There was a contest in our office about writing love stories for Valentine's day and this is my entry for the same.
Little did I know that a marketing call would have such an impact on my life, one fine day with Life and Business being as usual, I got a call on my extension informing that someone had come to meet me and was really not able to understand from the call as to who and why they have come to me.
Moving out of seat being such a difficult task, reluctantly started walking to the reception slowly and saw an average sized, dusky woman waiting in the reception and the first looks I saw, a lightning struck me and butterflies were flying in my stomach, just pooh poohed those feeling and had a talk with her, I still don’t remember anything about what she spoke, was just gazing at her, may be I should have probably sung ‘Partha Muthal Naale’.
Even though I was not interested in the product that she sold, I wanted to meet her, so I asked her to come after 2-3 days. Then on that day we were supposed to meet again, dressed myself well and groomed myself more, so I can look smart and handsome. All set for my second meeting, but ‘Man Proposes… Manager Disposes…’ My Manager asked me to go to clients place for some work, hesitantly left and did not inform her that I would not be in office, as I thought I can still come back.
Before I could come back to office, she was already there and she called me and I asked her to meet me somewhere near my clients place in a restaurant, she shot that idea down without a second thought. Bearing the shock, informed her that we would meet later, then I tried to sell her product to all my relatives and friends, but I ended up with disappointment and failing in all the attempts that I made to impress her.
There was a lull period and we lost touch and nearly after 4 months, I suddenly got a call from her and the first word I heard from her was ‘Hey Gunda, how are you doing?’ and that Gunda sounded like ‘I Love you’ for me. Then we started speaking to each other regularly and the duration of the call also slowly increased.
Then the relationship progressed and we met a couple of times and I started meeting her and was nurturing my love for her inside me. She was talking about everything and confided everything with me and which made me think that she considers being a good friend, so was hesitant to open p my love for her.
And days passed with me building my castle of love, but not disclosing the same for the fear of losing her. Then one day she called me and said she would want to meet and discuss with me about something and she asked me to meet her in Rams Milkyway, T.Nagar. I was very excited as I was hoping that the love bug would have bitten her also. As usual I was late for the meeting and she was waiting for me in one of the tables and I saw her from the stairs and she was looking like an angel in her brown printed saree. Then I went to the table where she was seated and greeted her and took the opposite seat and then ordered for an ice cream and around one hour we both were just smiling at each other without talking a word and then its was around 6:30 pm and it was also a Friday, she said it was getting late and she left.
That weekend I traveled to my native place and all 48 hours I was thinking of our meeting and did not sleep a minute and was waiting for my next meeting. Fortunately it did not take long, she called me again on Monday and said I wanted to meet you in Globus, T.Nagar and on that day I was early and she came there and we did not know what to do and then we just went up and down in the lift in Globus building like school kids and just enjoying each others company. Once we got down at the fourth floor and I said we will walk down the stairs and she agreed too. Then as we were descending on the stairs, I caught her hand and held on to it tightly and walked down with her. She did not resist the same, but I was not able to take it as an acceptance of my love. Then again the silence persisted and unwillingly we went back to our offices.
My mind was filled with thoughts of her and was also feeling melancholic as I was not able to disclose my love for her, Puzzled, I was sitting on the compound wall of my office and all of a sudden, my mobile rang and I saw it was her. With Butterflies flying in my stomach, I picked up the call and she straight away asked me “Are we in Love?”, not wanting to lose this opportunity immediately shouted “Yes, Yes, Yes”. Then the fairly tale continued and later when I disclosed that I fell in love with her on the very first day, she did not believe the same and still does not believe so.
