Those hundred days

Hi guys I'm Aditi. I have been asked to say a few words for Adi. I mean I know his name's Aditya but he preferred Adi. He thought it was short and sweet. We were friends since I can't even remembered. We have so many common things. We are neighbors. We went to same school. We have similar names. We were even born in the same hospital on the same day. Even our favorites were the same. Wherever we went we went together. Same school, same high school, same college, we were even planning to continue for the same firm to work. Don't think we can make it though.

On our first day to school, we didn't cry like other children. Probably because we had each other. Like every other child for the first few years we sat on the first benches. Then we shifted to the last benches. We were those bad students which every teacher regrets of having and every mugger loathed. But we knew they were just jealous. Even after having this kind of reputation, we made up to the top ten board in our school. After that we got admissionin our dream college. We were such good friends that every pair of students wanted like us. Whenever we saw any couple, we would laugh at them. We never liked that kind of relations.

After competing college, we got admission in our dream college-MGC Mumbai. We never felt alone. We had each other for company. But after few months we felt as if we weren't normal. Every student had had at least one relationship. It made us feel as if we were weird. Abnormal. One day we went to a park to hang out. There he told me this same thing about his feeling. He said he thought he was abnormal. He was confused as for why he had never been in love. I felt the same and I told him so. Then we came up to a conclusion. Instead of dating someone else we decided to date each other. For hundred days. Just to be sure.

It was decided and from then on we did everything that couples did. We went to parks. We went to movies. We shared ice creams. Drank juice from one bottle using two straws. And these 100 days came to an end. It felt like the days ended fast. On the 99th day we met and decided to celebrate this 100th day on the same park in which we decided to met. We haven't discussed how this went. It was the rule. We were to discuss this on the last day.

And I knew what I was going to say. I knew what I had to do. Maybe he was going to do the same thing. Just maybe I couldn't be sure.

I went to the park a little early. I wanted some time to relive the hundred days. I was still lost in thoughts when my phone rang. It was Adi. I was eager to hear his voice. Voice full of excitement and nervousness. But fates had something else in store. It was not Adi who spoke. It was some man older than Adi. His voice sounded full of horror and tension. He asked me to come outside the park. At the gate. I knew something was wrong. But who was this man? And why was he tensed? Why the hell was Adi's phone with him? And where was Adi? I came outside. And I still can't come over the shock of what I saw.

Adi was lying on the road. Streams of blood around him. At his side was this man. He came to me and kept his hand on my shoulder. He gave me Adi's phone and a page. I didn't had courage to open it, but I knew what it had. The man said, 'Your were the only person he wanted to meet. He handed me his phone and this letter and asked me to call you. He loved you Adi.' During this his eyes were wet. He was crying. I was crying. It was as if the whole world was crying at the loss of Adi. The letter is still with me and this is the first time I'm going to read it on the occasion of his funeral.

Hey Angel,

I know I've never called you that. But believe me that's what I want to call you all my life. I've been in love with you from our high school days. I never had the courage to do so. That day I didn't want you come up with this plan. I was going to propose you. But that plan was something which could confirm if we can be together. That's why I agreed. I know I've taken time to say this. Sorry for that. Adi, will be mine forever?

It's still not late...