‘Do you ever think what love story would we have’

By Anuja Pandey

Do you ever think what love story would we have

Somewhere in middle of the road near that chai ki tarpi where there is tea and some rains

Where we just get a glance of each other’s face and wonder to see each other again after months

Just to see the same love that happened at first sight

Or somewhere in the chemistry lab where I could only think of not screwing up the reaction and

You just blew up the lab because your eyes couldn’t leave mine and the wrong chemicals just blurred the sights of others

I think we will have a story where the first hello from you on a call will make me skip a heartbeat

even without knowing your name.

Not that violin wala pyaar where I could see you dancing, and you see me playing with my dupatta

But surely when our eyes caught each other, there was silence around and our eyes spoke for us

Remember when we fought and all I could think of going home and still wait up for your call.

It took you 10 months to call me back even though we crossed each other daily in the hallway of our college

It was that time when there were scratch cards to recharge our phone and I used to buy hundreds of 10Ruppee cards

The swing on the terrace has heard all my talks, all my insecurities about us which I could never tell you.

The balconies of my hostel remember long night calls and the bed remember your snores from the call.

I always made sure to say Good Night even when I knew that you are already asleep on the other side.

And drop a message of good morning for you to read in the morning.

I made sure that I am the last thought before you sleep and the first one when you wake up.

Did you like that?

Well, I am not sure if you did but I am sure I loved it. Just the thought of your smile when you read the message only if you did smile used to make me blush.

Even now I blush when I think of you.

OH coming back to our love story.

Remember the time when you got selected for a job and I couldn’t stop jumping as if I got a job and have become a crorepati even before my first salary.

I remember that. Do you?

It’s been 6 years that we are not together now and all I can think of is

Do you remember?

That first hello, the first handshake, the first time when we held each other’s hand in the rain, the first ever flower you gave me, the first teddy I made you buy for me.

OH the first time when we fought, the first long night call, the first snores

And the last bye.

Do you remember that because believe me or not I do, and I still do.

I think we will have that chai ki tarp wali love story. That sounds more real.

What do you think?

Do you ever think what love story will we have

By Anuja Pandey