One day, while I was sitting at my desk in my classroom, my phone suddenly started vibrating. I cautiously took my phone out of my bag and saw my mom's name on the display. I was confused why my mom was calling me right now. I put my phone back in the bag, as I couldn't pick it up because it was not allowed. My mom never disturbed me when I was studying in class, never. She knew I was in class, still she called me, why? This question scared me a bit, multiple thoughts started flashing in my mind. But the first thought that scared me the most was, has something happened to my dad? I literally saw the scene of my father's dead body lying on the floor near the TV showcase. My heart started pounding for a while. Why did this thought come suddenly? While my dad was completely fine and healthy. I shook my head, thinking it must be my overthinking. When my lecture was over, I called back my mom and asked,
"What happened, Mom? Why did you call me during my lecture?"
"Come home." She answered.
"Why? What's the matter?"
"Nothing, just come home." She hung up the call.
She didn't tell me the reason. This made me feel scared. There was another lecture after the break, but I bunked the class and rushed to my home. When I finally reached, I quickly asked her,
"Why did you call me?"
She replied, "Nothing, we have Guests coming home today, so I needed your help. That's all!"
I was confused because my mom has never been so irresponsible. She was able to cook food for 15-20 people alone. I was not irritated, or it wasn't like I didn't want to help her in cooking. But my mom was a kind of person that she would never compromise on my studies. She had always told me that my studies should never be hampered for any reason, she used to tell me that she will handle everything, but she will never let my studies and dreams get hampered. I thought she could have told me that there are guests coming home on call also, but she didn't, why? However, I didn't pay much attention towards that thought and also ignored my previous intuition about my dad.
Exactly, after a month, we had to go to our native place, where our home was being renovated. Actually, my father had to go, but he said that he has so much work in his shop, so he can't go. Therefore, I and my mom went, and my father was alone at home. Everything was happening exactly as destiny had planned, and we were totally unaware about it.
That night, around 3 AM, suddenly my father started feeling ache in his heart. Nobody was at home, neighbors were also sleeping, therefore he didn't bother them and thought that it might be a normal gas problem. He was wearing bathroom sleepers and forgot to take them off near the bathroom door and instead took them off outside the entrance door and then he fell asleep again. Whenever we used to go somewhere and my father was alone, our neighbors used to cook food for him and take care of our house. We had a really good relationship. Later, at 7 AM my neighbor aunty was going for a walk, she noticed our bathroom slippers were at our entrance door. she didn't know that it was our bathroom slippers, she thought that someone must have come to our house. So, she opened the door and checked. There she spotted my father lying down on the floor near the handwash basin. He had woken up again in the night, as he was feeling like vomiting and fell down there. As soon as aunty noticed my dad like this, she screamed. Other neighbors also came running. One of my neighbors took his head on her lap and she felt he wasn't breathing. She looked up at other neighbors and said that there was nothing in his body. They were unsure about him, so they quickly rushed to the hospital. When the doctor checked, he said,
"He's no more!" Our neighbors took him back to our home and laid his dead body on the floor.
Afterwards, they called my mom and told her to come back home as soon as possible, and we rushed to him with broken heart. When I entered my house, I saw the dead body of my father lying on the floor near the TV showcase. Exactly the same scene I had envisioned when my mom called me earlier. The Universe had already sent me this message a month ago, but I couldn't understand, and it became a reality. I literally felt like my world had stopped. Our whole world changed that day.
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