One fine morning, I wake up smiling as wide as possible. I open the curtains of my big window to unfurl the amazing view of the hills far away, yet distinctly visible. It is early in the morning. I can faintly hear the chirping of the cute little birds. Oh! How sweet their voice sounds! It is a bit foggy morning, cool and calm and amazing vibes of positivity. The cool breeze travels all the way from beyond the hills, passing through the open green field in front of the hills and then finally reaching my chubby face.
The phone rings.
I pick it up with a wide grin. It was time to now officially start the morning with this person.
“Good Morning, Love!” he says with his 24-hours highly energetic voice!
“Good Morning!” I say with a little sigh of relief. Just his voice gave me an unimaginable dose of painkillers and happiness capsules at the same time.
“So have you taken your breakfast?”, he asked.
“Nope, dear! Woke up just now.”
“Oh, Okay! Have you received the multigrain cereal packets and those cupcakes that I had ordered online?”
“Yeah! I got them yesterday”, I spoke while making my bed and keeping things in order.
“Okay, but save the cupcakes till I come. Don’t eat even one.”
“Ah! You want to let them get spoiled? How can I keep them untouched for a year?”
“You won’t have to wait for a year.”
“Why? What kind of miracle is going to happen? In my kundli, the word WAIT has been written all over!!!”, I spoke with a slightly annoyed but sarcastic tone.
“No, seriously.”
“Really?”
“I am coming soon.”
“Sure? Is it not like last month, na?”
“No. This time for sure. But before that, I want you to meet someone today.”
“Who?”
“Someone. It’s a surprise. After your work. Afternoon 2 pm. Marine Coffee House.”
“Okay! Then bye. Gotta get ready for work.”
After finishing up all the work, I rush up to hire a taxi. In spite of it being so difficult, I managed to hire a taxi quite soon. And in no time, I reached my destination.
Who could be? I was excited… I thought maybe he would be there, trying to surprise me. How cliche, I thought! But it’s fine. I can bear that for him. Haha…
Amidst these strings of thoughts, I saw a familiar face, but a face unexpected here at this moment!
Is it her?
Oh my God!
Yes. She is his mom.
“Namastey Aunty!”
“Namastey Beta, jeeti raho! How are you? God! You’ve shrunk. Take this! I have made special cookies for you.” She handed me a small jar of my favourite cookies.
“It feels so great to see you Aunty!”
And his mom pulls out a beautiful golden kangan and puts it on one of my wrists. I am shocked. Just then, she pats my head and says, “Welcome to my family!”. And my phone rings. It was him.
“Hi! Hey! Why didn’t you tell me before, that Aunt is here?” I said with a ‘trying to be angry’ tone.
“Dumbo! I wanted to surprise you.”
“Yeah, fine!”
“Will you marry me?”
“Huh?”
“Will you marry me, Miss Sunshine?”
“Why are you saying this now?”
“Put the phone on speaker.”
“No!”
“I said na, just put the phone on speaker.”
“Don’t say anything rubbish okay?”
“Yeah, yeah. Just put it.”
“Okay.”
“In front of my dearest mom as a witness, I officially put forward a marriage proposal to you, Miss Sunshine! Will you let this lunatic get some sanity? Will you be mine? Will you marry me?”
“Yes!”
I said with a heart pounding crazily fast and loud. And my other wrist was grabbed by his mom, oops, my mom too from now on! Awww… And the other pair of kangan was put on.
“God bless you, sweetie!”
Tears welled up in my eyes.
“Hey, this is not a moment for crying, okay? So don’t you dare to lose even one drop of your precious tear”, the voice on the phone bursted loudly.
And we all laughed…
This was the day, I had been waiting for forever…
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I wonder what would I have been without you! Thank you for coming and making everything so special. Cheers to our friendship and cheers to our love – feeling loved.
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The browser window is closed and the laptop is being shut immediately. Tears well up in her eyes, but they don’t shed even a single drop! Perhaps, she was used to keeping them in or the tears didn’t want to come down through the darkest path that existed underneath her eyes, shouting out her insomnia to the cruel world.
Her hands shifted from the laptop to the pizza box beside her and her mouth was then rapidly stuffed with pizza slices in an attempt to use the fact that “Good food changes the mood”. But only to get despair. When even the last bite of the slice didn’t give her peace, she threw up the pizza box on the floor. The cushions, stuffed toys, a whole pile of older pizza boxes followed.
Her world shattered. But her world shattered everyday when the realisation hit her. The realisation that she was all alone, trying to survive in a world she just couldn’t fit in anymore. She wasb’t abnormal. But she just didn’t fit in anymore. Materialistic things didn’t matter to her even a single bit. But it doesn’t mean she was wealthy enough to ignore them. She wasn’t even poor to have such depressing state of mind. All she wanted was to live what she felt, express what emotions she had, and to speak to whom she loved the most, be it friends, family, or….
She searched for contacts of some friends to share her recent observation of her love’s life. She opened several contacts, couldn’t dare to call even one.Would they have even a spare minute to listen to my rubbish?
She opened her laptop again. ‘Welcome your blog!’ was the pop-up message. The title read ‘One Fine Day”. She scrolled down to the bottom-most part. She closed her eyes with a short breath. ‘Hills, his call, his mom, cookies, the day I had been waiting for forever…’. All crossed her bloody mind. She opened her eyes, eyes that showed pain. The mouse pointer hovered over a button on screen.
‘Delete Draft Permanently’
Click! ‘One fine day’, that was never a part of her life, was now, not even a part of her blog.
And bang! The laptop was closed again.
Bang, Bang! Sounded her kicks on her door,
and she was closed in her shell again.
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