Tick-Tock

By Shefali

IT WAS JUST A NORMAL MORNING EVERYONE IN MY HOUSE WERE SLEEPING PEACEFULLY;

I HAD A SUDDEN URGE TO PEE SO I STOOD UP FROM MY BED AND RUSHED TO THE WASHROOM 

I WAS HALF ASLEEP I WAS JUST MOVING NOT KNOWING WHERE I AM GOING AND  I BANGED MY LITTLE TOE NAIL TO THE LEG OF MY STUDY TABLE KEPT I BETWEEN THE WAY TO THE WASHROOM 

I LEFT A SLOW SCREAM AS I FELT THE PAIN ANDGOT WOKEN UP FROM MY SLEEP.

AS I REGAINED MY SENSES I STARTED TO HEAR  A TICK TOCK SOUND FROM SOMEOVER IN THE HOUSE , AT FIRST I IGNORED THE SOUND AND WENT TO THE WASHROOM 

AS I CAME OUTSIDE I SAW ATLAS (MY PET DOG) STANDING RIGHT AT THE DOOR OF THE WASHROOM , HE HAS A HABIT OF WAKING UP WHENEVER I MAKE ANY MOMENT IN MY ROOM BEING IT ANY TIME OF THE DAY

SINCE IT WAS 4 ‘O CLOCK IN THE MORNING SO I ASKED HIM TO   GO AND SLEEP PEACEFULLY BUT HE BEING HE STARTED PULLING MY LEGGINGS TO TEASE ME TO PLAY WITH HIM I AGAIN ASKED HIM TO SLEEP BUT NO HE WON’T .

AS I WAS PLAYING WITH HIM THE SOUND OF TICK TOCK CONTINUED AND CONTINUED ……..

NOW I STARTED TO NOTICE THIS SOUND LIKE WHAT IS IT FROM WHERE IS IT COMING FROM,

I ASKED ATLAS TO BE CALM FOR SOMETIME AND LET ME FIND FROM WHERE IS THIS SOUND COMING FROM .

SO I GAVE A LOOK TO MY ROOM IN SEARCH  BUT THERE WAS NOTHING , SO I STARTED TO CLEAN MY ROOM IN HOPE MAY BE I LEFT MY WATCH SOMEWHERE AND IT WAS TICKLING AND BECAUSE OF SILENCE OF THE HOUSE TICKLING SOUND GOT AMPLIFIED .

I AM CLUMSY A LOT WHEN I STARTED CLEANING MY ROOM IN SEARCH I CREATED A MORE MESS THEN CLEANINESS 

NOW ITS BEEN 15 MINUTES BUT I HADNT FOUND ANYTHING BUT NOW PANIC START TO DRIVE IN SO I STARTED TO MOEV OUT IN THE LOBB IN ORDER TO FIND FROM WHERE IS THIS SOUND COMING FROM , BUT UNABLE TO FIND ANYTHING 

NOW I STARTED TO PANIC MORE AS I CAN’T FIND ANYTHING AND THE SOUND IS CONTNOUSLY COMING AND AS I MOVED OUTSIDE MY ROOM IT START TO BE HEARD LOUDER ,, SO I DECIDED TO WAKE MY PARENTS UP AND TELL THEM EVERYTHING 

THUS I RUSHED TO THEIR ROOM , FIRST I GOT A SLAP BECAUSE MY MOTHER HAVE A REFLEX ACTION IF ANYONE PUTS HANDS ON HER BODY IN SLEEP SHE SLAPS 

BUT SOMEHOW I MANAGE TO WAKE HER UP AND TOLD HE EVERYTHING , SHE ALSO STARTED TO GET PANIC WE WTHOUT DISTURBING DAD STARTED TO  SEARCH THE ROOM , LOBBY WE WERE PICKING UP THINGS THROWING THINGS HERE AND THERE ATLAS WAS ROAING HERE AND THERE MOVING AND PICKING THINGS WITH HIS CUTE JAWS AND HELPING US WITH HIS CUTE GESTURES 

BUT WE GOT NOTHING AT ALL AND THIS SOUND IS CONTINOUSLY COMING WITHOUT ANY BREAK 

NOW OR PANIC GOT CONVERTED TO STRESS AND ANXIETY ,WE WERE HORIFIED THINKING HAVE SOMEONE PLANTED ANY BOMB IN THE HOUSE AND IT’S THE BOMB TIMER THAT IS TICKLING 

SO MUMMA DECIDED TO TELL IT TO PAPA NOW PAPA WOKEUP IN HALF SLEEP AS WE TOLD HIM EVERYTHING HE GOT ALARMED AND THOUGHT OF INFORMING THE POLICE FIRST AND THEN TRY TO SEARCH THE HOUSE MAY BE THERE CAN BE ANY MISSHAPPENING IF WE DE SOMETHING WRONG 

AS DAD INFORMED POLICE FOR HELP AND AS WELL ASKED NEIGHBOURS TO HELP US OUT 

NOW A WHOLE CHAOS WAS CREATED IN THE HOUSE EVERYONE WAS PANICKED, STRESSED MOVING HERE AND THERE PUTTING KEEPING THINGS THROWING THIS 

IT WAS JUST 5;30 IN THE MORNING AND OUR HOUSE HAS TURNED TO A MOUNTAIN OF THINGS AS MUMMA EMPTIED EACH AND EVERY SHELF OF THE HOUSE BE IT CLOTHES BOTTLES ANYTHING EVEN SHE  HAVEN’T LEFT THE KITCHEN EVERYONE WAS BUSY SEARCHING FOR THE TICKLING SOUND BUT GOT NOTHING AT ALL.

IN HUSTLE BUSTLE MUMMA GOT ANGRY AT ME BECAUSE I BEING CLUMSY THREW MY BROTHERS LAPTOP RECKLESSLY AND TO OUR SURPRISE WE REMEMBER I ALSO HAVE  BROTHER WHO IS SO MUCH A SLEPPY HEAD THAT EVEN AFTER SO MUCH HUSTLE BUSTLE IS NOT AWAKE 

SO I AND MUMMA STARTED MOVING TO HIS ROOM TO OUR SURPRISE AS WE WERE MOVING CLOSE TO HIS ROOM THE VOICE OF TICK TOK INTENSIFIED WITH EVERY STEP NO WE CALLED EVERYONE AND WE ALL MOVED TO HIS ROOM BACKING UP EACH OTHER AS WE ENTER HIS ROOM IT WAS CLEAR THE SOUND WAS COMING FROM HERE ONLY BUT  EVERYTHING WAS NORMAL NOTHING WAS THERE ALSO SO MUMMA STARTED TO SEARCH IN HIS CUPBOARD AND SHELVES BUT FOUND NOTHING 

WE PANICKED MORE AND MORE AND MY BROTHER COMPLETELY LOST IN HIS SLEEP LEAST BOTHERED WITH ANYTHING

WE NOTICED THAT THIS SOUND IS COMING FROM HIS BED LIKE AROUND HIS BED NOW WE ALL STATED TO FOCUS ON HIS BED AND SCCANNED IF TERE ANYTHING OR NOT 

MY BROTHER STARTED MOVING IN SLEEP AND WE ALL PANICKED BECAUSE OF HIS MOMENT LIKE HE DON’T  PRESS ANYTHING AND THERE IS ANY DISASTER , AND HE CHANGED HID SIDE WITH HIS RGHT HAND HANGING DOWN THE BED AND WE HEARD SOMETHING FELL DOWN GOT HIT BY HIS HAND AND THAT SOUND VANISHED 

NOW MUMMA PAPA ME EVERYONE PANICKED MUMMA STARTED SCOLDING BHAI ‘THIS KID IS GOOD FOR NOTHING HE PRESSED THE BUTTON BOMB WILL BLAST ANYTIME ‘

AND SHE WOKE HIM UP AND ASKED HIM TO RUN , HE BEING HALF ASLEEP ASKED WHAT HAPPENED TO WHICH MUMMA RPLIED RUN AS FAST AS U CAN , HE PUZZLED AND CONFUSED RAN OUT OF THE HOUSE 

WE ALL ARRIVED OUTSIDE IN ANXIETY BLAST WILL HAPPEN BLAST WILL HAPPEN 

NOW ITS 20 MINUTES BUT NOTHING HAPPENED SO MY BROTHER ASKED WHAT HAS HAPPENED PLEASE TELL ME SOMETHING WHAT IS ALL THIS WE TOLD HIM EVERYTHING SO HE BURST INTO A LAUGH AND TOOK ATLAS INSIDE SAYING YOU ALL ARE IN DREAMS PLEASE WAKE UP I AM LEAVING I AM GETTING LATE TO MY HOSPITAL , TO WHICH MOTHER SCREAMS YOU ARE NOT GOING INSIDE TILL POLICE ARRIVES AND DO A CHECKING AND ENSURES THERE IS NOTHING INSIDE 

BUT MY BROTHER DID’NT LISTENED AND MOVED INSIDE ,MY MOTHER IN ANGER ANXIETY AND OUT OF LOVE RAN BEHIND HIM TO SAVE HIM SCREAMING

THEY BOTH REACHED MY BROTHERS ROOM HE WENT TO THE WASHROOM STRAIGHTAWAY AND MUMMA BANGING THE DOOR OF HIS WASHROOM I PAPA AND OUR NEIGHBOURS ALL WERE TERRIFIED CONFUSED WHAT TO DO WETHER TO ENTER THE HOUSE OR NOT MUMMA AND BAHI ARE INSIDE SHOULD WE GO TO SAVE THEM WHAT SHOUD WE DO AS WELL POLICE YET NOT HAVE ARRIVED AND ITS ALREADY 7;30 I WAS HOLDING PAPA TIGHTLY , I ASKED HIM WHAT WILL HAPPEN NOW 

AFTER 5 MINUTES ME AND MY FATHER BECOME RECKLESS AND WE RAN INSIDE TO SEE EVERYTHING IS FINE OR NOT WE ALL WERE SCREAMING OUR THROAT OUT BUT MY BROTHER ARGUMNTED WHERE IS THE SOUND NOW WHY AM I NOT ABLE TO HEAR ANYTHING AM I DEAF 

HE CAME OUT ALL DRESSED UP READY TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL IGNORING EVERYONE SO MUMMA ROLLED HIS EARS YWLLING AT HIM WHY DON’T YOU LISTEN TO ANYONE TO WHICH HE CONVENCES MUMMA THAT THERE IS NOTHING SHE IS PANICKING BECAUSE EOF SOME BAD DREAM AND THIS IS NOT GOOD FOR HER HEALTH SHE NEDDS TO REST PAPA ANGRILY CALLED HIM OFF TO LISTEN BUT HE AGAIN REPLIED THE SAME AND STARTED SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING ,MUMMA ASKED WHAT HAPPENED NOW? 

MY BROTHER SAYS I  AM TRYING TO FIND MY WATCH WHERE HAVE I KEPT IT ,SEARCHING EVERYWHERE HE REMEMBERS HE WAS LATE LAST NIGHT SO HE SLEPT WITH OUT CHANGING AND HAS A HABIT OF HANGING HIS RIGHT HAND SO IT MIGHT HAVE FALLEN ON THE FLOOR SOMEWHERE HE STARTED SEARCHING ON THE FLOOR AND FINDS HIS WATCH IN A STEEL TUMBLER BOTH LYING SLANT BENEATH HIS BED IT HAS SHIFTED A BIT INSIDE SO TO TAKE IT OUT HE HAD TO DRAG IT OUT WITH THE TUMBLER 

WHEN HE CARRIED THE WATCH OUTSIDE WITH THE TUMBLER WATCH DRIFTED INSIDE THE TUMBLER AND ITS TICK TOK AMPLIFIED AND STARTED TO SOUND LIKE THE  TICKLING OF THE CLOCK  THAT PANICKED ALL 

HE JUST CASUALLY TOOK THE WATCH OUT AND WORE IT , NOW EVERYBODY LOOKS TOWARDS ME BECAUSE EIT WAS THE WACH NOT THE BOMB AND IT WAS ME WHO CREATED THE CHAOS I GOT SUCH A GOOD BEATING.

THIS STORY IS BASED ON A REAL INCIDENT I EXPERIENCED IN LIFE SCIENCE BEHIND THE TICK TOK SOUND IS THIS STEEL TUMBLER IS A HOLLOW CONTAINER WHEN ANY SOUND PRODUCING DEVICE IS KEPT INSIDE IT THE SOUND ECHOS THAT’S WHAT HAPPENED HERE .

POLICE DID’NT ARRIVED AS  THEY THOUGHT WE ARE PRANCKING THEM IN THE MORNING.

I HOPE IT MADE MY READERS FORGET ABOUT THERE TENSION AND LAUGH FOR SOMETIME.

By Shefali