An Alien Abduction which I survived or I didn't : Chapter 2

Chapter 2: A Call From Reality.

I was already into state of trauma and kept on asking several questions to myself like was I taking things too seriously? Was I getting mad over Science Fiction? Because if your mom gives you inappropriate reply then it doesn't mean that you start questioning reality. She might be bored of me asking her stupid questions again and again. With this thought I settled down into my bed and woke up late in the morning. "7 missed calls from Aisha, Oh damn!, What's the time?" And I galloped into my morning routine and rushed for the college. I was late for my presentation, I prepared for it day and night because it was not an ordinary one, authorities from many colleges were about to come today and I was about to present my website designs to them. "Ahh, I always miss the big shots" I said in  anguish and as I reached the college but the scenario was completely different. 

"Where is everybody?" I asked myself. Then I picked out my cell phone to call Aisha. "Where were you all night mister?" asked Aisha. It was quite a realistic voice and as I was feeling proud about my telecom service I turned around and she was right behind me. "No College today, they have called the day off due to some reason." Aisha shouted at me. "Wow, it must be some serious shit, I thought I almost missed on my presentation" I replied. "Presentation? Dude there is a lot of time in it."-Aisha. I looked at her and then checked the date on my mobile phone. "But look, its 28th April 2015, I have my presentation Scheduled for today." I passed my mobile phone to her. Aisha took a look, "How many times I have asked you to buy a new phone, this is broken, there is nothing on the screen.".

Aisha gave me the phone back and the screen on the phone was completely white, I stroked it couple of times on my hand and then the screen came back with the date 28th April 2015. With the things already happening to me from past couple of days, this was just an addition to the pile and I took a deep breath and asked Aisha "Babe, what is the date today?". "22nd" Aisha replied. Most of the people won't ask the next thing I asked her. "Umm March or April?". Aisha looked at me and put her hand on my forehead "Babe, everything fine? Its April, why you ask so?"

This was not a big deal I usually missed on dates due to my high working times and ignorance about reading newspaper. I simply smiled at her and said "Nothing, I am fine." 

I spent some time with Aisha, had my lunch with her and then took a local bus to get back to my house. I locked up my room and placed my mobile phone right in the center of the table and started staring it as if it was some piece of asteroid because the mobile was still showing the date 28th April 2015. "It's simple, the mobile is malfunctioning. All I have to do is to set the time right." I explained it to myself. I quickly ran my fingers over to the mobile settings and set the current time as 22nd April 2015. As I click on set time button, an error popped up. "Your mobile phone time is outdated" It was a whatsapp error. I was quite confused, whatever I tried, this error popped up every time.  In the end I finally stopped and checked onto my call logs. I was almost expecting anything to come at me. I was totally hopeless with the things happening to me because I had No Idea what was going on.

I checked the list of missed calls from Aisha and all the 7 missed calls had the date 28th April 2015.

"Okay So let me get this straight, My mobile is showing 28th April and have missed calls from the same date and Aisha is saying its 22nd April." I ran downstairs to check the newspaper, we used to keep the latest newspaper in the main hall desk and it was dated 22nd April. I was almost about to faint but then I somehow managed to sit on a chair. "For how long I have to assume that everything happening to me was just technical error or due to my sci-fi addictions?" I asked myself.

"Should I start questioning the reality now? Or should I keep on satisfying myself with the fact that everything happening is just some hallucination of my mind?" 

I was really stuck. 28th April, how can anybody call me on the date which hasn't arrived yet, was that call from the future? 

I was about to cry that night. I almost did. What was happening to me? Was I getting insane? Who was doing this to me?

I decided to call back Aisha. "C'mmon pickup" I tried 3-4 times but she didn't pick it up.

I kept my phone aside and sat on the chair holding my head down.  Suddenly my phone started vibrating. It was Aisha. "Babe, babe, Where are you? Everyone is so worried, where the hell have you gone?" Aisha was throwing so many questions at me, it was totally abnormal because I met her in the morning itself. " Babe , we met this morning, didn't we?" I asked her.

"This morning? Anupam, you haven't been attending college from 3 days now. Now tell me where are you? Is everything fine, your family is so much worried."-Aisha.

I almost dropped the phone. I was completely dumbstruck and a tear slipped past from my eye. 

"I don't know." I replied. "What do you mean I don't know? don't you recognize the place? Tell me something" Asked Aisha. 

How should I tell her that the place I was sitting in was my home, the girl I met today was her, the reality I was living in was supposed to be true. I hanged up the call and started shouting. "What is this place, Where am I, I know this is all fake you mother******, who is playing with my mind, Show up, you as*****, show up!".

Nothing happened. Whoever was controlling my reality was not interested in meeting me anyway. Just the next thing I knew was my mobile phone was gone. It vaporized into thin air, a moment ago it was on the table right in front of me and then, it was gone.

Now I totally knew that it was not some technical error, I was not at my home, I never met Aisha today or yesterday or day before that. I didn't actually knew where I was but now I knew that I have to get out of this place. I want to go back to my house, my family, my friends. But the question was How?

I sat for like 30 minutes without making a movement, my physical and mental states were apart from each other by a distance of infinity. I was running nonstop in my mind, getting away from this place.  Then the door bell rang, I was in no mood to open the door because the people who stood on the other side were not my family. Finally I summoned strength and walked to the door. "Oh, finally so Mr. is Awake." said my mom. It was like she meant I woke up from something broader than just a dream. I totally knew she wasn't my mother but still I reacted normally.

"Yeah mom, it was a long day, tough one supposedly." My dad kissed my forehead and went into his room and slowly everyone after a small chit chat with me went to sleep. 

After I was left alone in the hall, I started laughing, I laughed for like 2-3 minutes. I was totally out of my wits. I was going crazy, I didn't knew how to hold myself, I even thought to kill myself because I could see no other option. I went into my balcony and looked at the stars. "How can I get out of this?" and then the sweet mysterious fragrance again knocked onto my nostrils...

 To be continued