The mere thought that she had looked out
for him made him happy and now to top it up, she was coming to him. He hoped
for some private time with her. Probably that’s what they lacked so far or
rather intentionally avoided till this night. Her eyes sparkled and her lips
curved to a sweet smile as she came closer.
He wanted her eyes to twinkle in his
love and was ready to take her into his arms when someone intruded between them
and pulled her back.
He couldn’t help curse his bad luck and
the intruder. “Langoor kaheeka! He just had to step between”
He must have said that a little too
loudly and her fiancé turned to him, smiling, “Excuse me….kuch kaha?”
He shrugged, “nothing, was just asking
for a refill” and called out to the waiter.
Her eyes suddenly shrunk and the annoyance
was evident. She was annoyed for two reasons. One was obviously due to the
uninvited interruption or he just hoped so. Her eyes glared at the glass he
took from the waiter. He so wanted to instigate her further and so kept the
glass to the side and took out a cigarette. Her eyes burned in anger and accused
him silently of a broken promise. He had intentionally broken his promise to
her on the last promise day. It was never to light a cigar in her presence.
She turned away her focus to her fiancé though
her thoughts still revolved around him and why he had broken his promise. She
kept scolding and fighting to him mentally on how he never cared about his
health. She kept murmuring that he needed someone like her to throttle and
bring him back to right track.
By then, his friends surrounded him and
engulfed him in a hug. He was fully hidden from
her eyes now. A new girl walked close to him. She knew her but had never seen
her in his circle of friends. Who was she?
He dropped the unlit
cigarette to the bin soon after she left his vicinity and he told to himself, “I
haven’t broken my promise to you darling”
He didn’t know what was
happening around him. Amidst hugs and wishes, he knew in bits and pieces of the
background processes that went behind him and how his family were all happy
with a marriage proposal brought by his closest friend. He had never even given
it a thought and had given his usual reply, “Sochenge” when his friend
mentioned the girl. He didn’t know when
it went this far and reached his family too. He mentally smacked his friend for
doing this to him and that too without his knowledge. The girl was pretty and
was a good choice for his family but then his heart was too far. His heart wouldn’t
pace up for anyone else but her.
But how will he ever reason
this out? His friends and family wanted him out of an old messed up
relationship which he never was in. It was all a misunderstanding and over
hyped one but then he couldn’t mention her
as the reason for his rejecting proposals.
He was trapped, totally
trapped in this tangling web. Friends, family, their reasons, their emotions,
their love for him, all lay on one side and on the other side was his untold,
unrequited and probably undying love for her.
One signal from her and he
would push aside everything else but her laughs echoed in his ears, her smiling
face reflected in his eyes. She was happy, very happy and peaceful in her love
bubble. He shouldn’t destroy that bubble.
He could hear his friend
asking him for an answer, even his phone rang with his mother’s call. Both
wanted just one answer from him.
He agreed to marry? Damn
ReplyDeletehe had no choice :(
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