My Sweetheart..
Love stories
Reporter
So Mr. Ray, why is your genere always horror or suspense?
Reporter
Why don't you write romance novels?
Ray Malhotra (ml)
Well, the reason is not particular. It's just that horror and suspense stories have more contents than love stories .
Ray Malhotra (ml)
You only tell, in a love story a girl and boy falls in love and the story ends.
Ray Malhotra (ml)
so what are the contents?
Ray Malhotra (ml)
Whereas in horror and suspense stories, we can feel different emotions such as anxiety, mystery, fear and many more.
Reporter
It is true that your previous novels were hit but it has been three years since your last book. Readers are demanding for love stories from you.
Ray Malhotra (ml)
Let's see. Maybe my next book would be a love novel.
Reporter
It was a pleasure meeting you , Mr.Ray!
Saying so the recording ended.
I was so exhausted after this ,that I took my car straight to my apartment with out informing my publisher.
I plopped on my bed thinking about the recording today.
Ray Malhotra (ml)
Ha...Love story....(sighing)
It has been three months since the recording event.
And now also I didn't complete one single page of writing. My room contains lumps of pages ,some in bundles and some twisted like balls spreaded all over the floor, bed and the desk and me on the chair with my typewriter.
At 12 am, my publisher came to my apartment.
Knocking the door he straight came inside my room without waiting for my answer.
He covered his face with his handkerchief preventing the horrible smell of alchohol and cigarettes from entering his nose and then looked at the astray which was high with the butts of cigarettes.
Fedrick (publisher)
How many day has it been since you came out of the room??🤨
Ray Malhotra (ml)
I don't know..
Fedrick (publisher)
What?! Don't know? Ray ,it has been three months since you announced about your next book.
Fedrick (publisher)
And how many pages have you written?
Ray Malhotra (ml)
I am writing now,so get out from my sight.
Fedrick (publisher)
Yea ..yea..So how much have you written??
I remained silent to prevent answering the question.
Fedrick (publisher)
Don't tell me you haven't written a single page??(angry)
Fedrick (publisher)
Haa...(calming down)
Fedrick (publisher)
Ok..I see . So you haven't written a single page?
Fedrick (publisher)
I think you should get some fresh air and then start writing. What a bad smell is coming from your room!!!
He walked towards the window to open it. Before I could object he opened it.
And as he opened it a strong gust of wind came inside the room taking most of my writing with it outside.
Ray Malhotra (ml)
My writing!!(getting up from the chair panicked)
Fedrick (publisher)
Who the hell writes in typewriters now a days?!! It is the age of modern computers!!Are you still in the 90s?(panicked)
He went on blabbling with his nonsense. I saw some of my writing on the street and in my garden. I ran to the stairs going to my garden, trying to catch the papers.
When suddenly my phone rang....
Divorce
I accepted the call. A familiar voice started to speak....
Mrs. Malhotra
Hey Idiot!! Do you remember me? It's your pathetic, helpless mother in Calcutta !
Ray Malhotra (ml)
Say what do you need? If you continue with your nonsense, I am gonna hung up.
Mrs. Malhotra
Gonna hung up?! Bastard, do you remember the last time you called or picked our call??
Mrs. Malhotra
Oh god!!What kind of child did I give birth to?!!Do u know how I and your father are surviving here without you??
Ray Malhotra (ml)
I send you money every month, it's your problem you don't take it.
Mrs. Malhotra
Keep your damn money with you!!
Ray Malhotra (ml)
So ,why do you call me?
I was talking in the phone with my mother while catching my pages in the garden.
Mrs. Malhotra
Your father and I am getting divorced.
Ray Malhotra (ml)
What nonsense are you talking about??It must be again about the food you cook? If I continued to stay there ,I would also have left you.
Mrs. Malhotra
Are you telling that the food I cook tastes bad?? Bastard , you have been eating that since your birth!! Now you are telling me it tastes bad!!!
Ray Malhotra (ml)
Ok ok..Jokes aside. Are you really getting divorced?
Mrs. Malhotra
Do I have time to kid??
Mrs. Malhotra
Come home tomorrow!! We are going to the court day after tomorrow.
Ray Malhotra (ml)
What? Tomorrow? Do I look I have time to kid around like that??
Mrs. Malhotra
I don't know. If you don't come ,I will never keep contact with you!! Bye!!
Ray Malhotra (ml)
Wait....what!!!!
She hung up the phone without letting me complete my sentence. What does people take me for?? Do I look like a idler?
But after hearing her ,I think this time it is serious. I went back to my apartment with a handful of papers. My publisher already left without even closing the door.Does he want my apartment to get theft??Good ,I will take revenge on it.
I packed my stuffs including my typewriter in my suitcase. I wrote a big note of my leave from Mumbai for a month in WhatsApp.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I reached my home in North Calcutta at 11am. I was quiet troubled about the divorce between my parents.
As I entered my house, I saw my parents having a cup of tea with Tagore songs.
What a peaceful atmosphere??!!!Who would say they were getting divorced!!!
I stood at the door only for watching them acting lovey dovey.
What ? Why did they call me here all the way from Mumbai??!!!!
Neighbor
I stood at the door with my mouth open. Did I come here all the way from Mumbai to see them act lovey dovey? What happened about the divorce?
They saw me at the doorstep with my mouth hanging. They laughed a lot after seeing me at this state and became serious all of a sudden as if they were trying to hide their faces which was doing to blast out of laughter.
Ray Malhotra (ml)
Aren't you two getting divorced?
Mr. Malhotra
Brat ,are you questioning my love for your mother?
Mr. Malhotra
Even god couldn't separate me and your mother in these life!!
My mom chuckled a little and then explained father all the things from the start.
Mrs. Malhotra
Sweety , that bastard of ours was planning to not visit us during this Durga Puja just like last year's.
Mrs. Malhotra
So , I tricked him into these.
Mrs. Malhotra
You have to stay here until the end of Durga Puja.Then go where ever you want to go !!!
Mrs. Malhotra
And I don't want a single word from you!
Without letting me to stay anything ,she pushed me inside the room locking it from outside.
I have to stay in Calcutta for more two weeks until Durga Puja! I haven't finished a damn single page of writing.
Ray Malhotra (ml)
Urgg.....What should I do?!
Saying so I plopped in the bed falling in a deep sleep, dreaming of about a long dream.
Next day , I went on a trip revisiting my neighborhood and to collect new ideas on love stories.
Ahh...these familiar environment here really soothes my mind.
I tried by best to recollect some events during my childhood and college days.
And then I froze. Why don't I try writing on a story of Calcutta in the 90s and adding a simple, ordinary love story to it.
As this idea stroke in my mind, I looked around my neighborhood and spotted the house next to us.
As soon I tried to remember my neighbors , a lot of memories flooded through my mind.
I couldn't support my legs and sat on the bench near.
That's the house of my neighbor, childhood sweetheart , crush , best friend as well as ex- girlfriend and the girl who hurt me the most.
I now know that the break up between us was in a way partial fault of me. If it wasn't for my immaturity we wouldn't break up ,she would have been my wife now.
If only I could meet her once more ,I would apologized to her and would never let her get away from me..
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