The Empty Bench

The Empty Bench

            There she is again sitting on that fourth bench of the third row after so many days. It is the starting of a new year after summer vacations. For others everything is same but for her it is all different. When she entered into the class room a nerve ran through her spine. Her mind got flooded with his memories spontaneously and that flood came out through her eyes as tears which looked as beautiful as pearl drops. She could feel the heaviness in the air which was holding her back. Her mind was continuously warning her that she shouldn't have came.

" I didn't want to come either but how long I will run away from this", she tried to explain her stupid mind while looking at that empty bench. She came near it, got settled pulling her bag aside and kept her head on the bench closing her eye's.      

            Yeah, it was their bench, their place. They has spent two years in that class, daily sitting on that same bench. That bench had seen them laughing their heart out, banging it. It had seen her tears followed by his care. On it they had played, they had studied. This is where theri love had taken shape and blossomed. It had heard them singing songs and had felt their buzzing phones. It had seen hundreds of side hugs he gave her and had got dirty every time he force fully tried to feed her. It had their initials on it and was a part of their story, of how they met. How she sat alone for many week on that bench once, where as he was the type of person always found in bunch. She was mess and he was cute, what made him fall for her she never knew. How he kept everyday a rose for her on this same bench, that was the schedule he never changed. How thousand times he proposed her, what courage that it took her to say him yes. Their love and their Care, their fear and their prayers. their rise and their fall, this bench had seen it all. Today also this bench is still here as per she, but he is gone far far away from her for further studies. They are still together by the means of phone but today this half empty bench, is making her crave for him more and more....!!!!!