Facebook and the Final-look

As I said a big “NO” and raised my hand to push the empty plate in front of me, Chandu stood up and walked straight towards the corner behind me to get a jug of water.

I looked at all three rascals and none of their faces showed any particular response to my “NO”

I felt proud of myself that I had brought an end to the discussion, successfully. Without again allowing anything to come out of their mouth, I said, “Lets go to class”

“No ways. This is the boring period of this semester. I wont come and sit in that class” Harsha said.

“Even me” Kums added.

“Fine then. Lets sit here. I will directly go to the Lab after break.” I said, sliding my ass on the chair and making myself comfortable enough to sit for another hour.

After waiting for a response from Santosh, I turned at him just to notice he was busy playing game in his mobile. That itself gave his answer.

We remained unmoved for a whole of two minutes with utmost silence until Chandu came and placd the jug of water on the table and then all four of us bent forward and tried grabbing the jug.

Harsha was the lucky one drinking the water first when Chandu said, “I knew this. That’s why I drank water and then got the jug.”

“Awesome idea. I always knew you are the most intelligent among us” Santosh said in a sarcastic tone.

Once everyone drank water and emptied the jug, the silence fell again on the table. Each person got busy with either mobile or a short nap. I too decided taking a nap and closed my eyes resting my neck on the edge of the chair support behind me. As soon as I closed my eyes, the same picture came in front of me. The same cute smile and the same bright red top!

I tried closing the screens of my eyes but it seemed her picture was pasted on the inner side of the screen!

“Smile smile. You bugger. Thinking of Kajal right?” I heard Kums voice as I opened my eyes and stared at him.

The unknown smile on my face had not gone unnoticed. I just stared at him and nodded my head and closed my eyes again. No one seemed to react to that, who knew they might have already fell asleep. Closing my eyes, I started thinking of all the possibilities of the friend request I had sent just few hours back and it seemed like a whole long year to me. The wait was just getting longer and my nerves were getting tighter with the tension building up. Hadnt I ever cared so much for my results, I would have atleast grabbed a FCD.

“Anyone wants coffee?” Santosh said as I opened my eyes from a short nap.

“You are my best buddy” Chandu said grinning.

“Hell with your buddy. I will take money from you. Coffee is not free.” Santosh yelled looking at me.

“I need a strong one” I said

“Kick?”

“No. Coffee”

“Ok. Wake up that bugger and ask him” Santosh said, walking towards the counter.

Hitting on Harsha’s shoulder I looked at my watch and calculated it was just 10 minutes for the college break. I had slept for half hour. I had never thought anyone could get such a peaceful nap in cafeteria and it would beat the library in peace. But in 10 minutes it would be filled with every student of the college and every annoying noise and every silly gossip and every nonsense chats all of which make the best memorable moments of college life.

As I sipped the hot coffee, though my tongue abused me for burning it, my brain thanked me for waking it.

Before I could finish my coffee, I started hearing all sorts of noises and in a while the shole of cafeteria filled up students. I got up and got two plates of Veg Pulav for us and sat back in the same chair. All five of us started eating from the two plates without talking much. When the plates were empty, we again sat back and relaxed.

It was Santosh who broke the silence on our table, “Look there. Kajal with her friends.”

I suddenly opened my eyes and searched everywhere.

All of them laughed and Santosh said, “And you said NO just an hour back?”

Giving him a stern stare I kept my mouth shut.

“Ok fine. We got to know the truth and being your friends we will help you. Don’t worry” he said

“And that is what I don’t want. Buggers!” I said.

“Look at the table after the counter” he said again

I slid back and sat staright and moved my eyes to the table after the counter and there she was sitting with her group. Though she sitting exactly opposite to me she was either bending her head down or turning towards her friends. I kept on looking at her without caring of any of the bugger sitting with me.

Her soft right hand was holding the spoon which was full of homemade rice as she lifted it until her mouth. The two beautiful lips parted for the rice and she started chewing the rice, turning towards her friend who was sitting to her left and was speaking continuously. As she turned left, her ear ring that was tangling from her right ear shone reflecting the sun ray falling on it towards my heart. She smiled listening to her friend and her cute dimple on her right cheek was clearly visible.

I kept on staring at her dumbly without even blinking my eyes till she finished her lunch and sat back. Her friend was still busy talking about a gossip and Kajal was just smiling. All the 15 minutes I never saw her talk. I enjoyed every moment she made.

I grew restless as her friend stopped talking and Kajal bent down to check her mobile. The one minute that passed seemed a whole long hour until she raised her head again.

Raising her head she looked directly to her front and saw me staring at her without any shame.

I was not sure if she noticed me or not, but she turned towards her friend and then again a small discussion started among them.

Within seconds she again turned at me and looked at me. I was a little far from her but I was sure she had caught me staring at her; else there was no need of second look. Especially when no one was sitting in between us facing towards her nor there was any table behind me.

My doubt turned into belief when she frowned and her eyes grew smaller as though she was warning me to stop my stare. Quickly, I guess for the first time, I blinked my eyes and bent down. But how far could I control? I raised my head again and looked at her. She was now looking at her friend and was talking to her. But, as soon as she stopped talking she again turned towards me and gave a sudden shocked look noticing me still staring at her.

Watching me stare at her without even blinking she was growing nervous or may be just wanted to escape my stare. I tried looking away from her but her smile, her black eyes, two curved eyebrows and those little pink lips kept my eyes glued to her charming face.

Suddenly she got up and said something to friends. They all got up and within a second it was my turn to grow nervous. Before I could realize my situation, they all turned towards the stairs and started walking towards the stair.

I felt sick of myself for spoiling everything but was still staring at her as she walked and legs crossed each other while her hairs neatly tied behind her swayed everytime she stepped ahead. Just before she stepped down the stairs she turned back and looked at me.

Even though I was an idiot who coudnt make out what that meant or what the best option to do was, my heart did one thing that I can never forget. It typed a command passed the command to my brain. My brain compiled the command within nanosecond and executed it. As soon as the command was executed, the ends of my lips rose slowly and my lips curved to make a smile on my face.

As I smiled, she blinked twice and turned away. She again turned back at me and I could notice the smallest of the smile that was trying hard to carve out on her face in spite of her hiding it. Her eyes were now blushing and I could clearly say they had turned lot friendlier than they were just few seconds back. Her smile grew wider while her cheeks grew brighter with a definite mark of blush as she turned away, again, and stepped down the stairs with one final look at me.

I logged in again after my dinner, with a tensed mind. As soon as I logged in and my Facebook page opened, I saw 3 new notifications. Clicking on the icon brought down the list of new notifications and I saw the top most one saying Kajal accepted your friend request. Without even observing anything else I just clicked on her picture and her Facebook wall opened. There again was profile picture! 

As my heart was now dancing all around the room, I clicked on her profile picture and enlarged it and she was again looking at me with a smile and eyes again gave me that one final sweet look!

Vishal…

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