Make Me Yours

Chapter 4

Vinay

I bit my nails in nervousness. Today I will meet her why is it so difficult to meet her. Yesterday she changed her DP. I saw her for the first time in photo. She was wearing parrot green saari in that DP. She looked beautiful, smiling at the camera. I am waiting for her here outside metro station. How will I talk to her? Have she seen me? I was lost in my thoughts when I got a message from ekansh.

"All the best, hope so she is not like her sister"

I smiled looking at his text. From the last night he is in disapproval of meera's sister. She cursed him on call which were for me but he heard it. I think she might not have cursed me just for cancelling a meeting. I replied thank you brother to ekansh. I looked up from my screen. There she was ! Meera was walking towards me with a nervous smile. My heart skipped a beat looking at her.

Ofcourse she is beautiful , more beautiful in reality but her nervous smile and that small bindi of her's were taking my heart beats. She waved a hi to me " sorry to make you wait". She moved hair strands from her face. She was sweating a lot because of hot weather of Delhi.

"No it okay, I just came here!" I lied even though I was waiting for her about half an hour. "You need water?" She shook her head while bringing out water bottle from her bag.

We walked to the metro platform. As it was Saturday, the metro was crowded. We both stood at corner. We were standing so close. I hope she doesn't hear my fast heartbeats. I moved my hand to hold the pole for balancing myself. But my hands touched her hand which was holding the same pole. I felt a kind of warmth. Unconsciously I didn't removed my hand, nor did she moved her hand. We both just looked in each other eyes. Her eyes filled with dark kajal adding stars to her beauty.

What is happening to me? Ist it too fast , things like this. Or it's just because I have never been with any female.

"It's our stop!" I heard her voice. I came out of my imaginary world and we both moved out of metro. She wasn't looking at me Did I messed it up on our first meeting.

"I am sorry for what happened in the metro i didn't mean to do it" i said everything in one breath. She nodded and said it's ok. As we enter the temple she placed her duppatta over her head . We bought flowers and Prasad (offerings) . We stood in the queue, going out on Saturdays and Sundays is really a hard job. But luckily we only had to wait for 45 minutes or one have to wait for more than one hour on weekends.

We did the offerings and prayed to God. "I trust you Krishna ji, if we both are right for each other it will work and I will do everything to make it work for us. I just need your blessings" I prayed in my heart. We came out of the temple. It was already 1:00 in afternoon. We both were hungry.

"Two plate of chole chawal and raita" she ordered as we both discussed to eat the same. It was dhaba satll near the temple where we both are eating. We talked normally about things. "Why do you want to marry?" I asked her.

She took a sip of water and answered "I want to be wife and have my family,I think if the person is right marriage is one of the most beautiful thing, but alas! Nowadays marriage dating and love is became a joke for people , they mistreat their partners , cheat on them, this hook up culture and one night stands ruined the language of love. I hope I get a husband who loves me and is koyal to me I will do the same for him" she paused for a minute and asked " what about you?"

"My family want me to get settled now and I don't see any harm in it, I think it's a good thing to have a understanding partner by your side".

After this we talked about our interest and hobbies she like reading novels, watching comedy movies and cooking food, she is an editor, in food she likes to eat homemade food dal chawal and Paratha the most. She had done her graduation in English honours.

"You have such an interesting job! It was your childhood aim?" She asked being interested. I like the fact she wants to know about my interest. I sighed and replied "when I was young I always wanted to become a cricketer like every other Indian boy"

Please don't laugh like others. I would be hurt. "Oh," she kept her hand over mine and caressed it with her thumb with a comforting smile like she was saying it's okay.

"For a long time I blamed my luck and father for that , I used to think only if I was born in rich family so I could have afforded the training or I would have a supportive father now I would be playing for our country" I take pause feeling heavy with all these feelings. Regret of not being able to play for my country will always be there in my heart

"But later I realised it was me , who never fought for my dream, people with much less resources and support fight for dream and achieve their dream and I was just a coward"
I shouldn't share these deep things with her. Only ekansh and Siddarth know about these feelings of mine.

"Yes you might be right you should have fought for your dreams but you don't need to compare yourself with others. You can't compare your struggles and problems with anyone cause they are only yours. And you did best in past and now also you are doing your best. Your parents must be proud of you, your younger self must be proud of you"
Her words really comforted me.

"Hope so ! What was your dream ?"

She smiled "I don know, I never had a dream , I never knew what I want to become , I just moved with the flow of life. Poorvi, my sister she always wanted to be a teacher, I was really envious of her for this, she always knew what she wanted to do and I was always confused. I did B.A english because it was easy according to me and then I got this job in editing department, I just want earn for my family."

To light up the mood we talked about other things. As we came out of that stall. She asked "what will you say to your parents?"
"Umm ummmmm I think I should say yes!"

"Just after one date?" She thinks of this a date, yes it is a kind of date. "What do you think?" I asked her.

"We met today for the first time, I think we should frequently meet each other and know each other then we should come to an conclusion" she said while thinking deeply she was looking so cute. She sensed I was staring at her she turned to me and said "if you are okay with it?"

"That a great idea we shouldnt rush the things" she is right we should not rush things and we should know each other before taking this big step.

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