December 14, 2008

the masquerade ball....

She met him again at a masquerade party...after all these years, yet again!!
even before he revealed himself, she knew it was him....the way he looked into her eyes from behind the mask to the way he swirled her around---everything just confirmed the gut feeling....
they spent the whole evening together...dancing to the music....and it felt just like old times....
the music stopped....everyone around her had taken their masks off...but he hadent!
she hoped he would say something...anything...but he had been silent all evening!
she just felt his presence around her...love was in the air again....little did she know that so was deceit..................just like before!

she wondered how to ask him...tell him that it was him she was waiting for....she felt a part of her wanting to let it go on believing that he had come back because it was meant to be...but another part wanted him to unmask himself...
as she saw the familiar figure returning with her drink, she mustered all her courage and walked upto him....

"u can take off your mask now" she said "i know it is you...i always did"
"i think uve mistaken me for someone else...im sorry but we are nothing but two perfect strangers in this masquerade world" the reply was almost instant...and with that he took off the mask and there stood someone she had never seen before in her life...
indeed they were two perfect strangers...in the faint glow of the ballroom standing face to face, she stood asif frozen...
she was speechless..shocked....how she could she have allowed her heart to believe what it wanted to.....yeah probably thats what she had done!
he walked surprised asif hit by something he had never seen coming...."she's weird" he muttered coldly to the host, pointing at her....

far away at the other end of the ballroom, a shadow dissapeared into the darkness of the night....smiling to himself that he had fooled her again.......it was a narrow escape---the mask was still on!!
the party continued..everyone waited till the end---except for two people...one left laughing and the other crying, both ironically for the same reason.....

24 comments:

Priya Joyce said...

hmm tat was a nice read...good work..
and i hav read ur fiction for the first tym & luved it

lukkydivz said...

main darr gayi

Anonymous said...

Ahh nice read Pri again, masked world is quite a tough place to be in...u never know who s the person in the mask and what is he uupto!!

Anwesa said...

well,a spine-chilling read towards the end..kudos!!

Rambler said...

hey liked the mystery associated with it...but I kinda liked the guy's character, very well etched out I thought

The Furobiker said...

this world is full of masked people.. everyone trying to fool others. some cry some laugh.. it goes on n on

Phoenix said...

nice nice... me likes it... :)

wassup doc?! :D

mam you are given an award... do hop over to my blog to see it...

Anonymous said...

i lveod it Pri :)
It was good one :)

Anil Sawan said...

girlie, ur words are more than wonderful :-)such a beautiful presentation. luvd it. keep writing.

peace..

Keshi said...

WB Pri HUGS!

beautiful write-up! emotions were captured beautifully and characters were given life. u write so very well!

Keshi.

Anonymous said...

Nice read!
I liked it...

Ratzzz said...

now.. this is wat i call back with a bang...


welcome back girly... and congrats on the awards..

Arv said...

A tale with a twist eh? good one mate...

Have a lovely week... take care... cheers...

Urv said...

Aha.. Kahani mein twist.. Mast likhela hai Pri..

radiohead said...

wow .. interesting story !!
with all the sad stuff ..

ceedy said...

Nice read :)

Manuj Mehta said...

Quality writing. i liked reading your work. you need to polish a little, you realy connects to the reader. more involment of a reader is required, you have a great potential.

Regards
Manuj Mehta

Lena said...

good twist! Loved the way you captured emotions :)

ash89 said...

nicely written! :)

Urv said...

You have been awarded :)

Abhishek Behera said...

Beautiful!

Pavi!!!! said...

Gosh!who does that!?! Sooooo mean!

Very creative story Pri!

Pratz said...

Beautiful post Priyanka.... A very intriguing take...

IncorrigibleV said...

nice read, what triggered this??