When Suraj was still young, he used to stare at the sky for hours, thinking about the beautiful girls shown in the romantic love stories movies. Girls described in the story books. He always wondered do such dream girl exist, who can be described by comparing there eyes with the deep sea. One who can be as soothing and illuminating that there presence next to you means everything. Also the first interactions with these types of girl shown in the movies and books are so dramatic that such things happening in real life is next to impossible. He wondered, what if such dream girl exists?
The Question remained unanswered, until one day when he met her.
It was one regular day of November and Suraj was about to start his lunch in the office canteen with his friends which included seven male members having lunch together from past 4 years. Suraj was kind of loner then. He didn’t talk much, didn’t smile much, His day started with 45 minutes workout at society gym, followed by office visit which consumed 50% of his days time and it ended with 20 minutes talk with his family members before going to sleep. He had everything which most of the people can just dream about, good luxury house, expensive car and gadgets. He had bought the most expensive of a cellphone which had call log full of office colleague numbers. He had all the social media applications configured on his phone which were accessed once in a blue moon. His last photo upload on facebook was 3 years old.
There were random topics getting discussed on the lunch table. His attention was distracted because of the continues appreciation give by few members to some girl entering the canteen. There were about almost three hundred people in the canteen but that girl stood apart when she entered, as a glooming rose in a pot of grass and weed. She wore a white salwar kameez, and a fuchsia dupatta with silver piping. It was her eyes sparkling like a lone star in the dark sky, deeper than the deepest of the oceans, brighter than the beam of a full moon. Suraj gazed upon her from the corner of his eyes. Her attire appeared so appropriate as if it was created for her. It was difficult to ascertain whether her dress really was that pretty or she made it look pretty by her glare. Suraj finished his lunch along with his friends and they all left the canteen together.
Seeing her daily at the lunch time had become part of his routine, it was as important as having lunch which gives necessary energy and nourishment. Days became months, months became years, four years passed away and still the maximum interaction between them was just a eye contact knowingly or unknowingly.
One fine day Suraj gets a escalation mail in his mail box where he was marked in To along with his boss. The sender had marked mail to him and his boss at the same time. He read the name of the sender Soniya Ali, he had never heard this name before. The name was stuck in his mind "Soniya", From no were suddenly a thought hit his mind, she is the one. He neglected the same as it was next to impossible, but looking at his past experience of getting everything he desired he still had some doubt. Even after trying hard for almost 50 minutes to concentrate on his work, his mind was repeating the same thing again and again "She is the One". He needed evidence to suppress the thought, he recollected one of his office college using facebook to identify the person before going for the meeting if they are meeting for the first time. He opened the application on his phone, entered the name Soniya Ali in the search option. To his biggest surprise yes she was the one, who was part of his dream and desire to be with from pat four years.
Suraj cam up with the revert where he just updated "The below highlighted issue is taken care by XYZ team. Request you to get in touch with XYZ person". He was about to send the mail but he posed and added few more lines marking the concern team who can help and asked them to look into the same on priority. Mail left his mail box, but he still could not believe what has just happened. From no were this mail showed some hope of light, he could feel some connection and things moving in positive direction. From very next day, he could see too many coincidence. He saw her in parking, stairs, lift and even in the near by food stall. These unscheduled meets continued for next two weeks but nothing had changes between them, he was still strangers for her.
She became part of his daily prayer, Suraj has a myth of getting everything he asked from god. One day by mistake while going through her facebook profile he clicked on "+add friend" option. By the time he could recall the request, he gets pop up " Soniya Ali has accepted your friend request". I know its not a big deal for new generation but for him that was equivalent to getting Gold in Olympics. Now both of them were friends on facebook from past two to three weeks. In the series of coincidence another one took place to favour there love story. It was Soniya's Birthday, In evening he thought of giving it a try, he dropped a simple message of "Happy Birthday" and there was immediate response within few seconds "Thanks" with a emoji of smile. Now the story was on fast track, they were chatting on all possible communication channels which included, FB messenger, Instagram, whatsapp along with official communication channel. other than online chatting nothing had changed in there routine except her beautiful smile on her face when Suraj entered the canteen at lunch time.
They both knew almost everything about each other except how they are this comfortable. They had no connection at all but still they were so close. They had never met face to face and one fine they decide to meet on evening tea to find out answers to all there questions. This was the first time when they both saw each other so close. They ordered hot tea and were waiting for the order to get ready, other than "hi" there was complete silence. "So Suraj...." She begain. "Do you have a GF, do you like some one?" She whispered, and he looked away. he wanted to say, ‘you, you, a thousand times you. You’re the only one I can ever think about. You’re gorgeous and sweet and funny and…’ Instead, he shrugged his shoulders and looked down at his cup of tea which had arrived.
She looked at him with a cautious smile. “If I tell you mine, will you tell me yours?”
“Okay.” he said.
“The person I like… …is you.”
Suraj drop his tea, his voice got stuck in his throat. He was shocked and confused at the same time. "What is it?" She asks, looking concerned. Suraj waived his hand to communicate that he is ok.
Suraj was not able to frame a sentence, he was in a situation where the Jinn had already given him the wish he was willing to ask for. With all the efforts he cam up with the stupidest line in the world which could be used in response to the confession which was maid by Soniya. "Why do you Like me?". Now the confusion shifted to Soniya but she handled it very well. She narrated her part of the story and it was almost same, how she was in love with him when she saw him for the first time. How she waited for years and year to get some connection with him. She updated how excited she was to see the friend request from him, the birthday wish.
Once she was done she mentioned the line which is the sweetest line one could ever listen. She Said " I dont know about your feelings for me but I love you and i will continue t love you". There was complete silence, she mentioned her last line before leaving the table " You Love me or not, I am ok and i will continue to love you”.
Suraj and Soniya are together now and in deep love with each other. Suraj got answer to all his questions and now he believes in all the coincidence shown in love stories as he himself has experienced the same.
