The Sky Blue Scarf!

Chapter-11

It was Shravya's first day at the cruise. She was speechless, finding how the cruise was like a small world in it self. It had everything from a to z. Five Star hotels like luxurious rooms, swimming pool, spa, clubs and uncountable restaurants, etcetera.

“Wish, children were also here with me!”

Shravya said after taking a huge amount of oxygen.

Two young men, who looked not more than twenty one or twenty two years old, were standing near her and talking that ship was moving forward with speed of eighteen nautical miles per hour.

Shravya looked up, at the sky. Everything seemed calm, stable. In fact, she had felt cruise was standing at one place. It didn't even start moving, since she got on it. There were no trees, mountains or fields being left behind, like how it happens in a journey of Train.

The salty air of sea was making her cheeks red and her hair continued covering her face whilst she tried to keep them behind her ears, using her fingers.

She stood on the deck, for a long time, watching the people moving hither and thither on the cruise. Most of them were young couples.

Shravya started feeling uncomfortable watching at them. Out of place. She felt, she had been out of place throughout her life. she never found herself where she was supposed to be. That's what caused her to miss everything in life.

“You?....Here?
You are Shravya, right!?”

A loud and stunned voice, which reached her ears by tearing apart the waves of sea and blows of air startled her.

When Shravya turned, she found Pranay, right behind her. Pranay, who was wearing, a pure white uniform. She recognised him within a nano second. Serious face which was now covered with surprise, and those same smiling eyes. Though, the hair near his ear was secretly gossipping about his age, but he was still same.

Shravya smiled. Pranay was still looking at her with surprise.

“What a coincidence is it, Shravya!?....Once again you met me!
And..and why are not you shocked!?”

Shravya laughed, lightly.

“First tell me, are you happy or sad?”

“Of course, I'm happy!
So happy!
I..I..I can't believe it!”

Shravya could feel the upheaval of his heart, but her own heart was calm, like the sea probably would be, in it's greatest profoundness, in it's foothills.

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After sometime, both were sitting in a restaurant, on a coffee table.

“I believed it, you would meet me!”

Shravya said without looking at him, while mixing sugar in the off white coloured cup of coffee, with a spoon. The utensils made a clinking sound, like a wind chime.

“What!?....How!?
I mean, how did you believe!?”

His tongue was stammering, a little though. He still couldn't be normal. Apparently, he hadn't expected meeting Shravya in this way, at this place.

“I got to know through the college magazine, that you've started working on this cruise.
But we would meet on this trip itself, I didn't know. 'Twas just a coincidence....It's a pleasant surprise!”

Shravya said while slowly stirring the coffee with spoon and melting the foam made heart shape on the surface of coffee.

“Well, that's..thant's great!”

Pranay couldn't contain his smile which was spreading widely from his thin pinkish brown lips. Shravya didn't try to hide her smile!

Pranay was once again near Shravya!

Whenever Shravya's life went through sad paths, she found Pranay with smiles, standing on some corner.

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Shravya's days on the Cruise were spending as if some sea bird which found an island in unlimited sea, to rest.

Shravya was happy. Very Happy!

Pranay didn't talk about their meeting which took place before this one. He didn't ask that, ‘Why did you block my number?’ Or ‘I went to your house again, where had you gone?’ He didn't ask anything. Not even for once.

Pranay didn't want to make Shravya uncomfortable. He probably knew her problems and confusions. He had always understood her.

Without asking any questions, he gave her company throughout the day and showed her all parts of ship. She didn't have to ask for anything. The weight of ship, it's speed and the number of people staying in it, he kept telling her everything.

Shravya felt, as if she was the heroin of Titanic!

When it was night, he made sure, she should get the best dinner from the best food corner of the Cruise.

Having the warm sea food, on the top of a cruise with the cold sea breeze flowing around them, was something she had never felt and she would always remember.

After dinner, the girl who belonged to a small town, was found to be dancing on the dance floor, according to the light music that was being played in background.

True, she was just a girl. The girl who just descended down from the school bus, and restlessly ran towards her home while her Sky Blue Scarf was floating in the air behind her. Crazy girl, who had just gotten to experience the feelings of first love.

“Are you alone here?”

Shravya asked while trying to match her footsteps with Pranay and danced along with him. Pranay laughed out loud, it even took the attention of other couples dancing with them.

“Then what?.... I'm not here for a world tour, like you.
It's my job. I'm on duty, Madam!”

Shravya kept silent. Actually she wanted to ask,

‘If not here then somewhere else, do you have a companion for yourself?.. Or you're still alone, Pranay?’

She wanted to ask many other things, but she couldn't gather courage. After their last meeting, probably she had lost all her rights.

Their last meeting had taken place approximately nineteen or twenty years ago. Shravya was still standing there, feeling everything fresh in her memory.

So, was his life also as before?

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Can't wait to finish it as soon as possible! (๑♡⌓♡๑)

And, though I wanted to add pictures, I couldn't.乁( •_• )ㄏ

♡LoveShifa♡