~Eagam Khaling~
A marriage ceremonial party is going on inside the hotel Seven Seventeen of Darjeeling town. A stranger in a black suit suddenly appears before the busy bride in a narrow space of the hall. The bride smiles touching the man’s soul and slips out her tongue, with glittering eyeballs, “By the way, who are you?”
The man replies with a smile on his lips, “Don’t kid, I am yours going to be most eligible
husband, the groom of this ceremony.” She reacts instantly and says, “Oh! Really?” After that, they laugh at each other with a misleading feeling. The bride had really never known the man anywhere in the town and outside. After a while, she again meets him in the same space. Seeing her one more time the man mutters to himself, “O God! You are going to kill me!”
The bride uncomfortably adjusting her vocal cord asks him, “Gentleman! You seem to be saying something to me, are you?” The man quickly negates with a sarcastic gesture, “No, absolutely not!”
As they were passing each other the man turns his head back and says, “By the way, your groom doesn’t match perfectly for you as a life partner. You know, a long, whole life living partner. If you can change your mind I am ever ready to elope with you.” Without any change in her attitude, the bride replies in a word with a mysterious smile, ‘Pagal!’
Later, after some hours, the bride’s mind quietly searches the man all around inside the party hall but doesn’t find him.
Eagam Khaling,
Darjeeling,
734209.
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