A few days with a ghost

 Chapter 12 

woes  of the ghost 

I lied down on the bed and my mind wandered over the brief exchange with Mr.Christophe. Stella wanted to spend the night with her father. I was alone  in my room rolling over the bed and was trying to catch a wink. 

I was thinking about our marriage and how to be performed. As per German tradition , normally marriage takes not much time. Before that there existed a system of Proposal. The groom should propose to the girl his intention to get married with her. This is considered as the first step and is celebrated over a wine or Champagne. A civil ceremony precedes the official Church wedding. But most of the couples prefer a simple civil ceremony done in front of Standesamt, the Registry of Marriages. 

 My thoughts were broken by a light muffled sound announcing the  presence of Geetha  Shiny.

‘so you have decided to get married’ she asked

‘what/ how do you know?’

‘I could read your mind’.

‘were you there when we were talking/’, I asked

‘no’. ‘we ghosts would never be present without calling’.

‘without calling ?’ then why are you here now ?, I never called you’.

‘But the moment you thought, how I would feel if it is known to me‘ is   

enough’ she replied.

‘Yes. It was my mistake’. She giggled.

‘don’t bother, I am not here to break your dreams’ she replied.

Before drifting to sleep I continued.

 ‘can you come visible’?

‘no, we ghosts are shy to come visible to human eye’, but we can do wonders and we have paranormal powers as defined in Para physics’.

‘were you a scientist and you talk about Paraphysics?’

‘ya, I was a nuclear physics student’

‘that is surprising ’, can you explain about your world and pattern of omnipresence’

‘no, you misunderstood me, we are not omnipresent, only god is omnipresent’ she spoke in a mild voice: Paraphysics is a branch of science which deals with super natural existence of some being or material" ,  in short it is connected with  the study of evidence of psychological phenomena , such as telepathy, clairvoyance, extra sensory perception, and such para psychological behavioural pattern”.

‘so how come you established contact with me?’

‘you may know it in the days to come, how ever I can only say that there was a meeting point of our ideas, friendship or connections which made it possible for me to establish a contact with you’.

‘ I was studying in a college where I had association with one person and we studied together and who is now a Nuclear Scientist’. With that she stopped and disappeared leaving me to guess .I could have seen  an emotional outburst in her eyes ,if she were visible to me.

I could not sleep any further . This was not new to me as  I had  spent so many sleepless nights or used to get up in delirium. Though I tried ,I could not dismiss my thoughts nor was able to forget the things as a wild dream. I tried to put my brain into active mode and the brain started to pry the past and left clueless.

  

A few days with a ghost.                                   Adv. Janardhanan venkiachalam

continues