THE SHADOW

When I turned 18 my mom and dad gave me permission to stay alone, I was on cloud 9, but somewhere near our home so they bought me a house in same society. I used to go college at that time, there I had a friend named Archisha she was from different city unlike me so she should be staying at hostel or pg but instead she was living in a hostel that was much far from our college and neither I have seen it nor heard of it and she used to tell me creepy things about that hostel like

"today when I got back to hostel from college at 5pm I wasn't able to find it at that location till 7pm"

"You know the hostel is very weird the food we eat usually taste like it's kept for 2 years"

"When I for the 1st time went to that hostel they gave me a sweet to eat which wasn't edible but I ate it"

I got shocked listening to it, sometimes at night she used to call me and cry loud that someone will take her away and they had already captured her shadow. I belong to a family which actually believed in both gods and spirits and I knew something wasn't right so I told everything to my mom and her reaction told me everything but she asked "did they really captured her shadow?" "Mom to be honest I don't know but this is what she told me." "If this is true it's difficult to save her now." "What? Why?" "Yes because shadow is like our reflection and they captured her reflection she can't move without it anywhere" "Mom we could ask her to stay with me" "We can but it will be of no use because shadow is always with you wherever you will go it always follows you, it's like they captured her second body" I immediately called her and told her everything but I wasn't expected what I heard she said "now I belong to there world dare you call me from now." I gulped and since that day I haven't seen her at college but I thought of searching about that hostel and it turned out to be true the google said 'several years ago a man called Jitendra used to own this hostel but because of the debt, one day he jumped from the terrace and died after that his family was brought here and was burnt along with the building since then passersby confess some haunted things around this place like it's sudden appearance after sunset, girls shouting, people shouting for help, burning smell etc and this place is approved haunted too.'