It was usual boring working day. I was working in my office @ my system. Suddenly Google Talk pops me a scrap in Orkut. I checked in Orkut. Some1 named “Anni……always looking for the best” wrote me a scrap “Hi NIk, how are you?? Recognized me?? Congrats, you have become Chartered Accountant….”I had no idea who this Anni is…..tried to recognize… but failed….my frnd use to compliment me for having sharp memory, but this time I was helpless……I couldn’t able to recognize her thru pic, since she has uploaded some Angel’s pic rather than hers. Finally I had to scrap her back….”Hi Anni, how are you? I’m very sorry but so far able to recall only one Anni, who was in my school and I’m certain she can’t be you. So plz help me to recognize you” After 4hrs I got another scrap from her “Stupid, I’m the same Anni Taneja, with whom you used to go back home from school on cycle…..”
Wow, is she the same…?? She was the girl in our school on which boys use to stand in a queue. One day, while going back to home, she asked me “Nik, every guy is behind me except you, why?? Don’t I look attractive to you??” I laughed, “you are beautiful, but I m waiting for some1 else, lets c when she knocks my door…” “Yeah yeah, it happens when u ppl bunk the class and watch Dil To Pagal Hai” “c’mon Anni, I’m 16years old now, sometimes can bunk the classes…..” and the conversation went on and on… we use to talk about almost everything…..and once we had a god fight (can’t disclose the reason for fight) and after Sr. Sec. we disappeared for each other…..
Now, after 8years, she again came back to my life. I was happy to get her back. From that time onwards, we use to scrap each other and later on use to talk over phone for hours. I learned from her that she has started her own export firm at our hometown only. She asked me if I got some1 as my life partner for whom I was waiting since long; and I had no other option but to say “search is going on…..” and she laughed, “seems like your search will go on and on…..”She told me that she told her mom about our re-meeting after a long time and she was also wanted to meet with me. Somehow I started liking her. When I asked her if she has any boyfrnd, she revert me the dialogue of the movie Kuch Kuch Hota Ha…”No yaar, you were not there na…”and we laughed. She sent me her pictures , she was looking gorgeous as always. I told her to meet on my next visit to my hometown and if we liked each other, we’ll propose each other and she agreed. I said that very lightly but latterly I was getting serious about it since my parents were searching a partner for me and I had no GF by that time, so thought why not approach her. She is beautiful, has a good carrier and must be smart enough since she is running her own business….
The Day had come…I enlighten her that I would be visiting Jaipur, my hometown in another 10days and I recalled my proposal. She laughed and agreed.
I reached Jaipur, spent some days with my family and chatted with her simultaneously. Finally we decided to meet up next day, but forgot to decide the place. I was excited about our meeting so called on her mobile @8:30pm. It was on switched off mode. So I called her on her landline no. (she called me once from home). It was ringing, finally someo1 picked the receiver and I heard a female voice….
“Hello”
“Hello, could I speak with Anni……”
“Who’s this??”
“I’m Nik, her frnd…”
“Nik, who NIk….??”
“Nik, her frnd from Bangalore…..”I was surprised
“Bangalore? Nik? Her frnd?”
“Yes please, can you plz call her, I wanna talk to her…”
“Want to talk, what do you want to talk?”
“…ahm…just wanted to talk like that…”it was limit now, who is she and why she is asking me so many questions, I thought and got the answer (bit of…)
“What do u wanna talk, tell me…I ‘m her mother, want to know” Things are getting strange to me. Anni told me that her Mom wants to meet me and I cud hear her rude voice over phone….
“Ji, hello Aunty, I’m her frnd…. we studied together in MPS till Sr. Secondary…..” I was feeling like I just committed a crime
“Wait, I’ll call her..” Sighed of relief
2minutes wait and she picked the phone….”hello,” I cud hear her voice
“Hi Anni, Nik here”
“Nik, who NIk..??” Gosh, what’s going on? I was clueless
“Something wrong at your home??”I asked….
“Hello??Hello??”I got that in reply and she disconnected the phone. (Don’t ask what was going on in my mind by that time)…. I smsed her to call me….
@11pm, my phone ranged, it was hers….I was in dilemma, whether shud I pick it or not. Finally my dream of getting her as my partner dominated my brain and I picked it…”what the hell Anni?? What was going on??” “Actually……I didn’t tell anything about you so far to Mom, that’s why…..” “What, you told that you Mom wanted to meet with me…..and when u r running ur own export firm, u must be getting so many calls, national and international, how come your mom can be so much conservative towards you….” And I got some stupid replies from her, which were having no basis….finally she told me “Listen, I’m going to Delhi, will be coming in 2days, then I will meet with you and discuss everything. Till what time you are here in Jaipur….?””For another 4days more, thereafter I am going back to Bangalore””Fine we will be having 2 days in middle, I will surely call you…” “ok Anni, but this time I will only wait for your call, I won’t call you” my ego wasn’t allowing me to call her anymore unless I got full explanation…..”OK, Nik, promise, I will call you, Bye for now…”
She disconnected the phone………… and till now……after 6Months of our last conversation….I am still waiting for getting her call on my cell or at least one scrap on my Orkut id…..I can see now ….my dream…..breaking into several parts…..
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Sorry forgot to mention the end of the story…
August 3, 2008, Friendship day…. Finally I thought to give myself and her another chance and thought to re-connect with her. so finally I sent one sms to her
“School ki life 10+2 tak…
College ki Life…Pado jab tak…
Love ki life…Shaadi tak…
But hamaari dost….30thFebruary tak, jab aayega, tod denge…
Happy Friendship day…”
(if some1 doesn’t know hindi, please ask with some1, I m unable to translate…)
10minutes later, I got a sms from her
“who’se this…”
The world was silent for me for a while. Finally I replied back
“ don’t joke, you cannot forget me,
--Nik”
She replied back, “ohh, hi, you completely forgot me…eh?”
I smsed back, “at least I recalled you now, but you asked me who am I”
She replied back, “hmm… meet me sometime when you come back….”
And I could feel the indifference in her sms…..this was the end of my small love life … my encounter…
