STRANGER TO A FRIEND AGAIN TO A STRANGER

This is a story of my 2 close friends, a boy, and a girl, who were close very enough to share their each and every secret of their life. They never let their conversation go dumb. They together laughed to their lame jokes. Both used every second in sharing their thoughts or feelings. 2 years gone. Later they joined B.Tech college, both in a different college. But their conversation for hours together on phone never stopped, even god did have thought to stop them. They postponed their sleep from night to day time in college. Even the hands of a clock may get tired, but their chattering mouth never ached.

And a year passed away, slowly the boy was busy in his life with his career goals but the girl waited for the boy's reply and wanted a normal conversation as before. But that boy never turned up, even though the girl never lost hopes on him. Suddenly one day she got a call from him after a long. That moment was enough to tell how beautiful she looks in her smile. She was overwhelmed by seeing the caller's name in her phone. It was the boy but the saddest part was that he wasn't talking as before. He was speaking all about his career and goals which bored the girl. But the girl didn't know that he had nothing other than this to speak. There started a distance between them. It took not more than 10 minutes to end the call for the boy, but it took more than 10 months for the girl to come out of his hangover. He wasn't a lover, he was a friend, more than that she treated him as a brother, that's where she wasn't able to digest that he changed and he is not with her anymore.

She went through the hell trying to get away from his thoughts. She was never like that before in her life. Never and ever she dreamt such a situation where her friend, more than a friend she treated him as a brother, would leave her in a trauma. She started crying inside but never came tears out of her eyes, got frustrated but never shown on anyone, she felt suffocated with that feeling but always put a smile on her face. I was the only one who knew that her smile covered her tired heart and her restless mind.

Those were the days when they talked for hours together but now are the days where the silence talks a lot more than them.

From then she said me one thing, only one thing repeatedly:-

Never get closer to anyone, one day their change in behaviour affects you a lot.

RAKSHABANDAN WITH A STRANGER

That was 18 August 2016. I was studying my intermediate second year. Usually, we have morning study hours from 6:30am to 8:30am. I was feeling uneasy, so I came late to college at 8am and I directly went into our mess and had my breakfast. If I'm not wrong, we had Idly at breakfast😂. Then quickly I finished my breakfast and went downstairs, directly into the class and was waiting for my elder sister to come and tie me a rakhi. When I went into the class, almost every boy is leaving the classroom. But girls were there tieing rakhi to our junior lecturers😂😂. I was sitting on the last but one bench and was practicing some maths problems. Suddenly I heard a girl's voice calling my name. Slowly when I lifted my head, there started a conversation with that strange girl.

SHE : Can I tie you a rakhi?
ME : Yes, you can, if you have no problem.

She got up from her seat and started walking towards my bench. In the meanwhile, I was thinking, why a stranger wants to tie a rakhi to me. I was breaking my head for the answer. But keeping a smile on my face and finally, when she arrived I asked my question.

ME : We never met before, but still, you want to tie me this rakhi. So, Can I know why do you want to tie me a rakhi?
SHE : I heard a lot about you, in a good way. So, I felt like my brother and I thought to tie you a rakhi.
ME : What??

I was shocked and I was wondering that from when did people start talking good things about me?? I was laughing to myself.

ME : Ok fine.

Finally, when she was tieing me rakhi, but I didn't have anything to gift her. I don't know how to tell her. But the thing is that she didn't expect any gift from me.

ME : Thanks a lot.

She smiled and walked away and went to mess for her breakfast.

From then she was not a stranger anymore. She treats me as an elder brother. I used to narrate her many stories, sitting in the last benches, even when the class goes on. Mostly I was the one who made conversation alive when it gets dumb. I tried every possibility to make her laugh because every boy's happiness lies in his sister's happiness.

From such an experience, I remember a quote:-

"Life gives what you deserve not what you want."