A Boy named ME 5- the finale!

As the guards dragged him away he dint open his eyes, not even once to see where. They just dragged him and put him in a room and then a guy came in for investigation.

Investigator: Why did you cross all the barriers?? What did you want to accomplish?

Jack: Jane!

Invest: what?

Jack: Jane!

Invest: You are not making any sense and if you don’t answer my questions pro…

Jack: it’s my Jane, she is gone. I wanted to tell her how much I love her but it is not possible now.

Invest: How do I know if you are telling the truth?

Jack: I have no idea what so ever.

After about an hour of pointless conversation, they let him go.

The airport had started to crowd up but he felt lost. He felt alone in the crowd and demolished. He called up her number knowing that it was switched off just to try his luck. But little did he know that his luck had run all out. It was still dark outside and he started walking out. Out of the airport and had no idea where he was going. He was so struck that he dint care about the vehicles coming in front and even forgetting that he had brought a car to the airport. He felt paralyzed and he did not like it, not one bit. Finally he went to a bridge and looked down. Even the water looked dark to him. Without a second thought and with a last sigh he stood up on the fence and dived into the water. With a loud thud, he fell down from his bed rubbing his head in pain. He took the ring box and put it back in his pants.

He helped himself up and sat on the bed and he could still feel his moist eyes. Suddenly everything came rushing back to his head; it was a dream, a nightmare rather. He snatched the clock from the table it was still midnight and Jane had told that she wanted to tell him something. “Could the dream be true?” he started thinking. And as he kept thinking there was a knock on the door and he was not shocked or surprised to see her waiting outside. He awkwardly waved at her and she smiled back. He went and hugged her so tight and so long, as if he feared that he would never see her again. Well he was in that fear, a lot.

Before she could speak anything he kept his finger on her lips and signaled by shaking his heads asking her not to speak anything. She looked down but he pulled her closer and raised her head to see those beautiful eyes. “I am sorr...” as she started to speak again he kissed her and said, don’t be sorry Jane. Don’t be sorry for anything because it’s you who made me into a person this good. She dropped her head and started to move back but he held her hand and pulled her closer again and gave her a hug and said, “how about a dance Jane?” She shook her head slowly and he searched his pockets for his iPod, it was not there. He dint want to let her alone even for a moment so he asked her, “Which is the song that you would like to dance to?” She said any song was fine but after insisting she said, “one in a million by Miley Cyrus” He cleared his throat and said, “please sing along with me Jane because I don’t want to destroy the song entirely” she refused but after a while of convincing she accepted, they started singing and dancing and it was a melody indeed. Their voices synchronized so well that it was a treat to the ears. People from a few houses even came out to see what was happening. The song ended but still they kept dancing to the sound of the wind. The lights were off as it was the usual time to switch them off and it was an angel and a guy in moonlight.

After they finally stopped dancing, he asked her, “Do you want a ride with me?” without hesitation she shook her head meaning yes. He got his bike and they set off to a ride. And as they rode, he kept telling her the places they went to and the memories over there. When they passed a street which was entirely silent, he asked her, “do you remember this place, this was where you gave me a key chain” many memories like this he narrated to her as they went on. Finally they came back to the same place and finally came to a stop. She was in tears and said, “I have to go jack, please its already hard enough” He said, “Jane you don’t have to go. No matter what happens we can sort it out. So please don’t give up on me” she said it was not about him, and that it was her. Even then he told her to listen to him for a moment. “I am not going to bore you with a speech of what love is Jane, nor am I going to make you listen to some boring speech. All I want to say is that I love you more than anyone can love any other girl. If you think that this is the thing that all guys say to their lovers, let it be and I don’t care about others. It’s you I love and there is something I want you to know. I know that you are the one for me.” He touched her hands and stroked her hair. She said, “I love you too, more than anything in this world but it won’t work out. I know it and I am scared, scared that I would hurt you more. Scared that I would hurt myself more and end up hurting millions more. I just...” he interrupted,” shhhh shh Jane. You are not alone everyone is alone and scared. I am with you and I want to be with you forever.”

Saying this he went on one knee and opened the ring box and said, “Jane my dear I want to be with you for ever and love you, will you please marry me and be my wife so that I would have the most gorgeous girl with me for ever?” She was in disbelief that he asked her to marry him. She kept shaking her head and crying and he was still on one knee with the ring outstretched, waiting for her answer. She was not able to accept that he loved her so much. Not able to remove the belief that she wanted to finish it here but it starts up at the very same place. She was scared for even a week but he asked her a lifetime. Was this all right? She was not able to come up with an answer and everything seemed so incomplete and uncertain. Crying deeply she turned towards him and decided to say no but as she saw him, she saw his bright face, sleepy eyes, and a smile on his lips. She knew he had the fear that she may say no but still he smiled. She was confused but not as much as she was before. She went to him and made up her mind. She said, “Jack i don’t know what I should say. Because all of this just seems like a dream” jack said, “If this is a dream Jane, then I will miss you a lot when I wake up” She smiled and cried at the same time, she said “my answer is yes jack, yes” He placed the ring on her small ring finger but it was too big for the finger. Jack said, “strange, this perfectly fitted Amy’s finger, are you both not the same size?” She was standing there staring at him, she said, “WHAT?? AMY???” jack responded, “so easy to get you girls jealous” and smiled. She started chasing him and after a while they hugged each other and went into his house. She decided to end it there but that’s where it started.

You always know when someone becomes close to you and a friend to you, but when you start loving someone? You never know that. It’s not a bargain, its life.

A Boy named ME 4

As she started to delete them she saw something that clouded her completely. It was a handkerchief he had gifted her. It was written “My love forever and eveR”. She opened her bag and started searching for the kerchief. She was not able to find it and was panicked she checked in all the places around her, the way she came, the place she was sitting, everywhere. But she was not able to find it, as she started getting tears she wiped her face with something and that made her smile. It was right there in her hand, it was in a fourfold. With the smile slowly fading away she opened it and saw the words “Reve dna reve rof evol yM”. Then she turned it around and it was “My love forever and eveR”.
After a really long session of sitting idle in his bed, he drank some water again. His face was sweaty and he was staring constantly at their photo. He wiped his forehead and then his memory took a leap and there he was immersed into his thoughts again. It was their first official outing as a couple in a garden restaurant. It was a candle light dinner on a beautiful full moon day. She saw a leaf on their table with a drop of water on it. She took it on her hand and kissed it and the dew was sucked into her lips. He dint ask her anything still she said, “I know it’s crazy but I kind of get a feeling that a dew drop on a leaf is the most peaceful view. And I try to absorb that peacefulness into me”. He smiled and kept his lips on her hand and then all of a sudden he went on one knee and said, “All my life Jane, I have been waiting for this moment. I knew someone would prove me wrong. Because when I said moon was the most beautiful thing I ever saw, I knew I was right. But the moment I saw you I took that back. And now you have proven me wrong”
She just gave a sweet smile and opened her bag and gave him a sheet of blue paper. He took it from her and opened it. It was a letter in which she had explained how much she loved him and that she had been in love with him for a long time. All of a sudden the glass broke and water spilt all over him. He snapped out of it and saw the glass of water slipped from his hand, shattered on the ground. Wild ideas were created in his mind on seeing the broken glass shards. He took one shard in his hand and then thought of hurting himself, later he dropped it and then cleared the mess over there and again drowned back into his memories.
On her 21’st birthday he gave her 21 letters that said how much he loved her and a keychain along with that which had a little red colored heart in the middle with a rotating ring around it. All colored sheets just like the one she gave him earlier. She was in love with those and she would read it at least twice a day. She then safely hid it under her bed in her room stacked, as a heap of colorful papers stacked up. Whenever she felt low, she would read them and then keep them safely in the same place. Voices echoed in his head and there were a million voices at a time. It all was so fast and he was not able to handle it, as though someone was choking him, someone hitting him right in the gut, someone pulling him closer and closer to death. Despite all this he just wanted that someone, and wanted it to be her. With a deep sigh he opened the window in his house and looked at the moon. And immediately he stood up with a rush and then put on his jacket and ran down.
It was time for her flight and she was getting ready with two heavy things, a heavy luggage and a heavier heart. There was one hand bag and a big suitcase. As she was going she turned back to see someone running towards her. She hoped every bit that it should be him; it was him, only it was her perfect imagination. As he came nearer he faded away. She dint wait to feel bad and pushed through the security area in the airport. She stood near the ticketing area, got her seats in her ticket, she was asked to sign, she immediately took out the pen in her bag and signed it and turned back and stared at the pen. On the first valentine’s day of their relationship, he sneaked up on her from behind and covered her eyes. He wished her a happy valentine’s day and gave a very beautiful pen. Silver pen reflecting almost all the light it got. A voice faded in “excuse me, ma’am. Ma’am kindly move…” She snapped back to reality and she was still standing in the line. She looked around and apologized and went to the seats. It was an empty airport and she along with some other people in the waiting line, were some of the people in the airport. She took her seat and her flight was in forty five minutes.
Jack, riding his car at a devils pace reached the airport in a matter of minutes. He sprinted into the airport and rushed to the check-in area. He saw the charts for a moment and saw the flight, it was at the third gate in fifteen minutes. He jumped across the barriers and started running without thinking about anything. The guards raised an alarm and started chasing him but he was really fast and there was a good one minute gap between them. As he scanned through the area he spotted her, a girl with a white dress in the counter. HE dashed towards her and kept his hands on her shoulder and said “Jane, please don’t leave me I….” and he fell silent. She said,” pardon??” it was some other girl.

A Boy named ME - 3

Her flight was not for another three hours. She did not know what she was doing or why she was doing it, she knew deep inside that she did not want it to happen. She walked slowly but suddenly tripped. Out of nowhere, someone held her by her hips. It was him, he helped her up and they were face to face. Looking at each other’s eyes they came closer and then she suddenly snapped back to reality. She was standing in the same spot and knew it would never happen after all that she had done. Without waiting to wipe her tears she looked back once, it was misty, she started to walk again.

He reached home and just sat on his bed remembering their times together. All the laughter, cries pain and the joy. He dint want to let her go but he remembered something she said, “even if you don’t want to let me go Jackie, I have to go. We both are holding on to something. That something is us and if one of us leaves, that means the other is holding on to nothing.” He wanted her back and he knew he wanted to do something to get her back, anything for that matter. The problem was he dint know what he had to do.

It seemed like just now that they both got into a relationship. Two years had passed since then. He started thinking about the things that happened back then. It was like a flash back. Two years before they both hardly knew each other. It was one small incident that made them meet. His memories went back to that very moment when they first met. It was Christmas party near his house. It was a colony party so people from the entire locality were there. He was there enjoying his drink with his friends. That was where he first saw her. He felt a wind in his hair all of a sudden and turned to look what’s happening. To his surprise he was so damn close to the pedestral fan, that his eye lashes made contact with the surface. He quickly snapped out of it and stepped back to his bed and sat down.

Then again he took a glass of water in his hand and taking a sip drowning back to the same memories. In that crowd he saw a group of people a girl and her parents walking towards him. She then went to one of my friends and spoke for some time. He then introduced her as Jennifer. As they were talking he saw a pleasant view by the end of the street, two puppies playing near the street lamp. With a smile he turned away and started speaking to his friends again. Then he started walking away from that place and was walking towards the street lamp. There he saw a girl having the puppies in her lap and patting them.

She saw a guy coming towards her and acted as though she dint notice him at all. She kept patting the puppies. She saw him standing next to her but did not turn to look at him. His friends came at that time and Jennifer patted her shoulder saying, “hi Janie, seems like the pup craze hasn’t left you yet ei??” Jennifer then introduced the rest of his friends to her and finally him. They both shook hands and the entire area was filling up with light, and a blaring sound filled the air. All of a sudden two beaming lights were in front of her and she jumped out of the way of the truck and realized that dreaming on road was never a part of her plan.

She was confused and really needed him but she tried her best to not to let her memories dominate her mind. She then reached the airport and checked in and saw the time. She still had to spend four full hours fighting her mind. Sitting on a seat nearby, she opened her Mac-book (a laptop). His voice echoed in her mind,”you racist, you even want your laptop to be white ha-ha, come on don’t….” his voice then faded away. She then Shook her head slowly with tears in her eye and continued to stare at her Mac. After a while she decided to delete all his pictures, mails and every other thing related to him.

As she started to delete them she saw something that clouded her completely....

A Boy named ME 2

As she saw him go in to get her bike out, she was looking at the moon. Thinking about all the promises she made. Tears were trickling down her cheek in which the moon was reflected. Still looking up she kept her finger below a leaf which was in a nearby tree. The dew drop on the leaf came on her hand. She carefully lifted it and kissed it as it went into her lips. She kept her hand on the tree as a few drops fell on her but then quickly removed her hand from it. She took a pen from her pocket, a silver colored pen which glittered from the moon light. She looked at it closely it was written JnJ.

Her face was like a damsel, tears rolling down her cheeks, a red nose and a smile spread on her face in the moon light. She reached out for her handbag and kept the pen inside it. She took out a white cloth with silver corners. It was written “Reve dna reve rof evol ym”. She remembered the day he gifted it to her. It was a few seconds on the outside but an eternity inside her mind. She kept it on her face and cried a little more and kissed the cloth and then kept it inside her bag again. She looked up at the moon again and reached her hand out as though she was holding the moon. A mild smile was there on her face. But then the tears started rolling down her fairy white cheeks again. She dint wipe it though. She closed her fists and looked up once again. She heard her scooter’s sound and then cleared her face and stood there with a fake yet a beautiful smile.

He came out and stopped in front of her. He then flashed the head lamps to high beam and then back to low. For that one moment, the glow on her face, the rose cheeks, the fairy white forehead the red lips and her short yet silky hair made her look like a “perfect” girl.Without a word she got on the bike, held his shoulders and they rode off from the place.

They went to all the places they had gone to before. The wonderful beach where they spent really long hours just sitting and staring into each other’s eyes, the ice cream shop which was open 24 x 7 where they would go really late night after a fight, the juice shop which was their favorites just because it was called j and j, the last street in their locality which would be so silent that they could hear their breaths when they walked through them and many more places having memories attached to them

When each place passed by them a special moment would be flashed in front of them. A keychain that she gave him as a valentine gift in the silent street, a waterman fountain pen which he gave her in the beach, their first kiss on New Year’s Eve in the j & j juice shop and many more memories flashed in front of them as they rode all the way in silence. As they feared the vehicle stopped, not because of any problem but because they were back where they started. She reluctantly removed her hand from his shoulder and got off the bike.




That was the final hour. She stood near him and kept her forehead on his head. Partly crying and partly smiling, she gently hit his nose with hers and let go of him. They both stood in absolute silence and then they both were about to start a conversation but neither could start. With one final hug, she started walking away from there. While going away she said.”I will love you forever Jackie, I promise” he could not even breathe, saying something was way ahead of time for him.




She vanished in the fog and he stood there in silence. After a long fifteen minutes of standing alone in the street, he started walking back. He looked up and saw the moon, scared yet beautiful, so bright in the dark sky. Only one thing struck him as he looked at the moon, her memories. It was as though his entire head was stuffed with her memories. And they were all rushing one memory at a time.


to be continued......

A boy named me 1

“I am sorry jack, I really am sorry for everything. Please forgive me if you can because I know it’s impossible but...” Jane falls silent as jack places a finger on her lip. They both stood in front of his house, at two in the morning, she was with the luggage in her hand and, Jack responds quickly,
“Please don’t say that Jane, you know better than me that I am me, only because you were with me”
“Yes, you are sad and depressed and irritated all thanks to me, I have ruined your entire life and now I have to leave”

He dint have an answer and she dint have the courage to speak anymore. A flight passed above them and after that it was absolute silence except for the wind blowing and a song which was mildly audible from jack’s earphones, through his I-Pod. There was silence for a long time and it was getting deeper into the souls, and making the tension thicker. They both were sure that this was over, for good, but they did not want to let that settle in. It was hard but they knew they had to let go. At that instant they both felt something. Some urge that pushed them. There was a thud of bags. A second later they both were in each other’s arms, close and comfortable. Just like how they imagined their life with each other would have been with each other.

Then he kept looking down and tears were flowing from his eyes. She kept her frozen white hands on his cheeks and raised his face. Their eyes met for a second and they came so close that their noses were touching. She then patted his nose with hers and ran her hands through his hair and then joined her forehead with his, and closed her eyes and said “take care Jackie boy. I am going to miss you more than anything in this world.” Saying this she kissed him softly on his lips. He dint move and was still crying.

Then she turned to take her luggage which was around 2 steps from her. While going, she stopped still in the second step. His hand were stretched out and holding hers. He looked up at that instant and from his view she looked like a damsel, dressed in white, under moonlight, face glowing because of tears. He was not all bad himself. Not so fair, long hair which suited his face, tall, athletic, wearing a white t-shirt and black tracks, white earphones around his neck and iPod in his pocket.

He pulled her close to him and said, “You look absolutely angelic in this costume. Can I have one last dance with you?” saying this he went down to his knees and held out his hands. She let go of his hand and turned to pick her bag. Sad and disappointed, he again looked down. Without his knowledge he was still sitting in the same position but a million thoughts were running through his head and the worst part was he did not know which problem to focus on. Then suddenly a hand held his hand, obviously it was her. She said, “How can I say no to you. But how will we dance without music?” He took out his iPod and increased the volume to the maximum. Then he said, “Look into my eyes and don speak, you will love this song.” The song was audible and it was one in a million by Miley Cyrus. Tears filled her eyes as it was one of their most favorite songs. Yet she dint say a word. He held her hips and pulled her close to him. She kept her hands on his shoulder and they both were moving with the music, or rather moving with each other. The street lamp went off suddenly it was the entire moon light, an angel and a guy on the street.

The song ended yet they continued to dance. They knew they had to let go sometime, they just dint know it was going to be so soon. She then hugged him tight and he wrapped his arms around her. Then without a choice she let go of him. She asked him if he could give her one last ride. “Sure, just wait I will go and get my car, give me 15 minutes.” When he walked she held his hands and said, “No Jackie, I meant in my bike.” After a long silence he agreed.

Reluctantly he went into her house and turned on the lights. As he looked around, his mind was clouded with memories, memories of him and her. It was just for a few seconds but a million events flashed in front of him. He reached out for the key on the hanger. When he saw the key-chain, it made his dry lips break into a weak but a happy smile. Slowly he touched the key-chain and moved his hand through it. After a few seconds he took the key from the hanger and turned around.

As he started to walk away he tripped and fell down face first. He hurt his nose and was clenching his nose with one hand and helping himself up with the other. But his eyes caught something under the bed and he stopped still. Heaps of colorful paper stacked up. His heart skipped a beat as he was observing those papers. He stretched his arms to reach them. He was an inch away when he stopped. He waited for a second and dropped his hands, closed his eyes looking down, slowly shook his head and got up. With a million thoughts in his head he started walking towards the door.

His hands were shivering and he was sweating all over. He went into the garage to take the bike. It was brand new as he had gifted to her. Not even one scratch on the sparkling bike. On the side he saw just one small sticker. Again he went near it and touched it. He opened the seat, under it there was a piece of cloth. Smile was even brighter this time on his dark face. Then he closed the seat, put on the keys and started the bike.
To be continued.....