It was an usual Sunday for me and I was sitting idly
in front of TV.A news reader was giving news updates on AAJ TAK.I was not able to concentrate as at that time I was waiting for the only one news update and for that I was waiting for my roomate.Yes, my roommate Abha was out for her first date with her newly found love,Rohit and I was dying to know the full report of her date.
Rohit was my classmate in MBA.He was having a very attractive personality.He was tall, well built,fair and very intelligent and a bit arrogant too.In 2 years of MBA, I never talked to him.He did not belong to my group as he never talked to girls .He was a loner but yes I was very impressed with his charismatic personality .
It was really a coincidence that Rohit and Abha were in the same company and Abha was a very pretty and good natured girl so it must have been hard for Rohit too to save himself from her charisma.I was happy for her as she
was dating with a handsome and rich guy.After 8 PM Abha was back and like a tv reporter, I showered many questions on her.
Me: How was your date?
Abha: It was okay.
Me:Yaar itna thanda answer it means he did not …yaar then you should have kissed him.
Abha:C’mon dear, can you think about anything else?
Me:Please tell me about Rohit.
Abha:You must be knowing better about him…he was your classmate.
Me:Yaar…i know nothing about him…i never talked to him…i just want to know whether he is romantic or not?
Abha:I can’t say much after our first date…..I need to spend some more time to comment on his romantic moods.
Me:Now…tell me yaar….what is the matter? …you are a little upset…you can share with me if you want to.
Abha: Nothing much yaar…but i will tell you…actually after watching movie at pvr …..we went to the nearby Mac’Donalds and he bought 2 burgers and a bottle of CocCola.Instead of pouring the drink in my glass first, he filled up his glass then he filled mine.I somehow did not like this but I ignored as sometimes it happens.After we fineshed our first round of cold drink, he again did the same thing while filling the glasses.
Me:Yaar…so what…you are upset over such a trivial issue…c’mon yaar….when you are dating with the most handsome and intelligent man,you should not notice these small things…you should admire his smartness…his intelligence …..his….
Abha: Leave it yaar…you will not understand .
Me: Okie yaar….take rest and i will not ask any further questions to you.
Abha:Thank you ….btw what is the status of your preparation as you are leaving for USA next week?
Me; You can say it’s 70% complete….rest 30% will be over in 2-3 days.
Abha: Good….do it fast.
After a week I left for USA and I was going to stay there for 2 years as per the orders from my bosses.It was not very difficult for me to adjust with me the environment as my 2-3 colleagues were already there for a project and they helped me a lot.But I got lot busy with my professional assignments that i could not reply to Abha’s e-mail regularly ,so after 2-3 months she completely stopped writing to me.
Two years passed by quickly and I was back to New Delhi again.I was feeling much relieved as for me New Delhi was any time better than New York and I found that new metrolines, new subways were built there and I liked these changes very much but I could not welcome the changes which were taking place in my personal life.Most of the friend at my office had left the company and many new faces were there and somehow i wanted my friend circle to be back,but i knew this was very difficult.I was thinking to contact Abha also but a comman friend told me that one year ago she left the job and the city too.I was really missing Abha or rather you should say that I was missing her romantic story as I was not having the latest updates but I somehow I convinced myself to forget her.
After 2-3 months life once again became normal for me due to some new friends I found at my office and in my professional life I got more busy as I got a promotion.I used to get Sundays only for shopping or for some other outings.One day I was shopping in Lajpat Nagar and was in a salwar kurta shop.I was arguing with the shopkeeper for a rebate as I love the whole act of shopping and not just buying a thing and then only I heard a familiar voice and I looked up to search for the person to find out whether she was really familiar to me and yes, I found that Abha was standing nearby and was asking the salesman to show her some ethnic salwar kurta .She was looking beautifull and at that time she was also able to notice me and we smiled at each other.I noticed that she was wearing vermilion and so i thought to myself that she was married now and the lucky man would be Rohit only.I congratulated her and said sorry for not keeping in touch with her .She just laughed and said that she was able to understand .I was dying to meet her husband (Rohit) as I was a big fan of Rohit.She was able to read my mind and said that her husband was just parking the car and would be there in a minute or two.I started looking at the entrance for Rohit and I noticed an average looking man coming and there was no sign of Rohit.I thought that it might be possible that he was not able to get any parking place but my thoughts were interrupted by Abha’s voice.She said ,”Goldi, Meet my husband Akhil”.I looked up and found that the same average looking man was standing in front of me and was smiling.I was shocked for a while but somehow I too managed to smile back and said hello to him.Abha told me that he was working for a pharma company as an executive and she was in Chandigarh for the past one year and had come to Delhi a week ago as Akhil had got a new job in Delhi.I asked Abha whether her marriage was love or arranged and in ansewer she invited me for lunch on next Sunday to tell all the story in detail. I accepted the invitation and said goodbye to them and I again resumed my bargaining .
For the whole week I thought of her only and thousands of questions were in my mind.Rohit was very handsome and at a very good position.I thought that Abha’s parents would not have agreed or Rohit’s parents would have created some problem and finally Sunday came and I went to her house.It was a rented 2 room flat and its interiors were beautifully done by her.She was looking very happy.Akhil was not at home as he was out of station for some urgent office work.Abha told me all about her marriage to Akhil.She met him in the marriage party of her cousin in Chandigarh.Akhil was groom’s cousion and in the first meeting they liked each other and after her cousion’s marriage they went for a date and after the first date only they decided to get married and their parents too agreed for the marriage.So it was love cum arranged marriage.But through out her story I was thinking of one thing that what she liked in Akhil.He was just an average man and he could not be at all compared with Rohit.
Abha was a smart girl and she read my mind and said ,”Do you know why I chose Akhil”?
I said,”Yes, I really want to know”.
She said,”Coz Akhil filled my glass first with Coca-cola in our first date.