PAULOV

I am at a friend's house,talking,when i get a call from my mother askin me to come back home soon-she has a surprise for me. I am taken aback. My birthday is still two days away and she already bought me something!
I get back home as soon as i possibly could. And as i enter my room,i hear them chirping. Tiny little bright birds! One of them is aqua blue and the other white.
I am overjoyed! They are the happiest birds ever. They made me smile.
I decide to name the male(the blue one) Paulov and the female Asana.
Every morning,when we enter the room they are in,they chirp.. As if to greet us. They were always so full of life!
Many birds came and left after that but i got attatched to Paulov. I watched him grow fat,i loved to hear him chirp. Almost like as if he wanted to tell me he's happy,probably.

Three years later(4 days back)- mother woke me up and asked me to check on Paulov. He was on the floor,a very unusual sight because he seemed allright the night before. I pick his stiff body up and i couldn't get myself to think what went wrong. He was just a little over three years. I had no choice. He got a decent burial and thus he lies in the backyard. The silence that persists now instead of the chirping is killing. To hell with all those people who said you always created an intolerable racket. We love u,Paulov and we will always miss ur happy chirping.