Love Incomplete

Raj and Neha were best friends. Their friendship developed in fifth standard in school when Neha moved to Shimla with her parents. Raj and his family were one very popular family there. He was a intelligent, smart and handsome boy. Neha was very intelligent, smart, beautiful and a very practical girl. They had a lovely friendship. Neha understood Raj more than anyone else and Raj could sacrifice anything for Neha. They fought, they argued but at the same time liked each other a lot. With time, their friendship grew stronger and stronger. In the last year of their school, their relationship took a new turn. They felt it was not just friendship. It was more than that. It was love. Then they both went to different colleges but spent most of the time with each other. There was no doubt or confusion regarding the depth of their love for each other. Raj was mentally convinced that Neha should be his life partner, that he madly loved her. Neha too had similar feelings.Their love was very special to Raj.

A new girl was admitted to his college. This girl was junior to him. A young, vibrant and lovely girl Shaina. She was a girl who lived in her own dreams. A girl who believed in spreading love. She believed in enjoying each and every moment of life. She was very innocent. She had faith in God.

It was the first day of her college. She was very nervous. Raj and his friends were ragging freshers. Raj for some reasons didn't feel like ragging her. She was allowed to go. That day changed Shaina's life. There was something in him that she liked a lot. She was unaware of Raj's feelings for Neha. They too became friends. Raj liked Shaina as a friend. But, it was not the same with her. She started loving him.

She told about her feelings for Raj to her dad, her mom had died when she was just 1 year old, in an accident. Her dad asked her to take it easy, to take time before deciding anything. Once Raj and she had been to a friend's party. In a very weak moment, she confessed her love to him. Initially he didn't react. He took it very lightly but then he told her about Neha. He was too engrossed in loving Neha, he could not feel the intensity of love or the feelings of Shaina. He ignored her. But, then he started accusing Shaina. He cursed her. All this shattered her. She had realized long before that Raj was someone else's love. So, she had set him free. She had not bothered him. What exactly made Raj angry and upset..even she could not understand. Shaina felt her life, her joys were over. She couldn't come out of it. Her dad and friends gave her the support, the encouragement to live, to enjoy life.

She studied hard. Then after completing her studies she went to Mumbai for a job. By that time, Raj and Neha had completed their studies and had started working (Delhi ). Raj felt that it was the perfect time for them to get married. To give the most beautiful ending to their love. Neha went home and discussed the matter with her parents. Her parents told her about Rajeev. He was a business tycoon. He had met Neha in some party and was impressed. He knew her family distantly and thus had sent his proposal to marry her. She was a very practical girl. She also felt that her family didn't quite appreciate Raj. Apart from all these reasons when she gave a very serious thought about Raj she realized that he was a wonderful friend, a best friend. They had misinterpreted their friendship as love and then had never given a second thought to it. She told all this to Raj and married Rajeev.

Raj was shocked and devastated. For some months, he just could not concentrate on anything. Often he would meet Neha and Rajeev accidentaly.

One day he decided that he should settle down too.When he thought of whom he loved or cared for the only girl he could think of was Shaina

He realized that it was his liking and love for her, which had confused him at that time. That is why he had treated her so badly. Because he didn't like even the thought of loving someone other than Neha.He decided to talk to Shaina about his feelings. He rushed to her place. Now only her dad lived there. She was in Mumbai.

When her dad heard about it, he was excited. Because he knew it very well that his daughter had loved only this man and no one else. That she still loved him. That is why she had refused to marry any of the guys she had come across or her dad had selected for her. He immediately called up Shaina.

Raj asked him not to tell her the reason, as it would be a surprise. He asked him just to call her back saying that some urgent need had cropped up. Her dad did exactly that. Sheimmedietely left for Shimla after receiving that call from her dad.

Her dad and Raj were eagerly waiting for her. Then they got the news that the train in which she was coming had met with an accident. They rushed to the spot. They found Shaina but she was dead. She was dead before coming to know that the love of her life was also in love with her. She died before Raj could tell her sorry for hurting her so much. She died before Raj could apologize for having played with her feelings. She died before Raj could tell her that he wanted to spend his entire life with her, that he had loved only her all these years.

Today Raj is in his late forties, working in a huge firm, his own firm. He is single. He couldn't think of marrying anyone other than Shaina. He has no bitter feelings for Neha anymore. Now they are good friends. He is very fond of Shaina, the 7-year-old daughter of Neha and Rajeev.