Hum Tum - A Journey of Becoming "Us"! ❤️✨

Shayad Kabhi Na Keh Saku Mai Tumko

It was heavily raining that day, and guess what, I was late for school. Every day my van uncle was 10 minutes ahead of time, but today he even arrived late at our house's entrance. Without any delay, my sister and I, ran towards his van, avoiding getting drenched. I love rain but, soaking at that time will have me late for school and I can't afford that, because that day, I wanted to reach school, as soon as possible and meet my prince charming, Chirag.

I know it was a bit too much but still, I thought of him as my prince, I know it was a bit immature of me but no one can deny the feeling of heart for much time.
Love is a feeling, which makes us blindly believe in things, which our soul or heart wants. It comes to us in the unanticipated ways and it happens with the unexpected ones.

Though we were 15 minutes late from the school gate closer time, after convincing our security guard uncle for 2 minutes, he let us in. While persuading him, we all get water-soaked by rain, which by the way was still falling like cats and dogs. We hastily went inside our classes, without giving a single thought about our soaked uniform.

I Stood in front of our class and asked my English teacher, who was also our class teacher," May, I come in mam?"

She glanced toward me and nodded saying," Yes, come in and why are you late purvi?"

" Mam, actually our van was late today, because of this heavy rain, so we got 15 minutes late," I replied truthfully

"Okay, now go to your seat." Saying that she started writing something on our attendance sheet.

I quickly went inside our classroom and scanned the whole room hoping to see my special someone to be present there. I didn't want him to miss school today because of this rain.

When I saw him sitting at the 2nd bench, as usual, talking with Adira and smiling at something she said, I felt a bit heartbroken. They were smiling at each other and talking about something, that was not audible to me till now, as I was standing a bit far away from them both.
I quickly went to my bench which, Adira and I used to share and which was also beside Chirag's bench. Standing beside my seat meaning between mine and Chirag's, I gave a sign to Adira to shift to her side, She smirked and moved toward her seat fast.

Finally, I got my seat back and quickly, sat on it, smiling to myself. When I started opening my bag first chain and moved out my book, I realized that there was still some strain of rainwater present on my forehead and hair. Sighing, I quickly began searching for my handkerchief inside my skirt's pocket, but I found none. I started searching inside my bag too, but it was like even my luck was not on my side. First, it was the rain, then I got late to school, and now this. I guess, I left it inside my cupboard.

I face-palmed myself and closed my eyes, thinking about asking Adira, to lend me her napkin. But when I opened my eyes there was someone's hand with a handkerchief present there, in front of me. I tilted my head to see the guy, who I guess I fell in love with, smiling at me offering me his handkerchief. Ufff...that smile on his face and the way, he was offering his napkin, my heart melted then and there only. His smile was reaching his eyes, which gave me a different type of satisfaction.

"Hey, don't worry, this napkin is new, I didn't even use it, You can have it," he said, making me fall for him even more than I was.

And I just stared at him, without saying anything and even without grabbing his napkin from his hand.

Not getting any reply from me he started talking again," Actually I saw you moistened in the rain and searching for your napkin, I guess. When you did not find it, I thought to offer you mine, but if you don't want then it's okay."

But before he could take his hand back, I grabbed it, his finder touched mine, and it was warm, in this cold, windy and rainy weather. It felt nice, my cold fingers touching his warmed ones.

When I accepted his handkerchief, he withdrew his hands.

"Thank you, for this, I will return it to you tomorrow after cleaning it."

"No, it's okay, you can keep it. No need to return."

Before I could argue more with him our teacher started giving us some important notes for the half-yearly examination and we both started taking our notebooks out of our respective bags.

The day went in a blur, I thought of messaging him in the evening, but then I decided against it as I didn't want him to think, I was desperate.

At night when I went to bed, I took his handkerchief in my hand and hugged it to my chest, beaming happily. It was the first gift of my first love, though he gave it to help me clean myself from rainwater, still for me it was a very precious thing.

I want to tell him what I feel about him, my emotions, and my love but, I still don't have that much courage. I was just hoping that he understood my feelings without saying anything. Thinking about all these things, I went under my duvet, holding his handkerchief to my chest.

'Shayad kabhi na kehe sakoon main tumko.
Kahe bina samajh lo tum shayad.'