Raining Love for Her by Kalai Selvi Arivalagan (digital e reader .TXT) 📕

dream never failed to be with him for her mind was always occupied only with his thoughts. Again and again whenever she got into some problems that risked her life, automatically her sub conscious mind relied on his love for strength to come out of that danger and back to normal.

After being saved from getting drowned in the shallow water of the river, her mother started to feel restless. In her heart, she felt something bad can happen to Reema and they need to be very careful with her.

In the middle of the night, she peeped inside the room and checked if she is sleeping or not.

But, Reema slept through morning also and woke up only around noon in the afternoon. The doctor prescribed her some sedatives to keep her at peace and that helped her to feel relaxed once she got up from the sleep.

The second incident left Reema aloof for more than a week. She got up late every day, had her food and medicines and once again slept through the afternoon. When she started to feel it was difficult for her to get sleep at night even after taking medicines, she stopped sleeping during the afternoons.

All the family members were much worried about her, and they took turns to be with her. Doing nothing and just lying down on the bed became a boring activity after sometime. None of them at home allowed her to watch television for long hours or sit in the computer and browse the net. She hardly spent time checking mails. Her mother felt sitting long hours before the computer can also drain away her energy.

Reema loved reading books but she did not want to read books continuously for that also strained her. In the afternoons, she would sit at the backyard looking at the birds, squirrels and crows there. With her book in her hand, she would switch her view from the book to the nature and from the nature to the book. She wanted to talk to Caroline and ask her how things are there at the office. Reema had so much to share with Caroline, but her mother did not allow her to use the mobile phone.

For more than a month, she was out of contact with the world. She could not communicate with any of her friends either by mobile or by emails. Caroline called her, but the talk never lasted more than a minute. Though Reema wanted to spend hours talking to her friend, her mother asked her to end her talk with a few enquiries about health. As her mother always attended the call on the mobile, Reema could not snatch some time with Caroline also.

Except eating and sleeping, she didn’t have much to do. She lied down in the bed or sofa and spent most of her time listening to music. Listening to music slowly helped her mind to settle down and be normal once again. If anyone finds her switching on the computer, they will come and stand near her watching. She never wanted to someone to stand behind and watch her browsing the net.

She hated that. To avoid any curious questions from the people around her, she would just open her mail box and scroll through the messages. Once she found many mails waiting for her to reply. She replied only Sanjay’s mail. Reema wanted to write to Vel in detail about things happened and let him know that she still remembered him. She wanted to do this in her privacy, but she could not get any privacy to do so. They have not met and spoke to each other for a long time, and so she wanted to share whatever she felt at heart for him and how life has been now for her with its unusual twists and turns.

Reema looked at the ceiling and the fan that revolved above her. Just like the blank ceiling, her life also looked blank. She could hardly tell what will happen in the next moment. First she met with an accident and went into a temporary memory loss. Now, she risked her life by getting drowned in the shallow water. Usually the river near the bank is always shallow and there is no danger. Sometimes, shift currents passed through the water near the bank of the river only. It is quite dangerous to be there at that time for it can topple and drown the person standing in the water. This time also she miraculously escaped from death.

How long is she going to be there in that place? Reluctantly she got up from the bed and reclined on the pillows. Aimlessly she looked out of the window. She could see some birds sitting on the branch and preening their feathers studiously. They were all so much engrossed in their preening activities; they failed to notice Reema who stood there watching them. Her heart felt depressed when she looked at the two crows that sat on the branch of the tree and were preening their feathers helping each other.

Reema’s eyes were filled with tears as she remembered Vel and at heart she wanted to see him immediately.

Her heart recited a poem by her favorite poet, Emily Dickinson.

That I did always love,
I bring thee proof:
That till I loved
I did not love enough.
That I shall love always,
I offer thee
That love is life,
And life hath immortality.

Afternoons at her native place were always very silent that is strong enough to make a person feel depressed at heart. Reema thought about their ride on the ECR road in the early morning and the ride on the flooded roads one night. She kept on thinking again and again those pleasant moments which brought her very close to him. Those moments brought them close together when they were only colleagues and did not have anything personal between them.

The day when he dropped her home from Caroline’s place and how he kept on talking to her on the way home drifted across her mind. She remembered every moment in detail and she could blissfully visualize their ride. Intuitively she knew that he also had a soft corner toward her and he also recognized her love toward him. Though they have not openly confessed in person about their love, they knew about it.

Reema lovingly remembered their chat when he went abroad and got stuck in the airport due to cancellation of flights. Reema came to know about him and his love at that time only. How diligently they charted out a plan to meet in person to celebrate their acceptance of love and how drastically things happened to her before he reached Chennai?
Tears started to flow from her eyes and stained her cheeks. She did not even have the mind to wipe away the tears. She felt a pull at her heart when she thought if she will be able to win his hands. With a deep sigh, she stood there for some more time listening to the birds.

Reema usually referred to tarot cards when she was in an awkward situation or faced a problem that tested her confidence. But she could not do so as she could not use the computer as she wished. With a heavy heart she lied down on the bed and closed her eyes. Sleep took over her and she slept soundly for more than two hours.

“Hi, Reema,” Reema in her deep sleep heard someone calling her. She could not make out who called her, but she could hear her name to be called again and again.

Without responding, she shifted her position and turned around and faced the wall. The evening sun rays slowly peeped in through the window bars and painted streaks of lines on the wall. The soft glow of the evening rays smoothly touched her shoulders and gave a shine to her thick black hair.

The unfurling jasmine flowers in the creeper near the window slowly sent the fragrance across the room. In her sleep, Reema’s nose reacted to the fragrance. The fragrance entered her lungs through her nostrils and it excited her even in the midst of her deep sleep. A smile across her lips showed she was dreaming something she really cherished.

The dream slowly shifted to her another world of vision. She could see herself strolling along the sands of the beach. She could hear the sound of the waves that came slowly and washed ashore. Sometimes the sound became so loud and the waves raised high as if touching the sky and broke on the shore reaching considerable length on the sea shore.

Though Reema was walking away from the water, the waves took the effort to reach her and get her drenched upto her waist in the salt water. Reema usually avoid standing in the water for a long time, as she hates to walk on the sand with her wet slippers. The water dripping from the slippers carried the sea sand and after some time she would start feeling the nagging sensation that slowly spread between the toes and fingers on her feet.

“Why did you some so long to touch me? See, how I am drenched.” Reema questioned the sea waves.

As if answering her question, the waves once again lifted above the air and came to her and touched her feet again.

This excited her like a child and she looked ahead. Many kids were busy playing in the sand building sand castles. After building the main castle, they built the fort around it. They made a beautiful flag out of the leaves of the plants on the shore and they placed it on the top of the castle. Every one took their time to build their assigned part of the castle.

Within seconds, she once again heard the heavy roar of the sea waves. A wave with the maximum height once again lapped the shore and took the castle along with it.

“Oh, our castle is going into the sea.” All the little children clapped their hands and shouted loudly. Their loud burst filled the air. But within minutes they started to build a sand castle again.

Now they built a figure in front of the sand castle and called that figure as the guard to protect the castle from the waves.

“Now the water will not come and touch the castle. Look at the guard be at the gate. He will not allow the waves to come and touch the castle.” The eldest one of the group told the little children. Much to the surprise of Reema, the sea waves seized to come near the castle and touch it.

Reema visually thought Vel to be the guard to the castle of her dreams and she wished he would come all the way to protect her and win her hands. But will it happen? Will she be lucky enough to see her dreams come true? So many questions kept her inner mind busy, and her heart with the heaviness of expectations struggled to beat with the normal rhythm that can keep her at peace.

When Vel and Beena left the library it was around 3 pm. From there, they went to the Birla Planetarium.

The centre enclosed eight galleries which extensively covered themes on Physical Science, Transport, Electronics and Communication, Energy, Materials Science, Life Science, Innovation, International Dolls and Children with over 500 exhibits.

After going around the galleries, they decided to attend