by Sumit Joshi
“It was my first kiss” she said and there was a pure water of happiness in her eyes .
“It was mine too . . . .But tell me you call this kiss?”.
“It was a kiss” she said feeling shy.
“Let me show you what a kiss really is ,hey look at me” I said she looked into my eyes ,I looked into her and thorough eyes we touched each other’s soul , I hold her very tight and finally I kissed her , I could feel her breath , her heartbeat , it was like that we were connected , it was like we were uniting , It was like I was touching her soul , it was just amazing , I could not even express that in words .
“You were lucky” doctor said smiling .
“We were just kissing soon my lips begin to burn , they begin to burn down , It was a great heat in her”.
“Yeah heat of love” doctor said smiling .
“No it was the real heat , we were kissing madly soon my lips burned and I stopped myself and touched them, I was feeling pain” .
“Oh god what has this happened” I said.
“Oh god I am sorry , I am really so sorry” she said standing up .
“What was that , why are you so warm?” I asked she looked at the calendar on the room , she had drawn moon with different shapes on the calendar .
“I am so sorry Jack” she said , and ran inside and bring a pack of ice , ice melt when she was holding it , it became water and fell down , I was just sitting and I was watching , I did not know what to say , finally she gave me a cream and I saved my lips .
“See them clearly they still seem a little burnt” Jack said to the doctor .
“Let me see” doctor came near and saw it , “yeah you are right”.
“You can write this as a point in your report”.
“Yeah you are right I will , so what happened next” .
She just asked me to leave .
“What you want me to go ?” I said surprisingly .
“Yeah I want you to go now , maybe it’s not a good day today”.
“But will you like to tell me why did it happened ?” .
“I will tell you latter , sorry for all of this Jack , I didn’t wanted to harm you”.
“I know you didn’t meant to harm me but who are you Olivia ?” I said .
“I am human just like you” she said with her eyes filled with tears and finally she made me leave the house , I came out surprised and looked at her house she was crying sitting at window , I just wanted to go inside but I could not go inside , I came out holding the gift I bought for her , that whole night I didn’t slept , I just thought about what happened in Olivia’s house I just checked my lips on the mirror again and again days went on passing I couldn’t see her anywhere during those days , I even went to her house but she was not there too .
Christmas
Now it was Christmas mom and dad called in the morning to wish Christmas , they wanted me to come to New York and celebrate Christmas with them but I was staying in Alaska because of my love . The Celebrations was to start by 4 in the evening the people from all the nearby villages begin to come to our village all nicely dressed up , Gerard too dressed himself nice and I was surely the one who took most time in dressing up , I was just waiting for Olivia , I knew in my heart that she will come , I was looking out of window she was not there
“Are you waiting for someone?”Gerard came and asked.
“Does it matters to you?”.
“ No ”
“Then why are you asking” .
“All right , I will not ask” .
“You are looking good today Gerard , you will get a good girl for you today” .
“No , I will not”.
“What made you say that” .
“Every girl in here knows me”.
“So that’s good , they will not ask for your introduction”.
“They know I am poor , girls nowadays get attracted to rich boys like you”.
“That’s not true”.
“Have you ever beenpoor? ” .
“I was when I was two years old” .
“You will never know the pain of a poor boy , let me tell you what happened with a friend of mine , he was in love with a girl she was in his class , she too loved him but she never told , the boy was poor , so was the girl both were equal in the status , after completing their school both of them went to college in the city , the girl begin to ignore that boy , what can be worse for a boy than getting ignored from a girl he loves , she always reacted that she don’t know that boy , she found a boyfriend for her in the city , a rich one , he didn’t even loved her , he left her in just three months because that rich kid wasn’t in love with her, being poor is a curse my friend”.
“What happened with that boy, the poor one?” .
“He lost himself , he is still single and all alone , he can’t love any other girl ever again , and why do girls run after money ?” .
“Not every girl is same , it was the bad luck of your friend”.
“Leave it Jack”.
“Okay Gerard I know that boy was you, don’t tell your story using the word friend”.
“It wasn’t me” .
“Oh don’t lie pal , I know it”as I said I looked at Gerard he was not looking at me , he was looking at a distance , I turned to see where he is looking at .
Nice time Together
It was Oliviafinally she came ,she was looking beautiful like always , she was looking like a princess in thatwhite pink dress with a yellow border on it , everyone was looking at her , she seemed uncomfortable as she was walking in front of so many people and people were looking at her , I knew that she was not there for those people , she came for me , I took a deep breath as she came near
“From where did she got money to buy this expensive dress”Rita’s friend said to Rita.
“I know from where did she got it,Jack is the one who bought this for her”she said feeling jealous.
“There she is” I said and Gerard looked at me I went smiling to her and hold her hands in mine.
“You are increasing my heartbeat now” I said as I looked into her eyes
“I am sorry Jack for what happened that day and for remaining away from you all these days” she said holding my hands .
“Forget it , you are here , this means a lot to me”
“But still I am sorry” .
“Don’t be” .
“Are your lips all right now , they still look black” .
“They are fine , ready to kiss you again several times” I said and she laughed .
Rita and her friends had their eyes over me and Olivia.
“So do you brought the gift for me ?” I asked her looking at the gift she had put on the ground earlier
“Yeah” she gave the gift to me .
“Wait a second” I said and went inside to bring the gift .
And I gave her mine ,
“So are you ready to open it” .
“Yeah why not lets open this together” she said and we both opened it up , we have bought the same teddies , with I Love You written on them .
It seems we were thinking the same when we bought this teddy , we both wanted to say I love you to each other , she read the words on the teddy “I love you” she said with shyness over her face
“I love you too” I said with a smile .
“Yeah” she said in alow voice .
I went ahead to kiss her , but she moved back .
“I am not afraid now” I said .
“But I am” she said .
“You should not be afraid , nothing will happen to me , believe me on this ” I said and kissed her Rita and her friends looked at us , I am sure we made them more jealous than ever.
“Oh what a bitch” Rita said .
“They will change their way of looking at you today, I think so” I said to Olivia .
“It does not matter to me how do they look at me, you are the only one who matters to me now ”she said looking into my eyes .
“I love you”s
he said .
“I love you too ” I said and kissed her again .
“Would you like to see my house?” .
“Why not” .
We went to the house
“So this one is my friend Gerard” I said as I introduced them .
“Hi I am Gerard I am sure you know me” .
“No I don’t know you” she replied .
“What, we have been in the same village and you don’t know me” .
“Do you know me?” .
“Yeah I have seen you sitting over trees sometimes, you never looked so beautiful before, but you look damn beautiful today” .
“Yeah my girlfriend is beautiful, this is my girlfriend Gerard”.
“Oh I got that” he said looking into my eyes and Oliviasmiled.
I took her into my room
“See this is my beautiful room, took a lot of time to decorate this” she smiled hearing these words.
“Yeah its beautiful , I can see your hard work here” she said looking around and jumped on the bed .
I kissed her
“Your lips are getting warm once again” .
“Oh I am sorry” she said and moved back .
“No you must not be sorry , so tell me why are you so hot Olivia , what is it ?” .
“I was born hot” she said and laughed .
“Oh so you are so hot, I am afraid that maybe one day an organ of my body may burn down in real because of your warm body” .
“Oh , we will see , maybe it’s time for that day to come” .
“I can wait , I am here with you , I am not going nowhere” I said looking into her eyes
“Don’t love me this much”
“You deserve more love than this” I said and kissed on her forehead , she smiled .
She stood up from my bed and looked at my photographs on the room .
“You are very cute Jack” she said looking at one of my picture .
“My mother clicked it when I was 14 I said looking at that photograph” .
“You look naught whenyou were baby” She picked a photo up andsaid looking at my picture, the picture was taken when I was two years old and my parents visited Anchorage for some work.
“I was two years old then, I hope it’s okay for a two year old to be naught” I said smiling“I would also love to see your childhood pictures” .
“I don’t have ones Jack” she said In a low tone ” .
“Oh , ….it doesn’t bother me because I can still see your childhood pictures ”.
“How will you , no one ever clicked them ”.
“Time clicked them , I will try to imagine them in my mind , I would love to imagine a cute little doll” .
“You are welcomed to imagine as much as you can then” she said smiling, doctor her smile was really amazing, I could even forget my smile but I will never ever forget her smile
“Every lover says that’s , I also used to think about my girlfriend same way , but after getting married with her , I hate her smile more than any other thing” .
But I could never hate her smile as god made us for each other .
“Every lover says this” .
“Maybe I am like any other lover, but my love is not like any other love” .
“Okay , I got that ,time is running fast just complete your story , so I may decide whether to send you to asylum or not , I have to cook food for my wife at home” .
She looked at pictures of my mother and father and a tear was in her eyes
“It may be hard to live without your mom and dad” I asked her .
“It’s just like hell , and I have been living like that since many years”.
“I am sorry”.
“You must not be , its life , death is a part of it , before you came to my life I used to love remaining alone , but I love your company now , I love you” she said and kissed me .
“I love you” I said holding her in my arms .
“Jack”
“Yeah”
“I still didn’t get one thing” .
“What’s it ?”
“How were you still single ?” .
“Cause I was casing the girl of my dreams , which I could not find in real life , but now I have found the girl of my dreams in reality too” I said and kissed on her forehead .
She smiled looking at me .
“You know what I used to dream of ?” .
“What was it”
“I used to see you , you and me all alone far away from this world , just you and me in a beautiful island , living our life happily far away from this world”.
“My dreams with you were nearly the same , I too dreamed of just you and me , you can’t even believe how many places I searched for you”.
“Are we connected Jack ?” she asked me curiously as if I knew the answer .
“I don’t know Olivia , I just know that I love you and you love me” I said and she kissed me.
“What are you doing inside” Gerard shouted .
“Oh , we are coming” I said , we almost forgot ourselves inside
We came out .
“I am meeting so many people for the first time” she said looking around .
“I am sure you areloving this”.
“Yeah I am” she said holding my hand with a smile over her face .
“But I must go now ” she said looking at the sun going down .
“ Wait ”I grabbed her hand and said .
“You promised me you will not try to stop me ” .
“But”
“You promised Jack” I looked at her face as she said , she didn’t wanted to go but she has to force herself to accept this decision of going .Nowthere were tears in her eyes it was enough for me to knowthat how much she needed to go .
“Ok you must go ” I said looking at her face and left her hand .
She stopped for a moment and she went away running,she didn’t look back at me while going .
“What may be the matter” I thought .
“She is beautiful Jack”Gerard came near me and said as we were watching her go .
“Thanks” I replied.
“But why did she went away ?” .
“I don’t know” .
“Is she not attending the party tonight ?” .
“I just don’t know anything” .
“Okay , but you should know” he said
“I should but I don’t , buy the way now you know that every girl here don’t know about you , maybe its time for you to approach some girls tonight”
“Maybe I will” he said checking his hairs in the mirror and went away
I looked at the teddy she gave me and I smiled .
All people were busy in decorating the trees , it was to turn into a festival , a big one , Rita and her friends were there , Steve was looking at me and off course I was ignoring him and I was just standing alone ,and I was just thinking about Olivia, I was remembering her beautiful face, I was thinking why did she went away soonAdam come to me .
“Why are you wasting your time on such an important day?”he came to me and said .
“I am not wasting time , I am in a middle of important and beautiful thoughts” .
“ Oh I see , hold it ” he gave some decorative ,they were heavy decorativefor me to handle but I hold them .
“Take them for me” he said .
“What , you want me to carry these?”.
“Yeah , everyone is working except you , you are not the mayor of this place , and you too have to work”.
“If I would have been the mayor would you have left me”.
“Yeah , I would have , mayor have some privileges”.
“Oh that was good to know but mayor is also a citizen so why should he hold these kinds of privileges?” .
“Talking’s over ,now let’s go ” he took me to a tree, “all right I am going to put decorative on this’ , he brought a ladder and place it there “I need you to hold this for me ” he said and I stood holding the
ladder and Adam Climbed the ladder and begin to decorate the tree , there wasn’t a single moment when I was not thinking about Olivia .
Now it begin to get dark , I was missing Olivia as I haven’t seen her for years , so I decided to go to her house and spent time with her on that important night , I don’t want her to spend Christmas alone this year too like other years so I just want to go to her house to be with her . I looked at the way which was in front of me , the way whichwill lead me to her , I left the ladder and picked up my coat and I begin to go .
“Hey where are you going Adam said looking at me , you left me here” he said and he felled down the ladder , “I am warning you ,come back” he shouted as he was still down on the ground .
I just smiled looking at him , he was really angry at that time people begin to laugh at him .
“Shut up” he shouted and everyone became quite, he looked at me , but I had covered a distance by now .
Turning to Werewolf
I was just walking , walking towards her home , I checked my clothes , everything was fine according to me , I reached her home , I could not hear any voice from inside , so I opened the door and looked inside ,the room which always remained close was open Olivia was sitting and crying, her head was down , she was unaware that I was there .
“Hey , what happened , why are you crying?” I said and touched her .
“Jack , why are you here , what are you doing here?” she said ,she was surprised to see me there.
“I am not going to let you celebrate Christmas alone this time too, I am going to stay with you this year”.
“Please Jack you have to go now” .
“I am not going anywhere tillmorning ” I removed my coat and put it on the chair and said .
“ You have to go now ”
“Why? , what’s wrong Olivia just tell me ” .
She moved towards me , but she could not , she was tied with chains .
“What is that?” I asked her and went close to look at the chains .
“Who did this to you ?” .
“No one did this , I am begging you Jack please go away before it is too late”.
“It’s never late when it is about love ” I said and looked into her eyes , the eyes of the wolves which I saw on the way to college flashed in front of my eyes , I was surprised her eyes were looking different , I looked around it was an empty room , the room had sound absorbing walls .
