Love
It was her. He had not seen her in the past twelve years but he knew it was her.
He had fallen in love with her when he was in first grade. They were friends, good friends. But, lady luck desired something else; he got separated from her when she left the school. He does not remember why he didn’t say to her at that time; maybe he was shy, maybe not mature enough to understand his feelings. Since the time he got separated from her, he longed for meeting with her, just be friends at the least. He used to dream meeting her, telling his feelings, everything.
It was unbelievable seeing her after so much time. He had to take some action, he watched her, for him she was the same 10 year old friend whom he had lost in time. He went forward, but she turned, and he turned back too. He did not know what to say.
“Excuse me, if I am not mistaken you are Rahul, right?”
Fear
He felt uneasy. ‘Tell her, do not miss this chance, go ahead, tell her’, his mind was screaming.
‘If she says no, if she doesn’t talk to me ever again? I cannot live without her now.’
‘But she will leave again if you don’t tell her, you fool, go, and tell her!’
‘Let’s wait and see how things move on. I should not hurry.’
‘Wait for someone else to come and say, she remembered you, isn’t that enough?’
‘But if she says no?’
‘But if she says yes, then?’
‘I don’t know!’
Surprise
It was all arranged. He hadn’t mentioned to her that it was going to be a date but he had given her the hints. She had seemed to be quite excited. ‘The plan is working’, he thought.
She was surprisingly on time. She was looking her best self. He was just mesmerized by looking at her. As she came near to the table he got up, his legs were shaking, he gave a nervous smile.
“You are on time!”
“Am I? I didn’t notice that. Do you want me to go back and then come late?”
“No, no. I was just joking. You are looking extremely beautiful, what’s the occasion?”
“I need to go to a party after this, so I thought why change!”
“Oh! I thought you were free today?”
“I was actually free, but then this thing came up, I couldn’t say no. We have a lot of time though. I can be late there.” She gave a mischievous smile.
He started, “I wanted to tell you something.”
Before she could respond back, her phone started ringing; the ringtone was ‘Kaho na Kaho’ from the movie Murder. She picked up the call, “Hello”, she looked into his eyes, blushed, and then said on the phone, “I will talk to you later.”
Anger
‘Why didn’t you say it?’
‘I think she has a boyfriend.’
‘Did she tell you that?’
‘No’
‘You assumed?’
‘But, I think I am sure.’
‘Just because you heard that ringtone and she didn’t talk in front of you doesn’t meant that she has a boyfriend!’
‘But why will she do that. You saw it yourself; she kept on blushing after that. Why would she do that?’
‘May be because you were going to say something!’
‘What a fool I am!’
Sadness
‘Why is she not answering my call?’
‘Because she is angry on you, she expected you to say it today, but you didn’t.’
‘No, it may be because she is in this party; she may not be able to hear it.’
‘May be there was no party. May be she dressed like that for you. May be she wanted you to say it.’
‘You are not helping me. Tell me what should I do?’
‘Leave her a message to call you when she gets the message.’
‘Yes, I will do that. But, should I mention it is urgent or something?’
‘No. Let her call you when she feels like calling you. Don’t force her.’
‘But what will I do till then?’
‘Suffer for your cowardice!’
Joy
“You all spoilt everything. He was already nervous, after that call, he couldn’t speak a word. And who changed my ringtone?”
There were a lot of girlish giggles in the car. She took out her phone to change the ringtone, and there she found 19 missed calls, 3 new messages. Before she could do anything, the phone had been snatched away from her.
“Let me read at least!”
There were a lot of O’s after each message was read.
“Call him back; it looks like he is dying out there.”
Another round of O’s.
She went out of the car, and dialed his number.
“Hello, it looks like you forgot something?”
“Yes, you could meet me right now, I am outside your apartment.”
The End