"Pretty well drawn but you."
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Neel looked back in shock when he heard that. He was so engrossed in drawing that he did not know when the girl came and stood behind him. The girl smiled at Neel's startled face. Then he smiled and said,
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- Are you scared? In fact, I've been watching you for a long time. So I came forward out of curiosity. Come and see if you are drawing. If you are upset when you talk, don't talk. But when the picture was finished, I couldn't help but admire it. You draw really well.
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The girl stopped saying the words at once. Neel looked at the girl in surprise. He did not know that anyone could speak so fast. Although she said the words quickly, there was no distortion in any of the sentences while the girl was speaking.
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- What happened? What do you see that way?
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He looked at the girl with one glance and said the word with a thump in his hand. And then Neil restrained himself and said,
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- No, I wasn't really scared, I was a little shocked when I said the word from behind.
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- Yes, I understand. But he did not say your name, moreover I did not say my name. I'm blue.
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- I'm blue.
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- I said my name is blue and omni your name turned blue? Cunning?
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This time Neel couldn't help but smile. He smiled faintly and said,
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- Ha ha, blue is my name.
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- I believe, but you see a very stingy person.
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He was quite shocked to hear this. Then he mumbled and said,
- How did I become stingy?
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- So? I appreciated your drawing, could you give a thank you? Well don't take it anyway thank you. You will be here tomorrow afternoon. I will come I also have to draw a picture.
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He was surprised again to hear this from the girl. There is no doubt that the girl has an amazing ability to speak fast, and there is a quality in the girl that is to speak directly without turning around. Although this is just his guess, but the guess is not completely false.
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- Oma, I don't paint anyone like that.
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- Feeling we have 'Run out of gas' emotionally? I appreciated that a little bit and wanted to draw my own picture and the feeling increased. Anyway, you don't have to think so much. I took back the praise. You don't draw well at all. What happened this time? Come here tomorrow afternoon. I'll stay here.
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Neil might have made an excuse. But the girl did not give any more opportunity, said the words and left. Neel stared at him in surprise for a while. Then when the girl disappeared from sight, she could no longer hold back the smile. Strange girl.
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- Hee hee, I knew you'd be watching me go. Then I will smile when I close my eyes.
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Neel was shocked again when he heard that. He turned around and saw the girl standing there. He could not understand when the girl turned that way and came back in the opposite direction and was standing behind him. Neil saw the road when he came here. He could not understand that the girl had returned that way.
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- Then? I will come tomorrow but. This time I went. I will not come back. So don't be afraid, don't be surprised.
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Neel looked stunned. It is as if the words are not coming out through the throat. Everything seems to be coming together in the middle of the throat. But the girl never came back. This is also happening in the evening. Neil filled his bag with everything from color pencils. Then he came to the corner of the road to walk. It will not be very difficult to get a rickshaw from here to Messi. Although Neel is actually back here on foot. But it's too late today. So you can't walk.
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Back in the mess, the remnants of the afternoon incident remained for some time. In fact, Neel has never faced such an incident before. Will the girl really come tomorrow? The question peeked into his mind once, but immediately another thought came to his mind and confused everything.
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Today is the end of the month. Tomorrow the mess owner will come to pay the rent. Although painting is a profession, but for several months his paintings have not been available in the market. Now everyone needs innovation. Nowadays people do not want to buy these pictures of nature with big money. So for several days he was trying to draw something new. But nothing is happening. But there was a time when that was not the case. People used to buy his pictures for big money. He picked up the wallet next to him. The money will be enough to rent a mess, but not for the whole month. Probably no one can deny that the cost of a man in Dhaka city is sky high.
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The next afternoon, Neel walked again with a shoulder bag. Today he will walk. He has no problem whether the girl comes or not. In fact, he will either draw a picture, and if he does not come, he will either try to draw something new. But as soon as he arrived, he saw that the girl of yesterday was sitting in the place. I think the girl came a long time ago. Because Neel was watching from a distance, the girl was looking this way and that again and again.
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- This is your only problem. Knowledge of time is very low. I will come as soon as I hear someone. Still had to come late? Everything. Take it and start.
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Neelu said the words with lightning speed as he approached Neel. Neil once thought that he looks more beautiful today than he did yesterday. I adapted the white shirt he was wearing. Neel said nothing more, sitting down on the brick front. Then he looked at the girl once and again at the thick white paper on his knees. After a while, the girl suddenly sat down. He jumped up and said,
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- My neck hurts. Why do you take so long to draw? Let's see what you have drawn.
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Saying that, the girl grabbed the white paper from Neel's hand. Then he looked at it for a while and said,
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- Wow, I look so beautiful. But the same! Where's my nose? Can't you see how beautiful a nose I have. Why didn't you draw it?
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- No, you can't draw at once. You have to draw slowly.
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- Did you just say that? Everything is drawn. Then why didn't you draw the nose? And why is the hair so short? Here is my big hair. Before, of course, it was longer. It's getting smaller now. And listen, don't be silly with me. Grow your hair, and now draw your nose.
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After saying the words, the girl handed the paper to Neel and sat down again. Not only is Neil being surprised, he is becoming quite curious. Who is this girl? The question can be asked if the picture is not drawn.
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When the picture is almost finished. All that was left was to write her name down, just then the girl got up. Then he said,
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- Why write your name?
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- No, I have to write that it is not, in fact it has become a habit. I will not write if you do not want.
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- Well, write.
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He wrote his name and passed the picture to the girl. He stared at the picture for a while. Then he smiled softly and said,
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- Hmmm, that's exactly what I was looking for.
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- You mean?
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The girl did not answer. He took the picture and walked straight in the opposite direction. Neel stared at him in surprise for a while.
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- Sir, it's evening. Don't go home?
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Hearing that, Neel looked back. A half-aged man dressed as a doorman is standing behind him. No one else stays in this place after dusk. The place is absolutely secluded but it becomes more secluded in the evening. Neel once looked around, no one. He did not understand when those who were there left. Neel doesn't speak anymore. The doorman stepped forward with the bag on his shoulder and said again,
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- Those who draw pictures are like that, aren't they?
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Hearing the question, Neel Kuchke looked at the doorman. Then he said,
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- Why?
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- It's like you talk alone.
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- Talk to you soon? You mean, like, saltines and their ilk, eh?
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- Yes, I saw him talking alone yesterday. I saw it even today.
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- You mean? What are you talking about? Why should I talk alone ??? Didn't you see the girl who was with me?
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- Girl? Nowhere. You were alone.
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Neel was quite surprised to hear that. Wasn't it? He even drew a picture of the girl. He didn't understand that the man had a little problem in his head. Without further ado, he started walking towards the mess.
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After returning to the mess, Neel lay down on the bed, very tired. And then I looked at a folded white paper. The paper was swaying softly in the air coming through the window on the small table next to her bed. He raised his hand and opened the fold with the paper and was startled. A cold current flows through the spine. So many pictures of that girl. And the picture is not supposed to come here, he clearly remembers that the girl took it away after drawing the picture. Then !!!! And then I remembered the words of the doorman. Then, as soon as he remembered one more thing, an electric current played in his body. The girl smiled softly at the picture and said, "Hmmm, that's exactly what I was looking for
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