A Heart Beat

Chapter 3: A Trip Worth Remembering

I sat there awestruck at what I had just read. Was I dreaming? Or had she really understood my feelings? My heart beat like there was no tomorrow. I tried to calm myself down, but how could I? This was just gonna be awesome. As soon as I was about to reply, my dad storms inside the room. He finds me staring down at my phone unaware of his presence. Snatching my phone away, he orders me to sleep and leaves. With a mixture of both regret and excitement, I await for the next day.

No sleep the whole night. Only thoughts of what would happen as I tell her, what I really really felt. Ahhh! Just the thought of holding her hand, talking to her, spending time with her and lavishing her with all the love I had for her. I was even bold enough to tell the whole world about it if I got a chance.

As soon as the sun came up, I fell asleep at last. When I woke up, I found myself late for class. I rushed for college without even having a bite of my sandwich which was laid out on the table.

While on my way to college, I realised I hadn't given her an answer yet. So I quickly got into the bus, and found an empty seat right at the back, near the window. As I took my place I quickly rushed to give her the answer, but something really bad happened. Just as I was about to hit 'Send', the phone went off. Damn! No way to charge my phone as well.

As I reached my class I realised, "So what if I couldn't reply to her message? I'll speak it out in front of her." As the bell rang I rushed to her class searching frantically for her. I asked Gene (her best friend) about where she was. Gene told me she had not come to college.

Now, that pretty much screwed up my day. With a grumpy face I reached home. I went to my room, plugged in the charger and waited impatiently for my phone to start up.

When the phone started I quickly typed "Yes! I do love you!" But all that she replied to it was "K". Come on dude, are you serious? So I asked her the reason why she asked me that question. She replied stating that it was just a general question.

Now, I was furious that she was just playing with me or something. Coz her one casual question got me all excited for no reason whatsoever. Pissed off at the reply, I went to sleep.

After this incident, I started ignoring and avoiding her. Yeah, it would seem like I was a jerk. But you see it's difficult to speak with the person whom you love, especially when they just play with your feelings.

Everyday she would try to talk to me, but in my anger I would just avoid her. This was only the anger, not the real me. From the inside I really hated myself for it.

After a few weeks, there was this college picnic where we had gone to a beautiful place in a remote village. As we left I tried forgetting all about her by hanging out with my friends. But, it was nearly impossible to do that.

When we reached the location and finished freshening up, my friends stayed behind while I planned on spending some alone time at the lake.

It was 7 a.m. and thus quite empty. Walking through the stony path I found my way to the lake. But when I reached there, she was already there. The girl of my dreams, looking all beautiful in the blue top and ripped black jeans.

As I thought to myself about going and apologizing for my behavior, something happened which ignited the anger in me again.

Thank you evryone for showering me with all the love and support. Can't thank you guys enough. Hope to be revealing the igniting moment of anger to you soon in the coming chapter. Till then, peace out!!!