An unexpected meeting

I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around.

it was her

Pallavi Priya, the girl who had stolen my heart, the girl who had changed my life, the girl who has once meant a lot to me. I felt guilty because I had wanted to find her first but it didn't matter now because we had finally met. We were meeting nearly after a gap of 2 months, when her family moved to Haryana after her father got transferred.

"Hi Aman" she said, "nice to meet you again"

I replied to her as if I was shocked

"hello Priya, you are here!.....I can't believed this."

"actually I am going to Kolkata with my family to meet a relative." She replied as sweetly as she ever used to, with a slight hint that stated that she wasn't surprised that we met.

I doubted from core of my heart whether we would ever meet again or if I could afford to meet her again. It took me a long time to forget her once and if I fell for her once again then there was one thing I knew for sure that there's no stopping me this time. I knew we would never be together again but there was one more thing that I knew for sure that I will never forget her.

"Pallavi tell me one thing honestly, why didn't you told me or anyone else that you were leaving us.Do you have any idea, how many days I wanted to see you? I went to your house daily. I don't blame you for all this but still somewhere I blame you because you didn't told me."

"I didn't wanted to make any of you feel sad about me leaving. I wanted to spend my last days there with you all casually, and not to be pampered. Plus, you had your written exam on the same day. I didn't wanted you to bad in your test. You had your dreams and I couldn't watch I shatter just because of me. Just because you wanted to spend few more hours with me, I couldn't have let you waste a whole year of hard work."

"Now that was quite below the...."I was interrupted by my mother.

"Why don't you two sit down and talk." my mother said guessing that we were going to talk for long, which we were definitely going to do. My mother was aware of her as my best friend and not as a girlfriend. In the company we had there, only my sister was aware of the love affair we had. Only she knew how many hours I used to spend with her when we were together.

My cousin and my sister were the ones occupying the side berth. I told them that we wanted to sit on those seats. My cousin was not happy with it but my sister understood that I wanted to talk with Pallavi. She took my cousin with her leaving us the two seats where we could talk without being heard by our parents. In addition to that, my sister sat in front of my mother which was an extra benefit since my mother could see us no more.