Ananya started to talk and sam listened. They shared their family and educational backgrounds. As they were talking sam realized that there was some kind of waves flowing between them. They shared many things in common and they sync very well. When the cab reached her house, sam wanted to ask for her mobile number but was afraid of her reaction so waved his hand and wished her good night.
There was a slim breeze at that hour of night, very gentle one, moving her silky hair like a Mexican wave. He was mesmerized with her beauty and was looking at her intently; all of a sudden she turned back, completely taking sam, off the guard. She smiled at him and went inside her home. That night sam was not able to sleep. He was thinking about her only.
Next day sam went to office hoping to have a conversation with her. When he entered his floor he saw her, but found there was something wrong with her. There was no liveliness in her face. He said hi but she responded meekly. He was disturbed because of her gloomy mood.
Sam and his team were having coffee that time Ananya came there with her friend, sam initiated the conversation with some courage
“How are you Ananya? Looks like not feeling well”
“I m fine, nothing like that. So how are you?”
“Ya I m good, so how is the work going on for you”
“It is fine, but I have to learn many things”
Then with more courage sam said “if you need any help ping me” and gave her his employee id. Sam was hoping for a message from her. But he didn’t get any.
Next day came the most awaiting message in the OCS. It was Ananya. Sam stopped doing all his work and started replying her queries. Then he asked her why she was sad the day before. She told her that she did some mistakes in some queries so got her manager’s piece of mind. Then sam volunteered to help her professionally.
They started to converse very often and exchanged their mobile numbers too. Their professional relationship turned into a good friendship and it was in turn blossoming into a beautiful relationship. Both started to feel comfortable with each other’s company and started to spend more time together. Days went, weeks went, their binding grew stronger, and though both liked each other they never really proposed.
One fine day sam decided to propose Ananya. He was very worried and was rehearsing hard on how to propose her. He met her in the cafeteria. She was talking about her team, suddenly he asked her,
“Will you marry me?”
For a split second Ananya was speechless, though she wanted to hear it from him, she never expected the proposal to be that way. She didn’t say anything.
Again sam asked her the same question. Ananya started to blush but at the same time there was some kind of concern on her face. She said, “I don’t know whether my parents will accept it or not?” but sam was interested only in her answer. From her smiles and tears he knew the answer.
From that day onwards their relationship changed completely. They bonded more and started to spend more time and space together. There was no difference between day and night for they spent most of their time either texting or chatting. Life was very blissful for him.
Everything went on smoothly until that day. It was that fateful day that shattered all his dreams. It had been six months from that April day when he met Ananya for the first time. The day started like a normal one except there was no message from Ananya. Sam was little worried about that. He called her but could not able to reach her. He was very disturbed. Finally she called up and asked him to come to yummy ice cream parlor, where they used to spend most of their time together. Her voice was not normal, that worried him a lot. He left office early and went to the ice cream parlor.
She was waiting for him. He went near her and asked
“Are you okay? Why you did not come to office? Any problem in your house?”
She said, “Everything is fine”
“Then why you did not come to office”
Then she told him the most unexpected words, “sorry sam, I m very sorry. But I don’t have any other choice”
“I can’t get you. Why you telling me sorry?”
Ananya said, “I m getting married soon”
It struck like a thunder bolt to him. He was jolted and don’t know how to react.
She continued, “It is the end of us, we have to part. There is nothing that can be done now. Everything is over”
“I can’t let it end this way…..I just can’t…….”
“No we have to…… we have to move on….”
“No I can’t……”
“But we have to sam… we have to move on…..”
Sam was able to hear the words in distance. Someone telling him,
“Move on man…. We have reached the office …. Come on start moving…”
Suddenly sam woke up and saw he was in bus inside the office campus. His friend is asking him to get down from the bus. Sam was confused; he didn’t know what was happening.
Vinod said, “Still thinking about the white salwar girl in the stop?”
Only then sam realized that all this time he was dreaming about the girl, whom he saw for a moment when he entered the bus. Sam regained his conscious and then put iPod back in his pocket and started to get down from the bus. When he got down he was searching for the pink salwar, but it was in vain. Sam was thinking about his dream, then vinod said “dei athu epadi da stop nu sonna udane unkitta than solarange nu nenaiche……”(how come u thought that she asked u to stop the bus?). The same dialog, which he heard in his dream. He was shocked a little and thought whether he has seen his future or Final Destination movie kinda thing happening to him.
Then he reached his floor and got into the lift. When the door was about to close he heard the voice again, “stop… stop…. Stop…”. He saw vinod sporting the same mischievous smile which he envisioned in his dream. There came the pink salwar girl with her friend. Sam was totally shocked.
Not because that Ananya(the pink salwar girl) entered the lift and everything has been happening as he saw it in dream, but the girl next to Ananya, her friend was more beautiful than her. She was wearing black salwar and looked gorgeous in that.
Sam cursed himself, “How come I missed her in the dream?”
Then vinod asked him “ennada machi inniki kalaile unnoda fifteenth love story comedy ah mudinchiduchi?”(Hey dude what happened? Your fifteenth love story ended hilariously today morning).
“Aama machi but eppo seventeenth love story start ayiduchi”(yes dude, but now seventeenth love story has started)
“Enna da volarure fifteen ku apram sixteen thane da, epadi seventeen”(hey what you are saying? Sixteen only comes after fifteen right? Then how come seventeen?)
Sam smiled to himself, morning it was fifteen, in dreams he saw his sixteenth love story. Now his seventeenth love story begins………….
Disclaimer All the characters in this story are fictional. Any resemblance is purely accidental.
