Moongphali

Neha constantly gazing at the stars in the middle of night, she sleepwalks at nights and sometimes started counting the stars. She is suffering from nightphobia or insomnia. Since her last break up her emotions are flowing out in large amounts. She begins to break out and cry in the middle of the streets or sometimes she begans to weep while walking along the road. Her depressions are worsening day by day everybody in her family is disturbed and tensed. She has never skipped her lectures in the college, but nowadays she didn't turn up on college lectures or if she goes to college she didn't attend the class and is found to be sitting inside the college campus garden.

Her close friends and some of her new friends knew she is passionate nature and bird watcher , so they thought her passion is attracting and pulling her to the place. When payel her co-benchmate was passing by the garden saw her sitting on the grassfloor and scratching the ground with her fingers. Payel thought of informing her friends about her whereabouts. It was 1o' clock when the bell rangs she got up drenched in wet and grassbits she stepped back to take her bags when she picked up her bag she found a peanut's cover she saw something written inside it. She reads its a poetry, she loves it and keeps the nut in her pocket. She now frequently visits her college campus garden and collect all those peanuts covers and kept those in her pocket, which she later took out at home and read the poetry. She realized that she has fallen for the poet and began to fantasize about his face-looks. One day she was not at home, she forgot and left her clothes on her bed, her house maid was cleaning her room and took her clothes for dry cleaning. While cleaning her clothes the maid got those peanut covers and gave it to her mother. After Neha returned her mother asked her about the nuts covers. At first she thought of denying , and on second thought she should lie , but lastly she told her mother to wait. She straightaway went to her room opens her bed's side drawer and took out the glassbox in which she kept those nut covers. She gave the glassbox to her mother and said, she opened one nut cover and read out the poetry to her mother, her mother like the poetry very much.  

She said, "Mother I collected the peanuts from my college campus garden and I kept this with myself for this beautiful poetry and after readings the poetries I became fond of it and fell in love with the poet.

Her mother was shocked, she told Neha, "dear you know well what has happened with your previous relationship and you were still suffering from your last break up. . . . "

Neha holds her mother's hand and said, "Mommy I know it very well and my past memories are still fresh inside my mind but I can't help it, I really tried to control myself but ended up falling for him but I promised to recover from it very soon and I will take care of myself".

She closed the box and went outside along with the box. She went to the central park and waited for sometime, she doesn't even know for whom she is waiting but her heart said her to do this. Several songs filled hours later she felt someone is standing behind her, she turned back she saw a handsome man of good height is waving at her, she slowly went close to him he opens his mask Neha's eyebrows changed places its become adjoined in the middle she is thinking if she knows the man behind the mask. Yes she remembered, she said, "you're my childhood friend Shekhar, we used to sit in the back benches and would try to copy our classworks and homeworks and sometimes we used to bunk classes in rainy seasons and went out to have cutting chais and samosas. In winters we used to share plates of momos.  

"Can you remember it Shekar?". . . . .

Yes ! . . . . I am so long time after we met each other.

How are you. . . . . ? 

And what are you doing nowadays?

 I am in my last year of completing my mass communication and what about you Shekar? 

Yes ! I am too in the last year of my chemical engineering and. . .

And what Shekar. . . . ?

You are writing little poems too right? 

Yes right, I started it when I was in my second year.  

Okay !! but how did you get attracted to this? 

You know me very well Neha, that I am an avid reader of short poems so one day I thought of trying my pen to write and where I get space I started writing.

Okay but why peanuts? You know that too yes you love peanuts said Neha. So I used to eat the nuts and write it down.

But how did you know this? 

She shows the peanuts to him . . . .

He took it in his hand and said how you got it? 

I got it from my college campus garden but tell me one thing Shekar how did this peanuts traveled to my college and your college is too far from mine.

May be the winds carried it to your college !

 Hahahahaha. . . . jokes apart just kidding ok but its an another story I will tell you later.  

No tell me now . . . . . . ?

I said it later . . . . . . . . !

 No now. . . . . . . . ?

Later . . . . . . . !

Now. . . . . . . . ?

Unfortunately , their childhood quarrel begins with the passing shooting star in the sky thus creating a phase of new love story "Moongphali".

 the rest to be continued later on. . . . .