My Story:Tripurti Part 8

She turned and walk over against me, disappears as the deer did. A huge scary creature double of my size sat over my head and tried to engulf me with its horrifying look.

"Please help me! Aadhi! Asam! Where you guys? Leave me, leave!

"Sharma!Sharma!wake up! Seem like you are dreaming"Aadhi assures as he shook me to stay calm from the horrific dream. It took me a while to back into the reality that I'm in the car and not in the jungle, so much relieved of knowing Aadhi are pacifying next to me.

"I'm extremely sorry Aadhi, gosh I dream of....perhaps a bad dream," the rigours still persisted despite knowing that I am safe."

"Not to worry, Sharma. You are absolutely safe, we have another 4 hours to reach the town but I may stop in any rest house if you wish to refresh or rest" Aadhi assured.

"Thanks, no issue Aadhi.I don't feel good going to this place but somehow or something pushing me to explore. Hopefully, all goes well with a happy ending too!" motivated me to keep going despite anything stand strongly to obstruct my efforts.

"You reminds me of those early days in college. A journalist should be ready to face risks without concerning too much on emotional factor. Fear is the number one enemy for a journalist. This task might give a turning point for your life and carrier so take it seriously and stay focused, "Aadhi's advice plumped by confidence further.

The journey continued with soothing Hindustani music echoed from Aadhi car's radio . The scenarios out there was so nice with green paddy plantation, few ladies walking in a very relaxed manner while bearing heavy loads in their head, a little boy holding a long stick in an attempt to supervise the goats, an old grandpa sitting in the broken or dismantled bus stop and cloudy rain which is ready to pour in anytime soon. However, the horrific dream kept hunting my mind despite distracted with those scenes in between. Seriously, I don't remember of having such horrified dream ever in my life."Aadhi, can you help me to stop in any food shops, "my stomach started to roar in hunger probably due to overthinking of the dream."I'm hungry too, let me check in my GPS if it can suggest us somewhere nearby, "Aadhi stopped the car at the shoulder of the road to check on his GPS."Looks like there is a highway restaurant in 3.6km, not too far. Are you okay?"

"I'm good Aadhi, we shall move ahead then!"I simply follow his instruction and not in the mood to quibble about good food places which I usually do. My passion for food has pushed me to travel nationwide to try different cuisine and delicacies. My friends and family prefer to use me as a reference to get good food or go to the right shop to feast their taste buds.

Aadhi shock my thoughts with, "Here we came! The shop on the corner there, a small village restaurant to fix our hunger."

Stretched my limbs to give a little retrieval to move. A guy accidentally hit my right shoulder as we walked towards the shop causes my camera to fall in the ground. He immediately rushed to help me to pick it with apologies. I was extremely shocked to see.....

To be continued on 2/8/2020...

Tripurti Part 9 will be published on 2nd August 2020 instead of 26th July 2020 due to the blog's maintenance work , my deep apologies!😎