SHORT STORY

MISTY

Ring! Ring! Ring! An un-soothing sound wakes him up in a hotel room which is well furnished letting in the cold breeze kissing through rose pattern curtains on the window.

He picks up the phone and hear his father's voice from the other side.

Father: - Hello, How are you Rohan?

Son: - I am good dad. How about you?

Father: I called to inform you that your grandfather is admitted to hospital and we came to Himachal to see him.

Son: *Shocked* Hope  he gets well soon. Is misty with you too?

Father: MISTY? Oh, shit! We forgot to bring her with us.

Son: How can you leave a family member like this? When did you went to Himachal?

Father: Day after you left.

Son: Oh no! It's been a week and she is all alone. *Cuts the phone in anger, and runs to catch the earliest flight to home*

*Closes his eyes to sleep while travelling through thoughts*

Rohan wakes up in his bed and demands for coffee. Mom says I am busy come and get it from the kitchen. He walks to kitchen yawning while his eyes got stuck to some amazing beauty in the back garden. He ran into the garden to pick her up in his arms and greets her with a beautiful smile. She is a lovely kitten of white color with black patches all over her back. When he took her to his mom she smiled looking at her but that smile was disrupted by his demand of keeping her. She shakes her head and said I don't know go and talk to your dad. I have no say in this. Rohan gathered some courage and went to his dad. He was getting ready for the office. Rohan showed him the kitten and he smiled. When he asked his dad to keep her he said no. He looked at her eyes like she was asking won't you keep me? You'll just throw me in this harsh world? And suddenly, Rohan pleaded to his dad and said He don't need any gift this year all he wants is her to stay with him. Looking at his puppy face his dad allowed him to keep her and hearing that he ran towards him mom and told her the good news. His mom asked what are you going to call her?

He looked towards her and said "Misty".

That day he became a Dad.

She became a very important part of his life. The first thing they seek for in the morning was each other's face. In night, She walks slowly and get in his bed. She wouldn't eat until it comes from him. Rohan's sister hated misty as she gives all of her love to Rohan only. This was the routine of their life when suddenly one day Rohan got to know he has to go to Bangalore for a week to represent his college in a science competition. He wanted to go to Bangalore but he was worried about Misty?

When he came to home he was sad and looking at his face his dad asked what happened to you?

He told them about the competition and how he is worried about Misty.  Then his sister said why are you worried about her when we all are here. We will take care of her but you must seize this opportunity as not everyone gets such a wonderful opportunity. Knowing his family is there he left to Bangalore after giving lots of kisses to misty. During the competition all he could think of is misty and blame his hard luck that no one's phone was reachable. He won the first prize in the competition. He was happy that night not because he won but because he was going back home. He thought to rest a night and leave tomorrow morning. He checked into a hotel.

Ting...  Captain says they are about to land. He reached home and opened the door. He screamed out loud "MISTY? MISTY?" but, there was no response. He searched for misty in every corner but he failed. Tired and exhausted he fell on the ground where he finds her misty under the bed but dead. He cried a lot that one competition has cost her misty's life. He dig a grave for her. When his parents came back he was not talking to them. when his father asked him what kind of behavior is this? He replied in anger, "What else you expect?" How could you left her alone? How could...his voice was stopped by the loud voice of his sister's slap. She said all that you care is of that animal. He looked at her furiously and said, "She was not an animal. She was my daughter. so strange it is when a human gets ill we get scared but when an animal dies we don't even shed a tear. Are they just some toys which are made to entertain you? Don't they have any feelings. Just imagine if you are stuck in a room for a week without food and water? We would still juggle around to look for food but she died waiting. Do you even realize you killed my daughter?

Nah, how can you? you are so cold-hearted.

saying that he went to his room and slammed the door.

That evening his father came  to him and said, "I am sorry Rohan. You said it right. We must have taken care of her. We are sorry. Saying that he hands him a puppy saying He might not be able to take her place but it's just a way of saying sorry to my son. I love you"

Rohan hugged his dad with tears in his eyes and said I love you too!

--dupenbabbar (flamingpen)

Gift By Mom

A mirror with a wooden frame surrounded by cream lined tiles  has a face of a man who is lost somewhere.  There is a feeling of hatred in those light brown eyes. He opens the tap to wash the dirt of his sins from his face but the flow of water  shows him the face of a women, he loved a lot. He washes his face and goes to his room. He was lying on his bed when after some time he shouted mom! Coffee !
Minutes passed but coffee didn’t arrived. He shouted again, What the hell mom ! You don’t have time to make me some coffee. "Well! Ok fine then I’ll make it by myself", while quoting those words he goes in kitchen to find nothing but silence. Then he realized his mom is no more with him to shower her love.

Next morning,
He receives a call from his cousin.
Cousin: Brother, How are you holding up ?
Him: I’m doing good. How about you ? Why did you called me ?
Cousin: All good, I called you to wish you Happy birthday brother. I’ve a gift for you left by your mother. It’s in your mother’s cupboard.

*Phone cuts*

He opens the cupboard to find a small wooden box. He opens it. There is a letter by his mom.

the letter read,

Dear Ritvik,
If you are reading this letter then probably I have left you to live with my husband in the heaven. I hope I deserve the place in heaven? Well, even if i don’t i will fight my way to it  because I can’t live without your father and you know he’ll be there for sure. I hope you are doing well son, though I am not there to hold you in my arms. Wish I could’ve stayed more with you but I was tired and couldn’t face the heat anymore. Though you brought the AC but never allowed me to come in your room.
What is it that you hide in your room and always shouts when I enters  in your absence? But always ask me to give you the coffee in bed.  You might had been overloaded with your work that’s the reason you never went to the market for my stuff. I can understand you have achieved so much it had been hard for you to take some time  out of your valuable schedule to pick my call. But son, I only worry If you’ve had your food or not. It hurts me receiving the text – “I am busy, will talk to you later”. You were busy to pick a call but had time to post a picture on Facebook?  Since your childhood to my last breath I’ve only wished for your success and happiness. I know I was annoying in my old age and its tough for you to handle me but at least you could have tried. But you didn’t and it hurt. You know the hard part is the memories of your childhood that flashes when you ignores me. It shatters me. I loved you when you was annoying. You failed when you were learning new things but I never took a step back until you got perfect in that but  you get annoyed when I fails to under your new technologies in the first attempt.

I know there had been many times when you regret throwing those harsh words on me. I know you never hurt me intentionally, but you do! that's why I penned down my feelings to you so that when you will go in your old age you'll be prepared like I was not. My beautiful baby I'm not complaining, I just don't want to go with all the pain in my heart. 

My beautiful son
I know you love me a lot but somewhere you care for your social world more. I don’t mind you giving preference to your social world but I would have loved If you carried me alongside. Now don't grind your teeth and please wipe off those tears because I can't see you in pain.  Son, Remember one thing,always value the things when you have them because you won’t even realize and they’ll be gone in a flash. you know you have my blessings with you. Now, Go and live your life happily without any regrets because regrets can destroy you.Promise me you’ll marry soon and have a son. Teach him the things i failed to teach you.
I love you a lot my beautiful son.

Yours Mom  :* (I hope I made the right smiley son )

He cried his heart out holding the paper tightly to his heart.

- dupenbabbar(flamingpen)

WHO WE REALLY ARE ?

There is something i would like to ask all of you reading this post. 

WHO WE REALLY ARE ?

We move on the path we are taught to move. No matter how much determined you are to make your own path but the truth since your birth everyone had taught you something in someway and the strange part is you have followed it. what if we were taught animals are our part of life and we have to keep them close to our heart not to harm them or abuse them. we didnt knew anything except of breathing. We saw what others made us to. we heard what others wanted us to. But who to blame about this ? our parents ? but they were taught the same by their elders they just followed it up. If you will start this blaming game it won't end rathe we can think wisely and make the dream of making this world beautiful come true. You are the one who has to take the pledge of being doing things in the way it should be. Teach your children what you always wanted in a person. Teach them there is no word such as failure. Teach them there is no such thing as harm, hate. This world consits of only love. I know it's easy to say but very difficult to do. But someone has to start right ? I'm up for it, are you ? Will you join my hand in making this world beautiful ? 

PS- this was a though that strike my mind. And I'm definetely going for it. 
Thanks x 

CHANGE YOURSELF TO CHANGE THE WORLD

Hey ! you ya the one reading it. you all keep siting behind the screen of your laptop and reading gossips that at that place the X guy got bullied and gossiping with your friends  for hours showing your concern for the girl Y being called slut. Do you even know the guy who got bullied committed suicide from the next building roof s of yours. now don't go to window and start watching the building like a fool. ofcourse i am kiding but hell ya he had committed suicide and that's sad. isn't it  ?then what should we do ? keep on gossiping about that ? Fucking not. just go stand up and try to change yourself instead of showing your concern. Because in our life sometimes at some moment we see someone getting bullied but we never try to help them. so try to help them rather than showing your concern later and then you will  see the change because this world is crazy they follow one another. and ya the girl you heard about what if she is virgin ? and you all calling her a slut. so stop being morons and try to respect girls. on one side you try to protect your sisters and on next you try to call another girl a slut ? she is a sister of someone. so stop being a coward and respect a girl and whoso ever doesn't do the same go on and say them the same. it's your responsibility not of someone else. 

                                                            LIFE IS LIKE A COIN !

 
This life is really unpredictable. today i realised it life is always two sided. if you are getting positive one day then it's been already written in your destiny card that next time you will get the negative too. that's why i guess people say don't laugh too much else after sometime you'll be crying a lot. but i had never believed in that. this year was totally a upside down for me. i thought this year was meant  for me. i got my new life out here getting a group of new friends being with them i thought i got everything i wished for. but destiny waited something else for me. just because ofagirl i lost all of my friends. in one incident i had being dragged in a situation where it was a moment to come where people trust me or not and they actually didn't trusted me due to which i lost my whole group. not even that in my old group our one friend backstab me and that too hurted us a lot I can't even describe you guys how much painful it was. but at last i decided to change myself at last till when i'll be getting fucked up and giving the liberty to people to screw my feelings. the time had to come when i had to change  and i thought this was the best time when i had to change. so i changed myself and i hope in the coming year it will be me fucking others.