February 23, 2014 Monday
"What did you just call me?"
Adhithi repeated the question.
Arnav was feeling all sorts of emotions run through him. What was he doing? What was this weird feeling inside? He felt like he was on a rollercoaster!
"Nothing. I said nothing". He replied.
"Hey, tell me now. What did you just call me?"
Arnav started becoming anxious thinking he must've offended her.
"Listen bujjima, it was not intentional. I blurted something without thinking because I was so unbelievably happy".
"Explanations later. I want to hear that word again", she spoke like a school principal.
"Hey..."
"Ok, I'm disconnecting, bye!"
"Why are you doing this to me? I just told you it was like a reflex".
"Oh, does hero sir calls people as wifey out of reflex? How many wifeys you have called so far 'reflexively'?" She was doing the air quotes on her side.
Arnav tried to salvage the situation but made it embarrassingly worse.
"Just you. What do you think I am?"
Then he heard what he had said and facepalmed himself!
"Are you telling me I'm your wife now?"
Arnav was becoming bolder now.
"Are you going to tell me you are not?"
This double-take shut her up.
"I'm not".
"What?"
"I meant I'm not telling like that".
Arnav was smiling broadly like an idiot. What was this new found feeling. He felt intoxicated without drinking. He felt like soaring in the sky with his legs still in the ground.
"So, are you my wifey?"
"That's not for me to answer".
"Then?"
"You say what you want to say".
Her voice showed all the emotions she was experiencing the other side.
"You know me. I always stand by what I say", he said.
It sounded different to her somehow. It sounded like her best friend was suddenly a man!
"Girls don't like beating about the bush in these matters".
"What do you want me to say now?"
"That, what you wanted to say now!"
"I want to get married to you. I want to make you my wife. I want my future to be you. I want my life to be you. I want you to be mine, forever!"
There, the writer had spoken and the spell worked too.
Adhithi was on cloud nine! She didn't know how to react.
"I love you!" She cried.
"Me too, I think so!" He said.
They both laughed with emotions rolling inside their hearts.
The thunder clouds clapped and in the next second, it poured! It looked like the Heavens were blessing them. Or at least that's what they thought!
They just cut the call to resume their daily activities. Both were highly nervous and excited as was the case with the love affairs between most nineteen year old's.
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