"Yes, I do..."

There she is...gorgeous as ever, with big black magical eyes, and long black hair...walking graciously like no other girl on the campus...smiling enigmatically in her own style...this is what everyone would stare at...everyone wanted to treasure her smile...she hurried past everyone...her feet thumped on the ground lively with unlimited energy...her eyes searching for something unrestingly...there he is...sitting against the wall with a couple of books his beside and one more on his hand...you guessed right...hez a book-freak!! he reads, reads and reads...and writes too...writes what? beautiful poetry...his poems are one of a kind!!

She saw him...her feet started running towards him and his heart started thumping...he became so agitated...quite in an unsteady state...she came to him and smiled...he smiled back, covering his nervousness...she sat beside him and opened her bag...to pull out a gift wrapped so carefully and handed him...he opened the gift as carefully and his eyes widened...itz the thing he was searching desperately for almost a year...a book that he cherished most... and even dreamt in his sleep!! she looked into his eyes and asked
"will you say you love me now?"
his face changed... and he slowly gathered words only to say
"i'm sorry, i can't do that..."

She sighed...and said slowly,
"ok, i will make you say that very soon...anyway, i have to go now...see you later!"
and she left him...leaving him alone again...a small tear fell out from his eyes...he sat staring at her leaving the corridor...

And then his friend came to him...his trusted friend knew all this, as he has been seeing this scenerio from the past two months...almost twenty times...and asked him,
"did you say yes?"
he stared at his friend with no expression...and said
"no, I didn't..."and his friend asked,
"why? what's wrong with you? I know you loved her, and she has been asking you this thing from almost two months!! how foolish you are!! and you always say No!! tell me one thing, do you love her? or you just pretend?"
to this a shaken he answered,
"yes, I do...I love her so much..."
"then why didnt you say Yes?"
"do you really want to know?"
"yes! and right now!"
"ok, this is the time...if I say Yes, the game is over..."
"Game?"
"yes, game! do you know she will do anything if challenged?"
"yes, I do. but..."
"I'm playing a game with her...I challenged her that she can't make me say I love her...and that is the reason why she is doing all this for the past two months! and..."
"if you say Yes, the game is over...and she will no more care for you..."
"right. now, do you want me to say yes?"
"Yes, I do..."
this came from someone else...both friends turned their heads, to see who...and there stood...
She!! the love of his life...and the words are from her!! and she stood with tears rolling down her eyes...
she came to him, held his hand and said...
"you really thought I'm playing game, didn't you? but I knew you loved me...and you didnt know that I did too..."
he couldnt believe this...he stood in shock...he didnt know what to say...
she took again...asked
"will you say you love me now?"
to which he answered....
"yes, I do..."

The unfinished Odyssey

This is originally a post from my other blog," For the New Life"
but with some changes...I'm posting it here coz, I felt this is the right place for this piece...

Prologue: November 19th, 2005. A day that cannot be forgotten. Not because there was an event on the cruise "Odyssey-II", but because of something else...something unknown...something agitating...atleast, he felt that way...

Stood on the Odyssey, a restless soul...at the hour of 1:30 in the nite...staring deep into the horizon...streaching his sight as far as the blue water and the dark sky kiss each other...deeply into a train of thought...I knew what he was thinking...what he has lost in the past few years...he now doesnt care of what he gained... coz, itz worth nothing before what he has lost...his brown eyes shredded a tear...

can I say he has lost it? coz it never used to be his...he knew it too...but he was not ready to accept it...accept the truth...here comes the desire...he still wants the thing to come back to him... although some where deep in his heart he felt he was not going to get her...yeah, it was a she...the girl he loved so deeply...the girl who didnt care for his emotions...the girl who didnt know she left a deep wound in his heart...or didnt care though she did...but he wants her so deeply, madly and badly...he needs her more than he wants her...but there is no way she could know it...or she could care...

will his wound heal? will it stop hurting before it bleeds again? will the girl come back to him? lots of questions...with no answers...no one knows...the time has all the answers...does it have mercy too? again, no one knows...until then...the odyssey is not over yet...

Epilogue: Then there blinked a light far away, green in colour, like a message from the profound blue water and deep dark sky...it seemed to him a Ray of Hope...