Oh! The next dawn came. It seems that the rising sun was a little reddish than usual. Oh my God what will be my fate? I did my daily routines in the morning without any interest in them and I set out to my class. I don’t know how I managed to enter the class. I saw my girl coming with her friends as usual. When she saw me, with a pale face she came to me. Oh! God I felt my heart pounding like heavy hammers. She started smiling, I too somehow did manage a smile. She took my letter from her book and taught me a wonderful law of nature what Darwin too could not describe.
She spoke so politely “Excellent letter, good language, all my family laughed reading your letter. Dear friend, we are only in 10th and are in the sweetest age. Now you may feel affection to your opposite sex but these are all a part of nature’s law, but lasts only for a short period. You are nice and in the stream of life you will get a girl better than me in all sense, when time comes. Or your parents will find one for you. I shall always be your true friend. You too should be the same to me. Hope you understand what I said. Ok, bye dear friend, take care..” She gave back my letter and went. I was so astonished that I couldnt say a single word? What did she tell? What I should say? At that time I really felt that the earth is rotating. Something in me asked to follow her. She had almost entered the class. When I peeped through the window, I saw her lying on the desk and weeping. My heart sank. I don’t know why she cried. I longed to go and ask the reason for her cry, I changed the plan. After that we met mostly every day. We passed smiles. But I never asked her why she cried. Even now I don’t know why she cried.
Years passed, I went to a different place for higher studies. She remained in her hometown, and i heard that for 1-2 years she worked as a primary school teacher. I never met her again. Recently when I had been to my home land, one of my old school mates informed me that she got married and flew away to another country. I just smiled and didn’t ask anything more to him. Though I smiled and ignored the flash news in front of my friend, I know something somewhere in my heart was piercing hard.
Now when I recollect my old memories, though it was infatuation, that has to be a part of life, I realize those were the unsurpassed days of my life. But why she cried?….