He had been seeing her for sometime. Just a passive looker, he soon found her to be an object of his attention, especially for those hazel eyes of hers. There were many a times he had passed by her. His job's busy nature made him unknowingly ignore her even if he had passed by.
Priorities changed, time rolled on, work profiles changed. All in a matter of a few months. This time he found that he was really missing someone. was this the person with hazel eyes? yes.. his heart leapt on to find he was in love for the first time. Is this what the emotion of love is? He asked himself.
He called up his best buddy and asked her in the middle of night."Hey when you fell in love how did you feel?". Half asleep she told him, "go to bed da. you'd spent sleepless 3 nights at office now. get some sleep you'll be alright"
"No dee..I feel very happy.. have you seen a drop of ink when put in a cup of water, meandering accross like roots of a tree ... or a cloud which is brought by the rain bearing winds rolling in the sky.. my happiness is filling my being like that.I feel freshness getting into my veins as if glucose enters coolly all over.. I feel a splash of energy in my cells"
"Are you sure you are sane. you never liked girls. you never allowed anyone be your friend atleast .. me being your classmate however got to be your pal.. but how come you be like this.. "
"you girls are all like this. you never understand.. I feel my house will be a home now.. The furniture, the green curtains, the well equipped kitchen, my car, my bike and my heart, will all have a mistress.. pray she will be the one.." He was in cloud nine when he said this.
"what's her name?" she felt his excitement and wanted to make him feel understood.
He was like a small boy revealing a secret to his mother when he uttered her name to his friend. She was patient and told him, "Relax..go tomorrow and look at her eyes and ask her will you marry me.."
He could not sleep that night. morning was too far he felt at 4:30 Am, sleepless in bed.
5:00 the alarm struck a chord. He got up got into his joggers.. into the misty morning he ran through the rustic pathway, smiling at the world. "Beauty is all around. every grass balde or a twig, or a piece of stone or a fallen leaf..be it a dew drop, or a huge tree that lined the pathway, everything is beautiful like her hazel eyes." He thought, musing himself he never knew this though he had been running in the same path for more than a year now every morning.
He came back checked his weight. it was astonishingly reduced by 2 kgs. His happiness knew no bounds. He had a quick shave a special serving of a juice.., a good ayurvedic bath, a good body spray of the choicest deodarant with sandalwood smell.. van heussen shirt and a shiny grey tie..all set to go. He was driving through the rough road as if slicing through a piece of cake. his lips had a happy note and he had to be alarmed with a honk from the passing by cars to be in sense..
He reached office and while driving in his eyes were in the 7th floor of the building whose corner was the cafeteria, where he used to see her. she wasn't there. He felt she'd be there in no time. He climbed up the stairs got into the lift and 7th floor was taking aeons of time , he felt. He went directly into the cafeteria and found her crossing by. he took his freinds along went to see her. he was preparing in his mind and was about to speak to her. but a call from one of his friends he had asked to inquire about her, stopped him..his trembling hands took the earpiece of the mobile slowly to his ears. The words from teh earpiece transformed his face slowly to white.. a pale feeling .. a feeling of chillness along the spine a feeling of stillness... She is engaged..!! Turning around, he slowly looked into her hazel eyes again, a feeling of loss or a feeling of self pity.. he walked away the corridor ... ALL ALONE.!
