INTROVERT ED

MANALI

This beautiful whether outside my hotel room, was so eye pleasing that I kept looking at it for more than 15 minutes, the leaves of the trees were swinging with the wind, some were falling down and some were making itself stand with the tree, there was not much of a sunlight as the trees had given us the shade. Even my hotel room was very much good. It was like a typical hotel, a bed, a chair by the side of window and a bathroom, TV in front of bed and some drawers. I sent Khushi a photo of Manali, she was offline. I sent two three more photos to my parents, after Tania coming to my life I never felt that I had less friends, when she went away I had Pari and then Khushi, all this girls never let me feel that I was alone. Khushi gave me another level of happiness as she never used to take a day off not talking to me. We were really good friends.

I had a plan of visiting Hadimba Devi temple, it felt a really good spot to me, starting my trip to Manali while going to temple was a great plan. While seeing the photos of it on Google it gave peaceful vibes.

While traveling in bus, it took me 20 rupees from the hotel to the temple. With me there were also some people who had checked in the hotel with me. I looked out, Manali was some place, form anywhere you see, you will see the beauty of nature.

There was not much of crowd there, we walked on the fallen leaves, and then climbed the stairs, got inside the temple, and trees surrounded this temple as they were the guards of it. Watching this all old things make me feel proud of India, we have such a rich heritage. I heard a voice behind me of a girl.

'Ankita, why the hell are you tired? We had planned to go to this temple and then we have to even go to Solang Valley and you are being tired from now?' I thought I heard this voice somewhere around, it was very much familiar, like a voice I have been hearing from past months or years. I turned back.

'Khushi!' I shouted out loud in excitement, it was Khushi, wearing a red color salwar and a blue color jeans with her hair open. She looked so beautiful, I can't even explain.

'Ani!' She looked at me with her eyes wide open, she came and hugged me, very tight.

'What are you doing here?' I asked.

'I came here the past day, that's why my network was not properly working, you could have said me, Ani,' she said with all her excitement out.

'Who is he?' Ankita asked, she had short hairs, a black color glasses and was wearing a blue color salwar with white straps on it.

'I was going to say all of that, but your network just left the chat,' I said and we both laughed.

'He is my bestfriend, Anirudh, we have been talking like daily for hours on discord, we met there and just became really good friends, and this is the biggest surprise I ever had,'

'Even for me,' I said.

'You both talk as if you are in a relationship...wait you were telling me Khushi that you are in love with someone, is that you both are dating?'

'No, we are not, just bestie,'

'Really? We are not dating,' I said and looked at her with my eyes half closed.

'Are we? I don't know,' she said and laughed out, I side hugged her.

'Where are you going the next?' She asked.

'To Solang valley, got to do some adventure there,' I said.

'Okay, we are also going over there, let's leave,'

'By the way you are looking more than beautiful,' I said.

'Thanks dude,' she said and smiled.

Then we sat back to bus and left for Solang Valley to see more beauty of nature, mountains. She sat beside me during this trip, kept her head on my shoulder, she talked a lot to me, I kept listening to her. We had fun in Solang Valley by throwing snow balls on each other, doing some hiking and also some rides over there. We didn't do much of hiking, but reached at a certain point, I think of the smallest mountain over there.

We both shouted as we reached on the top, Ankita laughed a bit, while we both enjoyed our company. We clicked photos of each other. We both together, I shouted 'Khushi, stop hypnotizing me with that beauty,' the voice echoed.

'I won't, I love magic and Fire,' she shouted.

'Even I love Water,'

We held each other hands and shouted together and ran down, did some parachuting. It was now 6PM,

'Take a photo of us together,' Khushi told to Ankita and gave her phone.

'Let us jump, that looks real good in photo,' I said, we had to jump about twenty times to get that one good click, after that we went back to bus. There were some people already finding place to sit, I found a seat empty, I went there and sat, she was standing behind a man, he saw the empty seat by my side and sat up, Khushi came up and asked him to please get up.

'Oh sorry, your wife, I will get up,' he said.

'I am...' Khushi was about to speak up, I interrupted.

'Yeah, my wife, sit here, Khushi, darling,' I said and gave her a wicked smile.

'Yeah...my husband,' she sat beside me and looked at me. I looked out of the window.

'Made me your girlfriend in front on my friend and then made your wife infront of this man, why don't you make your child's mom?'

'But, that I can't make in front of someone,' I said.

'You stupid,' she hit me lightly and laughed out, we both laughed then, she again put her head on my shoulder and we twined our hands and the bus started.

'I love you, Khushi,'

'That's a memorable proposal, my dear husband,' she smiled and looked at me, we both maintained an eye contact for a while.

'Then we should get married,'

'Yeah, when?'

'Now, let us go and marry,'

'Let's go,'

We laughed and laughed more.