The L(a)(o)st Day

A very intense beam of rays originated from a sporty car penetrated the early morning fog of a rainy Allapey, Kerala “God’s own country” that bears an exotic view round the clock and round the year. A thin strip of smog everywhere dashing the car glasses, very clean and wet roads, greenish ambience and a road less travelled are the sights that captivated any traveller from within the car. It was very evident from the roads and the temperature that the clouds had opened up the previous night to pour down everything it has. The car headed towards a farm house situated alongside the back waters of the city which wore an aesthetic look from even outside the place. The tyres of the car entered the place kissing the floors of the farm house and came to rest after few meters from the entrance.

The doors of the car opened and the shoes of a tall, well-built, neatly dressed and handsome guy touched the soils of the farm house who went on to open the other door of the car from where his girl has to egress. The girl wore a dark blue jean and a pink pull over that helped her fight the icy atmosphere. The couple headed towards a giant wooden arrangement that marked the entrance of the beautiful farm house which read “Vishramam”. A middle-aged man ran towards the couple greeted them and took the car key from them to put the car in an appropriate position. Two women at the reception, dressed in traditional attire welcomed the couple with a napkin dipped in warm water sprinkled with herbal fresheners. The guy took the napkin from the lender and began fondling it across his girl’s soft and lustrous face holding it on his palms so as to give her at most freshness to all her senses. The guy also made the towel roll across her chin, throat and her hands that made her glow with cleanliness.

Taking the room keys, the guy put his hands around her and held her shoulders so as to guide her with all support from his side and headed for the room which was located at the first level. He opened the door for her and put all possible lights on to put her into sight all that the room had for the couple. The room had an exotic dark wooden floor newly polished with colourful carpets above it to withstand the occasional bone-chillers, an exuberant washroom with very rich European closets, ample number of dim lights that kept the room romantic, a French window that portrayed the sights from the basement swimming pool, a sophisticated couch, a humungous cot with a cosy mattress which never failed to lose your love for it, a couple of chairs on par with other furniture in terms of its elegance, enough mirrors around that always show-cased anyone beautiful and a small balcony decorated with adequate flower pots and wall creepers so as to keep it cute and sexy.

The guy held his girl’s shoulder from behind and guided her to the balcony which bore a panorama from within. It was an early morning with sun reluctantly peeping in from its sleep. It was drizzling continuously and the clouds engulfed the entire sky allowing very little light to pass through. The girl put her hand out to try and catch few rain drops for herself. The guy hugged her from behind resting his face on her shoulder and breather on her. She was lost and she started enjoying his warmth. Both of their breath did all the talking. They were struck on to each other for quite some time.

He held her like; he is going to hold her for one last time in his life,

He hugged her like; he is going to die tomorrow,

He kissed her like; the world is going to come to an end tomorrow.

A pale voice finally broke the silence out, “Shreyas, I want to sleep inside you”.

A bold voice replied, “Yeah Janu always yours, come to me my darling”.

Janu ran to shreyas like a kid who had seen her dad after a very long time. He held her in his arms tight, lifted her, rotated her in air and kissed her tightly on her forehead and told her, “Janu, I love you”.

Janu pushed Shreyas on to the bed and jumped over him with joy, ecstasy and love. Janu unbuttoned his shirt and placed her head on his chest. He hugged her very tight to his chest and rested his face on her head.

“Shreyas, I always wanted to be like this, me inside you on This Safest Place on Earth”, “Please do not leave me alone”, uttered a very cranky Janu.

“Hei janu, I am born for you. To love you, to care for you, to caress you, to cuddle you and to make you the happiest girl on earth”, uttered a bold Shreyas.

“Hei Janu, do not come out. The world is so nasty and selfish. Please be inside me. I will take care of you like my mom, daughter, wife, sister and friend”, saying so he buttoned his shirt up leaving her face closest to his chest inside the shirt and started fondling her hair.

He held her face and kissed the entire face like he is going to forget how to kiss the next day. He made her lie on his lap and cuddled her like a baby born a couple of years ago. She emerged very new and bright every time he cuddled her up and tears started rolling out of her eyes. He wiped her tears and told, “Janu tears would fall and it would be easy to wipe it off our sleeves, but the pain…?” “Cry .. cry and cry that your vision gets cleaned and you will get a new vision of life”.

She replied, “Every time when I think when I look back at our laughter it brings me tears”.

“I want you to be with me always Shreyas”

”I want you to hug me kiss me touch me and take care of me like your God”

”I should be the only girl on this earth who should receive the maximum love from you”.”Please do not leave me”, “Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee…..” or “I want this world to come to an end today.. Right now right this moment”

A Year Ago...

Shreyas: “Mom I want Janani in my life. She is my life and I cannot spend my life with another girl who can never be a match for me. Janani is my love. She is my everything. She is the reason for my happiness. She has inspired me in many a ways. I want her in my life”.

Shreyas’ Parents: “Shreyas you cannot talk like this to your parents. Your marriage should go only according to our wishes. You cannot decide independently and our family would not support love marriages and so please do not leave our respect goofing on streets. We will find you the best match in town for you”.

Janani: “Mom I want to live my life with Shreyas. Nobody can love me the way he does. He is the one and only right match for me. I cannot live my life with anybody else. He takes care of me like his mom, daughter, wife and friend. I want him in my life mom, please.”

Janani’s Parents:”Janani, from where did you get the courage to tell us all this? Love? How did it creep into your life? What are you talking Janani? It is all cinema that had spoiled you Janani. You are falling into very wrong hands. We won’t accept this.  We are here to care for you and you need not have anybody else in life. We will decide your marriage until then stay at home. You shouldn’t go out”.

Shreyas and Janani had been dating since their college times. They both fell in love five years back and are still in love with each other madly.

Their parents were typical Indians; educated but not open-minded. Their parents did not accept their proposals even after the couple’s one year plead. Their parents never wanted them to be together. Their parents were so reluctant and so the couple decided to part their own ways. Shreyas and Janani did not want to go against their parents. They respected and loved their parents even more. They wanted to bid adieu amongst each other after one last day together and so decided to go to Kerala for a day. They wanted to be together one last day in their life.

They lied one last time in their houses. They wanted to be together one last day. They wanted their souls to be refreshed one last time in life. They wanted to experience the benefit of their births for one last time. They wanted to live their life one last day. They wanted to breath one last time in life.