4- Tears Of A Beauty

"So where actually will you go in Dehradun?" She asked me as we were not even 30 minutes away from our destination.

[That's my chance] I thought to myself as I found my grand plan. I already had a room for me provided by the research center, however I was free to decide weather I want to live there. Now I have decided that I won't.

"I haven't decided yet. What about you, Do you have any great place in mind?" [Now I had made my move, I will buy the apartment nearby wherever she is living. Heh! I am legend.] I thought about these planning at that time completely oblivious to the fact that it hasn't even been so long since I meet her.

"Why don't you buy an apartment in the same place I did? It's cheaper, sure a little distant to market but you will love it because it's quite open." [Wait? a direct offer? come on I gotta say that lady luck is on my side.] Indeed I do think that lady luck was on my side. She invited me herself to buy a apartment nearby her. That way I didn't need to pretend or find a reason convincing her why I rent near her.

"Sure, if it turned out to be great, I will give you a treat." I tried sounding as convincing as I can and also I tried to remove the grin I had on my face.

We suddenly came to an odd break, I don't exactly remember what happened, but most likely she was suddenly embarrassed that she just causally invited me to be her neighbour. Considering her, it was suiting her personality.

As big of an idiot as I am, I didn't realized much that time and thought that she was just out of topics so I gave my back a little rest as I let a huge sign and closed my eyes. [No point sleeping now, we will soon be there.] I told myself as I was about to sleep but didn't. I looked towards window when I saw Tanvi suddenly flinched and facing window as well.

[Wait! she just flinched right? Why was she looking at me?] I was quite sure she was but didn't wanted to jump to conclusions so I again turned my eyes back to Front. However with nothing else to do, I just couldn't help but again wander my eyes to window and I saw her flinching again. [ She was definitely looking at me no doubt]. This time, I was sure I saw her. To catch her red-handed, the didn't moved my eyes back this time and was still looking at her, in just two seconds, her head swing back to me and our eyes meet.

"Heuu!" She suddenly let out a weird cry, She definitely wasn't expecting me to make a pro move. To be honest, It was such cute cry that I wished I had just recorded it and played it on loop again and again.

"Did something happen?" I asked her as it was best if I didn't wanted her to feel any more awkward, even though it was cute. However it turned out she was just guilty as she thought that she is doing all the talking and might be leaving a bad impression on me. As I cleared her misunderstanding, we again started to chat with me once again being a good listener.

Soon we reached dehradun. And now we had another more than half an hour's journey. This was because, the place she was staying was on the outskirts of city.

[ A litter far from market? That's a Scam, This is like a forgotten ruin. a little bit more and we would already be in a different city.] I got various thoughts on my mind, when u started to think am I going right place? Am I caught up in so called scams where they take you to quite place and then ask for ransom money.

[Oh! Lord, Forgive all my sins, I will soon be there having a cup of tea with you so make it as painless as possible.] I started praying God just in case if I was murdered.

"We are Finally here" She told me in usual cute voice. [Ah! I see, It's definitely a well built residential area. I am safe] It as a relief knowing that I was alive, or rather the place was nice.

"You know as far as you took me, I thought soon we will reach a forest and then I would be killed for money." I said her without any second thought. I mean it was humour and by that time I knew that she is someone who can easily take jokes.

"Nah! Who knows maybe I can scam you even better later so I won't now." [Yeah! she don't just understand humour, she might even turn it in reality]. But still the place was nice and so was the land lord.

It was a hassle, I still had to live one day in a hotel because renting a room was huge Hassel, ID card, Domicile and whatnot documents I had to submit and even then the land lord needed one day. But I was fine. If I was able to get new friend, And was even living next to her, it's worth a sacrifice.

-------------------------

It's been a week already, [I go to work early and come back early, and what I thought about living here is definitely not going as planned. I mean yes we do chat daily a little and sometimes even go to restaurant. But it only happens sometimes. Like for past two days I can't even see her. Hopefully I can see her today ] I was praying while going back to my apartment on my bike. I didn't actually buy it, it was just on rent because this never stay at some place for more than a year.

"What the? What's she doing here." As I was driving to home, I found that she was sitting in a nearby park on a swing definitely made for kids. I parked my bike outside in am attempt to surprise her, but one thing made me stop.

As I was watching her from side. She was on phone, talking with someone, probably someone really close. It seemed like whatever she was talking about, it was something serious. I tried but I couldn't make words out of her lip movement. Suddenly a breeze blew and I was Flinched, a chill went down my spine. Her hairs were blowing hard to it was quite difficult to see her face, But a little shine behind her hairs and I was sure about one thing. She was crying.

Why? What happened to her? Was that the reason that I was unable to see her for past two days? Was she avoiding me on purpose? I just couldn't make the meaning out of her tears. All I could think about it was, Her beautiful face was now fallen into sorrow, and her cheerful eyes which always use to drown me in them, we're now drowning themselves in Ocean of tears.

[I don't wanna see her like that definitely not. But am I close enough to ask her the reason behind her tears.] This thing, a Indecisiveness, was something I had long forgotten.

[Why? Why do I feel this now, why am I this disturbed. I don't think I have felt like that in long, this annoying feeling, so why now?] I was really an idiot that I hadn't realised the meaning behind my hesitation. Or maybe I wasn't, afterall one week is nothing when I compare it to number of days I had lived.

With encouraging myself with who knows how many statements, I made my decision and just moved a few steps forward. [Forgive my rudeness, but I think I should interfere in your private matters] With a those words on my mind, i one again tried to listen.

"Okay, I will come back home if I couldn't make a good fortune out of it in next 3 months." She said in phone just before she hung up.

[Wait what was that?] Her voice was definitely nothing like her face, which meant that most likely, the other person on call didn't knew she was crying and hence definitely wasn't the cause of her tears.

[Couldn't Make a good fortune out of it?] This only let me get to one conclusion, She was talking to her family and they want her to either make a carrier out of her photography or go back to her house and do something different. But why? Why couldn't she make a good career out of photography. I didn't saw too much, but she definitely have unrivalled skills, I can tell that with only few of her pictures.

[Wait. If she had to make a career in few months, Will she leave? The what's the meaning of me being here? Nah I gotta do something] That was something I really didn't need that time.

Me who was alone for few years, Without friend, without family, without lover, without any affection, when finally found his first friend, didn't wanted to loose her in just a week.

And then it was day of my life. I created the boy named, "Shikhar Arya".