The Last Call

Well if u liked 'The Invitation' here's 'the Last Call' 4 u......this one is from my c0llection and trust me if at all u had failed to xpress ur love to ur dear one due to some reason..this one will pinch u further....

THE LAST CALL

She was hanging around the phone for over half an hour. To ring or not to ring. She had a lot to say but didn’t know where to start from. One moment she felt she must explain to him everything that had accumulated in her heart in past six years. The next moment she had nothing to say. She was perturbed with the very thought of telling him that she was getting married. “Circumstances have forced us to part ways. But you are the person I loved most in my life,” she was planning to tell him. Will it be proper to tell this over the phone? Should she meet him personally? She couldn’t decide. After all that could be her last meeting with him.

……Nope, she shook her head. He was impulsive. She could not imagine how he would react. He would be reminded of the good days they spent together. The days when they were so close that neither could have thought they would be so far so soon. That wonderful one month. Neither wanted to know what went on in the world around. The memories made her nostalgic. Her meeting might disturb him, she felt. The urge to see him one last time jostled with her wisdom that restrained her from disturbing him. She could not think of anything else but him. She was lost in the past. Those sweet memories were back. She had experienced it all four years ago but they were still afresh. She once again felt him standing beside her while she eagerly searched her name on the college notice board, cutting jokes in the classroom interrupting her awareness of him behind her, her longing to have a word with him during the break, the moment when his shoulder brushed hers at a college program. Once again she saw him smiling at her after he caught her stealing looks. She gasped, closed her eyes, as she imagined him sitting next to her in the picnic bus carefully avoiding even the mildest push to her unlike other boys. She could hear him singing a song from her favorite album…..But it all ended abruptly. Like a sweet dream, it disappeared. Everything else remained the same…the college, the notice board, the friends who sensed something between them. Only they had parted. Some misunderstanding, she still believed. He had made efforts to explain it to her, convince her, and woo her. She wished she had given him a chance. The years that followed were without him. She thought she had been crueler to him than the time which held him away. Helpless smarting, she tried to shake off the bitter memories where she was alone.

The phone rang up. Her hand reached out the exact distance with habitual ease. Hello? “Hello…”. She sat up at once, her heartbeats raised. She could not believe it. “Congratulations for being engaged!” It was he. He talked a lot. Asked about her, spoke about what he was up to and hung up. He did not complain. Nor came a word of sarcasm. He had not changed. Different from other boys. Dignified.

She felt proud being his beloved. Standing apart, she was closest to him than ever before.

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