It Came To An End

When there opened an art museum near my home, visiting every week became a routine. Among any piece of art, sculptures of human figures have always fascinated me. Envisioning them coming to life, I used to stare at them for hours. Rather than understanding the message that sculptor tried to convey, I gazed in their delicately carved eyes in hope of seeing them blink. But "Science and Logic" the biggest enemies of my supernatural fantasies never made it possible. Regardless how accurately they were made, still remained lifeless. I didn't possess any talent for making them. It was just amusing to look at something so human-like but nothing human-like at the same time.

This was all about my life till I was 19, I lived loving sculptures. But not even in my wildest imaginations had I ever thought that I would actually become one.

I will start telling my story but first I gotta end somebody else's.

Year 2001, My hometown "Willsden" is located in the south of Tohana province. Its quiet and clean environment makes it an ideal place to reside in. At the very center of this town, stands the statue of Queen Saha, the only Queen who ever got to rule the country following the demise of the king. She has her arms opened and looking up heavenwards, wearing a gorgeous gown with a beautiful neckline. Color of the gown can't be tell as from its head to toe, the statue is gray. But having even the most tiniest details carved, it looked as exquisite as if the queen herself was standing there. Under the moonlight, the beauty of this statue vanquishes that of the moon itself. But whether it's this statue or the moon, there's something that their beauty alone cannot buy them...Life.

A chilly and foggy winter dawn, nothing is clearly visible except a faint light that is seen coming towards it, slowly getting brighter and brighter...a truck. A middle-aged man, dozing off sitting on the driver seat, probably returning after working overnight.

The truck comes rushing towards the statue, and dashes against it. The forever motionless statue shook and cracks started developing all over it. After standing there for centuries, it collapsed and crumbled. The man driving the truck, gets off. Every single bone one has in the body could break, such a loud collision it was but the man feels surprisingly fine.

He takes a deep breath and looks at the statue, "Oh God! what have I done?"

Out of nowhere, a cry in a meek voice was heard by him..."Is anybody here?." After looking around for a bit, he caught the sight of an infant lying between the broken pieces of the statue.

A baby boy, barely the size of his hand. "Since when is he here? I hope he's not hurt."

Frightened him, sees a car coming from the "other side". "Help needed here!" he cries.

The car was heading towards him, one moment everything around him was blurry and another he was blinded by a dazzling light. The headlights of the car were exceptionally bright, shiny black was its color and "Ride In Peace" the number plate said. The car with a squealing noise of brakes stopped in front of him. The driver sticks his head out of the window. "Get in," he says.

"There's a baby lying there, I will get him"

The man turns back to help but something else takes his attention away...His own body lying inside the truck, his head was bleeding, neck was snapped backwards. There was no way that someone in that condition could be alive.

"Get in! we are getting late," The driver asked the man again.

The man having no words to say, with an absolutely blank face, got in. Sitting inside the car, a rush of memories came and overwhelmed him. Thinking about his lifetime for one last time, a tear rolled down his cheek, fell down from the chin and vanished into thin air. The first day of the college where he met the love of his life, the day he got married with her, the first time his daughter called him "Dad" and other memories that made him want to live a little longer.

What are we waiting for? let's go," The man asks the driver.

"We are waiting for...Oh! There she comes."

Out of the window, the man sees a woman walking towards the car from the place where the statue once stood. She is the Queen, colour of her beautiful dress is violet by the way. She gets in and the car departed for their last journey to the afterlife. And a few seconds later it disappeared into the fog.

By the time the sun broke over the horizon, all that could be seen on the empty road was a dead man lying in a truck, a new-born baby that nobody knows where has come from and scattered pieces of a statue.

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