Within months all just known friends turned to well known. But she still remained the same. It was the time, when I and Gopu started off to give nicknames to our classmates. The first one to get a nickname is relatively a fair girl than the fairest girl in the US! She was the latest crush of Gopu too! After a very long discussion, we named her Milk! The purest colour!
The next one is obviously my so-called lover, Aaradhana. Such a sweet name for which you could not even think of a second name! Gopu was not convinced with that fact of mine and hence he wanted a new branded nickname for her.
It was the English hour. The lecturer is quite like a showoff, bald headed. He usually targets Aaradhana when he has no topic to teach (which English lecturer had topic always!). He asked her to talk about her hostel life.
She started “A pleasant morning to one and all present over here.”
My Brain “. . . . . . . . . .”
My heart started “what a plausible way to start!”
My Brain “dai.. ava onnume pesala da ipo varaikum!”
“starting eh ivalo nalla irundha.. poha poha epdi irukum!!!” heart added.
“SHUT UP AND LISTEN”
It was a small speech which ended with an Aaradhana’s touch,
“Change is the only thing that has no change!”
“Ah.. What a woman! Was she by hearting something and saying such things or just as a flow she does?” heart rejoiced.
“I still can’t get why the hell she concluded that way”, brain.
Heart “You can never understand the words of love!”
It was such a hot discussion over my mind but was suddenly disturbed by a quite harsh pat at the back. Obviously it is Gopu. But at that time Gopu got a perfect name for her with her philosophy - ‘The Philosopher!’
Before she could become more familiar with me, her name did. She always wears a Who-are-you look to me and will be very jovial and extrovert to everyone! God is crazy with this too. Don’t he know how hard it is to bare such a great feel of possessiveness.
I usually take up the college bus and had friends there too. I should thank her as she is the only reason I got many friends. I even say to myself “am selfish”. I proved that in every aspect too! Usually I never loved loneliness but rather I enjoyed being alone after I met her. I would rather say, “I am alone with everyone”! May be a small note to say that am in love! My Orkut caption at that time!
I was never in the mood to give up attract-her-for-no-reason business. I just did everything I could see in movies and my sixth sense instructs. That was the time I was elected as a Secretary of the CSE Association. That was just an accident as my staff asked for willingness and I mistook as she enquired about who was the representative! I just stood up and there was no competition either. That’s it. I have got the highest post a student could ever imagine in a college life. In my life everything came as accident. But for that matter, everything stayed with me. Who wants accident to let go if they are sweeter than what you think life is!
Our class was reasonably well built with some cracks on the walls! We had nearly 35 two seat benches of which I and Gopu shared the first bench in first column usually. The classes became boring towards the end of our semester. In particular, we are fed up with boring chemistry and physics. We started losing interest in classes and Gopu started scribbling in the plywood bench whereas I would turn my head towards the fourth bench in the last column. She got no ways to escape as she is locked up in the window seat. It was quite hard to turn to 270 degrees towards the left when everyone expects you to be fully attentive and sit back straight. I just wanted to get noticed by Aaradhana. I just wanted to know how sweet it would be if am blessed with a short sight. I know it feels like heaven when you live in your loved one’s eye – whatever, a second or for a lifetime! At last, I succeeded too. Hope that was for a lifetime!
God proved to be crazy as always!
I know it feels like heaven when you live in your loved one’s eye – whatever, a second or for a lifetime!
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