A new Beauty to the Beast

The sound was barely audible and at first चमेली questioned whether या not she actually heard it. She slowed the riding lawn mower to a stop and turned it off. She flinched as the संगीत from her headphones suddenly became louder without the noise of the lawn mower. She quickly pulled the ear buds out of her ears.

Silence.

Then a crash. It was loud; as if something had gone through a large window. चमेली was almost positive it was the same noise she had heard earlier. She jumped off the lawn mower, stumbling slightly but then running towards the house. Her father was in the city for the day,...