Recycle

Part 1

A gift wrapped in a glittering paper with a note "Happy Birthday" was there on the table. Rony had no hint of this surprise, waiting for him in the morning. With a lazy yawn, he put on his specs and out of his habit went for the glass of water on his bed table. His eyes met with the gift placed accurately beside the glass. In a moment, his heart skipped a beat and all his morning laziness turned into an unknown excitement. He did not wait for a second and started unpacking the gift. It was a FastTrack watch which he showed interest to buy 1 month ago to his father.

He rushed out of his room and saw his father was scrolling through the news channel to grab some hot topics of the day. Mahadeb babu could read what was going in his mind from the expression on his face. Rony jumped to his chair and hugged him tightly. Mahadeb babu gave a satisfying smile from the corner of his lips.

Rony was a good student from his early age. He was studying at 12 standards and would appear for his Board exam in 4 months. Everyone had high hopes for him. Even the teachers from his school were confident that he would be among the top 10 students in West Bengal Board Exam. He was also preparing hard for the IIT entrance exam, which was almost everyone's dream in childhood.

Rony did not want to waste that day with the regular boring schedule. A big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo, Rony was good in football as well. After completing his breakfast, he rushed to the local playground. To show his friends, he had worn the precious gift from his father: The Watch. He played a great game for 2 hours and was terribly exhausted. He and his friends decided to have another fun session in the adjacent pond. After 30 minutes of enormous enjoyment, Rony gave a dive from a tree drooping down over the water body. For 3-4 minutes, he did not give any response. Nobody paid any heed that he might be playing pranks like before. But another 5 minutes passed by and then everybody started panicking. They dive back into the water with fear and anxiety. After a vigorous search for 10 minutes, Aman got him and pulled him back to the ground. Blood was trickling down from his forehead. The pale face was showing no life. Aman started thumping his chest and even gave mouth-to-mouth respiration. But all went in vain. Rony was lying lifeless on the ground.

The stretcher was running fast. His left wrist was peeking from the stretcher. The watch was there still on his wrist. It was continuously glowing.

Mahadeb Babu's head was rested on his hand, slightly leaned forward. He was sitting on a chair placed neared the window. "It's fabulous Baba. I was dreaming about this for a long time." Holding the watch, Mahadeb Babu could still hear his son's voice swirling around his ears. With tears rolling down from his cheeks, hastily he moved towards the window and threw the watch outside. The watch fell near a dustbin.