FF: When You Say Nothing At All... note pg 27 - Page 7

A new friend

AFTER THE MEETING''''.

IN CAR'''..

As I sat in silence thinking about last night's event a smile lit up my face. She was so beautiful that is all I know about her. 'I don't even know her name?' I thought in disgust. My father has the perfect timing to screw everything up. When I was about to start a convo with her he had to call. 'Whatever let it be yaar' I told myself. I was feeling quite content with me actually cuz I did a fab job in the meeting and we got the deal. Now we are going to our resort in Coonor. I tried to get some sleep since it's a long journey. The moment I closed my eyes the car screeched to a sudden halt. I bumped into the back of the driver's seat. I almost broke my nose or that is what I felt at least. I looked outside the window and found the place really beautiful and mystique. The road was on the edge of the hill circling the hill all the way. At both the side there was dense forest, so dense that merely any sunlight was coming in. And down the hill I could see so much fog that it felt as if there was a lake. I came out of my astonishment at the voice of Nikhil. From what he told me, our car broke down and we were apparently stuck in that place.

'Wow my life is getting so filmy' I thought to myself.

'Or at least half filmy cuz if it was a film then I would have been stuck here with a pretty girl not two ullus.' I told myself in disgust.

I put my headphones and started listening to the song 'GUMNAM HAI KOI'.

After exactly fifteen minutes a bus came through and I asked for a lift. From appearance it felt like a tourist bus and my guess was true but fortunately the bus was going to Coonor and on the way would drop by at dolphin's nose a well known tourist spot near Ooty. I got on the bus but Nikhil didn't cuz according to him we should not travel on public busses. Whatever he said he would wait until the car is repaired. So I left those two ullus to themselves and their car and started looking for a seat in the bus. There was only one seat left so I hurried there the person who was sitting next to me felt somewhat familiar. I could not see her face because she was looking outside the window. I sat down and said, "Hi" she turned to face me and what I saw was really a shocking surprise. It's the girl from last night. Firstly she was surprised too but then gave me a smile. I thought it's going to be fun now.

"Hello miss coffee" I greeted her in a teasing voice.

"Hey look I'm sorry about last night" she said apologetically.

"Well looks like you are not only miss coffee but also miss sorry. Ok so hello miss sorry how are you?" I told her with a smirk on my face.

"I'm good what about you?" she asked smiling.

"I'm all good but hey I forgot to introduce myself hi I'm Bond, James Bond 2723449." I told her in a serious tone.

"What does that mean?" she asked utterly confused.

"Well haven't you ever played this game with a stranger? Firstly I used to call it stranger stranger but now I've named it Fakie. In this game you can say anything about yourself you get to be anybody you like and no very personal info about the other person. Got it lets play." I told her holding my laugh making a serious face.

"Two questions, first why should we play this? Second why are you James Bond 2723449?" she asked.

"Okay well first because whenever I introduce myself to a girl either she is too shy or too proud to say anything or make friends with me. So from that day on I started playing this game where first we get to know each other then all the introduction and email id's and phone no. etc. and to the second one 2723449 is my admission No. in college" I told her again making a serious face. To tell the truth I just invented this game right now and I never played this game with anybody ever.

"Well it's a weird game I think but its okay then I'm Bella" she told me with a smile.

"Um I hate Edward cuz he has given us such a hard competition every girl wants a guy like Edward. So I'm not Edward but rather I'm Carlisle so since I'm your sasurji you should probably fall in my charan." I said laughing.

"Ha-ha very funny Okay then I'm pepper pots" she told me.

"Um then I'm sure as hell Iron man" I told her with a naughty smile.

"So done I'm pepper you are tony" she announced.

"So why did you visit Ooty is it for work or pleasure?" she asked.

"Well basically for work but you did help me have some pleasure too" I answered.

"I don't get it how?" she asked again.

"Oh well I never had a cold coffee bath in a chilly weather in my whole life" I told her making a 'I'm a bechara' face.

"Hey look I'm sor" she started but I stopped her mid sentence.

"Oh again with your sorry please yaar stop this cuz fakie me no sorry no thank you got it?" I told her.

"Okay fakie baba ki jai ho" she told me laughing.

"What about you work or pleasure?" I asked.

"Pleasure came to visit my, hey wait you said no personal info right?" she said.

"Ha-ha right" I said laughing.

"By the way what is your relationship status on FB?" she asked in a teasing tone.

"Um'' single what about you?" I said.

"Married" she said promptly.

"What you are married?" I asked in shock. It was like a bucket of icy water hit me.

"Well aren't we playing Fakie so I can say all sort of fake things right?" she said laughing.

"That was a very bad joke" I told her.

We chatted away like that for the next few minutes and then we reached dolphin's nose. I was having a fun time with her she been really very friendly. The place dolphin's nose is really beautiful it's the highest peak in the nilgiri mountain range. Apparently I'm not that good in geography but miss pepper seems to be pretty good in it. We were walking and talking and admiring the beauty of the place at least she was cuz I was admiring her beauty. When I was immersed in her thoughts she went ahead of me and was standing under a tree. A painter could have made a painting out of it and named it 'the mystery girl'. So I decided to finally introduce myself to her and end this game of stupidity. I was just behind her when a monkey jumped in front of her from nowhere and she made a sudden movement backwards and hit me so hard that I fell on the ground. She turned and saw me and started laughing very hard instead of saying sorry. But I have to admit she has the most beautiful smile in the world and she looks like an angel when she laughs.

"Hi I'm Anant" I said.

"Okay hi I'm Navya. Now get up" she said holding her hand out.

When I touched her hand I felt there is something special about this touch something different. I never felt like this when I touched other girl's hands. We heard our bus horn. Looks like it's time to go. The return journey was also quite enjoyable cuz I prefer the name Navya rather than pepper. When we parted in Coonor we did share some personal info like our email ids.

When I finally got to resort there was only one thought in my mind that is I got

I took a deep breath sitting on the plane trying to get the smell of the woods and trying to feel the place where we met the third time. I can never forget that day or I should say that night. As I sat in absolute silence with earplugs in my ears I immersed into the thought of that meeting.

It was 5 when I returned to the resort and to my surprise Nikhil was already there. I went to my room and came to the balcony. The view was absolutely petrifying. The resort was far away from the main town and so the surrounding was really quiet. There were very less houses around here only some cottages. My balcony was overlooking a hill with dense forest.

After sometime I came back to the room and sent Navya almost 100 emails. But there was no reply I don't know why but I was feeling very down. So I sent her a friend's request in FB and to my satisfaction she accepted it after almost 14 minutes 37 seconds. We chatted like some long lost friends. And we did share some personal info like I'm a business school student and she a law school. And I even got to know that she came here to visit her maasi. I chatted with her almost for 2 hours then she told me that little brother is messing up with her lappy so she will talk to me later. And with that she logged out. I also got some coffee and took some rest zoomed around in the room and checked FB in about every 5 minutes in the hope that there might be Navya. But lastly I lost hope and came to the balcony and staring at the blank night I suddenly felt that night is so romantic although my whole life I have felt that nights are creepy and weird.

'Is this sudden change in me is because of Navya? What hell am I thinking?' 'Of course not I just met her today that's not it maybe the atmosphere is like that which compels you to love everything around you' I thought. With that confusion going on in my head I decided to take a stroll outside the resort. It was really dark outside but I got out anyway. In my thoughts I didn't know how but I got very away from the resort and slowly started to get into the forest when I heard someone shout something like 'monu where are you? Monu, monu' I don't know why but the voice felt somewhat familiar. I tried to listen carefully and a voice inside my head said it's Navya. So I rushed to the direction from where the sound was coming and unfortunately it was coming from the jungle. Without a moment of hesitation I went inside the jungle cuz my heart kept saying there might be something wrong I don't know why but I didn't wanted to believe there might be something wrong with Navya. Suddenly why was I feeling so protective of her? As I started to get into the deeper part of the jungle I lost track of her voice and I was freaking out. At one point I thought it's my illusion and in that moment I reached a cliff. I was standing on the edge when I saw someone running in my direction going straight for the cliff and the person was Navya. I came in front of knowing well that if my balance goes out then I'm straight going to hell but I didn't cared I just didn't wanted her to get any harm actually I wouldn't let that happen.

I caught her right before she was about to fall and held on to her tight around her waist. She being so close I could feel her body against mine and I felt a weird feeling creeping inside me. I don't know why but I felt this was the most beautiful night of my life.

TBC...

i was imagining the scene anant and navya and in between a monkey...awsum...waiting for the next chapter...and waiting for some luve dubie scenes...😳☺️😳