PSYCHIC LOVE

Written by :- Sandeep Bisht

At the far end of lush green college ground, he was sitting on a bench under the shades of a tree, waiting for me. I was late as usual but Nishant wasn’t sketching as he usually did. Something was different today, something unusual, I could sense it.

“Sorry I am late”, I said to Nishant.

“Riya, I am used to it” said he.

The weather was lovely and we constantly talked about random things for more than an hour. It started drizzling and Nishant held my hands.

“I am going to tell you something, a secret that I haven’t told to anyone. But you have to promise me one thing that this truth won’t bring any change in our friendship”, as he said these words my heart started beating faster, I was puzzled yet I had a hint about what he is about to say.

Drizzling, my hands in his, a perfect time to propose someone and I was ready for it. I have liked him for quite some time now but I didn’t want to initiate.

I gave him a neutral reaction and said “If you haven’t told this secret to anyone then why me”. I was successful in hiding my excitement by using these words. The ball was in his court now.

“Because you are the only person I trust most”, said he. This was the moment when I fell for him. From inside I was like. Just say it and my answer won’t be no, but just like any other girl I didn’t give much importance to his powerful words.

“Ok, I promise, now tell what is it”, I said.

“I am psychic, various incidents flashes through my mind before they actually happen”, said he.

He remained silent and waited for me to react or at least say something. All my curiosity came to a drastic end, not because he is psychic, but because I was hoping that he would say something else, something more worthy. It’s true that fear and desire makes you believe in things which are not actually real.

“I won’t tell it to anyone, but when did this happen”, I said, just to divert my mind off my imaginary world which I was experiencing from past five minutes.

“Ever since I met with that bike accident. I was so close to being dead, it was a close call”, he said.

“Look at that guy, his coffee will spill now”, he said pointing towards a guy who was walking in the ground holding a tray. I looked at that guy and yes his coffee did spill on his clothes.

I was amazed with his psychic powers so I asked him, “have you ever tried to intervene any such incident from happening”.

“Yes I tried it a couple of times but I was never able to convey the message on time, at that time I thought that some things are meant to happen, it’s all written, so who am I to intervene the decision of god who created us all”, said he.

I wish I could get those powers I said to myself. We discussed about psychic world in depth, where I kept on asking questions and he was answering. We sat there for hours and in the evening we left. Before going to sleep I thought, I was so close to getting into a relationship but my fate took a wrong turn. I was concerned about Nishant and his being a psychic made me think even more about him.

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Next morning we were together walking on the wet streets of Lodi Road.

“Don’t answer it” said Nishant, and suddenly my phone rang. I gave him a confused expression because for a second I could'nt figure out what just happened.

“Don’t answer its bad news” he said again.

But an undeniable fact is that when you tell somebody for not doing a particular thing, he/she will do the same (the act of curiosity, cum stupidity). I was curious to know what was coming my way and I picked by the call. It was Rajeev our mutual friend.

“Riya, I met with an accident, please don’t tell Nishant about it, I was on his bike. I will get it repaired, can you lend me 5,000 rupees in the evening”. Rajeev said all this in one go as if he is reading a script. “Ok I will arrange it, but are you fine”, I said on the phone.

“Yes, I am fine, some minor injuries, and thank you Riya, thank you so much, bye”, said Rajeev.

I was again amazed by Nishant’s Psychic powers and shocked by Rajeev’s incident as well. What happened, asked Nishant. Initially I thought of lying, but he is a psychic after all and maybe he already knows about the incident, I said to myself.

“It was Rajeev, he met with an accident” I said.

“Is he fine, I will meet him in the evening”, said he, and I nodded.
"Why dont you meet him now"  I asked.
"Because right now I want to spend time with you " said he.

I was mostly quiet for the rest of the day. Couple of days passed and Nishant further predicted 2 more incidents. One was that I will get a dog as a gift on my birthday that was round the corner and the other one was that Natasha will be going to New Zealand for further studies.

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With the chirping of birds I woke up in the morning. After getting ready I came to my balcony and saw Nishant standing on the corner of the street, he looked tensed. I called him up but he didn’t pick my call. I went down to meet him and the moment he saw me coming towards him, he behaved in a weird way and started walking in the opposite direction. I didn’t knew what was he up to, I was confused so I started running towards him, something was wrong I thought.

“What’s the matter” I shouted. “Nothing” he replied.

“Tell me what is it, first you stand outside my house and now you are ignoring me, what is it”, I cried. “What if… what would you do if I say that this is the last day of my life and this is the last time you will see me” said Nishant.

I didn’t knew how to react in this situation and asked him to stop if it’s a bad joke or prank.

“I won’t make up to tomorrow evening, I am going to die and I want to live the last day of my life with you” said he.

“I refuse to believe this, I …. this cant be possible” I said in a shivering tone. His silence assured me that what he said is true. I looked up at the sky to control my tears from falling but still couple of them dropped of my eyes which he wiped off with his fingers. I hugged him and said “yes, I will be with you to make your day special”.

It started raining, I kissed him and said “I love you”.

“I love you too” he said.

“Why didn’t you tell me this earlier”, I said in a crying tone.

“I was afraid, if you didn’t have the same feelings for me then it would have ruined our relationship” said he.

I was bewildered because I didn’t know whether to be happy for getting the love of my life or to cry after the truth that he is going to die. My mind was restless, I didn’t want to believe in what Nishant said but his predictions were accurate so far.

He kissed me and grabbed me in his arms, my world was finally mine. This was certainly the best moment of my life which was encircled by mixed emotions. For the rest of the day we were together sitting on the green matted grass where I kept my head on his shoulder, sobbing most of the time. Later in the evening he dropped me home, this was the last time I am seeing him, I thought. We didn’t talk much this day but our silence spoke more than words. We said bye to each other and then I went back home running. I couldn’t sleep at night so I called Nishant, and we talked till early morning.

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After I woke up late in the morning, I called him again but he didn’t pick up my call. Natasha came to my place and she seemed extremely happy.

“I am Going to New Zealand baby” said she in a cheerful tone.

 “I know, I am happy for you” I said with a sadistic expression.

 “But It doesn’t looks like that you are happy” said she.

“I am happy for you, but not with my life, after what happened to Nishant” I said.

“I am sorry Riya, I should have told you this earlier” said she. I gave him a question mark expression, because I wasn’t sure what she was talking about.

 “Nishant is not a psychic, I told him that I am going to New Zealand, before I could tell you. Rajeev also never met with an accident. Nishant made up this story to prove that he is psychic” said Natasha.

“Why would he do that”, I shouted in frustration.

“I think he just wanted to take a risk free step to propose you” said she.

“Propose me, its me who proposed that liar”, I shouted. “And I thought he is going to die, I have been crying for him all night”, I further added.

"I will never forgive him for doing this" I said.

“You can either hate him for breaking your trust, or you can be happy that the love of your life is going to live, the choice is yours” said Natasha as she left. Every word she said made sense but before I could have given thought towards it, Nishant called me. I disconnected the call. He called again, so I picked up the call.

“You lied to me, I hate you. You said that you trust me the most but the truth is that you broke my trust. I could never imagine you doing such a thing, I hate you. Don’t call me again”, I cried in one breath and disconnected the call. I broke into tears but soon recalled myself. I was happy that he is not going to die but extremely angry for what he did. He tried calling me for couple of days but I didn’t answer.  

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It was 27^th October my birthday, I got calls from my friends and relatives. I was waiting for Nishant to call me today, even though I was angry at him. May be he gave up on me, I thought. But one thing was for sure that I wouldn’t call him. At 7pm in the evening my doorbell rang and when I opened the door, there was a nicely wrapped box on the floor with a hole on top of it. Something was moving inside the box, so I opened it with curiosity. There was a cute little snow-white colored pup inside the box. I long wanted to adopt a dog and here it was. The cute dog brought smile on my face. At that moment I thought that Nishant did predicted this incident as well. Tied to the neck strap of the dog there was a letter.

“I know I don’t deserve your forgiveness but I need it. I have loved you for ages but I didn’t have courage to say it to you. So I came up with this idea to know that weather you love me or not. I am not a psychic, but yes my last prediction was true. This is not just a dog but my token of love for you. If you don’t love me anymore then please do give your love and affection to this dog, but if you do love me then please pick up my call”.

Nishant

As soon as I ended up reading this letter my phone rang. I thought for a while and answered his call but I didn’t utter a word.

“Riya I am sorry and I love you. I know what I did was wrong, but I wanted to know what’s running on your mind” said he.

“Couldn’t you have thought of some other idea. How stupid I am, psychic, and I believed you. I believed you because I love you. Promise me that you won’t break my trust anymore” I said.

“I promise” said he and the tears of joy fell from my eyes.

I went downstairs and hugged him. It was an evening to remember where I got my love back along with his precious token of love. We named the dog – PSYCHO.

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