'A man was walking in the street, suddenly an axe hit him.
His skull broke and the blood dripped as he fell down. Everything went blank.
The same man was walking again, a second revival, suddenly a lot of big boulders fell on him. His bones were crushed deep, his flesh minced blood splattered everywhere.
Again the same man was walking a third revival — he '
"Kevin!" somebody called out loudly which broke the boy's imagination. He looked up to see a boy around his age coming towards him.
"Come on we were about to win the match, if you hadn't miss the catch. What were you doing? Dreaming again?" the boy said and picked the cricket ball which was fallen near Kevin's feet.
They were in a large ground which layed between a large city. The only place left for the kids to play.
Soon everyone went back home and kevin and that boy walked home together.
"Can't you tell me what you daydream about?" the boy asked, walking casually in front of Kevin and kicked the cans that appeared occasionally along their path.
"If I do tell you then you won't wanna be friends with me anymore" Kevin said and gave a vague smile.
" Well, then what could you be thinking ,which will stop me from being friends with you?" Leo asked, as he put his hands in his pant pockets and thought deep.
"By any chance... are you gay?" Leo asked, this surprised Kevin "No! Of course not! no. no! it's something else ,leave it you won't know".
Leo laughed, looking at Kevin's reaction " Ha! Ha! Ha.... I was just joking , what's with the damn reaction ha! ha!..."
"Are you gonna stay at my house today? If not then you should stay because my cousins are coming home today and mom's gonna make a big cherry pie". Leo said and stopped as he reached the corridor of his house.
Kevin looked at Leo who was staring at him expectantly. Though he had previously planned to get home soon but he agreed.
"Leo did you bring Kevin with you?" Leo's mom asked from the kitchen and Leo proudly replied "yes ma'am! This one has done his job!!".
Kevin never understood how they talked so casually with each other.
Then she came out of the kitchen and exclaimed "Oh! my... look at the both of you all covered in mud, go and take a shower upstairs .I will call you guys whe everything's ready,Ok?" She said with a smile and turned to Kevin "You may not have fresh spare clothes for now, but you can use Leo's though it will be quite big for you, sweetie..." she laughed and went back to the kitchen.
As they walked past the living room Leo's dad was sitting on the couch and watching the NEWS,where it said that a whole family was massacred and the criminal was on a run and showed of picture that they got of him. The picture was of a middle aged, tall man, and his skin tone was black.
Kevin stared at the T.V but Leo pulled him upstairs.
Kevin sat on the bed after freshening up and Leo also came out of the bathroom and was drying his hair.
Suddenly they heard a car stopped outside the house.
"Leo, your cousins are here,go welcome them!" his mom shouted from downstairs.
"Ok! on my way!" Leo shouted back and turned to Kevin "I'll be right back just wait here, ok!" he said and rushed down.
The window was near the bed so kevin looked down outside.
A man in his 20s almost 5 years elder than him and a girl in white frock around the age of 10.
'The age difference seems quite vast' kevin thought.
He felt drowsy suddenly and so went to sleep.
Kevin woke up with a feeling of his hands being wet. As his eyes opened he looked at his hands but there was nothing, but then he looked at the table clock it was midnight already.
'Did Leo not wake me up on purpose? But he ís not here, are they still having talks?' he thought.
He opened the door and went downstairs, nobody was around, it was quite. He then entered the dining room.
Stale smell of blood filled his nose, and he fell on the ground which was covered in blood.
His hands and clothes were stained with the blood. A lump stuck in his throat, he wanted to scream but he couldn't. The whole family was made to sit on the chair of the dinning room table but all lay dead.
Meanwhile Leo was on the table his throat sliced and blood dripped. Everybody's eyes directed towards Kevin.
He froze froze when he saw a light movement. In the dim eyes of Leo, which was probably a reflection He turned back and saw behind the door was hiding a middle aged man with a big stone in his hand.
He smiled and bashed Kevin's head with it.
Suddenly Kevin's eyes opened, Leo was sleeping next to him and the lights were off, he touched the table clock and looked at the time with the help of the light coming from the window, it was midnight.
'It was all a dream after all...' he sighed in relieve.
But his heart thumped when somebody opened the door slowly, his eyes met the intruder's, whose glowed due to the reflection of the light coming from the window. The same boulder in his hand and before Kevin could say anything the man bashed his head with it.
His eyes opened again, it was dark, no one
was with him on the bed, fear encircled him. his eyes scanned the room and found someone crouching near the door. Its eyes reflected the light coming from the window. Kevin's body wouldn't move cause that
figure smiled at him and again the same boulder in his hand."Kevin!, come on mom and everyone is waiting,wake up already" so Kevin's eyes opened again, and he sighed in relieve.
he looked at the table clock and it was
just 8:00 pm, & just one hour after they came home.They came down stairs and sat on the dining table.
"Dear, sorry to make you wait so long, you must have been quite tired" Leo's mom said and served him a slice of pie.Everyone on the table were enjoying , the cousins were
talking with Leo's father.
Kevin looked at his hand and got a wet
feeling though he had not washed his hands, then he looked at the corner of the door.
There was nothing but then in a glitch the figure appeared and with a glitch it disappeared. He looked at Leo who was smiling and talking to him and another moment with a flicker he could see a bloodied room. His hand were bloodied. Then suddenly everything became clear.
He was alone in a bloodied dining table,his clothes and hands covered in blood and a neat stone at the lower corner of the door, where it was written 'not me'.
Lets see what 'not me' written on the stone can mean actually.
He visualized the stone to be a person other than him. It means that is not him.
But that was just a mental condition where his actions were blamed on him someone else that wasn't him.