Monday, 1 January 2024

The short story no. 1 - "THE BLACK PEARLS" By Kavya Venkat

 


        The Black Pearls       

                 The story is about the young man who ready to sacrifice his life for a person who changed his life. There was a kind young man named Naadal. He is a roadside seller who was selling sea jewels made of sea shells and pearls. Naadal was an ocean person and he can go underneath a water and hold his breath for a long time so every fisherman took him with them to the deep water to take the rare pearls. Everyone misuses him because he doesn’t know about the value of the pearl and offer him a little money and give him useless pearls and seashell. Naadal get the money with happiness because he was the person who believes that the expectations destroy happiness. Naadal has no family and he lives alone in a tunnel near the sea. The tunnel was his home and he was so happy to live there and made the tunnel look like a house by decorating with the old things which he got from the old stuff shop and also, he always loves to wear black clothes. His everyday routine was to sell the jewels on the roadside and earn money for his food and to buy clothes. One day while he selling his jewels a red car stopped next to him and the car window turned down a little. Naadal was mesmerized to see the beautiful eyes of a young girl but not her face. The car front door opens and a guard came outside and asked for a pearls bangle and after getting the guard offered him twice  the amount of money that he asked for. But the girl eyes were looking at naadal that make him to fall for her. Every night Naadal comes to the sea shore and take a nap in the ocean mud in the moon light that makes him feel like he was sleeping in his mother’s lap. While seeing the moon the girl eyes where explicit through his imagination. At the time he realized that he soulfully fallen for her. Every day he waits for the car and the girl buy something from him. One day Nadal took his favourite black pearl jewel which has 100 pearls with the one moon shaped seashell which he never wants to sell to anyone else. One day as usual the car came naadal asked her that he wish to see her face but the guard pushed him away from the car and he fell down. The car door opened slightly and a beautiful girl helped naadal to stand up and warned the guard not to hurt anyone. Naadal was so stunned to look at the girl's face. The girl smiled at naadal and introduced herself that her name was Naidah. Naidah was a girl who belongs to a rich family. Naadal gifted his favourite black pearl knotted jewels to naidah.

After that naadal and naidah became friends. Naidah spends her time with naadal every day and her guard stay with them and started to like naadal because even though naidah was a rich girl she was so lonely because his parents never cared about her growth, they only cared about earning money. One-night naidah and naadal were spending time with each other naidah asked naadal about the necklace made of black jewel that she had never seen before. Naadal told her about the sea work which he was    doing that he could go underneath the water. When he was collecting pearls underwater, he goes deep into the ocean and collected the black pearls and hide them from the working man’s and he made them into beautiful jewels. Naadal also said he loves black colour so I just owned it for myself. Naidah was so concern about naadal to be safe and encouraged him he has a good talent because no one can survive under deep water for a long time. The next day as usual Nadal waited for naidah but she wasn’t arrived. Naadal was so disappointed and the other day the guard visited naadal tunnel with the naidah’s parents and patrol. naadal invited them happily but naidah’s father slapped him and asked for naidah. The guard supported naadal that he was innocent and told naadal that naidah was gone from yesterday night so he thought she was here. Naidah's father shouted and cursed him with the words by telling him “You are just like the mud and you can’t touch the moon and even the sky, just see your place you are nothing and don’t ever talk to my daughter after this” he scolded him and left the place. With the broken heart naadal went to the sea shore and he cried by saying he is nothing and shouted at the sky that he is nothing but mud. The sea is full of darkness because the moon was closed by the dark clouds makes naadal feel that naidah was in danger. He ran to her home. Naidah home were filled with guards and patrols. naadal realize the situation that naidah was not returned home. Naadal was so frustrated that he going to loss naidah and knee down in the middle of the road in the night. Suddenly the dark clouds were moved the moon light touches the ground and a little sparkle came from the road which was reflected from the moon light flashed on his face. Naadal was so confused to see what is dazzling on the road. He walked and took that thing and shocked that it was a black pearl from the necklace he gifted to naidah. At the time he himself promised that he would find naidah. He collected each pearl in a pouch and followed sparkles on the road where the pearls had fallen. After the road end its was a sea shore and he found the 99 th pearl. when he takes the pearl in his hand and he lost his hope that there is ocean in front of him and looked at the moon with tears in his eyes. suddenly the clouds split away from the moon and the moon light directs him to a huge ship far away from him. His heart tells that naidah was there in the ship so he took a little boat from the sea shore and tied the pouch in his hip and travelled to the ship with the help of moon light. When he arrived the ship, he climbed the ship and went inside the huge ship and there is lot of rich people were celebrating parties. He took the servant dress to pretend himself as a servant and walked inside. He searched floor by floor in the ship but he can’t able to find naidah. When he was searching for her, he saw a light from a room in the sky which is opposite to his side. So, he ran to the room and opened the door. Naidah was so happy to see him and hugged him tightly. At Same time the some strange guys arrived and beaten naadal . Later they were handed over to the man who was the Business enemy of naidah’s father and he wants to kill naidah’s for revenge for his father who destroyed his business for personal reasons. He ordered their guards and tied naadal with 5 tons of stone and pushed him into the ocean. While falling naadal gave the pouch which had the black pearls to naidah’s hand. By seeing all this naidah was so shocked and cried for naadal . Inside the water naadal were drowned under the deep sea and lost his conscious. After a while naidah shouted against the man and the man shot naidah in her chest and she fell into the sea. Naidah slowly drowned. The moonlights fallen ino the towards Naadal suddenly he wokes up and untied his knots over him and swim towards naidah. He hold her in his arms and swim back to the boat and travelled to the sea shore and naidah was looking unconscious with bleeding. Naadal cried and started to wake her up but there was no reaction from naidah. Later everyone came and took naidah from naadal and police officers arrested him. After one week passed naadal was released from prison and he was so worried about the person who loves him a lot is naidah but now there is no one. He cried on the road in the middle of the night. A moon light fallen on him when he looks up the sky naidah is standing in front of him he was so shocked and hugged naidah with tears and naidah showed the moon shaped sea shell which has little crack on it from bullet shot and saved her life and her father asked sorry to him and also thanked him. But after seeing naidah, naadal gave naidah’s hands to her father’s hands and told him that you were right she was a moon and I’m the mud. naadal told naidah’s father that he is not the person who belongs to her and walked out with tears. naidah's smiles faded after hearing those words from naadal and paid silent. suddenly Naidah stopped naadal by saying “your forgotten your pouch filled with black pearls which is hundred million dollars worth”. And opened the pouch through the moon light the black pearls were dazzled. And she told naadal that he is not the mud he is a pearl which the moon longing for and hugged him with tears. The moon light flashed on them and naadal thanked the moon with eyes full of tears and story ends in a happy way.

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