A TIMELESS PROPOSAL
From childhood, Sujatha
had a fascination for adventure, fantasy and sci-fi stories.
Now in her early
twenties, she still loved to read books or see movies which took her off on a
long flight of fancy. She could spend hours dreamily in such pursuits, unlike
her smart phone peers. Though she detested conventional travels, she loved the
concept of time travel.
Her parents, while
happy about her not being addicted to the phone and the Net, were also a bit
worried about her romantic notions on time travelling, AI etc and tried to
gently wean her away towards regular studies, with limited success.
Frequently, she would
relate the details of the weird dreams she started getting of late. Elves,
dwarves, princes and princesses paid nocturnal visits to Sujatha in increasing
frequency. While this perturbed her parents further, Varun, her younger brother
would tease her, “Didn’t you see any tall handsome prince so far, instead of
dwarves and other uglies?”
“Anything done in
excess isn’t good,” Dad would say, “Why don’t you do a MSc in Physics now that
you have graduated? Later, you can think of a Doctoral degree and then try for
a career with ISRO.”
“Yes, and then the
Space Research organization will send you on a time machine!” teased Varun, whom
she shooed off gently.
Sujatha would just
smile and walk away to her dream corner, to take up and read yet another
fantasy tale.
***
“Yesterday I had the
weirdest dream!”
Sujatha’s parents
shrugged and resigned themselves to hear yet another of those graphic dreams.
“There was this man-an
apparition- at the window, he was talking to me in some strange tongue which I
could somehow understand. This guy was actually proposing marriage to me,
saying he would take me home to his place in 2050!”
“Your dreams are
becoming really weird nowadays! Better you concentrate on your studies,”
admonished dad as usual, knowing his words would have little impact.
Neither Sujatha nor her
parents gave much importance to her dream, but when she started seeing the same
apparition almost every other day, they were a bit concerned.
“He is very persistent,
says cannot return without me. Yesterday, he also said he could easily carry me
off, but wouldn’t or couldn’t do it without my permission!”
Though it seemed very
silly, Sujatha’s parents discussed various options like sitting with their
daughter to challenge the stalker, or to inform the police. All such ideas were
firmly rejected by Sujatha who laughed at the idea of informing the police.
“He is definitely not a
human like us, from our times. There is
no doubt he is an apparition, alien, time traveler, or whatever…And a very
handsome one at that.”
Seeing the gleam in her
face while defending him, Sujatha’s parents were now really worried.
Then for some reason,
Sujatha’s space suitor stopped his nocturnal romance for a few days. When Varun
one day teased her saying he would have found a better girl, Sujatha got upset
and started weeping.
“If only I had said
yes!” she sobbed, to the utter consternation of her family.
Suddenly, the door of
their house flew open as though by a heavy gust of wind. Before anyone could
react, a very handsome looking apparition flew in, took Sujatha in his arms and
disappeared, all in the blink of an eye.
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