Love @ Staring

Love @ Staring

Love always comes as a surprise, you cannot resist. There is a saying: Ishq Par Zor Nahin Hai Yeh Woh Aatish hai, ‘Ghalib’, Jo Lagaaey Na Lage, Aur Bujhaaey Na Bane. This is a love story of a strong girl Simran from Punjab who falls in love with a loving and caring boy Raj from Kolkata.

Why the hell on this earth that boy is staring at me?” said Simran to one of her best friend Myra. I have seen this boy, this boy is staring me from the first day of my engineering day. One day I will knock down his head as I don’t feel comfortable when people do such things. “I think he is in deep love with you but not having courage to face you directly so he stares” said Myra to Simran. Simran shouted over Myra and told her that there is nothing called as love in this world and they left for the hostel.

This is how the semester got completed and they started staring each other without a single word and only one thing happened in the entire semester was “staring”. Same thing started again at the beginning of the second semester. I liked these stuffs but suddenly something came into my mind and I just get up from my seat and grabbed the seat next to him in the cafeteria. He was socked with my behavior. I asked him what he wants from me and why he is doing these things. I told that I belong to a family where caste and religion plays an important role. There is no future if we try to continue these things. I was talking like a hanged tape recorder without a single stop pause. The answer from the boy was unexpected, “are you an astrologer? Arey we have not tried yet so how can you come to a conclusion and left the cafeteria for the class. I also left for my next class after lunch.

This staring thing was still going on. That was the night that I can’t or don’t want to forget. I got a call from an unknown number. I picked up the call and it was his call. Although I was very happy with the call but from the front I started enquiring lots of things like how did he managed to get my number, why did he called me at this time. Being a girl I have to ask these things because I can’t say that I love the way he stares and the way he was talking over the phone. After having a long conversation over the phone, I was in a comfortable zone, I explained him the issues of my family’s conservative and old bloody religious thoughts. He convinced me that lets first understand each other and after that we will convince our parents if we are sure about relationship.

We continued our conversation for almost 6 months and on the first day of my 3^rd semester when I was going for the registration process with him, he gifted me a box and told me to open that box in the hostel alone. He also told me that he will call me if you like the gift then call me immediately because knowing your thoughts is the only priority for me.

After registration, I went to the hostel and unwrapped the gift. It was having a small silver pendent with a pic of both of us and a letter stating I wanted to be in your neck for the rest of my life. Please tell me yes and I will promise you that I will manage my and your family. I just need your love and support, nothing else. I was crying like anything and forget to call him as I was thinking about various ifs and buts.

Next morning when I visited college he was neither in classroom nor in the cafeteria. I asked his roommate about Raj. He told me that he is not feeling good from yesterday night. I went to the hostel and knocked the door. He was having swallow and wet eyes.  I realized that I have done the blunder and I hugged him so hard with only one statement, “I am yours and you are mine”. He hugged me so tight that I can feel his heartbeats.

I was on cloud nine; I wanted to pause this time. I was having a best friend for life cum a very caring and loving life partner what a girl can think of. The 3 years were the best phase of my life. We are still together supporting each other in cementing ourselves in the corporate world, the first pillar to establish my love. This is a very important phase of my life because a stable career can help us in convincing our family. I know we are still having 3-4 years but sometimes I feel the dragon fire that what will happen if I will not the yes from the family members. I can run away with the boy but the marriage is not about just two people because it is about the entire family. We are working day and night on our first pillar of the love. Hope I will get the support of god as well in achieving my goal of “THE STARING LOVE”. If I will succeed, I will not say this as love at first sight but will say love at staring.

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