The Story of an Hour
By
Rana Naeem Akhtar
The storm was passing with thunder, the long night of the
mid-winter in the late December seemed gloomy with depressed atmosphere all
over, and the sky was studded with the lightning of the horrible convulsions
shaking the helpless earth.
The tears in the eyes were never ceasing and, it was hard to
believe though, the most charming and giggling hilarious lass like her will
feel such heavy burden over her heart. She had always been the life of the
place and her friends always called her the most spirited young girl. But she
was highly emotional youth who believed strongly in her to challenge any
indifferent situations against her. She never allowed any emotion to come near
to her and she opined to enjoy the life with no single wasted second. She was
cunning enough to tackle the youthful problems intelligently but finally her
cleverness surrendered against the enchanting tricks and whose charms made her
way lost.
“There is no such feeling we call ‘love’”, she always had
remarked her friends before becoming a victim of the ever lived plague.
“The love is an immortal feeling which never requires any
physical pleasure” she had always said to him and her own temporary joyous
feelings had transformed to that of permanent serious notion of spirituality in
the true love.
“We will make the world believe that there exists the true
love which is beyond the boundaries measured by the world”, he always expressed
his feelings with great emotions. “You are my first love and you will remain as
the last love of mine and I believe that I will never break your trust and you
will always feel proud in your love”
The more she remembered the words of him, The more her eyes
were getting wet and she had started sobbing then, she was in the state of
denial in the dark night, the lonely room, and ticking sounds of the clock were
not as prominent as the beats of her heart which were going down and dying.
“How can he betray me? How did he cheat and play with me?” He
was so innocent and faithful, his words were the proof of his true feelings and
he always stated that he will stay with her at any cost, he was her true friend
and lover.
“Why did he leave me?” her mind was asking the questions and
the heart was quiet feeling guilty, the circumstances seemed to her as
overwhelming ghost to terrify her.
He was a different boy who always said to her all the
beautiful things, she did all for him whatever he demanded but this sudden
change and he had turned his eyes away from her.
“How do you say you love me? How can I trust you? If you can
talk to me against your parents and you do whatever I ask, you may do the same
for others against me”, he said to her while they were having the last talks an
hour ago. “You don’t have any honor, you have betrayed your parents who loved
you for twenty years and I am no exception with just 20 months of
acquaintance”
“We were good friends and I loved you, but I can’t marry you,
I have dreams to make my future bright and for that I have a lot of work to do
and you are free to marry whomsoever you like”, he had said the compassionate
words to her.
“I never believed you will do this to me, I stood for you
against my parents and I didn’t care for them for the sake of your love with
this belief that you are my life and we will have a beautiful life together”, she
was sobbing when she completed her words “But you have cheated me and I will
always suffer because of you”.
These words were echoing in her ears when she noticed her
mobile phone received a new message which she couldn’t give attentions because
of her grief. She picked up the mobile phone and read the message which was
sent by the same boy for the last couple of weeks.
“Will you mind to talk to me? I know you don’t talk to the
boys but I am not one of that kind of boys who do friendships with negative
intentions”, the message was from the boy of her college who always had tried
to talk to her.
It was indeed unbelievable to her that her life will come to
cross road where she will find no way to flee.
“No one stays for any one and it will take no time for you to
involve yourself in another relation and you will forget me soon, good bye and
take care” she remembered his last words devoid of any sign of guilt or
worries.
“But it is not possible for me to forget you and I will never
forgive you never……” she had shouted upon him with a gleam of tears on her
beautiful face.
The mobile had received another message.
“Why don’t you talk to me? Do you love someone or you are in
relation that doesn’t allow you to talk to me”. She had never replied him
except for the first time when she asked him who he was. She had always
believed that one must not talk to any stranger unless he becomes otherwise.
“No, I don’t love any one nor in any relation and I believe”
she continued typing,
“There is no such feeling we call ‘love’ ……,” she typed the
message and sent to him.
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