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hey folks....heres presenting the new Wordsworth in making.....NIJAL PATEL..aka missypatel!!!!...its from the encounter on saturday morning....18th of october...the year 2008....i marked it in my diary.....so did nij i hope.....why????thats what we wana tell u...😊
Encounter it was,
What encounter it was
I'll do u a favour
And recount it with flavour. '''''''
East meets Mid-East
Or Mid-East met East
Whichever you prefer
We care less to differ'''..
Neither of both thought
Nor either rethought
We knew this was it
We had to be caught''''..
And so we met
At the zebra net
Our first enounter
Do you wanna bet?''..
Walked along ,
The crowded road
Naseem~Nijal
In the same boat'''
You know this,
I know that,
We mixed talks
Like does a bartender
Aah..i said
Are you sure,
U aren't my family member?''
The cake Naseem offered
Was from her kitchen
But as I recall
It was from her best fiction'''.
Time past fast
It was but the last
The long walk
To the last - encounter talk'''
It was time to go,
Naseem
Grt person to know,
We bid byes,
But hopefully
Not our last goodbyes'''
It was an encounter
Such as it was
Hope you enjoyed with us,
As we recounted our encounter. '''
(credits for the super rhyming.....keeping facts intact....copyrights belong to Nijal Patel alone 😆)n so heres how the tale goes.....(the dialogue has to me u know it...when can i ever keep shut???😆)...oh n yeh....um naseem...NJ that is...just incase u reading this n don't know me 😕😆
"naseem....where is she???this friend of yours...are u certain she wont ditch u??i would if it was me you asked to come for breakfast at 9am on saturday morning...."
"exactly why i wouldnt ask u dude....n for heavens stop cribbing....shes on Mich Av...same as us...we just have to find her now...."
his expression spelt I.N.C.R.E.D.U.L.O.U.S.....
"we have to search for her all over Mich Av is what u mean...lke the whole of it.....they made Mich Av as a place u could spend hours on, scanning it end to end, n we have, just for records, less than two hours now to catch the bus from union if u wana reach Urbana at all....not to forget we have to comb through the crowd on either side of the road for a girl in a pink maroon pink jacket....god i cant believe i let u talk me into this naseem...."
I grinned inwardly....it wasnt new for me to freak ppl around me, n frends of mine as organized as this one, i cudnt even blame him....then frowning at him I retorted....
"oh man...wonder what kind of boy adventure sense u have....i mean c'mon, but for me ud never get into anything remotely risky n fun in life....n we dont have to scan both sides or the whole of Mich Av....she told me shes walking away from the Loop, towards N.mich av direction on the left side...."
"wow..so much for details....alright so what does she look like...thin or fat..." he said....no secret abt his sarcasm of course.....
i shot him another frown...then shook my head...this guy really does need help with his logic....
"dude..." i started in a forced calm voice now..."we have talked online on the forum..thru PM's n replies on threads....i never heard of a science which helps one guess wat ppl look like by the way they type...i mean is there a rule like fat ppl use big font size, bold n no italics bla bla ???"
"U mean uv never really seen her?? like not even a picture of her????" he said in a tone which indicated he hoped i would say he was wrong ...i just grinned.....
"oh my god...need i ask if she has seen u???i guess there aint no need.....alright i give up....but i still cant believe i let u talk me into this...as if u wrnt enuf on the crazyness scale, now um gona meet another one of ur kind...."...with that he put the bag on a side and stood leaning against the wall of the the corner starbucks on mich av and ohio intersection....
i called again...."nijal....where are u now???...o u are....leme see hang on.....o yeh yeh yeh....i see u stay right where u are...."....and i cut the call....
THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME I SAW HER...NIJAL PATEL....aka MISSYPATEL from the IF....i didnt think of anything that second when i cut the call except this....she must think um mad....iv never seen her before n i tell her now that i see her, n know its her...n that she shud stay put....we wr on opposite sides of the mich av....a zebra separating us, with a traffic signal in the middle...n then she turned her gaze in our direction....THAT MUST BE HER FIRST SIGHT OF ME....or so i presume...(wasnt it nij???)....i waved....n i cud see her smile even at the distance.....we walked towards her, n she walked towards us.....n it must have been the craziest ever round of introduction in my life...which has mind u no dearth of crazy events to boast of....at the traffic signal...which was thankfully red....we hugged....and exchanged hellos...n hugged again....as we crossed back towards our end of the mich av i said....
"cant believe we chose the zebra crossing for this...hahaha....ppl must think we lost it early morning nij...." she seemed to mind it no more than me....n i knew we wud click....this was going to be no bubble bursting meet....like when u expect alot n see a trivial reality....no this was gona be far better than i cud have thot.....
"lets sit down somewhere ppl...um starving.." my frend said....was it me, or did he suddenly seem less mad...in fact he was smiling....if this was a pretense, he cud act well...dam i never knew he had this too.....
n so we entered the starbucks finally....ppl inside must have wondered why we dint wait for r frend inside....it wasnt exactly a warm sunny day outside, even if it wasnt a typically horrible chicago day....one thing was certain...no one cud have guessed the real reason was we wr meeting for the first time....😆
no seats....dam.....alright some other place....but where....its times like these when i start to think of which place is truly my fav, n i havent reached a conclusion yet.....i alwaz think when the time is too short. to decide..n then before i can realize my fav we already have found some other to sit in....it was no different this day...another starbucks....n they had seats...awsome....we got ourselves grub...n settled.....
no coffee for nij...she said she wud never come to starnucks if by herself she not the coffee person...omg THATS A BIG DIFFERENCE NOW....one reason iv been nocturnal for years is to have an excuse to consume caffeine!!!!....n the chat sets in...wow...we go from gujrat...to chandigarh.....from high school times to grad school....from arizona to NY to chicago for her.....n michigan for me.....chicago it is then...our topic of discussion i say i love the city like crazy n she says she knows hahaha..no surprises.,.....
"oh hey...i forgot,,,i got a box of cake i baked for the frend um visiting in Urbana coz its her birthday coming up soon n i wudnt be with her for that..." i say....n open the bag to get the huge box out.....its a choc cake.....was that even hard to guess???😆...she takes a pinch of it....n then much to my delight she grabs a whole piece....*me doing victory lap*...😆
"wow she says...its dam god..." n um on cloud nine ....sorry modesty never define me folks.....😆
its not just the fact that she eating a cake i baked...its like iv been not leaving any chances to talk of cooking n baking when i write my fics...n somehow...this whole meeting feels like such a dream...meeting an online frend....n realizing the real her is so much more than wat i had imagined...all for the good...n then i actualy get someone from the forum i love to actually taste something i cooked....baked accurately hehe....its just happening all too fast...n i have to have to have to say this....NOT FOR A SECOND SINCE OUR HUG ON THE CROSSING DID IT FEEL LIKE I ONLY JUST SAW THE GIRL FOR THE FIRST TIME....(u better ditto that nij....)....
we talk of the forum...n common frends on it....then of her frends n my housemates....she talks of the cake again n my frend says i was crazy to start baking it at 5:30pm the evening before when i had to catch the 7pm bus, n hadnt started packing.....i dont think she thot that was too much of a surprise...she seems so like me on the impulse takes 😉
oh well....we see the time....bus to come in the next 35 minutes...n its a walk to her car...so we start off.....we both cant stop rambling after each sentence abt how dam unbelievebly amazing this is....
"we have to put up a thread of this..." we both exclaim together suddenly...haha...together again...no surprise ppl....um telling u we really connect at a level!!!....n so we start clicking the craziest pictures ever, walking down mich av.....with the skyline, the stream ending in lake michigan....the blue sky with clouds...or with nothing but us!!!.....heres one for u guys....(now u believe me...this aint no fic....we met for real....😆)
alrite folks...pic below....its killing the reading part i cant manage the scroll.... :(
alright heres the game for u...GUESS WHO'S WHO....NIJAL N ME...if u read it all u have a huge hint in there!!!!
oh well n so we walk on.....commenting on ppl passing us by....laughing at the craziest things ever....nijal telling abt her $200 ticket on a wrong parking....while my frend tells her abt my achievements, which rank no less....abt a time when i drove to the market with my mum n came back without her coz i forget i took her along...oki there wr others....i prefer to skip this part...nijal ur forbidden to speak abt this too.....😕
at last we are close to the park lot...no next to it...the woman is crazy as me i tell u...she cant remember where the enterance to he park structure is hehe...we find it....its 17 minutes before the bus leaves....um cursing...if i dont catch it my frend in urbana will kill me i know.....we pay the ticket on the machine...another 5mins lost....run to the elevator...nijal assures us we will make it...its just 6-8 blocks away she says...we get off the elevator....n rush to where she thinks her car is....BUT ITS NOT THERE????oh dam....she really as bad as mer forgetting where she parked her car....or so i think until she n my frend scream...
"DAM we got off on the wrong floor.....7th instead of 11th...." we rush to the elevator again....n they conveniently blame me....
"we wr following u ....u got out first..." they say....n um like duuhhhhh..."i dint tell u to follow me...u cud have well pulled me back but no u dint....thats 50% fault to u both too....."....ppl in the elevator stare at me....n at them...not hard to imagine they think we are freaks....we are i guess!!!!
we touch 11, n rush outa the elevator again...locate the car in a minute...no less than that....its now 9 mins for the bus to leave...if i miss it my frend in urbana will trully kill me...um thinking of alternates already but as she drives with a single hand driving in spirals down the ramp of the park structure my frend exclaims..."wow...ur good with the car...." not all can be good though....i sat in the passenger seat..n u cant think of a navigator worse than me....i take ages to even work on a GPS....poor guy would be better off by itself...oh well...i feed the address after a minute and a half of messing around.....210, s.canal, .....n it guides us.....6 minutes to go.....guess wat we arent totally in bad luck....we get all greens n as nijal exclaims over this in glee my frend starts to explain the mechanism...like we care at that moment...engineers i tell u..he is one...they cant help but be geeks in the most redundant moments.....
oh well we reach the address...i know coz iv seen the spot many times before...but even if i hadnt realized the GPS is a loyal guy....the lady in it screams...."DESTINATION!!!".....we run towards the bus....its there...n not leaving just then....i run back n hug nijal.....i still cant believe i met her...someone from the forum...iv talked to her all but 1 and a half months online...n mot like every minute of every day...it was a random plan to meet up in chicago...but u know how crazy we both are...for we worked it out n made it happen....n here i am writing this long story abt it....when iv been threatened to update my fic.....oh well some situations canm be exceptions no????this was a big one....she drives away at last since she hasnt quite parked right.....n we get onto the bus.,...guess i still have life ahead of me...my frend from urbana wont kill me...not yet anywaz....i call nij again....um just soooooooooo excited...if u wana know about the hyper me...ask her...she believe sit now coz she seen it!!!
i tell her i can never tell coz i dont know wat to tell her about this UNTELLABLE experience!!!....
oki oki oki....done now...i know it has nothing to do with the forum....but maddy...can u leave it for a bit???we got a poem n a dialogue narration in it...thats creativity some way right????plzzzzzzzz...pretty plzzzzzzzzz with a cherryyy....just wanted to share with all u folks.....it was an increidle weekend...the forum has become a family to say the least...n to actually have been able to meet one of us...one who i was begining to relate so well with....it was such a moment...no such a cluster of moments!!!
now i wish more than ever to be able to have many more such encounters...with everyone here i love....i called back home n told them....they dont think um mad, coz they never ceased thinking so from the day i was born....my housemates think they can no longer scale my level of insanity....for me....its just wat i call the moments of lief i can die with happily....sometime when i do...😆😆😆
hope u all enjoyed reading this....it was just something we had to share with u all.....i cant write in few words...brevity like modesty doesnt define me either haha....but oh well...if u dint sleep thru the recounting....do reply back...
lotsa love...
NJ & NiJ...😳
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