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Intriguing
She just sat there motionless, lost in a pool of thoughts as lonely as an oasis in a desert, not reacting to anything going around her as if the world ceased to exist, just focusing on the vast stretch of sea, as if she had a bond with it. Her friends tried to talk to her, but she was in a trance and all she kept murmuring was, " It's all my fault." He was watching her for quite some time from a distance, observing her details and was attracted to her dark mood, as he loved analysis and interpreting. Even his dear ones and people around him said, he had the ability to analyse the dark moods, and make his own philosophies and lighten the mood, and much more. So he just stood and was researching on his possibly new subject.
He just walked near her, and asked people to give him place to sit, and they obliged as they thought, to give him "a chance" as he offered to try. He sat besides her, seeing the sea passionately, the waves crashed the rocks with differentiating intensities and each had an uniqueness in it. He just said, "Amazing view, right?" She stirred a bit seeing a complete stranger, and said "Excuse me?" He said, "Omkara, and you?" She said a bit irritatedly, "Ranjana, but what do you want?"
He could still see the gloom on her face, and traces of few tears were seen in her eyes. Omkara said, "I need to ask the same question to you actually. Such a beautiful place, view, friends. You have it all and you want to be in the darkness, why?" She faced him and said simply, "Yes, I do as the inner turmoil burns me, the outer world does not heal me. I have messed my life so much, that nothing I do can rewind it. The time is gone.
" He calmly listened and said sternly, "You know, even I have been through this and you feel it is end of the world, but it isn't, there is no right time, and you have the remote control of your life, just like the egg hatches and the chicken comes, and that time becomes a great moment for the hen, the same way when you do something and take control, it will become the right time, atleast better than the mess." She was listening intently and passionately and the sadness on her face was slowly turning to a curve, as she absorbed what he said. He waited for her to reciprocate. She joyfully exclaimed, "Thank you Omkara, I never thought from that angle of making the time right. I will try to apply it, now. Nice talking with you." He said, "Anytime, and am glad to help."
She stood to leave, and handled him a small chit of folded paper, and told, "I would like to stay in touch with you, our meeting was unplanned yet helpful. So take this, and ping me at night. Now as you say, you can just enjoy the view." He took the chit from her with a small smile, and kept it in his pocket neatly and said, "Sure, at the moment, I would enjoy the view, and you too can go with your friends, I will disturb you in night now." She smiled, and hopped away joyfully. He thought to himself indeed it was a great time, and an interesting meeting and he managed to help her. He felt great that he would be connected with her and know more about the "pain" she encountered maybe. He again stared at the sea, his source of inspiration, and thought as the waves come and go, there are different people who you meet.
He was lost in his peaceful thoughts, when someone just patted his shoulder. He saw to back to see a girl laughing so hard that she would explode. Why are all girls finding me today? But then the earlier one he had approached, but he wondered, what a contrast in this girl and the earlier one. This girl was just so damn disturbing. Ranjana was intriguing and the current one was irritating. He recollected this girl, he had seen when he was explaining his philosophies, to Ranjana, she was staring at them. He did not mind as his aim was to help the intriguing girl. He came out of his thoughts hearing her laughter, and said rudely, "What? You are irritating me and disturbing me right now. I want to have some peace."
She said simply, controlling her laughter, "Really? I thought that girl disturbed you more and I feel sorry." She made space for herself and sat besides him. He said, "No she didn't, unlike you." The girl without minding any of his words was jolly, and said, "I thought, I will tell you as you were genuinely trying to help her, but..." A water vendor was passing by the footpath, she quickly paid and purchased a bottle.
Meanwhile Omkara was really pissed, and said, "But what?" She continued, "Why do you randomly help any strangers and get so intrigued by their pain, that they fool you and use you?" He could connect with what she said, he used to get deeply involved with the pain of people, but she said people used him. He clearly lost his cool, and his brows went up, as he thought, how dare is this girl talking any crap. He stared at her closely, making his anger evident, and said firmly, "I help because I have gone through a lot."
She was a bit tensed looking at his anger but said sternly, "Then go to the right places, where people need you. You would not trust me, so just open that piece of paper and ping her now, guess she gave her number." He said, "Ranjana, she is. There is a huge difference in you both, yes she gave her number and I will ping her in night. Were you stalking us?" She opened the bottle, gulped a sip of water and the verbal frenzy was a lot and she had divulged in it and aroused a calm sea to its turbulent form. She said, "I was just observing you both and I understand expressions a bit, life is a lot about expressions." He broke in saying, "Even I understand people. You know me?" She said, "I do not know both of you, but you seemed a genuine person. Otherwise, trust me, I do not talk to strangers."
He said, then "Just Go!" She calmly said, "Not before you open that piece of paper. Even I want to see if you understand people well, or I understand expressions a bit.Just ping her and I will be happy or.."
Omkara thought this was leading to nowhere and this girl was just not ready to budge, so he thought to take a step which will just shut her up and he would enjoy his peace. He stood angrily, opened the piece of paper and said loudly, "see this" and read it. But as he did, to his wildest shock, he just could not speak a word post that and stared at the chit as if it was a nightmare, and just sat down with shock. She asked him, "What happened?" He just passed her the chit without saying a word. In it was written:
Omkara, nice meeting you. But I meant nothing what I said about all the pain, it was never there to that extent in my life. I have great friends, some of whom you met today, and all this was just a prank by them to have fun.
Sorry.
-Sneha
She was fully taken aback, as the impact she saw on him was much more than she expected. She just clutched the bottle in her hand and all she could make out was, even her name alongwith everything was a lie.
He just thought about it all, and realized she had given this chit to him directly, so it was all a plan. She had not even wrote in front of him. All what they shared was a great lie, including her name. His sympathy was taken granted by Sneha, and the pain on which he discussed so much seriously, all was made a joke, and the intriguing girl according to him had hurt him horribly and that Sorry had no value, it was just for the sake of it, had she genuinely felt anything, she would not have played with his feelings so much.
She enacted so well, that she was in pain. The world seemed cruel to him, and it was like a bubble burst and he was shaken badly. He was used, and what she said, actually made sense. She made a lot more sense, than Sneha and perhaps was way more genuine than her though he found it the exact reverse earlier.
He was still memorizing the events as few tears trickled down from his cheeks to the sea. It was like even the sea could not calm him down, though his problems were small as compared to the sea, but at the moment for him it was like a whole sea. He wiped his tears, and said simply in a firm and a positive tone first time for her, "You win. You know expressions way better than me. You knew them from a distance, and I did not know though I was so near." She just remained quiet for some time giving him some time and just said, "Think practically too, not just emotionally. Open up to your sear ones, all do not deserve knowing you. Think why would a random stranger tell deepest pains to you or her friends will make way for you?" He just thought and she made so much damn sense, all pieces of so called Sneha started fitting in the puzzle.
She just said, "As I told you earlier, join a social cause or NGO, where people need you, help them and they will be loyal." She had an expression of calmness yet a glimpse of sadness reflecting on her face, totally contrast to her laughter, and he was happy that his bubble had burst and she was trying to make him accept it and face it, though it would take time. His phone rang, but he was not answering .
She surprised him by answering it, the voice on the other side, said, "Bhai, you know what happened today...She cut him sternly, "Listen, your brother needs you now, Marine Drive ASAP." All the other person said, was "Okay, I will be there in twenty minutes." She replied, "Bye." She told Omkara, his brother would be reaching in twenty minutes, and he knew it was Rudra, as he called him around that time. She confessed him that she was just purposely laughing so hard, otherwise he would not have entertained her, which he thought was true, too. She started to leave, he called her out saying that she had left her bottle.
She said, "You need it more than me, and well it is safe as I took a sip in front of you." He just laughed at the humour and she felt happy and smiled. He said, "Thank you for everything, what you did. Your name?" She simply said, "You know, I told you earlier I do not talk to strangers, generally so am not comfortable disclosing my name. We may not ever meet again. Good luck to you and thank your brother, as he will come soon, else you would have bored me." She winked and just walked away, and disappeared in the crowd soon, though he kept staring.
Omkara simply smiled and gulped some water, indeed she was more transparent and honest. She handled everything so well, from her entry to disclosing facts and talking. Though he had talked very rudely to her, she did not mind much because of the situation and showed him some facts. Two completely contrasting people he met today, and thought how wrongly he interpreted them both, Sneha and Ms Anonymous. Waves crashed the rocks, hard and he wondered, he is going to meet people with different thoughts and he must understand what people he should allow to make an impact, and whom would he allow to shape him and whom will he shape, so much insights.
Soon he got two hard pats on the pack. Shivaay exclaimed, "Omkara, you scared me. Rudra said you need us, and we rushed, but here you seem all happy and smiling." Rudra too looked surprisingly at him.
Omkara smiled and said, "Bhai, we should spread happiness and open up only to a few dear ones, I want to share sadness only with you, so I had to conceal it." He thought in his mind, for a few moments..
Rudra jokingly said, "Khulja Sim Sim" and patted Omkara to open up. They went home, and in Shivaay's room they sat, and there Omkara narrated them the whole story of Sneha and Ms Anonymous. Omkara broke down while narrating the story to his both brothers, but they supported him to open up and let go.Both got angry to see, how Sneha had ruined his mood. But they thought he learnt a practical lesson, and the girl told some good facts. Omkara ended up saying, about the anonymous girl saying that she came and went like a breeze of fresh wind. Rudra jokingly said, "Details na, O about Ms Anonymous." Shivaay was going to tell Rudra to stope teasing but omkara startled him by saying, "I really wished, I had them Rudra. But I have you both." All three hugged and said, "All for one, and one for all."
Later that night Omkaara thought to himself about Ms Anonymous, like why did she particularly help him when she said she did not help strangers. She found him genuine, she had said, but how she understood expressions so damn well was just a mystery, as her name, which he wanted to explore, if he got a chance, and he was against her last line, he wanted to meet her and know something about her at least. She could have just proved her point and left, but she gave him some facts and she was like a girl with so much depths and mysteries, she was in the true sense "intriguing."
-Madhura
Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2
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