It continues…………….
He had not heard her voice to him for five days, but no communication between them was necessary. It only seemed to them that they understand better. He wanted to meet her. So did she…
They wanted to hear from each other. It made him angry if he was forced to think that he could not meet. She liked his anger. It only allowed both of them to share a common place in a usually crowded restaurant..They did not choose any private place devoid of human breath, because they knew that each of them forget the world around in each other’s presence,so...
‘Strawberry Milk shake’
‘One more’
He did not smile at her. She saw a cigarette moving in his hands. She moved her eyes with a sharp precision of the movement of the cigar. It conveyed an
Impression of hardness. He knew he would hear no words till it gets over.
So he voiced, ‘Are you fine’
‘Yes, till I came here’
He had no reasons to remain quiet..
‘Do you think you will not be fine if you are with me? ‘
‘It’s one of the few questions I don’t like to answer’
‘Any specific reason?’
‘The obvious one..’
‘I don’t know..’
‘If u knew enugh to ask, I thot u knew enugh to know the answer as well’
‘Hell..No..Not till now. If u wish to know it myself, I hate the reasons’
‘Such as it is,U will have to accept it’
‘You are a damn fool’’
‘I know I am, that’s what makes me better than most fools who fail to recognize that they are …’
‘Hell with you,Enugh,I don’t want to hear things like this…’
‘Shall we leave?’
‘What’s your answer?’
‘I dint expect to hear it again’’
‘Don’t u think it’s a mistake to fool urself by hiding your interests?’
‘Myt be, you r ryt in your diagnosis’
‘Can you make it clear?’
‘You do understand’
‘I want to hear you explain it’
‘But whatever I feel, It will not affect my decision’
‘Are you happy?’
‘I don’t want to be..’
He kept silent, quite long…
Then, ‘Do u mind if I want to be happy?’ He asked earnestly…
‘Ridiculous! What effect it’s going to have on me, if u are happy or not?’
‘You are killing urself!! You will start regretting….
Oh no..U wont…u r not human!!’
She said looking at him, ’’I would take it as a compliment’
‘Words…They are strange when u say…
‘They are mine, they behave like me in the exact way…’
‘Proceed,’ he in a gentle voice, as if he wanted to hear her speak..
‘Is it a request?’
‘All right, you need not ..u remember, Don’t we understand each other better even when we are silent?’
‘you sound as if it had made you happy?’
‘Certainly yes..How does one achieve this kind of understanding?’
‘Leave it there, Let’s talk something else!’
Her eyes moved away from him, He glanced at her with a lack of astonishment..
‘Splendid!, I will change the subject…are u going to continue in this profession?’
‘I don’t like anything here to continue..I may ,till I probably find a job suited to my interests’
‘You have got to do something then…’
‘I do have to..but I don’t find enough time to think of materializing my interests’
‘What actually u mean?’
‘Well, allow me home, I am deprived of time I have got to do much useful things’
‘That’s alright, I will make up for it, I will drive you home…But Vaishu, u could have been as plain as this in everything…’
She laughed…
‘That was a serious condemnation,Raghav..If everything becomes plain, u would not have chances to have the pleasure of diagnosing the truth behind the screens’
She stood up…’I will take care of reaching home myself’
‘Well, Should I hear something else behind what you say aloud?’
She smiled,’ You won’t be serious at all?’
‘ I am….Come, Lets go’
‘Thanks, I thot it would be a trouble to u’
‘Quite an understatement’
‘Sorry’
‘I don’t mind’’
She opened the door, cheerfully, and took her seat.. as if nothing had happened…
He drove as if he has not met her at all…
P.S :Tried dialogue writing! dont know how it is:)
