Full Moon and She

I had been waiting for her since evening sitting on the bank of the lake. Then I stood up and, leaning on the railing of the bridge, I started looking at the path from where she was supposed to come.

Slowly the evening passed, and the color of the evening changed from yellow to grey and then from grey to black from one end of the sky to the other. I felt that the footpath was also feeling sleepy because there was no one around.

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The cover of the trees and then the stars started dimming in the silence of the night. The cold was increasing in the air. I was wondering if she would come.

And then the moon came out, and then she came almost at the same moment. Walking with fast steps, almost running on the slope of the hilly path, she stopped right next to me.

She said softly, "Hi!"

Her breathing was fast, then she touched my shoulder with her right hand and then put her head there, and her dark black hair touched my soul deep inside me.

She smiled and said, "Now this night is for us, and it's going to be a nice long night."

She put her hand on my shoulder, and I felt like a branch full of rose flowers was resting there.

I remained silent.

We both remained silent for a long time. Then she said, "Tonight I will stay with you instead of at my friend's house, where I am invited for a function.

Then she gave me a shy smile, "Are you still upset? Now I have come, right?"

I still did not answer.

She said, "Come, let's take a walk along the lake." She looked into my eyes, and I saw her eyes full of love, in which the moon was shining with its full light.

This moon was telling me to go and take a ride with her in the lake. Today she lied to her family for me. And the beauty of the full moon night was spreading its beauty.

"I don't want to go to your friend's house."

She looked at me, kept silent for a moment, and said, "Okay."

My anger was gone. I took her hand in mine and said to her, "So you will stay awake the whole night. Today is the night of the full moon. Today I will sing songs for you because today is the night of the full moon. Today my songs will bloom like lotus flowers bloom in this lake every full moon night."

She looked at me, and then suddenly I heard the call of a cuckoo on a nearby tree as if she were requesting me to sing. Now we were walking along the shore.

I was thinking, I was waiting for your beloved smile. This beautiful, pure night of the full moon was waiting for our holy meeting with all my desires.

The boat was tied to a peepal tree, which grew on the banks of the lake. I stopped by the boat and put both my hands on her waist and hugged her tightly to my chest. The water of the lake was making a mild sound hitting the shore.

First I kissed her eyes and felt as if the gentle gusts of wind suddenly became loud and started singing a love song. Then I kissed her lips, and the sound of millions of church chimes spread music in the peaceful night.

I slowly opened the boat. She sat in the boat. I took the oar in my hands and rowed the boat to the other side of the lake. Then she asked me to stop the boat in the middle of the lake. She opened her bag took out the parathas and mango picles, gave one of them to me, and started eating one herself.

She said, "I made these paranthas yesterday." I kept eating and looking at her.

She said slowly, "You didn't come last night."

I smiled, "No, it wasn't a full moon night last night!"

I remember last spring, I was not here, but I still remembered her innocent eyes full of happiness. I could feel the same happiness in her eyes tonight.

Last night I was not here, but I thought that it should be a beautiful full moon night to see her red lips, so I would come and enjoy her beauty on a full moon night.

After eating the parathas, we ate the coconut cookies I had brought with me.

“These are so soft and sweet,” she said.

She broke a cookie with her teeth ate half of it and gave it to me. “Eat it.”

I ate it and found it sweeter than ever.

“I have never eaten sweeter cookies than this.”

She said. “I gave it to you, right? It gotta be sweet.”

And I thought, What if I was not here last night? These red lips, which are shining so bright in today's full moon night, would not be the same as last night! This beauty is mine on today's full moon night. May God bring more such full moon nights into my life.

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