Stranger In Past,Lover In Dream

CHAPTER-3 TUNNELS

Some memories from that dream slowly crawl into my mind as this train is crawling through this dark tunnel. And the memories bring light to my mind as the train brings light to the dark tunnel.

I recollected some parts of the dream,I was standing on a school day function and this girl zephy was asking something to me. I don't know exactly what she told and to be honest I don't even know if this was the dream that I actually had-maybe I'm making it up.

The train kept moving forward but my brain is still stuck in the same place. I decided to take a nap, but the cry of a baby sitting opposite to me won't let me take a nap. The baby's mother was struggling to handle the baby. So I started to make funny faces to the baby. The baby's name was ananya - A really beautiful name.
I don't know what's the reason but I decided to name my child if it's a girl as Ananya!

Then once ananya took a nap, she completely removed the sleep from the eyes of other person in the compartment. Everyone was gazing at her cuteness when she was sleeping. Every human is innocent regardless of his caste,race,colour,gender while sleeping.

Then I got a memory of zephy- An actual memory...

A boy called afrin was in love with zephy. He confessed his love to her during the first mid term. She never accepted him but we all know deep down zephy likes afrin. I was having a
Small crush on this girl named Ancy.
Ancy and zephy were best friends. They even eat lunch together but the uniqueness about them is they won't eat lunch if the other one is absent.

One day afrin bought a large chocolate and he gave it to me and another boy, then he asked us to pass the chocolate to Zephy. We passed it to Zephy. I really wanted to eat that chocolate more than anything, I was drooling in my heart. Then zephy kept looking at the choclate, she was so tensed about the decision she's about to make. Then suddenly someone grabbed the choclate from zephy and threw it away . It was Ancy!

" How dare you force her into falling in love with you by giving a chocolate infront of everyone? " Shouted ancy to afrin.

He felt so humiliated and embarassed. But I slowly went towards the choclate and started to eat it and I can assure you that I remember this definitely... It was quite a treat!

Everyone started laughing at me and the class's mood turned back to normal. But I was scared because the girl I had crush on was a anti-love activist at ninth grade. Feels so hilarious to think about this right now!

Then ananya started her cries again. Everyone who was almost in a near deep sleep woke up again. This time they looked frustrated by ananya and I tried to calm them down by defending ananya that she's just a baby.

Then ananya's mom gave her milk and she went back to sleep. And I started continuing gazing at the tunnels and travel to the past. Then one day afrin wrote a really deep love letter and he put it inside zephy's bag without her knowledge. Then once zephy started to read it, she started to cry and her friend ancy read it too. Ancy went to the principal and gave him the love letter. And the principal called afrin to the principal room infact the room can also be called as murder camp. The staffs literally bashed afrin in that room. He was having blood all over his back, and afrin's parents then came and he was dismissed from the school!

Then afrin changed schools. And me? I erased every single piece of thoughts about Ancy and that she was my crush. Even thinking of her right now gives me shivers. She literally made a boy change school for giving a love letter to her friend . Imagine me giving a letter to none other than Ancy herself! I might've changed school too. But I eventually changed school after ninth grade .

Then I went on to have some of the best years of my life in my new school. So that's not even my favourite school ,Zephy wasn't a person that mattered to me in that school. So why I'm going to meet her now? Oh god the same questions are back here.
Then I started listening to Harris jayaraj's 'manjal veyil' and started gazing at the towns, railway tracks ,the moon. Isn't this why we live for ? To be gazing at moon , listening to music in a train during midnight, And having the most magical,personal and heartful memories you ever had!

I'm literally living a poem by myself. But ananya's innocent smile while she was sleeping was more beautiful than all these stuff. I asked her mother about her father . She said that her father passed away in an accident and now they're going back to hometown from Chennai.

So there is a depressing story behind every innocent smile? Wow! I think I've been stuck in the studio for so long... It's been so long since I interacted and listened to real people and now here I am! Embracing a journey that I don't know where the destination lies!

Then my phone vibrates... The call is from an anonymous number. It must be another fan who found my number but maybe it could be someone that I know, so I usually use some apps to identify the caller but I turned off the app right now I think. The call ended and I went to the app and checked the caller's name...

One missed call from...

'ZEPHY JENISON'

*Wait for chapter 4*