life is not a fairy tale. love is a pixie

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Life is not a fairy

tale....Love is a

pixie....



Life is not a fairy tale...

Love is a

pixie...

It all started when a boy met a girl. They say it was love at first sight. Butthe truth is that their love story was very complicated.

Belleview was a place where strange stories bloomed every now and then.

There were stories of many kinds - of horror, love and some just broken,

incomplete ones. Belleview housed some amongst the most influential

people in the country. The centre of attraction of the town was its

university, where people from all parts of the country flocked together to

learn the arts, sciences and cultures. Behind a big fountain was an oak

tree. Under it was a bench where students normally sat if they hadnothing else to do or if they wanted some ‘alone’ time.

In the month of August under the yellow and red leaves of the Oak sat

Matt, a tall, hefty, handsome youth. He watched the leaves fall off the big

tree and then after a while started ‘observing’ all those who passed by.

The other students were moving in groups of three or four. There were

some pairs also moving around giggling and laughing at frequent

intervals.

“Thinking of Crystal?” a voice from behind startled Matt.“Do you have to sneak up on me every time, Brad?” Matt asked in the

usual manner. He slid a little to the left making space for Brad to sit. “And

no, I wasn’t thinking about her.”

“Which means that you are thinking of someone or something else”

“No. I was just relaxing. So what are you upto?”Matt stared at Brad.

“I got bored in my room, so I came down to take a walk. I look at the old

Oak tree and guess who I find sitting under it...”



“Sundays are getting more and more boring by the day and nothing newis happening anywhere”

“I agree with you... life’s kind of dull now.”

“Roxanne” Matt called out.

Brad stared at Matt who looked back with a raised eyebrow. Brad began

to blush slightly.

“Hey what are you guys doing?” she came and stood right in front of

them. She had a playful and cute face and she stood out in her blue jeans

and green top.

Both of the boys slid to opposite ends making room for her to sit. They

were all friends. She took her seat in between the boys and brushed her

hair back. Brad suddenly began to act weird and took over the

conversation completely as if Matt wasn’t there. Brad had feelings for

Roxanne and these strong feelings once gave him the courage to actually

propose to her! However, the reply was swift – a flat NO.

Affection for the opposite sex is a different emotion, one that you can’t

get rid of easily. Try as you might it is difficult to let go of the one you

loved.

But the trio remained friends and hence there was no awkwardness in the

conversation even though Brad took over it. They spoke a lot – about how

bright the sun was, whether autumn was early, and even about some of

the other college students. Matt felt as if he was involved in a

conversation which involved two girls who liked dolls and gossips. After a

couple of hours, they went to the cafe to get coffee and decided to spend

the rest of the day just hanging out.

Later that night Matt and Brad joined up with his other friends. They

talked about how they would spend the next couple of days. Suddenly oneof them got a message on his mobile phone. He asked the others if he

could be excused and left for his room. He looked at his mobile phone, it

was a message from Roxanne, it read “I want to talk to you. It’s kind of

urgent.”

He changed course and went to the cafe where he thought Roxanne might

have been. His guess was right. She was there, staring at the drink she

had ordered. He went upto her without a moment’s hesitation. “What’s up

Rox?”

“Milo we need to talk”



Milo was confused. “Whatever it is I did not do it” Milo was acting. He

loved to fool around a lot.

“Milo”, Roxanne said in that long fashion. “I need your advice on

something.”

“What is it?”

“It’s Matt. I think... well you know ... I think ...that I have ....um...”, she

blushed slightly.

“Oh my God! You are in love?”

“....um... yes I think so.”

“... and that too Matt? Nice choice” he was joking around again.

“I don’t know what to do... I mean should I tell him?”

“Of course you have to tell him. You have to let him know you know.

Giving ‘clues’ that you like him is just like beating around the bush and

generally leads to a lot of trouble. Just go upto him and say ‘I love you’ in

that romantic way with a good intro to the conversation”

“You think it’s that easy?”

“Yup!” Milo was confident as ever. It didn’t take even a moment’s

hesitation to let out that ‘yup’.

She was confused as anyone would have been at that point. Milo just told

her that telling a guy that she likes him is easy as if it’s the easiest thing

one would ever do. She slowly started stirring the rink in front of her,

looked at Milo and resumed, “Something feels wrong... it’s as if I am not

supposed to do this... as if I am doing something wrong.”

“What the...” Milo was surprised. ‘Something wrong...? Is she crazy? Has

she never loved anyone else? Hasn’t she anybody else falling in love?’ he

thought to himself raised an eyebrow and told her “Look at me”

She hesitated, she stopped stirring. “Look at me Rox” Milo persuaded. She

gave in and looked at him. “What you are going through is called as

LOVE”, he spelled out the word. “There is nothing wrong in it... actually

you are supposed to go through this phase atleast once in your life. There

is nothing WRONG in it.”

“Well it’s not that. See Matt already likes Crystal although she is in

another part of the country. From the way he speaks about her I am pretty



sure that he loves her more than I love him. It feels as if I am doing

something wrong by loving him.”

“Oh...” Milo loved a challenge. He was going to pull out of this as well, he

was going to help her as far as possible. After all she was his friend. “No

worries. My advice-go tell him. Crystal is a long way from here.

Statistically long distance relationships never work. You can never tell

what will happen until you tell him.”

“But still....”

“It’s just an advice. An advice is a piece of information people share. You

don’t have to take it.”

“You are right. I mean... I would never know until I have told him. Guess

I’ll just wait and finally decide”

“Give it time. It should work out perfectly.”

“...um... has something happened between you and Brad lately? Well I

don’t know if it’s that obvious but that guy is madly in love with you”

“He flirted around a little more and was on the verge of proposing...again”

“And...” Milo was excited. He loved to hear about such stuff.

“I told him, ‘Listen nothing’s going to happen between the two of us. Let’s just be friends’”

“Ouch! Must have hurt” Milo acted as if someone pinched him. Suddenly

Milo’s cell phone rang with a very irritating ringtone, which he told was a

melody. He picked it up, “Hello...yeah...okay ... no don’t do that”, he

turned towards Roxanne and gestured her that the call was going to take

some time and he left.

Roxanne watched him walk out of the cafeteria, took the last sip from her

cup and left for her room.

***

Milo witnessed a change in Roxanne’s behaviour after their chat. She grew a bit

shyer, especially when it came to Matt. She didn’t act noticeably different

though. She retained her normal smile whenever she saw Matt, she waved, she

talked but Milo could feel a difference in everything she did. Milo had never

witnessed love. He had fallen in it but this was the first time he ‘saw’ love.

One fine Saturday morning, Roxanne went upto Milo and asked, “What are you

doing...?”



“Nothing... I am bored...”, he looked up and asked “ Do you want to go to the

park or something?”

“Yes, um... that would be nice” she suddenly corrected herself “... I mean.. it’d

be nice to kill time”. She laughed to ease out the awkwardness.

“Right” he replied like he didn’t care what she said. “Let’s go”.

Matt got up from his chair and went out of the cafe. He escorted Roxanne to the

door, opened the door for her and gestured to move ahead- a true gentleman.

Roxanne blushed slightly. She looked at Matt and said just smiled. He smiled

back. He began to tell him how glad he was that the holidays were a day away.

She discussed her plans for the holidays with him. They shared glances, a few

murmurs, stares and laughs as they made their way to the park.

When they got to the park they saw a lot of familiar faces but made their way to

a more ‘private’ place. They lay down on the green grass looking at the blue skyabove. The oak tree had a good canopy which gave them the shade they

needed. They looked at each other, shared a smile and looked back at the sky.

“You see that cloud over there?” Matt gestured with his hand.

“Which one... the one that looks like a rabbit”

“Yes, it looks as if it is hopping to its burrow”

Roxanne smiled “you have the wildest imaginations”

“Thank you” he said as if what she said was an actual compliment.

She laughed this time although Matt was not sure why. A red ball flew over them.

It hit a tree quiet far away from both of them. Somebody fetched it. Behind the

tree was Brad wasting time as most of the other people there. He suddenly got

sight of Roxanne and Matt. He grew jealous of Matt although he kept it to

himself. He saw the girl he loved with his friend. He was confused, angry and

sad. A mixture of emotions clouded his mind. He had to get some space; he

needed some time to think about this. He left the park for his room.

He loved Roxanne. He was willing to do anything for her love. He proposed his

feelings to her but he was rejected and that too as blankly as possible. The ‘NO’

he got, shot through him like a bullet. He still talked to her. But the more he saw

her, the more closer he wanted to get and the more in love he fell.

Later that day as Matt was having lunch Brad went up to him with a piece of

paper.

“This came for you” he said in a disgusted way.

Matt read the envelope. It read ‘Paper Accepted’. He looked upto Brad and said

“This is great news they accepted our paper”

“They accepted YOUR PAPER” he started shouting



“We gave the paper together... this means that they accepted our paper”

“THEN WHERE THE HELL IS MY LETTER” he seemed as if he was drunk.

“...”

He got Matt by the collar stared into his eyes and said, “You get everything you

want, don’t you? FIRST THE GIRL I LOVED AND NOW THIS. YOU ARE A CHEAP

SELFISH ASS”

“Calm down. Everything should have a logical explanation”

“NO” he shouted. “No more calm. You steal everything I have. You are a bad ass.

I DON’T GIVE A DAMN EVEN IF YOU ARE MY FRIEND...”

There was a silence all around. Brad’s hand was red and aching a bit. His

handprint was visible on Matt’s cheek. He threw Matt on the ground and rushed

out of the room. He was in tears. He was angry at the world.

Matt got upto his feet, went behind Brad. He couldn’t find him. But instead he

saw Roxanne. He rushed towards her and asked in a bit panicking way “Do you

love me?”

“...um...”

“Tell the damn truth. DO YOU LOVE ME?” he was angry at her

She was scared but was obliged to answer “It’s complicated...um... “

“DAMN IT... JUST SAY YES OR NO”

“....yes....” she was in tears “please stop shouting it’s scaring me”

“I am sorry” Matt calmed down. “Don’t you know about crystal? We are just

friends and I want it to be like that. Nothing more. No relationship”

“I am sorry... I didn’t mean it <sob> ... I am ...”

Matt didn’t know what to do. If he hadn’t done that he would have lost a friend

and he didn’t want that. “Rox... listen to me. You are a good friend, you always

have been and I hope that it stays like that for years to come. I don’t have ...feelings ... I mean ... I don’t LOVE you like I love crystal. Let’s just be friends.”

She burst into tears and hugged onto Matt. She wanted some comfort. Matt did

not know what to do. He just patted her back and she felt soothed. She let go of

him, looked at him, wiped her eyes and said, “<sob>... let’s be friends... good

friends...”

“I like that” Matt smiled.

Suddenly is cell phone rang. He picked it up “Hello?”

“This is Mr. Mathew”



“Sir...”

“You know who Brat Thomson is?”

“I am sorry ... who Brat?”

“Yes... that’s what’s written here. It’s a paper acceptance letter without any

address but just this name”

“Oh... Sir it’s for Brad Thomson. He is my friend. We gave the paper together. I’ll

take the letter to him sir...”

“Okay. Come to my office”

Matt went to the professor’s office got the letter and went to find Brad. Brad was

sitting under the old oak tree as Matt expected. Brad was startled when he saw

an envelope in front of his face. He looked up and saw Matt with tears in his eye

and a smile in his face. Brad was still angry at Matt.

“I told you that OUR paper was accepted. This letter was meant for you. They

typed your name wrong. That’s why you never got the letter”

“...” Brad opened the envelope and went through the letter. He wasn’t in the

mood to get up and shout out ‘hoorah’. Instead he just kept the letter back into

the envelope, got up of his seat, stared at Matt and said “Sorry”. It was one of

those ‘sorries’ you would hear children say when asked to by their mothers. He

was still angry at Matt. He broke eye contact and started to walk away. Matt kept

on looking at a fountain couple of meters away. Then he started “Rox...” This

caught Brad’s attention. He stopped but didn’t face Matt. Matt also never

attempted to make eye contact.

He continued “I never loved Rox. I only considered her as a friend – a good

friend. There was no relationship between us. You know how much I love Crystal.

Rox said she had feelings for me. I told her that I could never consider her as

anything more than a friend. I think... she understood. Dude... try to understand.

I never intended any harm. It was just a misconception.... I am sorry”

Matt started walking away from the oak tree. Brad suddenly started “I am sorry

too... I shouldn’t have acted that way... I guess... I guess I’ll catch you later”

Matt who was still facing away from Brad smiled and walked away. Brad looked

up at the envelope, a tear rolled down his eye; it traced its path through his

cheeks to his lips which were smiling now. The tear fell onto the envelope

wetting the cover.

Milo who was sitting at the opposite bench saw two friends taking two different

paths and walking away from each other. He stood up, stretched and said out

loud “Life’s not a fairy tale...hm...”

***



In another part of the country a young girl sat all alone in her room with a cell

phone in her hand awaiting a reply from a friend. She was tall, had long blackhair and long slender fingers. She sang, she danced and she made everyone

laugh. Her phone suddenly rang. She was expecting a call that night. She

answered it.

“Hello”

“Hi”, the voice from the other side replied.

“What the hell were you doing... you are late”

“Sorry had some friends over. I love the holidays.”

“Enjoy as far as you can then”

“I only have one month left. Two months flew away just like that”

She heard him snap his fingers over the phone.

“You told me that you had something to tell me”

“I do.”

“Well then, tell it”

“Ever since I met you three years back, I’ve had this feeling deep inside of me.

It’s been bubbling within me and I have to let it out. I don’t know how exactly this

is done but I ... You are beautiful, you make me laugh and you are talented. Ever

since we first met I have loved you and I still do. Even though I have met a lot of

other girls, you still make me laugh like no other. You still comfort me when I

need help. You make my life comfortable and whole. Crystal Parker, I love you.

Will you accept me, Matt Jake, as your boyfriend?”

She laughed through the phone. It was more of an excited laugh. She blushed

slightly and began to bite her lower lip.

Matt was confused. Why was she laughing? He was being serious. Didn’t what he

say sound serious.

“Hello... why are you laughing?” he asked confusedly.

“I have been waiting for this for a long time...”

“Really?” he was happy

“Yes... Matt... I love you. I always have and I do want to be your girlfriend. Even

though it will be a long distance relation, I want it to be a success”



“Wow...”

“Wow?”

“I never expected this to be this smooth”

“You are an idiot”

“Sorry...” he laughed,

The pixies sure waved around their magic perfectly. The pixie dust sure did its

work by bringing two lovers close to each other. Love is a pixie...

^!^

Disclaimer: All characters in the story are purely fictional. Any resemblance to the dead

or alive is purely coincidental :P

life is not a fairy tale. love is a pixie

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