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Crazy Feeling

March Prompt

'You know I am not interested in coming, yet I came here and you are shouting on me for coming late?" I whisper yelled at my best friend and teammate, Raveena.

She shushed me and dragged me to the group of people ahead of me, and with no option left I went with her.

I am never a party person. Either it is in pubs and clubs or this formal party in office you will find me in a corner observing people and joking about them. I don't get the fake smiles and attitude people put on.

Currently, my company organized this party as we earned a deal with a foreign company. So people from all branches and departments came, who didn't contribute anything with the deal making, but once the talk about party goes by, everyone will attend to have the food and drinks. Pathetic.

"Hey look, your admirer is coming to us. I guess he will ask you for a dance," my friend said to me as Teja, my fellow colleague is coming near us. We are not one team either, but he has a huge liking towards me, which at times creeps me out. I immediately turned around and started walking in the other direction to escape from him.

As I was going to some corner, I suddenly felt a tap on my shoulder. I immediately stopped in my tracks thinking I have got caught to Teja and I can't escape. I slowly turned out to face him, but got blown away by recognizing the face. It's the face which I can never ever forget in my life.

It's my Crush.

I am seeing him after a whole of 10 years later. The last time I saw him was when I am in my 9th and he is in 10th. After that I kept a track about him, but even that got lost in time. Finally, I saw him now, that too in my office. What have I been doing in this company all this time?

"Hello beauty. Interested in a dance?" he asked me huskily and offered his palm. I am still in confusion and busy admiring his features. He hasn't changed much, just turned more manly. I looked at his palm and placed my hand in his with a huge smile on my face. He took mine and guided me to the dancing area where many couples are already dancing.

Many emotions are passing through my mind, but are being unexpressed through mouth. It's like a dream come true moment for me. He soon placed his other hand on my waist and brought me a bit closer to himself. As soon as he did that, a wave of current passed through my body. Only I know how many times I imagined about talking to him, expressing my feelings and him accepting my feelings and we both roaming all around our school as a couple, going to cafes and movie theater, sharing the same cool drink, talking till late night, awaiting for each other birthday with huge surprise plans and gifts and giving those red roses on Valentine's day.

Oh Goodness! Guess all of these would come true now. Finally, I thought to myself. As we continued dancing I saw Raveena looking at me with a smile. She knew about this crush as we were high school buddies. I noticed many eyes are staring at us as if we were the prince and Cinderella. 

Thankyou so much God, because of you I met him today. Thankyou a lot God, I offered all my thanks and praises to God. And in my mind only I decided to give Raveena a treat, cause if she didn't force me here, right now I wouldn't be dancing with him. Ok now let me introduce myself to him finally, I thought.

Before my plans could go further, a voice interrupted us. "Abdul...." a girl said quite loudly, stressing his name. I noticed a girl, same age as me , standing behind him, folding her arms and glaring at him. I looked at Abdul's face and saw him smirking at her and with that smirk, my smile fell down. 

He left me and said, "Thankyou for the dance, but now must go back to my girlfriend."

Shattered.

It felt like all my dreams were broken like a piece of glass. In this 5minutes I imagined a whole future, but nothing remained. I couldn't even utter a word. He left me there and took his girlfriend hand danced with her. All I could do is to be a mere spectator of that. 

All this time I felt like a Cinderella, but no, am nothing. He just used me and that thought alone is burning me from inside. Raveena, came to me excitedly but understood that something is wrong by seeing my pale face. 

"What happened?" she asked me as we sat near a table.

"He wanted to dance with his girlfriend," I said blankly, still staring at him. I just couldn't digest what all happened with me right now, but am definitely not a person to cry over this. So, I choose to ignore everything and remained rooted in my place.

Soon Raveena went for a dance with her boyfriend. Actually, she wouldn't have forced me if he said he would come, but he wanted to give her a surprise, so he came lately. I internally cursed him for his bloody surprise cause it ruined my whole mood.

Again, I felt a tap on my shoulder, and this time it is Teja. He is holding two drinks in his hands and a warm smile on his face. This made me feel very guilty. I kept on ignoring him all the time, yet he never gave up on me, like I did with my crush. 

Crazy feelings we have, I thought.

He offered me a drink and sat beside me and I couldn't hurt him more, by avoiding him again. We started talking. Probably, this is the 1st time ever we had a proper conversation and I didn't even know how time passed by in his company. He is too much fun and sensible at the same time. I regret missing such a good company before. He made me forget all my tensions and bad mood.

"Harshitha....interested in a ....." he couldn't complete his sentence as he kept fidgeting his palm, opening it and closing it and trying to ask me for a dance. I chuckled at his cute antics and stood up from my chair and offered my hand to him. 

He took my hand and has the same smile and excitement which I had when Abdul asked me for a dance. How little things provide great happiness and satisfaction to us, I thought.

And we went ahead and started dancing. This time I didn't felt like a Cinderella and princess, but am sure the person with whom am dancing is treating me like one.

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