Sunday, June 29, 2008

The Obsessive Lover

It’s a dimly lit room…Vijay and Ajay are standing within 2 feet of each other.

Vijay : I have been crazy about Sushma for more than 2 years.. I cant imagine a life without her. Please leave her to me and get out of this place. Wont you do this favor for your brother??

Ajay :

Vijay : I'll do anything u want me to.. But please forget Sushma

Ajay :

Vijay : You are successful in whatever you do...sports, studies, everything. You are adored by one and all in the college. A guy like you can make any girl fall for you. Please leave this one girl to me

Ajay :

Vijay: Okay….I don’t think words work well with you…I am sorry but I have no other choice!!!!!

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Its a beautiful summer day. The college opens for the freshers.. The kids are very excited about this new phase of their lives.. All the students are very happy meeting new people and syncing up with some of their old school buddies.. Everyone in the class is having a wonderful time.. But one guy in the corner of the room has his head down.

First day goes.. second day goes…first month goes …This guy doesn’t even talk to anyone in the class. Everyone in the college hates this bespectacled weird looking dirty guy. He becomes the target of mockery for the entire college.. Really fed up with his life is Vijay.

He cries to himself daily…He asks million question to God "Why am I born like this??? Why do I not have even a single talent?? Why nobody likes me?? Why am I failing in whatever I do???"

He is really frustrated with himself. He doesn’t like his life.. He hates everything around him. His only solace is his imaginary world.. His own world created by his halucination.Every person visualizes himself to be a sportsperson, movie star, etc.. and derives false happiness from it. Vijay is no different but the strange part is he spends most of the time only in the false world. Every time he fails in a exam, or comes last in a running race or being ragged by others, he migrates to the other world and quickly replays the same situation with a different outcome .

In this Vijay-created world he is the king. He comes first in all the sports activities. He is the topper of his class. He excels in singing ,dancing, everything. He is the darling of the masses.
Two years of his college life goes like this ..Having a total of 25 arrears he enters the third year

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Hearing this terrorizing shreek Kripa, Divya, Ganesh and Chinmay come rushing towards the house.. The door is locked.. They break open the door and enter inside.. They see a guy lying down with a knife in his stomach.. He is fully soaked in blood

Ganesh: Oh nooo he is my roommate!!!!

Kripa : I think he is still breathing. Lets rush him to the hospital.

Chinmay : It looks like someone has stabbed him and ran away. We must immediately call the police!!

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Its an odd rainy day in an otherwise hot summer. Vijay returns home from college. He dashes against a girl accidentally. He turns back to see something that becomes the major turning point of his life. She looked like an angel from heaven. With a picture perfect smile she must have been God's finest masterpiece till date. Ramp walk must be a cake walk for this girl. The entire college is behind her. She entices everyone in her first look itself and Vijay is no exception to it.

Sushma: I am sorry!!

Those three words must have been the sweetest ones Vijay has ever heard in his life.. He jumps in joy and pumps the air.. People are really shocked to see an animated Vijay. As days pass by Vijay becomes really obsessed with her. They both eventually fall in love, marry each other and lead a happy life…Everything looks rosy for Vijay but unfortunately this happens only in his second world.

Normally a person very happy with his achievements in the imaginary world, Vijay is different in Sushma's case. He wants her for real too. Having no experience talking to a girl in his life, this is way too hot for him to handle. A few of his naïve attempts in trying to impress Sushma end up in tragedies. The more he tries to get close to her the more irritated she is. .The very sight of this disgusting guy turns her off.. She ultimately loses her patience and charges him of sexual harassment. Vijay is suspended from the college. Initially thought of a dumb idiot, he was just often imitated and made fun of. But now people have started to ridicule him. Deeper in depression goes Vijay.. But he continues sharing a very good chemistry with her in the fantasy world.

Feeling really sorry for his actions Vijay comes to apologize to Sushma. But there he sees the shock of his life!!! Sushma is having a romantic time with none other than Ajay. He is s very stylish dude with suave mannerisms . He would fit in as a perfect male model

Vijay realizes that this guy is none other than his twin brother Ajay…Now he becomes all the more possessive about Sushma. He sees them in different places hanging out with each other and they both look like a "Made for Each Other" pair. Vijay makes several attempts to go and talk to Ajay but never got a chance as he quickly vanishes away.

Vijay becomes more self confined now.. Students can hear his never ending self talks and shouts from his room all through the night

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Dr.Nataraj : Hurry up!!! Take him to the intensive care unit!! Oh God!! He is in a critical stage. He is really dying!!

Ganesh: Doctor…Will you be able save him??

Doctor: There has been a huge blood loss. The knife has gone really deep inside. We'll try our best but we cant say anything right now

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After one such night, Vijay becomes unconscious and falls down. He then wakes up and takes a shower. When he comes to his room to his surprise he sees Ajay standing right in front of him. Terribly shocked but feeling happy to finally meet Ajay, Vijay starts explaining to him how much he loves Sushma and pleads to move away from her..

Vijay : You are a champion in everything you do...sports, studies, everything. You are the most well dressed guy in our college, all girls are crazy about you. You can make any girl fall for you. Please leave this one girl to me

Ajay :

Vijay: Okay…I don’t think words work well with you…I am sorry but I have no other choice

Ajay does not speak anything in return but just imitates whatever Vijay does. This is not something new for Vijay. His weird mannerisms are imitated by one and all in the college. But the situation aggravates Vijay's anger. He gets really frustrated and in a fit of rage takes a knife and starts stabbing Ajay. But Ajay manages to escape without getting hurt. Finally Vijay gets the better of him and inserts the knife deep into his stomach.

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Doctor : Sorry guys!!! We were not able to save your friend. He is dead

The entire college feels sorry for the plight of Vijay. He has earned the sympathy of thousand people when he is dead but not even one when he was alive. The Principal declares a holiday to mourn the death of Vijay. But the show has to go on. Students eventually get back to their normal life .

After some days, the cleaning woman goes and cleans up Vijay's apartment. She could see a full sized mirror in Vijay's room tainted with blood spots and having numerous knife pokes, dents and scratches.

As long as Vijay was just haluciniating, things were not that bad for him. But when he started confusing imagination with reality Vijay becomes mentally imbalanced "splitomaniac".

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4 comments:

Unknown said...

Thrilling! And very good narration :)

Divya said...

very nicely written..

sanpra said...

nice story line, exquisitely written

Dilip said...

I see.....a very captivating but depressive end to the story. The narrative style is very good. The story is very imaginative. I must commend the thinking there. But can you please see a more cheerful and happy post next? Waiting for a unny post !!!!

Well done and keep writing!!