The Incident Vanished....Partially

"I am not going to sleep tonight" Alina said shakily.

"For the fear of nightmares?"

"You will not be forgiven, know this. I'm still getting goosebumps."

"Oye overacting! It was just a movie. Chill!"

"Why not. I actually am chilled and shivering right now."

Alina and Ria were moving out of the theatre. It was Ria's plan to watch the movie. No doubt she enjoyed watching something real scary after a long time, and that too the night show.

"Ria?" Alina slowed down her pace.

"What?"

"Those two guys are pointing at us. You know them?"

"Who? Where?"

They were out in the open by now. Then Ria saw two people standing near their Scooty. One of them was big and fat while the other was lean. They were continuously staring them with a straight face, but the deadly impression they gave could not be missed.

"Why are they staring like this?" Alina whispered.

"Don't know." Ria mused. "Might be something. Let's get home."

But Alina held her hand, "No, I don't feel right going there."

"But we have to take our Scooty. Are you going to walk back home?"

Suddenly, the guys started walking towards them. They seemed to have sensed the alert on girls' faces.

"Alina...Run" Ria gasped as soon as she got a glimpse of a sharp shining silver thing in the fat guy's hand.

They turned back and started running. Alina glanced back to see the guys running after them.

"Oh God....Oh God....they are coming after us."

Ria started shouting for help, but surprisingly no one seemed to hear them.

"What's happening? Nobody even looks at us."

"I'm scared." Alina said panting heavily.

"They are coming nearer Alina. We can't outrun them."

And saying this Ria decided to have the courage and question those people chasing them for no reason. She asked her friend to run as fast as she can and hide in some place.

Alina was about to ask why was she saying this, what was she going to do, when all of a sudden she saw Ria had stopped running.

"RIA?!" Alina shouted, shocked. What was she doing?

"RUN! GO!" Ria said with all the force.

Alina did run. Every part of her body was numb and still she could feel the panic running in every nerve.

She wanted to ask Ria not to do this, to come with her, but her voice failed her. Her body failed her. Her eyes welled with tears and when she took a last look back, she saw Ria's neck slit violently with the silver knife. Ria fell on the road, so did she, shaking badly.

"RUN! GO!" Voices echoed in her head. She stood up. Her legs trembled. She fell again. Murderers were coming nearer. Ria's dead body lay still on the road. People walked past not noticing anything. Alina stood again. Took two steps, fell. Her knee got injured. When she was pushing herself up again, the guys had reached her, holding the knife smeared with her best friend's blood. And, they ran past her.

She stood up watching their backs until they disappeared around a turn.

Then she felt a tap on her shoulder and she shrieked and screamed until she ran out of breath.

"Alina. Alina. What happened?" Ria held her by shoulders and gave her a few jolts.

People gathered around them watching the chaos.

"You died. You died! I saw them murder you. We were running. You stopped. They killed. I saw it."

Ria hugged Alina and rubbed her back. "It's alright. No one killed me. Calm down. We will go home. I am sorry that I made you watch that movie.

Alina pushed her back. "NO! It's not about the movie."

"I think you imagined things Alina."

"NO! Believe me, it happened. All these people, they did not help us when we were shouting. They did not even look at us."

Ria kept consoling her.

"Wait" Alina said, "If you don't believe me then tell me what are we doing here? We are about a mile away from the theatre. Why did we come here?"

Ria was now confused and looked around. They really were quite far away from where they should have been. 

"Yes we are...but..." She fell short of words, trying to recollect what happened and why were they standing there, but could not.

Just then a car passed on the road and the headlights flashed on Ria's confused face and......her neck. Just for a split second Alina saw a deep slit menacingly imprinted there.