THE FRAIL(FRIEND+PAIN+LOVE)

THE START

Unrequited one-sided love is something many of us are acquainted with. So am I, but it seems that being in unrequited love it has taught me to let it go. I learnt that nothing is happier than to see that one person happy, even if it means to see him with someone else. I realized the true meaning of the phrase: "LET IT GO. IF IT COMES BACK THAN IT IS ALWAYS YOURS; IF NOT IT THAN WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE, TO BEGIN WITH."

The first time I met him was in a junior school, he was a transferred student. I remembered it was our home room teacher who asked him to sit beside me. Slowly like every other classmate we also became friends and as the time moved so did our friendship, we became best friends. Later his family shifted in our neighborhood; we became neighbors, troubling and teasing each other became like our daily habit. There was nothing about each other that we didn't knew. Time went on from meeting in our childhood we have now reached to our senior high school. It was our complementing habit that kept our friendship fresh and strong. Just like I was very bad in art and dance while he is pro in that field, but then I was also very good at singing which he could not compete. It is just when the life was like a fairy tale with everything perfectly placed doing its character play in an orderly manner. The fairy of his fairy tale entered in "our world", wait now I should rather say "his world". She was an introvert person who was pretty shy to make friends and liked to stay alone. Seeing her alone struggling to adjust with the new environment of school I went to ease her and helping her to cope up here. Slowly we both became close friends. It was I who introduced her to Dummy; yes, I used to call him "Dummy". Now that I look into it, I wonder if we would have a different ending, if I hadn't introduced her to him...... My friend world didn't have many people around; it was just me, dummy, her(snail) and panda. Oh, panda was dummy's best friend since junior high school who later became mine to. Snail was the last one to join our group. We all studied very hard and entered the same college. I wish if I could stop the time here; maybe then we might have a different ending.

It was first day of our college we all were very excited about it. It was around 2pm dummy and panda went downstairs it was then a sudden fight started in our class, it became quiet a mess. (I got accidently hurt in that fight) When they both heard about fight in class, they quickly ran upstairs it was then dummy hugged snail. He asked her if she was ok while I who was completely shocked to see that it was for the first time when he asked about someone else before me. Suddenly panda shouted "u are bleeding" looking at me (with blood dipping on the floor from my hand). Panda quickly took me to the infirmary with dummy and snail following us. Doctor banded the wound and send Panda to bring some medicine. Dummy came and sat beside me scolding of how I could be so careless to get hurt like this, but I just looked down felling anger toward his ignorance and pain of getting hurt in the fight. I didn't talk to him for rest of the day. For the first time we didn't talk for more than 12 hours. That's how slowly the pith in our friendship came into act. 

Next day morning dummy waited for me as usual so we could leave for college together, but I had already left with panda. He came to college and stood in front of me and asked "why I had already left for college that too without informing him" but I didn't reply to him. He then held my hand and took me out. "What's wrong with you? Have you realized that we haven't had a talk since yesterday. Why are ignoring me? Am I invisible to you." Then I looked at him "so now you can see that I too exist. How could you look for snail before me when I was the one who got hurt not her? Maybe if panda hadn't said that I was bleeding maybe you wouldn't had noticed only, right? Not only that you hugged her too, when didn't allow anyone except me to touch you." Dummy replied "that was because she is also our friend and that was just a friendly hug. Ok, I'm sorry let's not be angry anymore. See I also made our special chocolate yesterday to ease our fight." Looking at him holding the chocolate I hugged him "sorry, I got scared seeing that your first priority is not me anymore. Since it was all a misunderstanding, let's not fight anymore." We both went back happily eating our chocolate.