Gali Me Aaj Chand Nikla!!

Her moon!!

The sun was already below the horizon, light of the day almost diminishing away, making a way to the darkness of the night.

The sky was also darkening as soon as the black clouds started shading the late evening sky behind themselves.

The atmosphere was giving a hint that it's soon going to rain. Wind was flowing merrily as if eager and excited for something to happen.

Chirping of crickets to the first buzz of mosquitoes, all the sounds and chimes from surroundings can be heard as a medley.

Small vendors were closing their makeshift shops, people wanted to reach their houses as the drizzling had already started, some shopkeepers were covering items displayed outside their shops for luring customers, with thin plastic sheets and tarpaulin...

A girl in her late teens was sitting in her balcony and grinning widely while staring at a small puppy playing in the rain with another puppy, their paws covered in mud and they both soaked up because of the rain.

As soon as a female dog appeared she saw how they both went after her wiggling their tiny curved tails, she comprehended that the two puppies were brothers for sure...

But as soon as they went she dejectedly sighed and made herself look at a small rose plant with a single rose swaying slightly because of the flowing wind. A few droplets were already present on the red colored flower. She had planted the plant almost two months ago. In the attempt of touching the rose she made herself hurt as the sharp prickle on the stem nicked her finger thus sending her down in the memory lane as why and when she planted the small sapling of rose plant in particular...

One day a sweet girl in two oily braids came back to her home and started planting the tiny seedling in one of a earthen flower pot without even changing her uniform as she heard her classmate Kamya saying that if you love someone then plant a red rose plant and see if it grows beautifully under your care and nurture then it will be proved that the person whom you love, loves you also and as the plant would grow that person's love for you would also grow and if something happens the other way round then drop the idea that you would be getting any sort of love from the person whom you do love.

Although she never liked Kamya as she always taunts her for her way of dressing and mocks her appearance, that very day all her hatred for that girl vanished and she made sure that she will take a rose sapling with her while heading towards her home...

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A naive, disciplined and studious girl who had never failed to top in every grade somewhere missed her side as a hopeless romantic girl which was somehow obscured with her dream of making her chacha ji and chachi ji proud.

She used to enjoy those 90's hit romantic movies but somehow she always ended up ignoring the yearning of her heart of having a companion for life who will love her, cherish her like all the romantic leads of the movies do for their lady love...

But one fine day she didn't or couldn't ignore that urge of her heart when she accidentally collided with a stranger while following her one rupee coin which was rolling on the road after tumbling down from her clasp. For a moment everything halted as she understood that there was a boy offering his hand to her, his eyes fixated on her, his long and silky hairs dancing with the rhythms of the air. She wasn't aware of the surroundings and with the fact that she was sitting in the middle of the road after mindlessly running into that stranger having dark brown orbs. Unaffected by anything she gave her hand to him and he made her stand up on her feet, she was so engrossed in gazing at him that she didn't hear him offering her grocery bag to her. Loud honking made her come out of her zoned out state and she took her bag from his hands embarrassingly and started wiping the dirt surfaced on her blue skirt. As soon as the common sense of thanking him crossed her fazed senses she looked upward but he wasn't there he was striding in the opposite direction occasionally gliding his long fingers into his shiny hairs and she kept on staring at that stranger who had face bright like the moon and eyes deeper than the ocean itself who made her heart flutter and her eyes shiny. He came like a gust of wind and went away the same way....