Our secret meeting…

 

Chapter3

Aashu was in a hurry. She was hurriedly doing her hairs. It would be the first day in last three months when she would probably be late on work. She was running in her room, trying to put all her things in her bag when her friend called her down for having breakfast. But she was completely out of time. So she took a piece of bread that she had in her stock and galloped it with the help of milk that her friend was holding. She took her bag, put on her sandals, locked the door and ran downstairs. When she reached the gate she saw the postman coming towards her hostel. Aashu already knew he was coming to deliver Soham’s letter only. But the postman was not walking, instead he was crawling…that’s what Aashu thought!! So she ran to the postman, took the letter from him and returned to the gate. She jumped in the car that her hotel had provided her. She asked her driver to go super-fast so that she could reach in a reasonable time, at least. The weather was romantic again but Aashu had no time for romance.

 Somehow she reached the hotel but was forty five minutes late. Since it was business season, Mansoori was witnessing influx of tourists and so was the case with Aashu’s hotel. She was trying hard to concentrate on her work but inside she was dying to read Soham’s letter. Finally she got the time in afternoon when most of the guests were out and she had less work to do. She sat peacefully in her chamber and read soham’s letter.  While reading the letter she wore a constant smile on her face. She eagerly wanted to reply but had other work to do. So, she controlled the temptation and concentrated on her work.

That day in the evening she preferred walking down her hostel. Evenings in Mansoori are beyond beautiful. Spell bound by the beauty of ‘The Queen of Mountains’ she thought of spending some time in solace. She sat on one of the several benches by the periphery of the street. After sometime she thought of replying to Soham’s letter. She took out her pen and paper and went on to pen down her feelings…

“Soham! Don’t try to be over smart with me. I know that you understand everything…the rain…your look...etcetera etcetra….so don’t even try to act innocent with me. Try this with the bitch warden of mine; she might fall for you...huh..!!

You know what? It was the first time I was late for work since I joined. And this is all because of you. Yes yes you!

Yesterday night Pihu called me. We talked about our school trip. Both of us took out our school trip’s photo album and discussed each and every shot….haha…you know the funniest part was that me and you were standing at the exact opposite corners in each picture…what actors we were!! Haha…no one knew about us being together till we did our graduation. I am impressed with our acting…two thumbs up!!

Can you guess from where I am replying you?  From the same bench where we sat together…holding hands when we were on our school trip…you in 12^th standard and me in 9^th standard. Yes! The same meeting that Pihu and Vyom arranged for us. The weather is different though. Today the sky seems grey. But that day was a sunny day, and we met in the afternoon with all the possibilities of being caught. Fools! All four of us!

And yes baby, you are not getting anybody’s number, specially my warden’s number. So don’t even think of that. One more thing, please stop eating all these unhealthy food. Because in few weeks you will be in India and you will not be getting all this rubbish to eat. So mind it!

I almost forgot to tell you, Rohan is coming tomorrow to see me. He was in Patna for his summer breaks. He said mom has sent some snacks for me. How are your mom and dad? It’s been days I heard of them.

 

Reply soon….miss you…

Aashu”

(to be continued…)