A guy is walking here and there attending all the guests and visitors with a huge smile plastered on his lips...
He is visibly happy and excited..
And why won't he be??
After all he is just twenty-five and the whole banquet is buzzing with the appreciation and compliments for his talent..
Well.. Actually it should be their talents - his and his lovely lady love's..
It's their first exhibition and the art lovers are getting crazy seeing their art works...
Every single painting.. Every.. Single painting has been booked for sale..
They are indeed the youngest most successful painters of India..

While attending other guests and visitors his lady love's eyes never leave his sight..
Her concentration is on him not on the compliments she is getting..
That pleasant satisfactory smile on his face is something she is living for..
Suddenly he looked at her and their eyes meet..
Both are gazing each other with so much adoration and love..
They don't need to say I love you in words as their eyes do the honor every time they look at each other...

They tear the eyelock hearing people screaming...
They looked around only to find people are rushing out of the banquet to save their dear life..
Before their system can analyze the happenings thick black smoke surrounds them and only fire can be seen everywhere...
Their eyes get widened seeing fire and they rush to each other..

"Listen.. Don't panic.. Don't panic OK..??
You have to leave from here.. Immediately.." cupping her face he calms down his panicked girl..
"What do you mean by me?? I.. I won't leave without you..
We'll go out together.." she starts sobbing..
"They are our guests.. Our responsibility.. I have to make sure that everyone is safely out.. Then I'll come..
You please go.." he tries to make her understand his POV..
"Exactly.. They are OUR guests.. OUR responsibility..
I'm not going everywhere.." she declares..
"But I can't take risk with your life.. Try and understand.." he pleads..
"Same goes with me..
Now hurry up.. This fire is spreading like anything and people may be stacked in places.." and she starts walking ahead...
Knowing her well he doesn't argue with her further and follows her...

They help as much people as they can..
And then he notices the whole banquet has caught fire...
"OK.. That's it.. We are going out.. Now.."  he declares...
Holding each other's hand they escape through the fire..
But when they come to the exit they notice the door is almost blocked..
"Listen.. We can't go together..
We'll go one by one.. And me after you.." he cups her face firmly..
"No.. Please.. Let me stay with you..
Please.. I don't wanna go without you.. Please... she started crying hugging him..
"Please try and understand.. We can't go out together.." he tries to convince her..
"But.." she wants to say something but he stops her..
"We don't have time.. Just go.. I promise I'll come out safely just after you..." he kisses her forehead and pushes her forward..

And without further adieu she somehow manages to come out of the banquet in a hope that he will also come out after her..
She looks back and screams.. "I'm fine.. Now you just come out.." 
She can see him coming forward..
But then a big burning chunk falls in front of him blocking his way...
Her eyes widen in horror and heart stops beating for a moment..
And before she can react demonic fire flames engulf the whole banquet the very second he still being inside..
"Randhirrrrrrr...." she screams and everything goes black in front of her eyes.. 
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"Randhirrrrrrr..." I scream and jolt open my eyes only to see his face in front of my eyes..
I immediately grasp his face in between my shaky palms and pulling him down closer I smack my lips with his..
I'm kissing him frantically and he's letting me take the charge..
I just want to feel him.. I just want to make myself believe that my Randhir is with me, safe and sound..
That the fire of the banquet didn't harm him..
That he did manage to escape from the fire that day..
Of course he did..
Otherwise how on earth he is with me reciprocating every action of my lips with his..
I can't thank Almighty enough for saving my heartbeat that night..
I pull away in a few minutes as I'm completely breathless..
But I don't leave him, I start kissing his whole face like some lunatic..
My body doesn't stop shaking as the after shock of the nightmare still lingering on my system..
My forehead is coated with sweat which I'm least bothered to wipe away and tears are continuously dribbling down from my eyes.. But this time they are happy tears..
Yes happy tears..!!
Cause the lost and mysterious seven years of my life aren't mystery anymore..
I remember everything now..
Our friendship, our love, our togetherness, everything..
Now I remember every single second of those seven years..
I remember about us..
I remember from our first ever encounter in girl's washroom when I saw him semi nude and he saw me only in towel to that dark night of our life when he saved my life and almost lost his..
"Randhir... I remember everything, Randhir..
I remember everything..
Every damn thing.." I squeal hugging him with all my might..
"You really do remember everything..?? Like everything??" he asks hugging softly..
I've given him this big, amazing and happy news but strangely he isn't showing much happiness till now..
OK.. He actually isn't showing any emotion..
Hmm..!! I think he's in shock knowing that I remember everything now and doesn't getting a way to express it..
I squeeze him in my embrace..
"Yes Randhir.. I remember everything..
I really do.." I emphasis on each word I mouth just to make him believe that it's true..
But what he mouths next, makes my heart skip a beat..
"As far as I know you are afraid of ghosts, right?? Then why aren't you afraid of me, Sanyukta??"

"What rubbish, Randhir..
Don't be ridiculous.." I scold him still clapsing him in my embrace..
"Don't you remember me dying in that fire of the banquet, Sanyukta..??" he asks me calmly..
I mean.. What's his motherfucking problem, mahn..!!
I just get my memory back.. We should be celebrating this moment together.. And here he is hell bent to ruin the moment by his bizarre talks..
And moreover how dare he talking about dying..
"Randhir.. It's enough now OK..
Stop this right now..
And how on earth you can talk about dying.. hmm??
Don't you have any idea how I am feeling hearing it.." my eyes well up yet again..
"Do you really think your Randhir can hurt you or stand tears in your eyes.." he pulls away and wipes my eyes..
"No.." I gulp and he grips my hand firmly..
"Then how can you think I'm kidding about this things??
Whatever I've told you just now is the biggest truth of our life..
That night I couldn't make it.. I was badly stuck in the fire..
Trust me, Sanyukta I tried my best to escape from the fire..
But I couldn't.. I burned till death there..
My death was predestined that day.." he wipes his tears..
What?!!
What's he saying??
Does he think I'm a fool..??
Or I guess he's giving me punishment by all this because I forgot about us..
"Randhir..
I'm sorry.. I intentionally didn't loose my memory..
Still if you want to punish me then do it any other way.. I promise I won't say anything..
But please stop this..
It's killing me.." I show him my puppy eyes and pout..
"Why are you so stubborn, Sanyukta??
Why can't you just accept that I'm dead.." getting down from the bed he yells at me causing me to flinch back..
It's the very first time he yells at me.. I too get down from the bed and stand in front of him..
I gulp seeing him this much angry and touch his hand tentatively..
"Randhir.. What's wrong with you..??
You are scaring me.." I say softly and the very moment he jerks away my hand..
"You should be, Sanyukta..
You should be.. You should be scared of me..
Cause I'm not a human like you.. I'm a dead person.. I'm a.."
He yet again yells at me.. But this time his baseless idiotic words enraged me like anything..
And before he can utter another filthy word I plant a tight slap across his cheek..
"That do you think of me.. Huhh??
That do you think??
Tell me..
Do you really think you will utter shits and I'll believe them??
Can you see this??
Tell me.. Can you see this..
It's the ring you made me wear nine months ago..
Do you recognize it??
Do you remember the blood stains on that white satin sheet the following day after you took away my virginity..??
Do you remember this bed.. our bed.. even previous night you made love to me..
How on earth you are addressing yourself as a de.. dead person??
How, Randhir?? How??"
I fall on the floor with a thud crying hysterically..
I just yell on him.. I just yell on my Randhir..
Why is he saying all this??

Randhir has calmed down now..
He kneels in front of me silently..
I wipe my tears and look away..
Today he hurt me beyond any limits.. And I'm not gonna forgive him ever in my life for this..
Then he takes my right hand and places it where his heart resides..
"Can you feel anything??" he asks softly with a sad smile on his face..
And I'm dying seeing it..
Still I take a deep breath and concentrate to feel his heartbeat..
Time's passing..
I can hear some lub dub sound.. But it's coming from my frantically throbbing heart as I can't feel his heartbeat..
I plead to him through my eyes to say it's a lie..
But instead of doing that he places my left hand on his cheek..
"Ain't I unusually cold?? Like some corpse.." he smiles..
I can't find my voice to answer him back..
"Trust me, Sanyukta.. I'm not lying..
I died that day in fire..
When you saw me trapped in fire you got shocked and fainted right there..
Mom dad got you treated by the best doctors in India but you were not gaining consciousness.. Then they took you to Savannah and after a few days of treatment you gain your consciousness..
Remember they didn't visit you when you gained consciousness..
Cause they hadn't enough strength to inform you about my death..
But when doctor informed them that you lost your memory due to shock they visited you and told you a made up story of the car accident and your job in Savannah and decided to settle there only, way from India and our memories..
I was the most happiest soul when I got to know about your memory loss..
I was happy knowing that you won't be broken knowing about my death..
And you know what my mom dad encouraged them to do all that..
They had already lost me.. And they didn't want to loose you too..
Even they stopped your treatment so that you didn't get your memory back and discover about me and our relationship..
But then how much we try, we plan, we can never control our fate...
After three years destiny again played it's game and sent you back here in India..
And see the coincidence, your academy allotted you the same Villa which I brought for you..
Yes.. I brought this place for you, for us..
You always wanted to be in the lap of nature..
To stay in a place where the chaos of life wouldn't be able to reach you..
To have a cozy peaceful lonely place where we could be with each other only..
And you always wanted to see snow..
I found this place is perfect.. It was a surprise gift for you..
I arranged every damn thing here according to your taste..
You know I planned to take you here after our exhibition and propose you for marriage..
But everything got finished before that..
When my lawyer informed mom dad about this Villa they donated it to a art academy and requested them to keep that room locked so that the last few memories of us stay safe.. Your art academy amalgamated with this very art academy and arrange this Villa for you..
Coincidence.. A huge coincidence.. Isn't it??
But I took it as a mercy of our cruel fate..
I just wanted to be with you like before..
So I didn't let the appointment letter to reach the person academy appointed as the caretaker for you..
I dreamed to live here with you.. And my dream fulfilled..
But I never wanted you to fall for me all over again..
Still it happened.. Our kiss.. Your confession..
Seemed like history was repeating itself..
Trust me, Sanyukta, I tried.. I tried my level best to push you away..
But at the end of the day we are soulmates..
No matter how hard we try we just can't keep our souls away from each other..
I knew that I was pushing you towards a fatal destruction by reciprocating your love.. But I couldn't stop myself..
Your tears was stabbing my soul..
Then I thought if I'm getting a second chance to fulfill your wishes then I should do it..
Remember you always wanted a fairytale proposal..
You always wanted me to claim your heart, soul and body..
That's why I did all that, Sanyukta..
This ring I bought before the exhibition..
It was here in this Villa.. It was waiting for it's true owner.. And finally it got it's true owner..
I knew I'm incapable to give our story a fairytale ending..
But I just tried to give you your fairytale moments..
This one year isn't a lie, Sanyukta..
It's a truth.. It's our truth..
It's a gift of heaven..
Almighty gave us this time to fulfill our dreams which we saw together..
I love you, Sanyukta.. I love you beyond lifetime.."
I just hear him saying all these..
But my mind is numb.. And I don't know what to say or do now..
I don't even know if it the reality or I'm in a terrible dream...
But to be honest I am praying to my stars to make all these only a bad dream..

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