Whe- Where is this?
I slowly opened my eyes…
It was a sight, very hard to comprehend at a glance, but it was as if there were thousands of people standing all around me cheering for someone…
In front of me there were very bright blinding lights.
Somewhere along those bright lights, lay something which looked like the very embodiment of freedom…
A huge stage…
Two people…
I woke up.
It was almost dawn…
Everything which I saw in that dream was far too realistic.
What was that...?
My attention shifted to the music which was playing on my speakers.
I glanced at the display of the speakers
Song: My Broken Harmonica
Artist: ZiX MusicaX
“ZiX…? Who is that?”
Next Day: Chandannagar Station
[Announcement] Train Number 712316, Howrah-Bardhaman Local will be arriving at platform number 3…
Ya~~~wn
I should not have woken up so early…
Got a little too excited -
“Hey Aashita”
I looked at the overbridge and found Debu, excited as usual, jumping down the stairs.
“Yea- (Ya ~~ wn)”
“Pulling all nighters for exam preparations are we…?”
“Just keep shut…”
“Then what?”
“Just had an interesting nightmare…”
“Oh, I see… wait what?”
The train made its way into the platform slowly…
Although everything was pretty normal like every other day - there was one point of difference.
Somehow the artist name- ZiX MusicaX continued bugging me.
It was an interesting name…
After waking up, I had listened to The Broken Harmonica for 3 more times on my headphones and every time that feeling- the feeling from that dream, had taken over my sense of liking or disliking the concept as a whole.
I plugged in an AirPod, connected my mobile and played The Broken Harmonica once again…
“WHOA-”
“Hmm…?”
I looked at Debu.
“This is so unusual of you”
He had a surprised expression on his face
“What, Listening to music on a train?”
“YEAH… like you mostly spend your time looking at the scenery outside”
“Hmm… feeling kinda’ sleepy you know; so…”
“... okay”
He resumed scrolling through his Insdagram feed with a confused look
I try new things very rarely because changing the usual pattern of doing stuff brings upon oneself a hell lot of questions from people who are used to seeing me not doing that, but this time…
[This is Chuchura Station, This is…]
… it feels kind of good.
Everything was a mixture of my emotions from the dream and my newly unlocked sentiments…
Nothing had changed, it was the same world with the same people and the usual everyday chaos, but everything kind of felt new.
I moved a bit closer to the door.
Yes, The best way to describe this track would be the word new-
“Hey…” someone tapped on my shoulders, “...Are you a new member?”
It was an impressive voice, the kind one would expect from people like Hemanta Mukhopadhyay or Manna Dey - a mesmerising classically toned voice that is :
I looked at him.
“Ha?”
Although his voice was good and all, his question had me all weirded out.
A new member?
He was not wearing our school uniform, kind of looked like a college student…
“Oh, I mean… you a member of our school, I see :)”
[This is Hooghly Station, This is…]
“Wh- what do you…”
Without letting me complete my sentence, he jumped down on the platform from the moving train and ran to a halt.
“What was that all about?” asked Debu
“Don’t ask me…”
Somehow weird events keep happening from yesterday…
“...By the way, what were you doing when that guy was talking with me? You are not someone who would not engage in an idiotic conversation with weirdos like these”
“NGL, you are definitely right about that BUT… You see… I was kind of ummm dis- trac-ted you could say…”
“By what?”
“You will understand, come here; try looking at the next corridor and… tell me if you get it” he replied with a weird smile on his face
I looked over at the next corridor and the very first thing that caught my eye was a girl, no wait- a freaking beautiful girl… wearing our school uniform…?
“Actually you see… She boarded the train at Chuchura and uhh…”
…Moreover she had a black mask on which blended perfectly with her gorgeous black hair; Her whole appearance seemed very vibrant against the morning hue…
“Wait-”
She suddenly opened her mask on a whim.
THAT FACE...!!
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