The only thought which occupied his whole day since from the morning was ,when will she come? Or, will she come.
The glass doors of the coffee shop were pushed gently and entered her gently. She has a graceful walk noticed surya.
She looked around the shop. It seemed she felt difficult to identify the person. Surya raised his arms and waved mildly.
Is she walking? Or is the floor under her feet gliding back? Thought he.
"hello" said she with an unfriendly smile.
"ya..hai" he smiled.
"are you waiting for a long time?" she asked
"no! no! .hrmm! yes for more than half an hour" he said. No need for unnecessary lies here. He has to be open and honest with her. He felt.
"sorry! Lot of customers today. ok. Why did you wish to meet me? Who are you? What were you doing yesterday in the office?"
"my god! so many questions which one should I am supposed to answer first" he grinned.
She bit her lips.
"ok! Who are you"
"do you want the direct answers"
"yes"
"I am suryaprakash I.P.S.
Deputy commissioner of police" said he.
She gasped. Her eyelids fluttered. Fear started covering her beautiful face.
"what were you doing yesterday?"
"just watching you" he shrugged with a smile.
She swallowed the lump rose in her throat.
"what? Why? What did I do" her voice became very inaudible.
The smile on his face widened more
"oh! You seemed to be panicked. Where was the lady who ordered the policeman boldly yesterday"? he laughed.
"sir!!"
"okay listen dhamaynti. Let me come to the point directly. " after a pause he said
"I came here with a marriage proposal. Will you marry me. Oh that was a direct shoot. Sorry. I planned to say this in different way." He shrunk his one eye with a pleading look.
She was stunned!
"what.. marriage" she looked baffled. Still she could not comprehend the words.
"yes! I saw your profile on a matrimonial site. Mine is a small family like yours. I have a father and a younger sister.
I lov..hrumm..liked your profile, so I came myself to meet you yesterday"
Now , she had come out of that first shock.
"I can't believe this. I have not heard the groom directly involves in the marriage process. Only elders do that. "
" well in my case I have to do it by own"
"so you were spying me yesterday. Men are men , whoever it may be" she muttered.
"oh!my. no ! you again had mistaken me. I just wanted to see you but initial hesitations prevented me to approach you yesterday. It is not spying. It's an eagerness to know about you. But if you wish you can spy me"
Dhamayanti looked him sharply.
"er..sorry..I didn't mean that. I am very bad in handling girls. I don't have that experience."
A mild smile spread over her lips.
"you are right! Men are men, whoever they may be" he smiled gently. In that second, she realized that the conversation with this stranger was about her marriage. She felt sheepish suddenly.
"ok! Let's speak it frankly sir! Actually I am not ready for marriage now. That matrimonial update might have been done by some over reactors in the same of well wishers. I have some responsibilities in my life. And our first meet was not so pleasant and this meet was totally unexpected for me. So I could not make a decision now. So please try to understand sir, I am not ready"
Disappointment marred his smiling face but still he expected this from her. He did not expect an immediate accept from her. In fact he would have hated that immediate accept.
"its ok! This is just a wish. Take it as just an enquiry. Forget it and take it easy. Chill!" he said those words, observing her guilt, reflecting in her eyes.
"haan! One more. Are you a dancer? " he asked and found a perfect surprise in her eyes.
"yes! "
"I guessed ! your face is emitting numerous expressions in one time." He smiled. She too, cannot avoid a mild smile curved on her lips as a reciprocation of his smile.
That day while he walked out of the coffee shop he felt that this is not going to end here but he himself didn't expect that their next meet would happen so soon unexpectedly. First time , Surya believed in fate when he saw her in that check post . How he came there exactly at that time? What made him to choose this check post first. Why would he come directly to check the proceedings in that check post? This is called the design. He chuckled.
All the vehicles had been stopped there and been checked thoroughly. Dhamayanti , who slowed down her scooter , noticed surya . the moment when he saw her, he felt delighted. but, he doesn't want to give her trouble, so he gestured her to move on. What?? I asked her to move on. Why she stopped her vehicle and approaching me? He looked bewildered.
Dhamayanti looked grim.
She opened her handbag and showed all her documents.
"license, RC book, insurance, id proof everything is pakka. I don't want any allowances. Why should I get special preferences when all others were standing here? Who am I to you"
Surya averted his face only to hide his giggle. While turning to her, his face became normal again with a pleasant smile relishing her so called straight forward behavior.
"Madam! Why are you showing all these to me? I am not a traffic police."
Dhamayanti bite her lips.
"I am here to trace out some criminals and as per the information they are men. That's the reason I gestured you to move on"
She was abashed. Her cheeks turned red. she felt awkward.
" sorry! I am so sorry. I.. I mistook you.I thought"
"what you thought?"
"that.. you were.. hmm. You"
"yes, I? come on tell me. What you thought?"
That moment, surya just loved to enjoy her embarrassment and loved to tease her more.
"come on madam. What was the reason you thought of my action" he grinned now.
She could not face him. She collected all her documents quickly and went over her scooter swiftly.
One..two ..three..four... fout times ! surya counted. Four times she turned back and glanced him.
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It was not a tough job for him to track out the usual way to her office and home. It was exactly four days or five days after that meet , one rainy day evening, as he expected , she was stuck with her scooter and a heavy downpour in the roadside. He stopped his car.
She showed a mild shock in her eyes.
"why? What happened?" he asked.
"Don't know! It's stuck" she kicked her scooter.
"if you don't have any objections. I would drop you"
She hesitated.
"oh! Come on! The rain is getting worse. It is not going to stop for another 24 hours. Are you going to stand here for the whole day"
"why should I. I can hire a taxi. I have some displeasure to travel in a siren vehicle."
Surya looked around the area. "it's not a wise idea" he said opening the doors.
Dhamyanti locked her vehicle and got into the car with reluctantly.
He beamed.
He stretched a hand towel to her. She got it and whipped out her face and arms.
" your hatred for siren vehicle has no meaning, police are normal human beings just like all."
"human!" she smirked. "they just look like humans but designed without hearts"
He shrunk his eyes.
"ok! You might have experienced something bitter with the department. But not all the cops are same as you think. After all their first duty is to help and protect others."
She laughed ! that was a perfect mocking laugh. "joke of the year. Actually we, the normal public don't know to protect ourselves from the police. Sir! You are in the higher rank and you might be knowing what's going on in your department. So let's leave the topic" said she.
That's fine thought he.
"ok! One day you may realize the fact. Now, how are you? It seemed to be a long time we met before" asked surya
"Long time? Just five days" smirked Dhamayanti.
"oh! really! Just five days? Are you sure? Five days or five weeks or five months?" he grinned.
"I just can't believe the honorable DCP is flirting with me?"
"why? What stops a policeman to flirt with a girl? I am a normal human with a heart. Do you want to check my heart beat?"
"God! why I got into this car?"
"that's in design! Some supernatural bond is tying us both together. Don't you feel that? How many times we met coincidentally within a short period"
"I don't believe it to be a coincidence." She shrugged.
He lifted his brows. Brilliant! Thought he.
She stuck to the corner of the door and turned her eyes outside. Her body was shivering badly due to her wet dresses. Her face and arms became pale.
He suddenly turned her car inside the gates of a shopping mall.
"what? Where are we going?"
"just two minutes! I need to buy some things. Please come"
"why me? I shall wait here. Or get me a taxi"
"oh! Please come. I can't leave you alone in a police vehicle. People may mistake you. Just come in" he almost forced her to get out ,opening the door.
She felt extremely shy in wet clothes. Her body shuddered inside the air conditioned mall. She ran behind him to catch up his hasty walk. He entered into a boutique.
"just select a dress and change your wet clothes"
She looked at him surprised, but did not deny.
"she took a simple salwar suit and went inside the changing room.
While paying the money surya felt that someone staring at him. He looked around. He could not particularly point some one, but definitely someone had been watching him. He sensed the instinct.
Soon, she came out. She seemed to be a precious pearl in that while salwar.
"White suits you" he said. She smiled. "how much?"
"it's ok! I shall get from you some other day. Shall we move now"
She dropped her jaws! some other day!. She murmured.
"wait " she ran behind him.
"Hello! Have you thought that policemen are jobless either? I have so many jobs other than dropping you at home. Please walk fast"
Surprise! She shed a smile instead of frown.
There was another surprise had been waiting in front of her house. She astounded to see her scooter standing there and a pc standing beside it. She got down the car. The pc handed over the key to her and saluted Surya.
She turned to him. She tried a lot to not to show her astonishment.
"thank you" said surya.
"Er..I must say that"
"oh! Ofcourse. But I am not fortunate enough to hear it till now" he grinned. She lowered her head only to control her laughter.
"Are you trying to impress me?" she asked.
"why should I? you have been already impressed by me" she was amazed.
"oh..day dreaming is not good for health"
"Dhamayanti! You know . your eyes are the biggest enemies of you. They are speaking more to me confidentially. So better wear a sun glass. Okay" he drew his purse and removed his card. "keep this . you may need it"
Said surya, wore his sunglass and drove away his car and perfectly caught the sparks in her eyes and a beautiful smile in the corner of her lips. He winked and whistled mildly.
Late night! Sleep evaded from his eyes. He hadn't finished relishing the moments with her, received a phone call, tearing the serenity of night.
DHAMAYANTI !! he saw the time its 1 o clock. He smiled first, she might also be rolling and tossing in the bed like me.
"hello!Dhamayanti"
"hello! Sir! " her voice seemed to be husky and tensed. It seemed that she spoke in a low voice.
A sudden anxiety caught him strongly.
"hey! What happened? Are you okay"
"no! they are searching me. They are searching to kill me. Please come surya. "
"ok! Calm down! Don't worry I am coming. Where are you now"
Her sobbing broke her words. But he guessed the place. Second cross street, her house is in the 10th cross street. He calculated.
"you stay there. I will be there in next five mins." He wore his shirt and jumped on his bike.
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