Wednesday 28 September 2016

lekha 3

Working in a nationalized bank has its toll, who understands it better than her, in the last seven/eight years she was transferred from Jhajjar Haryana to Junagarh Gujrat to Bilaspur Chattishgarh… finally she is posted in her home state but its almost 650 km from Kolkata. So what? She fell in love with this small hill town. Before/after duty hours she wanders alone through the deserted roads, through the partly dense forests. The denizens are too innocent to heckle a lonely woman. But today she is not feeling comfortable, as if she is not alone, somebody is watching her for sure. She looked around and found a big lens capturing her moves, must be a stupid Bong tourist is behind that. Getting furious she was about to leave the spot, when a familiar voice said, “Finally! Finally I got you!”
The man was smiling at her, for a moment or two she was dazed by his good looks… how many years 7/8/9 or 10? Oh my gosh!!! Its been so long since she’d last seen him… it’s like ages… but she still remembers…. She remembers everything…. He is her bestie’s cousin. When they first met, he was in his early 20s, a bright student. He was in 2nd or 3rd year of engineering degree. And she was in the wrong side of 20. It was her friend’s birthday where she first saw him… he was a tall, fair and lean boy, with newly and unevenly shaven beard and a pair of geeky glasses. The party ended really late that night and on her friend’s repeated request he walked her home… they talked, no actually he talked and she listened… she was so ordinary… so mediocre compared to him….but he treated her with too much respect…. She was actually started weaving dreams of future together, until he said, “Okay Di. Goodnight.”
“Di?” so he considered her as an older sister? But it failed to dissuade her from her stupid dreams…. Dreams of a colourful future together… she asked her friend a lot of questions about him,he had all the qualities of her prince charming…. She was totally engrossed into their dreamy future when she suddenly discovered that her Prince did have a princess… a far better looking, much younger girl, whose father is ten times wealthier than her father…. She was shattered…. But it was fair enough, a prince is supposed to be with a princess… only with a princess not a commoner like her. She made up her mind and concentrated on her career…. On the night of her friend’s engagement she witnessed them, her Prince and his Princess to break off… no she had nothing to do with it…. It’d been their decision…
It was her friend’s wedding, she met him for the last time…. Again on her friend’s repeated requests he went to drop her on foot, it was a full moon night, the roads were totally deserted…. They were alone… he hadn’t said anything, neither did she…. After bidding her goodbye…he suddenly called her, by her name, she had goose bumps but before he said anything she stepped into the house, looked into his eyes and said, “Goodnight Bro”.
He is visibly elated, hugged her so tight and kept on saying, “OMG! Where have you been? I searched you everywhere from FB to Twitter to Linkedin… ….”. Her heart is about to get blown… she tried to free herself and said, “ Listen Br”…. “Oh! Fuck it…. Im not your brother…..” he said angryly
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