Life Is Beautiful - 16 - Final

She started, “I knew how much you loved me and how much you cared me when am with you. When you said me about Priya, I was little worried and inquired. Also, I inquired about you in your college. All they said is ‘He is mad. He will be alone without even a smile or reaction. But towards the end of the college, he is seen smiling a lot, later started talking alone. Once he even shouted when we all were standing outside but calmed down within seconds. He would write and scribble many but everything would have only the alphabet A’. And about Priya they said, “There is no one named Priya in our class” and so she don’t exist!”

She completed and I was completely confused and said “this number?”

She spontaneously said, “My old number now with my dad and I sent you a message only after receiving that. I got your mobile now just to check it and it was the same as I thought!”

“Hey… She gave me a diary and I will show her what she wrote!” and took that diary out of my shoulder bag just to see it completely filled excepting January 1!

“I have her mail id too!” I demanded

“Are those mails sent successfully??” she replied

I was helpless; I could not mistrust her or even believe her. “Are you sure?”

“You mean to say I was mad??” I doubted myself.

She started, “I consulted a psychiatrist about this and he said you might have got obsessed with something and got something as the replacement. He called Priya to be your ‘hallucination’ and me to be your original. Doctor said that you are completely cured when you stop assuming Priya near to you. And I confirmed this when you said you could not see your Priya the day after I started talking to you. So, you are completely ok and you are back to normal!”

I looked at her puzzled. I never felt I had any such syndrome and I got cured. Aaradhana continued, “I said all this, just to show I do care for you. In fact, I love you!”

I forgot all those things she said few minutes earlier when she just said she loves me! The greatest ever feel is to be loved by the one whom you love – and it turns to be awesome when it was from your first love. I was speechless; in fact, the languages I know failed to give me any words to reply. Sometimes, its silence which speaks much important words in life.

We had our little snack and when we are supposed to leave, I gave all her little gifts I had and said, “I have missed many occasions to gift you but never will leave anything in future!”

She smiled this time and was silent. When she was about to retire, she uttered “I love you and will never leave you!” and I replied “I love you too! I have never left you since I saw you!” She smiled yet another time, this time her eyes little moist.

I boarded in my bus, when the bus started to move I said her, “Hey… completely forgot to say, I saw Priya here, just before you came. Will call you and say everything in detail! Love you! Take care! Bye!”

She started walking back slowly to her vehicle, may be a little confused state. Aaradhana took her mobile out from her purse with the beep,

#Beep#
"1 message received"
She opened, "Hi Priya, This is Bala!"


She turned towards me with her mobile in her hand. She was smiling till I said my last words but never knew why she looked stunned after I waved my hands when she turned back again. May be she would have started missing me!

Life Is Indeed Beautiful...!

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