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“Oh Dammit, we are not having this argument again!!” He screams at her, with all his acrimony carved out in the lifeless room. Her eyes were glassy, she wanted to cry, she almost was, but stood on.
And it made him livid!
He had been missing for last two nights. A business trip kept him away as much as she saw him as seldom as his other friends. He had been long gone; she kept herself busy with her paintings.
She just looked at the newspaper, edged out on the corner table.
He slammed it on her face, a murky picture of melancholy and grief.
And he walks out of the room. His cell was ringing unobtrusively and her sight made him sick. He loved her, but that was seven years ago.
She looked at him walking away. Picks up the newspaper and tidily folds it up to the table. The paper read her Name in Bold; she was awarded the KAVA award only yesterday for her art works. She looked pretty in the picture; her dark aura was conjured well with the portrait in her paintings…abandoned and solitary.
She swabs off her eyes and walks to the room where he was smoking up in the dim corner. She walks up to him, stretches her arm with the newspaper in it. He glances up hesitantly, and reads the paper.
He hugs her “Darling, I am so proud of you”.
Yes, he loved her and that was seven years back.
Hey , You Open?
Yes Madam, Come on In. We are open for another twenty minutes. You just in time.
Oh am glad, Really!
So what can I help you with today? We still have our Christmas Stock lasting for SALE and with Valentines and Presidents Day round the corner, deal cannot be any better.
That’s nice. But I am not in for anything fancy. I just need..umm…
Ummm..?
Yes, you see I need a ..Mmmm….MASK.!!
A Mask? Hmm and that would be …As in?
Yeah the Mask, the one that can hide your true-self from the World and show the world what they want to see.
Hmmm..! I guess, we all need that kinna stuff.
So..? So..would you have any such thing?
Wait, lemme think. I guess you might just be in luck.
Is it? I am ready to pay any price for it.
……………Uncomfortable Silence……………..
Wait a minute madam, let me take a quick rush to the store. I would be just back.
Alright, I would.
………….15minutes Gone. Uncomfortable but soothing time passing By……………..
Uhh…Uhh….I am sorry Madam. I took longer than I expected. But here I got just what you need.
………Takes a huge bag out with all the different shapes and sizes of MASKS falling out one by one…………
Here.. This one is real “Sunny”. Can bright up the light in the room. You wear it and you are always Happy to the World. Lifting the World, by your Smile and Joy..!!
And here, this one is my favorite. “Inspirational”, I call it. You got this one on and the World looks UPTO you. I guess it has a magic aura to itself, gives a glow to the eyes. Intrigued..!!
And here…this one is the HIT with the KIDS, Joyful and playful. Brings the kid out dancing in your face. You must have one of those in your kitty too..
Umm I like it..!
And here, your collection cannot be complete without this- It’s the most magnificent of all-”Sympathetic”. That’s what OUR World really needs, Lotta sympathy with listening ears. You put this one ON and people would be magnetized to you, venting all the sorrows out like you are the Mother Mary. It is a huge success in the psychological profession.
And this is all I have Madam for you right now. But I would Order in more if you would like something more than this. I know we can fit in more like GREED, PASSION, SOBRIETY, MADNESS in there. But that may take in a while..
Oh Yes, but you are forgetting something here, We may need something more than that.
What is it Madam? Pl. enlighten me..
We need Sadness. No emotion is complete without it, no day, no life is untouched without …Sadness.
Yes you are Right Madam, so right. But we never make Masks for those.
Oh, why is that??
Coz for Sadness, you really do not need a Mask. All you need is your true exposed self.
Hmm….
I would take All of these. Please I should get going, and yeah keep that “SUNNY” MASK on the Top. Thanks, you have been much help.
