Love Finds It's Way

A strange encounter

Love finds its way, from anywhere; if it’s meant to happen, it will.

“Oh my God!”, he exclaimed and closed his eyes tightly and grasped the arm rests in fear. Sagar, was an actor, he was at the peak of his career 3 years ago, but now few recognize him. I, apparently knew him after all he was my favourite. I will not lie, I wanted to hold his hand in mine and calm him down, but I seldom believe in people so as to open up to them so I did what I do the best, totally ignored him!
The plane had come to a stable situation and so had he. I really wanted to talk to him, but my dignity held me back, finally giving up the thought of going all crazy, taking autographs, pictures, I started looking out of the window. There were clouds; lots of them, making me feel really sleepy. I think I dozed off for a few minutes, and when I woke up, the unexpected happened!
“ Hey! ”,a voice so soft and subtle, it melted in my ears. It was him, he was talking to me. I was startled a bit and had thought of many possible reasons of why he would have to talk to me. Am I looking very pretty and he has fallen in love with me?, Nonsense!, Did he mistake me for someone else?, Was he going to boast about himself being an actor? Well, no one knew, and I had only one choice so as to reply to him.
“ Hi ”, said I, with a smile, a pleasant subtle smile, as I had planned it to be. ‘Sweet but not too sweet, subtle’.
“You seem sleepy” he said. Why was he bothered about me being sleepy?, I thought to myself; May be it’s the first scenario. Has he fallen in love with me? Well, I was not a fan of the ‘Love at first sight’ theory, but the events had turned that way.
“Yes, I am tired, did not get to sleep last night, work pressure; and had this flight in the morning”, said I.
“oh!, so sorry I forgot to ask you your name. I am Sagar”.
At this moment, I had started having a conversation with him! Should I tell him, I know him? What if he starts being arrogant? But he is sweet now!, so many thoughts had passed my mind. I decided to just go with the flow.
“I am Shivani”, I said with the former preplanned ‘sweet but not too sweet, subtle’ smile. “Could you by any chance exchange seats with me? I wanted a window seat but forgot to ask for one. You are sleepy anyway.”
What?, This all was for exchanging seats with me? All my theories had failed. About exchaging seats, yes, he was my favorite, but not so much that I’d give him my window seat!.
“Sorry, but I can’t”, I replied, I did not state any reason as I did not have one.
“Fine.”, said he with a sigh. “So, Shivani, What do you do?”.
“I am a lead developers at a firm in Bangalore. Currently, I am on vacation and am going home.”
“Oh! Thats's nice.”, said he and did not say anything the whole time. I had a little guilt for not exchanging seats.
We were about to land, and he was, apparently scared of landings too. He took a deep breath and again clenched the arm rests. I glanced at him, he had his eyes closed so I had more than just a glance. His hair seemed soft, silky and fluffy. His eyes closed , looked like petals of lotus. His cheeks had a pinkish hue, most probably due to the nervousness of landing . His lips, pink like ... Wait, what! Was I checking him out?. Shivani stop! That's not decent at all!.
There was a rush after the landing, people, all of them seemed in a hurry. I was in no hurry, and waited for people to get in order. By that time, Sagar had vanished into the crowd. I looked all around but could not find him.
"Well," I said to myself, "I met my favourite actor and did not even let him know that I knew him, that was a disaster!, Nevermind!, I can call this my mini one sided love story".