Hooked Up Feelings.

- “Sometimes we forget the key of happiness, we hook up to someone’s attention, someone’s affection & the need for love, we don’t even realize the people whose world revolve around us & we lose them too”.

One thing was certain, I was flung by that stranger girl’s charm. Her broad smile with rabbit’s teeth was way cuter than anyone, and the way she was looking at me, ‘oh my god! I was blushing’, if anyone wanted to point a pink buffoon guy, well that would be me.

To save me from my harassment, luckily one of the seniors went on to the floor with a mic in his hand, and all eyes moved towards him, I felt relieved. I don’t see why, but many girls in the party were gawking at him, the guy was medium build with pony style hairs wearing a black blazer, but something about him was mesmerizing the girls.

The seniors weren’t losing the opportunity to standoff, the guy with the mic introduced himself with a cheesy line. His name was Sahil, and the way he was approaching the girl’s and flinging his magic, it was commendable. He went near my newly developed crush and held her hand for a minute.

My heart was racing & to make it worse, even she was blushing to his cheesy worst pickup lines, her pink blushy cheeks was visible across the room.

I crushed the drink in my hand, which spoiled the shoes of Ishaan.

‘Dude, are you serious?’, Ishaan said.

‘I am sorry, I didn’t realize you were standing so close to me’. I replied.

‘I am not talking about the drink, this will wash off, you should wash your feelings for her, man I mean you just saw her, & look at her’. Ishaan said in an irritating note.

Ishaan’s words were true, but how can a guy dipped in feelings could understand then, Sahil was touching her curly hairs and was holding her hand, again and again, people around too was encouraging him by making wooing sounds.

The whole shenanigan finally ended & I took a big breath of relief, The seniors made a list of games so that everyone in the room can get to know each other and mix up, I was more interested in playing duet’s, so that I could get a chance to talk to her but so was everyone else.

The girl with her new girl group around her joined a queue to a game, I counted the number to her and joined the boy’s queue for the same game, Ishaan was noticing me too closely now and in the start, he warned me about my no chance with that girl, but now he started supporting me.

The players played and moved too quickly or maybe the more I was getting close to her, the time seemed to be flying by.

Finally, my queue reached the game, my heart started pounding again.

‘Hi, I am Dev’, I said.

‘Hi Dev, I am Shyla, Nice to meet you’, She replied.

The game was like that, there was a deck of cards on the table and the players had to blow on them such that only the upper cards fall onto the ground, if the player blows too lightly and the cards didn’t move, the player loses, or if the player blows too hard on the deck and the whole deck falls, the player loses.

I could see many eyes were towards my game, everyone was ready to cheer for Shyla.

We both bent a little and Shyla blew first, flicking of the 1st card from the deck. I felt that wave of minty breath, and suddenly was having butterflies in my belly, I had relationships before and Girlfriend too, but Shyla was different, everything about her, her curly long hairs & her big black shining eyes, her cute smile with rabbit’s teeth & her minty breadth, I never felt like this for anyone.

everyone around started cheering for her & while I was staring at her, I played by chance flew off around 3, 4 cards, which was impressive, but only Ishaan started cheering for me and everyone else went silent.

‘beat this!’, I said to Shyla.

And everyone in the room started that wooing sound, like somehow I have challenged her now.

‘That was nice,’, Shyla said to me while she was chewing her glittery nails.

I was impressed by myself as I was doing good with her.

Suddenly I felt a thrust from the side & I fell onto Isaan’s arms, & while I gained my balance back, Everyone around started laughing at me, It was Sahil who pushed me, he again swooped into the picture trying to be the alpha in the room.

I could see Shyla’s face, she was disappointed by how Sahil was behaving and she also took off from the game, Sahil saw this opportunity and call the DJ out loud to play music, as Shyla was going, he grabbed her hand & asked her to dance. While all this was pretty macho for any guy to do.

‘No thanks!!, I don’t like guys who think so highly of themselves’, Shyla turned down Sahil’s offer.

Everyone around in the room saw this and they all stood silent, even though the music started.

Shyla came towards me,

‘Do you wanna dance Dev?’, She said to me.

I looked at Sahil’s face as he was humiliated and was watching me with revenge eyes & I said yes.

I held her hand for the first time, they were so soft & smooth, perfectly manicured, I could bet if anyone put a drop of water on it, it would slide right off.

The Dj saw this and Sahil’s face & he changed the music from romantic jazz to Hindi Bollywood Songs.

I was bummed by that, as I wanted to hold her more close to myself, but now everyone around was dancing like monkeys.

Shyla also started flying her hands and twist that curve body in perfect match to the song, and I with 20 others was just looking at her, the only thing in my mind was ‘wow’.

‘Show me some moves Dev come on’ Shyla Shouted in the loud DJ.

I once participated in a group dance in my childhood and luckily knew to move hands and legs at the same time.

I started throwing my hands too and moving my legs to sync with her, she stopped dancing and started laughing at me covering her face.

‘Wow Dev you got some moves man!’, She said to me.

And then she started copying me, and then I realized that everyone around was copying me, my moves were Funny & humiliating, but I was happy, so happy to just, be with her, & as expected the dance ended pretty soon and all started going back to their groups.

I wanted to seize the opportunity, So I called Shyla while she was meeting with her group again.

‘Hey can I have your number?’, I said in the most cutest way that was possible for me.

‘Hold your horses Dev, you know, us dancing and playing that game didn’t mean anything right’, Shyla said while smirking.

Of course, it meant something for me, I was so into her, but I hid my feeling then and there.

‘Of course not! I have no wrong intentions’, I replied nervously.

She started bursting in laughter, ‘I am just messing with you Dev, come on, cheer up! give me your phone’. She replied.

I gave my phone and she put down her number and saved her number in my phone with her name and ended that with a winking emoji.

I too then joined Ishaan and we all exited the party, I was too happy, gloating with joy and smiling for no reason at all, anyone could see that the happiness was just flowing out of me. What just happened was no less than a dream.

Going back to the hostel, I was having a warm nice feeling, the night with the big white moon was suddenly romantic for me, I was imagining the 100 encounters, I was going to have the next day with Shyla, She was all over my mind and in my imagination all over me too.

Ishaan was constantly haranguing about something, we reached the hostel & I saw the watchman smiling devilishly at me, beside a guy with a cigarette was looking at us & as we approached near the door.

‘keep your eyes down you dumbasses’, the guy shouted at me, and what happened next was the start of how my life was about to change .