The idiot

Love is in the air

Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairytale.

CHAPTER 27

"You hang up first."

"Nahi...you hang up first."

"Chalo ek saath rakhte hai."

"On the count of three-"

"1...2...3."

"You didn't hang up either!" I chuckled.

"Hang up now." I said over the phone, finishing my coffee. "I've work to do."

My eyes grew bigger when I heard her reply. "No way am I doing this in front of all the people."

"Okay...just once...don't ask me this again." I rolled my eyes.

I looked around and kissed my phone with a loud 'muah' sound when no one was watching me. "Happy now!" I said over the phone.

I could hear the giggling from the other end. "Sorry once again. I am busy this weekend too." Preeti said before hanging up.

My Facebook status said 'in a relationship' but I never got the chance to see Preeti as she was always busy. May be that's the hard part of being a doctor.

I had booked two movie tickets for us for this weekend but now I had to ask some else to come with me for the movie. This was when I thought of Ruma.

May be I should ask her?

Ruma had moved to 4nd floor where Rahul used to sit. As I thought of her I realized I missed her. I missed the way we locked gazes and slipped smiles at each other.

I took a document with me and went to 4nd floor to catch a glimpse of her. I stopped near the photocopier and was looking around for her when I heard a voice saying, "What are you looking for?"

I turned around and saw a smiling face of Ruma. I was delighted to see her lips smile at me. I tried to sink in her smile, saving it in my memory.

Her smile faded away as I stood there gazing at her. "What's the matter, Hardik?" she asked, narrowing her eyes.

"Oh nothing. Nothing..." I swallowed hard and tried to speak in a normal tone. "...This whole thing appeared in front of me ....you know... ah, leave it. I don't think you want to hear about it. Never mind," I said, laughing, trying to skip the question.

She said nothing but gave a long and searching look.

"Actually our photocopier is out of order. That's why I came here." I said with nervous smile.

"Oh, I see." In came the cold reply.

I put the document in the copier and hit the copy button. "That's really wasteful! Look at all the waste paper in the waste bin next to the photocopier." I said unable to think of anything else.

"There is rather a lot but it's the same with all the photocopiers," she said, putting a concerned face.

I realized I could make full use of the situation knowing how much she cared by environment.

"What do they do with all that waste paper?" I said, shaking my head.

"As far as I know they just throw it out as trash," she replied.

"There's a better way of dealing with it than that. We should try to recycle all our waste paper," I asserted.

"Well, exactly! That would save the company a lot of money and help the environment," she said agreeing to me.