Suddenly, my head started spinning around by itself. I was stunned. I was also getting dizzy by the minute. I tried to stop my head from rotating, but it started rotating much faster. I started shouting, "Stop, please stop. I beg you, stop." I started crying and thought that I was going to faint. As suddenly as it had started, the spinning stopped. I got up and vomited in the toilet. I thought it was a dream and pinched myself to see if I was correct. Alas, it wasn't a dream. I vomited again and, this time, blood came out of my mouth.
I was alone at home. No one was there for a month as they had gone out. I tried to call my mom, but she wasn't picking up the phone. I get tensed very fast, and I got tensed right now. I didn't know what to do. I looked around to see if there is someone is hiding here. Suddenly, I dropped flat on the ground. I started breathing fast. My body and my head stiffened. I moved my eyes here and there to see if any one was there. As soon as my body and face loosened, I got up and ran to my neighbour's house. My neighbour's son opened the door. I rudely ran inside and sat on their sofa. I asked Josh to get some water for me.
I was surprised that he did not comment on my rudeness. He just got me water and sat opposite me.
After I drank some water, I apologised to him and told him what had happened. He didn't look surprised at all. I asked him, " Why are you sitting like nothing happened? Aren't you shocked?"
"I am not shocked about what happened because it happened to me also. I am shocked because it happened to you also.
Now it was my turn to be shocked. He said, "I think it is some old force which is doing this to us and whoever it does this to, has to go and expose this force to the whole world."
"Josh, please be practical. Just because you want to become an archaeologist doesn't mean that everything unusual thing which happens has a archaeological meaning, OK. Now lets see. Our heads started rotating almost at the same time. We vomited twice and the second time we vomited, blood came out of our mouth. What can this mean? Its not going anywhere."
We were sitting and thinking for the next few hours, but got no where. Josh was getting new ideas like, some old aliens were here long ago and our ancestors had seen them and killed them. Everyone knows that aliens cannot be killed and they need some three or four billion years to come alive again. They come alive again and find us and want to torture us. I was always rolling my eyes on this. I tried to concentrate but was not able to.
Then, again, something unusual happened. I started walking against my will. I tried to stop myself. Josh tried to stop me. But that only made the walking faster. I was banging into things and when the walking stopped, I had bruises all over my thighs.
After it stopped for me, it started for Josh. The ditto same thing which happened to me. I was dumbfounded. After the thing stopped, (I am calling it thing because I don't know what to call it.) a voice spoke. It was ancient language and I couldn't understand a thing. The voice was heavy and old, and angry.
On that, Josh didn't let me here anything. He was singing and dancing telling that he was right. By the time, I had shouted shut up, the voice had gone. I stamped my foot and thought what to do. That moment a piece of paper fell on the floor. It was, again, ancient script. I told Josh that I was going to an archaeologist to find out was written on the paper. He told me even he wanted to come. So, I took him to the archaeologist with me.
We found a very good archaeologist, but his fees was high. Thank God, I had my pocket money. His fees was high that I had to give all my pocket money. He took the paper, saw through it and asked us, " Aren't you both small to be going around with this paper? This paper is way too important."
Josh said, "What is so important in this paper? Its just a paper with something written on it." I nudged Josh to keep quiet because the archaeologist was getting annoyed and I didn't want to waste my pocket money. I told Josh, "Let him speak - and then to the archaeologist, "Sir, what's your name?"
"Rob."
"So, Mr. Rob can you please tell us what is written on this paper?" He didn't reply. He just kept on looking at the paper.
After half an hour he spoke. I told Josh to keep his pen and paper ready. When Rob spoke, he said this, "This paper should be with the family of the Rais'. I really don't know what are you doing with this paper."
When he said this, I immediately looked towards Josh. I call myself Rocky but my real name is Rima Rai. Josh calls himself Josh but his real name is Aryan Rai.
We both said together, "I am a Rai."
"What is your name?" Rob asked Josh.
"Josh."
I say, "His real name is Aryan Rai." Rob stares at Josh. He asks, "What? I am sure this is not my family. Its hers."
Rob asks me y name. I tell, "Rocky." At this Rob looks confused.
"Are you a guy or a girl?"
"A girl."
"Then why do you have a guy's name?"
"Because I don't like being a girl." Rob is about to say something, but Josh interrupts him and tells, "Her real name is Rima Rai.." At this, Rob looks shocked. He stares at both of us. We both ask him, "What?"
"You both are family." We both look at each other and say together, "Impossible."
"Why?"
I said, "Because we have no relations."
"I don't think your family have told you about their relation."
Josh said, "When we have no relation what will they tell." Rob again looked at the sheet of paper and said, "You both are siblings. Twins. Rima you are old by thirty seconds."
I never answer if anyone calls me Rima. I like the name Rocky better. I got this name when some guys mistook me for a guy and called me Rocky. I liked that name and took it.
Josh answered, "Why did she had to be old?! Why can't I be old?"
I told, "Shut up!"
Rob now says, "You both Rais' have to go around the world and get these unusual things. Not things which are popular in the country. Things which you will not find anywhere. You are suppose to go to the mentioned countries -
I said, "Oh! no! From where would we get the money?"
Josh said, "You care about the money? What will we tell our parents when they return? That we had gone to save the world?"
At this, Rob said, "Not save the world, but save yourself."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that there are these aliens who are going to come and kill you both."
"Why?"
"Because you both, in your past life, killed all of them when they landed on earth."
"So, why will they give us a way to escape?"
"They are not giving you a way to escape, but the Gods are."
"How?"
"They always do. Its like a test."
"Why couldn't anyone else take the test? Why only me?" Josh complained.
I told, "Be happy. You are getting a chance to go on an adventure."
"I don't want to go on an adventure."
"You have very different thinking from the boys."
"Are you saying that I am a girl?"
"Indirectly."
"You -
"Now stop fighting you both!" said Rob and we both fell quiet. He continued, "The countries are Paris, Tokyo, Holland, Florida, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, California, Melbourne, Sydney Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Singapore."
We both said together, "What? It will take a lot of money and will it take at least one year to find these unusual things."
"And you need to go with a celebrity and an archaeologist." We both heaved a sigh of relief on hearing this. We both thought that the celebrity will pay for us.
"Which celebrity should we take and which archaeologist?"
"Relax. I know a celebrity and take me with you."
"Yes. That is a good idea. But, which celebrity do you know?"
"The great Shah Jahan Khan!"
"Who is that?"
"The great beggar!"
"He is not a celebrity."
"Fine. Then who?"
"What about, Aamir Khan?"
"Who is going to call him? No." said Josh.
"Then you only tell who."
"Fine. Selena Gomez."
"No. We need an Indian so that we can go with him from the first and he does not need to waste a penny."
"Fine. What about... Shaan?"
"No. He does not sing many songs now a days and he does not get money."
"Dude he does need money that is why he does not sing songs."
"Fine."
Now Rob said, "OK. Decided. I'll call his manager."
"Now?"
"Yes." He calls the manager and said, to us that we had to go tomorrow sharp at ten o' clock at Lido Mall over lunch. That was OK with us. So, it was Josh, Rob, Shaan and me going to save Josh and my lives.
The next day, I was at Lido Mall at nine o' clock. I feared that if I was late, we will not be able to take Shaan with us. For one hour, I went window shopping everywhere. I don't think there wasn't a place I didn't see. At ten o' clock sharp I went to the best restaurant in the Mall and sat there waiting. Soon, I saw Rob and Josh coming by. I called them to my place and we sat talking there.
After, fifteen minutes, Shaan came and we started talking about all this. He agreed to our request and told that we didnt need to pay him back. He would only pay for all the expenses on the world tour. Josh and I heaved a sigh of relief thinking that we didnt need to tell our paarents anything about it.
Soon all four of us will be going on a world tour to save the lives of two teenagers.This would, surely, be an unique world tour.
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