Jab they met

“Excuse me?” she said when she couldn’t go through the gang of people in front of her who were busy chatting on some trivial issue. It was then that she saw him amongst the group. Their eyes met…

“I love you! Do you?” he asked her. She needed some time. He kept asking her out. At last she agreed.

“Are you…?” he asked still not believing that it was her in front of him after all these years. With crisp cold serious eyes she replied, “Yes its me!”

“We are the best couple on earth!” he assured her. “Yes honey we surely are” she said with moist eyes. She was very happy whenever she was with him. He got her gifts, chocolates, flowers anything he could imagine of. They were happy.

“Errr… How are you?” he was shaking. She kept staring at him with her diabolical eyes that clearly had a tale to tell. “Errr… Sorry” was all he could manage then.

“You won’t ever leave me right?” she asked him while lying in his shoulders. “Oh come on! Never! Not till I die!” his reassurance was all she needed to be happy.

“Why did you?” she was choking when she asked. “Why did you cheat me?” “I can explain!” he tried holding her hand and got slapped in his face hard.

“I am leaving to Delhi tomorrow honey,” he told her over the phone. She cried instantly and incessantly. “Hey I’ll be back dear. Very soon. As soon as I could” he tried to console the soul over the phone. “Please don’t go! I can’t live without seeing you…”

“Get out of my sight!” she barked at him. “You are a cheat!”

“No!” he wanted to clarify. “I tried reaching you…” he got slapped again before he could finish that statement.

She waited to hear from him. He had given a landline number that was never attended. She had no other way of communicating him. She tried to reach his office only to find out that he was fired a month before. She waited for him to call her. She waited…

“I still love you,” he told her. “I am married now” was her instant reply.

He never called. She was getting anxious. Her parents had fixed up a groom for her. She needed him now. She needed him to come and take her away. She loved him more than anybody on this planet. She needed him…

She wanted to ask him a lot of questions whenever she got to meet him next. She wanted to ask him why he was so nice to her first and why he left her all of a sudden without any trace. She needed answers from him. Suddenly her mobile ringed. “Hey come over here fast! Me sitting here in this restaurant looking at the blank chair beside me!” her face suddenly brightened when her man called. Her new man. She managed an ‘excuse me’ and walked past him in a hurry. He kept looking at her thinking how much he missed a girl as lovely as her. He wanted to tell her how he was fired from his job. How he suffered in the city one from shortage of money and other by missing her. He didn't want to call her and tell her that her man was a loser. He wanted to settle down into a good career and then call her. When he finally did, he was told that she was getting married in a week. He kept the phone down, shocked and dejected. He vowed never to interfere in her life again…