“Hello!”, said Vinay with a trembling voice.
“Good evening dolly!”, said the voice. It is Divya.
“Divya! How are you? Where are you calling from?”
“Why do you want to know where I am?”
“I… I tried calling you back yesterday. But, I couldn’t reach you. So asked you”
“I am glad! You never tried to reach me in these years and now that you want my number to talk to me?!”
“No Divya. It's not like that, but…”
“I miss you so much”, interrupted Divya.
Vinay could hardly respond and the call got cut in few seconds.
Vinay slowly drowned into his past. College days are one of the precious memories in every one’s life. It plays an important part of life in moulding a man. Everybody will face all possible emotions in their college life – laughter, tears, sorrow, hatred, crush, love, break-ups and on. And it’s the same for Vinay too. He met Divya, when he was in his second year of Computer Science and Engineering. She was residing in 1st cross street with her parents and this playboy was in 2nd cross street, with his friends in a room. She was a medical student and was highly ambitious. As usual, our hero hates books. At the end of 1st cross street, there used to be a chat shop, which always remained crowded. Vinay had never spent his days without having at least one samosa, from that shop.
One fine day, when he saw Divya, it was love at first sight. Then he started spending more time near that shop in the
“Good evening dolly!”, said the voice. It is Divya.
“Divya! How are you? Where are you calling from?”
“Why do you want to know where I am?”
“I… I tried calling you back yesterday. But, I couldn’t reach you. So asked you”
“I am glad! You never tried to reach me in these years and now that you want my number to talk to me?!”
“No Divya. It's not like that, but…”
“I miss you so much”, interrupted Divya.
Vinay could hardly respond and the call got cut in few seconds.
Vinay slowly drowned into his past. College days are one of the precious memories in every one’s life. It plays an important part of life in moulding a man. Everybody will face all possible emotions in their college life – laughter, tears, sorrow, hatred, crush, love, break-ups and on. And it’s the same for Vinay too. He met Divya, when he was in his second year of Computer Science and Engineering. She was residing in 1st cross street with her parents and this playboy was in 2nd cross street, with his friends in a room. She was a medical student and was highly ambitious. As usual, our hero hates books. At the end of 1st cross street, there used to be a chat shop, which always remained crowded. Vinay had never spent his days without having at least one samosa, from that shop.
One fine day, when he saw Divya, it was love at first sight. Then he started spending more time near that shop in the
mornings and evenings just for a glimpse of Divya. This had increased the income of Chat wala and definitely Vinay holds a major share.
After few months, he intelligently wooed this girl. But, he became serious about this relationship. He started to focus much on his studies. Divya was so sure that her parents would never allow her to marry Vinay. They were very orthodox and not much broad minded. It was a big struggle for Divya to take up medicine, in spite of being a meritorious student. All they wanted is to get her married off to a guy in a good job and with good family background in their community.
It was last year of college for Vinay. He was placed in Infy. He was so sure about marrying Divya soon after she finishes her studies. But, Divya’s parents were not patient enough till then. They started looking out a groom for her. One fine day, Divya disclosed about Vinay to her parents. But, they were not ready enough to give an ear to any such thing. They started to search for a groom seriously. Vinay was helpless. Though he had a job, he is yet to finish his studies. He believed only his parents could help him. He told everything to his mom and dad. Even they were initially bit hesitant about this. But, later they realized that nothing is much important than their child’s happiness. So they stepped forward to meet Divya’s parents.
At last one day, Vinay and his parents visited Divya’s. They tried to convince her parents as much as they could. But they never seemed to be convinced. Divya’s dad wanted her to discontinue her studies and get married. But, she did not oblige. As a result he went up to the extreme of suicide attempt, but got saved fortunately. Soon after that, Divya and her folks left the town and she discontinued her studies.
After a couple of years Vinay came to know that she was working as a nurse in some hospital near her home town. He tried a lot to get back her contact. But he could hardly get any detail. Slowly days rolled by and after four years he got married to Sushma.
He knows how much he treasured Divya. But now that he is married to Sushma and he did not wanted to reveal about the lover of his past to her. It will be hard for a girl to withstand that her husband had loved someone so much.
Sushma is a very enthusiastic girl. She has so many facts in her mind about health and hygiene. She is one of the reasons in transforming Vinay from a dirty playboy into a decent professional. She changed his looks, attire, attitude and what not. Now Divya remained as a bunch of memories and Sushma turned into a treasure for him.
Vinay was suddenly disturbed from his thoughts by a call from Sushma.
“Hello dear! What happened? Late today too?”, asked Sushma.
“Ya. I will be home some time now”
“Alright I was bit worried that it started to rain”
“No problem. I will be there soon”
“Fine. Bubye”
“Bye”
At night, Vinay was having his dinner calmly. It was news for Sushma to see this unusual calmness.
“Any problem at office today too?”, asked Sushma.
“No dear. Everything was fine”
“Then why are you so dull today?”
“Just that yesterday’s things got sorted out and I was thinking about that”
“Oh c’mon. When you come home, stop thinking about your office. It is very bad. Ok?”
“Alright!”, said Vinay and smiled.
After few months, he intelligently wooed this girl. But, he became serious about this relationship. He started to focus much on his studies. Divya was so sure that her parents would never allow her to marry Vinay. They were very orthodox and not much broad minded. It was a big struggle for Divya to take up medicine, in spite of being a meritorious student. All they wanted is to get her married off to a guy in a good job and with good family background in their community.
It was last year of college for Vinay. He was placed in Infy. He was so sure about marrying Divya soon after she finishes her studies. But, Divya’s parents were not patient enough till then. They started looking out a groom for her. One fine day, Divya disclosed about Vinay to her parents. But, they were not ready enough to give an ear to any such thing. They started to search for a groom seriously. Vinay was helpless. Though he had a job, he is yet to finish his studies. He believed only his parents could help him. He told everything to his mom and dad. Even they were initially bit hesitant about this. But, later they realized that nothing is much important than their child’s happiness. So they stepped forward to meet Divya’s parents.
At last one day, Vinay and his parents visited Divya’s. They tried to convince her parents as much as they could. But they never seemed to be convinced. Divya’s dad wanted her to discontinue her studies and get married. But, she did not oblige. As a result he went up to the extreme of suicide attempt, but got saved fortunately. Soon after that, Divya and her folks left the town and she discontinued her studies.
After a couple of years Vinay came to know that she was working as a nurse in some hospital near her home town. He tried a lot to get back her contact. But he could hardly get any detail. Slowly days rolled by and after four years he got married to Sushma.
He knows how much he treasured Divya. But now that he is married to Sushma and he did not wanted to reveal about the lover of his past to her. It will be hard for a girl to withstand that her husband had loved someone so much.
Sushma is a very enthusiastic girl. She has so many facts in her mind about health and hygiene. She is one of the reasons in transforming Vinay from a dirty playboy into a decent professional. She changed his looks, attire, attitude and what not. Now Divya remained as a bunch of memories and Sushma turned into a treasure for him.
Vinay was suddenly disturbed from his thoughts by a call from Sushma.
“Hello dear! What happened? Late today too?”, asked Sushma.
“Ya. I will be home some time now”
“Alright I was bit worried that it started to rain”
“No problem. I will be there soon”
“Fine. Bubye”
“Bye”
At night, Vinay was having his dinner calmly. It was news for Sushma to see this unusual calmness.
“Any problem at office today too?”, asked Sushma.
“No dear. Everything was fine”
“Then why are you so dull today?”
“Just that yesterday’s things got sorted out and I was thinking about that”
“Oh c’mon. When you come home, stop thinking about your office. It is very bad. Ok?”
“Alright!”, said Vinay and smiled.
“Vinay I got to tell you something”, said Sushma at night, on bed.
“Well… what is that about?”
“Nothing, but I have spoiled one of your shirts. Your favourite white striped one. I unknowingly washed it with your red t-shirt and your shirt got pink patches here and there. I washed that shirt again and again. But, the patch remained. I am very sorry Vinay”, said Sushma in a humble voice.
“Sushma do you know how much I love that shirt? I have told you it was gifted by one of my close friend and I have preserved it all these days”
“Ya, I know that. It was lying in that cup board for a long time. So, I thought I could wash it, press it and then put it back so that it would stay fine for a long time. But, I dint expect this to happen”, said Sushma pleasingly.
Vinay could hardly say anything. He was disturbed because it was gifted to him by Divya. It was the only gift he got from Divya. He could still remember how Divya surprised him with that shirt, soon after he got placed. Divya was gone and now her gift too. Vinay silently struggled to get some sleep and finally slept.
Next day, Vinay appeared bit upset about that shirt. Sushma tried to convince him as much as possible. But still he stayed upset and left to office. She washed that shirt again and dried it in the backyard. Still there were some patches. She felt bad and just called her friend to get some tips for removing the patches. She was hoping that at least after trying those tips, she could recover the shirt. She rushed to the backyard to see if the shirt was dry. The shirt was dry and there were absolutely no patches. She was astonished.
‘What crazy is happening here?’, said to herself and went off.
In the evening, as Vinay was driving back home, his car stopped again in that place and his mobile rang. It was again Divya.
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