Kanpur-Gandhinagar-Bangalore-Calcutta

Story continued from - http://kgbc.blogspot.com/2010/05/short-story-proposal.html

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My proposal was turned down. I saw her walking away from me. I stood aimlessly in the faculty block for quite some time. Could almost hear some sad music playing in the background and winds blowing dry leaves in air to create a melancholy effect.

I returned to my room. Felt like tearing her photo, except I had no photograph of hers. I wanted to throw away her gifts, sadly I had not received any gift from her till date. I never had got a card, mail or anything that remotely indicated she was interested in me- which I could destroy to feel good. But I needed to do something rude to vent out my frustration. I finally settled upon deleting her orkut profile link from my bookmarks.
That felt so good. Now I can forget her, I told mself.

Days passed and I would still find myself staring at her. I would madly wait in canteen for her and once she would arrive- start looking in opposite direction to show her that I didn't care. "Yeah! Now she will realize that how much she missed me". One week passed and nothing happened. "I need to do something!"

I started stalking her. I used to sit for whole evenings and nights on a bench in garden- from which her seat in computer lab was visible. I could see her smile, getting bored, making child faces, getting sad and wondered if I would kill myself for her. That day I was sitting on the chair and she had not turned up since afternoon. It was late in night and I felt kind of stupid sitting in the park for whole evening. I shouted out loud- "Kahan hai yaar? Abhi tak kyon nahin aayi?"

I heard a voice - "Kaun nahin aayi?" I shouted- "None of your business" At that time I realized somebody standing next to me. I turned to my right, saw her and fell down from my chair, out of total shock. I hit my head to a rock- the best thing that had ever happened to me for some time (Seriously!). She saw me bleeding and started apologizing for the surprise (Hell yeah! Who cares if it was her fault or not!) "I was waiting for ice cream. I had a stupid bet with one of my friends who taught I'm scared to sit alone in park in middle of night. I had won and was waiting for my ice cream. But seems like he lied" . I started blurting out randomly before she could realize my true motive of sitting there. I think my acting-in-pain-performance was really good - for she actually believed it.

"Hey are you fine?"
"Yeah I'm fine. Please don't talk to me"
"Oh about that! I was angry that day. I'm sorry. We are friends after all. Can we stay as friends? I have no feelings but you're a very good friend of mine. Please!"
I was disappointed but that was my only option -"Yeah sure! I'll try"
"Let's go for an ice cream then."
I wished like shouting at all the other guys who were following her and acting like complete morons (I feel my case was an exception as I was destined to be with her)- "Take that you idiots! I am going out with her"

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And that's how things got back to track once again. Took me approximately one more year from that day to get the magical "Yes", still the day was extremely important for me to make a comeback after being shot down the first time.