Lights

Her world shattered when everyone she loved, left. Days spent in misery that knew no bound. She loved lights but her world was set apart and all that left was darkness that haunted her every moment.

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Standing late at night in the expressway, she watched the trails of red and yellow lights that always reminded her of her dead mother.

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"If you love lights then first you must have a piece of darkness of your own. But never let it eat you up." Her mother would always say.

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She was deep in her thoughts when an old woman stopped by her and gave her a small box. Her face was concealed.

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She looked at the box and before she could ask anything, the woman had already gone.

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She returned home in haste and opened the box. It was empty.

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Days and nights passed by but the woman was seen no more. Until one day when it was unusually silent in the expressway. No cars passed by and no lights were seen around. The woman was seen at a distance.

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"Why did you give me an empty box? What was it for?"

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"It was a piece of darkness. As long as its tightly shut, the darkness inside is yours'" She vanished mysteriously once again.

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That night she saw a childhood incident in her dream.

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The 3 years old said to her ailing mother.

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"Please get inside this box, maa, I'll keep you inside, so that you can never go away. And I'll have this box dug in our garden."

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"It will be dark in there, it will scare me, pls don't put me inside the box." Cried the mother.

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"Okay, I'll kiss the box for you, my kiss will lit it up. Now get inside."

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Her mother kissed the box too and convinced her that she is now inside it.

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When she woke up, the incident floated vividly before her eyes.

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She ran to the garden to dig out the little box.

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The spot was excavated widely but the box was missing.

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And the old woman was never seen again.

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