“Who?”

  “That white T-shirt one.”

  “But Rishu, I don’t know her. May be she knowing you.”

  “I didn’t remember. But, she is watching me for along time.”

  “But, who is she?” Shruti was becoming very anxious.

  “Dear, I saw her somewhere and trying to remembering where I saw her last.”

  “Can I help you Rishu?” Shruti asked to Rishu.

  “Dear, I am your life partner. Don’t be so formal. So, you don’t have to ask anything and being a life partner you are always permitted. Two hearts with a single soul. You are always in me and I am within you. Is it ok?”

  “Yes darling, me very happy to have such an understanding and an adorable life partner,” Shruti replied.

  “We can make a good home.”

  “See Shruti, she is still watching us.””

  “Let me watch her properly,” Shruti told to Rishu and Rishu was watching her activities, standing near at the cash counter.

  Shruti took a risk and at last approached.

  “Excuse me!”

  “Yes.”

  “I saw you somewhere?” Shruti asked to that girl. That was a big lie.

  “He he he…very clever,” Neelon commented.

  “Sorry, but I don’t know you,” that girl replied.

  “Sorry.”

  “Okay then look at that boy who is standing near the cash counter, wearing blue trouser and green T-shirt.”

  “But why are you asking such question?” That girl asked to Shruti.

  “Don’t mind. Actually he is a very shy one. As his good friend, I had to ask you and he is saying that he saw you somewhere and was asking about you.”

  “Sorry for inconvenience,” Shruti had an apology.

  “It’s okay.”

  “Truly speaking, your query was right. I know him very well. We are from the same School and same College and even, he know me well. But, my physical look completely changed after my graduation.”

  “Hmm…”

  “So, do you know him?”

  “His name is Rishu. Am I right?” that girl asked to Shruti.

  “Yes you are!”

  “So, you know him very well.”

  “Yes.”

  “Let’s come to know each other,” Shruti requested. That girl even agreed.

  “Hi Rishu,” Shruti at her mild voice.

  “She is saying that she know you.”

  “Sorry, I don’t remember.”

  “Me Anuska, Remember?”

  He was being so confused and his blood pressure is being rising.

  “Yes,” Rishu with a mild voice.

  “Are you all right now? Did it cure now?”

  “Hey you! What are you asking?” Shruti on her bulging eyes.

  “Nothing Shruti,” Rishu told to him.

  “What she is asking then?”

  “Let you know later. Okay,” Rishu replied to Shruti.

  “Okay but……………” Shruti replied.

  “ Can I ask you something?” Anuska asked to Rishu.

  “Yes sure.”

  “But it’s personal,” Anuska requested.

  Shruti was being very angry and at a distant but at the same place,

  Anuska was asking about….

  “Rishu, still you like me.”

  “Sorry Anuska, I am a cancer patient. Even she have too that disease. We are going to marry soon. Better you search a healthy and wealthy life partner. You are a good girl. Remember one thing that you should not take any promises when you are in joys. I wish you a good life ahead and a good partner too.”

  And on the other hand Shruti was being exciting to listen their conversations and ultimately she interrupted the conversations…

  “ Rishu, we are going very late.”

  In front of Shruti Rishu had a chance to burst himself….

  “See Anuska, we both are a cancer patient and we were expired a few years ago and we are now just a devil soul. So, don’t think about me and never think about us. We are not a living entity but we want to fulfill our last wishes. We are going to marry soon and you are always invited to our place. May Almighty bless you? ”

  That was his last conversation with Anuska and he was happy with a few words with Anuska and then the couple backs to their own place. Rishu told everything truly to Shruti about his past love. Shruti did not argue anything and after that they married and now they are enjoying their lives with their new born baby…

 

  PART SIX

  PART # SIX

  They had often some trips during their holidays. During Christmas session they had a trip to Kolkata. I did not visit there earlier. I often

  Bored myself with them. I didn’t comment on anything, but all of them were very funny and helpful. They loved me very much.

  Our tour was by a train. That single compartment was fully occupied by we five members. During our lunchtime, Rishabh suddenly very emotional. My head was on his shoulder. He was wiping my wetted hairs with an incident. That was a good lesson of a life but that was a half spoken conversation. Let’s see……………………

  “You know Neelon; still I am confused about my future. Sometime it ruins me badly,” Rishabh said to Neelon.

  “You are always emotional,” Neelon replied.

  “Trust me; my life is a pre-written script. I am praising myself, but I don’t know how my sixth sense works on me,” Rishabh replied.

  “I had no plan to study an engineering course. Like you, we had a very few libraries at our native town and text books was not being so helpful to study but it was just good enough to clear our concepts.”

  “You know one thing?” Neelon asked to Rishah.

  “What Neelon?”

  “Leave it. I don’t want to explain,” Neelon replied.

  “Besides me, I had some room mates. We had a big room. We had a good mutual understanding, but that new city was troubling me. I frustrated to understand about a new language. I had a very few friends circle in that college. There I talked only a single girl, Prerna,” Rishabh on his explanation.

  “Oh no! One more love story,” Neelon smiled.

  “We were staying at a big size room and enjoying our studies at full extent and one day, prerna wanted to visit our room with her friends and we had not a single furniture besides our books. We had just three mattresses on the floor.”

  “Why?” Mr. Pintu asked to Rishabh.

  “We rented that room just for our coaching classes.”

  “Oh!”

  “Did she visit yours place?” Mr. Pintu asked to Rishabh.

  “Yes.”

  “We had no single friend in that city. She came with her two friends. I did not explain her about our exact place and was waiting for her. Room was totally haphazard and on the other hand, I was being suffering from cough and cold. She was standing in front of our place near about half an hour.”

  “You very cruel? After that,” Mr. Pintu commented.

  “My all room mates were in a sound sleep. I didn’t want to disturb them and was looking at her behind the curtain and feeling very helpless and was asking myself why I am so much shy.”

  “But, it was too late and after that they back to their own places.”

  “It was so sad. What type of boy you are! Shame on you,” Neelon commented.

  “ But……………”

  “And next day I mentioned not a single word as if I did not see her that day before but she was as usual but I felt very shame.”

  “Our studies were going well. Still I remembered that night, when we did not take a single piece of rice. There was not a single droplet of Kerosene oil at our place and in the next day morning, we become very hungry. All shops were being closed due to strike. We did not sufficient money at our hands. We had no such an amount to buy a railway ticked even. But, we took a risk and traveled without a ticket

  and our luck was being good. We had a four hours travel for our l
unch. My other friends had a visit to our native town and we did not disclose anything to our any family members. We had just five more days to examination. Except me, none of them selected to any engineering colleges.”

  “Yes Rishabh, student life is very tough,” Neelon commented.

  “So Neelon, did she get any seat?” Neelon asked to Rishabh.

  “Yes, she was selected.”

  “Hmm…” A crazy love.”

  “But Neelon, my beginning at my college was being tough,”

  “How?”

  “I was being staying at a private hostel. A boring life was there. There was not a single friend of mine. All were new to me. I had lost all my books and even my cloths just before three days of my first semester exam. I had just saved my one vest and a trouser along with my purse,” Rishabh replied.

  “How?”

  “That was due to one devastating fire. I lost my a year studies but our Principal sir allowed me for the second semester classes.”

  “So sad….”

  “There I met one boy named as Leonardo. As a boy, he was very hard working and was being a student of engineering at the same college.”

  How Rishabh introduced himself to Leonardo?

  “Hi Leonardo, how are you?”

  “Yea, I am fine.”

  Rishabh had a conversation at their college canteen…

  “Brother, I saw you along with our batch mates. I have noticed that you are the coolest one,” Rishabh asked to Leonardo.

  “Me! Not at all.”

  “But, one thing I can say you that you are a shy too,” Leonardo told to Rishabh.

  “Yes, I am agreeing but I am not like you. I am a little bit smart.”

  “ Did you ever talk to any girl?” Rishabh asked to Leonardo.

  “It is not my attitude and for your kind information, I don’t know what is attitude and I dislike my attitudes. I am a simple village boy.” Leonardo became angry during their first introduction.

  “See Rishabh, I am here just to complete my degree firstly. I have no big expectation. Just expecting a good result to do my further research. I don’t want to misuse my time with any girls.”

  “What type of research?” Rishabh asked to Leonardo.

  “It was my one childhood dream to me a good mechanical engineer.”

  “It is a cool branch,” Rishabh appreciated.

  “Yes, you are!” Leonardo agreed.

  “That’s a good spirit. May god bless you brother.” Rishabh supported Leonardo.

  “ I never wanted to be a topper but I wanted to keep myself on above those toppers,” Leonardo replied.

  “But Rishabh, I am not a shy one, but my dream making me shy and with tough phases.”

  “I come from a very small town and here I am not comparing myself with any city guys. You can’t trust any one. I am not using a cell phone. I have a least demand. My status is very poor here and have a very few expectations. I don’t know how I can achieve those expectations. So, never say me shy,” Leonardo, requested to Rishabh.

  “You misunderstanding me brother,” Rishabh replied.

  “See Rishabh, I am always a shy one because I know my all limitations. Yes, I am not at all cheering like you all.”

  “ Leonardo, you are so boring.”

  “ See, I am not an aged person,” Leonardo replied.

  “ I know you are not an aged person. You are a growing younger and can cheer at least,” Rishabh said to Leonardo.

  “Yes, I can cheer sometime.”

  “ I locked my arms and my legs. I was very cheering one at my childhood. See, Rishabh, a burden free life is good and everyone expect it but such expectation is beyond of my expectation and now being out of my comprehension,” Leonardo told to Rishabh.

  “Well said by Leonardo,” Mr. Pintu commented.

  “ Yes Mr. Pintu, you are right enough. Actually now a day, our teenagers expect a materialistic life. Expectation is good but too much expectation can harm our normal life. It make our life very materialistic and with such an expectation, we forget to save many more things and we forget to save world’s most powerful word, Reality and day by day, with such growing materials, we destroy a beautiful smile and a peace and we become worthless about our demanding life,” Rishabh said to Mr. Pintu.

  “Yes Rishabh,” Neelon supported.

  “Do you think our parents are destroying our normal lives?” Rishabh asked to Neelon.

  “ Yes, it may be at some extent. Every parent tries to give the best care to his or her children. I think, they should hide their kindness under the beneath of their kindness. Sometime, their children misuse a care and drop by drop it become an ocean and our parents even try to save us and they try not to make an ocean. It is not possible when some one crossed a distant and it hurt our parents and it lasted for a long time and be erased easily.”

  “Dear Rishabh, where is Leonardo now? Do you have any more contact with him?”

  “ No big brother. I don’t know about his new location. He e-mail me sometime and he did not disclose his new location but truly speaking, now I am very happy with you all,” Rishabh said to Mr. Pintu.

  “Yes, you are right. Me too happy with you all beautiful guys.”

  “Dears, we can do some good job to save our nation and our society and especially our growing youths. Our youths are the pillar of our nation and I want to leave a message through worldwide. It is being our one duty to save our youths. Don’t let them motivate by any bad shadows. If our youths work under a bad shadow then we can’t save our society and our nation. We will lose all our peace and harmony. We should maintain the spirit as our predecessor maintained. I salute our predecessors. I salute our great heroes. Not only our national hero but also worldwide. A big salutation to all of them. That time, we were being under developed but they struggled more and more to save their own nation. So, we have to struggle more and more to save our nations, to save our beautiful cosmos and all living beings. Let us try and let us try to save our motherland. It will become very easy if we go through modern and developed technology. We can now deliver a message within a fraction of second but it was being difficult in past. We don’t have to lose our enthusiasm,” Rishabh requested to us to co-operate.

  “It is a good thinking to save our nation and to develop a better society. We must deliver such messages worldwide through our scripts. We are still working under by his guidance,” Mr. Pintu was saying to Rishabh and me.

  “We must work on it,” Neelon was agreed.

  “ Firstly, we have to save our teenagers and we must teach them, how to move safely with all fantasies world,” Mr. Pintu told Rishabh.

  “Yes Mr. Pintu, you are right. They are still destroying their peaceful life. They are working under some devil fantasies. We can consider a pollution free and a green nation once we can stop all non violence’s and save our teenagers.” Neelon had a suggestion.

  “But Mr. Pintu, who will help us?” Neelon asked.

  “We have to make such one society worldwide which will work for our youths and teenagers. We can send our requests to our union Ministers and Industrialists.” Mr. Pintu agreed to help them all.

  “It will be the best way to understand our youths and teenagers. We can at least help our teenagers by sending such good advices. It not only helps our national youths but our international youths also,” Neelon said.

  “Yes, we can do it. I am supporting you all,” Rohit had a comment.

  “We have to help each others,” Mr. Pintu requested.

  “Our thinking is good and we have to make a good understanding among us. Still I am confused, I don’t know whether anyone will support us or not. Our concept was good. I know it very well that some of our friends will dislike it, but we have to move on. ”

  “Yes brother, you are going to the right way. Everyone expect something rather than to rebuild a developed a good nation. We have least friends, they may be good or bad, we don’t have to stop and we have to make an universal brotherhood through worl
dwide to remove and destroy all violence’s, ” Mr. Pintu requested one more time.

  “Our United States of America is too much advanced and developed.” Neelon had a comment.

  “It’s certain because Americans are very practical. It’s a great work to save our nation and it’s a good frame to be one national pride.”

 
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