Kanpur-Gandhinagar-Bangalore-Calcutta

Title - Constellation
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It was a cold clear night. The sky was full of stars and it was possible to make a constellation of your own- any shape you want, any size you want. She looked up. Look - it's a bird. We'll call it Birdie constellation. He looked up. Yeah! a duck! Why not duckie? He then looked to his right and saw her face shining bright in the night. Look there is a dog. hmmm..that can be a teddy...that is a pirate boat, with a flag, sailing in ocean of light. He was not interested. Rather he was so captivated that it did not occur to him to look at the sky. Yeah! was his only response each time. He just kept staring at her beautiful face glittered by moonlight. Who the heck needed stars?

She had a broad smile. She was lost in her own world of stars, drawing meaning out of unmenaingful things. He was staring at her, again lost in his own world, trying to draw unmeaning out of(trying to distance himself from) all the meaningful things.

It was like world paused except for the gentle wind.

Then she turned to him. He started looking up, just in time so that she didn't notice. She said with a teasing smile - What? You think I'm stupid trying to make shapes when none exists. Nah! I don't think so. And who am I to comment. After all aren't we all trying to derive some meaning, some shape out of our lives when probably none exists. Why are you so pesimistic? Can't you appreciate the beauty? Why you have to make simple things so complex? I'm trying to make a complex thing more simple - our lives are meaningless. My life had only one meaning - and that meaning will soon cease to exist. Now I wonder, if that was a meaning to start with? She didn't understand what he was trying to say. Even he didn't understand what he was trying to say. It was clear night and their paths were lit infront of them, albeit two different paths. He didn't understand why they had to take different paths.

She said to him - Goodbye dear! Take good care of yourself. Will you meet me sometime? She looked up and said - Let the stars decide!

A tear trickled down from his eyes. He looked up. He saw a cruel-smiling-face-constellation.
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edit: on orders from my special one..high command...
This is a story inspired from my real life with ending change...in real life..we share one common path :D