The Thing called fear!!

THE THING CALLED FEAR

It was a dark windy night. Shyna was hurrying back home from her coaching class. The road wore a deserted look and the street lights weren’t helping either and her home was a good twenty minutes walk.

“Damn” she muttered, “today of all days my bike had to let me down, and to top it my tutor was in her elements, “totally ruthless”. Darn!! Darn!!Darn!!

Suddenly she stopped. A noise? Did she just hear a noise? What was that? She wondered a bit nervous.  Footsteps? She was scared to turn around fearing of what may be lurking behind. She faltered for a second and then started walking faster, as fast her legs would allow.  The Footsteps too followed suit.  They impersonated her kind of walk. If she walked faster whoever it was did the same. If she slackened her speed it did the same. By now Shyna’s fear had escalated to a new dimension so much that she started experiencing breathlessness and dizziness. She stifled a sob and started running as fast as she could, knowing it was a futile effort. Whoever was chasing or following her seemed stronger and faster.

“Oh Hanuman, Oh Vigneshwara!! (by the way they are the names of our beloved gods) please, please help me!! I will break 10 nay, nay 20 coconuts at your respective temples if you get me out of this scrape I have landed myself into. Please help me Oh Rama.” Three gods, three temples, not to forget 60 coconuts.

Well the humour having slowly faded out in to the oblivion, we turn our attention back to our hapless heroine Shyna and the mean ole thing that was chasing her.

20 minutes must have lapsed already by now i guess but how can it till we get to the end of this thoroughly scary situation. Now Shyna mustered up all her energy and doubled her speed. They say fear instils a kind of energy which never surfaces during our normal course of day to day life. So she ran. And so did the mean thing..

“Help! Help! , somebody, anybody please help!”

No one heard her pleas. She didn’t stop running, knowing in 5 minutes she would be home. Home.  How wonderful it sounded to her ears, HOME!!

“Let me reach home soon oh lord!!” Her lungs were on fire. She would’ve expelled fire but, she wasn’t a dragon was she??

Suddenly she heard a yelp. A yelp? She stopped and her supersonic ears heard the faint sound again. What in the dickens was that?

She turned slowly. There in front of her was a..... And she screamed

The rest is left to your imagination.

What was it she saw??