Vassu... ! Please Call Me..! 5

They don’t find the trace of Vasundhra at a visible extent.  Once again they observed keenly in the snow. When they look at Srikar, they are astonished.

Srikar gets up. The paper and the pen put on the bench slowly walks out.

Having seen it, Ramesh –

“Identra…? He is going to somewhere when she comes to meet him at any moment’’, Ramesh said anxiously.

 

Mahesh smiles and he is about to speak…

In the meantime, they cast a glance at a car is parking.

 

From that car a middle-aged lady walks in the shawl, covers the head with a scarf, wearing spectacles, light blue color sari, just coming up as morning light…

Checked once this side and that side, she walks slowly to the bench which Srikar always sits and sitting up to now.

 

Though they cannot see the face properly, they come to know that she is Vasundhara.

“This great man has been here till now, where did he go?” says Ramesh in a pensive mood.

 

Ramesh has a strong desire to see how to kiss on the original smile. That is the reason he becomes tense.

  Mahesh laughs.

 

She looks around once and sits on the bench which Srikar usually sits. She sends a message from her mobile. She takes the pen after a minute and immediately holds the paper which is flying way. She starts reading which has been written in a good manner.

 

As the snow falls, the paper becomes wet and heavy. In the same manner, she felt her heart heavy. Maybe it can’t bear that weight…slowly, warmly tears come out. She wipes out the tears with the upper end of the sari.

 

 Ramesh, who is watching her from the distance, said, “God forbid, has the punctual military man gone, because it’s already six?”

 

Both of them ran to her with one jump.

“I think you came for Srikar garu…” Ramesh asked anxiously.  

  She nods her head to indicate ‘yes’, without raising it.

 

‘He will come. Don’t worry…” says Ramesh and about to move to see where he is.

  She says, “No” and gave the paper to Mahesh.

  Ramesh and Mahesh look their faces in chaos and start reading in a hurry.

“Dear Vassu…

 

        I feel so happy because, after so many years, you have come here to fulfill my desire. But I am giving pain to you, not fulfilling your beautiful wish.

    I don’t know how you are and every day I expect you to come for me. Finally, my expectation comes true, and I am so happy that you arrived today… but I am just worrying the same about tomorrow.

 

Because…

 

The expectation of waiting for you to come will be great. Every day that hope made me wait for the next day. Those expectations raise hope on life. My hope and expectation is going to stop suddenly with your arrival today. I do not have hope from tomorrow.

It’s better to wait for Vassu joyfully with hope in life than to meet u and spent happy life today and spend with despair for the rest of the life.

 

I can’t hear any change in the laughing voice that loudly sounded in my ears. I want the same old smile. I want the imagination of kiss on your smile. That’s why I’m not going to meet you. I would like to look forward to a long time expecting to kiss your beautiful smile.

 

Generally grapes are sour for anyone who cannot reach high. But as for me unreachable grapes count for a sweet desire and deep passion. I wish you should smile always in the rest of your life. I believe that a beautiful smile can give a happy life.

You come here after twenty years to fulfill my first desire, I hope you will fulfill my second desire also…

 

Yours 

Srikar 

Who wants to kiss on your smile.

 

Ramesh and Mahesh's eyes become moistened unintentionally.

  She walks slowly and said “please stop it”, and hugs Mahesh.

 

Ramesh is shocked by this sudden incident. 

  “She is not Vasundhara, She is my wife,” says Mahesh.

  Ramesh is amazed. He recognizes her.

 

“Yes… Vasundhra garu, who has to meet Srikar garu, passed away long ago. She met an accident when she was coming to meet him. She is none other than my mother”.

  Ramesh is listening unbelievably.

 

“Two days ago, we got a diary in my mother’s box. I read it and learned this. I came to know her passion. She lost her husband at a very young age and surviving only for me and saved me from the road accident and lost her life with unfulfilling desire... I did it so for the sake of my mother’s soul, Mr. Srikar’s expectation. But…”

“No, your mother’s spirit is happy with your effort. Have you ever seen the joy of Mr. Srikar? You want to make peace of her soul today that have died twenty years ago. But in the twenty years her soul has been enjoying the happiness every day because of Mr.Srikar” said Ramesh.

 

Mahesh shed tears of joy while he hugs Ramesh.

  At the same time, they received a message on their phone.

  They open the message and read it.

 

“Thank you, my boys…I remember both of you along with my Vassu in my whole life…” Srikar sent. 

  Immediately Mahesh makes a call to Srikar. It is switched off.

 

That’s it… and then Srikar phone has never rung. After that, Srikar does not appear on the bench to Mahesh and Ramesh.

      But…still they have seen Srikar as sitting on the bench and looking at something in the phone and waiting for Vassu with chucking.

*****

A beautiful hope can give long life and make others live.

 

That is why Vassu still lives in the imagination of the beautiful hope of Srikar, though she has physically died twenty years ago…Still alive.

          

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