parcel wrapped in brown paper bag...seems ordinary but of grave importace to her...
it was him...the part of him he always left behind to keep her alive..
she sat on ground and opened it..
and...
the doors of the world of her cinderella story got opened....
one by one she took out every single thing that was in that parcel...
placed it..
aligned it on the floor..
and then she picked that paper bag and turned it...
the logo was there to remind her...
that how she had scolded her brother to not to touch this bag..
and locked it in the cupboard...
it was given by him..
the touch of his hand when he handed it over to her was there...
how could she give it to anyone else?
a pack of goldleaf with some ash and half smoken pieces of ciggarette,
few bills of different restaurants where they both had shared some laughs..
a broken glass of snorkeling googles,
few dried 'gajray' tht he had bought for her on their way back home...
ahhh she still recalls those sparkling eyes when she waved her hands to show them to him..
a dried peeled skin of an orange from his maa ji's garden....
a tissue paper...one from pizza hut..
his very first written love note to her..
before his first deployment..
and that heart melting moments attached with it..
that made her cry that time and even now as well..
she felt the world spinning around..
wrapper of that limited edition branded perfume...christin aulgeria...the frangnance that possessed her...enwraps her like his arms around her..
make her to get lost in it...
a blank paper with nothing written but some kinky yet funny memories...
she giggled..
and thn the little charm pendent with it...
a CD burned with their love songs....songs with nostalgic memories...songs that depicts their journey together as couple..
songs from 'a walk to remember'!!
and...
then there were those 8 letters...
letters from his love to her love...
letters that act as oxygen for her....let her forget all the hardships they've been through...that have supported her throughout till date...
the ones containing his immense love and care for her...
the ones with the words,,,
'i can go beyond limits for you and you know it...and i'll always be there for you...will always love you like this or even more...n i mean every single word of it'
she rubbed her eyes...
packed the parcel and locked it again...
and texted him...
thanks for doing such favors to me..though years back...but today they're the reasons to keep me alive...and now i want nothing from you..not a single thing.'
and then she rest her head on the wall and said to herself...nothing except a request...don't make me realize it again and again...that you're no more like this...the one who done this all no more exist...is lost..is gone...far gone...
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