Gerrr Geerrr

Sofie got frightened; her eyes got wide, her breath turned double X faster on the same time, Sofie’s movements became triple X slower, it’s not a demon or a monster which is standing in front of her it’s an anodized aluminum ventilation grill which is fixed on the top of the wall in her husband’s workroom is making a strange sound “gerrr.. geerrr.” after few sounds grill turns mute, she puts her dreams, her wishes aside and now she has only one wish:

“Does this grill make that gerrr..geerrr. Sound again?”

She forgets to blink her tiny eyelashed grey eyes, and she also forgets to tangle her fallen piece of hair back to that ear gap… she herself put her position as an eagle which is waiting for the snake to show its head from that abyss. After a few seconds that grill ticks her wish, it makes that sound that she wanted… *gerrr..geerrr…* the braveness that she had before a few seconds ago flew away, not only her bravery also her legs darted away from the room to call his husband who went to work this morning.

Maybe he took an hour to arrive; he drifts and parks the car — more than being panicked he is in tension; he is in a hurry, so straight away without wasting a second with a screwdriver he jimmied his workroom with his wife. With no hesitation he began to unscrew with his toe lifted as a ballet dancer; his wife Sofie is standing next to the door and gnawing her Bib Aprons has a Dermatophagia patient when he is halfway through, his wife stops from her gnawing and rushed and caught her husband’s screwing arms and said

“Stop it”

He didn’t listen to her, and he even forgot that he is having a wife who is dragging his hands with fear.

“I said stop Finn,”, Sofie growls

Atlast his husband Finn sighs and stops the progress and footed his toe on the land and turned towards his wife and throws the screwdriver away from his sight and crossed his arms around his waist, and he questioned “why?”

She took a minute to answer. Maybe she is analyzing that this is the man that I loved before.

With a stammering tone she stabs her fore finger slowly towards the grill “W- what if a goo- ghost came from that, I - I don’t want to be jump scared Finn please don’t do that” Finn listened to her with an eyebrow raised,

“Are you out of your mind, Sofie? You called me and said” he began to parody her words on the phone “heyyyyy Finn I am feared please come here because of this” suddenly he rages his tone “ this fucking ventilation grill which is making a gerrr… geerrr.. Sound”

The tone from Finn knocks Sofie’s door of tears now that is stagnating in her eyelids waiting for a blink to arrive

“Why are you getting angry at me? — Finn” her colourless tears merges with her eyelash and coursing down her chin.

Finn Squints his eyes by widening his hands he snapped, “is there anyone else here to make me angry?”

*Gerrr… geerrr*

Finn turns into silence abruptly his phone rings, he didn’t want any distractions so even without seeing it, he crunched his pant pocket which is carrying the phone’s power off button then he took a moment to turn his neck towards the grill. Suddenly Sofie’s tear-filled face gets a relief, that his husband can also hear that so to add more fidelity by is brandishing her hands like a cuckoo clock which strikes 12 she says “I Told you, right? I Told you, right? Can you hear it? See,”

Finn suddenly gestures her to stop talking, they both melts their time in silence

*Gerrr… Geerrr…*

*Gerrr.. Geerrr..*

They can’t take their eyes from that grill until the silence breaks when Finn whispers “maybe it’s a rat”

Sofie whispers back “maybe it’s a ghost”

By turning his head half in the direction of his wife Finn questioned “How come a ghost come In morning?”

Sofie mimics the same thing as Finn did before she turned her head half and questioned back “then how come a rat go inside that tiny gap?”

He admits her by nodding his head up and down “hmm..” he whisperly added “all right you go out I will see and I will call you back”

Sofie without moving a bit backward she shrugs by saying “See Finn, Already I couldn’t handle your snoring what if you become unmanageable from that jump scare”

Finn irritately sighed by rubbing his forehead, “why are you becoming so dumb these days?”

The word “dumb” Triggers Sofie

Now they are having a completion of *who shouts big* even if the umpire of that completion blows his whistle to stop, they won’t stop because they became uncontrollable.

Sofie yells with a saliva spitting out, “you are the one who became dumb”

“I am?” asks Finn with a Stoic laugh

“ Yeah After seeing a bunch of cash you become acquisitive and dumb”

With a squawking tone, Finn protesting it

“Acquisitive? Me? Oh yes! But remember one thing Sofie — if I am not earning you will be naked in the streets”

After hearing it, Sofie Titters by closing the mouth with her palms “ughh. Uhhh.. then you too remember one thing” pauses for a second, she took her palms from her hand, sofie is now gazing at Finn’s black eyes, his sclera which is occupied by millions of red lines, dark circles under his eyes because of his work

What to say?

‘The zoology that I studied in college is evaporating in mid-air, uselessly’ or ‘hey babe you have an appointment for your eyes right? Don’t forget like last time’, but instead of that she yells straight into Finn’s eyes, “I never liked this new Finn — ever”

“Now what I am an illegal affair” Finn comments sarcastically

“Haha…not funny”

“Ohhhh what if that old Finn crawls between your thighs and tells you the same joke… you laugh right? Ugh... but Sorry to say mrs.oldfinn’s wife, he won’t come back because I send him to an everlasting vacation”

*Gerrr.. Geerrr…*

*Gerrr.. Geerrr…*

Sofie overlapped that grill sound “alright Finn, I am done, I am leaving you”

Finn shrugs by saying, “Fine, leave who cares?”

*Gerrr.. Geerrr..*

They both looked in the direction of the grill and yells at the same time in a sink

“Shut the fuck up, motherfucker”

Dumbness surrounded the room. They offered breath to their jaws and vocal cords.

Sofie turned back and walked out like a speed of light

*Gerrr…Geerrr…*

*Gerrr.. Geerrr..*

Finn inhales the recently exhaled air into his mouth by making a balloon of it — once he reaches the limit he releases it slowly by shaking his head side to side he says in a humble tone “I am sorry sofie — really I am sorry, come back” by saying it, he begins to walk towards her to catch her hands and soften it like a cat which feathers owners legs for food.

*Gerrr… Geerrr…*

*Gerrr… Geerrr..*

The jimmied door is still open, swinging back and forth silently like a curtain at Spring time.

a cloudy sunlight from the half-opened window illuminates the surface along with Finn’s uncleanness on the same time sunlight glints Finn’s paper weight which is kept on a wooden table. The paper weight holds a bundle of disorganized papers sometimes when wind blows, the papers below rustle up and brushes the paper weight. Other than that, a filament bulb elucidates the hallway with no disturbance of human shadows.

Maybe Finn left too, maybe now he is running back her by screaming his apology letter, maybe he is repeating the same words as last time, or he is filling up with new vocabularies which has same meanings, maybe now he caught her hand, maybe sofie shove off his hands and rushing to get a taxi, maybe Sofie is getting in and locked the door, maybe now Finn is knocking on the car window to get her attention maybe the taxi driver geared up, intentionally to avoid scratches on his window maybe Sofie left him, maybe Finn is gasping, maybe he is crying in the middle of the road. Maybe a beacon of light beam falls on Finn’s face added with a loud horn, maybe with an excitement he tilted his head up — maybe it’s Sofie or an old man who is cursing him for blocking the way, maybe instead of all of this she is convinced by his new vocabularies, maybe they are coming back like a usual happy couples by giving fake promises to each other. Who knows?

What you want the reason for using maybe repeatedly? Or you want know what is inside that grill? I will assure you that both answers will be connected.

I am not with them to narrate you or to tell facts about the situation yeah!!... I am the one who is inside the grill, if you ask me why?

My job is to narrate a story from a third person perspective, you may think traveling and exploring the things with the characters is the job Made in heaven… but it’s not, It’s the worst job that you can get, we third person narrators are not blessed like first-person narrators because we will get a bundle of papers before the day one; its consists of situations and problems added with the solutions faced by the characters.

Our job is to spice up and serve; by adding new words and a novel way of seeing it. fore mostly we know how this story gonna end and how they work, so we can’t feel any sort of surprises and our jaws will not drop for any twists, maybe the readers, but we not.

I am narrating Sofie and Finn’s story for ages; I had made six stories before theirs — within few pages I get to know that, their story is the dumbest story ever made so, I thought of spicing it of my own. I know it’s against from my ethics but I did to have some surprises.

Even before seeing it, I just ripped off a page from the middle and I burnt it because I know a single page is enough to have lots of surprises, then I landed into my usual allotted spot; the aluminum grill to narrate. Till yesterday everything gone as per the papers, but this morning when sofie enters Finn’s workroom with a stick to clean the orcs….... There is no paper; I didn’t even prepare, so I just got confused; I don’t know how to handle the situation, suddenly from nowhere I just found the spicy… it’s a disgusting thing but works well… I must thank the person who cooks yesterday’s noodles because that’s the thing made me to belch….

*Gerrr…Geerrr*

*Gerrr.. Geerrr*

Oh, my god!! Wait…

Someone is disturbing the filament bulb with their shadow

I gotta spicy it

I will catch up with you later…

Bye-bye.