“That lady cleared my misunderstandings and I can say that, a good luck,” Neeloy said to me.
“So, did you accept her proposal?” I asked to Neeloy.
“I had to wait for her statement.”
“What did Priyanka suggest you?” I asked him again.
“I just scared to disclose the matter,” Neelon replied.
“And at the same night, I seated on a floor, beside her bed. She had a sound sleep. My mind did not allow me to disturb her and priyanka was looking so innocent.”
“After that.” I asked to Neeloy.
“I softly touched my idol, gently touched her toes by my fingers. She awaken and very much scared at that dark”
“What happen brother? What happen?” she was asking breathlessly.
“Nothing. Be quiet sister.”
“Anything wrong with you brother?” Priyanka was asking to Neeloy.
“Why are you on the floor alone? Come to the bed.”
“Sister, I am not here to sleep and close my eyes. Sorry to disturb you sister. I am feeling very bad for that.” Priyanka become very demanding to know what actually going around.
“Leave it brother and please let me know, what happened. Why you still awaken?”
“Actually, Pratiksha’s uncle is staying in USA. He is seventy years old and still unmarried. He is an established businessman in USA.”
“So what brother? Let him do his business,” Priyanka replied.
“They are also going there to help him. They suggested me to go there.”
“Then what about me?”
“ See sister, I have to help her uncle as an employee. Even I mentioned your name.”
“So, what they said?”
“They said you could go there along with us. You can study under a good university.”
“Are you serious brother?”
“Yes sister. It’s a big offer.”
“So sister, what to do?” Neeloy asked to Priyanka.
“It’s fine. Let me think tonight.”
“See brother, it’s no doubt a good offer, but I don’t know them very well. I don’t know, what is happening with us?”
“Yes sister, me too thinking the same.”
“You know brother, everyone want to shine his/ her career. It is a golden offer. But, still my mind is not working, why and how they agreed to help us?” Priyanka had a doubt.
“It’s obvious sister.”
“Actually sister, he is very ill now. He has no many diseases. No one is there to help me.”
“But why you?”
“ He was asking her to visit USA. He will bear all the expenses. I don’t know how much it was true. He want to meet her lonely sister last time, otherwise he will back from there permanently.”
“Hmm…I understand it now.”
“See brother, I don’t that old man very well and you even don’t know him. So, let me sure whether that man can arrange a good college or not.” Priyanka had a question.
“Sure sister, I will ask her mother.”
“But sister, you have to appear one more examination, which on English proficiency.”
“Oh I see! I heard about that examination.”
“Sister, it’s too late now. Take rest now.” Neeloy requested.
“But, where are you going brother?” Priyanka asked to Neeloy.
“I will sleep on the floor.”
“Huhh! You don’t have to sleep anywhere. You can sleep beside me. Is it okay brother?”
“Okay sister. But, I can sleep on the floor.”
“Sister, do me a favor?” Neeloy asked to Priyanka.
“What brother?”
“Is there any important class on tomorrow?”
“Yes, just one lecture.”
“Can you take a leave on tomorrow?” Neeloy asked to Priyanka.
“Sure brother.”
“Thanks sister.”
“Actually, I had to discuss something regarding your admission.”
“Okay brother.”
“I am not going to college on tomorrow.”
“It’s all right sister.”
“Next day morning I was totally bold. I had to clear my doubts, whether that person able to help my sister or not.”
“Yes brother, you are right. Sometime, we have to listen our heart,” I told to Neeloy.
“As a human being, it’s our duty to help others. It’s a holy work,” Priyanka suggested.
“May be I am wrong but it was my one inner voice.”
“I can say that you are a good human being. May god bless you? May god save your sister?” I was fully impressed.
“May god bless you too?” He even blessed me.
“ Next day morning, I had a special breakfast with Pratiksha. I seated beside her. She was whispering.”
“See aunty, Priyanka is not only my sister, a mother, a father and a grand father, what I have lost. I respect her more than myself and I love her more than anyone. I don’t want to see her tears any more. I can do anything for her.”
“Yes Neeloy, I can understand your words. I know, why you are saying. I realized, how much you love your sister, how much sacred you are. Priyanka is a very lucky girl.”
“Truly speaking, I don’t want to leave him alone and I love my brother very much, Priyanka said to that lady.”
“I can’t go there alone. I can go only if uncle do me that one favor.”
“No Neeloy, you don’t have to go alone. We all are going there and even Priyanka. Don’t worry for her enrollment. He has must some way.”
“My brother is very sick now. Once we don’t go there he will back to India. No one is there to maintain and handle his business.” That lady said to Neeloy.
“Aunty, I am not sure whether I can score a good marks or not, but I can try my best to score good marks.”
“Yes dear, you have to work hard. I know you can do it.”
“But Neeloy, there is a problem.”
“What problem Aunty?” Neeloy asked to that lady.
“Right now, he needs a male person to handle his business. Pratiksha is very much alone with me. She is very much weak and she can’t help her uncle. So, I want to suggest you to go there as soon as possible.” That lady had a request to Priyanka.
“But, how will it be possible now? It is very much expensive. I am financially very weak.”
“Don’t worry Neeloy. I will manage everything.”
“But aunty, I don’t know how can I recover it?”
“Oh god! You are so childish. You don’t have to repay it. My brother already sent a huge amount to make passport, visa etc.”
“So, let me sure whether you are going there or not. Otherwise I have to go there alone. Truly speaking, I can’t speak English very well. And as a woman, I am very much coward.”
“It’s a serious matter. I can declare my final decision by this evening.”
At same day morning, Pratiksha and her mom had some shopping. Neeloy got sufficient time to think and at last the couple decided to go there in USA.
In the afternoon, there was dark shadow. Neeloy and Priyanka had a hope for a joint lunch and an empty stomach.
“Priyanka, someone is knocking at the door.” Neeloy requested to Priyanka to open the door.
Priyanka did not notice anyone there. She become very puzzled and was thinking who knock that door. The couple observed a crowd in their locality. There was a banyan tree. Some of their neighbors were standing below the banyan tree. They had tearing face and there was a fearing look. During that time, there was not being a single phone call from Pratiksha.
“Sanu, what happen?” Neeloy loudly asked to one of his neighbors.
“Three serial blasts at a time. Don’t go outside,” Sanu replied.
Everyone was shouting the same word all around him and it was also announcing the local TV channel. They become very scared. Neeloy made a call to Pratiksha number but it was being switched off. He tried several times. He did not even take his lunch. It was already t
oo late. Priyanka was asking to make a call to that woman’s number.
“But sister, I don’t have her number.”
“Sister, it’s already late. Take your food,” Neeloy requested to Priyanka.
“Brother, I think, they already back to their city,” Priyanka guessed.
“But how they can go? It’s not possible,” Neeloy told to Priyanka.
“See brother, it’s now 7 PM. They should at least make one call,” Priyanka replied.
At around 7.45 PM, the couple was seated on their staircase with an empty stomach.
“Priyanka, I think they have come.”
They noticed one government ambulance in front of their place.
“Who is she?” Priyanka asked to Neeloy.
“Oh god! She is aunty. Let’s move. Where is Pratiksha? She is crying sister.”
“Do you know her?” A stranger asked to Neeloy.
“Yes, yes, she is my aunty.”
“Listen, her daughter has seriously injured and admitted into a state government hospital.”
“Oh no!”
“I even cried with my mates.”
“What?” Neeloy astonished,
“Don’t cry aunty. Everything will be fine.”
“I lost myself. I have lost everything.” Pratiksha’s mother was crying loudly.
“Priyanka, I am going to the hospital with my friends and don’t forget to take your food and don’t let her hungry. I am going.”
“Due to blasts, it was being very difficult to go anywhere outside home.”
One of his friends, agreed to go with Neeloy. They faced lot of difficulties. There was a huge cry and crowd inside the hospital and by the help of one police officer, Neeloy entered that female word. There were nine stitches. She was crying, when she notice him with her drowsy eyes.
“Are you all right?”
“Did you take your lunch?” Pratiksha asked. Unanswering to Neeloy’s question.
It’s pure and a sacred love. It’s affection.
“Take rest. Don’t worry, I am here. You rest now. I am beside of you.”
“You have a little injury. Tomorrow I will talk to the doctor. He will discharge you soon.”
Next day, they discharged Pratiksha. That day, Neeloy did not take a single drop of water. After that, they started living at Neeloy’s place until she becomes cure. And on the other hand, that old man going very restless and she had to attend his phone calls. Her mind was not working to control the situation alone. Her own daughter and another one to her own brother were blocking her two hands. She was in big dilemma and very much confused. She did not even forced Neeloy to look after her brother. Priyanka, allowed her brother to go there in USA to look after him and his business. And they started living at Neeloy’s place to look after Priyanka’s studies.
“Aunty, I am leaving my heart and my soul at your hands. Take care her like your own daughter. Try to handle her with care.” Neeloy had a request.
“Sure Neeloy, I will try my best to look after my two daughters.” That woman assured.
Neeloy left his place for a couple of months to check the situation. That old man was being a good human being. She already arranged one seat for Priyanka into one good medical college under one good university in USA. Pratiksha was fully cured. And after that they shifted to USA.
And after couple of years, that old man expired. Neeloy had to marry Pratiksha. Priyanka was being happy with her new city and new college. She is still an unmarried, as she promised that she would never marry anyone. Priyanka is now being a good doctor. Priyanka is being a showcase baby at their place. She was being a single heart.
A year later, there was a newborn. The whole family was enjoying with the new one and three years later, Pratiksha had a car accident and she expired. Neeloy become alone and still alone with his daughter and with other members.
His last e-mail to me-----------
“Nothing I have expected, expected a dream to live and a hope to survive.”
“God bless you brother. May you live long?” Mr. Pintu had his last comment with one huge salutation to Neeloy.
That was a real dedication. It is very difficult to dedicate and help others. We have to help all living entity. I am saluting Neeloy on his huge dedication. No doubt, the story forced my tears to fall endlessly.
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