My husband and I met every Monday .........his days off when i was in college and he was working . One Monday he and his hiking buddies decided to climb a difficult fort near our city and my husband.....an avid hiker , agreed . I too enthusiastically encouraged him as i didn't want him to think that i was the type where men can have no friends or guy fun after marraige [ i really don't like the girls who insist that only they shud be the center of attraction and their men shud have no guy friends after marraige except people of their choice].
I spent the Monday attending all the lectures and remembering him .....realising sadly that now i wud be seeing him after a week.........total, 15 days . At 4 in the afternoon my college ended and when I walked out of the college gates and turned on the roads I heard running footsteps behind me and a tap on the shoulder ........jolted , I turned around to see if it was an eve teaser as that locality was a little shady ........but imagine my surprize to see the panting face of my sweaty hubby !
After he had taken breaths . he told me that they had left at dawn , travelled three hours to reach the fort......started the climb on the steep hill and half way thru the climb he had told his best friend that he was turning back . He had simply not been able to focus or enjoy the hike as he wudn't be seeing me for a total of 15 days . His buddies had rigged and teased him and given him practical advice that now even if u travel three hours and go she will have left college and gone home [ in that case he wudnt be able to meet me as my mom didnt know about us then].......but my husband had said stubbornly I don't know , I must go bas . Without waiting for the train etc he had flagged a truck and travelled the distance in two and a half hours , and made it to the college to find the classrooms empty as it had dispersed and so taking a chance he had run like crazy on the route that I took home and spotted me in the crowd in the rain .
Need I describe the immense satisfaction , joy , and bliss i experienced.......the feeling of love as a woman as I heard it all standing on the road in the rain hugging my books to my chest ? We both quietly went to our normal meeting place ......the bus stop behind the college where we rested against the poles , standing , and talked like we talked every Monday........me describing all events vividly , chattering to the dozen , while he hmmed and hawed , smoking occasionally and smiling at my enthusiasm . Hardly a word from him .......our conversations always were him listening and me talking . He speaks very little , but when it is necessary . Sometimes I wud halt , pull his sleeve and say " you also talk na....how quiet Ur !!' And he wud smile and say , No u go on , I like to hear u talk .
That day , I decided to bear my mom's anger and stayed for an extra hour at the stop as he had come to meet me bearing so much travel and trouble and lied to my mom that I went to a friends's house after college to study ........sorry for forgetting to inform her in the morning . Mom was tallking sharply from the kitchen about my irresponsible behaviour and about how worried she had been , and I was stupidly smiling in the balcony and wondering if he had reached home and how wonderful that particular Monday had been . It had taught me what being in love was all about .
Edited by koolsadhu1000 - 15 years ago