Sel And Millie

" I've been searching all the roads for my life when it ends at a bookstore where all my life actually came to a meaning..... whom I was long waiting for...." 

Selena is a long haired ,brown eyes , Irish girl who lives in a small village of downtown east , a small but beautiful and peaceful place to live in. people here do  small works like farming, has vegetables shops, selling groceries ...

there  is only one school in the town which is reached at the downtown after passing a river called  Beasel which is the most fascinating attraction in the town. The river has a bridge on it, made of ancient grey stone and wood, through which one can see  a huge look of the town from. 

With brown hairy look, she likes to see the sunset from the bridge everyday....

She likes to wander around a lot.... finding new stones from riverside....collecting different kinds of leaves , Especially that mysterious forest which is the other side of the river...which is as old as the town itself , which people of the village makes ghost stories of.... always fascinates her so much….. 

apart from her curiosities,  she likes to help her mother a lot... whenever she asks....

 a good daughter so much…..

" I'm home,"  she said.  

       " Sel come to me, here. We have to unpack the things."  her mom said. 

" Alright, Sel  said , putting her bag back at her bedside." 

Sel is her nickname used by her mom, dad and friends ( a few she got )  

" there's so much dust this home got , Sel, are u coming ! " we have to clean it up so that no mice can dig in... "

" Yes... Mom, coming ".

" this table top is always so dusty...." her mom added. 

" Sel,  You can go to market later , I have to prepare dinner." 

Her mom,  is a strict lady, whose ultimate goal is to complete every task on time. She is used to this kind of lifestyle from her childhood,  probably because she is raised in a military atmosphere.. 

She wants Sel to be like her , punctual, and a good learner and but on the other hand Sel wants to be a violinist . 🎻  

       Sel who is obedient,  graceful and a good listener as she is used to listen to everybody,  her teachers, mother, and probably her friend's too whom are not many as well, also likes to enjoy music a lot, and is able to play instruments in her school. Also has played songs in her school anniversaries. 

" OK, mom " she murmured. 

" I have put the lunch at the table , come and have it." 

Today I have made porridge n tomato soup for you. It's good for your bones and teeth. 

" I know mom , u always says this.  It has stuck to my mind now ". Even my friends knows the benefits and advantages of porridge and tomato soup now, `` she said with a slight smile on her face. 

A good grade student of her school, 

Selena likes to ride her bicycle to the bridge..... when the rays just touches the water to make this river of another colour.....

She usually takes her bicycle to her friend, Millie's , home in the evening to spend some time alone, away from the minute hustles of day to day life. Both ride along the coast line , spends their time watching the narrowing rays of sunshine , who slows down to give the sky a blue color.....

They return with their groceries in the evening. It's a good way for them to have a chit - chat and sparing them some alone time. They usually do so. N gets scolded for returning late. 

"I've always been like this from the start...." Sel tell to Millie, " I like to roam like this around the whole town," while roaming in the market.

"Look we have reached aunty Ann's store, I have got a big list of groceries today by mom .I should hurry or I will get a good hour of lesson. " 

"You always get scared so easily , aunty is not that bad . You always talks like this. "

       "That's because my mom is sweet to you , Sel , she likes you ," Millie said .

"Let's grab the things and otherwise we will be late again." 

Here's your carrots and onions, Sel. Why didn't your mom come up, I have something to talk to her . 

"She will come up next time,  to talk to you aunty ." That is fine, but do not forget to tell her that I missed her,  OK ."

" Sure,  Sel said ." 

By the way,  Are you guys going to the paper origami festival arranged in our town. It's good and many people of our town are going. They say there are so many other cultural activities, games , competitions are being arranged for kids. There is a special show of puppets too. And a painting, poetry, music competitions are there too. It's worthy to go. And that too after you have done nothing special in your summer vacations. " 

"Yeah , I've heard about it too and I am planning to take a look. What do u say Sel !!" 

 " ah.... Yup ,I have to ask my mom , then we should leave now. Thank you Aunty Ann." 

    "Sel, would you come ?"  I don't know, I'll try to if I will be allowed then , Sel replied in a light tone , which is usually her tone almost all the time. Very well suited to her personality, calm, lost in her own world, she never talks much to anybody nor to her friends but Millie , whom she is with since when she entered the only school in the town side of their village. Millie is a joyful kind of person, who cares less, talks freely, and wants to travel a lot. There's downfall of almost everything and so with her is that she does not think much before saying anything, sometimes that's a thing to laugh on but sometimes it is like creating a trouble for the people around them, for both of Sel and her too. 

Sel is usually the one who have to act as a mediator and a peace  maker too when she get herself indulge in fights ,not all the time but when she sees anybody  wrongs someone or to say clearly then it is only Sel. 😅😅

"Oh ,come on, aunty will agree as soon as I will ask. "✨ There was a blink in her eyes, that's because everytime she comes up with her unique ideas ( which are lies sometimes ) to convince Sel 's mom and she gets done with her job almost each round.

She said to Sel confidently, with her winning thumbs-up expression .

"Then I have to help you one more time , haha, what would you have done without me."

"Come on, I will be more concentrated on my studies ," Sel replied sarcastically. By crossing the bridge ,they usually get stood up across the fences to get a serene look of the river, which goes to gather the look of the whole of the town in one's imagination. One can have an enough look of the  area around, from the bridge on standing on the cliff side of it which is their favorite spot to gather and have a look of the whole area they live in. 

It has become a special meeting place for them to share the day to day experience ,their short stories and to say more clearly anything that has no meaning. Talking without looking at the clock has had become their habit with the time of growing up. 

They stood up again at the bridge to look at the peaceful flowing water of the river and got into the dilemma of going home at time or to stay and spend some time to have a peaceful talk taken as a reward after a hard working day ....

" Do u like to take a break after a tiring day...."  🌿

"Sel , would you come to my home this Sunday to have a day out, Millie asked her with a dazey look as she somehow know that she is not sure and what her answer would be.

      " I will try to come, OK. You don't have to worry so much."   " U always says things like that and never really comes," Millie replied with her moody tone .

" Don't joke around, you know I always try, right. It's just like I am always get busy with something  and u don't ever get it. You moody girl. " Sel always try to give out her best explanations on everything that comes around and you can say that she has become too master in this, just like Millie. 💕

"Fine, fine. You won, how come I always try to argue with you and deliberately lose haha."

"Here, you come, your home come, " Sel tell Millie . "Yup, I know, you don't forget to ask aunty for the carnival OK. I will wait for you. Bye. "

"I will try my best,  you take care OK , see you tomorrow, bye" 

Millie's home is kind of not very apart from that of Sel 's home but it's like it's not very near either. It's that they have to cover up two or three streets down to reach their home but it's a fun thing for them to do cuz there lies many interesting things in the way of their homes ,one of them is Ollie 's home who is another mentor plus an interesting character in this story, generally considered as aunty Ollie by Millie and Sel. 

Sel made sure that Millie gets convinced because deep down she herself was in deep trouble for how to ask for the permissions. That's a kind of terrible feeling for her, not to know what to do and how to do. 

" I am home," Sel said in a rather slight voice as she knew that she is going to be asked where she got that late at . She knew that her mom would ask her that how she got late again. 

"Sel ,here you are, where have you been, I was waiting for you from an hour nearly. I have to make dinner to day not tomorrow. Don't tell me you and Millie went to your favorite spot to hang out again and forgot to look at the time ," she said by taking the grocery list and checking out all the things in the shopping bag.  "No, mom, we did not , you know that there are so many customers at the aunty Ann 's Store during the evening, they were so picky and that it took so late to get things home." 

( what a great lie )  

"You are right ,the people get so picky about vegetables.  You must be tired, go and wash your hands, I will go and get dinner ready. " 

"Thanks mom , you are so good ." Sel replied in an astonishing voice, that it seemed one has cleared a big sum of load from themselves and took a big sigh of relief. 

And with big enthusiasm, Sel went back to the room. 

 She lied down back on her bed,again took a big sigh of relief and closed down her eyes to take a deep relax of a tiring day. As she closed down her eyes, little things from the whole day started to roam in front of her closed eyes.....

As it goes, the Millie's words came into her sight and she got hit that she has to ask her mom for the upcoming carnival. She thought and thought and thought but nothing came to her mind . Finally got up and went back to the washroom , she open the tap, took down two hands for the water of hers , and just began looking at the swirls of water forming deep down , took a handful of cold water and  splashes this to give a fresh refreshing breathe to her soul..... 

"On passing the river, standing on the bridge alongside, one hears the eternal silence , in the minute droplets , gives a never ending song to the one who listens"~Vishali ☘️

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