THIS ONE IS FOR SHINI DI...THANKS FOR BEING SO SUPPORTIVE AND HELPING ME WITH EACH AND EVERY WRITING...I LOVE YOU...
dr. Sharon rai prakash entered Sanjeevani' hospital , one of the most renowned in guwahati and curtly walked towards the reception to blast the nurse who has dared to disturb her sleep at 2 in the morning...
"ma'am... rahul is complaining of severe stomach pain and the medicines are not working..." The nurse expected Sharon to blast her but instead got no reply...as she looked up she saw Sharon has already disappeared into rahul's cabin...
She entered the cabin to find the seven year old guy sitting on the bed with a drawing book in his hand...
"hi... aunty..." Rahul smiled cutely at her... while Sharon glared...
"so this was one of your crazy pranks...you are completely fine... Do u even realize I had to come all the way from home because of your lie..." she tried to keep calm...
"aunty I am sorry for that... but tomorrow I'll be going home right??? And the nurse said you won't be coming tomorrow...but I really needed to give you this..." The kid forwarded the drawing book to her...
"what???" Sharon asked being confused...
"there are some sketches you see... and I and to gift you that..." he paused n looked down and then blushed and continued... " actually I like you..." Sharon was shocked... kids of this days...she sighed and smiled at him accepting his gift... she narrated him a story and quickly made him sleep and went to the locker room...
The hospital was pretty much empty as she sat down on the couch of the locker room... Tears slowly trickled down her cheeks as the darkness around her reminded her more of the darkness in her life...
*flashback*
Both of them were sitting in the churchyard of their school church talking ... she and swayam as a student of 12th standard were in a relationship for the past few months... She had always loved her from the bottom of her heart and to her surprise swayam had professed his love for her in the same churchyard...so this place held a special place in her heart...
She was an orphan and grew up in an orphanage and swayam was the only person she had in this entire world..he came into her life as a midnight summer dream and filled her life with all the clours of happiness and love...
Apart from being a flawless dancer swayam was a fabulous painter too... Many times swayam has drawn so many portraits and gifted her the same... Even once he drew her picture which turned out to be more beautiful than she looked...
Kriya was swayam's best friend...childhood best friend... the most special girl in swayam's life... May be more special than Sharon as a friend... he had once told Sharon that whenever he closed his eyes and tried to draw something he always ended up painting kriya's face...
Not that Sharon ever minded... she knew swayam was her's... and his love for her was unending...but well she also knew that it was heavenly impossible for anyone, even her in that matter , to take kriya's place in swayam's life...
She still had each one of swayam's painting with her... swayam had this speciality , after each painting he used to leave his signature below the page... One S' vertically and beside that a S' horizontally...
They were in the first year in college...though they were in different college...she in a medical college and he in an engineering college , their love never ceased...
Until one day when fate played a cruel game and swayam met with an accident...he couldn't make it through... And thus she was once again left alone in this world fighting with herself...
*flashback end*
She quickly wiped her tears and went home... It was almost 5 in the morning but she didn't feel like sleeping...
She quickly freshened up and sat on her bed with a coffee and rahul's painting book in her lap...
She went through the pictures and felt the earth slip away from below her legs...
Rahul has drawn the churchyard of their school building...the corridors,...their library...the same place where she spent the most beautiful days of her life...
She couldn't move from her place seeing the last page of the book...below the painting rahul has left his signature...the same signature... vertical S' and beside it a horizontal one...
Sharon was already shuddering as tears started blurring her eyes...
"but he is rahul singhania...why will he use...s.s. initials..." The thought clouded her mind but her heart refused to accept the answer...
She quickly picked her phone and called her best friend simmi home...within an hour as she arrived and as Sharon narrated the event even simmi was shocked...
"may be its just a coincidence..." She tried to reason but Sharon has lost the ability to think...she just couldn't digest the turn of events...
"I need to meet rahul...right now..." She quickly stood up... " he is released from the hospital..he will be home by now..." She started to call the hospital for his home address...
"are you out of your mind?? Do you even know what you are doing...he is a kid for heaven sake..." Simmi reasoned...
"he is my swayam for heaven sake..." Sharon shouted back...
Within half an hour they were standing outside rahul's apartment... She rang the bell when an old women opened the door...
"Namaste aunty...I am Sharon.. rahul's doctor from sanjeevani..i wanted to meet him..she is my friend simmi..." Sharon said impatiently...
"pls come inside...well I am sorry to say but I am her grandmother...he came here for his vacation but his parents have taken him back to Mumbai from sanjeevani only... Would you like some tea..." She asked...
Sharon felt her heart break with each passing second...
"no thanks...can I get his address in Mumbai..." Sharon noted the address and turned to leave when she found simmi rooted on the ground with a horrified look on her face... She followed her gaze to find a picture of rahul with a girl on the wall...
"she???" Sharon asked rahul's grandmom...
"oh..she is rahul's mom...my daughter kriya singhania..." Sharon felt his whole world crumbling down...now , that can't be any co incidence...
It had been years since sharona and simmi lost contact with kriya and rey who got married after their college...and now both of them are standing in front of their home in mumbai...she needed to meet rahul at any cost...
Kriya opened the door and was overwhelmed to see both of them...as they went inside and chatted for some good amount of time Sharon was almost on a verge of breakdown to meet rahul...
"where's rahul???" she finally asked...
"he is inside...go and meet him sharon..." kriya softly smiled...
Sharon went inside to see rahul already peeping out of the curtain looking at her... Sharon went and sat beside him...
"rahul...the sketches which you gave me were beautiful...but how did you imagine those churchyards????" she asked patiently...
"I don't know I just imagined them..." he said curtly...
"well you know I have kept a big secret from you...i have a girl friend tina in my school...I really love her but whenever I close my eyes and try to draw something I always end up drawing your face...I didn't know you back then...but still the girl in my picture resembles you..." rahul showed her a picture and indeed it resembled sharon's face...
Sharon felt void from there and went outside...
"kriya...we'll have to leave now..." Sharon quickly hugged kriya... "we'll meet rey next time..." As they were about to leave kriya spoke in a whisper...
"I knew you would come one day to meet rahul... I am her mother Sharon...I knew you would..." And that cleared it...kriya knew what Sharon knew...what simmi knew...
Sharon was standing on the wall of the terrace in the darkness of night...
Rahul is just a child...and she can't spoil his life... And to move on in her life seemed impossible... she promised swayam that she will be happy but she is breaking the last promise made to him...may be they were meant to experience the abbreviation of love..
Living happily
Living happily
Living happily...
The darkness of the night was engulfing the distance from the terrace wall till the ground...
Was it calling her??????
What was the emptiness????
It was a solution...
"he died...I lived...so I died everyday...I miss him in the days...in the nights...in every moment of my life...after each day I feel I am closer to death by a day...I am closer to swayam...i am not living like this...I am not fulfilling my promise made to my swayam..." she thought...
"they are right...everything is the same...after he went...nothing changed...everything is same...but that everything is nothing for me..."
She again looked down the ground...yes, it was her solution...it is her solution...
"I'll live...i'll fulfill my promise...i'll live and for that I have to traverse this distance..." she closed her eyes and jumped...
Blank...
Everything was blank...
May be they are together now...may be on the other side of the heaven...where they are happy...where there is no hindrance...
Where there is faith...there is love...there is life...yes a life worth living...where their unending love will increase day by day...
Not all love stories are meant to have a perfect ending...some stays incomplete
...yet they are beautiful in their own way...and are completed when their time comes...may be after death...may be they had to wait for death for their time to come...because love stories seldom die...they are meant for generations yet to come and cherish...
THIS ID THE RESULT OF MY EXAM AND STUDY FRUSTRATIONS... TOMATOES ARE WELCOMED...I CAN MAKE KETCHUP FROM THAT...šš..I HOPE YOU DON'T HATE ME FOR THIS...
LOVE ANI
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