Stranger In Past,Lover In Dream

CHAPTER-8 SCENERY

"So you're going to Delhi and just tell everyone that you're searching for a girl from your dreams?"

"Well not exactly, I got an address from her parents "

"Ohh, can I take a look at that?"

Then I gave her the address. I thought that she might know the address as she is from Delhi. Her eyes kind of expanded after seeing the address but she said that she had never been to this place.

Then we both took a walk towards a fountain in the centre of the town. Locals called it the beauty of zuhalampur. We went and sat on the compound that surround the fountain.

"What's the name of the girl?", she asked curiously.

"Ze--Zephy"

"What's your most favourite thing about her? Because your story seems so fascinating, following a girl from dreams! So... what's it?"

"Her eyes, those blue eyes...they give me hope"

But I know that at this point It might just be impossible for me to see those eyes again. Here I'm sitting in the middle of an accident , Waiting for a baby to come back to life and ranting to a stranger. Suddenly she grabbed my hand and rushed towards the bridge from which the accident is clearly visible. It was cranes and officers trying to clear the train of the tracks. There were all lying bodies over the track. They can clear any train from the tracks...but can they clear the bodies away from the tracks ever?

"So many lives" she teared.

"I don't want to see this , I'm sorry" I hesitated and left back to the fountain.

She came back running towards me and said sorry for taking me there. But it's not her mistake, she just wanted to show me that the massacre is finally being cleared.

"When are you planning to leave from zuhalampur?" She asked.

"Tommorow morning I guess, in next Delhi train."

"I'm leaving at the same time too, but I'm going to Kerala. So I guess we will be in different directions tommorow "

"Anyways, we are just strangers" I hesitated.

"Strangers are powerful dude, ever heard this song?"

She started to throw some lines...

A stranger under the moon,
I'm gonna forget her next noon.
But she sang a beautiful song for me,
And I said eventhough you gonna leave me,
Please kiss me!

I smiled and said,

" I beg you, please kiss me.
Or else I have nothing inside my heart,
That reminds me of you!"

"Wow! You know that song too? It's underrated!", She exclaimed and she was in a excitement.

"I made it"

"Wha-what? You're ASH??? ohh hell ofcourse you are... I just love your songs! You're literally my crush eventhough I have never seen you!!"

"Okay stop it, I guess I'm not your crush from now on as you have seen me now!", I smirked.

"No, I guess I like you even more now!
I me-mean as ,as a crush. Sorry if I made you feel weird!" , She worried.

"No it's alright, I'm feeling kinda great now!" I laughed.

Then as the sun was setting , the people started to set fireworks, I guess there's a festival here. They don't postpone it due to the accident? We've literally been through hell just few hours ago. So I asked a local about why are they celebrating in between this huge tragedy?

And he said," come on man it will atleast cheer up everyone!
What's the point of mourning in this little time left to live?"

And maybe he's right! What's the point of greiving over everything right? Then Ananya asked me if I had any changes because she's gonna buy some cotton candy , so I gave her the change. And I asked her to buy one for me too. It's so fascinating how blood turned into cotton candy in a few hours in zuhalampur! Makes me laugh at this life.

"Why does your songs makes a atmosphere like we are trapped in a trance state of mind?" She asked.

"I don't know, maybe that's how I feel most of the time"

"At first I really wondered how this guy is going to Delhi saying that he's searching a girl from his dreams in Delhi? But now as I know who you are, I can clearly understand that what kind of a guy you are"

She thinks she found who I am when even I don't know who I am yet. She's feeling kind of unreal to me...she appeared in my eyes just a few hours ago but I have a feeling that I have known her for so many years...I definitely know her ,yes I'm pretty sure. I know her, I have known her all my life .

Then she asked me another question,

"Will you love that girl if she doesn't have those blue eyes now?"

"But she will have them for sure!"

She started to smile and and a small drop tear started flowing from her eyes.

"I once had blue eyes! I-i felt , felt like I was something special as everyone I was because of that eye. I've got a lot of love from everyone I know. Even a lot of boys was crazy on me. But one day I had this accident at a point where my eyes got exposed to huge amount of UV rays and my eye lost it's colour , after that I felt like everything and every like I had around me just faded away as if I worth nothing, that's why I am asking you, will you like her if she doesn't have those eyes?" She started to cry.

But I don't really know, yes I'm selfish. I'm concerned about my desires because after all I'm just a greedy human. I am not sure if I will like Zephy if she doesn't have those blue eyes because that won't be the Zephy that I desire from my thoughts...that will be an entire different person.

Then we both took a ride on a giant wheel, during the ride I had thoughts riding through my mind.Then the wheel stopped by some malfunction... and we where on the top and the whole zuhalampur glowed in fantasy colours.

"It's beautiful" she whispered.

"No!" I said with some tears in my eyes.

Yes , I came to a conclusion! I processed this situation. It doesn't matter what the colour of the eye is, it matters whose eye it is.

"No, it's not the most beautiful scenery",  I said

"Then show me the better scenery!" She ordered.

"I can't, because those are your eyes. I like your eyes despite it's colour and I like you , despite the fact that your a stranger becau--because I feel like I've known you forever!"

"Yes I know you know me!" She whispered and came close to me.

Touched my hands, I placed my forehead on hers, a hand on her cheek and other on her thighs. She had her both hands holding my head...and we placed our lips together and I kissed her from the bottom of my heart. Is the whole journey just about me meeting her and zephy is just a reason for this journey? Maybe.

Then the wheel started to move again, we got down ,held each other's hands and started to walk. Then a guy was screaming something at a woman, the woman was standing near the fountain,I can hardly see her face.
He screamed at her but she's not hearing it as she's in a reasonable distance.

He yelled her name,

"Zephy!!!!"

*Wait for chapter 9"