Lark Over Vast End

Lark Over Vast End

“Simple and stark, makes a person sweeter than the lark.”
Had the above mentioned lines been written by a great writer, other than the author, it would have been concise to describe Lara, the female lead of the story.
“Wild! But as wild as wild flower!!”
The above lines are more than enough to explain Art, the hero of the epic.
Art adored Lara as adoration is superior to LOVE but Lara just liked his presence. With this scenario, begins the story.
Father always has an upper hand over his progeny. Art’s father can be considered as one of the torch-bearers of the above facts. He never lost a single battle in his life. His punch line (as captured from the top of a mountain):
“Money! Money can buy anything, anybody, any place …”
“Money can’t buy LOVE”, said his wife. The conversation ended.
Early in the morning, Art and Lara went for jogging. Some of Art’s friends invited him to play football and her to be the spectator. Well in football, Art always took the back seat and hoped to continue doing so and spend more time with Lara. But! The luck vector always acted in the opposite direction of his position vector. He played like a real star and when the game ended Lara was already gone. All night, Art dreamt of her, as she clapped and cheered for him during the match. Suddenly! , His father woke him up saying, he was sweating while sleeping. “Let me son, why are you sad, what wearies you? What is there that money can’t buy?”. “Money can’t buy time father! ”. The conversation ended!
“Ring-Ring!”-The telephone rang and he knew it was of Lara’s. Thus, he got the abominable message that she would go to U.S.A. for a whole year and she wanted to meet him at 9:33 am. He reached there before time and found Lara to be in the same state as that of his. He asked the reason of departure and invited her to his home that very night.
As usual, she arrived before time. At that time no one except his mother was in the house. Briefly, they talked and his mother gave her the ring, as a sign of memento. It was the ring that she wanted to give to her son’s bride and may be some how Lara understood it. The next day was the departure day and the flight was at 9:30 am. Art and Lara went out at 9:00 am. The road was jammed due to hundreds of trucks crossing the road. Suddenly, the ring fell from Lara’s hand over the window and into the road. Lara cried out. At last Art found it and found it to be that very ring that his mother used to show him when he was a child. He returned it to her. His eyes brimming with tears and his heart cursing the jam as if, he wanted the departure soon! They reached the airport thirty minutes late and asked the time for the next flight. They came to know that it was at 9:30 pm. He was devastated but Lara was unexpectedly happy! He understood the cause and spent the whole time from morning till night with her. At last during the departure, Lara swore that she would return soon and thus they departed.
Well the story has not ended yet. “Ring -Ring!” Art’s mother said, ”Hello!” It was her husband. ”Well, Money has now bought TIME and will soon buy LOVE. I spent a small amount of money to create that jam!!” The conversation ended.


-------- Ankan De