Magic -2

“I love the beaches and water and trust me I try my best to keep them clean but I really can’t stop anyone else”

She smiled again

“I know you are an honest person. We have seen you come here many a times and I was always eager to meet you but him…”she pointed towards the young guy “he thought I was angry and wanted to teach you a lesson”

“Oh  ...who is he by the way”

“He is the king of the waves and my son,”

“Oh…you know your majesty, this place is beautiful and I am really glad that I met all you people, but I want to go now”

“Not so soon, the king is already here and he wants to meet you personally”

There were whispers in the huge room and suddenly there was a sound of a huge trumpet followed by the sound of flowing waves. The king had arrived

“I heard, we have a guest” There was a loud voice which echoed

“Yes your highness, it is a man from the OTHER world, you remember the on we wanted to meet” The queen replied and pushed me forward towards the king

He had a huge crown of sea shells on his head which looked beautiful. He was slightly older than the queen but was immaculately fit.

“Hello my friend from the other world, the queen and I were eager to meet you the last time you came here but our son wasn’t here and before I could realize that you were here you had left”

I wondered why they wanted to meet me but I liked the royal experience

“Why did you want to meet me your highness?” I asked

“Son” he kept his huge arm around my shoulder “we like people who liked us and you have been our guest here so many times”

“Yes I do like this place Kashid a lot your highness, I like the shells here, I like the white sand, I like the water, I like everything about this place”

“We know that my son and that is why we decided to reward you”

I turned towards the queen, she still wore the subtle smile of hers and the prince was grumbling but I knew I was safe now.

The king clapped and in no time two servants appeared. He said something to them very softly. One of them rushed towards a small door at the corner of the hallway and brought something on a plate made of rocks

There was a leaf wrapped around it. The king slowly unwrapped the leaf; there was a beautiful shell inside the leaf.

I picked the shell from the plate and placed it on my hand. It was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen

“Do you remember this?” The queen asked

Yes, indeed. I do remember it. It had a small ‘S’ carved on it. I remember I had found it on the beach the first time I had come here.  I had found the shell inside the water. I had picked it and had noticed the carving on it when a wave had hit me and I had lost it. Now I understood why I was wanted here and now I understood why I had lost it in the first place.

Everyone in the hall had a huge smile on their faces, the excitement on my face probably made them smile. But something strange started happening, the water started twirling, I could see the king and queen waving their hands to me, it was my time to go. I put my hand in the twirl and it sucked me in, surprisingly at the end of the twirl there was light, as I raised my hands, the sun light was too strong for me. I blinked till my eyes got adjusted to the light. My friends were kneeling around me. I coughed out the water in my lungs. I then realized that it was a dream. The waves had knocked me off so hard that I had hit a stone under the water. I could feel the bump on my head

“Thank god, man” swapnil said

“We all were scared, when the wave hit you….” Swapnil kept a hand on Megha’s shoulder

“Its ok Sameer, get up and try breathing for sometime, you’ve had enough water enter your lungs” Yogesh chuckled

“Yeah, I know, by the way you looked so conked when you were faint. When we pulled you out of the water, you were trying to breathe hard and moving your hands all over the place” Pady said

“But it is surprising, he gained conscious so soon” Yogesh added

“So what did you want?” Swapnil tried to give the two a piece of his mind. “Now help him get up. Let him breathe”

Yogesh, Pady and Swapnil, helped me get up when I realized something was in my hand.

Everything in front of my eyes was turning round, my feet were moving uncontrollably and then all I could see was black.