Metro On the Run

5- Them

1 Month Later
Do you ever meet someone once in your life then never again, and realize you are never gonna forget this moment or the person till you die?
Doesn't matter if it lasted a min or a hour. It stays imprinted in the back of your mind, visiting you once in a while.
a reminder of something we should have grasped then, a rhapsody of images flowing side by side.
Usually it clicks then and there and I try to figure out the amount of things I am gonna regret not doing.
But then I wonder that maybe I am supposed to miss something to remember it, sometimes I would stare at the grains of light suspended in that silent space, struggling to see into my own heart. What did I want? And what did others want from me? But I could never find the answers. Sometimes I would reach out and try to grasp the grains of light, but my fingers touched nothing. I still remember that day when she placed this painting in my hands without me uttering a word.
Now everytime I look at it, that seems to fill something inside me.
I've had people compliment it when I feel like carrying it with me on random days then I had people I would never talk to, come talk to me because of it.
it's quite strange how the human mind is capable of filling in needed information in an incomplete picture.
I don't know how did she do that, she never got back after that day.
I wonder where she is right now.

"That's a beautiful painting, did you paint it?" I look over to see a 13-14ish old girl with a bubblegum flavoured ice-cream in hand, eyes perked up with curiosity staring at the painting I am holding. "Also, can I sit over here?" "Sure" "NEXT STATION, AMEERPET. DOOR'S WILL OPEN ON THE LEFT. PLEASE MIND THE GAP."

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