FIRST MEETING - 1

CHAPTER 1

I was sitting n Starbucks, Connaught Place, Delhi.  A beautiful morning. I had started today morning from Bangalore to Delhi, just to see her. It was the first time we were meeting. Till date, we had only talked over the phone, on whatsapp and FB. I was damn excited. I wanted to call it a date but she said it’s a meeting. So I told her “aap jo kaho”.

I was sitting all alone when suddenly I saw a lady coming towards my table….my heart had started beating very fast. I seriously didn’t know how to react. An orange top, a blue jeans , with a simple hairstyle.

From far she was looking quite simple, but as she came closer…OMG!! I had never seen such a simple girl but beautiful girl. I could see her ear rings. As she came closer to my table, I became speechless. I said “Hi,” struggling to speak. I felt like I was giving some random speech in a housefull college auditorium. She sweetly replied, “Hi, How are you?”

I wanted to say “abhi tak toh thaka tha par ab jaise energy aa gayi ho”. But as you know, truth does not come out so easily. Calmly I replied “I am gud, How are you?. Please take the seat.”

She asked, “how was your journey”. Now Amit tried to open up. I said, “this is my first journey in flight and I was praying to god that please god jaldi land kara do”

She smiled. Oh! What a smile! I could see light pink lipstick on her lips. She asked  me, “What did you have for breakfast. Let’s order something, you must be hungry.”

I was thinking “oh my god, she is such a caring lady, if she is caring so much now, how much will she do after marriage”. But inner Amit shouted, “Beta thoda dheere , delhi door hai” J.

She asked, “Hello where are you?” “Oh yes …ummm nothing” I said. She said, “ok have some juice and sandwich” . I agreed. She was going to order when I realized dude this was Starbucks, will I have juice here.

I called her “Sneha.. “. She turned and with her, everyone in Starbucks  turned . And I was like “Oh shit.” She came back fast and asked, “what happened ?”  “I want coffee.” “Oh I thought something happened” she said. Again she smiled and this time with a different look.

But let me tell you all her smiles were killing me. Then again Inner Amit shouted “dude you should pay.” I went behind her …and gave my card. She looked and told “its ok whole life is there.”

I was like “is it?” She said “will meet again. You can pay that time.” 

I replied “I thought something else”. And again with a smile she replied “nautanki”.

We sat at a corner table facing each other. And as you all know I always give philosophy. I could not control myself and told “you know I always like to sit facing people so that I can look into their eyes” Bingo … She replied “I caught u. So with how many gals did you sit like this?” I told “no I meant, you should always  look in the eyes and talk.” Somehow I managed the awkward situation but I knew Sneha was pretty intelligent.

Then we started some idhar udhar ka chit chat .. I asked about her sis …and whole family. She also asked …. First time she asked me about myself. Before this, it was only me asking her.

And I started, “I am the only son of my parents. My dad is a senior manager. My  mom is a housewife. About me, I used to be a good student  in school… anyway after that I moved to Nagpur and completed my engineering in Computer Science from a chota mota college.. Blah blah…”

And the best part was, she was listening to it with utmost attention. I suddenly happened to look into her eyes….and OMG!! I was gone . I bet she had the most beautiful eyes. It looked like her eyes wanted to speak something . I was continuously looking into her eyes. And she told “Amit stop.”

I said, “don’t know when we will meet again.” She said, “we will meet.”

I don’t  know how  4 hours passed and it was time for me to return. My return flight was in the evening , so I had to rush. I told her “will meet again right” and with a sweet smile she replied again “definitely”.

And surprisingly she said, “can I come to drop you?”. I was like “I wouldn’t mind”. We then took a cab. I said, “atleast now allow me to look at you.. no one is here” and she said “have u gone mad..”. I said, “yes”

She said no and this no/ yes continued – at last I tried and convinced her. But after few minutes, I said, “Ok fine leave it if you are not Ok”.

She said “you are a gentleman know….?”

We reached the airport and it was time to go.

And then I realized her eyes were talking. They were telling me not to go. But…..shit, it’s too late….

To be continued …..