A Special Night
I was born brought up in a middle class family.
In our neighbour there was a small girl called Mariyam.
She was 15 years old.
My mother loved her a lot.
They decided that someday we would get married each other.
But my father wanted to make me a Lawer.
He tired his best to make me a well established man.
But I was not interested to do what my parents wanted to make me.
Once I left my home to serve my country to Europe.
I wanted to be a politician.
I left no stone unturned to reach to my destination.
I had to do everything what was always contrary to my ethics.
Suddenly I heard that Mariyam had got married with a collector.
She left her parents home for laws house.
I couldn't do anything what I wanted to be.
I just completed my graduation.
So I made my mind I would go back to my country.
I would teach my country fellows what I had learned from here.
Finally I went to my country back.
I tried my best to arrange a good job.
But I couldn't but get a job position as a high school head master.
I was not unhappy for my job.
I started to carry on my job as I supposed to
do.
Once I heard that Mariyam moved with her husband at the same place in I used to live.
I was thinking what a great mistake I did that I didn't get married Marriam.
That loss can never be recovered.
We were totally different from each other.
Mariyam was not mine any more.
We could not talk any more as we could do that before.
There was a unseen curtain amongst us.
We could never break that curtain anymore.
Onec a night I was trying to sleep on my bed.
But I couldn't sleeping thinking about Mariyam.
What she was doing ?
How she was?
Was she thinking about me as I was thinking about her?
I thought lots of things.
But I didn't get any reliable answer.
All on a sudden the sky became dark.
It had been raining cats and dogs.
The surrounding area of ours were flooded with water.
I was heading to Mariyam's house .
Everywhere was so dark that I couldn't see my own shadow.
After a while I managed a place what was little bit higher than flooded area.
Suddenly someone came into the same place where I was standing and trembling with freezing cold.
It was not hard for me to realise that she was Mariyam.
We were speechless and motionless.
For couple of hours we were standing and looking to each other.
But we didn't pronounce a single word.
When the sun started to rise we left that place without saying anything but watching.
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