Dear Destiney,

CHAPTER-8

"We are going to Strawberry the next week for one week", she said. I was busy admiring the children's swing..hmm what a nice amusement it is.

Destiney and her mom planned a 1 week trip to Strawberry, 1 week seemed alot, and seeing how often we used to meet almost daily, I was sure that I'll miss her. Little did I know that it was going to be the best news ever..I mean not staying away from her, no no, but the holy confession it brough with it. Few days ago..we were doing the same ol' walk-walk..and I confessed that yes I have grown very genuine feelings towards her, it wasn't very filmy or like a fairtytale..I said it with the same stuttering I used to have around her and didn't expect a response at all, but fate had something else, even more better in store for me.

The day came they had to leave, I had planned a small Safe journey message for her, which I wrote in a whiteboard with a marker..It said that I'll miss her alot and with a small heart which was becoming more common in our letters ;) I was waiting for the moment when she comes to her balcony so I can flash the board to her, couldn't yell or do anything except waiting. I waited and waited, and finally the fairlady came..I flashed the board to her very high, she was indeed impressed.

Well the most exciting part happened when she sent me a letter from Strawberry three to four days in her vacation, she sounded so drunk (she wasn't drunk) but she talked about all the weird stuff, she even drew an ant sketch...What? I whispered to myself while reading the letter. "I want to tell you something" it was written, after reading this line, I sucked my breathe in afraid to make even a single noise..is it going to be what I think it is going to be!? I could feel my heart racing at 300 m/s, scared to read the next line..but curiosity had me.

"I really like you" it was written, I was dead, legit dead reading that. It was finally true. It was happening...the emphasis on really. Destiney was a girl that would never take rash decisions ever and on this sensitive topic never, I believed her, I was laying on my bed...while reading the letter, I sat up and did a few dance move sort of thing..I was just so happy, very happy, extremely happy. It made me wonder, how all of a sudden she got so sure about me...she had written that, she was sitting with her friends having deep conversations and all of a sudden she was sure. I knew this was it, cause to like somebody you never need a reason, it just happens at the most unexpectable of times. That day was the best, I still can remember how delightful I was feeling that day..

I thought why not plan her a small surprise before she comes back, I was on it. I hadn't confessed my feelings in a proper way yet, and knowing that I would be too shy in speaking out my heart to her face to face, I picked a pen and weaved my emotions for her in words in a letter. It was a 3 page long letter, the first time I was actually writing a love letter, and was very happy that the receiver was no other than my favorite girl. I firstly thought of hiding the letter inside a chocolate bar wrapper and then hide it in an abandoned room, but it was a very big messy idea, so I came down to having a separate chocolate bar, and a separate letter.

The day to execute the plan came, she had returned last night, next eve I met her, and was acting very dry. It's just my way, I for somereason end up acting all dry and distant before giving a surprise to someone that I personally think the person would love. I had hidden the letter and the chocolate bar in an abandoned house where fosho we both have went few times before so it was okay, now the only main thing was how to get her there, seeing me acting very distant and in a mean way she was kind of pissed off and sad, "Why did you even call me if you didn't want to meet", aww she said.."My choice" I replied boiling her blood even more.

Somehow silently with pin drop silence we reached near the abandoned house, "Why is the door open?" I said pointing it, acting as if I was new to this locality, I had left the door open intentionally, "Let's go in and check, maybe we can see a cat!" I advised cause we used to see cats there from every then and now..she agreed, "You are comfy? That if we both go inside together." I asked...yes I asked for her consent again rofl, "I can trust you, right?" she doubted..no ma'am you can't trust me, I'll kidnap you the moment you step foot in the house and feed you just COOKED PEAS everyday, "Ofcourse you can trust me..." I confirmed moving in the house..well I had hoped the planning to be more better but it went something like this, we walked in the bedroom where I had hid the letter, not actually hid but kept on the floor, it was dark there, "Ohhhh what is that.." I said idiotically pointing my lantern towards the letter as if she would think that its a diamond sheet, what on Earth, she guessed it already that its a letter without even picking it....she picked it up, saw the pages and said, "Sweet", hello ma'am? Sweet? that's it? Anyways we moved to the next area of the treasure hunt..I had kept the chocolate bar in another room, seeing the bar, she pulled me in a tight hug..yelling "I love You!" I mean she said "I love chocolates!", that hug was one of the best hugs ever, and I felt so open without any scare that I used to have while hugging a girl, it was warm.

I realized the way to a girl's heart is chocolate and not a love letter. We went out in light and sat below a lamppost, she started reading the letter sitting beside me, meanwhile I was dying and was burying deep in second hand embarrassment and the anticipation, waiting for how she will react...and on plus that this beautiful witch was reading the letter word to word all loud and not just in her mind, I felt like a ghost begging for help as this Father of the church performed exorcism on me. I meant every single letter I had written in the love letter tho. "No one has really liked me this much" she said after completing reading the letter, "I like you" she continued, I can't even describe how it felt hearing her say that in person, it felt like a bunch of ashjdbfukasgdyzjbfglfaskdbhgtfdtfvsdghfasgxfcsvdjhtxgfdhgahsCHXZR yes. We both ate the chocolate together.

After being tired from walking we usually used to sit in our lone place in the children's park, this place was a sacred ground for deep topics between me and Destiney, it was dark, quiet, serene silence, below the stars, just the place where you would want to discuss everything with someone.

This one evening, she was wearing two different color of socks below her slippers....quite weird, but it turned out to be adorable the way she told me, "I am wearing two different pair of socks.." her voice went so low saying this hehe, it was a little silence for a while.."What if you start liking someone else?" she said..my gaze was intense on her that the entire world seemed to stop, "You tell? I never stop worrying about you, I think about you all the time, every beautiful thing I see reminds me of you, that's never gonna happen ever.", she smiled then, her cheeks turning red, it was that same smile that I would do anything to earn it again. "What if you start liking someone else?" I asked..."I will not." she replied.

We had to go home it was getting late, without any meaning, while walking I would start to lean towards her, my neck bent in her direction, my body needing to be near her, with her near was never enough...and then she would do her way, she has an issue of not walking in a straight path instead colliding with the person every then and now with whom she is walking. My strides instead of my long legs, always seemed to slow down with her.