Raghav was a special child, not only to his parents but also to the world.
He was considered 'special' for a period of time, like when it is time for elections. Yeah, other time he was just normal kid. He was Dumb, a boy who has lost his ability to speak since birth. He learnt the sign language with help of his teachers. His life was perfectly normal, until the age of 10. As soon as his circle of friends increased with his age. He started feeling inferior to his friends who can speak normally. He became aggressive, and felt the need to talk like normal people do. Slowly and steadily he started avoiding kids who teased him. He started playing alone. He was not really happy with his life. one day while he was walking to the grocery shop along with his mother, he saw a pretty girl aged around 12 years. She was wearing black coloured goggles, holding her mother's hand, her head bent a little towards right. Raghav and his mother entered into the same Grocery shop as that girl. Raghav heard that girl's mother saying "Naina watch your step, this is the entrance of the supermarket."
"I know mumma"that girl replied. And she strteched her hand to search for the support. And she walked inside the supermarket.
Raghav after watching the whole scene signed to her mother and asked "Is she blind?" Her mother signed back " yes".Naina was quite naghty child. she was never afraid of walking alone inspite of being blind. As her mother was busy buying groceries and stuff, she slowly escaped. And walked away from her mom. Seeing this Raghav too walked behind her, silently. She was walking without the help of stick and so she stumbled over something lying in her way. But raghav held her hand and saved her from falling.
Naina took out folded stick from her pink sling bag and unfolded it. "Hello is anyone there? Thanks for the help" she said.
Raghav stood there speechless. He could have made any sound, but his ego prevailed and he walked away from her. He felt even more sad that he couldn't speak to someone who was so pretty.
"and there he/ she goes.. weird people"..............
After 10 months...
Raghav started working part-time in the same supermarket as a helper boy. He packed various edible things and arranged them in order. His co-workers were very helpful to him. They even learnt one or two words in sign language and communicated with him.
One day while he was busy packing some thing, he saw same girl in black goggles, a little bit grown up. But she was alone and she was walking with the help of her stick."one coke please" she said at the counter.
"Raghav ek coke dede madam ko" said praful.
He took out coke from the fridge and handed it to her. Her hand touched raghav's hand. She immediately jerked her hand away.
"I feel that i have met you before." She said.
Raghav nodded happily. But later realised that she cannot see him. Seeing him nod his head, praful said in a loud voice
"He is raghav, he can't speak. And yeah he is saying that he has met you before."
"Why can't he speak... Ohh i am so sorry. Raghav hope to meet you soon." Saying this naina walked away.
And raghav was very much happy that day.From that day naina made her routine to visit the supermarket everyday. She would meet raghav, they both didn't talked to each other. but shared emotions. Naina talked about her day. And raghav nodded, that anyhow naina understood. They had a chemistry which had its own definition.
The end.
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General FictionA Dumb boy meets a blind girl. what happens when one can see the world but cant comprehend it into words.? what happens when one can feel the world in bits and pieces but cant see it in real. read on to find out. -Tabassum