Lonely and Crazy Love

                               

                                The day when Lathika turned 21 her parents started worrying about her future and the big life which lie ahead. No! They were not thinking about her higher studies, they were thinking about the “higher duties” in her life. Lathika was an average scorer in her schools and colleges. She was good looking, her shinning hair parted right from the middle to sides, a pair of eyes which can catch other eyes to its sockets, long nose and always smiling lips. She was the eye of her parents, because she was the only child they had. They had a small house in a traditional south Indian style. A portico, a medium size verandah which can hold up to two families, if the families have an adjusting attitude, three well built rooms and a small kitchen.

                                 It was during her college days she came to know about the social networking site, facebook. At first she was not interested, but later when all her colleagues started talking the familiar words like profile picture, tags, wall, post, but with a different meaning, she became curious. The next day with the help of one of her close friends she started an “account”. After a week’s use, she understood the meaning of all those familiar words. Nowadays, she had a lot to look up in internet for her studies. Her parents felt proud about their daughter. Even if they didn’t know anything about the machine, their daughter is using it all the time. Their daughter is “Technologically forward” they proudly said.

                                One day she got a new friend request from “Lonely Kumar”. She started thinking about all the Kumar’s she knew, but she never knew someone with a name “lonely” in it. But his profile seemed tipped in bitter tear salt. A wave of loneliness played in all his posts. And then she noticed her new message;

 Lonely Kumar

 Can we be friends?

She thought for a minute. Should I accept him? What is the big deal in accepting him? It’s okay, he is lonely and seems to be polite.

Lonely Kumar and Crazy Lathika are now friends.

Lonely Kumar:

Thank you.. J

Crazy Lathika:

You’re welcome J

 Lonely Kumar:

Graduated?

Crazy Lathika:

Yes J

Lonely Kumar:

Me too.

                                It was just the beginning of their new graduation course in life. The friendship grew to something beyond friendship. Lonely Kumar always appeared as Shahrukh, Salman, Amir, and Crazy Lathika went with cute baby’s pictures. But somehow they started loving each other. They understood each other very well. There was always a solution for Lonely Kumar’s problem if he shared it with Crazy Lathika and the same for Crazy Lathika also.  There was no day or night for their conversations. They became so close that one day Lonely Kumar send his original picture to Crazy Lathika and Crazy Lathika send her picture to him. Both of them liked each other, and they decided to marry.

                                Was it an earthquake or Lathika’s dad shaking the hell out of her? A lot of events took place in her house. Things changed its place, people changed their expressions and shapes. Lathika’s face was blown up here and there and her parent’s face was completely blown up like a balloon. But somehow they agreed. She messaged him to bring his parents to her home to decide a date for their marriage.

                                Lonely Kumar’s family arrived at the right time. At the same morning Crazy Lathika saw Happy Kumar instead of Lonely Kumar in her chat box. Wow..! She has changed someone’s life. They couldn’t talk face to face, since the elders were busy talking and biting their ears out giving them advices. And the marriage was fixed. Both f them slowly slipped to preparations, but they never stopped chatting. Lathika’s parents were finally happy for her. They blessed her whole heartily and waved her good bye. For Crazy Lathika and Happy Kumar it was a dream come true.

Happy Kumar Married to Crazy Lathika.

                                It was during the journey she came to know that his name was Raghav Kumar. But she liked his name too. May be they were too shy that they didn’t talk much during the journey. Later at night Crazy Lathika before entering to her bedroom, waiting for the hot cup of milk in the kitchen, changed her name to Lathika Raghav in Facebook and uploaded their wedding picture. A shower of likes covered the picture. The fellow friends glorified the facebook love and marriage, some commented it as a new beginning in marriage history.

Raghav Kumar likes your picture.

                                Happy Kumar changed his name to Raghav Kumar and was waiting for his wife to arrive. She hurried to their bedroom with her phone on one hand and a cup of milk on another hand. Raghav welcomed her with a warm smile. They shared the milk. An awkward silence started creeping. Lathika and Raghav were quiet. Raghav tried to talk but he couldn’t. After a five minutes struggle he opened his laptop, logged into facebook and send Crazy Lathika a message.

Raghav Kumar:

Hey..! We are married ;)

 Lathika Raghav:

Its wonderful, we’re finally together J

Raghav Kumar:

Yes, our dream came true.

And they continued chatting, the only way of communication they knew!