your brother Salim, well he had the strength to commit such sins but his heart was too pure to think about these things. You dream about it in your sleep, he does it in his sleep,” screamed Samir's mum, crying louder and louder after every word.
“How can you say I’m evil, what about all those sweet things I have said to Shahina, all my poetry everything,” said Samir.
“Those poems are not yours son, their all Salim’s. He’s too shy to say these sweet things, these poems to girls, so he merely thinks it, but you say it,” said Samir's mum,
“No, this can’t be, why did you lie to me, why?” shouted Samir at the top of his voice, he fell onto his knees and started crying on the palm of his hands. Suddenly Salim jumped on Samir with his dagger and stabbed it straight into his heart, twisted and turned it and forever was the aching of Samir's heart put at rest.
THE END