ALONE-LOVE REMAINS WITH YOOU FOREVERA Story by Nitika NarulaIT IS STORY ABOUT ELENA ROB WHO MEETS A HANDSOME GUY .THEY FELL IN LOVE BUT THERE LOVE IS SET APART BECAUSE OF HER HORRIABLE PAST .WILL THEY BE UNITED OR SHE WILL BE ALONE FOREVER!!It’s 8:30 in the morning and I can see rain through my window, but this time rain feels different, it smells different. My coffee is cold. The rain and cold coffee makes me think about my past, my good time with Damon. I met him four years back on this same day. That day also it was raining and as usual i was late to work, i forgot my ID card at home. I was shivering in the cold and there were no taxi's available and then in that horrible day there was a “silver lining”, the moment i met Damon. He was wearing blue faded jeans with a black shirt, cool goggles and approached me with a helpful hand towards me asking me if there was any trouble miss. Being new in this city I refused him for help. He gave me big weird look and went inside but i was already late for work so i called him from behind and asked him maybe he could help me, with that winning smile that i still remember he said “My pleasure”. He called his driver Sam and asked him to drop me back home to get my ID. It was late in the evening, New York was still crowded as usual and as the horrible day continued my car also broke down. Just like a movie when a hero saves the heroine’s day I met Damon again that evening. “Oh s**t! it is 8:45 and i am again late", it is my first day of my new job after what happened to Damon. I shifted and came back to my hometown, Dallas, Texas. I was appointed as trainee for structure engineer post .I was excited and nervous. I entered my new office, I felt like crying seeing my new office it was like a dream office, with every step i felt i was the president and i am waving to the crowd and suddenly “poop” my glass dream crushed with that heavy voice “You are late miss Elena rob” i am sorry... “it’s okay just get inside” the receptionist said. I was watching the clock to strike nine so that i could go home after such a tiring day. After one hour i reached home and i just cooked a good meal and went straight to sleep. Next day, my half hour went convincing the receptionist that i am an employee of this company and let me in as i forgot my ID card again then a man came in and said that “She is with me”, For one moment i went to a flashback and remember my time with Damon and back to the reality and said with full arrogance that i didn’t need any help. I know it was rude but it is okay. Yes! its nine home time! Next day, no taxi, no bus. I was so screwed then suddenly there was a high beam of light coming to me and diminishing towards me and the ‘guy’ removed his helmet and surprise it was the guy from the office and like a gentleman he said can i give you lift and again i being rudely i said “are you following me” and so much of lame stuff and suddenly saw a taxi and thanking god i took the cab. I was different now after the ‘Damon thing’, I had stopped trusting men Next day i was peacefully eating food and suddenly from nowhere the ‘guy’ came and took my bread away from my mouth and said “What is your problem?” i said “Nothing” “Why are you being so rude?” and i said ‘”my wish” and this conversation went for like an hour and after a while i thought i was wrong and went to him to apologize and like a flirty guy he started with that weird conversions about what’s your favourite colour and the stuff goes on.. In the evening he asked can he drop me to home and i said “no”, he said you can “trust me” and i said “ohh... i trust you, that’s why i cannot come with you” and gave him a weird evil smile and started walking away and he came like a stalking guy he said “What do you mean?”. With a slight smile i said “How much do you earn?” with shocked eyes he said “I am not answering that haven’t you heard one should not ask a man his salary and woman her age.” I said “Stop being cheesy, come on”. He said “Okay okay .. i earn around 37,000 per month.” “Okay! That means you own your own bike and petrol” and he said “Yes” “Okay then i will go with you” I said with a weird look He gave me a confused expression and i said “I don’t want to go with a guy for whom the words are used that they use their father’s money” .He said “Oh you need that kind of man” “Oh i am so your man” and with smile he dropped me home and i said “Bye!” and he stopped me and said “I am sorry but i didn’t catch your name and sad part is that it has been two days and you also didn’t care to ask me my name” and i was like oh s**t it is so true. “Hey i am Elena rob and yours?” “I am Dean Scott” Next few days went so smoothly with Dean, i was loving his presence .We used to talk for hours and time flew. Every morning i woke with that smile like i used to have on my face when i was with Damon I remember the time we used to talk for hours and it was the best feeling. Damon was the best thing happened to me. It felt like Damon and I are the only two people in the world. But after the ‘Damon thing’ everything changed But now i feel the same happiness with Dean. Dean calls me daily and i know he wants to ask me for coffee but he is being shy and timid so opposite of his personality so i thought i should help him and said “Okay we will go for a coffee and i will text you place and time” with a long pause he put down his phone and with smile we both went to sleep. At noon, we went to Starbucks for ‘the coffee’ .We had some sips of coffee ,cheese cake and laughs .Suddenly from nowhere the ‘Damon thing’ came up and i told him the whole story that i was in relationship with him and they were the best years and after sometime i found i was pregnant and Damon got scared and choosing his career over me he left me and said to abandon the child before Dean could say anything waiter came asking for payment of the bill and i drop some notes in the bill book and he said “Hey,i will pay” and i replied that i only allow my boyfriend or husband to pay for me and again i get those shocking eyes and i got up and started walking and voice from behind came up saying “Miss,100 rupees are less” and i said to Dean “How much do you earn?” And being an intelligent man he has to make payment for himself and thinking of me as cheap but we heard a voice again from back that “Mam found your hundred” and i gave a laugh to Dean. And it was the last day since i disappeared from office and being worried Dean texted and called me for a million times and after one week he came up to my house and he took a deep breath and rung the bell and i came opened the door and shocked and asked him that what is he doing here? He said you disappeared i was scared you were not returning my calls and texts and was praying that god please be safe
“I am fine, please come in” “No” “Tell me first” “Fine...” “The reason is you” “me?” “hmmm.....” My father saw us when you dropped me off and he is angry and full of rage and that’s why he won’t let me come to office “Okay, Let me talk” “Please no, talking is only going to make it worse” “Trust me i will convince him and i will call you. Please leave now” As concerned person he went and saw me and i saw him back and felt so bad for lying. There was feeling of ‘Alone’. Dean was lonely, i was depressed and i had tear in my eyes and just remembering that i had same feeling when Damon left me. It was late in night Dean was tired he was just remembering our happy time so he just came up to my desk and start looking through my stuff and found my personal diary and had a funny flashback of her mother not to touch someone’s stuff and back to reality and read that he was not suppose to read and the truth i was hiding. He found that all i said was a lie he found that my father was angry about my pregnancy and Damon leaving me and actually i fought with him for him and my father ended relations with me and after Damon left he forced me to marry his friend’s brother who was not such a nice man and hit me brutally and gave up child in an orphElenage. After he read this he cried and took the diary and sat on his motorcycle and with the highest speed he came to me what he saw was not so nice he saw i was brutally hit by my husband i have bruises all over my body and i have a bleeding nose and suddenly we have an eye contact and i have a guilt in my eyes as my husband left the room he came rushing in and start asking me questions Hearing the noise my husband came in the room and asking me questions and started putting finger on my character then Dean and he had a bad blood fight, it was horrible to see and i knew what i have to do, i just said “sorry” to Dean and he saw me with those eyes before understanding and just forwarding his hand i said goodbye to him forever.
Death certificate Name "Elena Rob Cause-suicide Time and date......
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Holding it feels like death has come to me by giving an invitation and suddenly a voice came from behind “Mr Dean you can fill the other formalities.” It has been eight years. I am a changed man. It is a true fact she changed me. I am not the same guy, not the same flirty guy. I live in New York. Earn a pretty good salary and work in high tech MNC in which bunch of idiots’ work who just work like they are some kind of robots, they come and go in their suit and tie, attend their expensive meetings having their bisleri mineral water bottle. It is recession season but phew! Done some good deed in past that i didn’t lose my job and only had some cut in my salary and as a result i had to live in those crappy and tacky apartments in which one could hear neighbours fighting ,noisy children.... Trying to balance my balance sheet but just can’t concentrate with that loud music coming through my door and with that frustrated anger, i knock the door and what i see was a pretty girl wearing shorts and crop top looking so pretty. She actually look lot like her same eyes ,same lips but she had different personality and more irritating and noisy neighbour. “What do you need?” Chewing that gum and those red lips reminded so much of Elena “Hey? There man!” “Will you turn the music down” “No” And banged the door on my face And i went back to my apartment And as a lucrative man i got my Elvis to sing with highest volume and then she came and i banged the door on her face and this would go on for an hour. And then we were in the committee room and thrown outside from the apartment with our bags Both of us blaming each other fighting on the streets, and roaming around found another tacky apartment, But got a beautiful flat in the apartment and the neighbour had to share the apartment with another girl. Whenever we crossed each other, we looked like we were going to eat each other Then we decided to go with a new start. She introduced herself as Katherine Katherine was in mid 20’s, pretty girl but
irritating. One evening she knocked my apartment and asked me to come with her
to the grocery store and without taking ‘No’ for an answer she take me to the
grocery store. She was just throwing stuff at me at the store and when it came
to billing she took the bags and went without paying and i shouted from behind
“Hey, are you not going to pay?” she
gave me puppy eyes and said “How much do
you earn?” Still shocked I just went into my apartment. Next day, I was getting ready for office and she came in without knocking and said “You have to drop me ..” before she could say where i said “No” and said i am late for work and she stole my keys and sat in my car and I was like who is this women and after i dropped her she took hundred dollars from me and with that angry face i went inside to work with those bunch of idiots Late in the evening being too tired, I just wanted to go home and suddenly my phone rang and it was Katherine and she said “Pick me up from the mall on The North Front street” and before saying ‘no’ she banged the phone .Omg! she is so irritating. And this irritation does not end here; she gave me a list of places where i was supposed to pick and drop her One day she has to go to parlour, One day to shopping One day to movie I was like this is enough I am not doing this anymore One night she called me to pick her up but i was like i will not pick her up i am not her servant and went to sleep. Next morning , when I woke up and saw that her door is locked and does that it means she is not back home and with those funny pyjamas i took my car keys and rushed to the club and praying that she should be fine and if anything had happen to her it would be because of me. When i reached i asked the man is there any women and before I completed my sentence he pointed at that table. She was full drunk and took her into the car And she was sleeping all the time until we reached home and, She was looking a mess but her hair coming on her face with blow of wind and she was kind of irritated and truly looking like a mess but she was looking beautiful . As I am removing the flick from her face she wakes up And ask me ‘where am i?’ and i said ‘you are in trouble’ And we reached home and she vomits in my car And all the prettiness went away and yes she was a mess I dropped her at her house where the girl with whom she shared her apartment opened the door and she took her in. I was all ready to go to the office and she came in and started shouting on me and said what kind of man I am and we had a typical fight. I said some horrible things that i am not your servant, you are a cheap girl, you use for many other stuff which I was not suppose to say. And just went to office with horrible mood. I couldn’t even concentrate on work. For this whole time i was thinking what I said to Katherine and decided to call her up and apologize. And i called her up and it was funny that i was calling her up. And as we know what kind of girl she was. She didn’t pick my phone and i tried her phone like a hundred times but she kept ignoring my calls. ‘Stubborn girl’ i thought Me also being a stubborn guy took my car keys and went back to home and knocked her door started apologising and after lot of wait she forgive me. And said that i should take her to coffee and i said “Yes” with a smile She was waiting down my office and i was having the worst day .I was being scolded by boss. And i don’t know from where she came and started scolding my boss and i was in the fear of losing my job but I know the next thing happened to me was promotion and i owe her a treat. So next day, we went to the most expensive restaurant and had a laugh about the ‘boss fight’ event. I am laying at my bed thinking about her and realising that she not irritates me anymore and i love her presence. And after that day we went for coffee, movies, club and I have never felt like this since Elena has gone. One day we decided to go for ‘Action movie’. And we were in my apartment and i was getting ready and Katherine stared looking into my stuff. And next thing i was ready and i said lets go and she was like hmm. Usually she is excited for these kind of stuff she loves action movies and i don’t know what’s going on with her. She was upset all the time in the movie and then I offered her to go with me for ice cream and she refused me. I couldn’t understand why she was having a bad mood. I had the whole day planned for us. And she was forcing me too just drop her home .So I did what she asked me . After the movie me and Katherine were at home. I asked her what’s wrong with her, she said “You really want to know.” She went near my closet and opened it and took out a photo of Elena and said how do you have my picture “When did you took that picture?” “Were you following me?” She was full of rage. She is Elena not you ‘Elena?’ “Yeah! I met her ten years ago. She was a fighter like you only less fighter like you she had those pretty green eyes and glossy lips. She was so practical that she did everything for a reason. Unlike you SHE use to pay for herself unless you are his boyfriend or husband” Katherine had a little smile on her face and watery eyes “Do you love her?” “Love? I don’t think so” “She was my past .I miss her.” “But love, I don’t know” Wiping her tears she asked me “How did she die?” “Suicide!” “Oh s**t! I am so sorry” “it’s okay”. “You know what, this frame should not be kept inside, it should be placed on this table.” “So that she can see you are happy now” “So is ice cream plan still on.” “No” “Oh! Come on” “I am not driving again” “Please Please” And we slept with slice of giggling. Next morning she is beside me without make up looking flawless as ever and i looked up the ceiling and just remembering Elena with tear from my eye wiping that off Katherine says “Good morning” And goes to make breakfast. I am eating those yummy pancakes with honey and she went to take a bath. I am just seeing my fridge and that entire list on fridge and suddenly i get a glimpse of the calendar and that Katherine’s birthday is this week. Working in the office but I am distracted by the thought what should i give her on her birthday. Suddenly i knew what I should give to her. I went to a jewellery store. It’s late Thursday evening, i get a call from her that she is holding a party of her birthday. She called some of her friends in the newly opened expensive restaurant . ‘Totally typical Katherine’ show-off. But it’s okay it’s her birthday So her she is with that blue shinning gown looking pretty as ever. I wish i could see her all day “Stop staring” “You look... “Oh i know” and she smiles Hands in hands we go into the restaurant and seeing her friends she leaves my hand and hugs them And there is that typical shouting of girls and i meet their boyfriends with formal handshake. It’s been one hour all have been chit-chatting. And suddenly it’s cake time we all ready She blows the candle and cut’s the cake and as being his boyfriend i get first piece of the cake. And then again there is chit-chatting. Finally it was time for gift exchange. I was so excited like i have never been. Finally it’s my time everyone of her girlfriends were looking at me that what will i give her and if i the gift is good their boy friend are going to get a big lecture from there girlfriends. And Katherine gave me the look gift should better be nice or I will kill you. Keep my respect So finally sat on one knee and she thought fell down. But I brought her hand towards me and showed her that shinning diamond ring Everyone was so shocked including Katherine. And then i said those four magical words “Will you marry me?” She had tears in her eyes She said that i had never even said i love her Hmm okay “I love you” So??? “Yes,yes!!!!!! I will marry you” She had that cute smile and her girlfriend’s jealousy could be seen in their eyes. We came home so excited removing her earrings she said “ Did you see the look Rita gave me when purposed me?” With laugh i said “Yep” For that moment she was being one of those typical girls. But i love her .She thanked me for everything today and i hugged her and went to sleep. Wedding was not until fifteen days. Preparations were made everything was according to Katherine, Orchids were ordered, music of her selection was ordered, she started going to every boutique and parlour. One day left she was excited and i was nervous. For one moment i thought i am not ready and should run away. But i know everything would turn fine and hope so i will be a good husband to Katherine.
Finally it was the day of the wedding. I was in my tux, black and white the basic combo lying in my closet like just a simple cloth but didn’t know it has a special significance once you wear it you are married and i don’t have any problem because i am marrying the most beautiful woman. Okay , its 4:30 p.m. I am in my tux and i am sure that Katherine is in her gown and i am standing in the front of the mirror adjusting my bow and imagining Katherine walking down the aisle . My friend from back say it’s time and adjusting again and looking in the mirror and thinking next time I look in the mirror i would me married and be standing with Katherine. It’s five anytime she would be in church .Omg! do I look fine. O S**T! This marriage is making me talking like a girl It’s 5:15 she hasn’t come. Is she fine.? Am I suppose to pick her? I always have to pick her Why is she not picking up the phone? It’s 7 pm she is not coming. She dumped me? These things guys do it isn’t it? No no she can’t do this. Something is wrong i need to find her . My rose in the pocket fell on the ground and i ran for searching Katherine I started looking up for her. I got to near parlours, boutique everywhere, called all her friends and their boyfriends. I can’t find her anywhere. It is 11 pm. I went to her apartment and rang the bell and the girl who lived in her apartment answered the door. “Hey, is Katherine there?” with tears in my eyes. “Katherine?” “Yeah Katherine?” “There is no Katherine?” “What do you mean “ “I mean there is no Katherine” “Since when?” “Since ever boy” “Ahh?” I checked in central authority There was no record of her in any office. It’s night i can’t find Katherine. Her friends don’t even know her name it’s like she is unknown I don’t know what to do. With a heavy heart i remove my bow in hallway and with tears i enter the house. And sat on my bed and wipe my tears and i see she was sitting in the front sofa, as soon as i saw her i couldn’t control myself and hugged her. I asked her where was she, i was so worried for her. “I was here only.” “There is no identity of you. As if you never existed” “Yeah i know.” “Because i died 8 years ago.” “Hey stop kidding this is not a joke” “I know Dean . You are a fighter, I remember the time you faught with my husband and you really helped me forget Damon.” “Hey i didn’t tell you about Damon and fight..” “How?” “Because i am Elena.” “Are you a....?” “Yes i am a ghost” “But how?” “Because of you, You didn’t let me go. You still love me just let me go.” “I can’t understand” She pointed towards the table where she had the frame with her picture. She said “Burn it” “Why?” “See the blood”. She showed me the blood on the picture. I remembered the time when Elena was looking through the picture she had a paper cut and her blood fell on the picture. This blood was the reason that she was still trapped in this world. “I am not burning it .it is your last memory of your’s i have” “I can’t .” “Please let me go Dean, Please” “I miss you Elena. I love you.” “That’s why you need to let me go i have been been alone in this world i have been trapped into your world and heaven please set me free.” “You need to forget me. Come on. Free me!!” I picked up the lighter and burned it. She burned in front of me with smile on her lips and tears on her cheeks. I cried so hard.
You didn’t didn’t t let me go. I am sitting beside you and always will because i am still in your heart. I am not free. Until you will stop loving me.
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