It H@appened To me Then

It Happened To me Then

I always wanted to blog. I tried once prepared 3 blogs, but the power of almighty never allowed me to publish those. By the time it was ready a deadly virus program made its way to my hard disk drive through certain loop holes and eventually I ended up losing some of my precious articles. Now this is the second attempt.

A note to all my readers:

Don’t have high expectation with this author. To be very frank this is neither Sheldon trying to build up a nerve chilling sensational plot nor any Bhagat capable of delivering the most commercial writings. This is a simple engineering student sharing something that he wants to. The writing will have something weird fancies but this is my first writing and your comments will definitely help me to have a look @ my loopholes.

 It might have happened to everyone but it happened to me then.

7^th September, 2008, the evening. It was Sunday and as usual my cook was on holiday. Well to save my evening expenses I had planned a day before. I had called Anuj on Saturday evening & even talked to Ankit on a chat program.

Well @ this time I think I should let you meet two very important personality of my college life- Anuj the dominating personality who is crystal clear with his academic concepts as well as non – academics concepts. Non – academic concepts might seem a bizarre to you guys. Well I might explain it to you guys some other day. In short Anuj was my banker, someone whom I used to look up in crisis.

Well I should introduce you guys with my second asset Ankit- well this guy who is very much like a child, Sleeps on time, wakes up on time, makes his submission on time. I guess he has bribed TIME so that it stays in favour of him. But he is a real cool coder and another bundle of genius qualities. Well they are the people responsible for my in time submission.

Let’s get back to main plot. A day before Saturday, 9...9...7...0...1...2...8...7...9...2, I was constantly dialling this number on my cell phone but the airtel network in pune sucked like anything. Finally after a struggle of another 5 minutes the call got finally connected. I discussed with him the details for the dinner on Sunday night hurriedly because I had to sign in the world famous chat program Google talk. I knew Ankit would be available then because after 8:30 pm he would be back to studies. So without wasting any time I logged in and told him about the plans.

Sunday evening 7:30 pm my cell buzzed. I wasn’t able to pick up the call because I had this big thing called headphone dating my ears. One more buzz until I heard “Bastard pull out your damn headphone & pick up the call”. I recognised it was Prem’s voice. I took off the headphone and picked up the call. “Get ready by 8:00 pm” the voice on the other side said. Before I could say yes the call got disconnected. Thanks to almighty Airtel network. It sucked again as usual. I took a look at my cell phone it was 7:45. I made my calculations I had 25 minutes to take a bath and get ready before Anuj would be here. I took into account the extra 10 minutes which is the right of every Indian.

8:15 pm we three had gathered at the restaurant called as Abhishek Veg. It took us another 30 minutes before we could get a place allotted to us. By the time like common smart engineers we had a look at the chicks nearby.

You guys might be thinking why Anuj was treating us. Well as I told you before this dude had crystal clear academic concepts. This helped him to secure a 70% in the 4^th semester examination. While Ankit had his favourite 69%, I was another step down @68%.

We got our place at the first floor. I liked that place because it had such a nice view.  Means it was near the large glass that acted like a wall, a transparent wall.

I was keen on placing the orders first because I was damn hungry. I optically scanned the menu card before I could place a nice starters order. I did my job quite well. I was having my food and we were discussing about Mac that had made its way to Anuj’s flat the very day, when I saw a flashlight, a black flashlight which blew all my senses then and suddenly it disappeared. Well it was no street lamp, neither halogen. I quickly scanned the area but I couldn’t see her. Off in a second

It happened to me then. She was a girl, girl I hadn’t ever seen. Suddenly a stroke again and I could see her crossing the corridor area downstairs. But still I couldn’t see her face. “Dude look”, I exclaimed @ Anuj. “Where”, he asked. I sensed that my friend Anuj had missed the sight of the divine creation of GOD. The two seemed less interested in her. Well I was engrossed more in her than my food. We resumed with our main course.

15 minutes later I saw her again, she sided the light brown falling hairs on her face with her delicate fingers and turned right. I saw her face. It shone bright. It seemed that the radiance of the restaurant failed before her grace. She was beautiful. “Look”, I said to Anuj. This time he responded positively. Ankit seemed less interested. He always was dumb when it came to gals. But we never cared. The two of my asset were busier with their food. But my hunger died away. I was gazing her incessantly. Time seemed to have slowed down. The more I saw the better I felt.

She wore a black single piece, with a hint of less or no makeup. The hint of gloss was though very much evident. A beaded necklace adorned her. The black suited her best. Though the dress looked quite modern but it didn’t hinted @ any exposures. The way she carried it was fantastic. I realized then it was not the dress that you were makes u look good but the way you carry it off. She looked pure and angle. She was accompanied by her family I guess, as she had an elderly lady with her. She was talking with the lady. I was watching her still. The more I saw her happier I was @ my heart. Her moving lips when she spoke, the deformation in her facial muscle as she smiled, the delicacy of her hair, her dress every entity seemed heavenly to me. It was such a blissful state.

“C’mon are you going to finish your dinner”, a voice woke me up from my dream. “Huh!!!!’ I exclaimed @ my friends. I finished off my food, but throughout the food I had an eye @ her and another on my food. I spoke little. The only thing I could do was sighing every now and then.

She was waiting for her place. I knew how boring it was to wait for your place, because an hour before we were @ same state of time. I thought to relieve her of her stress. So I finished my food @ an unbelievable pace and asked my friends to finish off their part. I thought if I cleared my food she might get the place. I asked for bill and we strolled downstairs. I was watching her as I strolled down still lost in her dreams; I passed beside her while making our way out of the restaurant. I could get the smell of perfume, just the perfect amount which left me tantalized. I was amazed at this gr8 quality of girls. I passed by her, the intensity of my fancies was strengthened. We came out. Though my friends were planning for a desert on one side of the exit gate, I was on the other side watching that heavenly beauty. I was spell bound.

“Dude why don’t u get the bike out of the parking area? ” Anuj asked me. “Well that will help your cause she is just standing nearby the parking exit.” I thought I would bring the bike near to her and ask her “Excuse me, can u side away a bit”. I didn’t know what I was doing. Was it sensible enough? Is that a way to impress a girl? Well I dint know what was sense then because I had lost it a few moments ago. I took the key and went. I saw her delicate finger and cute silky hairs as she was siding it away from her face. I was further carried away. I thought how girls managed to have such cute delicate fingers. I looked @ mine and went in amazement. They were misshapen not worth describing here. I put in the key and with an air punched in the self start button. I loved to punch in self start button and roar the bike in first gear for quite few meters before I changed it to second and moved to more composed driver mode. That was how I used to kick off a Bajaj Pulsar. I had fancies in my mind. I wanted to hear her voice. I punched in the button again, to my surprise nothing happened...a second later I sensed my cell phone buzzing. It showed A.D calling (A.D stood for Anuj Deshmukh). I picked the call. “Beta self start kharab hai kick se start kar lo...hero mat bano...” a few roars of laughter and I knew that the bastards have made a plan to make a bakra out of me. The call got disconnected

I moved the bike out. While I came @ the entrance I saw her walking out. Perhaps she was waiting for her family who might have gone in for parking their vehicle. My plan to listen to her had failed. I took the bike out. Anuj and Ankit were jeering @ me. “So how was Excuse me plan?” I had nothing to speak. “C’mon hop in” Anuj said. But I was still watching her grace and sweet smile that she was wearing then. “C’mon man...stop now” the words broke my silence and I hopped on. Anuj raced the bike but I was still looking back forth...she became tiny & looked more with every meter we covered till her sight faded away. But her thought was still dominating in my mind.

It wasn’t that I hadn’t seen girls but I hadn’t seen anyone like her. It happens to everyone but ... 

“It Happened To me Then”.

Anshu Kumar