I AM DIFFERENT! (an os) Arjun's POV P3

I smiled weakly at the rain drops falling on my window sills. Why do the rain drops seem so pure and innocent? Why do they come down to the smudged world of earthly beings? My questions were never answered and the only thing my questions brought was the title of being different, being crazy! How convenient was the excuse to put me in that threshold! So easy! Easy like the breath that fell on my palm! Han! My pulses! They sweeten with passing moments! Do really one's pulse sweeten? Again my crazy mind! Saying and asking wrong questions and answers! How convenient! Being here in my own very room in its warmth and protection I could stretch my hands to touch the rain drops but once outside this room I was an unusually introvert weirdo? Was that term correct? Who knew? Who created these notions of right and wrong? May be he did? No people like him did? Him? The one who enjoyed every moment and the one who ridiculed who don't! And the one who got ridiculed was me! Once again how convenient! But the movies and novels depicted the love story of such different people! But how? Those who don't speak and not even look at each other fall in love? Impossible? Never tried or most probably never will? Ever read Virginia Woolf's 'A Haunted House'? The shortest short story possible! A ghostly couple returned to visit their home! A home now inhabited by a new young couple with lots of love between them! The ghostly couple so happy to see the love but why did they came? They came for the light of the heart! Did hearts have light? Strange naa? But did my parents come to visit me when I was asleep just like that? Again crazy me? Han! I know! I need to move out! It's the first day of second year of my college! A place I tried to avoid every now and then!

Me? You want to know who was I? I was Arohi Ahluwalia! A name that sounded so full of life but I was not! I was the dullest person you would ever meet! Again how convenient! Where was my jeans and white shirt? There it was! Slipping into them again brought that familiar warmth of my room! After all they had its essence in them! I walked out as withdrawn as possible from this world as I could! My mind recited the new creation that's popping in my head! Yeah that's my one ability! I could write! I couldn't speak in front of a large group but I could write! Pen would always be mightier for me! I thought continuously! I was in perpetual thinking motion! I thought more than I did! And my best friend was my diary! My sweet diary that once belonged to my mom! Of course I had human friends! Pia and Samanitha! My only friends! They were not like me but still we were friends! Strange? There they were waiting for me in their car. Why did I have to go by a car? Because otherwise my hair would get spoiled! Once again strange reason? My college! The place where all spoiled brats met! Why did my uncle have to send me here? Why? Everyday new problems aroused here! New lovers, new friendships and new enemies! Nothing was stable here! Why?

There comes my biggest problem! Arjun Singhania! Didn't his name sound hot? He was actually! But I didn't like him being hot! Actually I didn't like him! He always made things worse for me! He was impossible! He made me write his assignments and projects! I hate here! But he gave me chocolate in return! But why couldn't I say no to him? He always persuaded me! May be because I didn't like him! May be because I loved him! But how? He was arrogant but he always cared for me! He never let any other guy near me! He never let anyone to be bad to me! He protected me! But why I didn't like being in love with him? May be because he never confessed! He was always there for me! But he never let me to be outside of his eye sight! Was that not right? Why did he make all the rules?

I was in my class. So peaceful because there was our strict professor in my class. But I was not listening to him! I was enjoying my rain! Dip dip dip! What a great rhythm! May be I should write something on this rhythm? I wrote and Arjun sang! You know how Arjun and I became friends? Once he got hold of my diary and he read it! Next day he extended his hands for friendship! I thought he wanted to use my talent! He wanted that but there was something else too! Admiration? Attraction? And now love? Doubtful! Then my biggest problem, my biggest irritation became my good friend! But he was still my problem? Why did I fall in love with him? Because of him I lost my sleep! I lost my craziness! I was becoming normal! I don't want to be! This was so miserable! But if he loved me I would be so happy! Why? Because I loved him! Crazy me!

I was so lost in thoughts that I never heard the professor taking my name and now I was out of my class! But it felt so serene! And when I was out here there was no way my Arjun would be in there! Now he was beside me! I felt complete! He took my hand and we walked hand in hand to our place! Where? The steps that lead to our library! How perfect was my life? Or really? I was once alone and left out! But now I had someone beside me! But still I felt left out! I preferred to! Arjun had no problem!

"Arjun why do you love me?" - Arohi

"Because you are different! No one knows the fact that you are fun when you are with me! You are silent and thoughtful even then! I love you for what you are! " - Arjun

I couldn't do anything but smile! I knew this would be his answer! So true! I know you might be wondering if I was fun then why I talked like this! That's because I love the mystery that surrounded me when I was like this! I was shy! I was introvert! Yet I was happy and outgoing! So contradictory! I know! But that's me! And that's why I had my Arjun in my life! And I wouldn't change myself for anything! I couldn't lose my Arjun for anything! I was different! I was crazy! But I was what I was! So me!