Thursday 22 March 2012

The College Road Trip




Have I ever told you how cupid played my side of the story, I guess not. So here goes my little love story on wheels.


It was on a cold December evening that we started on our college road trip, but little did I know that my life is not going to be the same again after this trip. In between the cold caskets of December nights with the winter mist casting its shadows on our window and slow tremors of our rather creaky railroad moments bloomed. There were the smiles and there were the looking in the eyes, slow humming and the magnificent feeling of her warm skin against mine. This was one journey that was about to offer much more than my most wishes combined together and it just had one hell of an opening night.  Of the many unforgettable things that happened in this week away, I for the sake of sticking to the mushy stuff skip a few of the things that have my tummy aching  even as I just write about it.


  
Our special moment must be the one we had during our shopping time in Bangalore (formally Bengaluru, but still Bangalore is romantic to me). In the city of gardens bloomed our dreams and I should say for a city of flower it has its jinx on us even now just for the sheer number of couples it generated over a single night. I must say electronic city is the least romantic part of the metropolis and there we were lost, unfortunately I, she and a few very good friends of ours were lost in its many nooks and cranny. For starters we were all there as a group to get a few souvenirs for taking home and among the boulevards and global retails houses we lost track of time and direction. Walking from one giant glass paned window to another is not a good way to know where one is going but who really cares; the world was a truly wonderful place then. After a very long time a huge number of shops we realized the unfortunate truth. The college bus has left without us!


It was a pretty good moment to freak out and since I am writing the story I am going to say I freaked out last but me and friends are yet to come to a conclusion on who freaked out first and both parties don’t seem to want to lose any bit of ground. So since I freaked out last it was rather a scary situation to be, we were in city none of us ever has been to and it was getting a bit dark too. So we called up someone on the phone who happened to get the bus and thanks to him we got to know that we were not the only ones to miss the bus and we also learned that the bus is somewhere far and would be coming back for us in about half an hour, Hweeee talk about a relief. So relieved and happy with an extra half an hour of shopping left we started making our return trip to the boarding point and guess what, there was our bus standing there at our boarding point. We were about a couple hundred meters away from the bus.


We started running all together towards the bus furious at the idiot who misled us and believe it or not just then the stupid bus started moving. Then it happened in the heat of the moment without another thought I took her hands and started running towards the bus. In a few hazy steps I realized what I did and I dropped her hand and I stopped. I looked at her eyes and she was just staring at me, amidst all the yelling and screaming from my ‘lovely and civil’ friends we stood there for a few moments. These are the kind of moments where we go for the kiss in Hollywood style movies but all she did was smile and I was a bit shy to kiss her then with all those guys staring at us.



Oh! By the way we did lose this bus and another bus had to come get us, and all my friends were kind of happy we missed it then. But one thing is for sure amongst all the adventures and the moments of closeness we shared in this trip including dining together many times then and getting to tie a necklace round her neck this is the moment I remember the trip by. It was the one moment that made all the difference in an otherwise coed relationship. Holding hands and falling in the abyss of love only come second to the magic of the moment with all the blurred up lights and kaleidoscopic boulevard of dreams.


We went on to be together all the time in the trip and still very much is happening around us, the magic of that moment may be special to that night but the love is so omniscient now that it’s a Bangalore trip every time I am with her and now… She is my girl and I her man, bounded by more than just a ring and thread.



30 comments:

  1. Cheesy..!! :) loved the way you narrated it..!

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  2. Wow this was so beautifully narrated. Loved it :)

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  3. @Seema : thank you dear

    @Gayathri : Cheesy dear?

    @Confused Soul : Thank you, this is what every author lives to hear.

    @Ramakant Pradhan: Thank you, It is cute isn't it?

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  4. Awww.... That's one of the sweetest stories i ve heard! :)

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  5. Cute story! :) Too romantic and well with the flow.... :)

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  6. nice feel.. very cute way of presenting it

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  7. Very nice description of your love story-be happy always!!

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  8. @Pranita : that is so sweet of You , Thanks

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  9. @ Bikramjit
    @ Punit Dubey
    @ Bhagrgav


    Thank you guy for spending time with my thoughts

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  10. @Indu chhibber : Thanks Indu, Its one roller coaster ride to talk about.

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  11. Ahan... this was too good..beautifully written

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  12. very good romantic story...:) nicely written. one small observation in two places in the post..it says collage instead of college..all the best for the contest.

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  13. Haha. I never knew a guy could write so emotionally! Nice read.

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  14. You should have gone for that kiss boy!!! Romantic ever post i have read. Loved it.

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  15. Nicely written....So, You too had a love story..

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  16. Enjoyed reading it. Sometimes its not the long, adventurous journey that matters, its small moments like these that make up for a life time of other downward sorrows.
    Beautifully penned :)

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  17. again a romantic post :) :) you're so full of love :) its sooooper :) enjoyed reading every line :) :) the magic of your love is awesome :)

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  18. Thanks all! for your valuable comments!

    @Neha You nailed it, that's exactly what matters and every time I see her just sitting there doing something, I realize that!

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