Love Story !

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9 Mar 2024

The month must have been something like July and August. The sky was clear and it was raining lightly. We were enjoying the rain sitting in the college campus with our friends. Today we friends were talking about this and that and singing songs loudly.

Then my attention was drawn to someone running on the road in front of the canteen, wearing a yellow salwar suit and with her wet hair folded backwards, trying unsuccessfully to save herself from getting wet.

The drops of rain falling on his dark face and the red dot on his forehead were looking amazing. When she came near me, my eyes went wide open.
Oho! This is poetry.

His name suddenly came out of my mouth. I had followed Kavita several times during school but did not get any reply. Once he had complained to his class teacher and Sinha sir had scolded him severely. The punishment was so severe that even today I remember his slap.

It's been 6 years since this happened, I was in 8th and Kavita was in 6th. Then my father got transferred to Dehradun and my Lucknow love story ended there. With time, the pressure of studies took me to Kota. And after 2 years, today I am in second year engineering hostel in BHU, Banaras.

Kavita's face is never forgotten, perhaps the innocence of childhood never forgets. Perhaps this was the reason why Kavita came back to life again today.

The next day, when I was leaving the canteen after eating, Kavita and her friends came to eat with their heads bowed. You were a father to the juniors. As soon as Ravi and I saw the opportunity, we stopped to introduce two girls. There was poetry in it also.

Seeing her so well-dressed today, I had also decided that I will give her a good ragging today because Sinha sir's slaps were still resonating. my enemy was in front of me
I said out loud to Kavita, “Speak about yourself for 4 minutes without holding your breath.”

Kavita started speaking without raising her head

Hello sir, my name is Kavita Kashyap and I am from Lucknow. My father is a businessman, mother a housewife. My sister is one year younger than me and is currently preparing for medical. “I like watching movies and reading novels.” While she was saying this, I interrupted, “Which movies do you watch?” He said Bollywood, Hollywood horror films. ..I interrupted again “Don't you like love story? Kavita said..” No sir, I like suspense and horror films.

Our break was coming to an end. .I told Kavita out loud..You have to give the rest of the intro tomorrow. It's been 3 months since this happened.

Today Kavita WhatsApped me “Have you kept the Xerox of Mathur Sir of Mechanics?” I said. .I will give you tomorrow to come to Raju bhaiya's canteen. .We will also have tea there. It seems that Kavita had come to know that I was the topper of her branch and she too had been bitten by the bug of getting good marks.

Next day we met in the canteen. While giving the notes I asked, “Do you remember Sinha sir?” Kavita smiled lightly and said, “Yes, he taught English well.” I said, “Yes, along with English, he was also an expert in martial arts.” She started laughing loudly. Perhaps we both knew which war was being talked about.

In such a month, isolated meetings lasted for 4/5 months. Then I had gone to the last semester of third year and Kavita was in first year… Now Kavita would often call me on WhatsApp to clear the dots. And as soon as it is cleared the call gets disconnected. Initially, I used to get angry that she was wasting my time.. but I don't know why I always picked up her calls.

One day I asked.. “Will you only call me for your work, we can't have some normal friendship non academic talks sometimes”? There was no sound from there, I said hello hello twice. .Kavita slowly said yes hello? I asked you something and you did not answer. , Kavita said, “I thought you are a topper, you must know something other than studies.”

I said angrily, “This is your problem, you think to yourself and then the person in front of you gets beaten.” Sorry, a voice came from the other side.
I said sorry for what, for beating or just for calling for my work. ,

Poem “Both” Then I thought maybe he was uncomfortable with them. Turning the topic around, I again said, “Read all the three laws of thermodynamics thoroughly, Gupta sir asks a lot of questions from it.” .Kavita said “Hmm.

That night I could not sleep till late night. Don't know what the reason was. , Next month our exams were over and Kavita and I took tickets in the same bus to go to Delhi. I had to go to Delhi for my summer internship and Kavita was going to her cousin's wedding.

Both of us sat uncomfortably on the bus seat. She was sitting on the window seat looking outside and I was listening to songs through headphones.

It had been an hour since the bus started moving and I was looking at Kavita outside, I didn't realize that my eyes fell yesterday. Then suddenly someone placed a hand on my shoulder and I opened my eyes in panic. A boy was standing in front with a water bottle in his hand. While giving me a water bottle, she asked me where the bus would stop after 2 hours where I would get tea, water and food.

I was just looking outside to my right. Then I took out a packet of biscuits from my bag and tore it and passed it towards Kavita and she took two pieces of biscuits and said thank you and started looking back outside.

I also finished 4 biscuits without saying anything. I was blindsided and I didn't even realize it, suddenly the bus stops and everyone starts going down. Kavita also started moving a little, when I opened my eyes, Kavita said “It seems you are tired”. “No” I asked smilingly, “Do you want something to eat?” Kavita nodded slightly and said yes. I said let's go down and eat something. After 20 minutes everyone came back to their childhood bus and we also sat on our seats after eating and drinking.

Kavita said, “The vegetable was very good.” I said, “I liked the chutney very much.” Then Kavita took out the Pepsi bottle and placed it in front of me. I drank two sips and returned it. Kavita also started drinking Pepsi without touching her face, then my eyes fell on the green ring in Kavita's ears. It felt very nice to see that ear ring of hers and for me to see her like this. At first I thought about saying something, then I don't know what happened, I stopped.

Kavita took out a small sheet from her bag and covered it with her head and tried to sleep by saying good night to the window. She asked, do you also want to cover yourself with the sheet. I said no while pointing towards my jacket. Said good night. Started sleeping, after some time I felt heaviness on my left side shoulder, till I saw that Kavita's head had come on my shoulder in sleep.

I was not able to understand whether I should pick up Kavita or let her sleep without moving her. I remained lying like that and then I fell asleep. After some time, suddenly I hear the voice of Kavita saying sorry. At first I thought maybe I was in a dream but it was not so.