A storm often ravages the countryside mercilessly uprooting the haughty trees and bringing them down to their knees.It also brings the nests of innocent birds down to dust...crushing their eggs with their cruel feet, thus bringing an end to their innocent dreams.But when this same storm enters your life,it doesn't remain a storm at all.Instead,it becomes A TEMPEST...
20th March,1980
R.Y.K. Science College,Nashik
A scene at R.Y.K. Science College:
[Today is Std.12th students' last paper.Paper is too easy.The bell rings and the answer sheets are collected.Students run out excitedly from the examination hall like birds released from cages.Some are chatting,while others are just joking.Some studious ones are discussing the paper,while some dreamy ones are chalking out their future.Some are just loitering around in groups...but somewhere, somehow...the scene is different...]
In the college canteen...
"Julie, Julie...p...p...please...p...please try to understand...puh-lease..."A boy is seen stammering and trying hard to stop a girl who wants to go away.
"Please...Julie..."He looks up hopefully at her.
The girl hesitates for a moment and then sits down,picking up the writing pad that had fallen from her hand due to shock.The cups of tea on the table have turned cold but neither of them pay any attention.
"I am really sorry , Julie."The boy says softly.He has a handsome face which is now clouded with worry.
The girl looks up.Her dress is quite simple yet she is unbelievingly beautiful. Tears have welled up in her eyes and there is a lump in her throat.
"Its...its okay, Rome."She manages to say to the boy."I know that it is not your fault.B..but...but you...you should have at least thought about me.You are my only hope...the only reason why I survive...you can't separate fungi and moss from a lichen,can you?If you do so, they'll both wither away into nothingness...If you'll go away then I'll..."
"No Julie, believe me...its for just a span of a few years..."The boy said cutting off her sentence. It appeared as if he didn't want to hear what she would say next.
"But...but how can I believe you?You are from a rich aristocratic family...and I..."She gulped down.She didn't want to cry...no...atleast, not in front of everyone.
"Julie, I am helpless...I could have done every possible thing to prevent me from going to U.S.A. if it wasn't a question of my mother's life.You know very well that she needs better treatment...and medical facilities for the treatment of the disease she has are meagre in India."
"I understand.I am not so selfish...I know the value of a mother in life as I..."She halts in midsentence.No,thinking about her mother is painful.
Now,she can't control herself. She bursts into tears and hugs him unmindful of the gazes and glares she is getting from the people sitting around.
The boy pats her head awakwardly trying his best to console her.He lifts her face tenderly with his hands and gazes into her eyes...they are filled with immense sorrow.
"If India had better medical facilities,then we would have never been separated" she says sobbing.
"I promise you Julie...that come what may, whether it is written in our destiny or not...we WILL meet again."That is all he manages to say to convince her.
The girl smiles through her tears for she knows how well the boy keeps his promises.The boy smiles too, seeing her smile.
"And I'll wait for that day" she says, "Even if it takes a lifetime. I shall live my life till then, deriving strength from those four words - WE WILL MEET AGAIN..."
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