Saturday, March 07, 2009

एक छोटी सी लव स्टोरी

Disclaimer: All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
I always loved her, but I never had the courage to say that to her. May be because I always felt that we were so different or may be because I feared rejection.
It has been 10 years since I have met her. 10 years since I ever enquired about her. I know as much about her as I knew 10 years back. Reason - I wanted to forget her, as thinking about her always used to hurt me. I never married. Reason - there was an unexpressed love in me for her which I never wanted to share with anybody else.
Today I am going to meet her again after 10 long years. It does not seem to be so long since I have met her. May be because every night my subconscious mind used to think about her. Or may be because in this fast paced world, I never realised that 10 years have passed since I graduated from my college and had last met her.
Tomorrow is our 10 year college reunion and I will meet her again at the same place where I had last met her. The thought of meeting her again excites me. The thought of seeing her again thrills me. But there is a fear as well. Will we be able to speak as freely as we used to speak 10 years back. Will she recognise me. I kept thinking about this the whole night on my flight from London to Ahmedabad. And then i heard the announcement - "Jet Airways flight 1046 is about to land in Ahmedabad". I looked outside the window. Everything looked the same as it was 10 years back.
And then I saw her. What a coincidence... Her flight from some another part of the world had landed in Ahmedabad at the same time as my flight. She was waiting for her baggage and I was waiting for mine. Should I go and speak to her? Or should I speak to her only once I reach the college campus. I decided to go and say hello to her. Then I saw that her baggage has arrived and she walked towards the exit with a guy walking next to him. I guess he was her husband. I stopped myself and kept waiting for my baggage to arrive. I kept looking at her and after a few minutes I saw her sit in a car and disappear...