The cool October breeze was playful and made uninterrupted passage through Nalin's face. Stoned in his thoughts, he sat on the bean bag he had always loved. It was stuffed with all the memories from the day he earned his first salary till today.And especially, the memories of that special day..when all things wonderful conspired to gift him Love...
Things changed, people around him changed but the bean bag did not!
It stood a testimony to times when he dated Avni and his room mates played pranks on her. That day, four years ago, he had proposed her while she sat on the same bean bag admiring the coffee Nalin made for her. He had not thought much over it even the second before it happened...and for all good reasons that could be.
Thinking of it today, he cannot help but recall all those mugs of alien like coffee he had to swallow down his throat because Avni was learning to make them.."I...I am not yet sure... am not sure if I am in Love Avni .. in love with u...but I want both of us to give it a try.. I mean... we can fall in Love...can we?"
Silence prevailed and Avni sat up straight with her eyes and mouth competing their diameters.
"What?" was all Avni could utter in her absolute feminine gesture to figure out what had just happened.
"I know I messed it all up... but you can relax..and am fine even if you choose not to answer", said Nalin.
Avni smiled at him and said, "An idiot is in love with another idiot?"
"Don't call me an idiot...am feeling crazy about that smile on your face. For that one moment that you were silent, all spheres of my brain raced against each other to undo that had happened", said Nalin.
Avni laughed out loud and said, "No wonder, I always felt like an idiot when I thought I had fallen for you. You have no idea how much I wanted this to happen! I always knew it was you...", and they were interrupted by the door bell that rang desparately. Nalin opened the door to find Akash, his room mate.
He threw a quirky glance at Nalin's unusual expression and said,"What's up dude? Is 'she' there?"
"I proposed her.."
"Whhhattt?? Are you crazy? A crime without my partnership? Not possible dude! Well..now you tell me how do I save you from the aftermath? You are screwed and you know this well..She must have given you a good one..", exclaimed Akash breathlessly while Avni came and hugged Nalin.
"Yeah Akash! I thought of giving him a good one... a good grand hug..but you came in at the wrong moment", said Avni with a blushing smile while Akash heard this in disbelief.
"Pinch me hard lady! Am I dreaming?", screamed Akash while closing the door behind him as he stepped out winking at them. He peeped back and shouted a big congratulations!!
In that perfect moment that was now, they say, souls connect and promise togetherness that lasts forever.
"Can we remain idiots forever?", asked Avni while leaning against him.
"We will have to, cause I don't want the idiocity to end...I promise you a lifetime of love... A lifetime of love between two idiots... so that the idiocity prevails", replied Nalin in a quest to hold on the moment that was so eagerly passing by.
Holding on to the moment is not possible, for we are mortals, and therefore, Nalin and Avni are together forever...cheers! to them as they celebrate their togetherness every day!
