Missed call ( A short story ) a story written by me long ago . Re-posting it for my new friends.

‌She was in a hurry and was trying to connect the driver who had came to pick her at the metro station . She found the car and sat inside while carrying her mobile phone in her hand. Suddenly her attention went to her smart phone and she found a name was flashing at the mobile display . A name that she never wanted to call. She understood that this smart phone had created the error and accidentally made a call to that "name". She felt highly irritated and embarrassed and quickly cut the call .It was a abroad number so she hoped and prayed that the call was not connected with in this few seconds .She wished that her name should not be displayed in the screen of another smart phone at some other land . She was surprised and thought , how hell it was possible that her phone accidentally dialed this particular number from the middle of a long contact list. She quickly deleted the name from the call history . She herself washed out and deleted every signs of her existence from the world between Her and Him many years ago . She tried so hard to make sure that He would never meet her in his life . Something like what happens in the movie .She had deleted his number from her phone but surprisingly she found that when she switched to her new smart phone the Number was still stored at the sim card. But she could not delete His number again . But for the very known human curiosity she checked that there was no Whatappp in this number. They maintained an absolute silence between them for so many years . None of them wanted to cross the endding of a sad love story. They had chosen a perfect sad ending for their story.

She forgot the incident soon and got busy with her meetings and presentation . In the evening she was relaxing and took her phone at her hand to check daily messages from her friends at whatsapp. At the long list of messages she found a message from an unknown number. The message was "I found a long missed call after so many years .. what happened". She looked at the display picture ,it was He . He looked more matured with his slight grey hairs, his face was full of grace and was sitting at a chair under the sun . Life reflected a perfect peace at his face with some hidden emotions at his sparkling eyes and he covered it with a perfect smile. ,No story was running at the backdrop of her mind ,no thoughts occurs ,only she felt ice was melting inside her . With her surprise she found tears was coming up from her eyes . ..she allowed it to come . It was coming from the depth of her soul,tears without any anguish or guilt . It was for a loss that can never be compensated by anything else. She did not get any courage to touch the phone for an hour . Gradually she moved herself , washed her face and reached her phone . She saved the new WA number of him in her phone but did not reply back . A stored WA number and a display picture and a unfinished status was the last link between them .Rest was the never ending silence .

Jaya

2016