Beyond Explanations - 3 (Little toes)

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"Daddy am not going to Dr.Krishna.Please leave me alone" yelled Samy.
"Sameera.You are going to listen to your daddy.Don't turn to be mad against you" cried out Ram with a louder tone that made Samy tremble on to her feet

They arrived at the clinic.

"Daddy.Look.Its Aditya.Hey Aditya " She shouted.
"Hi Samy" and he looked at Ram and said "Hi uncle"he greeted them
"Daddy.Aditya also studies in our schol.Daddy,daddy he knows about Meghana.Ask him please."
Before Ram could ask anything to Aditya,Samy proclaimed "Aditya,please tell my dad about my friend Meghana"
Adtiya said "Mira !!..aann.." he suddenly looked past them and shouted "Hi daddy"
"Hi Ram.How are you" Krisha interrupted and gave a pat on Aditya's head.
"Hi Doctor.How are you.Is Aditya your son!!". surprisingly asked Ram
"What's my young man saying stories about" asked Krisha and continued
"Yeah Ram.He is my son and also studies in the same school of Samy's.We parents never find time to pay a visit to school.We pay the fees and leave the child to the management and we dont even know the names of the kids studying along with them.Huh!!" said the doctor.
"Rightly said Krishna.I seriously repent for that now.If i had been to school regularly i would have not let such a thing happen to my girl" said Ram.He sounded to be in lot-of-pain.

"And you will also be surprised for one more thing.Am one in the board of trusts for the school"
"Is it !!" exclaimed Ram.
Krishna looked at Samy and asked "Hey little dear,where you asking Aditya about Meghana"
Samy looked and infact tried hard to stare at the doctor.

An hour later

"Ram i would advise you to put Samy in one of my Rehabilitation school.She cannot continue in our school.All the other parents started to call us and complain about the litle girl bothering their kids with this Meghana thing.Let she pass this whole year here and may be next year you can find a different school of your choice"

Samy broke in to tears as Josh showed her the the data sheet.
Josh said "Samy am afraid on where this is leading us"
Samy said "Meghana is real.Please believe me.But am scared to guess on what would have happened to her" and cried out even louder.She looked awful with her hair untied and frightening for Josh.
"Only way to find out is me meeting this Sudhir guy.Let me formulate a plan to meet him.I need to talk to Sathish and plead him for help" said Josh and his voice was very feable indeed he was afraid to look into Samys eyes.He was frightened enough and not ready to believe anything/anyone at this point.

Residential Asylus Gurgaon, 11 PM, thunder Storms
Josh and Sathish entered the lobby and they were drenched by the prevailing heavy downpour outside.

A man was mopping the floor and he stopped mopping and gazed at them.

Sathish gasped looking at the lady in the front desk.She was fresh,with a dark lips-stick, lovely pony and in a beautiful saree with a sleeveless whatnots.

He whispered "Why on earth is she  dressed like this that too at midnight in a Asylum.This is crazy man.Lets go back.

"Is there any reason that you would want to tell me on why you want to meet him and what brings you at 11 PM in the night" asked the front desk representative.

Sathish said "We are really sorry our car brokedown with high water levels in the road and we couldn't make it up early." he excused and continued "Mam,in Mercury Inc we have a tradition to handover gifts and certificates to people who were part of the design of a vehicle that hits a million sale.And Mr.Sudhir was the Principal Designer in our recent success of Unicorn Suv 150."

Agent said "Well,he is no more a Designer.He is frenetic" smiled the lady and said "I dont think he is in a postion to meet you.Can you please leave the papers, i can save it for him and hand it over when he gets back his lost mind"

"Mam.We just need to see him." paused Sathish,they looked at each other
In a conciliatory tone he continutes "Ok Else can you please provide his  or any of his relatives address so that we can handover it to them." said Sathish

Agent said "We don't have any relatives recorded against him.and am sorry i cannot provide any more infor.."

Huge sound of broken glass pieces

Cold wind started thrusting in and got intense in the chamber, the glass door near the lobby that leads to the patients ward broke in to tiny grains.A man ran out of it yelling and crying.
He stepped on the glass grains wildly and chasing something.

He ran and evidently tracking something like foot-prints that appeared in the wet floor and gasified in seconds.
Josh saw them and they were smaller foot prints as compared to the blood maculated foot print of the man going after it.

His voice made out "please wait for me dear..dont leave me again..Miraaa"

Josh shuddered  and typed a quick message to Samy  from his phone "Who is Mira"
Samy replied "Its Meghana..Its her name at home..how do you know that ..call me ASAP"


"Sathish..thats..thats...him Sudhir" his hand pointing to the man running


-still to continue


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Beyond Explanations - 2 (Art by little fingers)

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Approximately 15 years later...

Gurgaon : Time : 1700 Hrs :Precipitation : 100 % :Temp : 60 F : Isolated Thunderstorms

Joshua did not know how to console Samy."Hey Samy do not worry much.Let me talk to my dad and find out if anything can be done for this"
Samy in her weeping voice "GSA (Global Space Administration) is my dream ,my life Josh"
"How about myself Samy" Josh did not say these instead said "I know Samy.Am there by your side."intermitted for a while and asked overtenderly "Can i read the notice you received from them"

Samy handed over and Josh read it

Dear Candidate
We really appreciate you effort and interest in GSA Astro Physicist postion.And also delightful to note that you cleared all the Screening processes.However at this time we regret to inform you that we will not be continuing the process of pursuing your profile any further.The reason being a negative medical report of the fact that you underwent a short term therapy of rehabiliation.Space travelers and astronomical job indeed requires a stable mind to action balance.If you think the report we got was incorrect please quote us on the same and we can do the necessary actions on the same."

"Bull shit, it's a all a lie" called out Samy.Josh patiently asked her "Samy what exactly happened" he paused and silenced.

Samy wiping her eyes said "I was 10 by then..."

Samy was sitting on the couch eat-a-drinking her hot chocolate with marsh-mallows.
When Ram asked "Samy why did you always talk about Meghana when no one like that existed"Veena "Ram lets not bother her anymore.Please"
"Veenu be quiet for sometime" interrupted Ram.
"Dad.I told you everyone is lying" She rushed inside her room and came back with a notebook of hers.She opened and showed "Dad look this picture you see here.Meghana drew this for me on my birthday"
Ram could not control his anger he pulled the notebook and snapped off that page.
"Samy ,you are getting distracted too much. watching TV and getting in to imaginary friends"
Samy cried and went inside her room.Veena said "Ram why dont we just leave this, as if nothing happened"
Ram said "No Veenu.We need to get this corrected at this age else she will get insane.We are taking her to Dr Krishna this weekend"

After 30 min's of lone-time with Samy. Dr. Krishna called the parents.
"Ram.She strongly believes in the existence of Meghana. Do you have any relatives in this name or any friends" he asked
"No Krishna.But she all the time watch movies and cartoons, should have picked the name from any of it." said Ram
"This generation of Kids are most often fostered by a LCD TV.Now Ram i need you to bring her here every week at least for next 3 to 6 months.She needs some guidance.I can try my best to get this Meghana persona out of her mind"

Rain tried hard and gave up to drizzle outside and Josh was looking outside the window.Silence.They could only hear tiny droplets drumming over roof"Ok.What's it with Meghana.What exactly happened Samy.Would you like to share it with me" asked Josh
"There is no point,Josh you wont believe me, like the  others" said Samy.

Josh wanted to make use of the situation
 a)May be to gain confidence and undue attention of her
 b)To at least get a hug from her
That being said -- he said "Samy i believe you.I don't care about anyone else.I care about you dear." and he said "I love you so much"that was the moment i would call.

Samy 'by principle' as a reaction to Josh action hugged him and cried on his shoulder.She trusted him for first time of all others when it comes about Meghana.
Samy's fragrance pushed Josh to cloud tagged '9'.He held her and little stiffer than necessitated for the scene.Just on an 'action point' concern of it, asked "Samy do you have anything with you that you can show me about Meghana"

After couple of hours of turning Samy's room upside-down she found her class notebook and showed him.Josh turned page by page and Samy showed the pages where Meghana laid out her art work.
Lot of beautiful work.
Josh asked "Samy you also draw pictures nicely rite"
Samy pulled the notebook "Josh get lost.You are not believing me right !!".
"Hey..hey.. i was just kidding" he got back and was seeing each page.His eyes puzzled on one particular page and asked Samy.
"Samy,do you know what this is" he showed the Emblem of Mercury Automobile drawn on the page.
"Meghana said this picture is from her dad's Identity card and i also remembered her Dads name is Sudhir"
"Do you know what this emblem is.Did you tell this to your parents" asked josh.
Samy said "No da.I don't know about this.And i did not tell them.That will drive them to think am crazy"

Later that night.

Josh could not sleep.He called up Thiru and spoke
"Dai Machi.Need a info from Sathish da.I need to find out about a person called Sudhir who worked in Mercury Auto.May be 15 years back"
"15 years back.Are you kidding.Anyways will cost more." giggled Thiru
"Life matter Machi.Pls help" they hung up.

The next Morning
Josh and Thiru met Sathish in a coffee shop.
Sathish works as a Senior Recruiter for Mercury Auto Inc.Sathish opened his laptop and pulled some records.Josh " Am sorry to bother you Sathish. Just wanted to hear that there is no Sudhir in the whole company"
"No you are wrong.I found two Sudhir's one from Kanpur and other from Gurgaon."
Josh exclaimed "WHAT!!"
and stammeringly added "Can you pls..pls..Hey..hey.. the one from Gurgaon.Can you pls give his current address and family details.Can you also.."
Sathish interrupted "Hey wait..cut it out dude..first let me check if have access to all that"

"I see that he was married and he had a kid.Am not able to pull the records further.And he was termitted 15 years back with a reason that he had Bipolar Disorder. OK dude.I gotta go"
Sathish stood up and said "Let me email this data sheet" and he left the place.
Josh on his way home took a print out of the data sheet.

Later that night at 11 PM.
Josha was lying in this couch and was deeply in thought.He was distressed that
how can it coincide the name and company that Samy said about .Did this Meghana ever exist?

All of a sudden his ipod dock started playing Chinna-chinna-roja-poove

Wind blew through the window, the printed data sheet flew around the room and landed on his chest.He looked at and started to tremble.
Back side of the sheet had a beautiful art of a family,dad, mom and a child in between.It never existed before when he took the print out.
An arrow mark drew from the Dads head pointed to something scrawled
Josh made it out with little difficulty and now he can see it clearly

"Daddy.C/O Doctor.Krishna.Residential Mental Asylum.Gurgaon."

--to be continued

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Beyond explanations - 1(Illusion)

"Pappu,can you come out for dinner.This is last time i going to call you,please da" Veena cried for the 6th time her 10 yr old daughter Sameera.

She was upset.Veena has been trying to ask her the reason since she came home from school.

It was 9 PM and Sameera never came out of her room.She locked it from inside.

"Let your Daddy come and deal over this.I not gonna care a damn about you." frustrated Veena.

Few mins later ..

Ram opened the door and went to kitchen.
He held Veena from the back.She resisted and defended out of his hold
from her hips.He with all his manly power twirled her and quickly arranged her in lovely kissing postion.Before he could launch any further actions,Veena kissed him straight.
A romantic scene lasted for few mins and relaxed both of them out of the all day corporate pressure and tiresomeness.

Ram said "So did she tell you the reason"
"She was silent and never ready to talk to me" Veena and added.
"Ram that's why i asked you several times i wanted a boy who will listen to his mommy and be nice all the time"

He smiled and told "Ok.Lets talk to her.I bet, this would be again all to do with Meghana." said Ram.

Veena sighed"Samy changed a lot after becoming friend with this new girl."

Ram added "Hey da,she is just 10 years.You cant go tell her that your friend is bad and stay away from her"

"You know last month when i went to school for the Moms day,Preethi ran towards me and said 'Aunty i had a very bad day today Samy is not talking with me anymore.She says am not her best friend anymore.Can you please do something'. I realyy got abashed among the other moms and teachers."said Veena

and she whiningly said "And couple of weeks back ,she says she wont got to field trip planned in the school.And you know reason being her lovely friend Meghana is not coming.And she wont join the Dance class as Meghana is not enrolling.For everything action in her life she says Meghana Meghana ..am sick of it"

Ram quikcly interrupted and said "Ok let me talk to her" he went near Samy's room door and knocked it gently."Hey Sami daddy came home!!"

She was silent.

Ram tried by all means and no answer.But he could see her lying cute in the mattress through the key hole.

He said  "Ok if you come out now for dinner, i can talk to Meghana's parents and bring her to our house for this weekend for a sleep over"  before he could complete, door thrash opened and Samy proclaimed  "Promise dada"

Veena set the table and they were soon eating the hot idlis with chutney.

Ram tardily asked "Ok tell me what happened today at school that made you upset"

Samy  "Daddy today i got the cookies that mommy prepared to school.All kids had it but for Meghana.I was very upset i saved some for her, she said no and she don't eat cookies"

Ram "May be she do not like cookies.Next time ask her what she likes and dada will buy it for you to take"

Sameera smiled.Later that night..

Ram came out of Samys room and said to Veena as she watching CNN news
"Look at her when she sleeps.Deep and sinless.Can you got to school tomorrow and check with Meghana,find out about their parents.We shall call them for dinner this Friday.Not sure about sleep over"

"Are you seriousabout this.Still, i have all day meetings this whole week cant make it to school" added Veena

Ram said "Oh man.I have field visit.Ok let me call her teacher and find out about her parents"

Two days later..

Ram was driving to his field visit and all of a sudden recollected that he need to call up Samy's teacher to find out about Meghana.He rang to her teacher from his bluetooth headet.

"She is little dull these days.Actually i wanted to meet you guys this week"

Ram said "Sure this week its little hectic for both of us and we can definitely meet sometime next week"

"Sure no problem"

"And i wanted to know if i can get Samy's friend Meghana's parents telephone contact.Planning to invite them for dinner this week."

"Sorry.Who Meghana!!.Did you say Meghana"

"Yeah Meghana Samys friend.You know this kid who joined your school this year"

"No there is no one called Meghana in her class"

"May be in the other sections." stammered Ram

"No Ram i haven't heard any Meghana in the whole school"

Ram pulled over in the freeway.He was sudating in spite of the A/C chillness and he added "Ok..ok..May be i would have got the name incorrectly from Samy.Will talk to you later" and he hung up the phone

--to be continued

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Romantic Friendship - Again

Pre Script : One of may earlier posts that made some healthy conversations and still stays as most visited post.Re-posting for new friends to breeze through and share their feelings

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Vinodh is a Technical lead in a leading software services firm.He got married to Sheela a year back.And their relationship and marriage was purely arranged by both of their parents.Sheela is also a software professional.

Their married life was happy and streamlined for six months.Later it did not continue smoothly.

Saran.He is a very close friend of Sheela.And they are very close from their college days.Both of them joined the same firm after their college as well.

Vinodh said "Ok.Let him be your friend or wat ever,all these days.Now you got married and why do you need a male friend when am there for you."

She said " Vinodh.I clearly told you about him,before our marriage.He is my close friend and i cant be without him.

They were very close, that they shared the same room when they were posted abroad from their firm.They shared friendship and love.

Vinodh was not very clear on Sheela's thoughts so he stoped asked anything about him and acted normal for sometime.
Saran used come to visit Sheela often.And their friendship continued.

Vinodh happened to read some of Sheela's personal emails and letters to Saran.It was highly personal.It had all the open expressions of love for one another.But Sheela shows the same love and affection to Vinodh.

Vinodh was confused.

Later one day he took Sheela to beach shore.They sat there.It was a fullmoon day.The cool breeze planed Sheela's hair.She looked beautiful on the moon light as she adjusted the thin hair along her ears.Slowly she leaned on his shoulders embracing him around his hip and said

"Vino.I feel secure in your arms and accomplished"

"Sheela...hmm.." he paused for a while and added "when u like Saran so much.Why you didnt marry him ? " asked Vinodh.
Sheela starred at Vinodh.

Beach waves voiced.

him"

Sheela stood up and said.
She spoke."Vinodh.Are u still not happi with our friendship"
Vinodh said "If its pure friendship am fine.But u are really close with him.. that's the reason...i cant...i cant digest..why u didnt marry him."

She said "Vinodh.hmm yeah am very close with him.but i cant marry him..Marriage is different"

Vinodh cant control and yelled....
"What the heck..whats the difference.i r..ead all your emails to him..u discuss everything thing with him..every moment in your life..those things which you cant discuss to any other man other than your husband.Then why the hell u married me and not
"Vinodh.You have to understand this,
Saran is my friend and yes i have lots of love and affection on him.
And i have the same love and affection on you as well.
I cant lead a married life with Saran.Becos...becoz ours is a non-sexual relationship.Some kind of ..kind of "Romantic Friendship"
Me or him have never felt that feeling among us.Please try to understand.And please dont read my personal emails.And i love u so so much da..U mean so much to me.."

She wept and left the place.Vinodh sat there looking at the moon astoundingly.

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