A watch! A bright silver colored
watch was the one which had diverted my attention from the beauty of the
nature. The watch was tied to a fair hand. What? A fair smooth hand that looked
like the hand of girl? A girl?
Without blinking, I looked up. A
girl was standing in the balcony of the opposite building. Wearing a light green
colored T-Shirt, she had rested her left hand, with the watch onto it, on the
railing and was trying to the drops of water with her right hand extended out
of the balcony. Very cutely, she was trying to focus a single drop among the
millions and try striking it with her index finger. I was not able to determine
if she was succeeding or not but every time she did that, there was a cute
smile on her face. Just like a small kid, she would modestly smile in victory
and her lips would turn into a bright smile in between two little dimples on
her fair chubby cheeks. She was far, yet my eyes had taken all the trouble to
notice her little dimple on her left cheek that looked like a small silver
cloud in between a vast clear sky. She was beautiful. Yet there was something
in her that gave her a childish look.
The way she was playing, the way
she was engrossed in her own world, the way she was enjoying the real monsoon.
There wasn’t even a small hint of disappointment or a look of frustration on
her face. Her face was the brightest and the fairest I had ever noticed. Upon On
it were the two little black pearls. Two twinkling pearls were shining as
brilliantly as the watch was. They were as lively as the refreshing rain, or
might be they were livelier. They blinked every time she hit or missed a water
drop and when they opened they had more life in them. The eyebrows above them
added more life to her cute face, falling down and raising up every time she
blinked.
I was amused by the way she was
engrossed in her own world of her own silly game. It might have been few very
long minutes that passed since I first set my eyes on her. When I forcefully
turned down to my coffee mug and raised it to take a sip, I realized it was
cold now. The effect of that strong caffeine which I wanted had now expired.
I turned back to her and she was
still busy playing her game. I took the last sip of coffee and turned back to
her. Suddenly, she stopped her game of striking the free water drops. She
turned to her right and looked at the ground. Her hair tied at the back as a
small pony tail moved quickly and oscillated for three times and settled down. But
before it could settle at its place, she turned again and this time to her
left. There was still a mild smile on her face and the cheeks were ready to
sketch out the cutest dimples.
I was wondering if I could see
her magical dimples again along with those twinkling pearls, when she suddenly
turned to her front and looked at our building. It did not even take more than
a second for her to notice me staring at her stupidly. She looked at me and was
blank for some time. Even I kept staring at her. Then suddenly she turned away
and turned back again at me. Noticing me still staring at her she frowned. Her
eyebrows now curved and her eyes shrinked into two small black dots. The mild
smile on her face was now gone and her lips turned straight and zipped tightly
together. I felt two sharp arrows of her anger from her eyes pierce me right
through my eyes. That was when I woke up and agnized what I was doing. With
abnormal blinking I bent down quickly and lifted my cup for another sip. After lifting the cup I
remembered that the mug was empty, but I had already lifted it. Lifting it
more, I acted as though I was taking drinking the last sip from the mug and
then pursing in my lips I turned back to my chair without lifting my head. Placing
the empty mug down, I picked up the novel in my hand and sat down on the chair.
Alas, chair was directed to her
side and I would be facing to her. I failed even after trying my best to resist
turning towards her and gave into my heart. I lifted my head slowly only to see
that was still frowning a little angrily at me. I quickly bent down and opened
my novel.
The two lines I read after that
were the lengthiest lines I had ever read. I couldn’t resist thinking about her
reaction. I had multiple thoughts of what she would be thinking about me but
they were replaced by the picture of her fair face with chubby cheeks, sweet
smile, cute dimples and twinkling eyes. I wondered how those twinkling eyes had
shrinked in anger yet they were equally cute.
As the picture of her face grew
thicker in my thoughts, the urge to check her reaction now kept tickling me at
the back of my neck. Again, failing to my heart, I moved aside my novel and
tried stealing a look at her. I was surprised to see her still looking at me,
but now the eyes were normal. She was looking at me like a CID officer keeping
an eye on suspect. Her blank look was slowly turning into a playground of anger
when she saw me stealing a look by the side of the novel. I quickly moved back the novel and closed my
eyes forcing them to remain closed for a good amount of time. I felt my heart
beat and felt guilty for my act.
Deciding to be adamant I rested
my back on the chair, slid down a little until my lower neck rested on the back
of the chair. Brining the novel closer I started reading again. It was
difficult. Reading when the mind is concentrating on something else is really
difficult. Gulping in the saliva soothed my disturbed heart and as it travelled
down my throat I felt the courage in me adding up. I folded the novel and
raised my head and looked straight at her.
My eyes widened with surprise to
see her still looking at me. Her eyes were shrinked and the two black pearls
scrutinizing my every act. A quick frown on her face said she knew I would look
at her again. Unknowingly an apologetic smile got carved on my face. It took
few milliseconds for the frown on her face to disappear but only after a
surprised look it was replaced by a girlish giggle. She covered her mouth as
she giggled and then smiled widely at me. Her giggle clearly told me that she
had caught me staring at her and her smile clearly told me she knew I was clean
bowled by her.
My smile widened too.
And my eyes rejoiced her smile. All of a sudden our eyes locked and within
second she blushed. Bending down her head for a millisecond she looked back at
me. I was looking at her with a wide smile and a stupid look. She smiled again
with a hint of blush in her eyes and quickly turned around and stepped inside
the home.
I was surprised by this sudden
act and kept on thinking, for minutes, if I did something wrong. Being dumb,
which I am, it took me a real long time to realize that is what the real jewelry
of any girl is.
I always knew monsoon is romantic
but for the first time I realized it true…
Vishal…
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