Best Friends Forever

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“Samantha, get off the bed.”

She gave speaker a scared look with her big watery eyes and turned to get off the bed.

“Liza, stop shouting at Sam. Can’t you see she gets scared?”

“Can’t you see Shenoy, she annoys me. I work my brains off in home and office all day and this is what I get.”

“She is just a little pup.”

“And she is impossible.”

Shenoy picked Sam in his arms and took her out of the room, away from irritated Liza. Though he loved Liza more than his life but he never had been able to bring himself up to give up Sam for her. He felt a special connection to her. 

He still remembers when he went to the pet shop for buying a Poodle or a Pomeranian and he fell in love with Sam. While other dogs were making all attempts to get his attention and pity, she stood like tigress ignoring him altogether. And when she looked at him it felt like an instant connection. Her big eyes were filled with a challenge daring him to harm her. She was impossible to handle and that’s what he loved about her.

 Liza had been mad at both of them ever since he brought Sam home. But that’s one thing he knew he has to live with and hoped everything gets fine one day.

Days passed by, Sam trying to win Liza’s heart, Liza shouting at her and Shenoy trying to be a wall between them. Sam was growing fast in to a beautiful bitch. She was so adorable that everyone who met her instantly fell in love with her except of course Liza. Liza’s change of attitude was not just to Sam but also to Shenoy. The tensions at home were getting out of hand and the pressure at office was becoming unbearable. And one fateful day Shenoy met with an accident. After being three months in hospital, he came back home with his left side neck down paralyzed.

Shenoy was more like a breathing dead. All he did was to stare the ceiling. But Liza saw a faint smile and a glitter in his eyes when he saw Sam and Sam was so energetically happy to see him too. But his smile was short lived. He went back to his old routine. He kept staring at the ceiling and Sam sat beside his bed. But as Sam was, she could not stay quiet for long. After being patient for two days she started nudging him, asking him to take her for walk. She never made requests, she ordered Shenoy around and he had no option but to obey. 

With his right hand he pinned in her leash. Finding supports he stood up transferred the leash to his left hand, trying to wrap his fingers around to hold with much effort. He then took a right step forward dragging his left one behind. As Sam felt the leash slacking she moved forward making it tight again and waiting patiently for the next slack. Shenoy took four steps, and then he felt tired. He was happy. Though it could not be called a walk but he took his few steps. Next day he took eight and in a week he made it to the front door. He was ecstatic. Liza noticed the change but she was too busy to probe into it. In a month Shenoy was taking long walks and working an hour in his office. While his seniors were contemplating on how to sack him, he set his target to working full time in a week and he did. He gave them immensely good results. 

In three months he was promoted, but he still walked by dragging his left leg. His confidence was sky high and his desire to live was ever so stronger. People who didn’t knew anything wondered why this man always walked with his dog dragging his leg. But those who knew, knew that the man and his dog had come a really long way. Liza only realized what Sam has done when Shenoy gave her his promotion letter. While they were celebrating his success a loud sound of screeching tires made Shenoy look for Samantha instinctively. They ran outside only to see Samantha lying on the road bleeding with no hopes to live. Shenoy stood lifelessly rooted to the ground. Liza ran, took Sam in to her arms and cried.

“Oh sam, only if you had given me some time to make it all up to you. For all these years I have been so rude to you, never felt for you and in return you gave me what no one else could. You brought my love back to life. How will he live without you Sam? I am so sorry Sam, I am so sorry.”

Tears and apologies flew like clear water from Liza’s heart, just that it was too late. Shenoy looked like he has nothing left in him, only then did Liza realized how much Samantha had come to mean to him. She took him inside and properly buried Samantha with all the rituals. When she went to clean her little cozy kennel she found a gift Samantha had left for both of them- her six little pups. As if she knew Shenoy needed a part of her to live and that she left behind. Liza took them carefully to Shenoy.

“Shenoy, look what Samantha has left for us.”

He with much effort dragged his eyes back from ceiling to Liza, tears ran down from both of their eyes. They both realized how much Sam loved them both.

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