The Unventured Passions

A Journey to Truth

'I don't want you to come close to me!'

~'Are you sure?'

'Your closeness burns me, Choto Zamindar Babu...'

~'It burns me too Mira... But, yet I can't stay away!'

'Why?'

~'Because I love you, don't you know that already?

'But why do you love me Choto Zamindar Babu? Why? I'm just a nobody!'

~'Who said you're a nobody? You are Mira... My Mira!'

'Please... I beg you... This closeness kills me...'

~'It kills me too.'

'Don't you ever say that.
Dugga Dugga.'

~'Why? Do you think you have taken a patent on death and sorrows alone?'

'What?'

~'Stop crying.'

'Don't touch me... You don't have to wipe my tears everytime I cry Choto Zamindar Babu!'

~'Oh that hurts, but why not Mira?'

'Because... Because... I don't know...!'

~'Do you know how cute you look when you nod your head like that... Now... Now, don't roll those eyes at me.'

'Uff... You are incorrigible.'

~'Yes, in love.'

'I'll sit with Maha Didi.'

~'Accha!'

'Just Accha?'

~'Why? Were you expecting me to stop you Mira?'

'Go, I won't talk to you.'

~'Whatever you wish.'

'Seriously Choto Zamindar Babu?'

~'Don't roll your eyes at me Mira, I'll kiss you otherwise.'

'Ishh!'

~'What? Don't you remember kissing me?'

'I'm going!'

~'No stay.'

'Then leave my hand.'

~'Accha, but stay.'

The wheels rattled relentlessly, the whistles deafening at times, and the rhythmic staggering of the seated figures inside the first class cabin appeared unearthly in that scanty flame of the gas lamp.

'Choto Zamindar Babu?'

~'Hm.'

'Are you sleeping?

~'Naa.'

'Accha... Do you think Maha Didi would be sad because you aren't marrying her now?'

~'May be a little.'

'Oh!'

~'Do you think she loves you?'

'What's there not to love?
It's only you who has sworn to break my heart!'

~'Don't say that! Uff... It's so difficult to ask you anything.'

'Try and sleep Mira... It's a long night...'

~'I... I can't sleep.'

'Try atleast. Do you want me to pat your head?'