She was 14. He was a year older. She was a supposed to be a geek steeped in books. She knew nothing about love and romance. It was her first time in “Coaching classes”. She was feeling sad and lost. you see she is very shy. And then comes her best friend from school . Somehow they chose the same classes and they didnt even know before. If she wasnt already in her seat she would have hugged her.
Her friend sat with her. Then she started making friends all around her. For you see, she was a very friendly soul. She sat in the first bench like all studious students. Thats how she saw him.
He was the potential bad boy. Never good in studies. He was known as bad boy. She saw him and learned what love at first sight means. She felt that recognition, that special jolt. And when he looked straight into her eyes, she put it down. He said hi to her newly made friend and smiled at her. She was floored.
She was not yet matured enuf to understand what she felt. She knew though it is something to hide. She kept it a secret but since that day she noticed him. His sweet smile. The way he opened his mouth when he is concentrating. every small gesture she noticed. No one knew. No one thought this gal can have such thoughts.
She would have talked to him. But he didnt talk much to girls esp a gal was linked with him and he was done wid her antics and gals in general. He was very handsome and gals invariably fell for him. Was it his aloofness with handsome face and badboy image? she didnt know.
They only saw each other. Many a times their eyes met. They smiled. He used to get beatings from the sir. Sir believed in traditional way of teaching and he was not very interested in studies in general. She was the only one who thought he didnt deserve them. He was a prankster. He stirred her innocent heart and he didnt know.
She and her friends were prankster too. They would catcall him in his moms voice for you see one of the firend was living in same building as him. Thats when she saw his first time outside the coaching classes. You don’t need sherlock holmes as in why she loved her coaching classes.
The first smile in the heat of afternoon gave her comfort that thousand coolers couldnt give. Then the next year she had other friends from her school. She left the first bench and came to third. He left the last and came to third. Both in different rows but near.
She started feeling more than she could handle. You see they finally got to be not just friends but very close friends. She was the only girl he talked a lot. She could get away with anything with him. For example like most ppl they had opps-bats game. She would always hit him. he never ever hit her back hard. Once she hit him so hard that he cried out loud. Since that day she never hit him.
Again once she played a prank on him. Misplaced his slippers. He had habit of removing them. When he fidgeted for them as the time to leave was near… Sir saw and hit him real bad. And in the meantime she had kept it back so sir got even more angry. Well when she confessed he didnt even get angry for a second and infact comforted her!
There are many such memories. When she cried, he would say her name in that special way that she had to smile for him. No one ever had that power on her. Still no one has. Can she forget the cuppa of tea in the nearby tea shop by 6:30 in the morning while everyone are sitting in the class waiting for them to return? So many dayz they sat togather on pretext of studying and kidded around! Never alone ofcourse. In a group but so completely alone in her thoughts………………….
The way he stood up for her, the way he cared. And when he had an accident, it was like the ground slipped by her feet! how she worried for him. The way she sat by his side in the hospital, wanting to touch him but shy enough even then to not to try.
The way she complained the last time that he didnt wish her luck for exams. And the sweetly romantic way he made her rick stop only to wish her luck and continueing the same all thrrough the exams. Can anyone imagine how special she felt?
She was supposed to leave cities even then. And when she told so, his reaction was so special. To a comman friend he said,” She is the only girl I really liked in the classes. I will miss her.
She held on to that thought for long too long. the way she used to go to the public librabry coz he worked there. how she sucked up his bro! But he was lost like many more will be down the road of time…….
She still remembers his wonderfully crooked smile. His special tone in whikch he talked called her name…. The way he looked. If he was sad for a scond she somehow knew. She wont reach out she will ask her best friend to reach out. He knew that too he never commented.
Well seems like for a change he cared too isnt it? If he did his ego came in between. he changed hsi attitude the day 10th result broke. somehow the dreams they made to go to college togather everything changed they went to diff colleges.. he into commerce n she into science..
She held on until the aforementioned he entered her life….she lived on minuscule information that her best friend trickeled coz u see all others from her group were in same college only she wasnt!
It is easy to drift away.. only onething is constant no one else ever inspired her to write poems! She wrote her love poems only for him……
