Our Story

Chapter 4

The other day, I woke up at the same time and began to prepare breakfast and did my daily morning work. The happenings of the previous day were rolling into my mind and making myself ashamed and nervous. I didn’t know how I was going to face her.

Over and over I was thinking only two things, "What will she be thinking about me? What if she thought that I am really a stereotype?"

I was a stranger to her and she too was a stranger to me, but still what she thought of me started to matter to me. Actually, not only her but her laut father too.

That day I comforted my heart saying ,"Let’s not see her today. Surely, I will go in front of her tomorrow."

Then I got ready but didn't get out of home. All this overthinking made me leave home five minutes late. Fortunately, that Pug wasn't there that day either. As I was still leaving home ten minutes earlier.

When I reached the subway, I searched for her. To make sure she's there or not and she wasn't there. I took a deep breath of relief and again got engaged with my mobile wearing headphones on head.

And posted, "I don't care what people think of me, I enjoy my life with my own rules." Just to satisfy myself. After that I got on the metro.

That day was normal as usual. Nothing to smile, nothing to be happy.

After work, I came back home, exercised, prepared dinner and went to the shop in the evening. At night I came back home, enjoyed my favorite show and drowned in deep slumber.

Next morning, following my daily routine, I did the same things and again thought, "Let's avoid her today too. I will go from tomorrow onwards."

So, again I got out five minutes late. And that same happened for the next seven- eight days. Those days passed smoothly, her absence didn't make much difference to me. I was the same as before, and perhaps because of meditation. Whenever I used to work, usually there was no thought of anyone in my mind, anyway. So everything was fine.

On the 9th day, I envisaged, "Now she must have forgotten that day. I can see her now," I left home for the subway at the same time when I used to see her and...there.. I finally saw her.

Just out of the subway, totally lost in playing and chasing a pomeranian. I stood looking at her from a considerable distance. My straightened lips were again curved. And letting myself smiling , I slowly stepped closer to her hopefully none of them noticed me.

I don't liked dogs. I always found them unhygienic but when I saw her playing, I also wanted to join them and wanted to play heartily and roll over the ground with them.

That pomeranian also seemed nice and seeing that dog I began to cuss that pug in my mind, "She herself is cute and the dog with her is also cute. But all dogs are not the same. Otherwise that ridiculous pug would also have been cute."

I was very angry with that stupid pug, never left any chance to curse and the reason why it annoying me was very clear. Once my home was undergoing renovation. While eating chicken lollipops, prepared by me, I was busy doing my office work on my laptop outside my home. At the same time, that pug was continuously barking at me because I wasn't offering my chicken lollipop. I was like, "Why should I give him my last piece ?"

But that barking voice was piercing my ears. A few minutes before that, I had eaten a chewing gum and stuck it on a stick. To fool and to drive the pug away I threw that stick forcefully away into the air and that Pug ran after the stick. Meanwhile, I immediately hid myself inside my house and began to work again. Pug came back and barked at my door but I ignored.

I was thinking the Pug must be taking revenge on me for that day.

While I was busy thinking about the Ridiculous she walked into the subway, after giving the Pomeranian's lead rope to its owner. Coming out of my thoughts, I also followed her.

The metro was on the platform and we got into it. I sat on the same seat where I used to sit and again kept my eyes on her.

All four of them were busy talking to each other. Until then her father didn't notice me. Maybe he forgot about me, which was good. In those minutes I don't have to hide myself from him.

I was seeing her after about a week, my heart didn't want to take my eyes off her and I started to observe every little thing about her.

She seemed shy, talked less but laughed a lot. What I lacked, she had a lot. That smile! Maybe that was the reason I was so attracted to her. Just like stupid Nobita stares at adorable Shizuka, my eyes were stucked at her for every single second.

When she was done talking with them, she glanced around, possibly in search of something eye-catching or someone to enjoy with. While she was looking around, our eyes met and my heart skipped a beat. Something really weird happened that never happened to me.

Our eyes were connected a bit longer. I couldn't but she shifted her eyes from me. Obviously why would she be attracted to a dumb personality like mine.

Although, after a few minutes she looked at me again and that made me embarrassed.

I mused to myself, "She must have remembered about that day". I slowly lowered my head and got into my mobile.

Soon those fifteen minutes passed and then, that lout saw me while he was leaving. He narrowed his eyes and again gave me that disgusting expression, reminding me of the day when I was admonished.

I realized even after a year if he saw me, he would remember that day.

Anyway, leaving him with his abhorrence, my only idea was "I shouldn't pay any attention to him and should only focus on her"

But my idea didn't worked much, after that day whenever I looked at her, secretly, she also looked back at me instantly.

And I have to act like I was looking behind her or on my mobile.

Staring her wasn't then an easy task for me, I had to look her hiding from her eyes too,

I had only heard about the sixth sense of girls before but that day onwards I was watching it too.