AT LAST - WHO ARE YOU?

I was sitting in my bed . I was breathing heavily . It is 4 in the morning . Again a nightmare but , this time I didn't remember what it was about !. Usually I will remember the nightmare in the morning and it will be whirling in my freaking brain all day long ! But this time it was taken to a whole new level . I didn't remember the nightmare but ,the most insane thing is I am able to feel it ,the fear , the undefinable sorrow, the uncontrollable urge to cry with no clues of what happened in sleep and the most weird part is I am missing someone terribly but , I don't know who it is !. There is no one for me to miss , everyone are around me !. Yes ,I got the point !. No one is with me , everyone are just around me in some 'un-necessarily but , necessary distance ' . Once the people with me are now around me!. I am able to sense some mystery in the air !. Everyone now seems to get strangers once again in my life !. The recent behavioral changes in yasmeen has affected me so badly. It is not a drastic change but , a change which is enough for me to sense that she is maintaining a distance from me . I cannot complain this to her nor I can't just leave this convincing myself that everything around me are just fine !. This is the cruellest period of my life , I have never faced such mood swings and sudden roundabouts in my life. Is this stuffs are normal for a teenager or was I brought up in a comfortable and secured bubble which didn't let me know all these things !.

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I was looking into my checklist , everything was all set clear to move !. Yasmeen said me that we will be boarding the train to Luxor by 1pm . Now the time is 12:30 pm.

"Knock . Knock .".

Someone was knocking in my door !. I walked towards the door and opened it !. It was zahir !.

" Is you research over !". He walked into my room, leaving me puzzled for a moment !.

" What zahir ? What do you mean ".

" That's what your deep research into your backpack . We are just moving out for a weekend not for a summer camp zaara !".

" Oh yeah I was almost done with my packing !".

" What just almost .... You didn't complete your packing yet ?".

" OMG ...... I am done with my packing ZAHIR !!!!!".

" You are getting so angry with me zaara !, Lately your behavior has completely changed !".

" Shall we now move down 'My Lord ' with your permission !!!!".

" And additional you are being so mean !".

" Whatever shall we move down or else you would be probably driving us in car to Luxor ".

" Fine zaara give me your backpack. "

" I think I don't have any serious injuries in shoulder or legs so, I can carry them by myself zahir . No thanks !".

I took the bag and started climbing down the stairs . I handed over the keys to him to lock the door !.

"Once Again 'mean zaara' is back". He yelled.

" once again ' I don't mind ' zahir ". I said when I was climbing down the stairs . It looked like he was still in my room , didn't recover from my icy blast replies !.

I started walking towards the uni entrance gates from my block !. Suddenly someone hugged me from back . I was not able to feel the person as the backpack was between us . The hands of the person barely reached my waist !.

" Useless bag !!!!... ". muttered under breath .

I was just taken away for a moment . It felt like this is how it used be , I didn't feel any hostile feeling towards that hug . Something very familiar and comfortable .
With a sudden jerk and flooding emotions , I turned just to realise it was zahir . yeah he used to hug me often but this time, it was quite a weird but ,complicated emotion started flowing throughout my body .

" What did you just say ? . I asked with a slightest expectation for no apparent reason .

" What did you think that I said ?". He raised the question in a playfull but , he really meant it .

" Nothing , why did you hug me and gave me a weird emo... Nothing ". I paused midway .

" Mmmm weird what ? , As you said if you go haywire , my Teddy hug will please out everything . Is it or not , that is what I did . Any more clarifications ?".

"Nothing . Shall we move or else as I said before you should be driving us to Luxor ".

" Ok fine . Let's move yasmeen is Waiting for us in the entrance of the uni with my packing too ".

" Through which means we are reaching the station ?".

"Through cab ".

"Ok ".

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We three boarded the train but there was no sign of Akhenaten in the air . As it was a long journey zahir and yasmeen slept after a brunch .
The journey to Luxor was so blissful , I was looking out of the window . I am returning to the land which showered undefinable love and care with no expectations , my very own bubble . I turned around , just to see zahir and yasmeen sleeping . The other extreme end of my life , I did things which I have never did before . Mystery , pain , confusion ,fear . This is the other bubble in which I am currently living . The first bubble showed me what is life ,the other bubble showed me how to live a life . Something inside me said me that the mystery is going to unravel itself in this journey to necropolis of Thebes . I was even quite tired , cause attending an English lecture as well as traveling is the worst combo !!!. I slowly drifted off to sleep !.

I woke up around 9 in the night . Yasmeen and zahir was awake already and was discussing something with a map spread all over on the foldable table top of the train . Zahir was marking something in the map with a pencil and yasmeen was carefully listening to him .

" What is going on guys ". I asked with some confusion.

" finally woke up sleepy head ". Zahir commented.

" Yes I am a sleepy head but , before a couple of hours I saw two polar bears in their hibernation mode . Didn't respond to anything even when a baby in the train was crying and screaming from its stomach. I am wondering where those bears went !. Did you see them guys? ".

" Oh is that a joke , kindly say me before because I am a giggle mug , I will laugh awfully and I will disturb the other passengers even if the joke is very rusty ".

" I am happy that you got my point , you look awful while laughing ... Gotcha !".

" Nevermind". He gave up .

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It is 11 in the night when we reached Luxor . We boarded another bus to reach Thebes , which is 2hours away from Luxor . Our energy was totally drained even if we took some rest in-between . It is usual for me to go sleepless in the nights even after a hectic day but, for them it is a whole new package of blast .Both didn't expect that they would go this tired . Both again took a short nap in the way back to Thebes.
After a 2 hours journey we reached a deserted island in the Thebes . The expedition site was not actually located in Thebes , it was again 2-3 km away from the necropolis. As they said it hasn't been excavated in centuries . It just revealed itself after when a huge amount of sand displaced during a sand storm . Which happened a couple of weeks before.It was informed to the authorities by a tribesman who is living near the site , additional he is one of the members who works as a daily labour in one of these expedition site .
A temporary building was raised amidst the desert for the officials and authorities to stay . As it was far away from Luxor, they couldn't travel every day this far . I really don't know why this expedition was so important than any other . Maybe one of the reasons is it has never been touched by a mortal being in centuries or else a significant thing is going to reveal itself in ages as my dad used to say . We three rushed inside that mansion like building . We didn't have to meet anybody as zahir was already having the keys . We three entered different rooms and I made myself comfortable in there . It was a very cold night in middle of the African desert . I know really that I have to meet new people and maybe even important persons . Some may realize who I am because of my father and some may not only because of me being silent and composed .

A clear night sky above my head and the unsolved mysteries beneath my bed !. This weird thought raised in my head , before I could process the meaning, I slept .

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