Long lost Intimacy

Prologue

In the city of Muscat, Oman , lived my family, a very happy family who lived in a small two bedroom flat, and that was about my family...
Oh no! I forgot to tell you my childhood story. But it's never too late so,
hello I'm Niara, born in Sur, a small town in Oman.
When I was born, my sister Natasha was so happy to have me...
she would dress me up like a doll and take a lot of pictures and like that days and years passed as I grew into a kindergarten child, about the age of 4 when I started my LKG and UKG at Indian School Sur...
At that time the school was small, very few children.. but later other students joined.
As I turned 8 I was too naughty, my hair was very tiny and my eyes were round and big, I always tried measuring my hair to tie a small pony tail but, as my hair grew I got it cut again and again.
I turned 10, I was in grade 4,
now let's talk about my friends, in class I was friends with Ananya, Sudhansha, Angela, faisal, Michael, but the most special friend I ever had was Jerem, my buddy, what to say about him, he's an idiot, but he's the bestest friend I ever had.

He was three years elder to me but he was the one whom I enjoyed talking to and with whom I would share my secrets which were mostly what happened at school. First I met him in front of school , after a week of new academic session, he was my cousin brother's new best friend, so after school, he would come along with my cousin and like that we started talking.In the beginning, he was very sweet and innocent but truly he's not innocent at all, if he comes to know anything about me then he talks loudly for everyone to hear and that's how I used to get irritated.

But deep inside I started feeling for him. I loved his eyes, his smile, his face and his behaviour. Basically everything! But I didn't tell him anything... about the fact that I loved him,
our friendship was a secret.. we didn't tell anybody. Everything was going well until I  was shifting to Muscat because my sister's university was there where she could complete her degree ,
when I got to know about it tears weeped from my eyes, and I didn't inform
Jerem as I thought that he would get hurt.

Muscat is the capital of Oman, when we were in Sur we visited Muscat in weekends of Thursday and Friday and Friday we would return back to Sur and the next day the school would start.
Then Finally the day came that was 5th of March, when I had to pack my things and leave to Muscat, I was very sad that I had to leave Jerem behind, my love... how could I do that?
Natasha told: Niara, get ready and take your luggage to the living room where other luggages,
I told: ok Appa.. and i took the luggage to the front, packed my handbag and got ready. Near to my pillow lay a photograph of a party in which we both wore black and we were sitting on one chair having ice Cream looking at each other laughing.

I saw that picture and didn't forget to take that picture with me. I took it in an envelope and kept it in my handbag. And came out ready, I told Sohail: Bhaiya, can you tell Jerem that we're leaving, he's your best friend and he's always been nice guy, not telling him is not good.. sohail replied:- Yes Niara I'll go to him and tell him now. Sohail went out to tell Jerem and I had a hope that for the last time I would see him. I couldn't control my tears so I went to the washroom to wash my face. I was crying and crying silently and couldn't stop. But luckily nobody heard me crying and I calmed myself, talking to myself, and I closed my eyes and I saw him there, smiling at me and saying it's okay! But that was just my mind making a picture of him. Then I finally came out and started helping to put the luggages in the car. And I finally got into the car and started my journey, just 2 mins later I was looking in front and I felt like two people were running from my right side of the window.

On the morning of 5th March of year 2010, I woke up, had a very bad dream.. my heart was pounding and I just wanted to meet Niara to tell her about this weird dream. And today I'm going to ask her if she loves me. Yes! I'm going to ask her and that will calm me down, thinking that, Sohail entered my room in a hurry to give me an urgent news:- a news that I never wanted to hear :- NIARA IS MOVING TO MUSCAT! I heard it once and couldn't believe, my heart was beating even faster than it ever could and I wanted to see her as soon as possible, I gave a weird smile and asked:- "Sohail, can we go see her just for the last time?" Sohail did not know the fact that I loved Niara, he also didn't know that She was my best friend. Sohail replied:- "Yes! But hurry! And I dressed up as fast I could and kept a hope that I would let her know that I loved her! We got out, and started walking, after walking a lot I was restless but I didn't stop, I walked, climbed small hills of mud for shortcut I finally reached the road at whose end her house was and I heard the sound of a car which just passed me, but I didn't realise that she was in that car and I went till her house but there was no car, I went inside the building and knocked on her door and rang bell, but no one answered. Suddenly I realised the car that passed me was hers, she was in that car sitting in the back seat with her sister. I became so dull and sad because I was missing her a lot, coming back home I locked my door and started crying and whenever sohail came to call me for play I didn't go... and with that incident years moved on...