CHAPTER 2
She woke up as usual. it was the day she had to get back to her town of work. She had come home for three days as there was some local vacation.
"sheena!i'd like to talk to you sweety" her father said.
Sheenas face has gone blue. "What now? A proposal? "she thought to herself.
As her father started to talk. She felt her nerves released.
" sweety, why work in a small town?away from home?we have a beautiful house. It is just me, mom and uri. You can join us, look for a job here and stay close to us. "he said.
"We can keenly look into your proposals, if you stay here". Uri added.
Sheena thought, this was the only thing, she frequently hears if she is home. Either someone is getting married, or someone has got pregnant, or someone the family is looking for her.
She cleared the mist and spoke . "dad, id like to be in that place. Iam being paid well. I don't like to look into a new job. You can keep looking for a man. When you think, it is suitable, you can tell me. I'd take it further", she said, while deep down these were the hardest words. She lied eveytime. She would rather die, than walk into a man again.
It was not just this, she would find it difficult to get a new job and adjust to people. Yes she was an introvert right from her childhood. Very few friends. " friends?" she laughed saying it loud. They were only the girls whom she was in relation ship with at different stages of life. Her secret life.
yes, she never had friends. They were her secret crushes or secret likes which sometimes turned into love. But when she moved on, the relationship ended and she lost the person. So, she never had any real friends.
"how pathetic" she cursed herself.
Her last relationship was special. She smiled while she sat on her bed packing clothes. It was Alisha.
Someone with whom Sheena has a brief relation while she was doing her bachelors. That was 2005 , Al belonged to a different group . sheena and Al were not friends and Al took a step to come forward and let sheena know that she had a crush on her . but sheens was busy in another pity relation with another girl . she ignored Al, but then she came around, seeing there was something about Al. they exchanged leters briefly. But, then one of Als friends exposed them and said, it was Sheenas fault and said, sheena lured Al as Al has always been straight. Sheena wanted no attention from her classmates.
She came to terms with Al , and said, she better get back to her friends and live her own life. Al agreed for the sake of Sheena. They parted their ways . They only exchanged looks and Sheena moved on to her next relation ship. This time it was with her teacher. Al felt disgusted. But deep down she still felt some strong vibes towards Sheena. There was something Al admired about Sheena.
Sheena was intelligent, calm, composed, silent always , averagely good looking and maintained a great demeanor of a woman and Al has come from a small town , so, maybe she thought high of Sheena. But it had to end that way.
"it is getting late for your bus" her brother shouted. " yeah/ iam done" sheena replied. Gave kisses to mom and dad and got into the car heading for the bus. The bus was on stand. She waved good bye to her brother, sayng she might come home for the next vacation soon, and got into the bus. As she settled comfy in the seats, she went back to where her last love story has stopped.
Years passed and stopped at 2011, when Al was working as a nurse in Ministry of health, Qatar, and Sheena was doing her masters in Burma. Al traced her through face book, and approached Sheena, thinking; now there was no one to disturb them. She could try and see, if Sheena still has it for Al.