Lockdown, Ludo and Love- A Fantasy: Diamond Kapil K.C.

With the embarkment of lockdown triggered by Corona outbreak, I, like many,  am compelled to stay in a rented room having none to converse with. Finding myself confined to four walls and unfortunately to rub salt on my wound, having empty chat boxes on my social medias, I was starting to feel bored and alone. If only I had someone to share my feelings… I wished and regretted.

Bored to tears, I was going through my mobile to check whether I could find anyone to talk, on the 15th day of lockdown. No sooner had I opened my messenger than a notification popped up. My curious fingers without taking a second, clicked on the bar only to find a ludo request sent to a group chat. Having nothing to do, I convinced myself to accept the incoming request and after a wait of about 2 minutes I was surprised to see an unknown girl in the contest. The game started and the girl was reacting to the plays of other two compatriots but we were still strangers for each other. After about an hour, the online game was about to end and she was marching ahead to register a victory. Just then, I got 5 when I rolled the dice and the message ‘Don’t kill me’ displayed on my screen. Without a second thought I killed her about to home token, only to see angry reactions floating on my screen. And another guy won the brawl.

I was already lamenting on my action that avoided her a win and I couldn’t help myself stop thinking about her. As I was dying to help her win, I was used to checking my phone whenever I heard the notification tone ringing, wishing it was a ludo request from the same group.

At one night, when I was about to sleep, my ciliary muscles instantly got expanded after seeing what I was wishing for three days and I clicked ‘Play Ludo’ option without wasting my time, praying God she too was there in the game. I hardly controlled my excited shout witnessing her name  and the game started when all the assigned four quota was occupied but for me, who was there to help her, only 3 players were confronting. Whenever she used to be on my zone, I knowingly removed my tokens out of safe cells just to create ladder for her. At that time I saw my scapegoated tokens as the flowers beside the boulevard decorated to welcome her. She was squeezing the teasy reactions after killing my intentionally placed tokens and smiling inside I was behaving as if I did it inadvertently ignoring all the angry reactions from other two. Finally she won the game but for me it was my heart she won.

Now I am addicted to playing ludo with her. Her wish of good luck before commencing the game makes me wish she would always be with me on the course of my life as a sign of fortune. She congratulates me on my good moves as if she were with me on my hard times and it makes me feel proud of myself. Smiling and wondering about our life together, I get lost on the La La Land. Then she wakes me up to play fast and I feel like she is supporting me to not sway away from difficulties. Whenever she requests me to not kill her tokens I feel like she needs me beside her to protect her at hard times.

I have availed myself of this lockdown by locking her into my heart. Sometimes I wish lockdown never ended but after realising our physical distance I silently pray to God to bring her into my life the way she was introduced in the game in an unexpected fashion… 

 — Diamond Kapil K.C.

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