What the hell your boy is doing? Don’t you concern about your this teen? Have you seen your boy’s progress report? This questions just trembled Mrs Radhika Sen like a tough piece of ice. His son’s name was Neel. Neel was very much weak in study. He had no dreams in his fulgent eye balls, had no aim in this life. Neel was ever-smiling, charming and a very kind person and very much accompanied by his nature loving friend Nishantika. Nishantika was his childhood friend and a good smoker also. Both had a good friendship. They very much visited to ‘Garden friend’ park. There they usually went for smoking and spend some time between each other. Once in afternoon, when the orange sun was going down and going to be vanished through the horizontal line, then Neel visited to that park but he was unaccompanied. Neel was very upset about his exam report. He sat down on a green-coloured chalybeate chair. Neel was just thinking about Nishantika. Neel truly loved her and wanted her through his lonely life. By this time, an old man with white beard and with a staff in his hand sat by Neel. A faded yellow coloured pyjama covered his fair complexion. “You are Neel Sen, isn’t right?” A dither voice threw those words. “How do you know me,"Neel just exclaimed. "I know everybody, I know everyone’s strength, everyone’s weakness, everyone’s love, everyone’s requirement”. Avoiding this, the old stranger told him, “You will be a scientist”. Neel was just stunned and made his face half-smiling, half-exciting. He just got confused about the old man’s mental condition. ”Is he ok?” Neel felt this doubt inwardly. “I have got the lowest mark in science, do you know this?” Neel asked. Instantaneously, the stranger answered, “Yes, I know everything, but you will be a scientist and can lead a happy life. But you have to sacrifice something in return.” When Neel questioned about the sacrifice, the answer which was given by the person was not at all expected by Neel. He told, “You have to forget Nishantika, if you want to lead a gleeful life.” Neel’s mind was just empty for some while. After firmly settling his mind, Neel questioned him,” Are you joking? Are you a mental? Can you please leave? Before hearing further anything about her Neel just got up from the bench and shaking himself to go to home. When he was wearing his shoes, the old man said, “She is harmful for your life.” Without seeing the stranger Neel stirred his hand and said, ‘good-bye’. After returning to home Neel started thinking about those sayings. After two days, Neel met with Nishantika to tell about those warnings. They met, but before saying something she ignited the cigarette and started smoking. Then, she wanted to go the park. They were going through a jungle. “Do you know, one day ago an old man said that I would be a great scientist?”. Nishantika smiled, “Don’t you tell about your exam report?”. Until then, they reached the garden and Neel just avoided upcoming question. They sat down on balmy green grass. Nishantika certainly asked, “Will you be my friends forever, will you accompany me in smoking through the whole life?” Neel just startled and awkwardly said, “Yes, of course”. A gallinule heard by Neel which was very well-known to him; tremble, vague voice. “Neel, can you please come for some while?” Nishantika asked that where he was going. “There is the old guy, whom I met”, Neel answered. Neel just sat there involuntarily. “Today, I will tell you, why you should forget that girl,” the stranger told with a gentle smile. Neel was very much curious to know the cause. He hurriedly questioned, “Tell me quickly, I have to return home”.
“I don’t know why I want you to lead a happy life, I don’t know why this warnings I am going to tell you. You are not familiar to me. But I want to get you from your danger. Nishantika will ruined your life. Even not she, her morbidity will destroy your whole life just like me.” The stranger told without any stopping. Neel was stunned.
“I will tell you a story of mine. Thirty-nine-year ago I got married with sriti. I knew that she had cancer, but I can’t forget my love, so I accept everything without thinking back and forth. But after some years Sriti was becoming very much ill. Even I couldn’t see her ugly skin. Her skin had been cracking for years. One day I saw that her whole body skin was burst and filled with exudation. I loved her but couldn’t saw her disease. You know that Nishantika is a cancer patient and I know you will have to face something more terrible. I just come here to warn you, to warn you about your relation with her. You will have to commit suicide, because you will can’t tolerate this for so long, like ……”. The stranger stopped unexpectedly. Neel just laughed.
“Are you here for joking with me?” Neel told with clenching his teeth. “I don’t want any warning. I will always be there for the girl, because I love her unconditionally and I will make all the moments happy with my love to her. I can’t let her go for her crisis. And why am I telling this things to you? Who are you? Neel furiously threw those words.
“I am your future, just sitting beside you and I am here to give you a chance to think about your future, to help you find your happiness in life.” “I have some photos. I think you will absolutely change your decision after seeing this.” The old man told with strong confidence. Neel’s eyeballs got stuck when he was seeing the photos and unable to make a complement. Those were the photos of Neel and Nishantika. When Neel saw this photos one after another, he could imagine an incident, which made everything upside down. Neel’s hands were starting to tremble and photos touched the ground one after another. Neel shouted, “No………..”. The old man expressed with certain confusion, “Have you change your mind? I think now you will forget the girl.” After a silent while, Neel answered, “No, I can’t forget her. I don’t know if this will really happen in reality, but can say I don’t want to know my future, or anyone’s past, I just can believe the present situation. And in present I love Nishantika and nothing can break our relation, even not my unease future.” “Hey boy, you are doing wrong, you will have to pay for it. You just see your and your lover’s death. How horrific that is…”. The photos showed that Neel will kill his wife and will kill himself with same knife and will sleep forever. Neel couldn’t imagine anything except Nishantika’s bright face and her dreamy eyes that always says a story, a story of love, and a story of faith. Neel desperately said the old man without seeing him that he was not going to forget her and will not back down for occurrence of anything horrible. Neel rapidly wanted to get off from the sit, but couldn’t see a single person. “Where are you? Where have you gone?” But no answer was given.
After finding the old man for some while, Neel went back to Nishantika. Within a second Nishantika questioned, “Whom have you talked with for this long while?” I haven’t see anyone around you. “What? What are you talking about? I was just before you.” Neel stammered. “Have you gone mad?” Nishantika wrinkled her eyebrows. Before facing further question, Neel hugged her tightly, and said, “Will you always be with me like this?”
“I can hug you like this forever.” Nishantika said with loving emotional voice. The sun was going back to her horizontal home and gave an access the moon to spread her beauty. They held the hands of each other and went back to their home.
Neel knew that, Nishantika had cancer and can be effected by many of the horrible diseases. Neel thought many times about their relationship. But couldn’t able to think anything except their love for each other. And old man had no existence in real life. That was an imagination that created from his confused mind. He was very much confusion about their decision. And the photos were just an imagined picture of his inner one. Actually, Neel couldn’t set up his mind, because he knew that the effect that could arise for her heavy smoking. But Neel wanted to accept the original Nishantika and didn’t want to change the character or habits of her. But at last, Neel Sen won the battle which was going on every day between Neel Sen and his inner person. He saw the future happing and beat his confused brain with his lover’s mind. A true lover can’t let his beloved go. They always be for each other to give their own life to another.