Daisy Josephraj
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CHAPTER 3 “I AM PREM, IS YOUR NAME ANGEL?”
Today on that SUPER WOLF BLOOD RED MOON DAY after the tiff off from a bizarre quarrel he had with Nila in the bazaar street, Prem was still sitting on the same granite stone bench relishing the past by replaying the whole episode! Now his temper was cooling down with the cool sea breeze blowing on his face!!!The beach was thronging with multitudes of human heads, as that day was a full moon day, and the crowd was waiting to see a ‘Celestial phenomenon’ of the ‘Special Lunar Eclipse’ a very rare celestial occurrence on the sky. The sea was dancing with loads of ebb tides striking the shore on that Full Moon Day.
Prem was still thinking about his mother. Even his mom had some goals in her life. She was always lively, active, exuberant with multi-talented activities which she sacrificed in the process of bringing up her three children…
“Some of the talents I have are the residues transferred from your genes mom!” He was saluting his mom while he was lying on that same granite-topped stone bench chewing some more memories after he met Nila for the first time on the beach!
On that night after sharing his thoughts with his mom, he lost his sleep. He was unable to close his mind as that lovely cupid broke into his sleep as a thunderous sky, cyclonic storm, torrential rains, and floods, in his dreams.
The very next day he met her with a ceramic bowl, while she waited with a vessel filled with chicken soup! But before meeting with the mother dog he first took her to the sand sculpture he had chiselled out on the sea sand the previous night!
Prem was surprised to see that sand sculpture lying on the sand untouched and not damaged even by the blowing winds. He thanked Bhairava the ‘God of the Dogs’ and looked at his angel prince… with a blush!
Nila was completely taken aback by that artistic carving on the sand and looked at Prem, with awe-filled eyes! She looked at those artistic hands of the man who was sitting before her with a seducing smile, and the rising sun’s golden yellow rays falling at the back of his head like a halo, and she had a queer feeling of those hands encircling her neck in warmth and love! She was not able to fathom out the reason why she was being pulled into the depth of his beautiful enchanting eyes.
She wanted to caress his palms and kiss them for its aesthetic creation! Instead, she cried out, “Vow, Is this your handy work, it looks awesome…” As a reply, Prem moved his eyes with a wink to the bottom of his carving where it was written,
“I AM PREM, IS YOUR NAME, ANGEL!”
She was shocked by her bones!!! Because at first, she did not connect herself with that sand sculpture! But when she saw that quote down that figure, she easily connected herself with that sand statue filled with life!
Now she felt that she herself was lying on the floor, exactly with the same attires of jeans pants and T-shirt, with a small ring dangling in her ears, with her free hair flying on the sands shaking hands with the sea breeze.
“Is it me!!!? Really, Unbelievable, you have a splendid artistic hand, it’s amazing! Excellent! again she started scanning the whole art, wide-eyed like a little kid,
“It really looks like me, it’s ethereal to believe!” But Prem pressed her with the same question,
“First you answer my question!” saying that his eyes once again moved to the question on the sand, Where it was written ‘I am Prem, Is your name angel?’
“Oh! you are Prem!” she took his hand and shook it gleefully saying ‘PREM’ means passions, rage, emotions and love, and continued that with laughter like a splashing sea,
“I am Nila, her eyes were beaming with laughter when she said her name, but your talents need to be complimented!” She was saying!
‘Do you know I am falling headlong into your wonderful eyes!’ He was typing his poem once again laughing secretly.
“May I know the meaning of this secretive laughter?” Nila asked Prem with a raised eyebrow.
“Nila, You were not ridiculing me like others by calling me a useless ass, instead you are patting me on my back, praising my talents!”
“Nila now coming to our project ‘Operation rescue’ you have brought food for that mother dog, and I have the bowl. Come on let us feed her. They both went there like a couple, without holding hands, while the heart was craving for the same. That made the whole action even more blissful.
The dog with its six puppies ate the food and drank the soup ravishingly all the time looking at them with eyes filled with earnest gratitude, and it got reflected in the relentless shake of its tail. She was wonderstruck at that dog kennel, reconstructed by Prem using those broken spare parts of the cart lying there the previous day.
“You are an excellent Artist, Constructor and Architect at the same time. The mummy dog will be safe and happy with its puppies saved in this kennel from both sun and rain...!”
All the beach dogs had a food mela on that day on behalf of the newborn puppies with rice, chicken pieces and chicken soup which she had brought in plenty.
As the party neared the climax Prem gave Nila a printout taken in an A4 sheet filled with beautiful lyrics, with his face in blushes as the sky turned red to match him! He stated his lyrics from her rolling pupils inside her eyes!
“The shining grapes rolling, oscillating, and
Sliding in the slippery white porcelain cups,
Closed with lids adorned with thorny needles!
To save the black grapes, jumping from the cups!
I will beautify your cheeky nose with a shining
Diamond ring, which might obstruct me from
Kissing you, my dear lousy chick!
Why wasn’t there any honey bees encircling your
Rosy lips dripping with honey droplets?
Why not your nimble hips were not broken
By carrying the two full-blown lotus b[l]ossoms!
I am waiting at your feet, My name is Prem
What is your name, my dear lovely angel???”
After reading the poem she started laughing incessantly with her head lolling like a doll. In between the laughter she was saying,
“All the poets are the same! Heaping stacks of praises pleasantries and lies when they start scribbling about girls!”
“No dear, every word here in black and white was first typed in my heart!” On hearing those praises bestowed on her she closed her face with her hands as her face blushed like a dawned sky by his flattery!
“You look wonderful in your blushes, like a white tulip flower with red tinges on its face. You are trying to showcase yourself as modern art, but that ancient beauty in you overtakes everything modern about you!
“I never thought that there will be such a great admirable poet sleeping inside you. I have seen you drawing many portrayals of the common people posing in front of you. I loved those people who were enjoying the feeling that their faces to are picturised in the posters. Even I wished I could get a drawing of my portrayal with your artistic hands!”
“Hi! Nila, I don’t think that you are ridiculing me.
“I know you are a great artist, Now can I sit in front of you? And pose so that,”
“So that what???”
“I... me... my... she was not able to utter that word model!”
“OK Nila, which pose do you want? Today’s or Yester day’s... you need not pose in front of me as a model, your photo has been already impressed in my mind, in so many avatars, which one you want?!”
“So you have already sketched me in your heart, this is how you do your drawings for all the girls who sit and pose in front of you?” Though he was shocked by her quest he answered her very politely,
“Yes, of course, an artist can never draw a pic without picturising it in his mind about everyone and everything he wishes to draw, but you are very special to me, you are already there inside me in different art forms, now it was his turn to blabber,
“Maybe because we have the same compassion for the suffering dogs!”
“Do you think, only that much we share between us?” Again she was up in her arms with her shocking questions,
“What else do you expect?” It was a simple question from Prem but Nila threw a time bomb as an answer! She answered just like that of a modern carefree lady,
“I expect your love!” It was a straightforward answer without any decorations or stammering. It was like a little girl asking for a lollipop which she likes the most,
Now he started laughing incessantly without any inhibition,
“Nila do you understand what you are saying!” And at once he remembered what his mother foretold when he shared his first meeting with her. Now he replied,
“Nila, this will be our life breaking decision! only two days have elapsed after our meeting, within that period do you want to say,
‘I LOVE YOU... Do you know the after-effects of love... after loving, we must get married, we have to run our family, and finally you have to bear our children!...!”
“So What??? Do you have any objections to marrying me? I am ready to marry you and bear your children happily in my womb!” He was blown out of his feet on hearing those words...
“Do you think I am a joker in a pack of cards?”
“This is not a joke Prem; it’s an ultimate love coming from the deepest chambers of my heart. Yes don’t look at me like an idiotic ass, I love you, and I wish to marry you!”
“You lousy chick you are just blabbering, I am good for nothing fellow roaming this seashore like a nomadic hero. You are giving a loose talk without knowing anything about me!”
“I don’t care about whatever position you are in! My father is the king of the sea, and I am the only princess and heir to the properties which is spread all over the world, like this ocean. I am the owner of one of the shipping corporations in Tamil Nadu, and not only do I do export and import business, but also, I do multi-faceted jobs related to shipping trade.
Our company build ships; as well as break them too; when they get old and unserviceable. Do you think an Entrepreneur and a businesswoman like me will fall into any trap of love very easily?
I was following you for so many days. But I don’t know why I have fallen in love with you? I have sieved you from the multitudes of faces I have met in my life. The very first day when I saw you on that beach bench, my mind and heart said in unison that ‘you are my man!’ She continued her lecture,
“There is some unknown attractive force between you and me! So I was on many search engines and a google search! I found about your, past, present and future.
Your Conduct certificate from a notary Public shows that you are a good citizen, and an engineering graduate with distinction. On surfing, I found that you were a software engineer and a web designer in an MNC company with a very good package. But to my dismay, I found that after working for three years you quit the job without assigning any reason.
‘OMG! What else does this lady CID Inspector know about me?’ He felt he has stripped off his clothes and standing nude in front of her. with a mixed feeling of shock and awe, he was standing wide-mouthed, and Nila continued,
“You have a very good family background with two siblings!
Answer for only one question eluded me! i.e. the reason for you quitting the job with a lucrative salary? you isolated yourself from all your friends and colleagues! All of a sudden without any notice, you took refuge on a seashore showing special love for the dogs. and roaming with those orphaned beach dogs?”
“But Nila I too don’t know the answer for this question except that at times I am an introvert and an angry bird. I love my family and dogs. Maybe it was due to the loss of my pet dog ‘Harry’ when I was a kid. But I don’t know the reason why I am drawn towards the dogs!
But may I know the reason why you have chosen me as your lover in the midst of a multitude of faces you meet in this universe!?” Prem threw a logical question at her,
“M...m... it’s a heavenly secret which I too want to analyse with you.
Some months back I was in search of a resting place so that I can spend some time peacefully, away from the maddening crowd of my business world.
I thought the seashore will be an apt place to relieve myself, of my daily routine works thinking about harbours, ships, sea trades, their navigation history, running after money, staff management, computers, laptops, mobiles, and solutions to all the problems surrounding me like termites.
So I came here in search of a kulfi ice cream to cool my aching mind, and a healing touch for my aching heart.
‘Like Poison as an Antidote for Poison, Seashore as a remedy for my Sea sours’ The day when I first met you was a full moon day, both the setting sun and rising moon were hanging on the sky, at the same time. it was a special day in my diary, where the sky was giving a red-carpet welcome to both the sun and the moon at the same time.
In that backdrop, I saw you sitting on that stone bench, with the setting sun shining behind your head and emerging moonlight lighting your face with a golden tinge, you were sitting like a yogi, with a lovely handsome face; sitting like a Godly man among the dogs with love and affection filling your wonderful eyes. With your long arms and legs, you looked manly, strong, sturdy and brave with a handsome face to match it.
Your lovely figure touched my heart, and your passionate eyes filled with compassion filled my mind. At once my mind proclaimed that you are the man I am looking for and it started settling down with you peacefully! I felt my mind and heart synced with yours with the same frequency and I felt, I could easily sync with your feelings.
After that, I was on search mode, and my mind began to revolve around you; I was only thinking about you! On those days my mind was madly revolving around you like our moon around the earth and the earth around the sun! I felt if I ceased to move around you I will die! Do you need any other proof to show that I am in love with you!”
Prem sat stupefied and stunned on hearing her love tale. He sat dumbfounded not able to utter a single word. Thus, their friendship started growing along with those growing puppies, and they emerged as romantic couples in the days that followed.
He knew that she was the Managing director of all the Commercial business related to their Shipping Corporation... He was baffled by her power, wealth and authority and started admiring her affectionately.
He felt she was on the peak of the snow-covered Himalayan range, while he was on the bottom rung of the ladder. Once even he pleaded with her to take away her love and friendship as he felt he was a mismatch for her
He cornered her with examples: “You fly in the Airways frequently to foreign countries like the US, UK, Japan, China Australia, Germany etc., as if you were travelling in a town bus, but I cannot fly even in a balloon, You have all luxury cars like Audi, Amaze, Honda, Hyundai, Swift, Mercedes Benz, while I know their names and their structural body builds.
You own a cruise in Venice and I don’t even own a catamaran. I own this age-old bike which may tear your skin when you hop on it. and I am a pauper now as I have transferred all the money I earned as a software Engineer, to my parents account so that it can be utilized during my sister Anju, Manju’s marriage. I have promised my dad that I will not touch even a single paisa from that money.
“Do you want to marry a pauper on the street?” Was his final question. But she deflected her question very deftly, saying,
‘NO’ Prem you are wrong, when you own me, you become the owner of everything I own! And I can fly with you with your flying balloons!” was her answer.
‘But take care that your pant does not slip into her hands!” Surely it was a voice message from a dog. Nila, did you hear any voice message?”
“No Prem you are becoming crazy nowadays!” was her answer! Prem continued his arguments with Nila! “Nila I don’t understand why God is playing these snake and Ladder games in our lives?”
“God’s ways and means are always mysterious Prem, Please say those precious three words in my ears, ‘I LOVE YOU’ She was daily badgering him, but he was not able to say those words as easily as her. But he knew in his heart of hearts that,
She will be his ‘Alpha and Omega’, ‘the beginning and ending in his life!’
Now after his quarrel with Nila he was lying on the same stone bench where their love started, munching all those sweet memories to cool his heart!
All of a sudden he heard a voice calling him by name and talking to him!!!
“Prem Why do you feel so sad? Which ship of yours has drowned in the sea?” He was startled to hear someone speaking to him. He opened his eyes to see who it was but couldn’t find anybody standing in front of him but he could still hear a voice. He felt as if his pet dog Harry was talking to him.
“Who is talking to me? Vow!!! I could feel it’s like my pet dog HARRY!!! Talking!”
“You look around and see!” That was the reply Prem got from the voice message.
His body began to shake on hearing that voice in his ears. Already it was late in the evening and the seafront was thronging with a multitude of human heads. The setting sun, rising moon in all its glory surrounded by sparkling stars, and the sound of the roaring sea all gave an eerie feeling along with that voice calling him,
“M..., A..., S..., T..., E..., R, my dear M..., A..., S..., T..., R...,”
“H..., A..., R..., R..., Y! my dear H..., A..., R..., R..., Y...,” Are you there???