My Weird Date with "her"

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Fiction Romance

Quick-witted narrowed red eyes seemed somewhat tipsy, uncombed and rumpled streaky hair delineated his "Wake-up" story all night. Dressed in a ruffled white night suit, he sat down proclaiming the chair opposite to his father.

Mr. Brown - "Good morning!" Did you tussle all night?"

(Mr. Brown emphasized on tussle)

"How was your project?"

Harry - "As usual, although Katherine committed to producing work that meets high…"

Mr. Brown was friendly and ready to gab at all times about just about anything, loquacious, talky, and likely to your ear off.

Mrs. Brown started serving toast with egg to Harry, fumed with anger, and said - "You don't have a clear-cut objective yet! But you're totally spoilt by her! I'm telling you, she's a little minx…

Mrs. Brown was a woman of about sixty-two... A tremendously vital person, interested in everybody and everything (but not in Kate), in contrast to Mr. Brown's apparent indifference to anything except when he shares his stories and gossiping a long on the table of breakfast.

Harry - "No! not again. Today is her birthday. I have planned to go to Central Park and give her a surprise present."

Hearing this, Mr. Brown astounded on his place and said - "Something weird went on up there. That park had been witnessed to a series of bizarre and unfolding events. The Herald made a documentary on it."

Harry - "I think what they say is completely absurd. They only did so to gain publicity. You are stupid enough to believe them."

xxxx

Kate - "You're so headstrong, and persistent alright sweetheart!"

Harry - "Love please tell me just this once, and I won't ask again, I promise."

Kate - "You're the most romantic guy ever.

Harry - "My brain is about to blow!"

Kate - "Baby, what are we doing tonight?"

Harry - "We are celebrating your birthday at Katz Deli and wearing party dresses."

[ When I saw you, the silver ball on the cloud danced,

I felt delighted, my heartbeat enhanced.

Your boon companion always incited me,

Fill me with love and excited me.

I have found you, found a good chance,

The earth nothing knew but romance.]

The sun is bright and beautiful. The earth is dry and parched. The hot weather ignited passions, sending their internal blaze into overdrive. The couple filled the vacant wind with the blow of warmth and another couple of Hyacinths near to them also pursued their mouth in a self-satisfied smirk and cuddled closer.

Kate in the spark of love plucked the yellow Hyacinth from the couple flower. As soon as she plucked it, they saw - from the cleft of the bloom, a smoky black icky began gushing out. They both got cold feet and the turbulent surge howled on its very verge.

The sky seemed covered in pitch grey and the sun was hidden or the darkness crept over the Earth. The wind whistled its cold song. The rapid quivering trees and the cries of the leaves, ripping the veins of the ear, passed by flickering the two souls.

Harry screamed and tumbled down. The flower transformed into an inhuman monster and his brawny arms arose just right from both sides. The male yellow monster opened his giant mouth.

He grinned to reveal his butter-yellow teeth as he walked towards Kate. She ran deeper into the weird forest. He picked up the tree in his elongated spiky arms and flung it in her direction. When he realized that he had failed, he began to chase her saying - "Come, let me destroy you!"

He kept giggling every time he said that. She was running as fast as she could. Her heart was pounding, and she barely breathed. Even the wind seemed to be kept cackling at her. Then she realized that the trees were taking the form of humans, pushing and mocking at her - "Silly girl! They kept scoffing, their voices echoing."

Then his bristly long arms directed towards her and clinched her like a rolling metal spring, giving a loud blow, slammed her on the ground. She shrieked and died.

Harry sensed after a while, he rose hardly and sat on the ground. He saw that the cataclysm slowed to a standstill. Only the devastated, and shattered plants and trees were on the earth. He remembered that yellow Hyacinth was chasing Kate and imagined about that his heart battered.

He walked towards the deep forest to look for her…

"Kate, where are you?"

Ongoing ahead, he saw a wedge women sandal on the road. His face seemed petrified in its stern expression and he thought what would have happened to her? He went inside thorough bushes and stared at - 'a lifeless and bloodied, soil wrapped body was waiting for someone.' He approached Kate and yelled at her -

"Kate, please get up! Please get up!"

"What happened Harry?"

Harry tossed away from his blanket and realized that it was a nightmare!

Mrs. Brown came on hearing his loud voices.

It was a nightmare - said Harry by taking a long grasp and sweating profusely.

xxxx

As her eyes drifted to rest she was one with the stars, her skin cooled by the breeze, and when she awoke the sun radiated with the first kiss of the new day. She rose and went to the washroom.

The girl walked briskly up the block in her low-cut morning suit. Her mouth was small, her nose upturned. She could be anyhow from eighteen to twenty-two. There is a curious style, a large sense of high-voltage about her. Her skin is olive but her Hazel Blue eyes looked sometimes so skeptical.

She thought that she was late to meet him. After all, he arranged a date for her at Central Park.

xxxx

Harry - "I don't just see you as an ordinary guy, I see within you a perfect human being. The guy that can make me smile through her single word."

Kate - "To me, you're more than enough, more than I deserve. My only only wish is to genuinely make you happy."

[ When I saw you, the silver ball on the cloud danced,

I felt delighted, my heartbeat enhanced.

Your boon companion always incited me,

Fill me with love, excited me.

I have found you, found a good chance,

That nothing knew but romance. ]

Kate picked off that one pink Hyacinth and put it in her long hair.

Harry was shocked to see the same kind of couple flower which he had seen in his nightmare. Saw putting that flower in her hair, he dived in the sea of confusing thoughts and baffled about his nightmare.

After a moment - from the cleft of the bloom, a smoky black icky began gushing out… similar situation happened as he was seen in the dream. The sky seemed covered in pitch grey and the sun was hidden…

Kate cried and quickly ran towards the gate of Central Park.

She grinned to reveal her black zig zag teeth and running to chase Harry. The day turned entirely black and the trees in the dark forest were malady Brown. The musty air was difficult to breathe. An acrid odor hung off everything.

His teeth were gritting. He bit his tongue with nervousness. The pink Hyacinth running to chase behind him, he also ran swiftly towards the deepest forest. He was tired and fell down. She elongated her arms, then Harry rapidly got up and dashed up the steps into the more dark forest. On his halfway, he felt like a large tree collapsed with the loud "Thud".

He turned and saw the crumbling tree made the boundary between him and pink Hyacinth. Now she found it still hard to cross the hurdle created by the slumped tree. He took a breath of peace.

xxxx

He thought Kate would be waiting for her, but when he reached outside the park, he was staggered to find that she was hugging a Korean handsome hunk, sat in his car, and went off.

A look of anguish crossed Harry's face, he felt a dreadful ache as if something was torn inside him and he was dying… he remembered his mother's word - "You don't have a clear-cut objective yet! But you're totally spoilt by her! I'm telling you, she's a little minx…

[ You're cruel and mean girl,

You're egotistical and churl.

It was an evil day when I met you,

You don't deserve my love and I hate you.

You have left me alone to die,

You always pretend about love and lie.]

March 26, 2021 04:26

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Armaan Business
05:07 Apr 01, 2021

I like the ending of the story

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