Catch you soon in your room

   

   Desperately waiting for her son, Aman’s mother waved at him through the window of his bedroom as he hopped out of his school bus beside the playground in the neighborhood, bathed in the sunlight of the summer evening .He look up to smile at her then happily strolls up to the porch of his house and starts bullying the dog tied to the postbox near the gate .The scrawny boy climbed up the stairs with heavy footsteps and was  welcomed by his mother in his room .As  she went  out ,tired he  glanced towards his wall clock only to fall flat on his bed and slept like a log .By the time he woke up the night had set in.

   On the moonlit night the moon played peek-a-boo with the clouds as the house came into view where an interesting game of hide and seek was about to be played. Aman woke up and took out his clothes from the chest of drawers and turned around looking at the clothes, He was startled to hear the noise coming from the shaking cabinet. He turned towards the drawer to see that he had accidently closed the drawer in which his shadow had gotten stuck that was now trying to escape. Exasperated, as soon as he opened the drawer, the shadow slid down on the floor and hid beneath the bed. He jumped up on the bed in fear and tried to look beneath bed and got kicked by the shadow, falling down from the bed. He frantically started searching for it after landing on the floor. In a while the shadow rose up and pressed its nose against the face of the boy. 

   He reached out to catch hold of the shadow but it slid from his hands so he rushed to the doorway to check if there was anyone around. But as soon as he opened the door his mother called him for dinner and frightened he closed the door behind him as he ran back into the room. As his mother called him for dinner he was baffled but before he could complete his reply he was dragged mercilessly by the shadow back into the room. As he tried to hold the shadow with both his hands, it happily ran across the entire room. Aman could not tolerate it any longer when his head hit the lamp and he was blinded by the lampshade that had made its way to his head.

   Boiling with anger due to the atrocious behaviour of the shadow, with the lampshade on his head, he stomped towards the lamp and with a sly smile switched it off. He let few moments of silence pass by in the darkness of the bedroom before switching on the light to notice a trembling shadow sitting in a corner of the room. He started walking away with sarcasm in his body language and was soon followed by the shadow that slid upon him and became a part of him again. Contented, he patted his stomach and went outside from the room whistling. The sound of his mother screaming could be heard as the shadow was stuck in his room door behind him to end the old game and begin a new one.