My Childhood Crush

Chapter 2

Arjun’s POV:

Early Morning 5 AM:

Alarm Buzzing…….

I wake up and turned off my alarm. Last night I slept very late at 2 AM it’s actually early in the morning due to all the luggage packing cause today is our last day in India. My dad had started his new company in America so we are shifting to USA. I get up from my bed and did all my chores and went for my morning jog. On my return from the jog I see my dad in our garden sipping his tea and reading newspaper.

“Good Morning Dad,” I greeted him. “Good morning Arjun, did all your packing?” my dad asked me. “Yes dad,” I replied to him and went inside my room. I went for my bath and returned to dining room for my breakfast. My mom was preparing our breakfast. Even though we have so many maids and chefs we prepare the food made with our mom’s hands. “Good morning mom,” I greeted her and kissed her cheek. She smiled and kissed my head and said “Good morning Arjun”.

          “Breakfast will be ready in five minutes Arjun, please go and wake up your sister,” she said. “OK mom,” I said to her and went into my sister’s room. “Good morning sleepy head and wake up,” I said to my sister and removed her blanket from her which is covered from her head to toe. “Good morning bro, please let me sleep for 5 minutes,” she whined and I chuckled.

          “No Moni, you have already slept too much. It’s 8 AM and you must wake up now or we’ll get late,” I convinced her and she got up from her bed and went to fresh up.

          I returned to the dining room and helped my mother in preparing the breakfast and brought all the dishes she prepared for to the dining table. My father and sister both arrived at the dining table and we sit on the dining table.

          “Today is our last day in India. We are invited for lunch by Mr. Sanjay Varma to his house, so we have to go for lunch at their and we should go to airport directly from their house so should leave early,” my informed us. I was actually shocked because my dad never took our whole family to any business meetings and he always go alone for those meetings. But today he is taking us all for the lunch. We nodded our heads and started eating our breakfast.

          In the afternoon we sit in the car to go for my dad’s business partners lunch. We reached to their house and my dad rang the bell. A man looked around my dad’s age opened the invited us into his house. A woman and a boy were also standing with him and they smiled at us invited us.

          My dad shook his hand with him and introduced us to him. “He is Mr. Sanjay Varma. Sanjay meet my wife Anjali, he is my son Arjun and she is my daughter Monica,” introduced my dad to that uncle and we said hello to them. “He is Mr. Rajveer Singhania. Rajveer meet my wife Nupur and he is my son Vikram,” said Mr. Sanjay and they said hello to us.

          We all went to the dining room and they served our food. Then we heard someone coming into the dining room and looked in that direction. I seen her for the first time and my heart stopped beating for a moment. She is so beautiful, she is wearing a Fold-over collar plaid skater dress, she looked so pretty in that dress and it suited her. She bent her head down and never looked at us and silently sat in front of us. I heard my dad say, “Who is this young lady over here Sanjay you didn’t introduced her?” I looked at her hoping to see her face more clearly but she didn’t lift her face. She is looking like she is really very nervous and I think she is kind of shy. I never looked at a girl like this before but she caught my attention.

          Mr. Singhania said, “She is my daughter Ananya”. ‘Ananya’ I repeated her name in my mind and it felt so good inside my heart to know her name.

“Namaste uncle,” she looked at my dad and greeted him politely and I saw her face clearly and she is a gorgeous girl I have ever seen. Without looking into our direction, she again bent her head down and started eating silently. The entire lunch I kept staring at her while having our lunch. I thought she would look at me at least once during the whole lunch, but she never looked at us. I understood that she is really a shy girl who doesn’t like to meet new people.

          During the whole lunch my father and Ananya’s father discussed about their business. We finished our lunch and I saw Ananya leaving the dining room with her brother. Vikram asked us if we would to go their game room and play some games. I and Monica agreed to go with them as we are getting bored with all the business chat that our fathers are having.

          We entered into the game room and Ananya is sitting on the table with her back facing to us and waiting for us to join the game. I saw Vikram moving to sit in front of Ananya. I wanted to sit in front of her, so I said to him, “You and I are playing as a team your brother and my sister are playing as a team. Is that ok with you?” She looked at me and she is staring at me and I looked at my sister who looked amused of what I said. I never played with any girl before except Monica, but I felt some connection between me and Ananya, that I want to play with her so I can look at her face all the time while playing without getting caught while staring at her.

          She is looking so innocent and naive, that I felt I have to protect her in my arms. We started the game with Ananya striking the coins and coins went into the two pockets.

          I was amused, I thought she won’t strike the coins into pockets but I was wrong and she looked at me for just a second and she looked at her brother whose smile is fading away.

          After that she passed the striker to her brother and he strike some coins and passed me and I finished the game.

          “WE WON”, she shrieked and mocked her brother. I felt so happy at looking at her happy face and she is grinning like a baby who got a candy.

          My parents came to the game room to say that we have to leave now or else we will miss our flight. Realization hit me that we have to leave India and we are moving to United States.

          I don’t know when we will return back from USA. I felt some kind of pain in my heart which was a new feeling I never encountered before.

          I heard Vikram asking “Are you going somewhere?”, my dad said that we are shifting to United States permanently. I looked at Ananya she is looking kind of sad for what my dad said.

          I thought I was the only one who is sad for leaving India. But after looking at Ananya she is also sad for us. We all left the game room to go into the living room. I thought I can talk to her in the living room, but she said her goodbyes to my parents and she left room not even looking at us or saying us goodbye.

          I felt sad that she abruptly leaving the room. We all went to the living room and my parents are talking to Ananya’s parents and my sister is talking with Vikram.

          I was the only one who is listening any not saying anything. I said to Vikram that I forget something in the game room and I’m going to fetch it. He nodded his head.

          I left the living room and went to search for Ananya’s room. After looking into some rooms and I didn’t find her. I went to the last room which is closed and hoping for Ananya inside that room.

          I opened the door and walked inside that room. I saw Ananya standing in the room with her back facing me. She felt my presence and turned around. I was shocked to see her crying face. I felt someone stabbed my heart with a knife after looking at her crying face and I want to console her. I went near her and asked her “Why are you crying princess?” She looked at me and more tears started falling from her eyes. I didn’t understand how to console her so I hugged her and was shocked for a moment.

          I asked her “Are you crying for me?” she looked at me and didn’t say any words. I realized that she also felt some kind of connection between us and she is crying for me. “Don’t cry princess I’ll definitely come back from US and I’ll make you mine”, I promised her and hugged her more tightly.

Before leaving the room, I kissed her forehead and said my goodbye and left the room without looking back at her, because I look at her one more time, I can’t stop myself leaving her.

We went to airport after saying our goodbyes to her parents. Throughout the flight I was just thinking of Ananya.

We reached New York and went to our mansion and I went to my room and I was thinking of her and I’m imagining her inside our mansion. I’m missing her badly and her pretty face is stored in heart.