stolen moments

Lina is sitting in a cafe. She is engrossed in a deep thought. Memories of her last 3 years spent in that college haunt her. She looks at two people sitting at the corner seat of the café, making promises of never leaving each other. According to her they looked so happy together. She was not from this place. No one had known her…. She was a stranger…. She had never felt that before… she was hurt…. She was depressed….because she had never felt like that before….

Lina comes home… throws her cell on the bed. She covers her face with her hands and starts to cry helplessly. She again wipes her tears. She gets off the bed and stands in front of the mirror. Looking at her red-eyes, she starts to think how happy she was when she had not met anyone. She curses herself.

Lina leaves the class… She rushes down the stairs like a ferocious animal. Her friend calls her name out. She turns…. Looks back at her…. Wipes her tears… and runs out into the corridor.

“I have to go back….” Said Lina to her best friend, who thought it to be a joke.” are you serious?” asked her friend. “ Yes, I am!”

For Lina those years meant a lot. She had been back stabbed; she had been hurt, dumped, scolded. But she never thought that the pain of leaving her friends would be so intense…. She lay awake in her bed that whole night.

As she lay in bed, voices of her best friends kept coming in her ears. She was hearing them speak to her. She turned her head. Took out her cell from beneath the pillow, and started scrolling down the list of messages sent to her in her in-box.

Her cell starts to beep. She looks around (she is sitting on a bench, location: railway station)…. And then looks at her cell…. She finds a message. She unlocks her cell and opens the message to read.

She realizes that its time for her to go. She takes her luggage and steps into the train…