A Night Full Of Adventure

This goes back to my childhood days. I was at my cousin's house enjoying summer vacations. We used to go for a morning walk - only the kids.

As the lights of house were switched off, the chit-chat started.

After sometime, the barbecue serious and we narrated some incidents of theft and murders we had heard around us. The worst part was, the incidents were either directly about our houses or about our close friends. Like any teenagers, who first start the ghostly talks and then themselves shiver their wits out, we were extremely afraid.

Suddenly, we remembered, Bua Ji had asked us to switch off the water motor which was running. None of had the courage to go to the room at very end of house, open the bathroom which also opened in balcony and switch off the motor. But then, it had to be done or get scolded like hell in the morning. After long discussions, we finally decided to do the task TOGETHER.

We somehow gathered the courage to get out of our bed. Four of us, three girls and one boy, held our hands and made a line. I still remember the grip of our hands. We were holding each other as tightly as possible. We switched on the light of our room and took a deep breath.

Then, we again had a long discussion that now since the lights were on, either of us could go and do it. But then, all of us were scared to step out of room alone. We feared that someone one be hiding in the drawing room to kill us. We even imagined some goons waiting for us in the balcony so that they can make out mouth shut and loot the house.

 

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We marched out into the drawing room - again together holding hands. The switchboard of drawing room was in the darkest corner and at a low height. I do not remember how many minutes we took to reach that and turn on the light.

The next task was not the next bedroom. Thankfully, it's switchboard was just besides the door and we turned on the light by standing outside only. Once we went inside and looked at the bathroom which had our target 'Motor Switch', we looked at each other in horror. "What if the lock of balcony gate was left open by mistake?”

The bathroom was suddenly opened and we switched off the MOTOR. We all were relieved. But still, we had a much harder task ahead - switch off all lights and go back to our room! Just then Bua Ji came to or rescue - "what are all of doing here and why are all lights in house on?", she asked. We had no answer and she considered it our prank. We were directed to go back and sleep ASAP fearing the late wake up next morning for the walk. We were more than delighted and ran back to our beds before she could do the honor of switching off all lights.

Till date, I have no idea how in world we could have done that brave task if we were not together in the house that day..