Ankit and Sneha were best friends, they
Lived in Lotus valley Orphanage situated in the valley of mussoorie.The story of both Ankit and Sneha were started with the month of December. 15 years ago the founder of orphanage Mr. Edward D'Souza visits Tehri for some work where he found Ankit under a bridge near Tehri dam. After 10 days of the incident in a cold night someone leaves a girl at the stairs of Orphanage which is none other than Sneha, that was the month of December so both of them celebrates their birthday in that month. Mr D'Souza was a reputed man in the city. He was the Owner of a famous textile company named Intercontinental Pvt Ltd (IPL).After age of 40 he decides to sell his property and make an orphanage from the money after one year of which he found Ankit. After 7 years Mr. D'Souza dies of an heart attack and the orphanage was sent into custody and government and the children's will be taken care of by the Government.Then in upcoming 8 years the things were being normal for everyone until one day when sneha feels difficulty while reading a book. She was taken to a nearby nursing home for checkup where they found out, Sneha is suffering from some kind of eye disease but they were not able to find out what exactly it is, so they prescribe some medicines to her and let her go,but Ankit was not satisfied as he knows something was more than what meets his eyes.Ankit searched on Google and found out about Dr Vettri Selvan who is a famous eye surgeon and currently practice in Dehradun,away from his hometown Banglore. He decides to visit Dr Selvan but as he is just 15 he can't go alone so he asked the caretaker Anand to take him and Sneha to Dr Selvan's clinic, Anand was refused in starting but agrees later, then on Sunday he takes both of them to Dehradun to meet Dr Selvan when Dr checks Sneha's eyes he told them the truth that is Sneha is having Progressive Eyesight Loss and she looses her eyesight slowly day by day and by the age of 23 she'll completely loose her eyesight and there is no medical aid for this disease, Ankit was shocked after hearing this as he knows something what others don't. Sneha was always had a dream to visit 7 wonders of this world and Ankit promised to her that he'll take her to visit them one day. Ankit was totally shattered after hearing this. He started to arrange money to fulfill Sneha's dream before she loose her eyesight, He sold his jacket he got on birthday his shoes and even his bicycle but he soon realises that this is not enough as he needs lakhs of rupees for this. One night when Ankit was sitting at the bench in the garden in front of Orphanage, Sneha comes to him and told him that she doesn't need anything from him and her dream was not to see the wonders of world but to see the wonders of world with him and it doesn't matter if she can't able to see them she just want to feel them when Ankit will explain her and let her see through his eyes. Ankit understands all Sneha wants to is to visit the places with him. Ankit decides to fullfill her wishes even if it takes a lot of time, meanwhile sneha gradually looses her eyesight, Ankit studied hard and able to get a scholarship in of the prestigious institute of India Imperial college of Engineering. He leaves mussoorie but told sneha to be safe and that he'll be back after Sometime. The time passes by and after 4 years Ankit becomes an engineer and grabs a good package in an IT company in Delhi, meanwhile sneha losses alomst 90% of her eyesight. after 2 years Ankit earns as much as he needed to fullfil Sneha's dream but now Sneha is completely blind.Ankit calls her and told her that now they can visit the places she want but now all she wants is to be with Ankit. After that call everyone in orphanage is very happy as Sneha's only dream is now on verge of completion.she started packing and waits for Ankit to come. Hours turn into days, days turn into months but ankit never came back , his phone was also switched off. When sneha and others inquire into his company they said he resigned the same day he called sneha to packing up, as there are no traces of him everyone thought that he ran away with all the money he earned and maybe get settled somewhere else but sneha was the only one who does not want to believe this. As time passes by everyone forgots this incident and things go back to normal but not for Sneha as she only blaims herself for all of this. Slowly slowly Sneha tries to keep herself busy in Orphanage' work and tries to forget Ankit as she thought he would never come back.
After 8 months Sneha receives a call from Dr Selvan who is now working in a hospital in Delhi who told her that there's an eye donor who wants to donate his eyes before dying, when she asks about the donor he said he is an old man of suffering from bonemarrow disorder and he wants to donate his organs before dying so he get remembered about sneha and calls her. After having a long discussion with other people's sneha agreed for operation. She visits Delhi for the operation and in a week she's able to see and when she asked about the person or his family Dr Selvan calls the daughter of the old man to whom sneha says thank you and greets her. After returning back to mussoorie sneha got busy and started working towards the betterment of children's along with government officials.
3 months later Sneha receives a courier in which the flight tickets and the hotel booking details are there to all the countries where all 7 wonders situated. There was a note with them written
" This was the only burden on myself and now iam free just take the tickets and don't try to find me again
Ankit"
When sneha read the note she found something fishy as Ankit never wrote his name on any note he written to her, he always wrote
"From me to you"
No matter how serious or worst the situations are he always wrote the same thing. Even In his text messages he always wrote those words.
After remebering all those things she reached to the booking agency and tries to find out who booked the tickets from where she found an address in Delhi and the name of person was Ankit.
Sneha travels to Delhi to seek the truth and when she finally reached at the address it was none other than itself Dr Selvan.
Now all the layers started unfolding and Dr Selvan tells the whole story to sneha
" A year ago when I shifted to Delhi I was practicing in a private hospital where an accident case was came when I checked it was none other than ankit. He was gravely injured in that accident and immedietly goes into coma and the chances for his survival was very less but somehow he manages to survive for some months. We kept him under observation for that time we don't have any contact info of any relative so we were not able to communicate this thing to anyone.
One day Ankit came out of coma and chances of survival are still less and almost have a time of 1 or 2 weeks so he told me about your dream and that he only wishes to fulfill your dream before dying so he ask for my help and I support him in whatever ways I can ,he told me to call you and tell you that an eye donor is available here as he wants to donate his eyes to you so that you can see the world through his eyes."after hearing this sneha started crying as the eyes by which she looking this World is of none other but ankit's. Then she realises something and ask about the girl she met who Dr Selvan introduced as old man's daughter to which Dr Selvan calls his daughter and tell her that the girl was none other but Dr Selvan's daughter Meena and Dr Selvan told her to do so,
The dr Selvan continues the story
"After your operation was done Ankit ask about one last help, he told me about the money he earned for you and that he wants me to book the tickets and make all arrangements of your traveling to the wonders of world but this should be done after sometime so no one will suspect anything. But you understand all things from that note what I was written in place of Ankit. After Ankit died I send those tickets and details to you by his name so you can forget him."Sneha started crying and blaims herself for ankit's death but Dr Selvan consoles her and tell her that Ankit was said one thing to me before dying that is he knows he'll not survive and will not be able to meet you again but all he wants is to see you happy and that you should live your life to the fullest that was the last wish of him and I think he was right at his place and if you want that his soul should be rest in peace so you should live your life happily and fullfill your dreams because that's all Ankit wants from you.
Sneha get back to mussoorie and locked herself in her room for some days after which she realises that if she not lives happily, all the sacrifices made by Ankit for her will be of no worth at all so she decided to fullfill her dream and ankits last wish , she packed her bags and leaves to visit all the 8 wonders of the world and now whenever she closed her eyes she always found Ankit standing by her side making joke of her and irritate her all the time.
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What you see through clouds
Short StoryA story of two best friends,their bond,their unconditional love for each other.