Intezaar Aur Sahi

“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.............................................