SHORT LOVE STORY

It’s a very rare incident to see Jenifer’s name in one of my companies payroll. At the first time when I saw her name, I surprised and I thought it’s a different Jenifer. But when I see you in front of me, I freezed for a moment.

It all began just twenty years back.
 

Richard was a rich boy in our school, and Jenifer was his girl friend. Richard came from a wealthy family and Jenifer came from a normal family. But I was the poorest fellow in the school, and I lived in very low with my mom and my brother. Sometime we didn’t have any to eat for whole day, lot of days I drink more and more water to prevent the hunger.  We were in poor that much. Some time Richard helped me to study, and he gave me even money. Richard was not so good in education. He always lived a luxury life with his other friends who had money. He clubbed, and drunk. Jenifer also joined with them, according to them, they were enjoying their life. But I was totally separate from those works and I concentrated my mind only to education, its because mainly I didn’t have money for that.
 

Like most of the days, one day I drank only water for get rid of hunger. But I didn’t notice, Jenifer looked that and she came to me. She gave me two sandwiches and a snack to drink. I felt very shy and I rejected. But she touches my hand and told me,
 

“It’s OK, you eat this” then I took her sandwiches and ate. She sat down by my side and smiled. Then she began to speak.
 

“I have seen you lot of times, you drink only water. I haven't seen you eat in the school cafeteria. I wanted to talk with you in time.” so that day ended like that.
 

So days passed that way and she helped me most times, and the Richard too.
 

One day she came to me and cried a lot. She told me that she broke up with Richard and he left for another rich girl. I felt very sorry about her. so after that incident, she was around me most of the times. So day by day, we close to each others. One Sunday evening we heard a bad news. it was about Richard. He died due to a car accident. It was very sad news for everyone in the collage, including me and Jenifer too.
 

One fine evening Jenifer came to my home for first time to give a note book. But I was not in the home and my mother was. 

After having 7-8 months of Jenifer’s friendship, I felt strong feeling about her. And day by day, I ignored my education works too.  Every night I was dreaming about her, I didn’t do any school works. I wanted to be with her in every second.  So I began to love her. One night I thought to tell her my feelings about her. 

On the very next morning, I met her as usual and let her know my feelings. But she rejected me so sadly. I couldn’t believe this, I asked the reasons, but she never told me. Finally I thought to myself, “she rejected me, because my poorness. She may stay with me closely, because she may wanted to killing her loneliness after leaving of Richard”.
 

I thought my self, how miserable to being a poor. I don’t have money to spend as I want, I can’t eat, what I want, I don’t have proper house to live, now I can’t love the person I want. I felt that poorness is the most miserable thing to have a person in this world. I wanted to kill myself, even to suicide. I didn’t have good friends to tell about this. I had to bear all this lonely. But everything has a breaking point. I decided to suicide. Same time I got angry about Jennifer too.
 

In the next day of morning, I went to school by walking. On the way, I saw a blind person, who tries to cross the road. No one helped him, but there were a lot people around. Suddenly I realized that, this blind man is trying to live without his eyes. But I go to kill myself, due to my poorness. I feel ashamed on me. I wanted to be rich, that’s the only way to win this world, and to get revenge from Jenifer too. Then I went to the blind man and, helped him to cross the road. There after, I dedicated my entire life for education. I never asked from her again. Day by day she was going away from me.  

After the final exam, I won a scholarship to a university. Then, I lost all contacts of her.  and her memories were fading in my mind. In the university, I was one of the brightest students. Meanwhile my brother got a job too. at the final exam of the university, I got many job opportunities. I got a good job and I could save some money too. By the time, I got a proposal for marriage. She was a doctor. After the marriage, I resigned my job and formed my own company. It was being succeeded by day by day. I got two kids. So there after that blind man incident I was in happy since today. It was almost 20 years.
 

She almost became a different person, even I couldn’t recognize her, and it seems she had a difficult time. I couldn’t speak to her either.
 

“I...I didn’t know your are working here, accidentally I saw your name in the payroll, then only I knew about you. Why didn’t you talk to me?
 

“I didn’t know this place belongs toy you till I came here, after I knew about that, I really wanted to go away. But I couldn’t, I came through many difficulties, its very difficult to find a job out there”.
 

“Yeah I see…what happened Jennifer?  I really worry about you”.
 

“After one year, I left the school, my father died and I had to go for a job. But I couldn’t find a good job, I worked in several places. Eventually I married a person; he was a drunker, every day I was beaten. my marriage never being a good one.Then I got three children, and he left me. I had to take care of my children. “
 

I shocked after heard her story. I can’t imagine what to tell her. then I thought, when the time I proposed her, if she accepted my love then the story would be different.
 

“I don’t know what to say…I feel very sorry about you, but if you accepted my love, when I proposed you, both we are in happy today”. Why…why did you reject my love over and over Jennifer? When you reject me, I wanted to kill myself, but you didn’t know that. You never know how much I loved you and, how much you meant to me”.
 

She just smile innocently and didn’t tell anything.
 

“Jennifer…please tell me why didn’t you accept my love? At least tell me now… please”
 

“I loved you Chris, more than my life… I loved you, I swear to god I loved you so much” Oh god please help me”…and she began to cry.
 

I couldn’t control myself and ran to her. Then I hugged her tightly.
 

“Then why didn’t you tell me Jennifer? Why didn’t you tell me?”
 

“If I tell that I loved you, Chris you never be the person who you are now”
 

“What do you mean Jennifer, who am I now?” what’s the different? I don’t know, what are you talking”
 

“Chris…I loved you a lot, but first it was not a love, when I was with Richard, I noticed you so many times. I understood how poor you are and how much struggle you do for the education and to live. I knew most of the time, you didn’t eat, you drank only water. I felt very sorry about you. Then one day I came to you and gave the sandwiches. You remember?”
 

“Yes…yes…I remember…just like yesterday”.
 

“So…day by day I felt you are a really good person, and the same time I felt Richard was a moron, he had enough money to spend. He didn’t love me either; he wanted me as a toy”. So one day he dumped me. I knew that he goona leave me one day or other. After that I did close to more and more to you. You also cared about me. when time passed, without knowing, I was falling love with you. I knew that you gonna propose me. I was counting for days to reply you Saying "I love you too, Chris”. But remember one day I went to your home?”
 

“yes…I was not in the home but my mother was”
 

“Yes…I met your mother there, she was a good women, she asked me to come in to your home and we were talking an hours. that day i realized how poor you are, it was only a room not a house, there was not even a bed, there were only two chairs. She told me how meant you for her, she told me how your family is living. She told me that you are the only hope for your family. She told me that When you educate well, you gonna have a good job, then you will become a wealthy person. She dreamed about you so high.  She knew that you had an ability to become a rich person.
 

“OK…so why did you leave me? What’s the point?
 

 “Chris…I know that you are such a good person and a sensible person, if I felling love with you, you never studied well, I saw it sometime. When you close to me, you ignore the studies. If you didn’t do your studies well, you never became a person who you are now. So I thought if I leave you, your mother’s dream may come true. When I was coming back from your home, I cried a lot, but I decided to leave you on behalf of your successes. After three weeks of time, you asked me, as I hope. Chris forgive me Chris…I loved you so much Chris, that’s why I rejected your love’. if I love me, than you, I may accepted your love. but I loved you more than myself Chris, that’s why I rejected your love”
 

“Oh…god Jennifer, what are you telling me”. I don’t care this life or wealthiness. Jennifer…I wanted to be with you. I’m so sorry, I studied so hardly because, I wanted to revenge from you. I thought you left me due to my poorness. Please forgive me!!! Oh…god what I’m going to do now”

“It’s OK Chris, this is my fate, I never regret about my life, but the love I did for you made the man who you are now. I’m happy about my love".