The girl can't live without the boy... The boy can't live without the girl... They're a perfect match like bat-balls... Their bond is bound by fevicles... Chemistry lovers say they're ionic... Friends say: "They're a perfect couple"... Facebook people are big. Jealous seeing their love … love on timeline, love on profile picture, love on comments … unbearable … why so much love ??
6 years to 7 years of their relationship... How happy they are... The girl's hands are filled with bangles from the boy... The blue shirt the boy is wearing is a gift from the girl... 50000 messages on Facebook... Thousands of colorful pictures of the two of them on the memory card... Rose petals in the folds of the pages of the story book... TSC Many moments sitting together at the intersection ... the story of recharging 100 taka to two people's numbers thousands of times in the account of the recharge store ... many nights awake, waking up many mornings ... the story of many shames with tears drying on the pillow !!
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5 years later...
The girl and the boy are not married … for some reason they go their separate ways … in very nice English we call it: “break up”.
Everyone was very surprised ... some thought that some of them would commit suicide ... after so many years !!
Life is not a story of Romeo and Juliet...neither of them died...the very strange fact is, they are living quite well in their separate ways!!
The girl is now married... she is sweating profusely in the kitchen... still smiling and cooking Polao... soon her husband will come from office... he likes Polao very much!!
The boy has completed his PhD from abroad... he will get married this year!!
Everyone is surprised after hearing the story... they don't believe it... then they see it with their own eyes... the girl is smiling... the boy is more excited than before... how strange!! How strange!!
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They are really good... the past is the past... there is no point in suffering from the past... the path must be moved on, no matter what!!
Sometimes, while walking, some glass bangles come out from the drawer of the dressing table... Sometimes when I pick up an old story book, two rose petals come out... Sometimes I see a Facebook user's comment on an old Facebook post:
“Naughty boy!! If you don't wear a blue shirt, I'll beat you and make a bowl!!”
While looking for someone's number in the phone book, his name suddenly comes up...the place in front of the tea shop at the TSC intersection sometimes hits me hard...I remember what I know when I raise the hood of the rickshaw in the hot sun!!
Then the inside becomes empty for a few seconds... How do you know you have to stumble while walking... Someone calls from behind... The boy stops breathing and thinks, "Look?? Look back??
After a sigh, the girl closed her eyes... then wiped her eyes with the back of her hand, forgetting everything and continued on her way!!
No one knows about the pauses in the middle of this journey...no one feels...no one!!
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No one lives without someone – a very bad lie … everyone lives … everyone lives very well … only dreams die !!
The dead dreams sometimes bring the past and disturb people's new lives... for a few moments the insides are turned upside down... then the boy and the girl put the insides back together and live with a smile!!
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Amazing story written by talented young writer “Mushfiqur Rahman Ashiq", story published with permission of the author.
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