The Night before Dawn
Day #576. 12.01 AM.
Navil was becoming restless tonight as his all the basic subscriptions were finished. The subscriptions involved HDTV, streaming services and the DTH service. The last streaming service was just finished yesterday. Now, he is feeling empty and trying to sleep earlier than usual.
After a while, he convinced himself to hit the bed finally because of one good reason. The Monthly Purge day.
Purge day is the day when you have all your supplies refilled. This is the only day in a month when the essential deliveries happens at your doorstep. Of course, with a good price. The deliveries are managed by the Government with the utmost care. The delivery persons are being paid a good sum for this as it's a matter of life & death.
Keeping this in mind, Nevil planned to get up early to have his basic needs delivered at the time of dawn. Dawn time was the only available slot. Hence, no choice. Otherwise, wait for another month. Another choice - DIE.
It becomes very hard to sleep at midnight when you are in the habit of sleeping by 2 or 3 AM. Restlessness was natural tonight. Further half an hour into the restlessness, and he got up from the bed. Switched on the TV to stare at the blank screen. With HDTV & DTH both gone, only one thing came to the rescue. Some old saved porn. Works like a charm most of the time.
1.20 AM and Nevil had just finished sliming his bathroom tiles. By 1.30 AM, he finally drowned in the world of deep sleep.
This few hours of sleep was necessary as the following day was going to be very hectic. Obviously, because it was a purge day after all, which happens once in a month. Who knows if it is going to be bi-annual or annual soon. So, make hay while the sun shines!
It was 4.45 AM. Dawn was about to spread its reddish golden wings. EEEERRRRRRR... an eerie sound broke Nevil's half baked sleep. He was clueless and terriffied. With thousands of wierd thoughts running in his mind, he got up from the bed. The wierd thoughts were probably due to a broken dream or due to the incidents happened with people during those past days of the lockdown.
End of Chapter 1
