It was a pen not her heart (A short story)

It was a pen not her heart (A short story)

The bloomed Gulmohar (Delonix regia) laid the red carpet from the gate to the reception counter of the college, and the heaven also joined with the Gulmohar to welcome the new guests to the college and it showered like rose-water. The reception counter was crowded with a generation and their faces were reflecting their hopes for the future. They were busy with filling up the forms to submit the reception counter to start a new dream. After submitting the forms, Aishu was waiting to pay the fees and suddenly she turned back when she heard an “excuse me” in a trembling male voice, she replied to him by her usual smile. “pen..your pen ..please” he asked her pen by showing his hands swirling in air with an invisible pen in his hand and she gave her pen to fill his forms.

Aishu is beautiful and has all the natural look as a village girl, undoubtedly her large black deer eyes and the black mole on her left cheek are the gift from God for her wheatish round face, her lips are reddish and thick like a ripened apple, when she smiles two white rabbits pokes out from the apple and the sun brightens on her face. She came here in this college to join for graduate degree and after paying the fees she looked for that guy who borrowed her pen. He was not yet finished filling his application and he raised from his seat asked more time by his gestures. When he saw her brightened face, he felt something happening under his belly and something passed through his heart then it started to beat unusually. She understood that he did not completed the form filling and told him “my father is waiting to move another college, you keep this pen with you..no problem..ok..” and she ran from that site. He shocked and stood there until she vanishes from his sight.

Time passed without asking anybody and giving more hopes and dreams to all, and there was no red carpet but gone to seed. Time, that vanishes everything and strengthen everything, but time failed to vanish the image of Aishu from Anand’s mind. He started to search her from college to college in Coimbatore; he spent his time in every Friday evening and whole day of every Saturdays and Sundays in each college gates with an aim to find her. He never felt bad when his friends discouraged him and days passed very fast to help him but he felt days are passing very slowly as earth moves with us. It has taken a year when he found her college, and finally he knew that his cousin also studying in her class. He was happy as he got the heaven and shared his heart with his cousin. Finally his cousin came to his help and he passed a letter to her (it was happened before 10 years, and there was no mobile phones with students) describing the first incident, the pen, and he introduced himself and given his college address also. But, she returned the letter to his cousin and replied “tell him that I did not read the letter, and I don’t like these things..ok..”. Actually she was surprised when she got a letter and reminding about a pen that happened a year before.

But, he did not stop writing the letter and it was his cousin’s duty to handing the letter in every weekends and she continued the same reply in each time. One day he came to her class with his cousin and talked about his feelings from starting itself, but she gave a single reply after hearing everything “..you know I don’t like these things….I cannot tell you anything more now…”. But, they did not stopped meeting in every weekends, and she did not tell him anything more but the same reply.

Years passed and there will be a time for final whistle for everything, while all his friends were busy with their final exams and he was fighting a war in his heart. Again his cousin brought another letter with an unusual smell, she was shocked when it was opened that was written in blood from his fingers and the stink was from the dried boold. Eventhough, his cousin did not get any happy news to share with him in the evening. There should be peace in every war to sharpen the arsenels for another, and later in that terrible eve, all of his friends were run to the hospital when they knew that their Anand has drunk poison for a greater peace. He was in a stand that if she is not telling “yes” for his proposal, he will drink the poison again after discharging from the hospital. The next day morning, all his class mates and his parents were standing in front of her college gate with weeping eyes. Anand’s cousin brought her to the college gate and his parents begged her to say “yes” for his sakes, but, her heart stood like an unbreakable rock. She was like a devil and like a heartless darkened stone in front of all his class mates and his parents and not beautiful as she was in Anand’s mind.

Years passed without considering what is happening around it, and she was in her final year of her post graduation in the same college. A white Scoda car and its owner were waiting somebody outside the college gate in an evening of that weekend. When Aishu just passed the car, its door opened, and Anand came out of it and called “Aaaishuuu…”, and walked to her. He started to talk while she was staring him, “I am Aanand, do you remember…how can you remember, it is passed two years….oo..h..now I have a job and getting forty thousands per month….I came here just to see you..thats all…”, while she has started to take her tongue, he moved to his car and opened its doors. She thought to move towards his car, but it was turned to the tarred road.