Monday, 4 July 2016

Stranger.

Hello friends I am back.....
So as I promised, I will be sharing stories with you. The stories as I said were to be real ones but there is no harm on writing fictional ones also. So here we go with the first one-

This is a true story. Its just that the names have been changed. And a declaration from my side- " All the names mentioned in this stories are fictional and any similarity is co- incidental." I know so many things happen with us and there are many things which are the same. So one of them is this story------


Finally I got the chance to be independent. Yaay... My new life begins.. I was so happy that now I will be shifting to Mumbai for my Masters in Mass Com. So after all the formalities from my home town (my parents n family came to the railway station to see off), now I am ready to deal with the world. I boarded the train, got my seat and arranged my luggage. Till then my family was with me but soon it was the time for my train to start and therefore my family got down. The train finally started and my family stood there on the platform watching me go. I saw them through the AC window. Though it was not clear. The moment was a heavy one because all these years I have stayed with them and now I was alone. But I didn't feel bad. Since I have stayed in Mumbai with my parents in my school days, it was not a new city for me. Thats why I somehow managed to go there alone even after their requests to come with me to drop me.

All these things were going in my mind when the train got its speed. It was fast. It was morning and the train started from my hometown itself, there were only a few passengers.And I was the only passenger in my cabin. There was nothing much to do basically. I hardly got network on my phone so I started reading on Kindle. The book was 2 States. Time passed by and it was afternoon. I was served my lunch by the Pantry people that I ordered. Even till then, I was the only passenger in my cabin. Though there was one old lady on the side berth. We had a chit chat while having lunch and then it was around 3 when she excused to take a nap. And me..... I continued with the novel. Time passed again and I took a break. I looked out of the window and it was beautiful. What could be better than a summer evening. I was around 5 and the sky was a mixture of blue, orange, red. pink,a bit or purple and yellow... It was the time when our train stopped at a station for I think 10 minutes. I was still busy watching the sky and I decided as soon as the train will leave the platform, I will go to the door and watch the perfection of nature. While I was deciding all this in my head, finally I got a co passenger. Oh my God I was so happy,  Finally there will be someone to talk to. And then I was even more happy that the co passenger was, as it seemed, was around my age only. And another reason for my happiness- He was really cute. I was sitting on my berth and after arranging his luggage, he also sat down in front of me. The train started. We smiled at each other and then he started the conversation. He introduced himself first and then I introduced. His name was Sidharth. It was around 5 minutes only that we started chatting when I realized that I had some other plans. I looked out of the window and saw the sky was even more beautiful. I wanted to see it without the dirt in the glass. I therefore directly changed the topic. I Directly questioned- "Isn't the sky really beautiful today?" and he said yes it is. I didn't want to be rude therefore I changed the topic. I told him that I will just go and take a clear look at the beautiful evening. Actually I wanted to live that evening. So I took an excuse and I went to the door area, opened them and there it was. I  didn't realize but there was a really big smile on my face. The cool breeze of the evening sky was such a delight. I standing there at the side. My hair was coming on my face but no worries I just wanted to live that moment. Actually I was not even able to think anything at that moment. I just wanted to live that moment. It was just 2 or 3 minutes when Sidharth also joined me. We were standing there facing each other. I was quiet but he spoke- "It is a beautiful evening indeed.." I smiled. Both of us ended up smiling and living that moment. It was later that I realized that my kurti had been waving with the wind almost exposing my waist. When I realized that I got extremely conscious. He also understood that I had realized what had happened. He told that he was tired and he would go back . He told me to enjoy my evening and come. So many things were going around in my head and I finally came to a conclusion that it was okay. C'mmon we live in a modern world and this is fine. And he is a stranger. I don't have to meet him again so  replied him. Actually requested him that it was alright. Hey should not miss this beautiful evening. We both smiled and enjoyed the evening. I was never this bold to let my kurti wave though it was exposing my waist and do nothing. My hair was coming to my face but still I didn't care to move it away. I just wanted to live that moment with that cute stranger. It was a bit dark. The sun was dark red. The birds were moving. That was a really beautiful evening. I was thinking in my head oh please come and move the hair off my face. And it happened. After some time just waved them off but that was of no use. Both of us this time ended up laughing.

Our train turned and we lost the sun so we came back to our seats. There I came to know that he was also going to Mumbai. And I was shocked that he was going to the same institute for masters where i was going and that too in the same course. I was shocked to my nerves. But I calmed down later and thought that its okay.

Its 3 months that I am here and we are kind of best friends. Really really good friends.

I never knew that this stranger whom I met 3 months back will become a really important person in my life.    


                  

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