A paradise lost

She looked over the horizon as the dust settled over the landscape. A speeding army truck had caused the dust to stir into big clouds.
Her stare passed the settling dust to the valley, in which the road passed and disappeared from where she was watching.
He would come definitely.
Her eager eyes swiped from the road to the valley. Most of it was already brown, the green cover removed with a surgical precision.

She felt the pain of the mountain in her heart as it reminded her of some of her bad time, of her helplessness at times.
To distract her mind, she looked down the road again in anticipation of her lover. She had been sitting there since morning, her lips parched with thirst and stomach growling with hunger.
But he had not come. Yet.

A huge sound of explosion shook her off from her seat on the rocks by the side of the road. The dynamite was being used to explode the rocks of the mountain. She had read the board on her way stating a dam being built over the pristine river.

The river. She recalled the promise that they had made to each other. To escape the jealous eyes of the world and build their own world. They had dreamed of a cottage by the side of the river. The mountains with their lush green color would watch their back.

Another roaring blast echoed in her ears and woke her up from her reverie. She stood up; glanced up at the direction of the sounds of blasting and shouted hoarsely"

"This is rape. You all are rapists." Tears swelled her eyes, but her voice continued,
"Yes, rapists you are, you raped the mountains bit by bit, with pleasure in your eyes. And now you are invading its piracy as you do to your women. Rapists. Chauvinists. Just want pleasure, excitement to achieve. To prove your power. Rapists."

Her voice echoed all around but no one seemed to have heard her accusations. The mountains looked down upon her, with sympathy and complete helplessness.

She was so lost and angry as she spoke her mind, that she failed to see a silhouette appearing from the far end of the road.

"Rapists, all you bastards. Hope the electricity does your brain some good." She spat out once more.
As the dusk approached, the blasting stopped. The dark figure came near her and both pair of eyes locked each other in complete shock.

She slapped him hard, at least she tried to, as her swollen red eyes probed his tired brown eyes.
"What took you so long."

And as an answer he pulled her towards himself in a warm embrace.

"There was no bus till tommorow. So I ran, jogged, walked all the way, only to be with you"