Cat Eye

chapter 5 cat eye

There was a cafe boy named Kapil. He belonged to my caste. I didn't know the reason behind his attraction towards me. We had around thirty minutes of tea break during class in college. Young students using their energetic voice, dandy boys pushing each other likewise fashionable girls showing green signal towards them chabging their gesture on their action cafeteria be the more hot in the cold winter. For a while it was looked like film hall. "Brother coke, brother tea, coffee please, seven samosas, aalu chap" these orders boys' in vain pushing each other in oder to gain attention of well managed girls and girls there giggling in no reasons the cafe for thirty minutes be the most crowdy and spicy place. Kapil in another corner waited long ago me. I could know it because my single step in cafe erected him abruptly and fastly jumped over me as if wait his waiting finished.His eyes searched my coming. In contrast because of him i didn't like to enter cafe. Girls my friends were having benefit on it. Due to few minutes of time and heavy business we could hardly get time for eat that'swhy they insisted me to provoke him and give a chance. Initially i somehow obeyed them too. In this regard he leaving all the hustle and bustle leaving others boys and girls ordered apart came near to me, my friends be relief on it pushed me forward. He welcomed us inside the kitchen and served the hot samosas, pyaji, aalu chap, milk tea. My college appearance was not so attractive relatively than other beautiful girls. Actually my shirt and paint was of other who left the college and shifted to other. Tailor man said I came lately to college and there is a dress which may fit on my body so put it on. And it did too. Since it was not sewed according to my body dress was not fit attractively than in other girls. Similarly I was not fond of waking early in the morning specially those winters were most hateful cold. I quickly in a second wash my face in another minute wear a yellow shirt which was hardly iron cause it was hidden inside the sweater. Not merely by the most laziness or sometime by giving five rupees to my cousin I made her my paint iron. Really those cold killed all my energy, activeness, happiness. That may be the reason behind sometime I got the biggest pat on my back by Pradip my sociology teacher. He first pat on the back and later answered why "look your laziness is gone" he amused on doing so. I was surprised seeing rest of the girls even Malini they could do eye make up with dark liner different lipsticks everyday in their young lips, ironed paint and shirt with sharped polished shoes, earrings were in high fashion sometime blue, sometime red, hairstyle was another topic for notice. Malini too was always ready with different hairstyle on her room with fitting yellow shirt due to her white complexion that shirt matched accurately. Her black belt gave another height on fashion in her beauty. In oppose to it I was there with no make up at all keeping sleep in my eyes to Malini's home and by thirty minutes of walk and also my the cold air piercing to heart reached to the college near the forest. Unluckily our college too was near the river and forest these combination of forest and river freezed us. In those desperate dense cold our eyebrows were layered by white fogs in the walk beside the river Birumati. I wondered why Kapil liked me in noways. He embraced me from my back gave the Chhurpi for good impression annoyingly I received them. He happily gave hot samosas I again unwantedly accepted them.

One day he asked me,"Bida ri ye khalang nila" he was asking where will I go to holidays in Tamang language. I said, " I don't have idea".

In my core of heart I was praying to God in those winter vacations Kapil would leave the cafe and wished not to see him aftermath.

Lucky me by trembled heart, lingered legs shaken eyes searched him in cafe on my first class after vacation he was not there any more. Heard from someone else cafe in holidays was bought my another. I relaxed.

My lovestory with Shumsher one hand was more from my side than his. He lost for many days after my approach of being boyfriend. His fast coming and leaving classes was daily scheduled. In fact I was also regretting on my fast purposal. That's why i left things on the flows. One evening after practicing for upcoming dance show for out of valley we were taking rest aside the dance hall. Sudip was laughing on jokes crackes of Amrit, brother Pursottam as usual was busy on calculation of some monetary issues, teacher was busy in phone calls, unknowingly my eyes encountered the eyed coloured of cat. How deeply I was falling into the most attractive cat eye. Without providing any hints to anyone not the man who had those phenomenal eyes I stared long time and felt in deep ecstasy. Someone somewhere had said that you first fall into someone's eyes and only into the person later. That day I really felt the same and kept Shumsher's beautiful eyes in my chambers of heart on the way back to my home, on the alleies, on the hills to my home, down the hills to my home, inside my kitchen, during my dinner, during my study and on my smiling sleep.