The Last Meet

THE LAST MEETING

She was beautiful and he was creative, she was obedient and he was Rebel, She lived like her parents asked her to and he made his own world, She was MUSILM and he was HINDU.

Then

Mehek  Ansari  was in her early twenty is from a orthodox family . Her father Mr Ansari  was government officer and had taken a voluntary retirement from his duty to complete his last duty of getting Mehek married.. He had a successfully married of his two elder daughters away from the city in the interior native of Maharashtra. Being retired he had decided to live his later life in his native place and Drag Mehek along with him. Mehek never disobeyed her father discussion even if it wasn’t against her wish.

And on other hand Sunny was creative and did was his heart wanted he was rebel but somewhere deep inside he was emotionally weak

Sunny and Mehek were college friends. Sunny was amongst the few male friends she had. Mehek spoke her heart out with Sunny and so did Sunny. She was her ownself when Sunny used to be around. She was also there with him when Sunny was going through his break up with Sania . She  patiently listened to the crap Sunny said, but never gave opinion just silently heard what he had to say , Mehek got to be herself  and Sunny got Patience ears, this symbiosis  brought them closer, Whenever they travelled  in auto rickshaw or taxi together Mehek use to simply hold Sunny hand and sometime keeps her head on her shoulder , Sunny use to like this, Their feeling had grown for each other, But Mehek couldn’t break the cage her father had made for her, and Sunny  thought if the feeling are misunderstood he will be at a loss of a very very very dear friend, So they both kept  mum about their feelings, Days , weeks and months kept on passing in this silence ,  Finally the day came When Mr Ansari  decided to shift to his native and Tag Mehek along with him..

Mehek had her train that night which would take her away from Sunny; She was desperately trying to reach Sunny for the last time, she left a msg on his cell saying that she will be waiting for him at the usual place they meet,  Mehek reached the place on the decided time but there were no signs of Sunny, She sat on the old wooden bench  which was adjacent to the bumpy by pass road.. being an bypass road  the number of car or bike movement was less , but each time any bike or car pass it would slow down at the bench where Mehek was sitting, She was wearing Yellowish Punjabi dress which Sunny had gifted her, hair neatly tied behind ,two strands of hair playing with her soft milky cheeks , she slowly with her slender finger which were covered with reddish brown heena design tucked the hair strand behind her ears, She then draped her face with the dupptta  which hung on her shoulder to avoid unnecessary attention one could only see her small almond shape twinkling eyes . Just then Sunny Jumped in from behind,

“Ahh Madam is hiding from me”  Sunny said jokingly and sat besides Mehek

“Where the hell were you?? I have been trying reaching you from so long!! Mehek blasted off while removing her dupptta from her face , showing her glossy pink lips and tiny little nose

“Ek toh chood ke jaarahi hai, aur mujhey hi chillarahi hai” Sunny replied while digging into this bag

“ I can never leave you”  Mehek replied in lowest decibel  

“What???”  Sunny turned around to listen what Mehek said

“Nothing, ahh nothing !! But what are u searching for??? Mehek changed the topic as she was scared what the outcome would be of her statement

“What I m searching for was in front of me but I just lost it? Sunny  said turning in bag upside down  , and there was shower of paint tubes, paint brush, a small color palate  a novel “The Death of the Hearts” by Richard Lacayo , scribbled paper and a neatly tide paper roll.

“ahhh found it” Sunny handed over the rolled paper tied with a yellow ribbon

Mehek neatly untied the yellow ribbon and tied it on Sunny’s wrist and unrolled the paper and just kept looking at it . There was silence between them just the noise of city road far behind…Sunny was lost looking at Mhek and  Mehek was looking at painting , her eyes became moist and just then a pearl appeared in her eye

“I don’t want to go Sunny, I have never got to live my life my way,  I always did what Abba said.. I wanted to be a fashion designer and he made me do graduation, why because my degree will never come to use then why fashion, Now he is taking to me to native where there is no life,  whatever friends I have they are here, I don’t want to go” The flood gates in Mehek eyes had open and her face had turned red like her eyes she was uncontrollably crying….

Sunny silently kept listing to her… He was just helpless standing

“Abba will get me married to someone of his choice, he never consider my feeling, my liking , and after marriage also I will have to live life like they wud want me to, I m living life like machine taking orders”Mehek was crying so bad that she was fall short of breath

Sunny step ahead and wrapped his arms around her ,Mehek to put her arms around him and held him by his shoulder , she was breathing heavily, “Sunny I don’t want go Sunny I don’t wanna go”

Sunny then pulled himself back and held Mehek by her shoulder, while Mehek looked away, the sun had mellowed down and the rays falling on her face made the pearl shine brighter, Sunny wiped her tears by his index finger and moved her face towards him, but still she looked down, she then looked at Sunny and their eyes met each other and they deeply looked at each other

“Come Mehek come with me, I will take you away and give you all that you want be”

“Take me away Sunny, Just take me somewhere I can be me”

They spoke to themselves; heart full of love and mind full words but their throats ran dry,

“Don’t worry Mehek , everything is gonna be fine, Whatever happens ,happens  for good, your parents love you, they want you to have a happy life, and you will get a life partner who will forever  love you and give you all the freedom” Sunny spoke and planted a kiss on her forehead ,

 

Mehek just closed her eyes in reply and smiled, she looked up, stepped closer to Sunny and hugged him hard “Thanks Sunny, I don’t know what will happen to me tomorrow, But I know right now I m in the place where I want to be”

A tear grew in Sunny eyes, they silently hugged, while the sun touched the horizon and the sky turned reddish  orange, they stepped back ,smiled and walked in opposite direction to their destiny , Sunny turned back and saw Mehek in silhouette , her duptta fluttering  and her  silky hair waving in breeze, another tear grew in sunny’s eye ,he then turned   back and continued his journey

 

Now

Five years later Sunny got a friend request on his facebook account from Mehek ,  Sunny was overjoyed seeing Mehek , He quickly accepted the friend request and went into the profile information, she was now settled in Us and married to Hussian , He further went to see her photo album , where he saw picture of her baby princess, there were also picture of her Indian wear Fashion Studio in US. He was liking all the picture she had uploaded, just then a messaged popped in ,it was Mehek and the message read

“Whatever happens, happens for good ”

The message had a photo attached of a painting of two hands, one guy and other of a gal tightly held together, It was the painting by Sunny that he gifted her on their last meet.