My Perfect Start!

Chapter 3

My alarm rang at 7:00 in the morning. I woke up with a jerk and ran to the bathroom. I brushed my teeth well, took a bath, and left the house at 7:30. I dropped her a text that I have left. I plugged my earphones and shifted on the chilly highway. I was listening to 'Thinking out loud by Ed Sheeran. I reached the place where she gave me the location. I removed my helmet and waited for her for like 5 minutes, My eyes spotted her, she was walking. She also had earphones plugged into her ears. My heart skipped a beat when she came and stood in front of me.

'Hey' she said.

'Hi, come let's go.'

'Yep'

She sat, and I drifted the scooty to Parsik hill. I parked the scooty at one spot and we sat on the roadside Katta from where a proper view of the highway was seen. There was a silence between us for a minute. Few peoples were busy jogging their way up and down the hill, I saw one couple smooching in one corner. I drifted my eyes to Sneha.

'Good morning.'

'Ya, Good morning.' she replied.

'I want to ask one question... Why did you choose BMM?'

'Ahh! I want to work in the Advertisement field in the future.'

'Good'

'What about you?'

'I am more interested in the field of Journalism.' I said and let out a small chuckle.

'Oh Cool!'

'Ha so, you were going to tell me your story.'

'Are ha, so listen. I was dating Manav for like three years, but later on, he became ignorant and things were turning out very messy between us. I broke with him once, but then we patched up again. And now in March, we did the final breakup, I was like go and get some other girl whom you can fuck day and night.' she said.

I stood dumbstruck after hearing this.

'So what happened after that? Your parents got to know?' I asked looking straight into her eye.

'Naah, but it was a very crucial phase for me. I started to smoke thrice a day. It was really difficult to move on, but my friends stood by me and saved me.'

'Damn'

'You had a heartbreaking story.'

'I know right. Now tell me about your story.' she said.

'Which one?' I asked with a confused face.

'Arey about your Ex.'

I felt a lump in my throat.

'Haa, actually I didn't have any girlfriend. It was just a one-sided story and feeling. Listen, as I passed my 12th I found Shrishti on Instagram. There were few mutual friends between us. I texted her, we started to talk on Snapchat, then on Whatsapp, and then on call. We would use to talk for like hours. As it was the month of May, I was in my village for a month, My feelings grew. The first thing I did after returning to Mumbai was to meet her. I met her, and we would use to meet like these for 4 months. One day I confessed to her, but she told me she had a boyfriend. So in short she was using me, after that, I broke contact with her.'

'Ahh one-sided feelings are feelings so deep when the person you love doesn't understand your feelings, it is very difficult.' she said with a sigh.

'Ah true.' I replied.

'And what are your hobbies?' I asked with a smile.

'Umm, I like to dance, I like to play Badminton and Football.'

'Woahh! You are so cool.'

'I know right!' she said and laughed, I joined too.

'What about you?'

'I have only two hobbies, they are to read and write.' I said.

'Oh nice, I saw your page; Soulful Words, you write too good.' she said.

'Thank you.'

'Chalo abhi nikalte hai, baat karte karte 9 baj gaye. I need to reach home.' she said.

'Yeah Ok.'

I started the scooty and within 10 minutes I dropped her back home. I removed my helmet and looked at her.

'You had a tough life.' I said and hugged her. She revolved her left hand around my back, it made me shiver down.

She nodded.

'Bye' she said.

'Ya bbye.' I replied and within a minute she went away.

As I was cruising through the highway many thoughts were running down from my brain to the heart, I wanted to know her more, my sixth sense was saying she was hiding much more.

It was around 12 in the night, I was doing my assignments when a notification popped up. It was a text from her.

'Hey Wassup.'

'Busy doing assignments, what about you.'

'Listen na, wanted to speak something with you.'

'Ya say'

'I have one crush.'

My heart skipped a beat for a second.

'It is more like one-sided, I am taking all the efforts and he isn't doing anything.'

'Oh, that's why today you said about one-sided feelings.'

'Yaa... You know what, 2 days ago I waited for him at his apartment for 45 minutes but he didn't come. What to do I am not getting anything, I am so done, I have also blocked him on Whatsapp.'

'See, usko kadar nahi hai teri toh chhod, kyu uske peeche itna bhaagna. You are doing the whole thing, you are taking the whole efforts, relation ese thodi banta hai, there must be efforts from both the sides.'

'Yaa, I am so done now, he isn't sure about me too.'

'Then why are you running behind such a guy. Find someone who deserves you.'

'Yaa, Listen, Mumma, is calling me to sleep, Chalo Kal baat karte hai, Goodnight.'

'Yeah, Goodnight!'