That girl-who changed my life

moments...

Aaryan drove across the heavily populated city roads with a great patience, and it took a lot of time to cover a little distance.

Anjali was trying to guess where they were heading to, but finally she couldn't arrive at any answer, so she decided to ask.

"Where are we going?", Anjali questioned.

"We are almost there.", saying this he parked the car along the side lane, and pulling back the handbrakes, he got down from the car.

Anjali followed his steps, and started walking as he guided the way.There were several hotels and resorts and the sign boards suggested that the location was some Versova beach road.She had never heard of this name before, but the idea that she was going to see a sea beach made her heart flutter.

Walking down for two minutes along the road and jumping across some rocks,as the path got slightly narrower where they entered the beach,she saw the entire landscape change before her eyes.

As they reached the beach, Anjali gasped in awe at the view of the golden sunset in the sky and its perfect reflection as patches of red and orange hues in the water.It was so beautiful, so serene and the sound of the waves crashing against the rocks so soothing,that Anjali stood there perplexed, admiring the the never ending sheet of water in front of her, with it azure blue waves hitting the shores and forming white foam every alternate seconds.

"This is an extension of Juhu beach, its just seperated by a creek but its much more secluded here.", Aaryan said satisfied on seeing Anjali's happiness.

"Thankyou for bringing me here", she acknowledged,"Its stunning.really!.", Anjali said as she opened her stilletoes and started walking barefooted on the sand towards the water.Her face glowed with delight and the soft wind blowing her hair as she played with the water and the sand, made her look even lovelier.Aaryan opened his shoes and folded his jeans a while later and went ahead to sit beside Anjali on the sand.

"So you like playing with sand?", Aaryan asked, amused on seeing Anjali writing and drawing on sand.She had written her name in block letters over the sand but it was soon washed down by the waves splashing over her feet.Next time she wrote Aaryan's name and it was washed down in the same way.She couldn't suppress a giggle.

"Yeah..I like each and everything about beaches, but the last time I visited one was atleast six to seven years ago, when we went for a family holiday to the Andamans."

"Thats quite a long time!", Aaryan remarked , and then he started gathering the sea shells and later handed them down to Anjali.He did collect some twenty  different types of seashells for her."These shells are considered to bring good luck.Keep it with you",he added.Anjali smiled, she was a little carried off by this polite gesture.

"Thankyou again!,", she said with a beaming smile,"I think I should take some pictures, these waves, the rocks are so beautiful!", she said,bringing out her cellphone from her pockets and she started clicking pictures of the seashore.

"Be careful!", Aaryan prompted as she started moving  into the water but just as she moved a few steps into the water, Anjali felt something hard and pricky beneath her feet and she shrieked and  jumped out of the water,lost balance and she fell down beside Aaryan with a thud.

"Hey, what happened? You okay?", Aaryan said helping her to sit up.

"I think I stepped on some crab, or was it some scorpion?", Anjali said fearfully as she checked her feet for any bite marks.

"No,calm down, it was just a stone, you see!", Aaryan pointed towards the particular area where she stood, and as the waves receded back, she could see many pebbles left behind on the sand.