Two little friends

Once upon a time there were two friends. Jade and Jake - They were called. Both were nine years old. From the moment they met each other they were always together. They could not spend a moment apart from each other.

Abandoned by their parents and no one to take care of them they both ended up in the orphanage.Jade was four when she came to sweet home* and Jake was five when he came there.

(*sweet home - Name of orphanage)

It was love at first sight. When jake came to sweet home for the first time old sister was carrying him in his arms. He was malnourished and weak at that time. His face was pale and he was too thin.

Jade was sitting in the stairs that day. All the other children were playing nearby but not jade. She was all alone. She had a rose petal in one of her hand and a toffee in the other one.

Jade saw jake and she was mesmerized. In her eyes he looked like the most handsome man on earth. She loved how pretty and long Jake's hair were. She just kept looking at him.

The moment jake saw jade he immediately gestured old sister to put him down. She stood there for a moment and then moved towards jade. He stood in front of her and looked at her carefully.

'The rose petal smells sweet'- said jake. Jade smiles and hands over the toffee in her other hand to jake. Jake takes the toffee, breaks it into two parts and gives one part to jade and keeps the other one.

Both eat their part and smile at each other. That was the beginning of their life together. Whatever they had to do they would always be together.

Every time one of them had a chance to be adopted they gave it up because they do not wanted to apart from each other. Their one and only condition was to he adopted together.

Everyone in the orphanage was envious of their bond. Many times other children would try to get in between their friendship and create problems but they never allowed such things to break them apart.

Sweet home was built in the heart of the city. It was built in the middle of city but the property was so big that they had to walk for at least twenty minutes from their hostels to reach the bustling market.

Jade and jake had a secret hideout in the orphanage. Jade's room was on third floor and Jake's was the second. They would sneak out of their room every time, walk through the corridor, enter the sports room on first floor and move the table beside the wall.

Behind the table was a huge hole in the wall. Due to the table it would always go unnoticed and was the wall was never repaired. Only jade knew about it at first and then she told jake about it.

Once they sneak out of the wall they would go to the park that was in the vicinity of sweet home. In the park there were several mazes and special spots to sil at talk comfortably.

Whenever jade and Jake sneak out of their room they would always walk to the park together and then in front of the entrance they would take different paths to the center of the maze.

In ten minutes they would reach the center of the maze. There they would sit for hours and hours to talk. It was their everyday routine. Not a single person in sweet home ever stopped them. Everybody absolutely loved both of them.

Whenever somebody would visit sweet home they would always say that jade and jake were made for each other. She were absolute sweethearts.

Everything seemed to be good. Everyone was happy. But one day suddenly everything changed. Their life was never the same.

It was the day of 10th annual anniversary of sweet home. Everybody was busy in the preparations of the special program for celebrations. Jade and Jake had a special dance performance too.

They had practiced for a whole week everyday to prepare for the event. They were very excited for the performance. It was almost evening. The performances began. Jade and jake had the 10th performance.

Jade was very nervous. So to calm down jade, jake asked her to go with him to the center of maze and practice there for one last time. They both headed towards the park.

In the entrance of the maze they took different paths as usual. Jake reached the center of the maze in ten minutes but jade never came. Jake continued waiting for her but it was all in vain.

Half an hour passed and jade was nowhere to see. Jake became worried. He hurried towards the hostel and ran towards jade's room. He barged open the door and looked for jade but she was not there.

He shouted--" Jade. jade. Where are you?"

" Jade It's not time for a joke."

"Jade come out"

He ran towards the auditorium now where the program was happening. He ran backstage towards girls changing room.

He knowed at the door and shouted.

"Jade are you there "

"come on I am worried."

"Jade answer me"

But there was no reply. Where was jade? It was the first time in all these years that this one of thing happened. Jake became more and more anxious.

It was almost their turn for performance. The nineth performance ended and the hosts were calling out jade's and Jake's name. But he was there all alone. Jade was nowhere to be seen.

Jake walked towards the stage all alone. He was standing in middle of the stage completely clueless. Suddenly he heard someone walking towards the stage. He looked towards the door. It was jade.

Where was she? Jake was relieved but he was so angry. He could not ask her anything at that moment. He just hold his anger in. He wanted to wait for the performance to end and then question jade.

They performed beautifully. Both of them bowed to the audience and walked towards the door. Jade was silent. She didn't say anything. Jake was confused. He atleast wanted an explanation for that unreasonable behaviour.

Jake tried to talk to jade but she didn't replied. Jake was so confused. He had no idea what was going on. Jade walked quietly towards the audience and sat in one of the seats. Jake sat besides her too.

Jade was watching all the performances quietly. She didn't say a word at all. jake could tell she was very nervous. The auditorium was air conditioned but she was sweating heavily.

He could not understand what was troubling her. Suddenly she stood up in middle of a performance and walked outside. Jake followed her.

She was walking aimlessly. Jake was so worried about her. He called her name again and again. But she won't listen. At last he grabbed her hand and turned her face towards him.

He took a hold of her shoulder and shook her.

"wake up jade"- he said. She didn't even raised her head. Instead she pushed jake so hard that he fell on ground and said just these words--" Don't follow me." and walked away.

Jake was shocked. He just saw her walking away. He didn't follow her. His eyes were teary. But he wanted to give her time to calm down. He just saw her walking towards the maze.

Jake was outside the maze waiting for jade to come out. 10 minutes passed and she was still in there. Suddenly an explosion occured. The whole garden blew up. Jake was injured and became unconscious. He didn't knew anything what happened after that.

The next moment he woke up in hospital he was all bandaged. He could not move his legs. His lower body was paralyzed. He tried to remember what happened but every time he did that his head would just hurt.

He could not remember anything. He didn't knew his name. He didn't knew who he was. He lost his identity. Later old sister told him about orphanage and everything.

She took him back to orphanage. He saw the scene outside. The park looked like it never existed. It looked like a big explosion occured there but he could not remember anything. He felt like he was missing a part of his life but he could not understand that feeling.

10 years later.

Jake is 19 now. He graduated from school and is preparing for university entrance exam.

(news playing in tv)

person 1-- Viewers after almost 10 years the culprit of sweet home terrorist attack has finally been captured. It is a moment of great relief for all of our nation. The case in which thousands of innocent lives were lost has been resolved.

Person 2-- Yes it is our great pleasure to tell our viewers that the main culprit James Bennett was caught this morning in his private villa in tenese cansulberg*. Along with his arrest seven other member of his organization were caught. They are all undergoing questioning by the CIA for the past seven hours.

(*tenese cansulberg- fiction town)

Person 1-- CIA has issued a statement that with James Bennett's arrest they have made a great progress in finding the main root of this organization.

Person 2-- Also to give a final farewell to all the victims of the sweet home terrorist attack a memorial service is being organized in the very park of the sweet home which has been recreated. All the people who want to attend it please visit the park again to give a final farewell on next Saturday.

Jake had moved out of the orphanage two years before but during the years he lived there he hardly heard about that incident from anyone. Whenever he asked people about that incident they just ignored him or changed the topic. So he decided to go there once again and visit his friends.

(Day of memorial service)

Jake reached sweet home. He walked towards the park. He had lived there for so many years but he still felt like he was missing something. The park was rebuilt but it no longer looked like the old version. He didn't even remember how it looked like before.

He paid respect to the dead. He looked at their pictures and found a strange but still familiar looking face. It was jade. He felt like he knew her but could not remember anything.

After some time he walked towards the orphanage. He was still a cripple and used a wheelchair so he couldn't go upstairs. So he just roamed around the first floor. He moved to the sports room.

He felt a familiar feeling there. Since he became a cripple he never came to the sports room again. But that day when he entered the sports room tears automatically rolled down his eyes.

He didn't knew why but when he saw the table besides the wall he wanted to remove it from there. He pushed it by great difficulty and saw the escape hole there. Suddenly old memories started flashing in his mind.

He began to remember things. He wanted to crawl down the hole but he could not move his legs. So he just fell from the chair and started pulling his body with the help of just his arms.

He barely managed to get his body out out the hole. It saw a bit small for an adult but he still managed. Outside he saw the memorial ceremony happening. But his memories had a different view of that place.

He could see himself and a little girl running wildly towards the maze. His head started hurting so bad. He started crying so loudly. Everybody could hear him. People started running towards him. Big sister came and help him get up.

He helped him sit besides the wall. He kept crying. Big sister hugged him so tightly.

She said--" So you finally remember now. You remember her." She started crying too.

"Jade. I miss you jade."- Said jake.

"I miss you Jade."

"Can you hear me?"

"I miss you."

After some time he could barely stop crying. Big sister explained everything to jake.

"That day I don't know what exactly happened because you lost you memories. But all I know is jade was kidnapped before your performance by the terrorists. I don't know when.

Ten children were kidnapped and forced to wear time bombs. They were threatened not to tell anyone. When the explosion occured I was in the hostel. Everyone in the auditorium died. Not a single soul survived. You are I were one of the fifteen people who survived that day.

The doctor told us not to tell you anything because sudden stress could be life threatening to you. So we kept it all a secret. I am sorry jake. I could not save jade. I am sorry."

"No. It's not your fault. I should have followed jade that day. She would not have died alone if only I was with her. She wanted to save everyone that's why she moved out of the auditorium. That's why she pushed me that day. Because she wanted to save me. Because she loved me."-- said jake.

(All people became emotional)

Someone brought Jake's wheelchair and then he moved towards the memorial service. He gave a heart breaking speech about all the years he spent with jade. He remembered her now.

All the time he felt like he was missing something, he understood it now. It was jade. She was his missing part.

He loved her and she lived him too.

After that day jake used all his life to rebuilt the sweet home again. He rebuilt the maze again. And in the very center he made a statue of a girl with a rose petal in one hand and a toffee in other.

And their love lived forever.