This is for you guys - u know what it is 😆
Nupur's thoughts
I dont remember the first time we met, there were no bells chiming, no lights glowing, no falling into arms, no eye locks. I dint notice him, he dint notice me n we went ahead with our lives for about 2 years of Engineering college. .In my second year, i made gr8 friends with a guy in my class Rahul. We hit off instantly and were back-slapping buddies.. One day he mentioned to me that his room mate (who was also his best friend) , M who was in the same year as us, was always playing sad songs on his guitar. I thought that was a little strange..why sad songs? Well it was a random thought that lingered for a while and vanished.. In mid 3rd year, I decided to join MBA coaching classes. There were 4 of us, Rahul, Mayank, Vinu and I from the same college. Thats when I first said hi to Mayank..we were formally introduced by Rahul.. We hardly spoke as I was always busy talking to Rahul. In the classes though, things were different, we both competed with each other to come up with the correct answers. Infact, for each math sums, we would try to beat each other n get the chocolate that was offered as a prize for every correct answer. It was funny, we both were very good n fast, none of the others stood a chance but we were never aggressive, in fact we started smiling at each other more often after that. We never let that one- man up manship game go out of the class. But when we met in college corridors, we looked at each other, we were not exactly friends, I remember wondering, should I smile at him? Then he smiled, I couldnt help smiling back. I always liked his smile..We started talking once in a while in our coaching classes. Then during the semester break I fell ill, only my friend Rahul knew of it,,he promptly told Mayank (I wonder why?) that day when I opened my mail I saw a get well soon from Mayank....It was the sweetest card I ever saw.
Once we were back from the break, we never became gr8 friends, thanks to his friend Sheena.. she was very possessive of him and hated it that we mailed each other once in a while. She once saw a mail that I was sending him and told all our friends, it was perfectly innocent mail but she made it look like we were going around, I was terribly embarrassed! we got an interview call from one of the prestigious MBA universities, the 4 of us had made it..and we all decided to travel together, that journey was memorable and life-altering. I was very awkward talking to him, I wondered what he thought about me? I decided to go ahead and ask him, his answer was quite straight forward..he said he couldnt care less about what people thought, and was even less concerned about what sheena said cos he knew her quite well. I was relieved, then we started talking, since Rahul was our common friend, we kept pulling his leg and we ganged up on him and it was the most fun 2 day trip of my life. Even before a minute before the interview, we were busy talking and were the least bothered about anything around us. We talked about our entire lives, likes and dislikes. Suddenly we were incredibly close, but there was absolutely no attraction. The 3 of us had got through to MBA college but to different locations. We travelled back, we stayed awake the whole night and talked. He gave his phone to me for safekeeping. We reached back and went ahead with our day to day lives..Then suddenly he came to my class and called me out, I knew it was the phone but Sheena had the most amazing look on her face. The next day was valentine's day , I was not well and was stuck in the hostel. I called him up to tell Rahul that I wudnt be going to college that day. He picked up the phone and said he had lost his wallet..and while he was searching for his wallet we started talking...we talked and talked and talked...then I told him about sheena's reaction. He said he would go on his knees and propose to me with a bunch of red-roses in his hand right in front of her.We imagined the situation and laughed our heads off,, That day, we talked from morning to evening, Rahul was back from College and thought we had gone insane...We talked day and night. We were very different but found a strange pleasure in finding similar interests. He was vegetarian, i wasn't, our mother tongues were different, we had different ideas on everything. I was filmy he hardly watched films. /he loved classical music, i loved film music. We did find that our fav song was the same n such small things we called co-incidences made us very happy. Then one day he asked me if I loved Rahul? I was totally taken aback,,I honestly told him, i had no clue,,i dint think so, but why did he ask? He said, he just thought he needed to ask, Now I was confused! Mayank knows me really well,,so does that mean I ..? Well I dint think so, but had no clue honestly.
Finally he asked Rahul, who was even more confused, he was like where did that come from?? So that was 2 of us totally in the sea, then we talked it out, no we are very goods friends. thats all..So that was that..! So one fine day about a few months after the confusion he created, Mayank says I love you..Wow..now that one I knew the answer to. i loved him too but then I was like, I dont think I could ever say i love you too..am sorry, but I have to think of how my family would react! He said, ok fine, take your time I'll wait, meanwhile we continued talking like nothing happened. I kept thinking about him, One fine day he said, Can you say I love you to me? Pls? I wouldn't take it as a yes or anything, I just need to hear it. We were close, I love u was not something that was not a part of my friend's conversations,but somehow I couldn't bring myself to say it..It just wouldn't come out. I was taken aback at myself and he was suitably unhappy. We let it pass and carried on. I couldnt take my mind off him, It was the morning of a pre-semister exam, I messaged him, I know u r longing to hear it, but I would never tell you. He messaged back, i get the feeling you are gonna confess today. I was shocked..I went for the exam, my mind was not in it..anyway it was only pre-sem, no internal marks either,i decided to tell the professor I wasnt feeling too well..Since I was a pretty good student the professor let me go. I went back to the hostel and started messaging him. When he came out of the hall, we started messaging each other through the day. Then in the night he called me and we talked for 4 hours after which I said I love you..
// Its a long story, there's more to it, but I am not planning to make this an FF.. so the rest of the story some other day for you.