What you see is not exactly the way you want to see

Obsessive dreaming obliterates barriers and cojoins reality

Dreams are not dreams anymore

Please make sure to read the 1st part in order to gain some context of the story:

Dr Mathur with his eyes covered by a cloth, red and raunchy, sits in utter silence, his hands are rested and folded, placed a hat on his face as the glitter of a morning sun covers his eyes almost glistening his sight while his eyes are closed. A lady wearing revealing clothing, sensitive as a serenade sits in his lap. She gently strokes his hair! And moves her face tilted towards his ears and says, “Hey handsome!” Dr Mathur gently moved his hand inside her dress and made circular shapes on her skin. She slouched and placed her head on his face, She squished herself like a baby and spread out Dr Mathur’s body resting in a folded chair. Almost like lovers gazing at stars underneath open skies on a hammock tied between palm trees. Suddenly Dr Mathur utters, “Amrita?” She asks, “Yes baby!” She gazes at the far swathes of water they were surrounded with. They had a private pool on an open sea separated by a glass wall. She looked at the Flamingos flying above her and the dolphins that were swimming in packs. Dr Mathur utters, “I l………” Amrita in her rapidly increasing voice, “Yes Dr Mathur!” Dr Mathur…Dr Mathur… Amrita is devastated she is getting paranoid. Dr Mathur's neck veins were turning a different kind of blue, his eyes were covered in red almost struggling to breathe. Amrita shouts, “Help! Help! Help!” This man is dying! It brought some dolphins near to their private resort and a few flamingos but they were in literal desolation. She held his hand trying to pick him up but then he fell down. He was drooling with eyes and face covered in sweat! His head was spinning and suddenly Amrita spread her hands over him and started choking him. He moved like a headless guillotined body. As the last whiff of air filled with oxygen was not easy to attain his organs started shutting down one after another. But slowly Amrita’s body jerked and her eyes grew bloodshot red and her eyes turned fierce dilating her pupils, and her eyebrows grew sharper. And she holds his neck deepening to his bone. His soul was struggling to live from the trauma that he was going through. But suddenly with open eyes, he took his last breath then and there.

Vishal comes out of the cupboard and analyzes every piece of clothing he can find and suddenly he hears someone knocking at the window. A boy came near to him through the outside balcony. Vishal was shaking from the last night's incident. Would you like some food buddy? the guy asks. Vishal replies, “Yes Avinash.” Avinash went to the kitchen tore off a soup packet and stirred it for a while. He opens the lower cupboard picks out a rum bottle pours it into his glass, stares at the mirror and sips. Tears roll out of his face, making him sob. He picked out a bowl poured the soup and went near to Avinash. He feeds him with his hand. Avinash asks, “Why did you run away last time from our home?” Vishal replies, “I saw Amrita again” last day. Avinash asks, “Am I, not enough, you need someone else?” Vishal almost blank stares at his face. “I am sorry”, he says to Avinash. “It’s time for bed now”, Avinash replies. Vishal smiles and asks Avinash for a kiss. Avinash kissed him and Vishal groped him. Avinash smiled and said, “I have some work, don’t go anywhere. After coming back let us start from where we left off.

Vishal traversed through a house passing a cage, while a tiger was watching him run! Vishal stopped at mid. He ran towards the cage and sat near the tiger. Vishal asked Juno, “Hey princess! you are getting food right?” Juno yawns and demands more food with her loud purry breaths. Vishal took out his gun and shot one of his lambs that were sleeping near their open farm. He drags it near to the cage and offers it to Juno, she tears the lamb to shreds in seconds.

Vishal runs again and he suddenly sees a guy in a car reaching nearer to him. The car stops. Vishal angry at the driver started kicking the car. He yells, “Kabir, what the hell man! why do you not leave us alone?” Kabir smirks while Vishar drags him by his collar. Do not test me, You know I have Juno right?” Well, be wary of anyone hunting a tiger today! Vishal biting his teeth with seething rage tells him, “Try that!” “All your generations will be decimated the moment they are born.” Kabir smiles and says, “Ohho! You are not even man enough to have sex with a girl! Forget getting back at me!” Vishal freezes out for a second and Kabir punches him and zooms off on his car. Vishal stares at his car in angst but follows the woods back home.

Amrita was looking from her room at the vast blue space floating in the seas. There was a small boat that appeared at a distance, it came nearer to the desolate private resort meant for only 1 couple. It was Kabir on a motorboat, he reached near to the resort. Stays and looks at Dr. Mathur’s body, his eyes are very alive, he says. It did not have a dead feeling to it. He pulled out his revolver shot at the eyes and went inside, as Dr Mathur’s eye sockets were gushing blood and draped in red. Amrita was sipping orange juice. She was listening to a song, humming along with it. Kabir comes and sits on a table placed on the opposite side from where she sat. He was seated at the dining table. He grabbed an apple and started munching. Amrita says, “You went away yesterday, why?” Kabir replies, “I don’t know what you are talking about?” Amrita says, “Don’t lie to me, Where were you yesterday?” Kabir tells her, “I won’t say a word to you woman, and by the way, we are not talking remember.” Amrita in her peaceful voice tells him, “Try going out from today?” Kabir shook from inside and dropped the apple. He goes and locks himself in the room.

There was a big boat almost like a Ferry that brought in some people to arrive at the dock. An old lady draped in a colour-faded saree reached the shores and stepped in while a man with rifle guns guarded the entry. The old lady looked at Dr. Mathur and his eye sockets. She tells the guard to throw him into the sea and leave it for sharks to feed on him.

She comes and sits near Amrita, Would it be like this when I grow old as well? Ammu! asks Amrita to the old lady. They have a convo a deep-seated heart-to-heart conversation with each other:

Ammu: It will not be, give it some time.

Amrita: How long do I need to wait?

Ammu: By the looks of it not very long.

Amrita: Who kept my name Ammu by the way?

Ammu: You did!

Amrita: How can I keep your name?

Ammu: Because I am you, just a few decades older……

To be continued!

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