Mind

PURE LOVE

Arthit did not visit  hospital the next day.  Since, the principal did not give him the permission.  After about a week, he again felt the urge to see Kong.  So that time he went to the hospital to see him without anybody's permission knowing very well that he would not put Kong in any sort of danger.  Every evening, between 4 to 4:30, he would sneak into his room with doctor's permission and stay there staring at him for full half an hour.  It continued for next ten days without much notice from anyone, not even from Arthit.  He followed that as his routine and when confronted by the principal, he simply said that he had an empathy with him and just wanted to see him safe and sound.  The principal believed and thereby did not mind him visiting the hospital.  In fact, he got Kong's daily report on his treatment from Arthit.

The ritual of visiting and staring continued for almost one month.  Without any significant changes either in the patient or the visitor. Both had settled in their routine, one was as usual oblivious and the other mindful of the person laid on that bed.   One particular day as usual, Arthit entered the room and was sitting on the chair staring at the boy of 19 years.  It had been 2 months since he started coming to see him but with no apparent changes in his condition.  His bruises and wounds had healed.  But the face and body resembled the skeleton.   It had been 5 months since Kong was in coma.  But one thing that was noticed by the doctors that since the coming of Arthit the body had recovered pretty faster than the healing process which moved on a snail pace before his visit.

Arthit was in  his fourth year semester and his responsibility towards his studies doubled in many folds.  Anyway, he found time to visit Kong.  It was the beginning of June, his semester started and the beginning of his love story with Kong.  He discovered first what he had for Kong was empathy, then sympathy and for few days he had developed a feeling which he realized himself as love.  He had fallen for a man who was in coma.  He had fallen for a man who was abused physically and mentally  by his own kith and kin.  He had fallen for a man who had a traumatized childhood and the youth.   He had fallen for a weak, sick and mentally  disturbed man. He had  fallen and he wished his mind had done the right thing by falling for him.  It was because for the first time in 21 years of life, apart from his ambition, parents and love which he wanted from the person whom he would spent his entire life, he felt a kind of obsession, a strong passion for the man lying on the bed.  He wanted him in his life, he wanted him to drain his energy, he wanted  him too for his deep down primordial needs, only him and only him, since he had experienced a full hots with the man lying on the bed even in his dream, then he wondered in actuality he would surely go mad with his carnal desire fulfillment.  He would wait for him to gain his senses, once he regained  it, he would lose it in the pure passion of care, affection, intimacy and love, pure love.  A matured love between two minds, bodies and souls.  Arthit had become a mad lover but without anyone's knowledge,not even the person who he loved.

As usual, on one particular evening during his visit, the nurse came to check on Kong, Arthit moved away from the bed and started looking out of the window.   The nurse who was observing Kong felt that  he had raised his fore and middle finger in the air.  First she thought it was her illusion and so she did not paid much attention to it.  But it happened whenever she came during the time when Arthit was present in the room and whenever he moved away from the bed.  She felt something ticking and informed the doctor about the incident.For next one week, without Arthit knowing about the changes, they visited Kong at that particular time and observed that whenever Arthit moved away from the bed Kong tried to raise two fingers in the air.  They were quite impressed and thought that at last there was a final break through in the case of Kong's comatose condition.

I WAS QUITE LOST ON MINE OWN TACTICS.  FEELING MIND BROKEN, I THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE THE END OF ME, BUT NO, THE PRIMORDIAL DESIRES  WON FINALLY WITH ARTHIT COMING BACK TO REGAIN KONG AND KONG NOW WAS RECOVERING AT A VERY FASTER RATE.  HE SENSED HIS PRESENCE AND ALWAYS WAITED FOR HIS FOOT FALL IN THE ROOM DURING ONE PARTICULAR TIME OF THE DAY.  KONG KNEW ARTHIT WAS STARING AT HIM THE WHOLE TIME AND COULD FEEL THAT HE HAD FALLEN FOR HIM EVEN IN THIS CONDITION.  KONG PROMISED ARTHIT THAT HE WOULD WAKE UP SOON, BUT WHENEVER SOMEONE ELSE CAME INTO THE ROOM, ARTHIT MOVED AWAY FROM HIM, THEREBY BLOCKING HIS ARTHIT FROM HIM.  HE TRIED TO RAISE HIS FINGERS TO REACH OUT TO HIM BUT MISERABLY FAILED BECAUSE ARTHIT DID NOT NOTICE IT.

In the matters of just five days, Kong gained consciousness and while fluttering his eyes, he saw the most handsome man by his side who had a smile plastered on his face revealing the most sort out emotion by him called 'Pure love'.

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Hi everyone, I am updating at the faster pace, because I am quite excited about  this story.  Hope you all like this story of mine.  Even though it is dark, it still has something to say about the characters.  It will surely have a sad ending.  And also a different Arthit.