Destined to meet
genre : Romance ; Love Story
Anurag is paddling fast on his bicycle, as he rushes to complete a silly errand of his elder brother. He has to buy a bunch of roses, from New Market, for his current girlfriend. He could not help feeling disgusted as his brother changed girlfriends faster than his socks, while Anurag had a squeaky clean reputation as far as girls were concerned.
Being an architecture student, his gaze drifts away from the road and marvels at the masonry of the visual extravaganza, popularly called the Victoria Memorial. He suddenly feels his bicycle getting disbalanced and he falls with a thud.
Gradually as realization dawns, he notices that his bicycle wheel entangled with the dupatta of a girl who was cycling past him. He feels scared finding the girl knocked semiconscious as her head hit the pavement.
Being a Kolkata resident, he knows that knocking down a girl meant getting surrounded by passers-by, like a swarm of angry bees, waiting to suck his blood. Anurag waste no time in calling up his servant to pick up both bicycles from the location, while he rushed the girl to the nearest hospital by a taxi.
He fumes as to why didn’t girls wear trousers like guys? Why did they have to wear clothing that floated around and unleashed on the unsuspecting passers-by)?? Suddenly his attention gets distracted again as the girl stutters him with thanks for rescuing her and apologizes for the accident. She then faints leaving him very worried.
All his anger flies out of the window and he tries to dab her bleeding forehead with his spotless handkerchief. She could be in her late teens, he surmises as he stares at her. He couldn’t help noticing her flawless creamy complexion, her long eyelashes on her fair cheeks as he holds her head in his lap.
Her lips look like rosebuds and her long hair feel so soft and silky. She was without any makeup or any adornments, yet she appeared so charming! Anurag feels an immense attraction towards this stranger girl, compounded several times by a faint scent of roses that wafts from the sleeping beauty. He reprimands himself for losing control, his vital skill to force his emotions not to hijack him had failed !! He stares at the girl in disbelief !! Anurag finds this newfound emotional turbulence inexplicable. On reaching home after completion of hospital formalities,he feels relived on being able to help an accident victim.....
Anurag’s servant Debu informs about the girl “Prerna’s” mobile ringing many times, asking for the packet she was supposed to deliver. Anurag takes the next call and rushes off on his scooter to deliver the packet lying on her bicycle carrier, at the address given. He is pleasantly surprised to see that it was a school for visually handicapped children. The packet contained candies and rose-flavored pastries and cupcakes for all the children on the birthday of little Runi. The children’s happiness knows no bounds and they start jumping in excitement on knowing about the arrival of theIr gifts.
The teacher lovingly distributes the balloons and candies along with cupcakes to all the children assisted by Anurag. Runi asks him about Prerna didi as she had promised to be with them today.
He decided not to spoil the fun of these tender hearts and he assured them that she was held up unexpectedly somewhere, so sent him instead.
He feels a unique joy in making friends with these visually handicapped, as he admires their confidence and intelligence. He is overwhelmed to see the way these kids loved Prerna. At that moment, he feels like he was attracted even more to Prerna for giving so much affection to these children!
The teacher there informs him that Prerna is especially attached to Runi as she was the one who adopted her when Runi’s own parents abandoned her outside an orphanage. Runi had found her mother in Prerna and Anurag felt sorry to see her missing Prerna just because of him. Prerna makes him realize today, that beauty of life lies not in how happy you are but how happy others can be because of you.
A few days later a call from Prerna, thanking him for everything he had done, made his heart go pitter-patter without any explanatory prelude. He can't hide his smile reminiscing his dream girl and her serene beauty.
He recollects the day when he had laid his eyes on Prerna for the very first time, her fragrance of roses along with the thoughtful gifts of candies, cakes, and pastries for the children. It was something he couldn’t forget. She had sucked him into a zone he was not ready to come out of. He knew his chances of meeting this girl again seemed too farfetched, but hope floated in the air like pollen, whether they would settle on his dream flower or perish midway, depended on this dream girl, who had made a special place in his heart. He firmly believes that his heart would surely make its way into hers one day !!
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