CHAPTER VI: THE SMS

CHAPTER VI: THE SMS

We successfully completed a year of our relationship. It was time to celebrate but we did not. Instead I just called her to wish her, “Happy Love Anniversary.” We were happy and satisfied with this gesture. No celebrations. No gifts. No party.

Our relationship continued and it just continued. It was the month of March. I was relaxing at home. After a long time I had got some free time. The weather was beautiful. I was on my couch listening to some soothing music. All worries and tensions were kept aside. My mind was calm and my heart refreshed. Suddenly my cell phone beeped to give me an indication that I had received a SMS. I was in a casual mood to read the SMS and…

“I wanna keep r relationship only up to frndship n nt more than tht. Pls dnt ask ‘wh’ questions. Sorry fr the problem caused. Hope v bcum gud frnds.”

This dreaded message crashed me down. My peaceful mind became restless. My heart became numb. I didn’t know how to react. I went and stood in the balcony looking at sky. The sky that always looked beautiful to me, today suddenly it gave a feeling of emptiness. A feeling of loneliness. The clouds started moving strongly just like the thoughts in my mind and all of a sudden there was thunder storm, a replica of what was going in my heart. The clouds finally burst and started pouring. My eyes followed and competed with the rain. Finally the rain stopped pouring but my eyes didn’t.

A panorama of thoughts started moving in front of my wet eyes. All the happy moments, small fights, cute conversations. All and everything. My hand reached out to my cell phone. I tried to contact her but was of no use. She finally attended my call and I tried in all possible ways to convince her but she was adamant. She didn’t budge.

I was helpless and yet made repeated attempts to save our relationship. All of them failed. I sat in the corner of my house; suffocating from within as I could neither cry in front of my parents nor could I tell this to my friends as we had always maintained secrecy about our relationship. I consoled myself and decided to stay strong.

As days passed by, I started to learn to live without her. I learnt a lesson in life that all stories don’t have a happy ending. As a child I was fascinated about love but today I realised how painful love is..!

Post break up, I tried being good friends but even that attempt failed. Due to some misunderstandings, we were not even on talking terms. Later misunderstandings were resolved and we again became friends. Why she took that decision is still a mystery though she claimed that the decision was for my good..

It was then when I realised the circle of love. How we were just two people in the crowd who came so close that both couldn’t live without each other, but again became two people in the crowd. This is not the end of the road, I thought. My conscience told me, “ Yeh end nahi, picture abhi baaki hai mere dost.” I believe just becoming a Devdas is not the solution. In this world, where every day many relations happen or break, one more was broken.