"Déjà vu", the word itself speaks a lot. It zips the incidents of the future before one's eyes. But if you get a vision for a stranger then what you would do?
Just think about it!
You would visualize it as a weird dream and forget all about it.
"Sir, a man has come to meet you.”
Mr. Gomes , without lifting his eyes from the files , kept on his japanned table and said "what is the purpose of his visit , Salina”.
Salina with a tense expression, “Sir, he says he will disclose the purpose of his visit to you, and "
"And, what Salina ?" Mr.Gomes raised his right brow ,while his eyes were still rooted in his file.
‘Sir, he seems to be a villager!’ Salina paused for a while and then she spoke In a dash .“He is dressed in dhoti kurta and is wearing a big red turban.
Mr.Gomes mumbled to himself while chewing the back of his ballpoint pen " He must have come to raise funds." and with wry (sarcastic) smile he abruptly moved his shoulders, and asked Salina "let him come in" and once again he immersed himself in the file placed on his table .
Mr.Gomes was the CEO of a company . A stickler by nature under whom the company was running smoothly . The silence of the beige walls workplace , was broken by a knock ,at it's walnut colour waxed door ,and Selina came in with a short man ,who owned a big spaghetti moustache . She introduced the dusky skinned man behind the spaghetti moustache with a sarcastic note "Sir, here is the gentleman who wants to meet you personally" and she lead him in, a spacious room , adorned with walnut coloured wooden flooring , with minimum but exclusively crafted wooden furniture , cloaked in hunter green leather . Mr.Gomes lifted his eyes from his file to have a look of the man ,who had come to meet him and again with wry smile , he nodded his head and muttered to himself " A fraud! he must have come to get money in the name of funds," Mr.Gomes took a deep breath and said "Yes sir ,how can I help you? " as he crossed his arms against his chest and rested back on his chair.
"Hello sir, I am Heera . And I have come all the way from Ban Ka Khera It's a town in Rajasthan. It is in the district of Bhilwara. You can check it on the globe . Where, is the globe?" and he grinded his peculiarly sharp white teeth with each other as mumbled to himself "the big ball placed on metal stand ,where is it ?" and Heera's dark deep eyes started searching every corner of the room.
"Are you searching for something ?." Mr.Gomes asked Heera in a stern voice .
"Sir " Heera stepped forward and sat on the chair , in front of Mr.Gomes japanned table and he clasped the fingers of his hands .
"Sir ,I have already said to you that I have come from ……”
"Mr.Gomes interrupted Heera once again and said "Sir, please, come to the point ,I am in a hurry .""OK sir ,let me come to the point." Heera spoke shaping his black spaghetti moustache.
Sir, I had a vision and I saw you in it ."
Mr.Gomes , rested his arms on the table and said" OK sir, so what had you dreamt for me? He keenly starred at Herra .
" Sir ,I am a simple villager and have come to Bombay just to meet you and last week i had seen a dream about you ."
Mr.Gomes further, interrupted Heera and said ," It is strange, how did you search for me ,in such a big world ?
How did you come to know , my name and my address ? Did you see that in your dream " and Mr.Gomes meekly smiled at the man sitting in front of him .
Yes sir , I saw your name and address in my dream .
Mr.Gomes starred at heera on hearing it .
"From the cover page!" , Sir
Mr.Gomes got confused on hearing it
‘Well ,yes sir , please see the centre of the cover page of the file ," and he pointed at the blue file , kept on Mr.Gomes table. "There the company's name and address are written in black bold letters,"and I saw the same file in my dream and this is how I came here .
Mr Gomes with a suspicious eye and sternly spoke to Heera " I believe , you are quite clever ,and you have collected all the information from the files kept outside ,on my secretaries desk? "
Mr. Gomes , interpreted that he had overpowered the villager with his intellect and once again he adorned his face with a wry smile .
But Heera questioned him in a calm and shy voice " Sir, where is the big globe ? "
"Globe ?" Mr Gomes tingled the tip of his nose and said "OK! you even know that I have ordered a globe ?
Oh ! my god" Mr.Gomes leaned back on his
chair and started laughing loudly "Oh! my god are you a detective ,Mr. ?
Please tell me what do you want from me , how much fund do you want ? " and Mr.Gomes opened the drawer of his wooden table and took out a bundle of money and said "please take this and leave."
"Sir , I would surely take it ,but please ,first listen to my dream ."
‘ Last month I had a dream in which I saw a man getting a pot of gold which was buried in his backyard, and when I went and told him to dig that particular area of his house and the rest you must have read in the newspaper."
Mr.Gomes said "Earnestly speaking ,I did read such news . But, let me ask you that if you had seen the future, then why didn't you get the treasure for yourself, instead you asked the man to get hold of it."
Heera, spoke abruptly "because the man was destined to own it and I am only here to covey the message of the supreme power to its destined man ."
A long silence engulfed the room ,and it was broken by Salina who came in saying " Sir, their is a big parcel for you outside "
" OK," Mr.Gomes with a welcoming smile .
"Ask the staff to get it in-" and Salina left the room .
Mr Gomes to Heera " Here comes the globe, the one you were waiting for." and two men came in with a big box .
Mr.Gomes asked the two men " keep it near the window ,and draw the curtains in .
The two men drew the curtains in and left the room.
Heera with cockled eyes as he said
"The green curtains." and he saw Mr.Gomes
moving towards the box .
Heera said "I know it's an antique and you have bought it from an auction."
Mr.Gomes laughed again ,and said "you are not a villager but a detective I suppose, take the money kept on the table and go. I want to unbox this and feel the world which I will conquer soon" and he started unboxing it .
" Sir ,I believe you are quite ambitious."Heera twisted his curled moustache up and move toward Mr.Gomes.
"Sir, I’ll help you out in unboxing it , as it is quite dangerous" Heera moved towards Mr.Gomes .
Dangerous, Gomes was startled on hearing it
"Did you see something related to this in your dream?" Mr.Gomes questioned Heera with a sardonic smile.
"Well yes " Heera whispered with a sigh
Mr.Gomes didn't pay and heed to Heera's words and said " The beauty is about to be unboxed." and Mr.Gomes took out a five feet globe out the box.
"Sir! ,please don't rotate it , I...", Heera rushed forward to stop Mr.Gomes from touching giant globe .
But Mr.Gomes in his excitement didn't gave an ear to Heera's voice and rotated it .
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After a long silence Heera stood up from the wooden flooring of the well furnished workroom. Of Late Mr.Gomes .
He picked up the bundle of money from the japanned table and spoke quietly to the dead body "I tried to stop you from rotating the giant , as I saw it in my dream that you will die the next moment ."
and Heera twisted his spaghetti moustache and left the room.