Shooting Star

The meeting

THE MEETING

Sometimes sitting quietly with our own self remembering our priceless memorable time spent with the one who touched our soul to its depth where no one could ever reach……. Is the most blissful feeling anyone could ever experience……..

Thinking about her I took out a big photo album from my cupboard…..this album is the witness of the most beautiful time of our life, at the moment I opened its first page automatically a smile crept on my face…….holding the album in my hand I sat down on the swing placed in my balcony with a mug of tea in the other hand……. Seeing the first picture of her in which she was wearing white knee length kurta with blue denim……..I remembered how much she used to love this outfit even I too……. A typical artistic look…… this picture dragged me back in the time where I first time met her she was wearing the same outfit…..

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A boy was sitting in the Tire 1 AC compartment of a train looking out of the glass window keenly observing the trees those were moving behind…..he was totally drowned in his thoughts……

He was looking clam but his eyes were showing that some sort of storm is running inside him…… it was looking like he is trying to find out that is the trees are the one leaving behind or he himself is leaving behind somewhere…Getting irritated from his own thoughts he put on the headphones and started listening songs………

Train was moving with full speed……. There were very less people in his compartment so he was feeling relaxed somewhere around 2 hours later train stopped at a random station and people started going in and out of the compartment but the boy was still on his seat……. He just took a cup of tea from a little tea vendor roaming in the train and started looking out of the window again, waiting for the train to start………

he was thinking deeply something suddenly a girl entered in the compartment with her 2 bags with great difficulty….. she was struggling to keep bags under the seat but due to some reason she was not able to do that…. Finally getting pissed of she glared at the boy…….

Girl: arrghh….. how shameless kind of person you are…. Here I’m trying so hard to settle my bag don’t you think you should move a little and help me…..

Hearing her he came out of his thoughts and got up from his seat to help her….

Boy: I’m sorry actually I was thinking something……(saying this he adjusted her bags under the seat)

Girl: thank you so much for your help……and sorry….

Boy: sorry for….?

Girl: I didn’t want to say anything bad to you and I really don’t mean it….. because of frustration I said that….. so sorry again…..

Boy: no no its ok……

Slowly train started moving again on its track….. and again the boy was drowned in his thoughts…… first one hour went in complete silence, but the silence was irritating the girl so she abruptly started speaking……

Girl: well where are you going…??

Boy: (he shifted his attention from trees to that girl) jaipur………. (he again kept quite and started looking out)

Girl: oh even I’m also going jaipur……

Girl:(in mind) what is with this weird boy…… not speaking a word….. now how will I pass this long journey…..

(she waited sometime patiently but losing her patience she again decided to start the conversation)

Girl: you are going jaipur for work or home...

Boy: just like that…….(he stated and again continued what he was doing)

Girl: just like that……? What kind of answer is this….. no one goes anywhere just like that……

Boy: when you feel completely filled up or start feeling suffocated by your surrounding…… and especially when there is no one to hear you or to understand you….. one should leave for somewhere just like that…….

Girl: umm….. very deep actually….. in life one should spend a little time with oneself too….. what if life don’t give that opportunity again…. What and when life will show we can’t really predict…. So yeah it’s better to sometimes leave just like that……

Boy: your thoughts are very deep…….

Girl: no no its just came with the flow….. I said what I feel…… well if you don’t mind can I ask you one thing…..

Boy: yaa sure….(he said little hesitated)

Girl: I’m watching you since I came that you are lost somewhere, is there anything bothering you…… I’ll try to help you if I can…..

Boy: why do you think that I’m upset….. and even If I am then how will you help me…..

Girl: I can see it on your face that you are not ok…… and about helping, it gives me happiness by helping others…. If I am capable enough to help anyone in any way then what is more better than that…..

By now boy was little impressed with her thoughts that how can someone totally strange to you is so eager to help you with your problems…… those problems which are nothing in the eyes of your closed ones…….

Boy: actually I am not upset…… it like I’m in dilemma…. Just not able to understand where should I go……

Girl: very simple….. just go where your heart is taking you…..

Boy: sometimes ignoring the requests of our heart we have to take decisions considering our mind….. well let it be…. (he said with a glint of sadness in his voice)

Girl: hey….. see we are talking since long but we didn’t even introduced ourselves…… hi…. I’m SHRISHTI….. (she said forwarding her hand)

Boy: hi…… I’m KABIR……….(he also said taking her hand and shook lightly)

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Tbc