When I Got Lost--- Part 2

However, this situation remained no longer; she made herself   busy with floral vines and in search of that rabbit... However, the enthusiasm was missing.

Then, her eyes fell on that FLOWER…the flower in lake... It was still there. She wanted that flower …she just wanted to have it... but how... it was far …ahh, who cares...She was thinking…

I want this... 

She looked here and there, may be something she can find...  She started searching. After a while, she found a long twisted broken branch of a tree…”humm, perhaps,  this can help..”

She entered into the water... It was cold.. Moreover, the bottom of lake was a bit slippery too... She was moving carefully... slowly-slowly …now half of her body was in the water. The flowers, she was wearing, as ornaments were now loosing up and getting scattered on water surface. Only the crown remained on her head, but she removed it too. Suddenly, she felt something... The cold water…its touch was uncanny... An enchanting atmosphere was surrounding her senses. She let herself lost in that magical moment of heavenly sensation. Water was penetrating her skin…it was drenching her soul, her spirit. She stayed in that position for a while... She even forgot the reason, (the flower), that brought her here, into the water.

After a while, as a thought struck her mind and she felt a bit scared, she came out of that magical world. Regaining her consciousness, she then, looked at that flower... Carefully she stretched the branch that she carried with her and gently pulled the flower stalk... After a couple of attempts, she successfully pulled and plucked the flower. Then, she came out of the lake.

Flower was bigger than other normal flowers and its fragrance was overwhelming her senses.. Or maybe she was still feeling that mystique aura. She made a loose chignon of her hair and tugged the flower in it. She went back to the lake … saw herself in the mirror of lake... Flower was looking extremely pretty or was that her imagination, which was making it pretty? She did not know.

…and then, once again she saw that rabbit, doing something near a tree…both were aware of each other’s presence and were exchanging some glances… girl was smiling and rabbit was twinkling his eyes. Finally, he moved to a tree-grove, curiosity led her to follow him once again. .She entered into that grove... and what was there … more three-four rabbits. 

She took a quick look of the surrounding and her face got delighted with a childlike cheerfulness, engulfing her mind, her soul into a heavenly feeling.  She joined those little fluffy friends or they joined her... cannot say … but one thing was sure that they were enjoying each other’s company. More couple of hours went like this... She forgot about the rest of world... she forgot the time and its barriers… even she fall asleep for a while... She was dreaming. Dreaming about the “other sides”, about the reflections... and about the rabbits. 

A loud voice broke the silence.  Somebody is calling.. She woke up.

“What kind of noise is this?” She whispered. She came back to the lake. 

That boy, the same boy, was wandering here and there, looking all around and calling her name ..

“June, June…are you there?” 

She was surprised to see him back. For a minute, she stayed quiet and watched his activities.

“So you are here...” He was happy to see her, he was breathless still, a broad smile spread on his face. She noticed it and came towards him. She was still looking at him with a wonder. 

“Say something…I thought, you might have gone... But, you are ..”

“Yes, I was here only.” she said slowly. He noticed that unsaid happiness and unexpressed joy behind those words.

“How you came back.. I thought you are gone. Your people were calling you.” She asked

“Yes, some work…but I finished it and came back to see whether you are still here…” His breath was now getting normal.

She was listening to his words … carefully.

“So, what were you doing all the time? Did not you get afraid?”

“Afraid of what?”

“This place, all alone...”

He left the sentence incomplete and asked almost in a loud manner... ”What happened to those flowers?”

First, she laughed…then, she said, “They are gone”

“Gone??? Where?” He was getting confused. Thousands of thoughts were storming his mind…

She was smiling; her eyes were sparkling with a mystery. Holding a silence, as she is hiding something, she giggled and repeated, “They are gone”

He was still in same situation... Wanted to ask, but did not know how?

“Did you not see this...?” She pointed to the flower in her hair. Her face was now glowing with a feel of victory. He couldn't get her, but then, the very next moment, he looked at the lake. (They were not much far from lake) and again at the flower..

“How did you do that ?” His eyes were widened with a great surprise.

She smiled, “Just did that. I went into the water and plucked it with a broken branch”. She said as a little child telling about her good work at school.

“Are you crazy? “You went into the  water?!!!!!”

“Yes...” She said in careless manner.

“You are crazy…completely crazy”. “It could have been risky... don’t you know that”. 

“Relax, there was nothing as such. It was neither risky nor any troublesome task.”

Her tone remained careless and ignorant to his question. He listened more words than she spoke and understood more than she actually meant. His enthusiasm and happiness of seeing her, was now diminishing.

Meanwhile, she was going back to the tree grove...

“Where are you going now?” He was still confused.

“Oh, I...I am... I want to show you something, come... come”

Though, He did not ask any question, yet he followed her with a heavy heart. Soon they were near that grove.  She seemed disappointed, rabbits or any sign of them was not there.

“Where are those rabbits?”

“What rabbits?”

“Here, I was playing with them all the time when you were not here.”

Now, he got more disconcerted... ”I never saw any rabbit here.”

“But, they were here.” ….

“Anyway, come, see this...”

 She went to a huge banyan tree and held a thick vine duo, which was looking as a nature made swing. She sat on it and slowly-slowly started swinging on it...up and downwards….

“Be cautious, lest you should fall.” He was worried and upset as well.

She laughed and for that moment, her laughter sounds like a waterfall …falling from high hills…He was looking her with another surprise... “You are crazy...”

Soon the swing caught some speed. And, as it was not enough for her, so she started turning it round in circular motions. He was, once again astonished.  Her laughter and that loud expression of joy were creating magnetic waves, engulfing everything that was presented on that moment of time on that piece of land  ... and she,  she was hardly aware of all that and was enjoying the swinging only…He felt that he was not able to move eyes from her... or maybe he doesn’t wanted to do that.. Meanwhile, she noticed it.. 

She noticed his eyes…there were aspirations, expectations, ambitions and  ...and lot more things. And in her eyes,…he saw a dream, hidden behind the sparkling curtains. He stepped forward…

“You have not asked my name yet.”

“I know your name.” Another careless reply.

“You know!!!!!!!!! But, I have not told you... then, how…how you know?? “He was now standing in front of her.

“What…”  For a second she stopped laughing and seemed answer less...

He repeated the question…Her smile came back. Eyes were looking to an unknown horizon, when she said…

“Your name is Mirage …Your name is Rainbow Phantasm.”

He stopped the swing with a strong grip of hands and looked to her, but she softly removed his hand and stood up from the swing.

He was speechless, but wanted to say something.

She heard…She turned back…but what is this...

Everything  ... around her, including him, was getting disappear in a vortex. She shouted with fear... she extended her hand to catch something…but it was late...

“Stoppppppp…” Her breath was fast and she was sweating…

“Soniya, Rani, what happened  ...It was just a dream. Relax...” Those were her parents.

Her cell-phone ring tone rang up…” Chhoti si kahani se baarishon ke paani se..saari vaadi bhar gai…”   

The First Part of the Story is Here

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