EPISODE 10 MY BEST FRIEND

I might have been dreaming, I hoped I was, But I was not. They were actually walking towards me. I didn’t know how to react, I couldn’t believe my eyes, all my life since my school, The people who were dead in my memory were, In fact, alive and now they are walking towards me. My entire Past hit me in a flash of a second. They came close to my seat, I didn’t take my eyes off them, they came near me, and they were too looking me in the eye. Only thing was that I was Surprised seeing them but they were Not so Surprised.

When they sat down, I pointed my index finger to one of them and asked in fear,

“You. You… Were Dead, How…? How is this possible?”

My friend Replied,

“Relax, Kunal I’ll explain everything, Sit down”

I was in shock, I sat down. He smiled at me and started,

“Kunal, before I start I want you to know that we are very much alive and we are sorry for what you’ve been through, everything you’ve been through till now was a part of our plan. We wanted to teach you something.”

“You were very close to me  Kunal, Since childhood, We were friends, I thought you were a part of me, I thought you’ll be there for me at all times, But for you, I was also just another alternative, If you lose me you would find someone else. Is this why you did such a thing to me Kunal, WasI just another alternative to you?”

His words slapped my face, I felt bad when I thought about what I did to him. Tears were ready to come out of my eyes, all it needed was just a little push.

My friend started again,

“You were not always like this Kunal, You had a good person in you, You wanted to help people, You were emotional, But the problem was that you were too emotional that you couldn’t tolerate when someone said that you were wrong, you get agitated when you didn’t get what you wanted, You want it no matter what, Even if It meant harming someone else.  I thought you were my life, But how could you do this to me? Why me?”

Tears were running down my cheeks, I held his hand and cried to him in low voice,

“You were always my life, I just didn’t realize it back then, only when you left me I learned about the life without you, it was horrible. You were right, I get agitated when I didn’t get what I wanted, But I changed myself after that incident, I realized that just because I wanted it, It doesn’t mean that It was mine. I was a fool, but I changed now, completely.”

-“Well then that’s your first lesson Kunal”

I smiled. I couldn’t control myself, I had to ask Kriti,and I looked at her and asked,

“Kriti, I don’t care why you did this, I trust you, You would have done it for my good only, But Why punish me for two straight years, Why make me think that you were dead, What did I do earn such punishment?”

She said,

“Kunal, you were a nice kid, but you had your own gray areas, I loved Kunal but he was a mixture of two different colors, I didn’t want to live with the gray part of you, I wanted to remove it completely. Some people do have a few grey areas, Some people drink a lot, Some people get angry frequently, but it could be cured over a period of time but your grey area was not like that, Your grey area reached a whole new level, So high that It couldn’t be cured by just mere convincing, It needed a Push, A Vibrant one. My death was the only thing that was capable of giving you that push.”

I asked her in confusing tone,

“But what was my gray area?”

She Smiled and looked at Preethi, I then realized, and I smiled and answered my own question,

“Alternatives. Not everything in this world has an Alternative. “

She said back to me,

“Yes. Not everything has an alternative, Choices are a part of life, but it isn’t the entire life.”

Then my friend started again,

“ Kunal I Know what you are thinking, Why did we do all this for you, Even though you did so many wrongs to us, You played a major part in our lives.As I told you earlier you had a good side in you. You were more than just a normal person to us Kunal, which is why we couldn’t let you go just like that. Don’t worry Kunal, now we are all happy that our efforts paid off well.”

I leaned forward and put my folded hands on the table and I then looked at My Friends Love, I had something to say to her for a long time, this was my chance, I started

“I should have done this a long time back, I’m Sorry for what I put you through, I was not thinking clearly back then, It was my fault, I can’t do anything to compensate for what I did, The least I could do is apologize. I’m extremely sorry for what I did. I’m sorry, I mean this from my heart.”

She Replied,

“It’s alright Kunal, Thank your friend, he only convinced me into this, I didn’t want to look at your face ever again, I told him you were a vulture and that you only knew to prey not change, I was angry that he tried convincing me that I was wrong But after all this I’m glad that he convinced me I was wrong.”

Everything felt like magic, then we all stood up and hugged each other. I was no more in shock. I then looked at everyone and asked in excitement,

“How did you people manage to pull this whole act?”

My friend said in excited tone,

“Now that’s the fun part”.