And Jyoti wondered why was Vinai resisting her? She had made her intentions just so clear. To what extent could a girl be explicit? She told him “Oh, that beer smell is just so intoxicating for me” after the day they both had slept together. Not as in two adults of opposite sex actually sleeping together, but just normal. Both were intoxicated with so much drinks being guzzled after the party all day long. Faces just six inches apart. His favorite movie on screen but still he slept off. “Oh you are not that slim, you have a well-built body under that shirt of yours” when they were inches apart lying in the big car of hers parked at the side of an empty road. Yes, she wanted to feel him. To touch him. It was long since she had a boyfriend for real. Five years. Long time. She knew she was hot and he too liked her a lot. Then why?
Vinai was in his own train of thoughts. Past relationships had scarred him just too deep. And for best friends, oh he had a philosophy that he could never look at friends in ‘that’ way. Never think of them like ‘that’. He too was out of female touch, that close female touch since long. Five years. At least there was a certain similarity. Oh no, there were more too. He just loved her companionship. Never getting bored. She was just his type of girl. Totally hot. He was so damn attracted towards her. But his past and present were just screwing him up.
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Fast forward a few days
Don’t know what exactly happened but there seemed to pass a current between both of them. That wasn’t there before. Jyoti wondered and wondered, but what the heck she liked his company, so she just kept her thoughts aside. Before when she used to ask him for even a movie, he always used to deny. But this party definitely had changed a few things.
Vinai said yes when she asked him to meet her after the office. She said she was tired and so wanted to meet near her home. Yes, both stayed in the same cities. Both had big cars. Both were mature enough to understand things. Not like to coax each other into doing something the other didn’t like. Vinai agreed and it was like his biggest time.
Meeting in a park. At eight in the night. Darkness all around. Absolutely deserted. No one around. Privacy in a public place. Oh, all that was just so intoxicating. A perfect setting for things just to happen. For things just laid in store for both of them. Both sat on a bench, but Jyoti soon stretched on the bench. She asked Vinai to massage her shoulders and back. Then she put her head on his shoulder. He lifted his hand and asked her to put it properly and put his hand on her hand. Then face. Then hair. She helped his other hand and they were so close. His heart beating fast, thumping hard. She wondered aloud why. And he answered truthfully, gave her the real reason. That he is so tempted for her. That he finds her very very attractive. They came closer. Her face in his hands. She lifted her face. He lowered little and they kissed. She held his hand strongly leaving a few nail marks. Oh that feeling. Just so like, oh, even vocabulary seemed to leave him to put those feelings in words. Kissed for the first time. Kissed for long. Kissed to just change things between both of them. Kissed to start a new beginning for both of them. Kissed to the start of knowing each other more intimately.
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Life is a riddle, love is a maze. When what can happen, who knows. Or in this case, of course, things were inevitable. It had to happen like this. But, why did Vinai suddenly stop replying to her after that day? And when he had only written so beautifully on her. A 40 liner poem. Wow. She couldn’t remember anyone doing that romantic for her.
Not that he hadn’t felt on cloud number nine after that kiss. But he was scared. Scared for his feelings going awry. Scared of being hurt and hurting others. How much can he still take when previously he had thought life had shown him all the colors that existed. Love, that he for sure believed in. Still. And he tweeted something like love is the most shocking thing left on this planet.
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Fast forward a few days
Finally Vinai agreed to respond to her non-stop messages in the evening. How could she have let go of her chance? She asked him whether he would go for one day out with her. And for the next day only, the plan finalized. Whole day. A weekday. Bunking office. Just the two of them. Feeling like school kids back again. Separate from the rest of the world.
And it was the dinner time which he initially had planned with someone else. But he was like all for her. To plan out everything proper. Like a gentleman. But she was so excited. Both had to plan one of the best-est time together. Oops. Both had to plan their best-est time together as yet between them till now.
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The D-day
A big Audi. A hot girl. Her Audi. Her Dad’s Audi. Giggles. On the road. At the lakeside. Touches. On the road. At the lakeside. Kisses. On the road. At the lakeside. Whispering sweet nothings. On the road. At the lakeside. Hugging. On the road. At the lakeside. Holding hands together. On the road. At the lakeside. That’s how it was. Connecting time. Just expediting it like anything. All sensory feelings just surfacing to the surface. Like never before. It was difficult for him to get so close to anyone new. Lying at the lakeside. Together. He was comfortable, like he had not been in a very long time. But he was handling it well. Not ready yet to click a pic together with the girl, but at least a pic of them together holding hands while legs intertwined into each other.
His caring for her, the three commandments as he had termed it were all for her. All to make her fall in more deeply in love with him. That he will never do anything she don’t like. That he will never do anything which she doesn’t want. That he will never do anything which will not come out of her free will. And all of this directly translated for her into a simple thing that he will always do things what she wants, but did it even mean falling in love with her? Did it mean that she could really really heal all his scars that none of the previous girls could do for him? And with the way, now she knew about him, she definitely wanted to kiss all his troubles away. When he touched her first, it was like iissshhh for her, the exact replica of what happens in a movie when a hero is there for his heroine. Even though they had kissed previously, it was like she still went into a stupor. Oh wishes and wishes for he was still holding onto something tight.
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And that’s how she hummed along imagining their new tryst in Australia in the coming month: _____________________________________ (Author’s comment: My mind draws a blank, even though I know a romantic story is incomplete without a song. So I am leaving it for the readers to imagine.)
He was ready to write something for her again. Oh, not her, about his feelings. Those that were towards her. Of how he had felt. But he could think just 4 lines. But even 100 lines were not enough to complete the day!
While all this was happening, there were some heartbreaks somewhere across the globe. If dreams or wishes always came true, horses could fly. But that happens in real world too. Oh but that’s for another part of the story altogether.
