"Shiritori - Taking the end "

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As soon as he finished reciting his chants, he checked the time in his new phone,he broke the promise made to Maira and was about to surprise her with one, it was 08:08.Smiled to himself, this was usual worshiping,praying to forgive for unintentional deeds, and he more often found himself staring at time that read same number for minute and hour like 01:01 or 10:10.It used to be an oh my god!!-not again, moment for him and thereafter running away places telling people about, but not now ,as no one would address the gravity and strangeness about this. It was nothing but time, of course what else could it be.

Years ago he read an article that said if constantly you see numbers with pattern then this is not normal,it means you have angels with you to signal things around you. These angels are nothing but your loved ones, they can be your grandparents or anyone who god presumes needs to be around you for lifetime. Initially he was scared but moreover, nothing unreal happened so far so he was living with it as just a myth. He even told Maira about it, but he thought she took it too casually always. He believed in God and waited for signals to make his decisions for life. Whenever confused there was only God’s signal that motivated him and kept him going ,one such signal was this minute hour pattern. He believed that angels were around him and always there to help him.

Reemus was in love with Maira, who was beautiful smart intelligent girl he went to college with-Nepal University in Lukla district .Things have been dicey lately with them. He lost his temper over an argument last night at dinner and busted the cloud of anger on her. Maira’s family wanted her to marry someone they loved. But she loved Reemus and knew they couldn't survive without one another. There was a time when he was after her for everything .Lately he was focusing more on his career. He always thought he would convince her, never he imagined that things would go this far and he regretted his decisions because he loved her so much. But even though they were poles apart as Maira used to say, Reemus always replied by saying that there is always a blind line for them “EQUATOR” where they can unite.

It was Saturday morning 25^th April 2015 and he was up to convince her again, called her to meet around 12 at the place they usually meet. She was not picking up his call so he dropped a message to meet at Lukla Starbucks Cafe. This cafe was unique in Lukla even though it was named Starbucks it wasn't the one of those popular chains still it served best lattes near Everest. Along with that he took a week off from work, booked a place for outing over the weekend and finally went to buy beautiful blue silk Scarf for her on his way which she was looking for. There was a long story with that scarf it was early Feb this year when they first saw it ,she already had so many scarf but there was a deal among them in that same month they both decided to save money for future and will not waste any money on things that they already have. Because of that deal he thought-" my iphone got hung and her scarf. It was regardless of her to even stop me from buying an iphone, just because I had an older version. How can you even compare technology with a silk cloth but then I was applying my typical boy-brain and she must be thinking the same other way around. He had immense respect for gadgets and technology especially apple and was a freak he was the first to buy every new gadget that was set to launch in the city. But he broke the promise and thought that she also deserves that blue scarf now.

He was running late quickly ran to that shop and asked for that scarf, the salesperson said "Oh I am sorry sir I will get you another one next week but I just sold the last piece”. Agony again he had to now hide the phone for one more week

It was 25th April 2015 around 12:12 Maira was waiting

24th April 2015

Maira returned after a fight with Reemus and she knew she had to grab a piece of something from her parents too. They finally told her when she returned that she will be getting married to a boy Sudhir they loved and not Reemus. Not able to pursue her family for wedding she fought with her mother and father. Locked herself in her room and wept. Later she woke up at night read sorry messages in her phone from Reemus, bought a knife and tried to cut her nerve it did pain she made a deep cut. While she was ready for more it was 11:11 pm and her phone rang , it was Reemus ,she stopped and finally made her mind that she would finally break his heart tomorrow, she was talking to the blood stained knife in her hand but she couldn’t do this alone she needed strength to do this Reemus was the mature one among two, so she decided to keep the blood stained knife in her purse and take it with her to remind her of what she was about to do, she didn’t want to meander when next time they meet. Quietly kept the blood stained knife in her bag, and made her mind that she will finally break up and won’t believe in true love ever. She also decides to break her promise and buy her blue scarf to start with early in the morning.

25th April 12:12pm

"She sat in the Starbucks cafe, sipping her coffee and staring out of the window. The blood stained knife lay next to her handbag, covered with her blue silk scarf.”

Flipping the local newspaper she glanced through the news without any interest, saw the sports column that Reemus liked but quickly stopped and focused on the knife she bought. She swooped the knife inside her purse and covered it with her scarf. She saw Reemus approaching towards the cafe, their eyes met through glass window, he started making faces and said sorry to cheer her up , tear trickled down her face as she was about to hurt him and herself. Suddenly ... everything started to shake tremble people started running she could feel tremors...what was it , was it so hard for the world to accept it ? Who was doing this? God or Angels that Reemus always talked about? What was it ??.. EARTHQUAKE. Everyone was shouting "Run its an earthquake!!.Chaos everywhere. For a second she was perplexed next moment she tried to see Reemus through the window he was not there! Her heart was beating faster like never before she didn't know what to do. Yesterday she was living, and yet dying every day and now when death was seconds away she was numb, she panicked like everyone else. Nepal was hit and hit badly by worst of Earthquakes in the history. Buildings started to collapse it was all happening in fraction of seconds she thought Reemus ran for life, she so much wanted to die here in this natural calamity with her knife and scarf two things that she could possibly take to heaven, she was lost , gave up she couldn’t move , she was shell shocked ,until a person grabbed her hand and pulled her out from her chair he had a kid with him in his arms, so she couldn't see his face ,she kept her head down and started following .. running with the person ,her saviour ,he was rescuing her as if a God came down from heaven it was his force that dragged her out and saved her. After few minutes every building collapsed beautiful city of Nepal was victimized by horrendous act of god an Earthquake that took away everything from Nepal in seconds. Maira could only see pile of debris around, her heart was still racing she never imagined something would happen out of blue when she turned she saw Reemus returning a kid to a mother and coming back to her. Her heart stopped for a min he had a blue scarf in his hands; it was Reemus her saviour she was happy inside her love came to save her , her true love it was her scarf which he probably grabbed while picking her up. He came and said "Sorry about last night and I could not get your purse so all important thing you had in there you lost it. But you have me forever I promise” and smiled at her”I broke my phone but I got you and your scarf... I love you forever” he said with tears..

She got the answers she believes in true love now. It was 01:01 pm and Reemus was saved by one of her angles maybe it was Maira.

Note: Never let your true love fade away listen to them listen to your family give your loved ones time and always follow god’s signal they can lead you to your dreams