June 29, 2009

Prodigal Love - a short story

 
By Gasper Crasto, Kuwait
 
There's a saying among Goans that a boy and a girl cannot 'just' be friends. But Adelaide and me proved everyone wrong!

Both of us scraped through school and college, virtually living into each other. We shared anything and everything that happened in our life. Not a day passed without our tête-à-têtes. Our topics of conversation ranged from political issues to terrorist activities, Portuguese colonialism to present day tourism, global oil resources to Goan mango prices; but never anything personal. That was one boundary line we never crossed.

Later I made up my mind, I wanted to go abroad.

"Go abroad? You must be joking... Take a spanner and tighten your screws, your brain is loose," Adelaide said, "I would never leave my Goa... or marry someone working abroad.. shh...can't digest that piece of stupidity..."

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