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10 years ago
Chapter-I (Part a): A New Beginning
Piya's Pov
Hotel Sea Garden
Mumbai
Its raining really hard outside now. I seriously didn't expect this unpredictable heavy rain tonight. I mean come on here i am out for my first date ever and this sudden rain had to spoil everything. The rain seems to be like never ending, god i am still sitting all alone inside this hotel since last 30 minutes like a fool. People here have no other business than staring at me like i am some eye candy. I hate the look that few men are giving me. I am feeling really weird as i am sitting here all alone whereas everyone here are sitting with their special someone and moreover i have worn a red short dress which is making me feel highly uncomfortable among these unknown people.
I now really wanna slap myself hard for spending all my savings on this dress. I even don't know whether he would like me in this dress but with those eyes set on me i can say one thing i am not looking that bad which i thought i would look in this dress. I know people might wonder that i am some self obessed person but its true most of the boys of our college have proposed me several times despite of knowing the fact that i would refuse them then and there. I never ever actually fell for any guy and neither i dreamt of prince charming ever in my life. I am a scholarship student and yea i work as a part time waitress in Cafeteria else it would have been impossible for me to carry off my studies and my daily needs in this huge city as i belong to a poverty-stricken family where my dad is the only working person and he just manages to earn Rs 3000 per month. I have two sisters as well, Panchi and Misha and my mom ofcourse.
Anyways enough of my family background now lets get back to my story well i am still waiting for him to come. Yea i know i just now said many things like i never fell for any guy and never dreamt of prince charming too but it was till i met him. He made me realise that prince charming doesn't exist in story books only, he made me realise that yes i can fall for someone too, someone as special as him... you must be wondering who is this 'He' right?
Ok let me clear the confusion his name is Abhay Raichand. Ah i know this name has something in it which can easily grab someone's attention. His name is just as special as him. He is the best thing that could have ever happened in my life. Abhay and I both work at the same cafeteria. His background is also something similiar to that of mine. He also belongs to a middle class family and yea a MBA student but one thing he is not in my college.
Abhay and I met in facebook for the first time. I know it sounds crazy but i fell for him while chatting itself. I mean come on who won't fall for such a gentle and humble guy? He wasn't like any random guy who would ask me for my phone number or my picture. He never tried to flirt with me like guys do. I saw his picture though but he never asked for mine one. We were like this for 1 year or so, i used to live in Dehradun my hometown then.
After that i shifted to mumbai for studies as i got a scholarship in one of the best college here but still we used to chat with each other regularly. I knew he was from Mumbai as he told me this before only but i never thought about meeting him or anything like that. I mean i trusted him but meeting some facebook friend was beyond my imagination. But it is said na no one knows where our destiny will take us and something similiar happened with me too.
After i came to Mumbai I faced lots of financial crisis so as to meet my daily needs i started doing a part time job in Mumbai's most famous cafeteria. Well it was my 3rd day there, i was just serving some random customers as usual and then bang on I saw him for the first time, he was standing just few meters away from me!!!
I can never forget that special moment. God i couldn't believe my own eyes. He was there, just infront of my eyes and guess what he was staring at me unknowingly. I became self conscious and i understood i was gazing at him. I dropped my gaze downwards and he moved inside. My heart was beating in some unknown rhythm. I was feeling some unknown excitement which i can't even describe in few words. I didn't know what to do at that moment, i was in dilemma. Did i really saw him? Was it actually him or someone else? Should i just go and ask him? But what will i ask him? I felt like a totally confused soul then.
My mind was filled with various questions which had no answers at all. I decided to talk to him only after i make sure of him. I turned back and thud i dashed with something hard. I closed my eyes tightly as i knew what was coming in my way, i was about to fall and my head would touch the ground very soon. Time passed by but neither my body touched the ground nor did i feel any sort of pain. I still was scared to open my eyes but suddenly i heard a strong yet gentle manly voice saying to me "You can open your eyes, you are safe."
That manly voice was totally new for me but i felt secured as soon as i heard it, i don't know why though.I slowly slowly opened my eye lids and god my eyes directly met with the pair of deep blue eyes who were staring at me intensly!!! oh my god i can never forget those eyes. I have never seen such a beautiful pair of eyes in my life. They were just perfect. I was unable to shift my gaze from those pair of blue eyes but suddenly i heard some whispers coming from somewhere. I got aware of my surrounding now, god i was at someone else's arms and i am staring at him, don't know what people must be wondering about me. I shifted away my gaze from those blue piercing eyes but my eyes got strucked as soon as i saw the whole face of my saviour. O god i was presently in the arms of Abhay, my dream man and my first love Abhay Raichand!!!!
I always fell for his caring and gentle nature but i never ever actually noticed how handsome he was. His sharp chisled features, fair skin tone and that hard rock solid body was enough to take away any girl's heart in the first sight itself. Any girl's heart?? Well i felt a pang of jealousy with the thought of any other girl with him and i knew very well why i felt so, ofcourse it was because i was in love with him!!!
"ermmm... are u alright??" Abhay asked me in somewhat uncomfortable tone reminding me of my surroundings again. This time i didn't waste a single second by staring at him. I straightened myself and he slowly took away his arms from my waist.God i never wanted him to take away his arms, yea i know i sounded like those despo bimbo's then but it was not my fault he was just making me insane.
"Mam are u alright?" again the same manly voice interrupted my thoughts and yea trust me i was feeling like a idiot then. My cheeks turned a little shade of red and i just managed to give a single nod indicating i was fine. He was still looking at me with that same intense gaze, i was feeling so embarrased.
Suddenly he dropped his gaze as if he sensed my discomfort and i felt more respect for him. I for once thought to leave from there without uttering a single word but then realised that no it would look really ungrateful. I gathered all my courage and in a small voice whispered "ummm... thank you."
He was quiet still. I understood that may be he was feeling the same thing as me, i gave one last look towards him and left from there.
So this is how our first meeting was like.Days passed by and we started becoming close friends though he still didn't knew that i was his online best friend piyu. We were carrying out our regular online chats still and the weirdest thing was that he used to tell me about his new friend who was none other than me. I always felt blood rushing through my cheeks as soon as he mentioned my name as his new friend.
I started falling for him more and more with each passing day and finally one day i decided to tell him the truth.
Plz scroll down for part bEdited by Rmuk - 10 years ago