The Intertwined Fates
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On a vacation day, we were returning from a funeral back to my sister’s place. To be frank it would have been too boring if I hadn’t taken a book along with me. On the way, my sister made new plans to make a stop at a family friend's home. After half an hour we were at the gates of their home. I opened the doors & got off the car. I saw a girl at the front door, I have never met her but my sister recognized her. The girl ran back inside calling her mom.
#Girl
On that weekend I came home from the hostel. If it wasn’t for the music playlist on my phone I would have been bored to death. Dad called to inform us that some guests will be coming home. Half an hour later a car stopped at our gates. I went out of the front door. I saw a boy getting out of the car though I never met him, I recognized his sister. I ran back inside calling my mother.
#Boy
As we went into the house in the drawing room I met her again, my first eye contact with her, those were not the eyes of a stranger, It felt so familiar, I think my heart skipped a beat. Later I ended up sitting on the wrong side from where I couldn’t get a clear view of her. She was slim and cute but looked a bit tall. I stood up and asked where the bathroom and she came forward to show me the way. Just when I passed by her side I checked our heights, we were similar or am bit taller. When we bid farewell and walked out I knew this wasn’t an end but a new beginning.
#Girl
As they came inside towards the drawing room I met him again, my first eye contact with him, for some strange reason I felt familiarity in those eyes, and I felt butterflies in my gut. He sat at the other side of the room and I couldn’t even have a good look at him. He looked a bit thin but cute, maybe a little short. When he enquired about the bathroom I eagerly went forward to show the way. While I was behind him after he passed by me, I checked his height, it kinda looked the same or maybe taller than me. After some time they left, the irony was that he walked away from me yet I felt him getting closer.
#Boy
The funny thing was that I never got her name. So I had to check the profiles of her parents on Facebook. Finally, when I found her profile, I was dumbstruck seeing her name, It was the same as my crush from school, the first girl ever to colonize my heart. I knew in mind that this will surely complicate things but my heart kept beating faster in confidence like it didn’t want me to give up so soon. Anyway her name had nothing to do with what I felt for her. And I continued to follow her, joined the smule app just to listen to her songs. I listened to her silently from far away.
#Girl
Actually, I never got to know what his name was, but I was lucky that his sister was my FB friend. I found his profile and link to his blog. I didn’t know he was a writer & I curiously went through his posts. Then I fell dumbstruck while reading one of the posts. It was about his crush from school days and we shared the same name. My heart felt heavy after knowing someone had already gotten to his heart first. But my mind was curious to complete the story I was reading. I was glad to know that it was just a one-sided crush. And I continued to follow his blog while I read his penned thoughts sincerely from a distant land.
#Boy
A couple of years later I texted her on Christmas Eve. I told her that I would like to marry her. Am
sure she would have expected it out of the blue. But what I didn’t expect was her question that was this proposal coz of my love for her name. I told her there were times that I wished that she had a different name & that I liked her even before I knew her name. I was sure that her response won’t be a yes on the spot, coz unlike me who have been following her for years, to her I was still mostly a stranger. She told me she needs time to think, and that it’ll be better to get to know each other a bit before deciding anything. And in the hope of a positive response, I waited.
#Girl
We rarely ever texted, around 2 years later after our first meeting I received a text from him on Christmas Eve. Although I always wanted to confess my feelings to him, I never expected a proposal from his side, maybe it was my name that he liked. And I asked him if it was so. He told that he wished I had a different name and that he had feelings for me even before he knew my name. Of course, I like him too and I wanted to tell ‘yes’ on the spot but that would make me look desperate since he probably think that he was like a stranger to me & he is clueless that I was stalking him since the day I met him. So I told him I need time to think & to get to know each other before making any decision. I hoped his decision won’t change after getting to personally know me & I waited.
"The cold winter breeze woke him up from his dream; It was so real that he couldn’t believe that it was all just a dream. Now he was back in his familiar room illuminated in the moonlight and showered from the window in the midst of midnight. He felt a warm hand over his chest that held him close. In a cute sleepy voice, she asked him if he was awake. He turned to her side & said he had a dream and just woke up. She said she had one too & it was about our…; before she could finish he sealed her lips with ripples of his lips, he held her hands and their fingers intertwined, and in the moonlit moment, like twin stars in the dark sky the rings in their fingers glittered."
TO BE CONTINUED
Writer - Dr. Yeswanth S Nambiar
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