Do not run away

It was a Saturday evening. The sun was about to set. It was getting dark. John, a
twenty-year-old young boy was gazing outside through the window of the office.
He was looking at the school ground. The soil of the ground was shuddering him.
He tried to find his way back to the dormitory with cold feet. The Darkness in the
atmosphere made john to remembered the last moment that he had spent with
his father before his death. His father told him that there was something that he
must know. He told him that the man in our family shares a gift. They can travel
back in time, but only to the moments they had already experienced and in
return, five years from their life span will be decreased. But his father discouraged
him from using his gift because he only used it for one time in his whole life to
give married to his mother.
Although john had used it one time before because of a serve road accident. He
used his powers to save a child from a car accident. But eventually, after one
month, the child suffered an extreme cold and died.
On reaching his room, all alone he started to write a message on his mobile
phone. His hands were shaking and his fingers unmanageable. He had to write the
truth after so many times. He thought that even if something goes wrong, he will
use his powers. He splashed cold water to soothe his burning eyes. The cold water
from the bathroom tap stings his face, but his eyes badly needed the cold. That’s
when John heard the bold knock on the front door. John thought it could be
Noah. Of cause, he and Noah had a kind of deal but he had decided to reveal the
truth now.
On the second knock, a lot louder to show Noah’s violent impatience. Noah
rushed toward the front door and screamed, ‘go away’. I told you to leave me
alone. The knocking intensifies. John can feel the horror build up within him. The
knocks grow into bangs one after the other and all of the sudden there was a
dead silence.
The sound of unlocking the door gave him goosebumps erupting all over. The
door opened. Noah appeared with a sinister look and moved quickly toward him.
He shook john while saying that he was furious at that time but you like a coward
remained in the shadows. If I were you I would have saved him from falling down
the stairs and then hiding. He and I were fighting at that time. I did not know how
he slipped and fell from the stairs. It was his mistake that he wouldn’t maintain
his balance. John said that you had intentionally pushed him down. I am sure that
you grabbed his collar and threw him down. You had buried him under the school
ground. I had to inform the police. I deserved the proper funeral. Noah had tossed
out his phone and said I did not care what happened that evening. We cannot
bring the dead one back to life. But if you told the police the truth, ill kill you!
Upon saying this he left the room. John picked up his cracked phone and sat down
on a chair. He gazed at the sealing while thinking that he should not be this selfish
and should have returned to time. John spent the whole night on the chair.
Before the first ray of the sun, he opened his eyes and move back in time for the
second time in his life .he traveled back to a time when josh and his junior were
fighting.
He found himself hiding in shadows on the stairs. Josh intentionally pushed his
junior from the stairs. This time John did not remain in the shadows but rushed
toward his junior and catch him. John's eyes were full of tears. Josh namly-pambly
got off the stairs and leave the school. John was kind of happy that he had saved a
human. He was feeling like a deity, a celestial being.
On the next morning, the same routine followed itself. John had attended all of
his classes and tried his best to avoid Noah. John had seen junior and Noah on the
off time of school. They both were standing at a distance but gazing deadly at
each other. That junior had gestured toward Noah and they both started to move
in the direction of the school ground. The time repeats itself. Again they picked
up a quarrel. John was looking at them through the window of the office. He did
not stop them. The whole scenario was the same. His junior was again under the
soil of their school ground, dead. But this time either than agitation and regrets,
he was staring blindly at the ground. The darkness in the atmosphere made him
recall his father's last words. He came to know why his father only used his
powers to love someone. He asked himself :
What's the point in running from a strenuous situation when in the end we
only had to face it?