short story

Wish the rose never died...


“Raj we need to talk, I do understand you are busy these days. What I do not understand is that why don’t you get five minutes out of your twenty-four hours when you can talk to me. I’m not telling you to meet me everyday, but at least a phone call?”

“Ria my sweet heart, understand even my problems. I hardly get time for myself these days with so many work project and assignments lined up. Can I talk to you later because I’m busy with my friends going to gymnasium…ok.. bye ..take care. ” ...beep.

Ria once again stayed awake in the night only because Raj promised to call  her in the night. He  broke his promise once again like any other day and left Ria to assume that things ain’t fine with their relationship.

Day 03...

"Raj can we talk? I feel like talking to you. I am lonely and missing you very much.”
"Oh Ria, I’m having dinner with my family can I call you later on, " said Raj. Hangs up the call.

Ria sat near the window and gazed up in the sky. Looking at the moon brought back several memories. It wasn't long when Raj chatted on the phone, when they kept texting each other at every waking hour, when he showed how head over heels he was for her. "At least he pretended that way,"  she murmured.
Nostalgic Ria remembered the day when Raj proposed her for the first time. The hundred and one excuses she gave him for not accepting his proposal but ended up giving her heart to him after a few weeks of their perpetual encounter.

Tears kept rolling down her cheeks while cherishing those beautiful moments spent with Raj and then she looked at the rose plan was dying. Thats when she realized she almost forgot to water it. Ria left the plant untouched for days as she was so engrossed in herself. She forgot that something so beautiful, so fragile was desperately in need of care,love and attention without which it was certain  it would die...

It was too late for Ria to repent and and give the rose plant it’s life again.Even then she did not lose hope and wished that the rose will not survive. Days passed by, Ria’s wish remained unfulfilled and her prayer unheard. One day the rose on the plant died .

Since that up till now Ria never kept any flower vaaz in her room or at her house. Ria almost understood the philosophy of life and relationship when she fare welled the rose. How the red rose bloomed in the sight of the Sun and lost all that it had.It knew it would not remain in the bud to see the eternal winter mist .

She kept herself busy and completely engrossed in her studies and other hobbies.

Days passed by and then months. Raj frustrated with his life and now with his relationship with Ria accused her of betraying him and now have become very much addicted to alcohol. He never understood why Ria left him or rather “never tried to understand” her in Ria’s word. Raj made his life miserable for which he blamed Ria . Ria didn’t even came to know when she became so flushed out ,so stone-hearted..,may be when Raj was busy with  himself ,when he kept their relationship untouched ,uncared where Ria saw her love dying each day,romance withering and love…lost.
Lost somewhere in the winner mist or when she saw that the efforts were only from her side to keep their relationship alive.The communication gap between them brought Ria and Raj to such a phase where love couldn’t find it’s way