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lost friendship

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Chapter 1 - wish u were here

There were clouds in the sky. It was raining lightly but it seemed no one was bothered. There a girl was sitting quietly near a grave looking at the sky and saying. "I hope we meet again". 'Maybe it was my mistake. I would like to meet you'. Saying this she sat and cried for a long time.She knew that she would never be able to meet her friend again. She was upset that she could not attend his funeral, but why couldn't she?.Then Linda comes there. She holds an umbrella and goes to Zoya's grave where Riya was already sitting and crying and she puts an umbrella over her head and says that there is no point in crying now. She is not going to come back again. Hearing this, she turns towards her and asks who are you?Linda says that I am sorry, I may have scared you, but I am Linda, Zoya's secretary who wrote you that letter because of which you are here. She immediately stands up and asks why did you write this letter so late?Linda says sadly that I am sorry but I could not understand at that time what to do. I had heard only this one name from Zoya's mouth. Riya and I did not know. But when I started collecting all her things after her death, there was a letter. There were many letters which she wanted to send to you, but she could never send them. I had read one of those letters and perhaps I cried a lot after reading it. I don't know why, but perhaps you were very close.Riya feels very sad and regrets that if she had not left Zoya at that time, then perhaps they would have been together today, but why did this happen? Why did Riya have to leave Zoya at that time? They were very close to each other. Thinking this, Riya feels very sad and asks Linda, "Can you take me to her house? I never thought that this day would come." Linda tells her that yes, I can take you to her house.Linda takes Riya to Zoya's house. When she steps into the house for the first time, she feels as if she is at home. Everything is kept the same way as it was once kept. She asks Linda why she has brought her back to this house, then Linda says that this is the same house where Zoya used to live. Then Riya says, 'But why here', Linda replies that was my house, but this is Zoya's house, I have kept this house as it is and have kept all her things. You can roam around here if you want.

While roaming around the house, Riya tells Linda that it has been 2 years since she died and you have still kept every single thing of her safely. Then Linda smilingly says that yes, it was her last wish that every single thing and every moment of her should be kept safely. I don't know why but she felt that someone will definitely come.Then Linda says, even if it was late, someone came. In these 2 years, no one had come till date. I felt that way. Maybe she is lying to console me. Riya says with a sad heart that it is not like that, she had many friends but now they are no more. She left everyone for her dreams. I don't know why those dreams were so precious to her. At one time, I also felt that she loved them only. But maybe I understood slowly. She was getting lonely and maybe she wanted to express it. She wanted to say, but she could never forget the past and maybe it is my fault too. If I was with her at that time, then maybe she would have stood with me at this place. Saying all this, Riya starts crying a lot.When both of them were roaming around together, Linda says, I don't know why but she was always happy. But I must say that she was very sad from within. I was shocked when she was told that she had a tumor. She already knew that she had a tumor but she didn't tell anyone. As if she didn't want to live.Why did you not come to meet her again? During this time, did you ever think what she must have been feeling? Then Riya says that the circumstances were a little different at that time. We had probably gone far away from each other. Linda says with a heavy heart that you do not know what your friend must be going through. Then Riya lowers her head and says "No" maybe I knew it. Deep inside but I could not say it.You were probably their only friend but you left them in the end. Saying this, Linda leaves from there and then Riya goes and sits in the verandah.She sat down under the open sky. After some time, a slow drizzle started. She looked towards the sky and closed her eyes and felt the raindrops falling on her face. Her tears were also flowing in those raindrops. In between those drops, she sees a glimpse of some of her old times. Where she and Zoya used to roam together.Both of them used to roam around together, eat and drink. While doing all this she felt like crying a lot. She was unable to understand at what point their friendship broke. When she starts bringing all the memories to her mind one by one, a different kind of pain starts arising in her heart. She falls on the ground hitting her chest and is unable to understand what is happening. She becomes numb for a while and when she opens her eyes, she finds Linda sitting right next to her and she asks her what happened to you suddenly?Riya says nothing, I just kept on remembering old memories and didn't even realize when I fell asleep. Then Linda says you were not asleep. I know, then Riya gets up from there and starts to leave. But as soon as she turns back, she is in zoya's room. The same room where both of them used to play at one time. They had vowed to stay together. Both never wanted to be separated but they were separated. There was a picture of both of them there, seeing which she remembered that time. When both of them had taken that picture together and had promised together that we will never be separated now. Thinking all this, Riya starts crying.When Riya starts leaving from there, Linda says, "Maybe I have some of your things left with me. Take that with you too, maybe it was her last wish that she should also return to you." Then she gets shocked thinking this.It was a diary which Linda handed over to Riya and after reading it, Riya cries a lot. Her entire soul and heart are revealed.A lot of old things were written in that diary and a list was also made which maybe Zoya and Riya were going to do together, but that could not happen, thinking all this Riya cries a lot. She was getting very angry with herself, she curses herself a lot that 'why did you leave Zoya alone and go away,'. she says in her mind that " I knew you were alone, you were yearning inside but still why did I not have the courage to come to you", why after all, thinking this Riya cries a lot. she goes near Zoya's grave and says that, "I may not have maintained our friendship but I never kept you away from me, maybe it was my fear that I could never tell you, please forgive me Zoya. I could not complete my wish list with you but I will fulfill all these for you, I could not be with you in this life but I always wanted to be with you". Saying all this Riya leaves from there. There was a lot of passion in her eyes which was probably needed some time back. When she was walking, she felt as if she was walking hand in hand with zoya. It was her illusion, but it was also as if it was real that Zoya and they were walking together. She goes and stands on the seashore. riya sees Zoya next to her who was smiling and looking at the setting sun. Seeing all this, tears fall from riya's eyes and she says thank you to forgiving me.The diary falls from his hand and the page opens.That cool evening that used to blow on the seashore of the setting sun, along with the gust of that charming breeze, that shadow of Zoya who was looking at Riya smilingly, went away with the wind flowing in that very moment and Riya just kept watching her go. She hugged the diary to her chest and walked away smiling.