The New Nation - Internet Edition

Hasan Mostafizur Rahman

: Sorry, dear, I'm late!

- Old dialogue. It's become shaggy due to random use! Tell me something new to hear. : Are you trying to insult me?

- No, never! Who has no prestige at all why the hell I'll try to insult him!

: Hey you! Hell, I don't know how I'm late. Got up from bed timely. After getting ready went to the street and faced problem. No brother-in-law would go. At last leaving the hope for getting rickshaw, started to search for c.n.g. baby taxi. But that brother-in-Iaws also wouldn't go. At long last got one. But the fair of thirty taka is fifty taka. Then had fallen into traffic jam.

- At what time did you set out?

: Oh? A. .. At nine thirty.

- Leaving home at nine thirty is it possible for you to reach here at ten o'clock? What ajam! You should set out before one hour.

: Forgive me, friend! I swear I won't do this again. You wait like this. Phew! Phew! It hurts me so much! But Allah knows how I get late each and every time.

- Leave it. What ought to happen is happened.

: No, I won't leave it. I feel very uneasy. What am I! Would you remember what had you done another day after not finding me in proper time like today?

- I do. I went back walking through the rain.

: Haven't you told the total. Wetting in the rain crying.

- Hmm. Who told you! I'll cry for you?

: You wrote this in the letter, forgotten?

- I wrote lie.

: Is it! Anyway, tell me why are you so good?

- Pumping? You're pumping me, isn't it?

: Nope. I'm telling the truth. I've never seen a good girl like you in my life.

- Don't tell more, please! Hearing such complement my ears are turning to numb!

- : Ha! Ha! Ha! Your sense of humour is excellent! It's this for what I like you more.

- Don't laugh like a goat! Is it your idea that I like much to hear this kind of harsh laugh of yours?

: Hal Ha! Ha!

- Hey! Would you stop?

: Stopped. You're a nice girl indeed.

- What's the matter, you're delivering only complement and complement today! Tell me what's your motive?

: No, there's no bad motive.

- Understood. Then what I have to do now?

: You have to scold me thoroughly so that I couldn't be late this way never, and couldn't cause you suffering.

- Tell me what happened to you today!

: Nothing happened. Just wanna redemption for what have I done by getting your scold.

-Very well. But I can't but scold you.

: Then what can you do?

- Only can love.

: What a dialogue!

- Not a dialogue, true. You're my entity, my existence. How can I scold my own existence, dear?

: Don't tell more! If you do so I'll cry loudly!

- You could do this. You're half lady. Fifty percent boy, fifty percent girl. Hie! Hie! Hie! : Your laugh is excellent!

- Tenku!

: What the hell meaning of it!

- The meaning is thank you, idiot! Hie! Hie! Hie!

: Do you know what laugh is called this laugh of yours?

- What laugh is called?

: Glass-broken laugh. Hearing one will think as if a glassware is broken into small pieces and spreading on the floor.

- What a nice simile you've given!

: But your smile is much more nice than this simile.

- Then give more nice similes, dear!

: Guess severe hot.

-Ok

: You feel excessively thirst. But you can't drink water. Your liver is about to blast. Right at that time if you drink a glass of cold lemonade mixed with pieces of ice, won't your liver become cold?

- Of course.

: When I hear your laugh my liver becomes right that kind of cold.

- Wow! What a tremendous simile! Hearing this praise I am turning to red-blue-violet due to a little bit shy!

: A little bit shy! This is called sense of humour. Ha! Ha! Ha! - See he is laughing again.

: Where's the problem? You forbade me to laugh that kind of laughing in front of other girls.

-You have good memory about letters I see!

: Who has written those letters we're to see.

- 0 I see!

: You write excellent letter. What a taste I get reading these! There are funny things also in these letters. Belly becomes torpid by laughing.

- Tenku.

: Welcome. But what about scold me?

- Are you willing to be scolded?

: It's not about will or unwillingness. I must be scolded.

- I won't able to scold you, but I can do a thing.

: What?

- I can twist one's ears very well. Can I?

: What! You wanna touch the ears of your to be hubby! What an uncivilised girl!

- Eh, what a hubby of mine! There's no news about marriage t Hey, how long I'll be standing here like this? Leg is paining.

: Leg is paining due to standing a while! A mere doll made of cream!

- What will you understand about leg pain, Mia? You're a horse. If you remain standing for lifetime won't feel leg pain.

: No, no, even the horse feels leg pain. Let's go over there to the veranda and sit under a tree.

- Let's go.

: Why have you sat down so far? Come closer. - Now I'm close to you.

: No, no, more closer.

- Don't feign, please! There are men around.

: What does make it difference? I'm not telling you to sit on my lap. - If there's no man around, you would have said right that.

: Ha! Ha! Ha! All right, come closer a slight more. I'll catch your hand. - Coming, honey! You're so tormenting!

: What a charm to catch your hand! How soft!

- Leave my hand.

: I didn't catch this hand to leave, beautiful! Ho ho ha ha ha!

- Hie! Hie! Hie! You've mastered the acting of the villain of stage drama very nicely I see!

: Thank you, beautiful. Then you too press my hand as I'm pressing.

- I can't be able to.

: Why the hell you'll be able to. You can only get caress, can't give. Selfish!

- Ok, I'm that.

: All right, you don't have to catch my hand. It's me who will catch.

- Uhhh! Why are you pressuring so much! Are you trying to break my hand? : Nope. Is it possible that I'll break the hand of my Babusona?

- Then why are you giving pressure like this, idiot! It's paining.

: Now?

- Yes, it's all right now. Do you know what pressure is called that you're giving on my hand now? Pressure of love.

: And what is called that the pressure I was giving earlier?

- Animalistic pressure.

: Ha! Ha!Ha!

- Didn't I forbid you to laugh like this?

: Why, what's the problem!

- Look, that girl is staring at you like a goat!

- : If she does what's the problem?

- No, none but me should look at you this way.

- : I feel inclined to smile again!

- If you smile I'll squeeze your throat!

: Love me very much, isn't it?

- I don't know!

: Hey, what're you thinking about?

- Umm?

: I was telling that what're you thinking about? Why absent minded?

- Dear, I'm not feeling well.

: Why?

- Didn't I tell you over telephone? I don't like this place. Mind turns to gloomy. Look around

precisely and see the gloomy atmosphere.

: Strange! Many times we had come here but you never told this!

- Didn't tell before. But after came here last time told you over telephone. Probably you forgot it.

: I forgot it indeed. So what're you wanna do now?

- I wish to go far somewhere. Beside a river. Or where there is water.

: But you have to go back home within 2 pm. Now it's approximately thirty past twelve o'clock. If we go far away t

- All right, leave it. Remain sitting here today. Have you brought my letter?

- : Yes.

- How much letters?

- : Three.

- True!

: Yes.

- Three pages each of one page obviously?

: Nope. Umm t total eight pages.

-Give me.

: Not now. At the time of going back. My letter?

- In my bag.

: How much?

- A lot. I've come with a sack of letters. Feel shame to give.

- : Why!

- Might be you'll think that this girl has no work without writing letters.

: Don't talk nonsense! You know very well I enjoy to read your letter.

- Is it!

: You're dazzling with joy.

- Won't I? Who doesn't like praise? Hie! Hie! Hie!

- : Glass-broken laugh.

- You had given another simile, what's that?

- : Rinijhini laugh.

- Yes, it's an excellent simile too.

: Damn these similes! We're talking nonsense only. For what discussion we have come here it's not started yet.

- I was waiting for hear. Start.

: You're waiting? Then why didn't you ask earlier?

-Dear, I'm a woman. Though I'm eager to talk about marriage don't I feel shy?

: Leave frivolity. Do you have any problem on next Thursday?

-Nope.

: You can think it can be happened on next Thursday. Discussing with others I'll let you be informed.

- But will it be right to do something this way?

: Don't let me get tempered! Then how you wanna do?

- There is no way?

: There is a way.

- What?

: Tell everything to your parents.

- If I couldn't make them agree at last what will happen then?

- : Then what's the way out without marriage like this?

- I know nothing! I don't know anything!

: Try to understand a little bit, honey! Me too have no intension to do something like this. But there is no way out of it.

- Say, we get married this way. What will happen then?

- : What will happen means?

- Who will inform to our home?

: Following the situation we'll take initiatives.

-The incident will have to keep secret. If Abbu knows this he'll be distressed seriously.

: But didn't you say about let them know?

- Idiot! Not about marriage. Let them know means who will go with proposal?

- : Why, father? The father and mother side uncles will be with him.

- But. .. Abbu won't agree!

: See, you're saying he won't agree, then again you're saying that will it be right to get married ourselves this way?

- What will I do!

: Try to understand the easy thing.

- What will I understand?

: Before this, tell me do you want me at any cost?

- Yes, I do.

: Then there is no other way to marry like this. My friends and I altogether did a lot of research about this and had found this. The proposal will be sent to your home at right time. We will be waiting till last moment. If they wouldn't agree then, the secret would be unveiled.

- Abbu will get serious shock.

: Why are you thinking like that the secret must be unveiled? You will be convincing them continuously. We're with you over here.

- I might manage Abbu and Ammu. I fear about big brother. You don't know him. A butcher! There's no work he can do when he get angry.

: He'll kill me by using professional killer? The wants, can do. For I get you I can die. 1t

-Will you stop, please! I wish to die!

: And I wish to slap you. Why water comes into your eyes in a simple situation? Water of eyes have become very cheap, isn't it?

- Don't feel well, I don't feel well! When I think about big brother. .. : Don't fear him so much!

- There's no one who will stand beside me in that situation. : Your Ammu will fight for you, you will see.

- I can be able to manage Ammu by making her understand. But Bhabi will create problem. Very trashy woman. She can take under her control anyone.

: Can you request her at that time?

- I'll die rather surrender to her. As her husband's sister what to do, I do more than that. But I don't know why she is being after me yet.

: Leave it. When the problem will arise we'll see.

- What would we see? I wanna know what will you do at that time. Before now also I asked you again and again. Haven't got the answer.

: Don't make me angry. If there is no creation of problem, how could I solve it? Each time I told you so.

- But how can will I keep secret such a big thing?

- : Couldn't understand.

- Donkey! Returning home after get married how could I keep it secret? I guess after returning home I'll tell everything fluently.

: Brat it!

- You won't understand. To keep secret such a big thing-

: Ok then, I'll discuss with my friends. You would have ready. It might happen on next Thursday.

- Is there no other way but this?

- : Yes.

- What?

: Go back. Marry as the choice of your parents.

- You've told this before. Please, don't tell it ever!

- : It's but a nice solution.

- Would you stop! Don't you feel shame to say this! I hate to hear this. I hate to think about another person also.

: Then what you wanna do?

- Don't know, I know nothing!

: If you say don't know, it has no value. You have to know. For long time we couldn't reach to any decision. How long will we live this way? At any day a mach-maker or bridegroom's party will come again with proposal and then you'll understand.

- At that situation if you loose your courage, I'll be finished.

- : I won't loose.

- What time is it tell me.

: It's approximately 2 pm.

- Oh! I've to rise. I had informed them I would return home within 2 pm. Let's go.

- : Stay be seated a while. I'm in a gloomy mood.

- All right, friend, five minutes.

: What're you thinking about?

- Umm?

: Telling what're you thinking about?

: If Abbu knows about the marriage he'll be distressed seriously.

: He won't know.

- If you loose heart it won't work. You'll have to adhere behind Abbu.

- : Don't tension about it. You've risen, what?

- Five minutes have finished, dear. Rise.

: Risen. Let's move.

- Let's move.

: Each and every time I feel serious distress at the time of depart. I don't wish to leave you. I wish bring you home with me. I wish t.

-Don't say more, I'll cry.

: You of course call me tonight. If you talk over telephone, you'll feel better.

- I can't promise, dear. If I get chance I'll do.

: Then Allah hafez.

- Allah hafez.