Tuesday, February 28, 2017

My Life Partner - Part 2

This is the second part of the story. If you have not yet read part one, please click on the link below before reading this part.



Part 2:  The Promise and Railway Station

Sushma has always been a cheerful, lively and very thoughtful girl and now after being with her for almost 10 years, I know she is also a wonderful wife. I think she is a much better person than what I can ever be. I have never seen a hard working and dedicated person. She always used to care for her parents, never argue with them and happily, would do a thing that her parents asked for. Probably that is the reason she was also their favorite. Back when she was just about to turn into a teenager, she already had a dream - to become an engineer and study in RIT college. RIT college was far away from her home but was one of the best in the country. The only way she could study there was to convince her parents and allow her to stay in the college hostel. Someway or the other, she would bring up the topic of her studies every time she could and try to convince her parents to allow her to study at college hostel. Finally, after a long wait and lots of convincing, her parents agreed to send her to study and stay in the hostel - ONLY on one condition and a promise that - "Not to fall in love and stay away from boys and all these things which could hurt her father". Sushma gladly agreed and tied that promise with her conscience like a life of fish is tied with water.

Sushma had almost completed her Masters and never ever did she have an affair. Well, forget about having a boyfriend, she never ever even had a thought of it. But just when she was about to complete her Masters, something was about to change. Knowingly or unknowingly there was one face which had started showing up in her dreams. To give a name to this face, he was Arijit Kumar. Arijit was an engineer and had completed his Masters about 4 years back. Being an engineer, he was also a writer and a poet. Along with working as an aeronautical engineer at a highly reputed airline company, he used to visit college regularly for his reading sessions with fellow junior students. He used to spend time with fellow writers sharing and reading stories. He even had a website where he would share his stories. Sushma had never seen Arijit in person. She had only read what he had written, all thanks to her roommate who introduced her to Arijit's website a few weeks back. Although, she had never been with a man or felt what love is, but after reading Arijit's words, she could feel how love would be, how it feels to like someone and keep on thinking about them. There must have been some kind of magic in those words that even without meeting Arijit, her heart would beat faster just by thinking about him. She would know that the stories she is reading are not based on her, but someway or the other she has started to relate and trying to find herself in his writings. One day Sushma decided to send a friend request to Arijit on social networking site. After waiting for about an hour, her request was accepted. Just the acceptance notification sent a tingling feeling inside her.

Next day Sushma received a message on chat. Just like how first time friends start their conversation, Arijit texted - "Hi, how are you doing." Sushma was waiting for this message from last 12 hours, since the time they had become virtual friends. Slowly and steadily, they started talking to each other daily and this virtual friendship started becoming a reality. Sometimes on chat, sometimes on phone calls, they used to talk to each other for hours. Sushma used to share everything with him, not just what she did throughout the day, but also her feelings and emotions. And so did Arijit. Arijit liked to talk to her. After all, Sushma was also not a regular girl. Arijit by now had realized how dedicated, hardworking, caring and most of all, how beautiful Sushma was. Arijit also started to think about her the same way Sushma used to think about him. The more he started knowing about Sushma, more he started loving her. He understood even smallest of her dreams and feelings. This was probably the first time both of them understood what is real love. If not love, this would be closest someone would ever get to what is love.

A few months later:
It was the final day of the college and Sushma was packing her bags. After all, college is over and now she has to return home and wait for her final results. It was about 5-hour long journey to her way back home. She could not stop thinking of what to do. What would she say to Arijit when she would meet him today at the railway station. She packed her bags and although unwillingly but called a rickshaw and asked the driver to take her to the railway station.




Arijit was already waiting for her at the station. He was sitting on the bench with his hands folded, probably thinking the same thing that Sushma was - What would they say before they start their journey away from each other. Taking control of herself, Sushma sat beside him. They both looked at each other. They didn't have to say anything. Their eyes said what their heart's felt. Arijit held her hand and said, "I know for sure, this is not the last time we meet.". Sushma had to stop him in between..... She kept her hand on his lips so that he would stop talking. She gave him a kiss and without saying anything she had said Goodbye to him in the most loving way. From the past few days, Sushma was worried about one thing. The one thing, that she had forgotten after meeting Arijit. She had promised her parents that she will not fall in love, she would not betray their trust and hurt them!!

Click here to read Part 3: And it rained again!

2 comments:

Sushant said...

Could You please post part3 bit sooner :)

Amol G. said...

Sure buddy. I will try my best to post it in next few days. Part 3 would be mostly the last one and I am hoping you like the end.