Thursday, January 28, 2016

Her Happiness not Her

A college batch goes for an Expedition. They reach their destination in the evening. Everyone is checking up their rooms & enjoying their time with friends. Some are busy in search of Alcohol, some others busy planning the next day schedule, while some are busy sleeping. Then, there she is. Reading her book in the Balcony of her room. Sitting on the wooden bamboo chair, pulling her hair back from the breeze, with those sensitive cheeks which may turn red even with a feather touch, reading her book with those Gold Fish eyes, only one in her world.

When she was lost in her book world, someone dragged her out. She got disturbed by the noise. She stood up and had a disgusting look at them. There are these guys who are playing football in the lawn of the Hotel. 6 of them are from her college & 4 others are the hotel staff. She couldn't concentrate because of the noise. She left the book there for dinner. While having her dinner, those guys passed by, making a hell of noise. But, she was amazed about how they could make friends already.

Knowing they left, she rushed to her room, to read the book sitting in her balcony. It's already too late, and she is still reading. The noisy environment started turning into a calm one. Even the cricket's sound freaks up the night. She hears some sound and is curious about the source. She picks up her coffee mug & moves to the edge of the balcony & sees a guy still playing. She calls her friend and complains about that guy.
"Why is he so much obsessed, its already midnight and he is still playing with that ball and that too alone. Huh..!"
"You are the one to talk. Why do complain about him when you are so obsessed about this"
Throwing the book on that wooden chair, her friend leaves.
She continued reading the book and falls asleep on the chair.

Passing through the fog, The Sun rays fall on her, and the reflection's more brighter. It's so cold, and she orders a hot coffee immediately. Taking the coffee she moves to the balcony, enjoying the fog, sunrise & coffee combination. All the romance of nature gets disturbed by a gaze into the lawn. The guy, who was playing alone at the night, is sleeping in the lawn hugging the football. She felt amused as he looked like a cute little kid hugging a teddy.

They all move out to the waterfall in the nearby forest. Some are busy trekking, some busy playing with water, while she is searching for a place to read her book. While searching she heard a creepy noise from the bushes. With a little fear inside she peeked to see that football guy taking a piss. She laughs inside and leaves. She finds a tree with big roots and huge branches, perfect for her reading. While about to sit under the tree, she notices another sound, it isn't a pissing sound. She sees a snake. With a scream, she starts running. Hearing the sound, he who was pissing earlier, starts chasing her. Of course, He completed pissing and put his zip on. She, who is already in fear, starts running faster, as she feels the sound's chasing. After running a lot, he catches her and stops her, to get slapped. She sits on a fallen branch in middle of the forest and starts crying. He steps aside holding his face. After couple of minutes, she stops crying. After some time of silence, he stands & looks around.

"What are u searching for?"
"Just checking, how far you ran"

With a pretty face, she asks
"Where are we?"
"In the forest" He replies harshly.

He starts moving
"Where are u going" she asks
"Don't know"
"Then why are you going"
"If I stay here I can't go home" he yells.

It started to become dark. He started collecting some wood and grass.
 "Why are you collecting them?" She asks
" 'cause am bored" He replies
" Why are you angry on me? Ok, I'll shutup. I won't ask a thing"
" Idiot, Stupid, Fool, You ran blindly, You got lost, You hit me and you only start crying, it isn't fair" He cries, and she blushes.

He makes a bed on a tree top, using the wood & grass collected. He brings some forest fruits and after eating he asks her to sleep, while he would be guarding her. At around 2AM, He wakes up. He is ashamed & bit silly inside to see her guarding while he was sleeping. With a silly smile, he started talking. They talked till the sun rise. They got down watching the sun rise. It's again a foggy morning, while they walk, a flash of light catches his attention. Its something which is reflecting the sun light, but the reflection isn't that bright as of a mirror or a glass. He rushes to find what it is, leaving her behind. She chases him. She is slower but she managed to keep his foot tracks in sight. She sees him standing still after running some distance. She slaps him for leaving her alone & running cluelessly. He gives her, her book. He was expecting a hug when she sees the book. But, she takes the book & leaves calmly from there.

They hear their friends' shouting for them, and they start running in the direction of sound. Finally they found their way back. They move to the hotel & get cleaned. She cleans the book as its little muddy and opens it to see "To Bubbly girl"  on the top and "With love" stating his name on the bottom. They continue their expedition, and he follows her all the time to stay with her if at all she gets lost again.

They go to the college back. He wants to express his love to her, with a Rose, he waits in the bike parking opposite to the library. Standing beside the bike with the rose, he waits. The wait started making him bored, he sits on bike, he sleeps, he talks to his bike, he puts the rose on the bike and he is done. He searches some waste papers around and makes a ball with that and starts playing freestyle football. He gets so much involved that, he doesn't notice her coming out of the library. She sees him and of course the bike and the rose on it. Girls definitely observe a lot. She knew that the rose is for her and she puts pace up so that he would chase her a little bit. Girls sure do like it when boys chase them. "You called me Bubbly, you are Foobie" saying that inside her, she crosses the college gate. He has a glance of her & starts his bike to reach her. She wants him to move around her a little bit longer, she tries to cross the road.

She starts crossing the road, with eyes on him riding his bike. She ignores the road & incoming traffic and tries to cross the road, while in hurry & excitement her things fall down. And there's that book of earlier, unaware of a speeding car towards her, she sits to pick her book & other things. Its too late for her to catch the horn sound of the car, she screams aloud in all the fear. BANG.! A collision happens, she opens her eyes to see herself safe. She sees him bleeding on the ground with that rose beside his face. His bike was damaged, she starts crying holding him in her arms. "Foobie..! Foobie..! look into my eyes" she cries. He watches the book where she writes I TOO beside his With Love. He has injuries everywhere, tries to stand up, she tries to help him, but he falls down. He feels the pain in his leg, they both watch his leg. It's a total mess. A damaged leg for a footballer is nothing but end of his life. He closes his eyes and falls asleep. He's taken in ambulance to the nearest hospital. She keeps on visiting daily to check him up.

One day, she comes to check him, and gets tensed to find an empty bed. She tries to find him, she searches in the college, finds his home, he is no where.
He doesn't want her to see him limping, he feels like he is a walking guilt for her. She knows how much he loves football. So It would be more painful for her watching him limping than living in his absence. He left her, he left that girl whom he loved so much. He left that girl for whom he put his life on line. He loves her so much that, He can sacrifice everything thing. His love wants HER HAPPINESS NOT HER.

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