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THE BLACK TREE part 01
Today i may be a man of 47 but still i can't forget the night of 1996 it was probably october 13.
and let us not forget the fact that number 13 has always been a hidden horror for men like me.
today i was having a look at some
of my memories of the Bright learning college and my friends especially Hareem and sadak may God bless their soul if i am alive today it is because on the night of 13 october 1996 two men sacrificed their lives for just saving my life.

It was passion to win every bet because i being a young guy of 20 or 25 could never think about the risk which it contained.

i can remember clearly it was a sunny day ,warm outside ,and i with my two friends Sadak and Hareem Ghuki ya ..i called him Ghuki for that was his cast
strange but true. Our Hostel was famous for producing people who broke the records of sleeping continuously for whole day.

we went outside the hostel to have some tea on Baqi mama's shop he being an old man of 67 could hardly manage the shop
but his 15 year old son Gora helped him a lot

"Hello Baqi mama may we have some tea
. but not like last time....Ah....it nearly burnt my mouth ...how can you serve so hot."
"oh sorry to serve it hot boys....but i am not expected to announce it loudly

tea is hot ..tea is hot....tea is hot...

otherwise i will put behind the asylum.

"Hareem i think the ony thing we have been doing from the past month is just sitting and drinking "
You are right but what are we expected to do during vacations

It was at this moment when we decide to go for a bet .

the bet being risky as well as insane .

Baqi mama in a smiling tone said to us

"hmmm well you are young adventurous,
hardworking but today if you want to get away with your boredom it is only i who can do it."

common mama dont exhange phrases of old age and tell us what to do.

Baqi mama was now serious something strange was beginning to take birth in his mind and he began to speak

"Ok boys ....there you go.

half of a mile away from your hostel there is a place called whitdove there is
a tree at the centre of that place some parks are also around the place with strong and strange kind of bushes .
the tree is famously known as the black tree you see i have been through the way dozens of times but every time i can feel the whisper of tree as if something is being cutdown with sharp razor.

people have been famaliar to that place
from a long time.

they believe that anybody who comes near the tree at dark a man with big axe in his right hand comes out of the tree and kills him.

Do you know ?
this black tree has claimed over 15 lives found dead near the tree.
Now look at me if you go there tonight and stay there for an hour i could pay you one thousand but if you came back shortly in minutes you will have to pay me"
After he finished it.

All of us were disturbed and serious about it . but then suddenly we exploded with laughter so much that the tea was comming out of our mouth.

we all in one voice said

"If it is the question of one thousand we can have a singing party near the black tree "
we agreed to the bet and were ready for night to come the night that seemed endless.