How I Met Him…

It was raining heavily outside, after finishing our dinner I and my younger sis in our room were chitchatting about our friends…also we were discussing about what we did whole day and all etc. meanwhile my phone rang and I was sure about who’s on the other side. I picked up the phone and asked to call few min later.

After putting off the phone, we both went to maa like every day to wish her ‘Good Night’ and came back to our room. After a while my phone vibrated, I put it on vibration mode as my sister went to sleep so it’s better not to disturb her.

I received the call and headed towards the balcony which was attached to our bedroom.

A gentle and soft voice came from the other side…. ‘Hello…….hello!!!’.

I replied ‘Ya Dev, I can here you…… so tell me what you were going to tell me? For which you asked me to free myself from every work so that we can talk without any disturbance…..what’s the matter?'.

For few sec he kept numb then with hesitant voice he said ‘we can’t carry on any more, we have to end up our friendship here only’.

‘Oh please stop joking….am not in a mood to joke’, I said.

‘Am not joking, am serious’, he replied.

I said, ‘ok fine’ and disconnected the call and took a seat on the bean bag which was there at the corner. 

Then I keep on thinking why he said so??? After being in friendship for last six months, why dev is behaving like this?? Is it me or in any manner did I hurt him??

I was very disturbed and called him back to clear out why he wants to end our friendship.

He picked up the call as soon as the phone rang…. If am not wrong it was merely a single ring after which I heard his voice.. ‘Hello’.

‘Why you are behaving so insane? Why you want to end it up?’, I said

‘Because I don’t want things, turn to be difficult for you due to me’, he replied.

Now it was very much clear to me as he replied so, that why he want to end this up. It was nothing but due to few of our school mates who were against our friendship, were unnecessarily spreading bad rumors about me so that I quit my friendship with him. And the reason for doing such stuffs is nothing but they do not want me to come out from the old relationship.

I really didn’t care about what they say or what they feel, for me my friendship matter a lot. But being my well-wisher more over such a good friend he was concern about my image.

I replied him positively, ‘I don’t care, for me our friendship matters more than what people say’.

‘But this way it won’t work out, for our friendship I can’t let you down’, he replied strictly.

However honestly speaking I do not wanted to lose him and his friendship….at that moment I felt everything is going to end here. The  clock will stop striking, the earth will stop rotating therefore the dark phase of life started from now as there will be no sunshine anymore, the twittering of bird won’t ever be heard as there will no morning from now…

Somehow I managed to reply him in mushy voice, ‘I never want to lose you’.

‘Bip….bip…bip....’, he disconnected the phone.

Sitting on the balcony I was recollecting every memory with him. How we met? When we became friends? Etc.

I still remember those days, after going through a terrible relationship disaster it was more than impossible for me to be in this relationship anymore….. I was all broken and shattered. And was trying hard to come out from that relationship and pushing myself more into studies as this was a crucial year for me since I was in 12^th.

It was the month of June, one fine evening when I, my mom and my sis were having tea and cookies sitting at the balcony, suddenly my phone rang. I peeped at the screen of my mobile, and it was an unknown number.

I received the call with ‘Hello!’

From the other side an unfamiliar voice replied, ‘am Dev, your class mate hope, I didn’t disturbed you’

‘Oh! Ya dev, no not at all ’, I replied

‘I got your number from our biology teacher. And can you please bring your practical copy tomorrow as I missed few classes. I’ll just check what has been done in the previous classes ’, he said.

‘Ok, surely I will’, I said

‘Thanks, bye’……….’ya bye’ saying that we both disconnected the phone.

Though he was my class mate but this was the first time I talked to him. Firstly he was a new student; he joined our class at 11^th standard. Secondly, he is serious and reserved sort of a guy. Attending classes, staying busy with practical works, doing assignments was his nature. And am just opposite to him I was an old student from 5^th standard  I am in this school. I bunked  classes sometimes, was an average student all through but ya I never  use to bunk biology classes as it was my favorite subject in school.

May be that’s the reason ma’am recommended my biology copy to dev and gave my number to him.

Then next day I gave my copy to him and that was the day when we actually saw each other properly for the first time. After I came back home from school was watching TV, sitting on the couch and having my tiffin. At that time a message flash on the mobile screen with a bip sound. I saw the message it was a thank you message from dev.

This was how we started to conversing with each other. And slowly became friends.

In every difficulty he stood by me, every time he advised me and motivated me to stand strong against the odds of life to overcome them bravely, he also taught me to love myself.

I was deeply in my thoughts then suddenly I felt tears rolled down my cheeks, I wiped them gently and decided to call him back. It was 4:45am and I was sure that he also hasn't slept. Took up the phone and dialed his number, but he didn't received the call. Again I redialed, this time he disconnected the call without receiving it. Then after a while he called backed….

As soon as I received the call I haven’t left any scope for him to speak and said, ‘listen I don’t want to lose you, it doesn't matter to me what they think about me, for me you and our friendship matters the most. They are just a small chapter of my life, after few months which will be closed forever and I need you forever in my life till the last chapter of my life’.

On the other side he was all numb and didn't reply for few mints…

I said, ‘hey, are you there?’

‘Hmm’, he replied.

Then with a mawkish voice he said ‘I too never wanted to lose you ever in my life, you taught me to smile, you changed my life and made it beautiful, and you are blessings to me. I want to be happy n keep on smiling forever for which I need you beside me all through my life’.

‘Then why you were forcing me to go n end up everything here?’, I asked

 The reply was, ‘I do not want you to face such criticism and controversies so ending up our friendship will bring an end to everything….’

I said, ‘we haven’t met to end up things like this, but to walk a long distance together, side by side’

And this is how my love life opened its first chapter.

This year we are going to celebrate our 5^th love anniversary…and we are more than happy with each other. And I still thank him for giving meaning to my life, also for loving me so much.