Language of love [P2]

But I couldn’t find her. I started feeling uneasy as she kind off magically vanished from my sight.

I really didn’t know why!!

I tried to recollect her face and terribly failed. Fate it is. I gave up and went to the bus stand to enquire about the bus on my route. My bad luck, the bus already took off from there. Now I have to go to another bus stand to catch the bus. It's quite far away so I thought of taking the metro. I took a ticket and walked to the platform. The long schedule of work and heavy bags were about to take a toll on me and that's when that bag caught my eye. The same bag I saw in the walkway. Some kind of energy rushed in me and I ran towards her. As I approached her she turned her head and noticed me running. I looked down. The exact time for these creepy slippers to make a sound. Huh. As I raised my gaze I felt her eyes on me.

In that one glance, I felt my heartbeat rising to its maximum. She is almost my height. The bright lights on the platform made her face clearly visible. I have only seen such scenarios in movies and it took my breath away. All I could do was stare at her and I started to panic as my eyes met her angry ones. My mind started running like a film. Every word that would start a conversation came to my mind all at once and I stood there speechless. She was staring back at my face with those angry eyes. And I started thinking how bad my face is right now. I could read from her face that she is anticipating some answer for my actions. But little did she know that my mind wasn’t in my control anymore and my voice box decided to not let out a single sound.

I have seen so many beautiful faces in my life but there was something different in her. I can feel a different attraction that I never felt in my life. I don’t know what made me do it, I pulled out her ring from my pocket and showed it to her. Her eyes still had that angry look and it brought a tense smile to my face. She took that ring from my hand and threw it out of sight.

I stood there like a statue. My mind went completely blank and I couldn’t understand what she is trying to show me. Other passengers started looking at me weirdly. I was about to have a panic attack from all these and luckily the train arrived. Without wasting a second I took all my bags and went inside. As I settled all the luggage and sat up to relax there she is. This time in my opposite seat. Ok, it's time to act like I don't even know who I am. I thought and averted my looks into every uninteresting thing around me. But I couldn't take my mind off her.

Maybe she just had a breakup. Everything points towards that. But When? Why? How? All that's a mystery and will remain so. Let it be. What pained me was her puffy face from all those emotions that made her cry. I knew it was a really bad time for her, but I felt like she could do it with a smile. I managed to pass an awkward smile at her as our eyes collided and she smiled back at me. Though I could feel the pain behind that curve, it was still beautiful enough to make anyone smile. I was immersed in such thoughts and it took me a second to realize it was my ringtone that's being the background music. As I took it out, the word MOM showed up on the screen. I took it and started answering her questions. Her only concern was whether I had dinner to know whether she should keep food on the table. I smiled at her concern as I put the phone back in my pocket.

After 2 stations she rose from her seat and then it struck me. That’s it. The goodbye. We will never see each other again. A looked at her for the last time with a smile. But she took me by surprise by sitting beside me. Her bag became the barrier between us just like a peace contract between 2 countries. And slowly the ice started melting.

“Hai”

“Ha…Hello,” I replied in a still scared tone.

“Sorry …I am …”

“No, I can understand” I assured her.

I noticed a new COK tag on her bag and asked “Where are you coming from” not taking eyes from the tag.

She said “Ahhh…. Dubai”

Before we could talk more, the announcement specifying the next station came and that was where I had to get down. Don’t know why, but I felt so bad that I have to leave. To my wonder, she was getting up with her bag too.

“Where are you going”

“Thrissur” She replied

I smiled like an idiot hearing that and replied, “I am also going to Thrissur”

“Ohh…Do you know a place called Chirakkal in Thrissur?”

“Yeah it's near to my hometown” I happily replied her

“Can you help me? I don’t know this place well enough and I don’t think I can manage alone”

She sounded helpless though she pretended to be ok. I could sense that her mind is completely disturbed as she might have had a breakup (and who knows better than me how it feels after being cheated).

“Yeah Sure” I replied

I didn’t ask her anything more, she also didn’t. We walked together on that road, with both our eyes fixed only on the way ahead. I could sense that both of us wanted to talk, but silence felt better. Within no time we reached the bus stop.

continues...(check for P3)