vasanth scribbles

The skies have turned a shade of bluish grey and it was a beautiful morning. Karthick hit the road in his R15. His sporty blue and white racing machine started kissing the road with its own powerful roar. The fresh air and fog that was all around revamped his polluted lungs and made him enjoy the blissful ride. The throttle was going up and it was unnerving to see the Speedo hovering around 100 kmph. The beautiful weather, fragrance the grains of the blossoming flowers gave, the partially deserted roads and the cool breeze that touched him passionately couldn’t prevent him to stop thinking about vaishu.

Vaishu was a friend of kathick’s friend, basically from the God’s own country but brought up in Chennai, that obviously gave her a beautiful blend of both. Her stunning looks, her smartness and intelligence would definitely make guys go crazy behind her. The very first moment karthick saw her, he lost himself in the vast abysses of space and time. Sounds filmy but it happened, perhaps the most beautiful thing that can happen to anyone, losing their heart for someone within a matter of seconds. It happened to karthick and that made his heart to float in the air.

The roaring macho calmed down cutting down his adrenaline rush, started to run smoothly. Definitely the weather made each and every neuron of his mind to be filled with Vaishu. It has become a viral in his mind that kept flashing repeatedly. Her magnetic eyes, dark silky hair, ravishing smile, damn gorgeous face kept flashing in his mind one by one. It took a couple of seconds for him to come out of that visual sensation. Smiling within himself he got back to the road throttling it to a higher pace. Most of the signals were glowing in green and even those in red started blinking in green when he headed them. All the greens were appearing as if it was a green from vaishu which he had been waiting for years.

Years rolled like days and somehow transitivity helped him at least to speak with vaishu. Errrrrr. Question her. Poor guy just had question and answer sessions with her but even that was one sided. The horrible thing was, to make her speak a single word he really had to speak 100 words and that single word that would come back would be ’yes’ , ‘no’ , ‘ok’ or any combination of these . It was really killing him and he knew for sure that he wouldn’t get even that ‘yes’ or ‘no’ if he had said his love for her. But a tiny thing called hope kept driving him for almost 2 years. It resided somewhere in some corner of his heart. A hope for an acceptance! A Hope for a beautiful tomorrow overwhelmed with her presence!!

Half an hour of journey accompanied with random thoughts came to an end upon reaching his office. Sipping a cappuccino, karthick entered his bay. He could see the bay pretty active, few on calls with their onsite peers, few busy deploying the builds and few making the last minute fixes as it was countdown for the next release which was due in a couple of weeks. His mailbox showed him that he had lots of tasks to be done before the eod. The moment he turned on his pc and started working on his tasks, he was slowly getting disconnected with the outside world. The awesome weather he enjoyed, the beautiful ride he had just half an hour back, the gentle breeze that touched him passionately, the thoughts that filled him throughout his travel that he never wanted to go out of his mind came to a pause and eventually to an end. In fact he had no time to realize that too, he was almost deep into the monitor with a single intention of completing his tasks for the day.

Work consumed him totally that, he was not aware that he had skipped his lunch. Only after his body clock started ticking he slowly realized that. He saw his watch. It showed 3.30.He had no other choice than having a sandwich in the pantry. After a quick recharge karthick was back into his monitors. Karthick noticed his phone blinking. Knowing that would be forwards from his friends he didn’t mind to pick it. Karthick!! Sounded a voice behind him. It was his lead. “Are we on track? What’s the status?” “Yes we are. Around 80 percent “said karthick. “Okay. We got a call by 6. “ . Karthick started working back on the remaining tasks he had. Again two hours of work and now he was done with his work. He went to his lead’s place for their status call. The call went on for some 15 minutes and Karthick came back to his place with a sigh of relief.

It was about hours of continuous work that he needed a break. He pushed his chair back, signed into his communicator and took his mobile from the desk. Karthick couldn’t believe his eyes for a second, he was literally awestruck after seeing his mobile. His inbox showed him that he had 2 messages. It displayed the sender’s name as vaishu. The first message was “Hi” and then he scrolled down for the second message. “U der?” The very next second cursing himself for being stupid, he called back vaishu. Two Rings. Beep! ’The customer you have called is not responding. Please try again later’ .May be the recorded voice did not know that he had been trying for years. Sitting in front of monitor cursing it and him for being so stupid he tried calling her back. Phew! Only in stories guys fail 17 times and win in the next attempt. With no other go he texted her “Extremely sorry. Didn’t see your message”

Few seconds later his phone blinked again and there was a new message for him. With some flashes on his face and bells ringing at the background he opened it. The moment he was saw, he was feeling like breaking his phone into pieces .It was from customer care. Unable to sit inside the cube staring at his monitor, he walked to the pantry for a coffee. One, two and three coffees went in, but he was not able to come out of his anxiety. Some hundred questions popped in from his mind and his curiosity had no bounds and he felt like heart coming out of his mouth. Now again the phone blinked and this time it was from vaishu “Can we meet today?” This was the first message from her with word count greater than one. And that Single message gave what three coffees couldn’t give.

“A Lot can happen over a coffee”. Smiling after looking at it, karthick entered the coffee day. His eye made a quick scan around the place .It was not so crowded and he saw vaishu sitting in the right most corner next to the couch. Ten steps and now karthick was in standing in front of her table. ”Sit next to her” said his heart while his mind said “Sit in front of her”. Karthick decided to go by his mind and took his chair in front of her. Vaishu was in an aqua blue and parrot green salwar which was his favorite. The soft music, the beautiful aroma of coffee that was wafting in, the candle light and a visual masterpiece in front of him turned on some thousand lights within his head but still there was a deep silence between them .Karthick decided to break it and opened his mouth to say a Hi to her.

The moment he said hi, karthick heard a voice behind him telling Hi.Now it came in front of him.“Hi Sir what do you like to have?” felt like killing him but managed not to show anything in his face, he looked at vaishu. She asked the waiter to bring her a cafe frappe .Now the waiter looked at karthick for his order. “Make it two” said karthick. He saw vaishu coming out of her mobile and smiling at him. The smile turned to laughter soon. He understood the reason for that and was scolding the waiter in holy words within himself and smiled at her. Finally he broke the silence and asked Vaishu “What a surprise?? “ He asked her again “What happened to you suddenly?”She didn’t tell anything but simply smiled again but that smile spoke something that he couldn’t capture. She asked him back “What surprise? and what suddenly?” .He knew that she knows what he was asking about but again karthick said her” I never thought this would happen in my life”. She asked “whaaaaat?” ‘Tell her the truth’ said his heart and again ‘keep quiet’ said his mind. He didn’t want to screw up himself and so he gave his soul to his mind. But he was eager to know the reason for her call and the meet .Karthick said “Nothing. Leave that. Now tell me was sup “. She said “Nothing much! You got to tell”. He was feeling like giving a knock on her head. Vaishu asked him “Come on! What surprise?” with a playful look. He was almost dying to know what for she had called him. He was unable to resist anymore and he asked her” Can I know for reason what we are here?” She smiled simply and said “For what you have been waiting for 2 years”.

For a second everything went into a pause. His heart stopped pumping and he was in a state of confusion whether to laugh or cry at this. For him it was the most beaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaautiful moment in his lyf which completely erased all the pains he had and made him understand that, it was really worth waiting for years. He said vaishu “I really dint think this would happen in my life “and the curiosity within him made him to ask her “Now tell me. I am really eager to know what made this happen “. After a small silence she said “It took 2 years for me to realize you were ready to die for me and so I just wanted to live for you”. The fingers that typed yes and no most of the times were with him, within his hands now and the lips that never uttered anything else than a hi and bye, spoke tons of words which he never imagined would happen. The ravishing eyes that were conservative for years suddenly turned so convincing and started melting him like wax. Her smile spoke thousand words and her eyes spoke another thousand. He was almost lost and it was like the most meaningful moment in his life. He was overwhelmed by the beautiful feeling called Love. He felt like coming out of the deep abyss and starting to fly high above in the sky like a bird out of nest with its wings trying to touch the skies .It was exactly like, monsoon arriving to give a summer-dried land a great shower making it happy.

He never imagined that the very old place which saw his loneliness would turn into such a beautiful romantic spot .The place complimented him by playing music .He dint know where it came from but he was able to hear it very close to him . It was again like someone playing it just for him. ” En ithyam udaithaaaaaaaai norungave . . . En maru ithayam tharuuuuuuuven nee udaikave “. It was as beautiful as if the entire composition was live in front of them. He started jumping from ground to roof and he couldn’t resist himself from just sitting against her and looking at her eyes. He needed the warmth of her presence holding her hands getting blinded by love and a never-ending walk into the sunset. The music at the background was almost in its high and was causing an ache in his ears. He could see vaishu trying to tell him something but he had no clue on what she was trying to tell. The same music which was soothing once was disturbing him a lot now. Eyes that melted him were fading slowly and the fingers that were within his hands turned volatile gradually and everything around him started fading slowly. Now the music was very close to his ears and added to it, he could hear a chorus along with it which was completely out of tune with the music and in a scale that was not in synch with the bgm. But it was a voice he had heard for years.

After few seconds everything went Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank!! !

What he could hear was a voice yelling at him “Karthick!! It’s time for office. Wake up soon”. Karthick slowly got up and snoozed the alarm in his mobile which was singing aloud”En Ithayam udaithai norungave”. It took him at least a couple of seconds to realize what was happening around him. Finally he got up, smiled within himself and snoozed off again saying “5 more mins pleaaaaaaaaase!!!!”
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