Prologue

“Good bye Karthi” said Gautham, my friend after dropping me at the corner of the street where my house was 200 meter from there and he made U-turned with his bike, rode to his home.

I too started walking to my home, eventually a sudden noise followed behind me as I was being frightened a little bit and I scarily began to turn back for knowing where the noise was coming from, but I got fear as I felt inside my heart beat pumped fast, “lub-dub, lub-dub…” lo! I swear indeed. Yet I had a curiosity to know what had followed me.

My head turned behind at last with a sign of fear inside me.

My eyes noticed few dogs, looking terrible were running closer to me as my legs started running ahead of them. They were chasing me with an intention to bite and threatened me, I felt. I did not know before that I could run as fast as close to 100km per hour. I controlled my breathing and accelerated my speed as I could do to the maximum.

As I ran like a jet speed for 50 meter, sudden ideas came and sparked my brain even faster than my legs. I jumped over the compound wall of one compact house on my left side and turned my head up to see what was going on the outside. Those dogs ran fast ferociously, but they chased a poor bitch which stood 100 meter distance far away from, where I was dropped by my friend in the bike.

I kicked the compound wall with my right leg for having a little angry on myself while seeing the dogs crossed me with the same speed and caught that bitch few meter away.

Ooh! I had a deep breath with a sign of relief (keeping my right palm hand on my left side of my chest).

The church bell alarmed with the music and ended up with the bell sound for 12 times continuously, indicated 12:00 AM at mid night. Once and again I took a huge breath and looked at my watch (displayed 12:01AM).

A gate opened sound reached my ears (seemed like a grill gate). I turned my head back side in the clock wise direction. But I found none. The compact house was locked outside with a huge lock. Within a minute, light flashed on the left hand side house terrace of the compact house. I turned my head almost 30 degree further at the same clock wise direction (with anxiety).

Someone switched on the light. I looked up the terrace where the light had been flashed. My heart beat once and again pumped fast; this time not in fear, but in some pleasure. My eyes got a quick scan. A young woman stood there and put her washed clothes in the steel anchor for getting dried. She stared at me few seconds and looked outside the street and kept her eye sight down to take a cloth for hanging on the anchor.

At the start of the third millennium year in the twenty-first century, a young girl stood at night and dried her clothes in the moon light.

I did not move my vision anywhere as I kept my eye sight on her. How could I describe her and the situation and what went on in my mind? It was like the rain showered the paddy field which was drain for years. She wore a collar necked T-shirt and skirt. Her hair was combed like horse-tail. She had thick eye brows with small eyes from which she stared at me. She had a sharp nose and small lips that made her so beautiful. She was lean pole at 5 feet 2 inches approximately and almost 45 kg weight.

She again stared at me and looked inside the house as she was about to make an exit from the terrace. I made a complete scan on her and I did not keep my sight away from her until she finished hanging the clothes and let inside her house.

CONNECTION

Three days later, the thoughts of her were filling my mind to insist. She came like a lightening and smashed my heart as a thunder as her thoughts overflowed and ruled my mind that I could not make myself rest and I was forced to drench into her thoughts and offered with sleepless night.