December Night

Siya had always lived in a world full of dreams. Since childhood, she imagined life like the stories she read in books and the scenes she watched in movies. She believed in love, deep conversations, and finding someone who truly understood her heart. But after completing her degree, her family started pressuring her to get married. Siya didn’t want a partner chosen only by relatives and family opinions. She wanted to know the person first — to talk, to laugh, to fall in love slowly. So, with hesitation and hope, she created an account on a matrimonial app. One cold December night, while endlessly scrolling through profiles, a name suddenly caught her attention — Anand. Out of curiosity, she opened his profile. As she read the details, something inside her froze. Anand had the exact degree she once dreamed of pursuing during her higher secondary days. Her eyes moved slowly through every line on his profile, and with each sentence, her surprise grew deeper. For a moment, Siya couldn’t believe what she was reading. It felt as if someone had taken the thoughts from her heart and written them into a profile. The qualities, the dreams, the little preferences she had always imagined in her future husband — everything matched perfectly. Confused and curious, she quickly went back to her own profile and reread the partner preferences she had written months ago. She smiled softly in disbelief. It almost felt like Anand had copied every single one of them. And for the first time in a long while, Siya felt that strange, beautiful feeling — as if destiny had quietly entered her story on an ordinary December night.