“Suhana
safar aur yeh mausam hasin” was the song playing in my car while I was driving
back home. Coincidentally “mausam” outside was exactly same as described in the
song. It was raining heavily, so heavily that it blurred my view on
windscreen. My wiper continuously wiped
my screen but still visibility was too less. All of sudden I saw a man in front
of my car. I applied brakes immediately.
I experienced a sudden jerk.
“Riya,
get up now we are getting late for office.” It was my roommate waking me up. I
woke up and sat on bed still thinking about my dream. Why this same dream keeps haunting me every
now and then? I kept wondering while brushing my teeth. What happens next? I don’t know, every time I
wake up before I can see what happens next.
Does it mean something? I asked my roommate Pooja. “Don’t be silly, it’s
just a dream“She replied. We both got
dressed and left for office.
I
reached office and saw a handsome young man sitting diagonal to me in my cube. As I entered my cube he smiled at me. I smiled back at him.
“Hey I am Madhav, I joined here today” he said to me. We had a small chat and got back to work. I felt
that he was geeky, boring guy.
Few
days passed by, we started talking to each other more; we started going for
lunch and coffee breaks together. It was then I realized that he had a very
interesting and charming personality. It was a Friday evening and rest of my
friends were planning to go for movie
after office. I saw Madhav sitting alone
at his desk while others were busy goofing around and planning movie. I walked
to his desk and asked him if he would like to join us for movie. He asked me
“Are you going?” I said “Yes”. He immediately replied “Of course I would join
you guys”
That
evening, while watching movie I caught Madhav looking at me many times from
corner of his eyes. I noticed it because even I was looking at him to check if
he is looking at me. Whenever our eyes would meet we would just smile and
pretend as if we are watching movie.
After
Movie was over, Madhav offered to drop me home, I couldn’t say no. As soon as we reached my apartment, I asked
him if he would like to come upstairs for coffee. He agreed. He was sitting in
living room watching TV while I went in kitchen to make coffee. All of sudden,
power went off and there was black out. I screamed “Madhav what happened to
lights”. He replied “stay calm and light some candles.” I lit a candle and
placed it on dining table. Madhav came over and helped me with coffee. “Here we
are having candle light Coffee“I said to him. He burst into laughter. I could
see his eyes twinkling in candle light. His smile looked more charming. There
was a long awkward silence between us.
After
sometime Madhav said “Listen I want to tell you something” My palm started
sweating, my heart beat started racing.
I said “Yes tell me what it is?” His voice was shaking, he cleared his throat
and said “Umm” and power came back, fan turned on blowing off the candle, TV
turned on breaking the perfect silence. He looked around and said “Oh good power is
back; so I think I should take off now it’s too late”
I
said “You were saying something” He replied “No, Nothing important, Bye”
I
shut my door behind him thinking, probably I know what you wanted to say. But I
want to hear it from you, so I will wait for it.
.....................................................To be continued.............................................
