Kuch Nahi... Bas Yunhi
The End
I sat there for hours, in front of his picture.
He wore his signature soft smile, while his shy eyes looked up the camera. I remember when that picture was taken. It was a hot summer day, we had gone out for ice-cream and ended up finishing it on the bed of a river. We played the silly who-can-throw-the-rock-the-farthest game and as much as he liked to deny, I beat him at it. I remember being cooled down by the soft cool breezes of the river.
It was when I got some ice-cream on my nose did he start laughing, ending with a shy smile that I was tempted to click that picture. Never did I imagine that one day it'd become a part of the few things I held onto to get through this hell of a life.
Time passed, people came and went, but the warmth in his summer smile, his sleep eyes that morning, the feel of his touch, his last sight--they never left.
People assumed I had gotten over it, no one noticed the broken smile and the forced laughter.
But I couldn't take it anymore. One can only bottle up so much.
I sat on the edge of that very same river letting my fingers run through the bed's soil. It had managed to capture his touch. A breeze similar to that day flew by, it held his presence.
Before I knew it, I was crying again.
How could he expect me to move on with my life when every thought of mine, everything I saw, touched, smelled, felt reminded me of him.
I was incapable of moving on.
As much as he denied it, it was true. My life began and ended with him.
As for this "life", it's just an illusion. Nothing truly exists.
He told me I'd be the center of his world, so then how can I exist in a world where he's not there to love me?
The river grew furious and my tears joined it.
My screams grew louder and louder, they seemed incomprehensible but they weren't. It was my heart calling out for his.
'Why... W-wh-hy-hy..." My cries softened and they grew defeated.
"Sharon..."
I looked up in disbelief, I swear I was not going crazy I had heard his voice.
"Sharon?" I heard it again.
"SWAYAM!" I cried out! "SWAYAM WHERE ARE YOU!!! SWAYAM!" I screamed as loud as my body physically allowed me to.
And then the furious river flung itself at me. Like I had said, my life began and ended with him. His name was my last word.
"Sharon? Love? Sweetheart I'm right here, wake up!" I heard his voice again.
What... To say I was confused would be an understatement because right there in front of me was Swayam, shirtless like this morning with his hands on either sides of my face.
I didn't care where I was or what was going on the only thing I could think to do at this moment was push him down and kiss every inch of his face before I climbed on top of him, wrapping my hands about his waist.
"Swayam," I cried in the crook of his neck. "Swayam..." I kept repeating his name. I wouldn't be surprised if he turned blue because I was holding onto him as tighter than I ever held onto anything.
"Love, what ha-" he was going to ask before he felt my hands make their way up to his head with my lips following along. He figured his questions could wait, his priority was to get me to stop crying. "It's ok... Shh..." He stroked my hair, "Shh... I'm right here with you..." he whispered, enfolding me in between his arms as I began to hush my tears. Those last 5 words... They made me feel as if the world could have ended right then and there and I would still have been fine.
As I broke from the hug realizing he needed air, because if I left it to him, he'd rather die than make his pain noticeable. I looked into his eyes as he cradled my face in his hands, brushing my tears away with his thumbs.
"I-" I began stopping from air. These tears made everything so difficult. "I had a nightmare, you'd di..." I couldn't bring myself to say the word but he nodded showing he understood the words unsaid. "But more importantly, we weren't together. I didn't have you to love Swayam," I stopped speaking any further and hugged him again.
"Shh... It was just a dream Sharon," he laid me down lying on top of me.
I kept running my hand through his hair, feeling his face, feeling his presence.
He gently took my hand in his and pressed a kiss to it, "I'm right here,"
My eyes refused to leave his face, that nightmare felt like an eternity. They had to quench his thirst.
"I mean I love the extra attention but..." and I cut him off with another kiss. Probably the billionth one today.
"Ab kya?" he queried about the random kiss.
"Kuch nahi, bas yunhi..."
"Sharon can I say something?" He asked for permission to break the moment.
"Yes," I whispered still circling my thumb around his cheeks.
"I'm hungry," He confessed looked away in embarrassment.
He was adorable.
"I need to shower first," I said pushing him off of me returning to our normal banter.
"I'm not even going to bother asking if I can join you because you're going to say..."
"...absolutely positively yes." I said pulling him through the bathroom door by his ear.
I think I learned my lesson when it came to kitchens and Swayam.
"Aaj bada pyaar aa raha hai," he began buttoning down his shirt that I was wearing, "Anyways I love over-affectionate Sharon, it's about time I was mollycoddled!" He lightened the mood as always.
"Make use of it while it lasts," I challenged before I ran past the shower into the Jacuzzi.
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A/N:
And there you go, my first story or SwaRon.
The ending was pre-planned I just didn't want to give away the happy ending so it'd come to you all as more of a surprise.
This OS was written because I'm not a romantic person at all (hard to believe I know), but I still have my moments where I just want to feel him and know he's there. And I figured everyone who's in love feels that way about their love, especially if your young and impulsive like SwaRon.
Those were my two cents on the development of the story and the strategy I used in this story is building up to an element of surprise, the beginning and the proposal was getting you to fall in love with the story and the fire was out of nowhere shattering your expectations and then when defeat has been accepted (Sharon dying by the river) bringing the story back to life.
And that was my little tip for the writers/prospective writers who read this, just make sure you develop every aspect properly otherwise your story will seem too choppy and out of place.
I hope you all liked it cause I had a lot of fun writing it!
-Shweta
Keep an eye out for another OS coming soon!
(Hopefully like in an hour or so)
Edited by -ForeverYours- - 12 years ago
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