THAT'S NOT ALL

10. LOVE CONQUERS

We both were in tears. I had just told him all I had in my life, I had opened up before him.. 

I just held him tighter and said. "I finally met you here. I don't know why did I accepted the transfer to Mumbai, and why did I stopped that day on your door. I guess this was destined." 

He was looking at me as if asking that if I was angry with him for his behavior? 

When he saw the love in my eyes, he hugged me tight.... So tight that I could hear just his heart beats that were rumbling on my pain...he broke down ... may be he was blaming himself for not trusting me, or may be finally the thoughts he had clanged to for so many years were free..

"May be I can never tell you exactly how much you mean to me.. Because there is no way I can count till infinity... Because no dictionary in this world consists of the word that can do justice to limitlessness of your worth.... Because emotions can never be put adequately into words... Because the effect you have on me is something even I never understood completely... Because our connection is as free and boundless as the sky..... Because all this is as surreal as the moonlight.... Because few things are better left untold... ". I said still digging my face into his chest wetting his blue shirt. 

He tightened his hug, and we sat like that for the whole night.. The next morning we woke up in each others arms. We smiled after so long. Finally everything was perfect. We felt good. He got up and gave me hand to hold to get up. He made coffee for us. We didn't talk. Last night had enough of words. 

After having the coffee, I said. "I should leave now. I have to freshen up and reach the office too."

 "Can we be back together?" he asked from behind as I opened the door.

A smile stretched on my lips. I turned and ran into his arms, my safest place, nodding my head continuously in yes. He wrapped his arms around me and kissed my head. Before we could say something, his landline rang. 

It was Samir sir, caling him to office, and shouting for putting his phone off. 

"See you in the office." I said and left. It was a new day for me. 

I literally took a new birth this birthday. I was happiest. All the burdens shed off.

 Aditya was coming back from the camp today. Ill tell him about Arjun. He already knew somethings about him. I had told him. But he hadn't seen him. 

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A Week later.......... The hall was lit ... With the soothing music in background.... A waiter came with a cup of faluda... Everyone was sure that he had spoiled it... That Arjun being the Arjun didn't know her.... And Noone still had any idea of the depth of love they had... She asked who did all that... And her friends pointed at him... She had tears in her eyes... The tension on his forehead intensified.... She was in shock that how could there be someone who understands her this well.. He remembered everything.. He smirked and said, he's a good observant and doesn't have Alzheimer.... He told her there was one more surprise and they went out... He proposed her... 

And she opened up about her love for him.... She told how his smile made her smile wider... The pain in his eyes made her cry. She couldn't believe that the person whom she loved always, knows her the Best today... 

She said it feels like dream which will break again once she gets up.. He asked her , so all these years she used to meet him in dreams ?.. She said yes.. he asked so he held her hands in dreams.. she said yes... He asked if he hugged her in dreams... She said yes... He finally asked if he kissed her in her dreams... And she shyly answered no.... He said, then he knows how to make her believe that this isn't her dream but a reality.... He held her face in his hands and gently kissed her.... She... lost in that touch almost fell back and he held her... 

She said, finally my reality is more beautiful than my most beautiful dream... They smiled at each other and ended up in a long never ending hug.... The embrace for life.. .................................................

She too had dreamt of her prince charming She too had her perfect wonderland.. She too wanted that happily ever after with her prince... It's just that she never dreamt her Prince coming on a White horse with a sword and protecting her from the villains... But she dreamt of him holding her hands when she is at her lowest self.. She didn't dreamt of him talking to her the whole day and telling her about his each breath but she dreamt of him sitting with her on terrace with a cup of coffee in midnight and talking about nothing...She didn't dreamt of him fighting for her every time the world is harsh on her, but she dreamt of him to hold her tight and safe in his arms when she's not ready to face the world... She didn't dreamt of him promising to not let tears come in her eyes but dreamt of him hugging her so tight that all her pain gets broken into pieces and flows out with her tears wetting his shirt... She didn't dreamt of him to get down the moon and stars for her...But dreamt of sitting in silence holding each other and starring at the beauty and pause of those stars and moon together..... She dreamt of a companion...A partner... She dreamt her world... An imperfectly perfect world....

He hugged her tighter. It felt right...It felt perfect.. She was loosing herself in those arms.. Suddenly the chaos subsided and poise took its place .. All she could hear was his heart beats And the syncrony of her breath with his beats took her to some other world.. Far far away from the pain her life held..