And then it all came back…
I was putting on my socks when the phone rang. I jumped, knocking the table over. The medicine bottle was falling towards the ground (in-slow-motion) to break into a thousand pieces but that wasn't to happen.
I saved it from its formidable doom at the last moment.
A few minutes later with one hand holding the receiver and the other still clutching the bottle, I knew where I was heading that day.
Pulsar 150 & me; we are like soul mates. We know exactly, how to beat the wind. We zoomed past other petrol-running-things like milestones and soon we were atop the distinctly romantic Shyamla hills. As far as my eyes could see there were only couples & only couples besides the obvious scenic view.
Just to bide time I put on my mp3 player & started cursing Rajiv for being late. And then I saw her….no… I think I saw her (sexy-long-legs-short-skirt) friend first. I must not get diverted. To hell with her friend.
Well I saw her, & she was like……out-of-this-world, beautiful beyond reason, her hair were partly across her face & her face, it reflected a sublime innocence that I was just transfixed & forgot to breathe.
You must be thinking I m just making this up because it’s just a story Or every other guy describes his love in the same fashion but She was really cute. She was struggling to get to the top as she had her high heels on (only girls can be that stupid to wear high heels on a hilltop). And she kept pushing back her shoulder-length hair which fell on to her soft little nose.
The moment I saw her, it struck a chord deep somewhere in my heart. I was on cloud no. 99 (9 is too less to describe that feeling).
PATAK!!!
“Aur yaara kaisa hai ??”
That slap from Rajiv brought me back to my feet from the wonderful paradise I was in & there again I cursed him once more.
I was getting ready with some pretty serious vocabulary, but I just said “follow me”.
Instinct is very addictive and may cause serious damage to you.
Will you marry me?
I wanna grow old with you by my side.
I love you.
These lines were runnin through my mind as I walked up to her & said “You are beautiful!!”
Her pointy eyebrows & the wrinkled up nose gave me the Excuse-me-I-don’t-know-you look which was pretty much expected but then she laughed which was expected least. I think she must have seen the stupid look on my face when I realized what I had done. And then everybody around us started laughing, even the elderly couple on the bench whom I had assumed to be dead for some time.
Naturally I went pink and could think of nothing but to introduce myself. As I was going to introduce Rajiv, he came forward and held up his hand towards the sexy-long-legs-short-skirt friend and said, “Hi I’m Raj, naam toh suna hoga.”
Now that it’s all over I seriously think what my life would have been if I hadn't met her.
That incident actually helped me out to open a conversation.
”You are bold!” The sexy-long-legs-short-skirt friend said as a matter-of-fact. I just laughed. Soon we were talking like old friends.
It felt like heaven when I was with her. I just kept staring at her. She would laugh and make faces and then laugh again. We had loads of fun & lots of photos taken together.
I made a really funny mimicry of my teacher and we began laughing. She couldn’t control her laughter and suddenly she tripped and fell backwards towards the edge of the cliff. I ran towards her & just when she was going to fall down the cliff I caught her outstretched arm & pulled her back, but the momentum carried me forward.
My t-shirt was flapping like crazy, winds soared past my ears, the hint of her perfume was still there & with it was a feeling of happiness…. or…fear.
I looked back; she was safe. Her face said something but I couldn’t fathom it.
What do you do when you fall in love……………I fell.
When I opened my eyes, I was dead.
