Was it the bird?

 Was it the bird?

In these very moments, indeed he was not listening to her, distracted by a pigeon couple. He felt very soothing to see those birds playing and loving each other, away from the worries of this mortal world. They reminded him, the beginning of their own relationship, those good three months, when they both were together; they had laughed without reasons, loved lavishly and enjoyed each other’s company. But now, after three years, something was changing or perhaps something had already changed. They had to put efforts to keep conversation going; even the fights were not interesting anymore. In this long distance relationship, it was only these phone calls, which had kept their relationship alive. But now, these calls were not helping anymore.

“Are you even listening to me?” she screamed, he came out of the ocean of his thoughts and trying to hide slapdash, he replied, “yes, of course, I am listening.” She was complaining because he usually left calls in between, to do other things. “I feel like I am your least priority and I hate it.“, her voice had a touch of irritation. “babu please don’t say that. You are the most important person in my life and you know it very well.” He took a deep breath and continued, “Okay, from this very moment I have decided that I am not going to do anything at all while talking to you. But baby please smile now, I can’t see you sad.” he tried to cheer her up or perhaps tried to cover up for his mistakes. Then she said something which he was not expecting. “Its our daily story, our fights, arguments, your excuses, and your promises, I am fed with all these. I don’t think this relationship can tolerate any more fights.” It was his turn to say something.

And then suddenly, out of the blue, a cat pounced at those birds, giving them no time to escape. Before he could understand anything, the cat already had caught one of those pigeons in her jaws. He leaped towards that cat and tried to rescue the little bird, which was struggling for its life. Losing his fortitude, he ran after that cat and even picked a stone and threw it on that cat, forcing it to leave the prey out of its hold. He ran to help the bird. At the same time somewhere on the grass, a notification light of his phone was blinking, and a message was there on his screen, “you will never change but our relationship status has!!” 

Perhaps something had died.