His Voice…. Episode 2

“I found myself in a very beautiful garden. The place is so out of this world. Flowers of all species , more colourful than you can think of. As I moved about, I saw animals of all kinds playing on the green fields, not hurting the other kind. Then suddenly I saw a man. He was sitting on a throne, he wore a crown and his chair sat on the clouds. He was very fair and his skin shone like light, very bright… “
” Chai!!! Mary” one of her friends interrupted.
“You are telling us a movie you watched yesterday and claim that you saw it in your dream. You don’t have magic. My elder sister told me that magic only happens in the movies. Stop lying. You don’t have superpowers .”
She felt very bad after hearing this from her best friend Marion but what could she do? She did not have any evidence. She wasn’t lying. She had actually gone into a trance when she was praying yesterday. It seemed like when she knelt down, clapped her palms, closed her eyes and started talking to God, “her eyes opened”.
It felt like she had been blind all this while but she was only a child. Was it that she was thinking of fairy land which she used to watch in the cartoons?
The bell rang and this signified that break was over. When she came back to reality, she was standing alone. Her friends had left her a while ago. They thought she was pretending of having magical powers. Mary however retired to class.
At closing time, she tried talking to Marion and the other two girls, but they ignored her so she walked home alone. While walking, she told herself that maybe all this had been a dream. After all a Class 5 pupil like her cannot be seeing things. “When I get home, I’ll tell mom when she’s helping me with my assignment. Thank God it’s Monday she’ll be back from work early”