I got down the train. I searched the platform in the hope to see Jahnavi
once more, but I couldn’t find her anywhere. With a heavy heart, I turned
started walking through the Exit towards the bus stop. Just as I reached the
bus stop, my cell phone beeped. It was Jahnavi.
“I still don't know your name... 
”
”
I scared a lady standing beside me by laughing out loud quite suddenly. I
replied, "And how do you know my number?"
Bang on came the reply, "I took it when you went to wash up. "
"
I had a stupid smile playing on my face. I couldn’t stop feeling happy. I
told her my name and we continued chatting. We had talked so much on the train
but somehow I could not remember any of it. The only thing I could remember was
how graceful her eyes looked. The way she moved her bangs from her forehead
once in a while, putting it behind her ears.
I asked her if she remembered what we had been talking about in the
train, but even she could not tell any of it. I smiled. I came to know that she
lived near Ameerpet. And that her parents gave her enough freedom to go around
with her friends.
When I heard that my heart shuddered a bit, I was afraid that she might
already have a boyfriend and that I had just imagined the love in her eyes
yesterday night. Else how could a girl with so much freedom not have a
boyfriend?
But when she denied having a boyfriend, I asked her why without a second
thought. And the reply she gave, I read it many number of times. She said, “I
did not believe in love until now.”
We stopped talking after that as we had reached our respective homes. I
got freshened up and when I checked the mobile while having breakfast, it
already had 3 messages from her. And so, the day went on with both of us
chatting all through the day. Our conversation did not contain much of
important stuff. But we had not said “what else” even once in the whole day.
The next evening I decided to go shopping for clothes and stuff. But most
of my friends were busy or taken up some way or the other. And at last, with no
hope at all, I asked Jahnavi to accompany me. And my joy knew no bounds when she
agreed.
So, that evening, at 6 PM, there I was, waiting for her outside GVK One.
When I saw her getting down from the auto, I was speechless. She was wearing a
light blue colored Anarkali suit. With matching earrings and a small bindhi,
she looked like a model right out of fashion shows. Or a queen right out of the
pages of history. I had eyes for her and only her.
She came to me and just smiled. Oh! That was the most beautiful smile I
had ever seen till then. If it was possible, I would have stayed standing like
that and bask in the sunshine of that smile for all my life happily.
“You are so beautiful!” the words came out of my mouth involuntarily. She
blushed and her rosy cheeks with their dimples made her look even more so.
When I didn’t make a move, she grasped my hand and pulled me into the
mall. We roamed through the mall going through shops selecting and rejecting.
Some shirts that I liked she didn’t even consider and some of them that she showed
were not to my liking. But there were many that we both felt nice. After
shopping for an hour or so, neither of us wanted to go home yet.
So we decided that we will have dinner together and then decide. We went
into Pizza Hut and ordered a Tandoor Paneer Pizza and a Tangy Ride Pizza with
Mojitos. After a hearty dinner that both enjoyed we still hesitated to go home.
Instead, she called up her parents and told them that she was going for a
movie. As my parents did not have any problem with me coming home late, I did
not need to call.
We went for a second show movie and the romance in the movie just made us feel even more romantic. It was 12 in the night when I dropped her off
near her place on my bike. It was a lovely ride and I knew that I would be
remembering this night all through the life.
By the time, I reached home half an hour later, I was on the ninth cloud.
I changed and lied down on the bed. I made to ping Jahnavi, but the moment I
touched my cell, I got a message from her.
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