This late night time is very strange. It’s quiet all around. Some stars in the sky are giving soft light. It’s mildly cold. Nivana is sitting on the balcony with a sheet on her. From this place in the house the sea can be seen very well. She’s waiting for Rivan. Rivan who is Nivana’s cousin and he is one year older than Nivana. Even though he was older, they were studying in the same class. Both of them knew all the secret and public affairs of the two. Rivan loved Naila and they were in a relationship . However, due to an unknown reason, Rivan committed suicide two years ago.
Are you wondering how someone can wait for a dead person?
In psychology it’s called hallucination. But Nivana knows it is not a hallucination. After consulting a lot of psychologists Nivana has understood that she is not a psychopath. In fact, she is not hallucinating. But she is unable to make the people understand it even her own mom thinks that she has become a psychopath .
But she has understood that she is going through an unnatural situation. Because in this world we all wait for living people. No one waits for dead people. They are psychopaths in the eyes of society.
- What are you thinking, Nivana?
- Oh, have you come? I was waiting for you.
-But why?
-why are you pretending like you don’t know anything?
- If you had said this earlier, I would not have left this world.
- Oh really? Had you time to look at me?
-Had you ever tried to understand the meaning of my silence?
- Had you ever wanted to make me understand? You loved Naila.
-If I loved Naila, why am I seeking space with you now?
- Why again? When you were alive, you hurt me by loving someone else in front of my eyes. And now you have died and made me a psychopath. What do you want from me?
- I want your happiness.
-Shut up. Just stop this nonsense.
-Why are you getting angry? Honestly, you don’t want my existence? If you don’t want me, I will never come again.
-If I didn’t want to, I wouldn’t have wasted my life by becoming a psychopath.
- Your life will not be wasted, Nivana. Why are you looking at my house?
- I have an unfulfilled family in that house. What would happen if you loved me, Rivan?
- If I loved you, they could not be united to correct the mistakes of the past.
- They mean? Who?
- They, who are in the different time slot.
-Different time slot? What are you saying, Rivan?
- You will understand one day. Now I have to go
-Rivan wait.Rivan!!!!!!
Rivan went away .Nivana started to look for him and all on a sudden Nivana’s mom come to her
Oh! Nivanaaa what are you doing here?
Nothing mom(as she knows her mother won’t believe a word of her)
What has happened to my daughter oh! My lord help us please get my daughter out of this.
This is not the first time she has talked with Rivan .Ever since he has died she has been able to communicate with him for several times.But she never thought why does Rivan only comes to her why just her ?? Why not to Naila
Nirvana goes back to her room and tears came out unknowingly and she felt like someone wiped her tears .She knows who did that and she utters oh! Rivan I know it’s you .
Why do you care for me now ?
When I needed you the most you were never with me then why now?
She doesn’t get any answer to her questions because Rivan has already gone.The room is in pin drop silence condition. Nivana starts thinking about what Rivan said to her “a different time slot”.He has told this many times but Nivana can’t figure out anything.
[14:36, 1/25/2023] Tahamid Ahamed: Nivana started screaming. Molina D’Costa heard the girl’s screams and came running from the next room.
- What happened? Haven’t you taken your medicine today, my girl?
- Rivan came again mom. Even this time he left without answaring anything. I am fed up, mom! just fed up!
Nivana started crying.
Molina kept patting her daughter’s head. Nivana D’Costa is the one and only daughter of Paul D’Costa and Molina D’Costa. Nivana was a very brilliant student. Not only brilliant but also a very beautiful girl. Her eyes created a new fascination with her beauty. What a vast depth in those two eyes. All the blue of the sea seemed to be thrown together across the deep look of the two eyes.
Not just eyes she has a cute face . Every boy of her class had crush on her. However, the blue colour of the eyes was quenched by her father. Mr. Paul was a professor of English literature. What a happy family they were! They didn’t have a lot of money, but had an uncountable happiness. But the happiness did not last long.
Mr. Paul died in a car accident. He had many dreams for Nivana. He wanted to make her daughter a famous scientist. However, Malina did not impose her father’s wishes on her daughter. That’s why Nivana studied psychology. But what a cruel irony of fate! Whose treatment was supposed to get rid of mental problems of millions of people, today she is a mental patient herself. She has to take psychotherapy regularly. .The dark circles under the two of her blueish eyes strongly informs about her sleepless night after night. Can unrequited love really change someone like this? Even after the death of the opposite person, he chases like this? Molina’s eyes blur before her thinking. What a surprise! Nivana is in deep sleep. Sleeping Nivana looks magical. As if Nivana is enjoying such a peaceful sleep after many years. Outside, the soft light of dawn breaks through the darkness. Another light merges with this pleasant light and becomes monotonous. That light is the light of hope of a helpless mother to see her daughter in a healthy condition.
- Mom, I am going out.
-Where are you going, my girl?
-I have to go to my chamber for once. Then have to go to the library for buying a book. -Oh! but why chamber?
-Why are you doing this question, mom? Oh I see! Like everyone else, you think that the girl herself is a psychopath, how can she treat another person right?
-You are misunderstanding, my girl! I didn’t mean that. Listen to me...
-Stop mom!I know everything you guys think about me.I have no problem for that.Actually I am not going chamber to give treatment someone.Just want to visit.That’s it.Whatever,goodbye.Take care.
- Take care, Nivana!
After chamber,Nivana has started walking instead of using her personal private car. Somehow today she wants to enjoy the natural beauty. She has got a sound sleep last night suddenly. Today her mind is jolly. -Nivana!
- Rivan! Are you here?
-Can you remember those days we walked together by the river?
-Always!
- If you come to this place after a long time, right?
- Hmm!
- Upset?
- That’s always. But today is pretty good. -Why?
-Which one why?
-Both.
-Listen to the good reason. I slept very well last night.
- Oh! That’s great.
- How is aunt doing?
-Mom miss you a lot, you know?
-How? Does Aunt know me?
By now Nivana came back to herself. She has seen Fahmi. But what Fahmi was he thinking of Rivan for so long? It never happened like this before. Fahmi boy is strange. Especially his smile. If you look at it with ordinary eyes, you may not like it. There is not much illusion in the face. But you can read the illusion of words very easily. A normal conversation would only want to hear.
Where did Nivana read, “If you fall under the spell of someone’s form, you can forget him. But if you are caught in the illusion of words, it is impossible to forget him. This quality was also Rivan’s. Anyway, Nivana is still understanding. Words didn’t stop her. But suddenly today, Nivana feels very good to spend time with Fahmi. His laughter is ringing in her ears. Fahmi’s smile is forcing Nivana to keep a soft smile on her face even if she doesn’t want to. The smile doesn’t stop.
Nivana started to remember Rivan’s words. Rivan said that someone new will come in Nivana’s life. But is Fahmi the new someone of Nivana? Nivana’s everything seems like a whirlwind. She is walking with Fahmi.
Suddenly Fahmi stops.
They are watching the sunset. Why doesn’t everything end so beautifully like sunset?
