A Short Story

 

“Love in the times of internet”

 

She entered the room wearing a pretty dress and all the eyes were checking her out. All activities came to a halt, the girls who were busy gossiping welcomed her ,the usual giggling and chatter filled the air ,while all boys heaved a sigh for obvious reasons and then carried on with their usual conversation about bunking classes and cricket match that was to be played coming Sunday. There were two eyes which were still struck on her glowing cheeks ,beautifully crafted lips and perfectly shaped features ,the mind awestruck having found such magnificent ,heavenly and out of the place creature. No one noticed those two hopeful eyes but it didn’t have any effect on our hero ,he knew in an instant that he needed her ,she was the reason why he had taken birth. Can’t really blame him for when flings happen that’s exactly how any damned soul on earth feels like. He instantly found out her name and started following her on Instagram and Facebook. He started stalking her.

For two months that followed he was her shadow wherever she would go, he would follow. But only thing he lacked was money in the pocket and guts in the obvious place which kept him away from that girl. He did not have many friends but there was this particular boy who used to say he was his friend ,usual reason due to which nerds have friends, if you still haven’t guessed it , he needed to copy during exams from our hero so this particular fellow would always scatter any bit of courage our hero would gather by contrasting his situation with that of girl but one thing he couldn’t dampen was the stalking.

Meanwhile our heroine was busy with son of a wealthy businessman whom she had met through Tinder, their love knew no bounds ,literally their love knew no bounds , they were busy devouring each other’s body wherever they could :parks ,markets ,alone rooftop and cheap hotels. But all good things don’t stay in life for long , during one such encounter animal instinct of her lover got better of him and he made a video of their passionate game ,flaunting it to his friends. The girl belonged to a wealthy family so she left the country as she could not stay after such demeaning incident .

The hero felt really bad for the girl and hatched a plan to avenge her and avenge his failure as he never got opportunity to talk to her and due to this scum bags actions would no longer be able to even see her daily. He procured a pistol from unknown sources or maybe he got it from those cheap bars he would walk in after she left to let go of the pain. It doesn’t really matter from where he got it but what he did with it matters. He wasn’t the mighty muscular type and had never shown any trait of being courageous but on that day he stood in front of the lover and pulled the trigger standing right in middle of the college with crowd all around. None of it mattered to him, all he wanted was his revenge and he had taken it although the story doesn’t end here, the pistol was homemade one, if you know a thing or two about them then you know these things have something for backfiring, yes ,one of the bullets had backfired ,thus killing both of them on the spot for someone who moved on with her life in a different country with someone charming whom she met on internet unaware of the happenings back home.