Two SHIES

#2 RITESH - Always Late

I entered the bus, it was a usual day.  I felt regreted when I was not able to find her anywhere in the bus. I was in the right bus, that bus at seven thirty. Bus then, when I saw a girl who covered her face with dupatta and was standing between two girls covering there facing just like her, I was able to relate her by seeing her eyes. That beautiful, innocent eyes. I glanced to her eyes for a couple of seconds and then went off straight to my place, the safe area.

So, that day, when I saw her the first time actually changed my life a lot. Now, I am always late and I preffer the bus at seven thirty. Now I think that if I am late also, I will get the next bus and I will get something else too.

Now, I use to brush slowly still properly. Soap was actually used extra than before. Even I use to wear clothes that look good with the colour combinations. I had my old Tommy Hilfiger bag just like her, but its colour was red and white, but I started using it and all this was just for that twenty minutes that I spend in the bus.

Now almost everyday, I have to run fast to reach on time to my lecture and sometimes I have to miss it too. But I take that as a good exercise for me.

Nowadays, I don't know why, but I started believing in superstitions and miracles. Even now, I use to believe in god more and his plans. For example, if I met her in the bus, their would be a purpose of it or god has sent me to help her. I know these are foolish things, but this was all I used to overthink about.

You know how awesome the Bollywood's unexpected love songs are! I use to hear them all the time dedicating them to her. It must be weird because still I never talked to her and don't even know her name. But I just want to see her happy, smiling, laughing. Even I use to think how beautiful she would look while smiling, because still I haven't seen her smile!

It was the time of springs. The final exams were after a week. I can't believe how the first year of college ended so fast. Three months passed when I saw 'her' for the first time. Still, I haven't talked to her.

I will always remember this day. 7th April. That day god actually heard my wish.

As usual, I entered in that bus, when I saw a vacant place to stand just behind her. I just jumped till that place and grabbed one hanging strap. We were standing opposite to each other. Our faces were straight. But as it don't look odd, I kept my eyes else where. Her eyes were in the phone. My insecurities made my eyes to take a look in her phone, but guys, please don't try this at home. I was unable to see any name or profile picture of the person she was talking to.Thank god, she didn't noticed that I was looking in her phone.

Just behind both of us was sitting the lady with a baby. Yes, that one lady whom I gave my seat three months ago. Now her face is familiar to me as I travel in that bus only. I smiled to her and her baby, she smiled back, his depressed baby didn't.

After a while, trying to look at her secretly, she kept for phone in her pocket and trying to see here and there, she looked at me for a while. I don't know her expressions because of her dupatta after which she looked at that baby. After seeing that baby, she really gone a bit crazy. She removed her dupatta from her face and smiled. Yes, she 'smiled' for the first time when I saw her. But, that stubborn baby didn't smiled her back too. I was willing to punch him for that reason, but I controlled. After a minute, she tried another way to make him smiled. She looked at him and kept her tongue out of the teeth and crossed her eyes. She tried to keep both of her eyes near the nose. I don't know about that baby, but watching her like that, I bursted out in laughter. She was really so funny and cute at the same time. Seeing me laughing, she paused and became normal and smiled watching me.

It was really a beautiful movement her me when we both were watching eachother, smiling. I was just thinking to talk to her and I was going to talk too, but I don't know why I felt awkward to start.

Atlast, a person leaved a seat behind me, I saw her, and signalled that seat.

"Thank You." she said with her sweet voice and sat their.