Chapter 8

At about half past eleven at night Martha and I returned to our favorite abode our hostel .

To return our abode I freshen up first then sitting on my bed .

Martha comes out from the bathroom and she is starting packing her bag.

Seeing her bag packed, I asked her , Are you want to going anywhere?

Martha said, Darling, I am going out with Danish for a few days.

I was saddened to hear that Martha was leaving me for a tour .

I wonder how I will spend my spare time alone without Martha.

Martha looked at my face and realized that I was upset, so she came to me and hugged me and said, "Believe me, I don't want to leave you."

But, there is no way not to go. Danish is back after a long time. He wants me to spent quality time with me .

If Danish hadn't come back during this holiday, I would have gone somewhere outside of London with you.

I asked again to Martha , are you going out from London?

Martha said, yes.

I asked her where is it ? Paris?

Martha says still I don't know where he is taking me.

I said, don't worry about you should go with your loved ones and I will contact you on the phone.

Martha said, of course dear. I will call you at least once a day.

And yes, beware about Natalia.

I said, ok.

Martha asked me again, are you going to the lake side tomorrow to meet the photographer?

I said I haven't decided yet. I can't even go.

Martha said, you should go.

I said, why?

Martha said, speak your mind Even it is not reply then not to meet that person .

I know your heart is right to meet him.

Isn't that sweet heart?

I looked at Martha and said with a smile, I understand that you have become an astrologer, you are predicting the future in advance ?

It's ten o'clock in the morning, now I'm sitting on the study table with a book.

Martha had left for her love tour at eight in the morning.

I am sitting in front of the book. Can't make up my mind about going to meet the person named Shadhin.

My ego says don't go, and my mind says you must go.

I will listen to ego or not , or listen to the heart or not ?

If I listen to my ego, I will get hurt in my mind, and if I listen to my heart, I will get hurt in my ego.

I don't understand what decision to make, but the man is attracting me a lot.

The first time my mind is stuck on someone. Besides, I am very curious to know who the man really is ?

I made up my mind that I must know about the stranger by anyway.

Where did he come from? who is he And how did he know about me?

Yesterday I met the man in the pastry shop. Is it a coincidence, or the man was following me ?

I went to the dining room at two o'clock in the afternoon and finished my lunch.

The person named Shadhin asked to meet at four o'clock.

There are still two hours left. What does the man want to say to me?

Well, the man is Bengali, is he from any of my relatives?

I have no relatives in the name of Shadhin Raihan ! As far as I know about relatives - there is no one named Shadhin Raihan among them.

Can the man do me any harm? But why would anyone harm me? Do I love Shadhin by first at sight ?

But, I can't love someone like a stranger .

But I'm feeling about him it is a love at first sight for him .

Why do I think that, he seeing me first time ? It may be that he already knows me but I don't know him.

If I ask my father or brothers at home if we have any acquaintances or relatives named Shadhin Rayhan, then I will know whether the person is known to me or not?

No, I won't call at home now. First, we meet with the gentleman, then we can call home and find out about him .

It is four forty-five in the afternoon.

Shadhin Raihan is standing on the embankment of the lake .

Waiting for his beloved Kuhon for about forty minutes.

He does not know whether she will come or not.

But the Shadhins mind says that she will definitely come.

Because she will come to know about him and how he knows about Kuhon to collect that information .

As far as Shadhin knows about Kuhon, according to what he knows that , this girl is extremely curious , she is always interested in finding answers to all questions.

Even today there is a lot of crowd on the lake side .

Many people come here to see the pink cherry blossoms. There are hundreds of people of different colors and castes.

Among so many people, Shadhins eyes are looking for his beloved.

Time is passing.

It seems that Kuhon will not come.

Shadhin thinking whether he will go back , just then, his beloved face caught his eyes.

Shadhin is seeing that Kuhon is coming but she is wearing very simple and casual dress on her.

Even without makeup, her beauty is bursting. she came here very casually to meet Shadhin .

Kuhon is wearing a dark green flower print kurti, a loose banana colored plazo and a green veil around her neck. She brought the long thick black hair from the back of the neck to the front.

The bright pink skin color of kuhon suits the green dress very well.

No jewelry, no makeup, Kuhon still looks very beautiful and attractive .

As soon as she came near to Shadhin , First she said, sorry, I am late.

I fell asleep after having lunch.

Swadhin said, it's ok, there is no problem.

Shadhin is holding the red roses in his hand. The flower bouquet was made with 100 red roses and 16 orange royal orchids to give to Kuhon.

The flower bouquet was offered to Kuhon. She accepted it with a smile.

Taking the bouquet in hand, she smelled the royal orchid and fresh roses . And said to the Shadhin , thank you for giving such a beautiful flower bouquet .

How did you know that I love red roses so much?

Shadhin said, because I know a lot more about you.

And Shadhin thought, the girl is so ignorant that she doesn't understand about love theory .

Red roses is a symbol of love, which is given as a gift to express love only to loved ones.

A bench is empty under the cherry tree. Shadhin showed Kuhon the empty bench and said, let's go and sit there.

Kuhon asked to Shadhin, what else do you know about me?

He said, I know everything about you .

Kuhon said, really do you know everything about me ?

Shadhin said, yes, I know everything about you and your family too .

This time Kuhon said, tell me first I have how many sisters and brothers ?

Shadhin answered , you and you have a two brothers and you are a very stubborn girl.

You were sent to Oxford only because of your stubbornness.

No one in your home was willing to send you so far to study.

Now Kuhon said , you are definitely my relative.

Swadhin said, I am not among your relatives or acquaintances.

Kuhon now fell into deep thought.

The man is neither my relative nor acquaintance but knows everything about me.

Kuhon asked , how did you know so much about me?

Shadhin replied, in a dream.

Kuhon said, is anyone in the dream can see a stranger but exist in real ?

Shadhin said, I don't know if anyone can see or not but I have seen it.

Kuhon said with curiosity , please tell me about your dream.

Shadhin was laughing at Kuhon's foolish ness .

she can not realizing that Shadhin was making fun with her .

Somehow Swadhin suppressed a smile and began to describe his dream about .

He is telling his imaginary dream to kuhon :

One night I am sleeping on my cozy bed .

In my dream I can see a blue sky .

A ladder came down from the sky.

Then a girl came down with the ladder .

And I am sitting on a white boat on the azure sea.

The girl came down and told me that I am Kuhon Majumdar, I live in Bangladesh.

Will you take me on that beautiful boat of yours?

Then I took Kuhon in my boat and set out on a sea voyage.

Once we found an island. The island is completely empty, no one lives on that island.

I landed Kuhon on that island and started again for the deep sea. Then Kuhon called me from behind and said...

At this time Shadhin stops his story and noticed to Kuhon, seeing that she is intently looking at the red roses and listening intently to Shadhins imaginary dream to get an earful.

That time Seadhin thinks that this is the way to stop her here for long time .

She will listen to the story and sit near me.

If I don't raise the dream story, then she will want to leave now.

Seeing that Swadhin was silent, Kuhon asked to Swadhin, then what happened next ?

Seeing that the girl believed the story of his dream, he smiled again.

Then Shadhin started his story again.

Then I returned to Kuhon on that island . Then we got married, had many children and we started living happily.

Kuhon looked up at the Shadhin eyes . Then she said, it's a lie, I don't believe your dream at all.

This time, Shadhin could not stop laughing and continuously giglling .

Swadhin said, stupid girl, by now you will understand that I am making you up and telling stories.

This time, without a moment's delay, Shadhin grabbed Kuhon's one hand and said, I made up the dream, but I have already planned to have a family with you, Kuhon.

Kuhon took her hand away and said, "It won't happen if you plan alone."

Shadhin said, that's why I called you here today.

Kuhon said, did you call to implement the plan or did you call to tell who you are and what your identity is?

Shadhin said, I called for both.

Kuhon said I want to know about your identity?

Shadhin said, you first tell me whether you like me or not?

Kuhon said, I will not say anything if I know your full identity .

Shadhin noticed that it was getting dark in the evening.

So he said to Kuhon, look Kuhon it has become dark.

Today I can no longer be here . Kuhon said, why can't you be here in the dark? are you Dracula ?

Shadhin said, the day after tomorrow I will tell you everything about me.

Now if I go to tell you everything about me then it will be too late.

Kuhon said, why not tomorrow?

Shadhin said, I have a meeting in the office tomorrow, I can't come on time.

Kuhon said, and you are a jobber?

Shadhin replied, yes, I am an employee. Kuhon said, I thought you must be a gangster.

Shadhin started laughing again after hearing Kuhon's words.

Shadhin said, if I were a gangster, I would not have taken you away ?

Shadhin reached to the hostel gate with Kuhon then he started his journey towards his destination with his black sedan.