Alone...

I still remember the day I met her, it was a rainy day. She was alone and so was I. There was loneliness in her eyes. Or was it my reflection I saw there? We were silent for a long time. I saw her glancing at me and I smiled at her. The compartment was almost isolated and the train was speeding through the meadows of Yorkshire. There was rain outside and it made the meadows sparkle in green. Then it struck me suddenly, her eyes are also green.

She was a student in the University of Edinburgh and was going to visit her family. She was very eager to join them. She talked about them for a long time. I was surprised by the sudden enthusiasm which came to her when she talked about them. She was separated from them for an year and i could see longingness in her eyes now. She asked about myself and we talked for an hour. Then her station came and she said goodbye to me and disappeared into the crowd...

As days went by her image faded from my mind. I was busy with my life and today I saw her unexpectedly and i was shattered to see her in a mental asylum. I asked about her to my friend who was working there and was told that on that same day I met her, her family died in a road accident, that too on the way to the railway station. They were coming to receive her...

Now her face looked like a white sheet, without any expression. Her green eyes lost their sparkle and they were unfocused. She didn't recognize me, just stared at me as if I was an alien. I couldn't stand there, I went out of her room and saw in the distance a train going and the sky was very cloudy as if undecided to pour or not...

I just walked through the road aimlessly.  Atlast rain started to pour drenching me and i realized that, I am alone...