Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Nun and Her Love, Chapter 11

As Euthra’s car disappears from his sight; without even thinking about Yethro’s emotions, Tshegyel walks towards his car. Catching the door knob, he looks back at Yethro, who stands in front of the building looking terrified. He has no idea what she will think of him. Then, walking back to her, he grabs her hand and pulls her towards the car.
“Can you help me with something?”
She does not reply. As she sits down, he starts engine and follows Euthra’s car. Once in the main road, looking at Yethro, he says, “Can you please tell me something about Ani Euthra? Why she became nun?”
Still looking horrifed, she sits saying no words to him.
Without looking at her, fixing his eyes on to the road; he starts, “I am sorry to inform you that Euthra was my first love and will be my last. I know you will understand. You are younger than me and you deserve a young and smart boy not oldie like me.”
She stays stuck to the seat silently. He is not sure if she is even breathing. Nevertheless, he keeps talking assuming that she is listening to him. Euthra’s car has disappeared from his sight. He speeds up overtaking other cars and buses.
“Yethro, I have been waiting for her, till now. That’s why I was not able to marry you,” says Tshegyel, catching Euthra’s car. He cannot stop the car and talk with her, but he will definitely take opportunity to talk with her at the airport. He is not sure if Euthra knows about him following her car.
“This is one-sided story,” says Yethro, looking at Euthra’s car in front of us, without looking him.
“What do you mean?”
“She is gone now. What’s the use of waiting? She is a nun now. Nun. She is never coming back to your life,” says Yethro, looking at him, loaded with emotions.
He cannot respond her and her words ring sense of truth in his ears but his heart cannot accept those facts.
“Why did she become nun?”
He asks slowing the car down, as Euthra’s car stops at the roadside shop, a few meters away from the Chuzom bridge.
“According to some people, five years ago she went back to her village in search of her father when she landed up in nunnery at Trongsa. Staying as a nun for one year in the nunnery, then she came to Thimphu and started this charity organization. For first two years, she dedicated to providing basic needs like food, shelter and clothes to the old people found in and around Thimphu. At first, she was all alone. She started a page on Facebook and sought donations. With the little amount, she got she would provide food to those old people. Then, she started to get more donations. After helping old people with basic needs, she realized that instead of helping them, it would be better to take them back to their homes. As of now, she has taken 99 people back to their homes. Her mission was to help only hundred people.”
Listening to Yethro’s narration, he interrupts, “Why hundred?”
“By then, she will be blind,” says Yethro, taking out her phone.
On hearing these, he pulls over the car to the roadside. Not believing her words, he shouts, choking with surprise, “What?”
“Actually, she has donated one of her kidneys. She is heading Bangkok today to donate other one also. Then, she is going to donate her eyes.”
As Yethro finishes this statement, he hides his emotions and starts to drive. As the wheels hit the road, he stays silent. After driving for half an hour, he catches Euthra’s car. Instead of heading to Paro Airport, her car crosses the airport and heads towards Paro town. He follows the car, maintaining distance, when Yethro sleeps beautifully. The car stops in front of a hotel. Getting out of the car, the driver opens the door for Euthra. She gets out and looks around. As she gets into the hotel, he parks his car a few metres away from hers.
Walking into the hotel, he goes directly to the reception desk. He asks about Ani Euthra.
“Sir, do you have appointment?”
He does not but he has to lie now.
“I am her health advisor,” says Tshegyel confidently.
Taking phone to her ear, the receptionist gets busy. Keeping down the phone, she looks at him.
“She is upstairs. Conference room.”
Thanking her, he walks up the staircase thinking about how to start the conversation. There are many rooms, thus he walks along the corridor looking for the conference room. Finally, he finds the room. Standing in front of the door, he lifts his hand to ring the bell when a man gets out of the room. He smiles at him and walks away along the corridor, talking to the phone.
Pushing the door, he walks into the room. On seeing, Euthra, he lowers his head down, hiding his face. Observing him carefully, looking at the man standing beside her, she says, “Please, I want to talk with him once.”
The man walks out of the room obediently, as Tshegyel stands in front of her. Looking at him, she says, “Please, be seated, my friend!”
Lowering his body down on to the couch, he takes a glimpse of her face. Her fairness has gone. Her face looks dark. She looks frail.
Smiling at him, she says, “You may not be able to recognize my face. Can you?”
Tears filling up his eyes, he says, “I can.”
“Tshegyel, how are you?
He does not respond. Keeping his head down, he stays sobbing not being able to tolerate the pain she is going through.
“Life is unpredictable. You may not know, how badly I treated my mother. I am very guilty and I cannot forgive myself. I want to meet her again and seek forgiveness but I cannot do that. Thus, I chose to be a nun. Staying in a nunnery, I didn’t find the meaning of life, thus came here to help old people. This is my life Tshegyel. I am very happy to know that your fiancé is working in my organization,” says Euthra, her face brimming with happiness.
He stays silent without saying a word. Taking a sip from the cup, she looks at him, “I am happy to meet you before my world becomes dark. I will be living tomorrow to Bangkok for eye surgery.”
The man who left the room a few minutes ago, walks back into the room. Standing in front of her, he says, “Ani, your parents are waiting outside.”
Nodding her head, she looks at Tshegyel, “Tshegyel, keep one thing in mind, even blind can see kindness.”
Story by: Phurpa Dorji (PJIKKS)

Chapter 12 Tomorrow @9PM

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