Happiness :-)

Good Morning Readers! Remember one of my old blogs “Happiness is a Choice!!” ?? If not then here is the link - http://sundayreaders.blogspot.com/2013/06/happiness-is-choice.html

Today’s blog is nothing but a very sweet example to support that post.

It was a very hot day and a dry one too. The burning Sun was a bit too angry on something that had been bothering him since zillion years. It seemed pretty sure that he was going to burn the whole Earth. His every ray hitting our green planet was like the sharp arrows piercing through the body taking out the life from every living being.

I guess I had been sweating so much that the T-shirt I was wearing looked like it was just washed and hadn’t even dried off. It was much more irritating when it started sticking to my body everywhere and my hands got busier itching every part they could reach on to; limited to my body and not any part of a middle aged man sitting beside me yawning every few minutes. The irritation just doubled when that man started getting sleepy and his head started falling off his throat and landed on my shoulder every time. When it landed, I got irritated because it landed and when it rose up, I got irritated thinking when it would land again.

The chattering sounds of every passenger in that train had overcome the evergreen “chuk chuk” sound of our lovely Indian trains. Most of the voices were from the middle aged female voice boxes and at few times the males voice boxes mixed up too, sometime accompanied by crying children. Normally the crying and whining of children followed the yelling sound of the cool drink or fast food vendor’s yell of the list of his items.

I felt that I was getting irritated to my limits and the only best part of the journey was I had got a seat. There were many passengers standing who looked like were swinging just more than natural. Their eyes were looking everywhere like an eagle looking for its prey, searching for passengers to get up with some excuse and they could steal the seats and rest their legs. It was the only good part of that scorching heat that all the water in my body was flowing out as sweat and I had no need to leave my seat for passing out the water.

As I looked at my watch, it was 1 PM and still 2 hours of journey was left to reach Belgaum, one of the most beautiful cities in South India. Calm and cool, it had the right blend of culture and gloss.

They say as the journey nears the destination, it grows more desperate. And I was experiencing it. I had nothing to help me out. The novel I had got with me sat silently in my bag. I couldn’t even move and it was far from reality to open up that and read it in that rush. Just then I heard a loud cry of a small child. He was standing in front of his mother and crying. Big drops of water had started flowing down his chubby cheeks and it looked like the gates of the dam in his nose would open up any time and his mother’s hankie was the most needed thing now. He even started hitting violently on his mother’s lap. But we all know lovely moms and their sweet golden hearts. Even that just multiplies their love towards their children. She was trying to carry him and make him sit on her lap and was explaining everything in the world to him just to console him. Anyone in that compartment could notice the pain in her eyes when her kid started crying, yet her face carried a consoling smile on her face.

I could no longer focus on the crying child and moved along the bench towards the window, pitying the mom. As soon as my eyes reached the window, I saw another kid. He too was of the same age of the crying kid. His parents were sitting on the same bench as mine separated to me by the sleepy uncle with a frequently falling head. He was curiously staring at the crying kid for some time and then again turned back.

I just got curious since I had nothing else to do. I started observing the kid. Wearing a dark blue colored T-shirt with lots of attractive colorful design on it and a black colored multi-pocket Bermuda, he was busy doing something. He too was standing and was turned toward his parents. He dint had the window seat either, he was not getting any air to blow onto his body, and he was sweating too. In short, he shared exactly the same situation as of mine and the crying kid. Yet he was busy doing something and it looked like he dint even care where he was.

The noise, the heat, the sweat, the crowd, the hunger; everything just ceased to exist for him. Upon that, I was more than shocked when he smiled and even gave out a small laugh. I could control my curiosity no longer and moved my ass a bit forward and bent my back forward. Bending a little more helped me look at what he was so busy with, that kept him engrossed; moreover kept him happy kicking off the irritation from him.

He had few coins, probably given by his parents, along with a very small space on the bench by his father, who had crossed his legs and made some space for his child to play. The child used to arrange the coins one upon other and then used to roll another coin towards the piled up coins. Being unaware of the physics, he never calculated anything and just used to roll the coin towards them. I could not stare much longer but I was sure there was a small probability for the rolling coin to hit the piled up coins even in that moving train and whenever that happened a cute smile escaped his mouth.

For any onlooker it was just a game and a smiling kid. But for me it was one of the biggest lessons of my life.

Many a times in our life, such situations come, when we cannot control them, but we can control ourselves. And “HAPPPINESS” is one of them because, happiness is not found in air or water or in a train’s honk or in anything else. It lies within us; we just need to feel it.

We are the owners of ourselves and it is completely on us to select the right option of being happy and feel it, ignoring all the forces that try to irritate us. It is our duty to find what is right for us in any moment and keep ourselves happy and satisfied. One of the best ways of achieving that is being simple. Just like the kid, who was happy in such a situation where most of the other persons sharing the same situation were either whining or yelling at their situations. He was just being simple and playing a simple game in whatever was available to him and was busy within himself; he avoided all the factors that were trying to irritate him and was enjoying himself.

That was the moment I knew what I had to do and the rest of that train journey was never anymore irritating for me!

Be Happy, Have a Happy Sunday… Thanks for being a Sunday Reader…

Vishal…

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Love just happens… And it all starts with one sweet look…

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And then I slid into a deep sound sleep rewinding and watching the same scene of Alpana’s smile, when I had met her two weeks back.

It had been a pretty hectic and believe me, a pretty bad two weeks with the exams. There is always a specialty of engineering exams, you never know how they come, you never know when they come, and you never know “why” they come.

You always think you have covered every brightly printed word in the book, you walk in with the confidence of a soldier, every question you read in the paper makes you believe you have read the wrong book, you end up scratching every part of your head, pressing every button on the calculator just to avoid falling asleep, trying to find the most beautiful girl in the examination hall, scribbling every technical word coming across your mind that helps filling up atleast first few pages of the answer booklet, walking out with a confident 35 and getting happier that the worst subject just walked out of your life!!

 I was no exception and this repeated six times with me in just two weeks. A pretty bad situation to go through for a nut like me!

Opening my eyes suddenly I sat up trying to realize where was I. The last I could recall was some dream I had been enjoying in the Goa beach, but this was the white wall of my room. Rubbing my eyes with some pressure helped me getting back to the real world as I heard someone yelling out my name with the loudest voice. That was Ganesh. Damn sure his loud voice.

Sliding the curtain of the window I looked out and there he was standing with Shashi waiting for me. Before he could yell again, I walked out of home towards the gate.

“Were you drugged?” Shashi asked with a surprise in his tone and his eyes.

“Why? What happened?” I asked, rubbing my eyes again.

“Look at your eyes. It seems like you have been sleeping since days” he said.

“What the hell? I haven’t been sleeping since weeks just to understand why those antennas need to have different shapes and styles and you say I have been sleeping since days” I yelled in anger.

He just shrugged his shoulder, saying, “Atleast you know they come in different shapes, I skipped that chapter”

“Enough of your studies. Can we now go out?” Ganesh said.

“Where?” I asked

“You dint tell him?” he asked Shashi

“I did text him. But if he has been sleeping like this then it’s not my fault” he said and relaxed back on the pillion seat of Ganesh’s bike.

“Where are we going?” I asked.

“We have decided a small get together today evening in the park” Ganesh said.

“Cool. Who all?” I asked realizing that my eyes opened up fully now.

“Our group. All 7 of us” Ganesh said

“And the new girl, Alpana” Shashi continued turning at me.

“Oh nice” I said trying to control the small current that had passed through my body hearing her name.

“I guess now he will be ready” Shashi said turning to Ganesh

“And that too before all of us” Ganesh replied back. A small grin escaped out from both of their face.

“Tell me my part” I said, still trying to be normal.

“Same part as always. Arrange the food.”

“And that’s all is needed. Why don’t you guys do that?”

“It’s your part. We just enjoy the party”

“Get lost. I need my sleep back. I will be at the park at exact 7 PM” I said trying to end the discussion.

“We thought this is the best opportunity for to impress her” Ganesh said, a bit mildly, which was not normal to him.

“First impression buddy” Shashi continued.

“You both are rascals” I said

They just grinned happily and sat back on the bike.

“Wait, I will freshen up and be back in five minutes” I said turning back ignoring their wicked laughter.

The park was a small park mostly covered with flower beds and benches everywhere. It was one particular bench in the corner of the park where our group had marked it as the group’s official bench. It was the nearest corner to the road and hence was the brightest with the street light giving us a free light once Sun left the sky and went back to his home.

As I entered the park from behind the bench carrying a big bag, I saw three girls sitting on the bench. I could easily make out the first two girls, Surabhi and Ankita. Then the third one, sitting on the left end of the bench would be Alpana. She had neatly tied her hair with a simple hairband, the color which I couldn’t notice. I almost escaped missing the only step that separated the park ground from the street just for noticing the color of a girl’s hairband. As I walked into the park a bit more careful on my steps now, I saw Shashi sitting right in front of Ankita on his favorite wooden stool. There were two more chairs and two more wooden stools randomly placed in front of the bench. 

“And here comes our hero. Our food supplier” Shashi yelled rising from his stool.

“Ras..” I quickly shut my mouth realizing Alpana’s presence and turned at her.

She had turned back, but quickly turned away as I looked at her. The smile I had forced on my face went for a toss.

Still, I managed to send a signal to Shashi from my eyes and took a chair farthest from Alpana, which I did repent after sitting, while Vinay, who had been with me to get the food took a sit beside me.

“Where are others?” I asked turning to Shashi

“They must be coming soon. They are getting the coke and the plates” he said opening the bag of food.

“You are always interested in food” Ankita said moving away the food bag from Shashi and all three of them laughed mildly.

“So what’s special today?” Surabhi asked me. 

“It’s the same, my favorite” I said grinning at her and then slowly, I turned at Alpana and tried stealing the best look from the corner of my left eye.

She was wearing a green half sleeve Kurti with a red border. The red colored lines were crossing each other everywhere on her Kurti resulting in a weird yet cute design of neat little diagonal boxes. The lower border of the long Kurti carried a blue circled design that resembled a very old and very complicated rangoli design. She had crossed her legs and the blue design was right on her right knee neatly displaying the design of the Kurti. In the two seconds that I got to steal a look at her, I deduced that she looked marvelous in that Kurti, just like a model posing for that Kurti’s commercial.

I was still building up more thoughts on her when Ganesh and Harsha walked in laughing on some useless joke creating lots of noise in the silent park.

Then followed a brief chat on how the exams went and then few random chats. It was then, when everyone was busy chatting and all the voices were getting mixed up disturbing the sleeping flowers, I took a break and turned, slowly, at Alpana. She had been bit quite, trying to settle down in the new group, limiting her talks.

As I turned, my eyes crossed all the faces making sure everyone was busy occupied in their chats. The bright yellow colored street light was glittering on her right cheeks, yet the group of few hairs that had let themselves loose and neatly, beautifully, had fallen across her right eyes had made sure their shadow fell on her nose and the dark shadow on the bright nose made sure the looker noticed the brightness of the cute little sharp nose. Her lips parted now and then while she talked and quickly closed back, but made sure they spread wide into a smile when closed. The right cheek glowed brightly while the left cheek managed to hide quietly in the dark. She then slowly raised her right hand and with her soft fair hand she held those few naughty hairs, sliding them back and tucking them behind the ear. It was then the little earring in the shape of a small silver colored water drop moved slightly with a small glitter, but not brighter than her cheeks. I guess I was concentrating at her earring, a bit more than needed because as my eyes moved back to her cheeks from her earring, I noticed her eyes. In normal light they would have twinkled but now were in dark, hard to twinkle, yet had the same power, and they were staring at me. I blinked my eyes, in confusion, actually, in lots of confusion.

As I looked at her looking at me, her face was blank. It was very hard for me to confirm if she had caught me staring at her or if she thought it to be a coincidence. As the milliseconds passed, missing few heartbeats, I noticed a slight movement in her pink lips. They were slowly widening and yes, my heart started beating again. The lips widened replacing a blank look in her face with a sweet smile. The smile was followed a small change in the way her eyes now looked. They still twinkled, much to my surprise, in that darkness. The eyebrows neatly arched up and the cheeks glowed again.

I never knew how, but a small smile had escaped my mouth and was dancing on my face celebrating with the eyes, on their first communication, a sweet one, a successful one, a one that would continue. Those few naughty hairs again fell loose from behind the ear and neatly placed themselves on the right corner of her right eyebrow, just as her smile widened more, continuing the communication.

It’s truly said, “It all starts with one sweet look!”

Teri kaale kaale aankhon mein hai chupa kya

Iss dil ko bhi bata de, yeh kare toh kare kya

Jab muskuraati ho tum kuch apne hi andaaz mein

Kyun lagta hai mujhe, khoya hai dil aur kho gaya main

Bebas hai jaan, bekhabar ho gaye hai saanse meri

Jabse khel rahe hai hawa mein, udte huwe zulfein teri

Kyun yeh nazre mil gaye aur kyun yeh chehre khil gaye

Bin bataaye dil dhadak gaye, saath kuch lamhein guzar gaye

Na jaane kab hum tum ho gaye, tum hum mein kho gaye

Aur yun hi, kuch haseen yaadein ban gaye…

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Love just happens... I looked at her and…

It had turned dark but still I could see few last sunrays sneaking around trying to poke in their nose. The birds were chirping loudly and a mild breeze would blow in every few minutes making sure the leaves rustle and make it a perfect dark dusk.

I was sitting on the stone bench in corner of the park where we had just finished playing a fantastic but tiring game of cricket. On my right was Shashi and in front of me stood Ganesh holding the bat as his support. Rest all had walked back to their home but we three were still sticking to the ground making sure we go back home as late as possible avoiding the boring studies. We were engrossed in some deep discussion on topics varying from engineering studies till the local politics. To be short and straight, we were discussing on all those topics on which we could not do anything or we did not want to do anything except discuss, that too, just to pass on time.

Quickly unfolding my hands, I raised my right hand and slapped on the back of my neck. I had missed it, may be by a millisecond. It was then I noticed there were more mosquitoes hanging around merrily. I can bear their bite but the only thing that I can’t bear is when they start singing. Their buzz is one sound that wakes up people from sleep no matter how deep they are in their sleep. I just hated that sound. But they were enjoying, singing and dancing. They had got a buffet option with three useless bodies filled with more than required blood in their fat bodies.

With my second failed try I stood up and walked two steps and then turned back standing beside Ganesh.

“We can’t sit anymore. Let’s go home” Shashi said standing along with me.

“Yes, let’s go home. These mosquitoes; I just hate them” I said

“And what do you think? Other people love them? And breed them in their home as pets?” Ganesh said with a light sarcastic tone.

I dint bother to acknowledge his comment and started walking to the exit of the park. Ganesh followed me trying different shots with the bat and Shashi was walking behind him with his hands in his pockets.

As soon as we walked out of the exit, the pathway towards the main road was illuminated brightly by a street lamp and we thought we could stand there and spend few more minutes chatting. But we just stood, no one started talking.

At last Shashi said, “Why are we standing here?”

“I don’t know” Ganesh said

“I dint say anything” I said when both of them turned to me.

“Then let’s go home. These mosquitoes are not leaving us” Shashi said trying to scratch his chin where a tiny mosquito had just bitten him and flew away.

“How come the mosquitoes aren’t biting you?” I asked Ganesh

“Ask them” he said trying a straight cut from his bat.

I took the bat from him and tried the same straight cut.

“Why do you want to copy my style?” he asked staring at me

“I thought trying the same style would avoid mosquitoes from biting me” I said, grinning at both of them.

“I don’t want to stand here and listen to your PJs” Shashi said turning back towards the main road.

As soon as he turned, he raised his hand and waved a Hi.

Both of us moved a step forward to look who was on the other side of Shashi. I first saw Surabhi walking along with someone. I tried bending a little to my right and sneaking a look at another person but could not. It was then that I realized how fat Shashi was.

“At this time? Walk?” Shashi asked

“Yes. Just a walk. She is my friend, moved in recently. I brought her for a walk to show her our colony” Surabhi said, turning to him and then to us.

I smiled at her as we both walked forward. Ganesh walked to Shashi’s left while I walked to his right. I first noticed a hand wearing a full sleeve Kurti, a dark blue colored sleeve with a black bordered red hem. A silver colored bracelet sneaked out through the sleeve and twinkled at me as I looked at it. My steps slowed sensing it to be a new member of the colony. My eyes, which were faster than my steps, now steeled a look at those fair soft hands.

“You guys were playing till this dark?” Surabhi asked.

“No. We were just having a chat” Ganesh said.

I had moved three steps ahead and was stunned looking at our new member. Her cute face, which was neither thin nor looked fat, brightly shone beneath that street light. The eyes looked like two small pearls placed neatly on a white light cotton cloud, twinkling brighter than the street light. Then she smiled and the little pink lips neatly and slowly curved, just like the last step of a dancer when she rotates and takes a bow bending her body in a perfect curve. The thin eyebrows neatly sketched above her eyes just arched as her eyes twinkled. I could not control but taking a second a look at her just to yell at my heart and tell it how gorgeous she looked. A perfect beauty wearing a modest dark blue full sleeve cotton Kurti; if not for those red hems and a red border below at the end, it was a plain Kurti, one of the most decent ones I had ever had my eyes notice.

“Studies are going on. How are your preparations?” I heard Shashi’s voice when I regained my senses and was back to the normal world.

I bit my tongue thinking if anyone would have noticed my foolishness and even decided not to look at her again and turned a bit towards Shashi supporting the bat to my right.

“Going fine. Still lots to read. How about you Vishal” Surabhi said.

Turning to her quickly, making sure my eyes don’t stop at the new girl, I said “Yet to start”

“I don’t know when you study. You always keep roaming. I wish I could roam like that without any exams fears” Surabhi said clapping her hands slowly in a typical girlish style praying for her wish to come true.

“Ha ha. You can still roam. But the thing is you will have to study whole night” Ganesh said.

It was after a couple of long seconds I realized I was not speaking when Shashi asked me, “Dude, she asked you something”

“What?” I asked looking at everyone with wide open eyes.

They all laughed mildly and I took the opportunity to break my decision and steal another look at the new girl. She was just smiling and guys, what a smile it was. The most beautiful smile I had ever seen in my life. The light pink colored lips neatly curved thinning those lips in between the dark dimples. The two dimples that had formed on her cheeks at both the ends of her lips looked like two stars shining far away, lost among themselves, silently, in the bright white sky shone brightly by the street light just like the Sun.  

“He now realized he hasn’t read and lost in that fear” Ganesh said breaking my sweet thoughts.

“Yeah, I was remembering the subjects” I said, finally opening my mouth.

There still was a light humorous cloud on top of us and we still were either smiling or laughing mildly.

It was then, when Surabhi stopped laughing and said, “Fine. I know you three never read but still score good. And upon that never share that secret.”

“No secrets. Nothing.” Ganesh said raising his hand to wave off the mosquito trying to drink his blood from his neck.

“Anyways, meet my friend, our new colony member. She has shifted today to the 6^th street in front of Ganesh’s home” Surabhi said turning at the new girl and tapping on her shoulders.

“Oh, so it’s you. I saw new family shifting into the home. Dint knew who” Ganesh exclaimed.

“This is Ganesh. He lives exactly opposite to your home” Surabhi said looking at her and turned towards Ganesh continuing, “and this is Alpana”

Alpana! What a name it was! I heard bells ringing in my ear echoing the tune of that name. Was I turning mad? Or was I mad earlier and this was normal? The strange feeling made sure I was lost every now and then only to those three people. The mosquitoes still could see me and sting me everywhere they could reach.

I had missed seeing if Ganesh and Alpana shook hands or just waved a Hi. When I was back to world, I saw Shashi waving Hi to Alpana and she smiled back nodding her head.

“Welcome to our colony. You will have like this place and we all will have fun” Shashi said breaking my courage to stare at her smile again.

Surabhi then turned at me and said, “And finally, this is Vishal. You can see him roaming everywhere cracking all sorts of PJs” and smiled widely.

I could hear Ganesh and Shashi grin, murmuring about me but I was too busy smiling stupidly at Alpana waiting for her reaction. Her face was still blank with that simple smile. She was looking at Surabhi while Surabhi was talking and then she slowly turned at me.

I said a meek hi raising my right hand half, only to realize I was holding a bat, and then stupidly smiled at her.

She smiled at me, modestly, and the smile just widened with every passing second and her eyes twinkled again sending in the rays that directly hit my heart. It felt like large waves rose high from her smile, sending in shock waves to my heart, and resting on the two little dimples acting as shores. The moon suddenly went and hid behind a bid dark cloud, realizing there was someone much more beautiful than him. The stars seemed stop their twinkling habit realizing that there two stars much more powerful and beautiful than them.

And… in midst of all this confusion… I looked at her… and… I just forgot blinking…

Vishal…

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Love just happens…!

Eyes play the game

Heart takes the blame

Then heart skips a beat

When both the eyes meet

Sky seems clearer

And the music becomes dearer

Life seems colorful

And the mind becomes peaceful

Face never stops carrying smile

When starting this journey of a mile

Heart never stops firing cannons

And then…Love just happens!

It was Sunday evening, the typical dark cold evening which I can never forget, as I sat on my bed scribbling these lines. Yes, I too had a smile on my face as my hand moved over the page. I just felt I may never sleep again as those beautiful big black eyes flashed in my mind, again. It felt beautiful as I closed my eyes again and again just to relive that moment.

The black eyes, the pink lips, the deep dimples, the arched eyebrows! Her face was clearly visible though my eyes were closed. I thanked my heart for capturing her image so clear! My thoughts pondered over her and my smile kept on widening as though the end of my lips would reach my ears any moment.

“Sleeping again? Atleast sleep properly. Why do you act like studying and sleep?”

I opened my eyes wide as I heard my Mom’s voice. She was standing right in front of me holding a cup of coffee.

“No Mom”

“What no? You were not studying or you were not sleeping?” she asked, bit surprised.

Taking the cup, I said, “I was not sleeping. I was trying to remember something”

“What?”

“Something related to studies Mom” I said smiling at her

“Drink coffee and start studying seriously. Your exams are near and you went to play cricket. If I say anything you just reply that this is how Engineering is studied” she said, in a tone which clearly showed motherly concern and walked out of my room.

Taking a couple of seconds I returned back to my thoughts and lightly blew the air bubbles formed on the coffee. Sipping the hot coffee did not change anything but only added more strength to my thoughts. The hot coffee, the cold weather, the dark night and a romantic thought of falling in love! I had gone mad.

She had attacked my heart and had conquered it, in the most peaceful way ever possible, a simple sweet smile, crafted carefully on her cute bright face, with two little dimples ornamenting that smile.

I started rewinding those fifteen minutes of our meet without even releasing when the coffee moved from the cup to my tummy. Even though it seemed foolish of my behavior, I had no way of stopping it. Anything I did just failed to overtake her thoughts and move aside her face.

It was obvious that we would talk, some day, very soon, but why not now? Alpana! What a name it was. I could clearly remember the way she smiled as she said her name in the cutest voice as Surabhi introduced her to us as a new member to our colony. Only for Shashi, who shook me, I could come out of dreamland and introduce myself to her. He even asked, as we both walked back from the cricket ground, what was wrong with me at that time. I had just smiled and he had nodded his head asking, “At first sight itself?”

Suddenly a thought came to my mind. It was still 8:15 PM and I could take a walk to Ganesh’s home who lived right opposite to the home where Alpana and family had shifted. I had already made up my mind that I had gone mad and foolish and now there was nothing that could stop me doing all the foolish things.

Quickly wearing a sweater, I walked out of my room. Even God blessed me, I thought, as Dad dint ask me anything. He just turned from the evening news and looked at me questioningly and then turned back again to the news. Mom was busy in kitchen.

It was more of a run than a walk as I reached Ganesh’s home which was 4 streets away from my home.

“What?” he asked me coming out of the door as I stood at his gate with my eyes wandering over every window of her home. It seemed her Dad knew someone like me would come following his beautiful daughter and that’s why he had curtained the windows the first thing the family moved in.

“Nothing” I said as I turned back to Ganesh while he opened the gate for me.

“Then why the hell did you come now? I was studying” he said with a frown.

Punching right in his stomach, I said, “You? And busy studying? Which level did you reach in your silly game?”

He smiled wickedly and said, “Now tell me why you come? You thought that new girl would be waiting for you?”

“Just shut up. I came to get that Control Systems notes”

He laughed loudly and said, “I knew you came for her. Just tell it.”

“No ways” I frowned angrily

“Then atleast give a better reason. You very well know we both had bunked that class yesterday and I never take any notes.”

“Ok fine. Go and play your game” I frowned.

“Atleast come inside and wait. Who knows she might come out for a walk” he said, with a sarcastic smile on his face.

“I have to go home and study” I said

He laughed again and said, “After you finish studying, you can come again and give me Control System notes”

“Get lost. Good night.” I said and turned back slowly, trying to steal the moment to check the windows.

No luck!

“Where had you been?” Dad asked as I entered the drawing room.

“To get some notes from Ganesh”

“And where are they?”

All the time I was so much engrossed in thinking of Alpana and the missed chance of seeing her again that I dint even realize I had nothing in my hands.

“He too dint had it” I blabbered what came to my mind.

“You say exams are near and you don’t have any fear” Dad said.

“I have started my studies Dad” I said in a low voice and ran to my room.

Looking at the image of God in my room, I said, “So you are having nice fun with all this?”

It was 10 PM as I finished my dinner and had returned to my room and opened up a boring text book. My eyes could never focus on any word printed in the text book after dinner. Slowly I spread my legs, then I moved my ass a bit to relax my back, then it did not take long enough for me to lie  flat on the bed keeping the book beside me.

As I stared at the words printed on the page that was open, the words started moving. I felt I was sleepy, but no. I was very well awake as I observed the words moving randomly at first and then in a certain pattern. My eyes opened wide almost trying to pop out from their place and bounce on the book as I saw Alpana’s face on the page.

I started staring at her face and every passing minute drove me crazy. Finally unable to concentrate on anything, I closed the book and turned off the lights. Closing my eyes, I started rewinding the scene, to enjoy a wonderful flashback of a wonderful evening…

To be continued…

Vishal…

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