I Just Called To Say... - chapter 3 - pg 10 - Page 2

Chapter 1 - an unexpected meeting

With each passing minute I started feeling more excited as there are exactly 9hrs, 45 minutes and 15 seconds for the marriage to take place. And I suddenly wondered how in the world all this has happened? How did I get so lucky? That I am getting married to her, well I know that we dint meet on a very good note and had met in quite an odd way. But I can swear that never in my life did I think that exactly a year later I would be so madly in love with the same women who actually got onto my nerves in the very first meeting. And this, what I remember is how it has happened.

- Flashback-

Meeting no. 1

!4^th February, XXX

Mumbai

Well! Guess what the famous Valentine's Day is back again with a bang, and all one can see around is red, red and red! I mean everything from the roses to the balloons to the cloth on table everything around me is red and what makes it worse is the fact that I myself am wearing a stupid red shirt that my girlfriend has gifted me. Blame love to make a person do something insane, but the question is did I really love her? And even if I did then why am I afraid to accept it and take this relationship to a new level. But the truth is that I may lie to everyone around me, Ammi, Najma, Ayyan, her and the world but I cannot lie to myself about the fact that what we share is not love in fact it's not even infatuation, it's all an act . An act so that Ammi would not pester me constantly to get married, an act so that I can live my life in peace and pretend to be happy. But who am I lying to on the surface I might look happy but deep inside I'm nothing but a shallow person with no feelings alive. And the girl sitting in front of me , my so called girl friend is just perfect for this act, she is actually an employee and one of those few people who became close to me but not close enough to understand me. She was everything a man could ask for, she was beautiful and intelligent, understanding and friendly and most importantly she was a person with a golden heart but all these things could make anyone else fall in love but not me. Cause I am a person who doesn't waste his time on things like love. As my mind as drifted somewhere far better than this boring dinner I was having at Sun- n- Sand I was suddenly brought back into reality by my girlfriend, Aliza , Aliza Quadri that's her name. she wanted to dance with me as it was her favourite romantic number playing and the moment but me being me I just denied to dance, telling her that we are not teenagers anymore to get excited about such things and this instantly shut her up until she saw one of our clients coming in from the door. Business is the one and only thing which interested me and she surely has hit the right button there. So as soon as I heard that Mr Husain was there I turned around only to get lost into the most beautiful pair of eyes which I have ever seen, yes it was her. As I was lost in her dark brown eyes which were very artistically highlighted with Kohl I did not notice that I put my arm on her shoulder and that she was trying to tell me something. It was the snap of the fingers which made me come back to reality and realize that but the damage was already done as she seemed to be very mad at me.

Z: allah miya! whats wrong with you? I've been asking you to remove your hand for the past two minutes and all you've been doing is stare at me , just tell me one thing does everyone in this country stare like this?

Me: excuse me! What are you talking about? I keeping my hand on you, you must be hallucinating miss '.

Z: oh really Mr. whatever your name is aapke yeh jo bade bade button jaise aankeh hai na unka jaanch karva de jiye cause clearly your hand Is on my shoulder and if you please don't mind could you remove it

And that is when I realized that my hand was indeed kept on her shoulder and that I was wrong. But that was something that my huge ego would not accept so instead of just removing my hand and apologising this is what I did.

Me: okay fine I'm removing it but let me tell you something it's totally your fault

Z: what my fault? You mean to say that this whole thing is my fault, I just can't believe it instead of apologising you are putting the blame on me

Me: apologise? Who me? Excuse me Miss I am Asad Ahmed Khan and let me make one thing clear I never apologise

Z: well too bad that you have to apologize this time or else
me: or else what?

I just could not believe that this little creature standing in front of me actually had the guts to challenge me, Asad Ahmed Khan. but surely I have under estimated her cause what happened next is something which was completely unexpected as in the very next moment I was drenched in what seems to be milkshake and by the time I could recover from the initial shock that she has actually thrown strawberry milkshake on me she was gone just like that and this infuriated me. How dare she does this to me? Little did I know that there was more to come in the future.

- Flashback ends-

Well this memory has brought a huge smile on my face and I just realised that whatever she did that day I completely deserved it. I was such a jerk back then with all the attitude in the world and it was only she who could bring me back to the earth and show me my place. Well I know there are many decent was for two people to meet for instance they can meet by saying a hello, or by shaking their hands or even through Facebook. But being drenched in milkshake after the very first meet is one of the many things that makes our relationship unique.

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so here it is chapter one. and please feel free to comment and like as i would love to know what you people feel about it. i personally feel it to be lame but if you feel its even worse and want to through joothas and tamatar on me then i am sorry for wasting your time.

love

Niharika