TIME Episode-2

 

     I opened the letter with curiosity and read.  After finishing reading, I got struck.  My questions got vanished.  I have no words to say.  She laid her head down with complete silence.  I folded the letter and kept it in my right pocket.  There is no one except us. I broke that silence.

     I said, "I shall drop you at home".  Simply, she shaked her head without a look and a word.  I picked her up on my motor bike.  We had a silent travelling.  Within a few minutes, we reached her home.  She went inside the gate of her house and turned towards me.  Still her head is lying down.

     Without saying anything, I left her home.  While leaving, I saw my watch, it is 5.15 P.M.  But it is unusual to see no one on the road, and it is like 12 P.M.  

     I reached my home.  The sky starts to roar with lightning.  Light rain starts.  I parked my bike and I went inside.

     My mom asked me, "Lashwin, Where do you go"?  Before answering, she said, "Aalya was waiting from 4.00 P.M."  

     I was blinking like anything.  Justnow, I left her at home.  How did she come earlier than me?  I asked my mom, "What? Are you serious"?  

     My mom raised her voice softly by looking at me, "Aalya, Lashwin is here".  Aalya voice came from my room, she said, "Yes Anty, I am coming".

     Thrills and horror surrounded me.  My sweat started to wet my dress.  Just now I left Aalya at her home.  She has no bike.  Even she takes the bus, it takes time to reach here.  Mom told that she was waiting from 4.00 P.M.  But she was there with me from 4.30 to 5.15 P.M.  My thoughts were running here and there with lots of anxieties.  My heartbeat rises so fast.  Even my mom can hear my heartbeat sound.  

     Suddenly, my father entered home with a bag full of wet due to heavy rain outside.  By removing his shirt button, he said to me, "Lashwin, I saw Aalya standing alone at a small mount, I picked her".

     Aalya entered home by saying, "Hey Lashwin, I was waiting for you at Little Mount from 4.20 P.M.  Why didn't you come to meet me"?

     My mom and I got back with full of anxiety and stuck in the wall.  Now, I can hear my mom's heartbeat too.  My father asked my mom, "Hey honey, What happened? Why don't you give us a clean towel"?

     My mom and I stared at each other without saying any words.  Suddenly, my room door slowly opens.  My father and Aalya asked with corous, "Lashwin, who is there in your room"?.....

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