Enchanted Pursual (Complete)

Chapter 6

Mitali Jain 

For the days after that talk with my brother, I had expected Jai to have contacted me the very next day, and it would be a lie if I were to say that I had not waited for his call, not just after the said advice of my brother, but even after the night when he had confessed his said infatuation for me.

But it was also true that it did disturb me when I looked over the incidents. I had never met him in my life ever to have him interested in me, and all the while that I had been in his presence, it had always been something that would have made a normal person run far away from me.

When these confusing thoughts had became unbearable, lucky for me Tejal had barged into my office, the clock had already stuck 1 and when I looked back at my file I realized I had wasted half of my day thinking about Jai.

"You didn't greet me." Tejal voiced out as she made herself comfortable on the chair on the other side of the table.

For a long while I kept on looking at her, though not really she as my thoughts was completely somewhere else.

"Okay, you didn't even answer that... are you all right?" This time her eyes softened as she brought her hand ahead and held mine in a comforting grip.

"Have you ever met a person for the first time, and realized that you might have some sort of feelings for them?" Tejal, though was younger than I was, yet she had this perfect answers for the most quizzical questions.

For a long time she kept on studying me, with her fingers drumming on the table, her lips would pucker in a pout sometimes while other time she would pull them below her teeth biting them - while her brain, I suppose analyzed the situation.

"Do you think it might be the case of love at first sight?" The doctor in her asked. When I first came to know sometime in last week during our planning sessions that she was an aspiring psychologist it was a shocker for me.

Tejal was someone from the first sight and her overly enthusiastic self who would love to be into something that might be utterly funky... and psychology was yet a complete 360 degree on the other side

"I don't know, he claims that he likes me... but you know we were meeting for the first time, for the better half of the day I didn't even knew his name. "

"And what do you think he might know about you? Do you think he might have known you beforehand, from somewhere?"

"I wish I did" I took a deep breath as I weaved my fingers through my hair, "he is my brother's friend from college, all he knew about me was from the stories that my brother told him."

"hmmm" her eyes wandered around the room and then landed back on me. She rested her back by the hair and folded her hands and asked,

"Tell me what do you think of him, not as a person who has feelings for you or him but just as a human being."

My thoughts wandered off to the time when I had first known Him. It wasn't surely on the day when we were formally introduced; I had known Jai from the better days of Naveen's college life, just the name without a face.

"Jai, I mean the guy about whom we are talking about, had been my brother's friend for the best Part of his college life. My brother always talked about him. How he was from a successful family, and hence was judged by many. For many part of the time even I would do the same, I had known a lot about him through the news and the talks that were spread around the society. "I smiled at the words that I said. And when I spoke them out loud I never really understood what Kind of a person Jai was.

"In fact now that I think about it, it was all what the people said, in true sense even I don't know who Jai is. And what little while I had spent with him all I know is he is a decent boy, someone who is so passionate about what he does and evidently proud of himself"