by Sumit Joshi
“ Yeah I did , I don’t know how but I did, you are the one who used to steal other girls clothes ,so that they can’t compete , now I remember you ” .
“ Oh , I was a child then ” she said smiling .
“ Yeah , but you look very old now ” my mom said and she stopped smiling .
“ So Jack is your son ? ”.
“ Yeah ”
“ He is as beautiful as you ”
“ No he is like his father ” my mother said looking at me , while I was dancing with Olivia .
“ Oh , do you see that beautiful girl there she is my daughterRita ” she calledRita and she went near to them .
“ Hi” she said .
“ What’s with these blue hairs and piercing all over the face ” my mom asked .
“ This give her an amazing look , don’t she look like a princess ”
“ Oh yeah sure ” my mom said smiling
“ You know what, I am the most beautiful girl in the whole city ,even more beautiful than Olivia ” Rita said .
“ She maybe beautiful but She is not as beautiful as Olivia , Olivia is going to be my daughter in law ” my mom said and they got surprised and their faces become dull .
“ Will you excuseus for a minute ” Rita’s mom said .
“ Yeah sure , with pleasure ” my mom said
They went away .
“ That was a nice trick to present your daughter in front of me , but I love Olivia ” my mom said smiling as they went away .
“ Don’t they look beautiful together ” Gerard came to my mom and said .
“ Yeah they do , so where is your girlfriend Gerard ” .
“ I am on my way to make one ” Gerard said looking at Rita .
“ Olivia is going to be marry Jack mom , how this can even happen , how can that wild girl become millionaire ” Rita said to her mom .
“ We will not let that happen , will we make them hate each other today” her mother said looking at us.
Unaware of all the plans, we were dancing , we were lost in each other
“ I am loving this Jack ”Olivia said , we were holding each other in arms .
“ Yeah I am too , I will remain with you Olivia always , I love you ”.
“ I love you too Jack she said and she kissed me ”.
Gerard went to Rita “ hey how are you doing ? ” he went close to her as he said .
“Do I need to call my boyfriend to beat you up”
“ Who’s your boyfriend ” he asked .
“ Steve , do you want me to call him? ”.
“ No , I will go ” Gerard said and went away , while Rita looked at us .
Rita’s mom come to us and disturbed us .
“ Hey are you Olivia?”she came near and asked , we didn’t listened to her , the first time , but when she said that multiple times we stopped dancing and looked at her .
“ Yeah ” she said setting her hairs
“ Jack’s mom is calling you ” she added .
“ Me ?”
“ Yeah you ” .
“ Let’s go Olivia ” I said .
“ Wait Jack she wants to meet her alone ”.
“ I will be back Jack ” she said and left my hand
“ All right ” I will wait I said and she went away , Rita came from behind as Olivia was going .
“ Hey Jack , I have something to show you ”she came to me and said .
“ What is it?” I asked looking at Olivia going , I had less attention towardsRita’s words .
“ I can’t show it in front of everyone it’s kind of private stuff ”.
“ What is it ? ” , I looked at her now , while asking .
“ Oh come on , don’t be afraid of me , I am not going to kill you ”
“All Right , Fine” I said and she hold my hand and took me to a tent .
“ Why are we here ? ” I asked her .
“ You will get to know ” she said as she put the curtain down .
Olivia reached near mom , “ did you called me ? ”she asked smiling
“ I didn’t called you , you were dancing with Jack why will I even think to disturb you both ”my mom replied .
“ So why did that women said , ok let it be , can I go ?”
“ Yeah, go enjoy dancing with Jack he needs you ”mom said smiling .
“ Thanks ”Olivia said and begin to come towards me .
Rita begin removing her clothes.
“ What are you doing , have you gone mad? ” I shouted at her .
“ Oh come-onJack don’t behave like a kid , don’t you want me? ”.
“ No I don’t want you , I love Olivia , just let me go ” I shouted .
“ Shoo , shoo , shoobe quite I don’t want anyone to hear , if someone will hear ,they will come to know about us ”.
“ I am going ,there is nothing between us ”I said and I tried to stand up .
“ I haven’t accepted your apology for that slap yet , she said removing her clothes ” .
“ I will slap you again if you will not let mego ” .
Olivia reached where we were dancing , see looked around for me , I wasn’t there .
“ Hey are you looking for Jack? ”Rita’s friend asked her .
“ Yeah ”
“He went inside with a girl ” .
“ With a girl ? ” she asked, she was confused and walked towards the tent .
“ Leave me , I don’t want to do this ”I said .
“ You have to ” she said and she forcefully begin to kiss me Olivia reached there and she saw us .
Oh what a perfect timing it was to make me a bad person in her eyes , a liar probably tears begin to flow from her eyes
She ran away “ Olivia ” , I said and ran behind her , Rita smiled , and her mom went inside the tent
“ You did it Rita ” she said smiling .
“ So , what do you say mom? , was I better than you ? ”.
“ You were super my kid ” .
“ Now ,see how I will make Jack fall for you ”
Mom saw Oliviarunning away , soon I too was behind her , “ Olivia listen to me” I was shouting and running towards her as she was getting away .
Mom stopped me “ where is she going? , what happenedJack ? ” she asked me .
“ I will tell you later mom ” I said and ran behind her . People were looking at us .
“ That wild girl showed her nature once again ” Adam said to her friends and laughed at Olivia.
“ Stop Olivia ” I said as I reached near her and I touched her .
“ I believed you Jack ,I loved you ” she said and pushed me and I fall down meters away , I stood up and I followed up .
“ That was not true believe me Olivia, she was forcing me to have sex with her , but I didn’t , you know why , because I love you Olivia , I can’t even think of anyone else ”.
“ I don’t believe you anymore ”she said and continued running with tears over her face.
“ Don’t you know what a bitch Rita is believe ,I don’t wanted to do that ” .
“ Yeah you were not doing anything but you were enjoying ”.
“ Olivia listen , I hold her hand ,she pushed me again , don’t make me hurt you Jack , I love you , don’t make me hurt you ”she said and I don’t know where she went , I could not see her anywhere now .
“ I love you more than my life Olivia , believe me don’t leave me ” I said but she was nowhere.
Mom came there following me .
“ Jack , What happened Jack? ”.
“ She got angry from me , mom she don’t want to talk to me anymore ” I said crying and hugged mom .
“ But what happened ?,will you tell me anything? ” .
“ That girl Rita was kissing me forcefully and she saw it and she thinks that I was kissing her ”.
“ That girl Rita , I will not leave her ”my mom said , she left me there and went back to the party , she went to Rita and she slapped her .
“ Don’t even dare
to look at my son from now on , I will take your eyes away ” she said as she slapped , now all the eyes were on them .
“ How did you dared to slap my daughter?” her mom came forward and asked my mom .
My mom slapped her too , “ don’t dare to raise finger at me ” everyone was looking quietlySteve too was quite at that time .
“ You will have to pay for this ” her mother said .
“ I don’t pay to beggars like you ” my mom said and came to me
“ It felt good ”she said holding me .
“ What did you did ? ” .
“ I just slapped that mother and daughter , Olivia will understand you Jack , I know she will just give her time to understand the situation , it happens sometimes , and I am sure she will understand you ”.
“ Will she mom ? ”I asked crying .
“ Yeah she will , now let’s go home ”.
“ But mom Olivia , I should go to her ” .
“ She will not listen to you right now , give her some time ” .
I looked towards Olivia’s house which was far away as I stood up .
New day Of a New Year
We went home that night and I criedthe whole night , mom was there for me ,. I don’t know what Olivia was thinking about me but I was sure Steve and Rita were angry from us .
“ So Rita became the villain in your story ”doctor said .
“ There were many but yeah she was the one ”.
“ It would have been hard for you , the girl you loved got upset from you and ran away ” .
“ Yeah it was real hard but she loved me so much that she couldn’t tolerate seeing me in that situation” .
“ So what happened next?”
“ I decided to go to Olivia’s house on new day of a new year , I and mom went to her house on that second hand old truck , I stepped down the wolfs came running at me ,they behaved as they don’t know me , they tried to strike me , so I was forced to sit inside
“ It’s not safe outside now son , I understand now why she has pet these wolves , we must go son before they tear our flesh away ”. my mother said looking at those, they were making scratches on the truck and were in hope to find a way to kill us , they were really aggressive .
“I am not going without talking to Olivia ” I said .
I blew the horn but she didn’t opened the door .
“ She is not opening the door ” mom said looking at the door .
“ It’s not my fault Olivia, I am innocent ” I shouted .
I didn’t even knew if she was inside or not .
“ Let’s go Jack” mom said again .
“ But mom why is she so angry from me ?, I don’t understand this , I have clear all her misunderstandings already ” .
“Olivia, daughter please come out and talk to us ” as mom said Kelly made an scratch on the glass of the door , my mom was afraid now .
“ Jack please son , I can’t dare to remain here for long ” my mom said , she was afraid of those wolfs .
I looked at the door with tears in my eyes and blew the horn several times she didn’t showed up
“ Olivia if you will not open up I will go back to New York with mom tomorrow , please open up ” I shouted but there was no reaction , I shouted again and again , blew horn several times and finally and we went away , I sat alone at that day and I didn’t talked to anyone , that’s how I spend , the first day of the year . It was a bad day for me ,first day was never so bad , I guess being in love has its ups and downs .
Nearly Dead
It was 2ndJanuary nowand it was the time for mom to go back to NewYork.
“ Jack you are brave and intelligent boy , I am sure that you will sort out the problem that has occurred between you and Olivia and Olivia will understand you ”. mom came near to me and said .
“ Yeah I will mom ”
“ I will like to hear it from you on phone ”she said .
“ I am happy mom that you visited ” I said and hugged mom .
“ I will come here again , that time I will like to see you and Olivia together and happy ”.
“ Thanks mom , we will be together ” .
“ That’s my son , I love you , I will come ” she said and I followed her to the car , she went back and I was left there with Gerard.
“ So your mom went back to NewYork ? ”doctor asked .
Yeah , she did
“ I think we must take a coffee now , you seems unhappy to me at this moment ”
Yeah we should take it
Doctor ordered two coffees, the servant brought it , “ take it ” , he gave one cup to Jack.
“ Thanks ”Jack said .
“ So when did she finally talked to you ? ”.
“ On 24 ” .
“ What ? after so many days ”.
“ Yeah ”.
“ What happened during those days ? ” .
I went to her house everyday but she didn’t showed up , I was very unhappy during these days , I just used to walk those three miles alone and I used to go to the places I went with her , I just don’t know what made her so sad , that she was not even ready to listen to me , I just don’t know but I understand her , so I figured out that she was disappointed because she was really innocent and she could not understand that it was a game that Rita played , she was not ready to believe me , oh god those days were really hard, the most hard part was that I didn’t even knew how Olivia was , how she was feeling , what she was doing ,I used to think about her all the time, those days were really hard to pass , they were as hard as the hell, I used to remember the words she spoke to me , I just used to remember everything about her , so days passed it was 21st January , I was going to her house like every day on my car, that’s where I got ambushed in the way by Steve, Rita and her friends .
“What happened ? ” doctor asked .
I was driving towards Olivia home ,listing to my favorite songs , suddenly a truck hit my car from behind , I lost control over the car , and the car fell down from the road , I was safe inside , I didn’t know what just happened , I somehow came out of the car and I saw Rita holding a baseball bat , Steve was standing next to her with his gang .
“ Hey Jack , you are not looking beautiful anymore ” she came near me and said , I was a bit unconscious at that time, “ both you and your mom slapped me now it the payback time Jack , my mother wants me to do this and see I am hear ” she touched the baseball bat with my face and said .
“ Burn his expensive car away ”Steve said to his friends and they begin to break the petrol tank
“ So you tried to rape my girlfriend , my girlfriend” he came near to me and said, I was still down on the down
“ I didn’t try to rape your girlfriend , why will I ? ” I asked him
“ Oh , just shut ” he said and strike at my hand with baseball bat .
“ You are going to love this ” Rita said smiling and went to the car and threw the lighterat the petrol
“ you see that , your expensive car is burning right now ” Steve said pointing at my car
“ I don’t care for money ” I said
The car got blown away
“ See your car , it got blown away now you are going to die too , don’t bother people will never find that we killed you , because we will burn you after we kill you”Rita said .
“ burned and dead ”Steve added and strike at my face this time , as he hit , I could not see anything , my senses begin to loose , blood begin to leave my body
“ I just wanted to beat you from the first day we met , see I got to beat you today ” he said . His friends were holding me back .
“ What will you get by killing me ?” I said In a low voice spitting the blood out .
“ What did you just said ”Rita came near and said “ we will get happiness ” she added and she strike at my leg , “ I am so enjoying this are you not Jack ? ” .
“ You are bringing problems on yourself doing this ”.
“ What will happen
to us no one will know we killed you and your father is the mayor of New York not of this place , this is our town ” Steve said .
“ Olivia will not leave you , she will kill you all ”
“ What a joke” Steve said and all his friends laughed with him .
“ What will she do hah? ”Rita said and strike at my head , I was feeling a lot of pain and blood was flowing out of my body like rivers flow in the rainy season , people say that blood freezes in cold but I don’t know why it was flowing so much, I was losing too much of my blood .
“ We should burn him now friends , let him die burning ” one of their friend said .
“ Yeah it’s time ”Rita said looking at Steve .
“ Spray petrol over him ”Steve said and two of their gang members brought jars of petrol and sprayed petrol over me .
“ Ha-ha ” I begin to laugh .
“ Why are you laughing ? ”Steve asked as he pulled my hairs which had blood all over them .
“ No matter what happens , I know Olivia will always love me and her love is not a normal love , just know that ” .
“ We will kill her too , take it easy and forget about her ” .
“ Ha-ha ” this time I laughed louder , “ you can’t even touch her , kill me and you are dead ” . As I said Steve looked at Rita
“ What are you looking drop the lighter ” she said .
“ Good bye my friend ” he said and he was about to throw lighter at me , a bullet came and strike at the lighter and took the lighter away with it . All of them looked around .
“ I still got it ”Adam said , it was Adam there , he saved me .
“ Adam ”Steveshouted and they all run towards their cars , Adam fired at their cars and they all ran away on their cars .
Adam came to me , “ Jack you are bleeding ”.
“ Yeah ,I am , help me Adam ” I said .
“ He looked at my car , they burned your car down, I think it was of millions ”
“ I know that , take me to hospital please ”
“ oh , Yeah” he said and he pick me up on his shoulders and threw me at back on his truck , it hurt me .
“ It hit me hard , can’t you do it easily ”
“ I think I took it easily on you , than those guys ” he said and took me to the hospital .
“ So it was Adam who saved you that day ? ”doctor asked .
