The Tale of A Wanna be Romeo

Ever since I started playing cricket, I had only one goal that I want to bring fame to my country and make my mother proud. Ever since I had my ambition set, I worked harder than anyone I can remember. At the age of 13, I had my goal set to be a professional cricketer. It was around evening when I was coming back home from the field with my best friend Mrinmoy, I noticed a girl waving her hands toward Mrinmoy. That girl had her eyes completely locked on Mrinmoy's eyes and asked him"  Hi!! Mrinmoy, how are you?" Mrinmoy seemed a bit irritated looking at her waving toward him, though he replied back hi to her as well. That girl walked over us that time without jumping into any kinds of conversation.  "Who was that chick?" I asked Mrinmoy with a creepy look.  "A friend from my school, why you got crushed mate?" "Not really but I will admit her beauty!" "Neh! She is just a w***e from my school, she was my girlfirend when I was in class 5." Mrinmoy replied unpleasantly.  I was so shocked hearing that,"holy s**t mate! You had a girlfriend at the age 10?"  "Yeah man, We were in relation back then but now I do not like her anymore." then Mrinmoy explained his story to me. I learnt that girls name is Sarah Kabir, she is 13 years old like me and she was in relation with Mrinmoy, when they were in 5th grade.Well after ending the conversation, we went back to our home. It was Summer. The temperature was quite high, the breeze of the air was warm. Sweats kept falling down to the ground from our body, had our body soaked in sweats, while the coach kept throwing the balls in our direction. The field was quite fired up by the crowd of players, training for the upcoming tournament. I was practicing catch with my fellow teammates for the tournament as well. I recall we were being tortured by our coach.  That day returning home from the field, I noticed that girl Sarah, whom I saw the other day with Mrinmoy. She glanced at me once, yet she just walked over me without saying a single word.. well what can I expect, I did not had Mrinmoy by my side. I looked up and move toward the direction of my home. Reaching home I noticed my place was quite in mess, the television in my drawing room was smashed to the wall beside the main gate, all the show pieces in the show case were destroyed and there were pieces of glasses all over the ground. When I went inside my mothers room, I found my mother crying, my brother sat in the corner of the bed looking down. I was quite shocked and thinking about the reason behind this incident. I learnt afterward that my mother had a fight with my father and my brother had a rough argument with father while I was away.   Well I grew up in a middle class family and my family always had some problems sticking to us like glue, it was like you finish up to one problem and advance to the next problem. Well family disaster happens all the time, every family have their own problems to deal with, so my family is no exception and this was what I thought. After all the m******e, when it had finished I opened my f*******: account, I was quite into social media stuff back then, so at night when I opened f*******:, I noticed a girl sent me friend request and I was quite shocked looking at her display picture, because that girl was no one but Sarah Kabir the friend of Mrinmoy, so  I just accepted her request and started talking to her. After that night we turned out to be a good friend, and at a certain time I thought she liked me and I realized I was giving her priorities more than my friends. Well it was a good time of teen, A teenager fell in love with another teenager, well there is a saying that teenage flame is hard to be extinguished, and it spreads quickly or we could probably say heart gets colored easily. We talked every night on f*******:, we exchanged pictures, sent voice messages. We never met face to face much because we were not from same school, so one day while I was on my way to school, she screamed by my name and then I saw her and rushed toward her. Both of us were on our  uniforms that time but I noticed her eyes and hairs sparkling, the aroma coming from her was so gentle and healing, her eyes seemed so enchanted, it was sparkling  which had my heartbeat rate  risen up. She interacted to me calmly and gently and it felt quite touching to me. That day I realized I had  fallen in love with a girl for the first time.  I started working more harder in the practice from the day I fell in love. I was more determined to become a professional cricketer. I used to wake up early in the morning and went  jogging than after returning home I went to school, I used to go to the field one hour earlier before the practice started. To me, everything seemed really peaceful and  smooth but I had done a mistake without realizing, which is! I never mentioned to my best friend Mrinmoy that I had feelings for Sarah. Well everything was going smoothly, I was in love with Sarah, I used to talk to her every-night and used to wait outside her house or sometimes I used to wait beside her school in order to see her. I had become a Stalker without noticing it. at a certain time Mrinmoy asked me" Dude do you have any kinds of romantic feelings for Sarah?" and I was like, " I guess buddy yeah!" Mrinmoy had supported my feelings that time unexpectedly. Things went really fast without noticing and unexpectedly a year had passed by. I was quite determined about Sarah even though I had not confessed my feelings to her. I was still passionate about cricket and I was  appointed as the captain of my cricket team. My team became really popular somehow due to my leadership and my teams performance. Mrinmoy and I, were quite a good battery in our club, Mrinmoy was the ace of my team. Together we  kept going higher and higher until a tragedy. Before another year was about to pass, Mrinmoy had transferred to another school and he got mixed up with some thugs and befriended to them. Since then  he had himself quite changed. He started to roam around with me less than before, skipped cricket practice often. When I had confronted him, I learned he had already quit the team and cricket as well. He also told me he has lots of other interesting stuffs to do rather than cricket. That day I was quite hurt hearing that from my best friend and my partner, he was like a brother to me, we had decided to become a professional cricketer and had dreamed to play national together in the same field as a battery.  I had shared all that to Sarah one day. Sarah was quite hurt and told me to give Mrinmoy a break and also told me that Mrinmoy loves cricket just as I do. I found those words quite comforting and I bought those words. Since then I did not say anything to Mrinmoy about cricket anymore and Practiced alone. We stopped hanging out like before, I was quite alone. One day Mrinmoy called me, he wanted to meet. I went to the usual spot where we used to meet and he told me that he is in trouble and asked me to go with him to a certain place. After that he took me near his Cram-school, where few friends of his were waiting and when we arrived there, they came to us and greeted Mrinmoy, they greeted me as well and then they took us to a place. That place was quite deserted and Mrinmoy pointed at me to them by saying,"Its him, he is the guy!" After that, they stared at me with serious look and one of them asked me with a creepy tone" You are Nihan? huh!! I heard you like Sarah and you talk to her every night?" and after hearing that I was quite shocked and I replied to them" Yeah, I do like her, what about it?" One of them just slapped me on my Jaw suddenly,  and goddamn it hurt like hell! I was like what in the world just happened, well I understood the situation afterward that slap and realized that  I got set up. The most sad part was to me that I was set up my Best Friend Mrinmoy, I never imagined that he would set me up like that. Well After one slap Mrinmoy pretended there like he is on my side by stopping them but who the f**k cares, I got already slapped and they came on me and started beating me. After that beating, Mrinmoy got me a taxi and sent me home, I did not spit out a word that day, I felt so humiliated that day. Few days later, since that incident I met Mrinmoy again. " Hey Nihan, you being well?" Hearing that out from him got me so f*****g pissed that I could not stop myself from anger and I went Berserk and grabbed his collar, smashed to the wall and kept punching into his stomach continuously. He screamed really loudly, he also attempted to hit me back but I had taken the first strike which got me an advantage and there I won the fight but lost a friend. Mrinmoy told me one thing before going,"You seriously are hopeless and a loser." Well that night when I approached Sarah in the social media, she texted me one sentence only," Sorry I am blocking you." After that she had blocked me on f*******:, I did not have her cellphone number because she never had one, I went to her place and it was locked. I often went near her place but found no sign of her and one day I met her on the way from school, she was coming back home, I asked her "How come you blocked me without saying any reasons?" She replied with angry voice,"I was disappointed at you that time, you really are hopeless and I am not obliged to explain anything to you, but one thing I can tell you that I always took you just as a friend, just a friend." Well she just rejected me on my face before I had a chance to confess to her. Alas it just happened. it took me quite a month to move on from that incident but I did move on because cricket helped me. It was the time around winter. I was returning home from the field at the evening, the outside was quite chilly and the wind was quite wild. I met a friend on the way back home, so we interacted to each other normally and while in the conversation I learned that the girl Sarah Kabir, she is in a relationship with this guy I was talking to.  It really was quite shocking to me but it meant nothing. At that night when I was studying in my room, I heard my mother and brother shouting. They were shouting  at my father. I learned that father had resigned from his office and decided to go back to the village. Brother and my mother were quite furious to know that, not to mention me as well. Father was marrying to another woman, and he decided to go back to the village leaving my mother and gave us a choice, him or mother. I loved my mother more than anyone and my brother did as well so we chose mother over him. So that night when we found out that father had resigned from his office  and he was leaving. I had started interrogating him that time, which caused another m******e in our house. There happened a huge chaos and it was quite frightening, mother was crying, Few drops of blood was falling down from fathers head, brother went outside from the house being angry, I stood in front of my father. He gave me a check of a bank and there was a sum written on it, he told me," This is the last thing you guys are getting from me, after ward you guys are on your own." After that night, Father abandoned us. One week later since father left. I had a trial in the national sports institute, I went there to participate and I had passed the first trials but could not make it to the final. In other words I was not selected. In the winter, There happened a tournament, where my team went there to participate but due to my performance, I was not selected and not to mention I had already lost the position of the captain. At the end of the year, my academic result of the session in school was published and it turned out that I failed In the final exam. When my mother found out that I failed in the school, she had grounded me in the house. She had shouted at me a lot but one thing that had always hurt me was," Nihan! you really are hopeless." At a time,  she asked me to quit cricket. That day I had an argument with my mother and unfortunately my mother won over me by threatening me emotionally and It turned out that I was forced to quit cricket. Well I could not ask more from my mother, where our family was in no shape from supporting my dream anymore. That year was the best frightening   year I ever had, That year was the year when I lost my best friend, I got rejected to the girl I had been chasing, I had my father abandoning us and the year when I stopped chasing after my Dream.