Distance, Determination & Undwindling Love.

My Life, Drunk?

We were excited about our college life, the bunks, the unplanned rides, etc, the usual depiction of college life, we wanted o experience it all. By now I didn't even remember my crush. Did she still exist? I pretty much didn't re. It Was just a crush, and it Was just meant to be a crush, nothing less and nothing more.

We entered our college on the 1st day. I looked at the notice board which had allocated us our divisions. Luckily, Sameer, Me, Ranveer and our other close friend Rohan were all in the same class. Our class had only 10-12 girls.

"People, only 10-12 girls in our class! Isn't this unfair?" I complained as we climbed the staircase to our classroom which was on the 3rd floor.

"What?!! This is insane, 12 girls to 60 boys? This is partiality!" Ranveer joined.

"1 girl to 5 boys! How can a girl handle 5 monsters?" we laughed as Rohan cracked an above 18.

We spotted our classroom after a good 5 minutes search on the 3rd floor. It was 12.35pm and the lectured were to begin at 12.40pm. Naturally, the teacher hadn't arrived yet. We entered the classroom, and saw Samir already sitting there. We sat on the front benches and got busy in talking.

"When did you arrive, bro?"I asked Samir

"5 minutes back" he replied.

"I hope the teachers are good!" Rohan said, as a slim woman in a Punjabi dress entered our class. She was supposed to be our class teacher. We greeted her good afternoon as she told us to sir down, "I am Mrs Jyoti Patkar, your Physics-2 faculty and also your class teacher. Let us start by introducing ourselves, I introduced myself, its time for you all."

Being on the front benches we got to introduce ourselves way early. The 10-12 girls I had talked about were seated on the back benches and I had not had looked at them still. They began with their introduction. I could hear south Indian names. The first Marathi Name I heard was "I'm Gauri Shinde. I was from DAV, And I have secured 93.4% in my Board exams." She said, as I turned back to have a look at her. She had a percentile close to me, and that attracted me more than her docile voice. I considered he my competition and when I looked at her, I was out of competition by myself. I was in the most tragedical situation of my life. I, identified her blue framed glasses , in a millisecond. She was the girl in the blue van! Yes, She was there.

She sat on the 3rd last bench In the 2nd row, to my right. I couldn't believe my eyes. Wasn't thisnnot supposed to happen? Out of all the colleges in the world, she had to enter in the same college as mime? Get into the same class as mine? What was happening? Was I dreaming? I immediately looked at the front. I didn't want her to catch me staring at her again. "Oh God! I just can't stop staring!" I thought to myself. The first lecture of my college life, began, the teacher wasn't interested to start teaching the portion on the 1st day itself. We spent the whole day as a talking session. I was with my group only, an she was with hers. Guys from other class had come to talk to her, and spent the whole recess with her. I felt jealous. I wanted to know who these guys were? I wanted to know why were they talking with her? I freaking wanted to know everything.

But I was shy and moreover, afraid. I couldn't do anything. Not on the first day, neither in the first week, nor in the 2nd or 3rd week even. I didn't talk with her even once. Not even once! It was my shyness that played the spoilsport. Every guy from the class had now approached her to talk to her, except my group. I had asked them to stay away from her. They didn't ask why, they knew why? I had begun sitting on yhr adjacent bench in which she used to sit. I looked at her whenever possible. Looking at the girl you have a crush in, is the first step of indicating to the girl that you like her. I was just busy in going for a systematic approach I had just stalked her on Facebook even, she looked good in her display picture. But I hadn't t her a friend request, yet I feared rejection.

The Physics lecture was going on. My schoolmate Nitin sat beside me. She sat in front of us, I asked Nitin,

"Dude do you talk with her?"

"Talk? Haha, Dude you're too slow. Here, I have her number, and you are asking me whether I talk with her! You are just too slow man!" Nitin replied.

"But how did you get her number?" I interrogated, furious in my mind.

"Dude, its easy. Approach her when she is with her friends, a girl will never say 'No' at that time. Also, it created a good first impression. You know what? If things work out well, I may even ask her out on a date soon!" he winked with an evil smile.

After listening to Nitin, I hadn't told him anything. But simultaneously had decided in my mind, that if she is going to be someone's, she is going to be mine! But then my brain laughed at me, "How will you even talk to her?" it asked "FACEBOOK" I replied to myself. I saw the Date on the blackboard and it read 27/7/16, I decided to send her a friend request today itself.

"Take some more rice, son!" my mom served me more rice. I was waiting to finish my dinner, as I had a task to accomplish. I ate my rice father than ever, Turned ON my PC, logged into my Facebook account and typed "Gauri Shinde"in the search box, clicked on the 1st result and clicked on the 'send friend request' button on the screen. 'Friend request sent' the notification read.

I spoke to myself, " How easy it was? And you were afraid, to do it since the past 3 weeks. You must approach girls more. If you would have had, you would have got a girlfriend by now!" as I scrolled down through 'Rajnikant V/s CID jokes" page. It generated good memes. I refreshed the page every minute, just to ensure if she had accepted my request. An hour passed, but she hadn't still. I gave up hopes, though my heart wasn't ready to give up.

'Gauri Shinde Accepted Your Friend Request. Write on Gauri's Timeline' the notification flashed. My heart flashed too. I danced in my mind. My happiness knew no bounds

"Ab dekh Nitin!" I shouted loudly.

"Shush!!!!" my mom said.

"Sorry!" I replied. I was about to send Gauri a message, but then I thought it will be like a desperate justification of my image. I waited, waited for 2 days until I texted. We never talked in college even after I had sent her a friend request. Facebook was going to prove my only saviour now. I decided to text her on 30th July. I didn't know my life was about to change. 

For Next Part, Wait For 2 days. Keep Criticizing, Cheers.