The Last Meeting!

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+91 98*** 7**00

+91 98*** 7**00

Once again Panchali looked at the number!

She sighed, “This number was once so important to me.”

A tear appeared in the corners of her kohl defined beautiful eyes. No, it’s impossible to forget! How could she when her dreams and realities were centered on the number only.

Panchali once again looked passionately at the number. The pages of her pocket telephone directory have turned yellow with time.  A few pages have wiggled while some were free floating precariously; all set to fall down and float away. The crimson red rose turned brown and a few petals withered away from the peduncle.     

 A decade had passed; still that number could make her skip a heart-beat. Panchali turned the pages, yet her mind only centered on that number. She became disillusioned.  

Unknowingly Panchali picked up her cellphone and dialed that number.  Even before she could remember anything, a girl picked up the call from the other end.

 “Hello-Hello” Who are you looking for? Panchali wanted to utter that name again; but something stopped her.

She just uttered intentionally, “Is it Bina’s number?”

The sweet voice from the other end uttered, ‘No!’ “I think you dialed a wrong number.”

Panchali lay down on the white bed of the dormitory and started sobbing. It wasn’t a wrong number, it was her fate.

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