One fine day, as Karthik zoomed to the park, for his divine task of flirting with his crush, he was welcomed with a big shock of Priya crying. Her eyes were red and ‘tear’fall were rolling down her cheeks, profusely. He had no idea about why Priya was crying. Still, he too wanted to cry out loud. An unknown pain spread across his chest region and suddenly some severe anger gushed through his nerves and he literally wanted to uproot the 4 feet thick tree, by which he was standing and throw it away. In this hallucinated anguish, he tried breaking a small branch that dangled just above his head, only to end up with a small cut in his palm. But, the branch remained in tact.
“You alright Priya?”, asked Karthik caringly, with his throat choking.
She raised her head and looked at him. 'Oh! The merciless world! What did you do to my sweetheart?’, he cursed within himself.
“I hope so Karthik. But, I am not”, replied Priya in a shaky voice.
He just heard his heart break into pieces, after he heard what she just said.
“What's bothering you Priya?”
After a brief pause, she replied, “Today is Raj’s birthday. He is not with me” and she continued to weep.
“May I ask you who is that..”, asked Karthik. He is now a bit nervous.
“He is someone special”, she replied.
After few minutes, she went away.
He did not speak a word more. He felt, something at the bottom of his heart, is trying to pull it down.
He lied still on his bed, looking at the spinning squeaky fan. He rewinded the whole day in his head. 'Got up damn late and got damn late to work…. Couldn't get a clear picture of that accused who got masked in a second, after he exited the court.. the four pictures that I managed to take went out of focus…. Boss was really mad… team had a giggle and I got trolled… and the best of all… the climax of the day was when she said about someone special… who the hell are you man?!’, he sighed to himself.
Then suddenly he thought, 'that someone special could be anybody other than a boyfriend, isn't it? It could be a special dad - oh no no no..sorry mother-in-law. It could be a special brother - sounds better, or it could be a special friend - ya maybe! But, one thing is very obvious - I am fooling myself and it must be her boyfriend. A girl of that age will have just one problem in life and that's her boyfriend’. As he kept thinking about it over and over, he started feeling depressed, 'how can the worst things queue up in a single day? Back to back!’
The unexpected disappointment and the overwhelming daydreams about her, started to burn him from inside and he desperately wanted to grab the earth by its head and kick it far away and run and hide somewhere, in this vast Universe.
He grabbed his laptop and started to Google about Raj. He browsed through many feeds of actors and got fed up. Suddenly, he landed in an article about the iconic MP, who was indirectly the reason behind his fracture, that took a month to heal. There was a mention about someone called 'Raj’. It was a news article, talking about drug smuggling. He ignored the article, wondering why would a girl like her would deal with a criminal.
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