"I have to go for now... please understand" she said in a simple tone convincing me to the heights of hell, I just wanted to look in her beautiful ocean like eyes forever, but I didn't have time, neither did she... Nowdays, my recent enemy was the time, tick tock of my wrist watch just irritated me to no extent and finally, my brain because he had a habit to just stop working whenever my ears implied her name to it...
"Can't you wait, just a little more?" I asked helplessly, even now, my eyes were just fixed on her face... her complexions, her movements... I could read everything, her smile which she served me sheepishly from her red lips on her pink cheeks... her cheeks, absolutely flawless, soft like the silvery clouds...
She came closer to me... and then tightly hugged me, I could stay in her sweet floral essence forever everything seemed to go in a flash, next second her lips were pressed to mine her tounge caught my lips and soon I was hearing the wild throbbing of my brain. It said 'pull off Ronnie pull off, we are on a restaurant bench, not on your bedroom sofa I am sure, she won't like it...' but my heart, it just said two simple words in large beats... "Sweet Lipstick". I was about to vanish in the fluidity of this intense love, when her eyes came to remind of the heavens after death.
"you know, I have to go" saying this, she flanked another smile at my face. I was about to cry as she walked away with my heart... but I felt that it would not be ideal to bid her a goodbye with such a face... besides, my brain croaked... boys don't cry.
I paid the bills to the waiter, who had a wide grin on his face... the bill was not much but still he was happy. I just paid him some satisfactory tip and walked to the door of the restaurant to breathe in some fresh sunlight... the sun felt stingy for the moment its creaminess had gone away with my queen. I just felt horrible like a patient who just needs some oxygen but the idiotic doctor comes to tell him that the oxygen is not there and all he can do is die...
But well I had to live now atleast for her. The next place my bike haulted, was in the baseball stadium, though I was not a good player, but still my queen... my Andie liked my stance. I asked the pitcher to throw the ball... An hour later, I was on my bike again searching for some fun.
The brakes of my bike released smoke the next time when I was on an empty road, a few of my school juniors, were playing on with their bikes, probably learning new stunts to impress the neighbouring girls. I also joined them, as I liked to perform stunts on my bike... half an hour later, I was in the middle of an insane stoppie, when my mobile barked "Andie Calling" the word Andie, simply made my ears hypersensitive and my hand flew to my pocket leaving the bike to go crazy...
After that everything seemed to go in a flash, one second, I was leaning on my bike like a monkey, next second, I was leaning on my friend's shoulder, after they had removed the bike from my leg...
I first went to the company garage for my bike service, they totalled an amount of 500 bucks for the repairs, limpimg I managed to the local hospital for some sonography and treatment. They told me that everything was all right, I just wanted to slap the doctor, because I had often heard them saying "Don't worry, there is nothing to worry but we will have to cut his leg..." but I hoped that my parents had done my insurance. Soon the doctor told me that it is just a sprain, and I will be released soon...
I hoped that their soon would come fast, because I didn't want to reach home late. When the clock ticked 8:00 pm, the doctor came up to me and took a medical chekup... He just had one condition 'I must call my family members including a girl, to pick me up...' I just phoned Andie, but to my demise, she never picked up her phone... I tried many other numbers, but all were busy, at last my school senior came to pick me up for a dinner I was to offer her any day.
As I reached home, I felt a bit driziness, probably because of the CO2 thumping devilishly in my lungs. My mom was ready at the gate with her mobile and some money, I knew where I had to go...
When I started my bike in front of the Mobile recharge centre, the fuel needle just moved a half millimetre. I turned the engine to life and soon I was at the petrol pump. The petrol pump was at an odd place, though the place was good, but it messed up with the beauty of the nature around it. The growl of thunder made me aware of the man at the side of my bike asking how much to fill my tank. I simply handed him 500 bucks and he quickly counted them and put his handle like pipe on my bike... I looked at the hills around me, when I saw Andie sitting on one of them, I could make out simply from where I was... she was facing towards the other side with her back towards me...but she was not alone, there was someone beside her, grabbing her in his arms, he set off the fire sleeping inside my heart which was extinguished by the winds of love long ago...
As soon as I was finished filling my tank, I picked up my bike and went around the hill to see her face to face. The chilling wind and tiny droplets of rain didn't matter much to me, as they numbed my almost bare chest, I just checked the pocket knife in my right pocket. It was safely tucked there with delicacy.
The face of Andie, was remarkable she was just stunned to see me there, but not a drop of horror inflicted her beautiful face. After a second, I heard her voice in my ears, I stopped slowly after a long brake of 2 metres. When she came to me, her face was booming with happiness, "Who is he?" I asked in a threatening voice which made her smile disappear. "Listen I can explain this..." she said to me in a convincing tone. "I don't want any explainations from you...". As I took out the pocket knife from my pocket, I finally noticed the look of fear on her face. "It's gonna hurt, it will last long..." I said pionting my knife towards her... I saw the other guy running towards us, too late... "you don't need to do this..." Andie said in a croaky voice... "I never meant to do this..." I simply replied.
Soon I was walking towards my bike grasping my knife tightly... both of my hands were dripping with blood and the rain was trying to dilute the intense blood along with my senses, I was about to fall off like a dried leaf when I was caught by two arms, they were warm and soft they didn't seem to shiver or shake, soon I was lying down on Andie's lap, my palms could feel the gushing of blood as my senses began to numb... though her face was sheilding me, the tears from her eyes felt like loads of hot,salty Mercury drops and they flowed effortlessly, faster than the blood flowing out from my wrists...
Soon I woke up in the hospital to know that it was Andie's younger cousin whom I had mistaken for her new boyfriend or so... just after letting me know the whole truth, I saw a thousand expressions cross her face anger, amazement, love etc. I could not face my parents in this condition, but they were standing by my side at this moment with a thousand phrases to blurt... I could feel their gazes pierce my skin... I was soon eased as Andie bent down on my face to kiss me shielding the world from me through her intimately soft hair, I could see the lights fade as her hair drew a curtain for me...
