The Journey Begins

In a cold afternoon flew the gentle breeze while listening the romantic melody i heard a knock on my door , " Good afternoon Mr. Whiskers , may i have bit of your time ? " As i settled down my freshly baked bread i offered , " Welcome Mrs. Brown would you like a cup of black tea and few muffins as a side dish? " , " Sure please add few lemon drops in the tea ." she replied while arranging her bags . While pouring her tea i caught the glimpse of her luggage , " May i know if you're trying to move out of town ? " , " Oh! if you're asking about my luggage then yes i am, as you already know i a widow my husband died in a war last year , you surely must have  heard the rumors about 'The unlucky widow ' , there are people who have eyes of wolves looking at their prey , people who have look of sympathy for my cursed destiny and people who find faults in my luck , would you be able to avert your gaze from such looks , so here i decide to move out to the world filled with stories of love which will make me believe that it wasn't a curse that i fell in love with someone ". Sighing the worries as she took the sip of tea she asked me , " Mr. Brown if i'm not wrong you are yet a bachelor even though you're in your twenties, may i know why haven't you thought of marriage yet ? " As i chuckled over my own self i answered , " To be honest even i did fell in love once but sadly it never ended as i wanted , if you would like to hear my story then here it is . Back in my high school when i was just a teen , I realized my love was something that would bring disgust in people's eyes for me . Back in those days i was famous in my classes for being a looker , girls used to flock around me as cats would around a mice through out the school hours , there were people who were jealous about me and people who praised me , i received plenty of chocolates on valentine , i would gladly accept them, i even accepted a few of confessions in those days, but they never ended happily , i wondered why , they would want to  interact physically with me but for some reason i wasn't interested in it , practically one day during summer afternoon after our physical education classes ended i was hanging out with my folks , i remember the hot afternoon where my mind was fuzzy due to the heat that i didn't had  my actions in control, me who never touched a girl after seeing my friend's slender and pale neck and hands dripping in sweat in sweat , that was the first time i had he urge of touching someone, and without any consciousness my  towards him and i kissed his cheek , everyone stared at me as if i had committed a worst crime , but thankfully to my being famous i brushed it off with a reason as granting a wish, so they brushed off as joke too , well i wonder what would it had been if it was a kiss on lips, even in that summer heat after that kiss i regained my consciousness as well as self hatred when i realized i'm someone what they call 'not normal' . I was scared i skipped my school sometimes, i was more conscious of my surroundings , i visited churches, read many holy books , tried to purify myself though of giving up my life , but as i grew i accepted the way i was , but even though i never again fell in love with another boy , i couldn't gather the courage to face the look in their eyes if they hear my confession. This is my story , I deeply apologize if i have grossed you out , but i don't think i can ever marry and have a happy family ." Her eyes were wide open as she took it by surprise , i thought she would have the same disgust look as others in her eyes , but she smiled and said," Oh my! what an interesting story but don't worry i'm open minded and for me there are various forms of love, didn't i told you Mr. bachelor i am leaving this small town to merge into a bigger world and find out what is the real meaning of love , the various forms of love , so i can say to myself that me falling in love wasn't a curse , that i hold no regret in this life if its related to love ".  " Curse? why would you call your love curse? Were you not happy with your marriage? " There was a silence after my question , which felt as a void , " Well even though my love was normal and a common romance between teens it surely didn't end up in a beautiful way , my love story began in college , just like they say ' its spring for them' i had my spring love , when i met him reading my favorite author book under a cherry tree , i was mesmerized by the scene a strong body of a man yet the air around him was gentle as those cherry petals . It was surely love at first sight , after that we ended up talking now n then about books , as we grew closer i understood that he had feelings for me , February 3 , 1957 he proposed me and we had our peaceful loving days , his dream was to fight for our country , our college days were just like a fairy tale , they were beautiful, after college he joined military, just after few years as war was coming near , in that anxiety in asked him to hurry for our marriage, it went just smoothly and after our marriage he left for the war in few days , but what returned was a wallet with a wedding ring in it , sometimes I wonder would it had been better if i didn't hurried our marriage and waited for him to come back ? would it had been a different destiny? well i do doubt my self sometimes but never once i regret falling i love with him ." She wiped her tears as my heart clenched with pain , " So i intend to go out there and find my answers for this love ." I took a deep breath and thought over her words while feeling the urge of wanting to know about myself , about the love that i felt was normal or not , about people out there who would have been feeling the same as me, " Excuse me Mrs. Brown would you mind having a companion in your journey?" She smiled with happiness and accepted my request , "  I would be glad to have one . " I packed few bread and luggage and closed down the shop while bidding farewell to my shop as well as the town . We reached near the train station , i was nervous but excited and added my first note in my dairy "THE JOURNEY BEGINS" , as the train arrived the blowing horn was a signal of the goodbye towards the people i met here and a start towards the people would meet . As the train left me and Mrs. Brown shared stories of our teenage and decided on our first destination.

This is a story of journey of two lost souls who move forward to find the answer to their questions, a story of a young man Jack Whiskers and a young lady Veronica Brown who leave behind a small town and move forward to merge into the world , a world where there there'll be different forms of love ,people who have been wanting a partner, a love that's not normal , love that grosses out people , people who have acceptance, love too deep but unrequited , love which is overwhelming but filled with anxiety , love that's scary , love to monopolize the other , love that's filled with hate and jealousy , love that never had a chance , love that was necessity , love which is a mere misunderstanding , love enough of surprises , love beautiful enough as fairy tales , love which last till the last breath , love that was old tales, love dramatic enough to laugh about,....a world filled with different forms of people and people who had different stories of love was awaiting for both of them , will they find their answers? or will they find love again ? a journey not less then an adventure which is filled with tears , joy and surprises for them...here begins.

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