As I was driving back from the airport I was all grumpy. I
felt if I had persisted a little longer, maybe she would have changed her mind.
After all, we have been together a good one year, and it’s not so easy for
someone to just walk away. I knew it was a reason she had chosen. She found a
nice excuse to stay away from me, and in the name of career aspiration she
chose to move to a different country. But I knew, it was not her aspiration.
That was never her. This was her way of staying away from me. I was still finding it tough to digest the fact that she had decided to move away from me forever
Ananya’s call. I heaved a sigh. It must be her to tell me
that she is done with her check in formalities.
“Sidhart, where are you?”
“I am almost home Ananya, are you done with everything”
“No!!! Can you come back, I have an issue. I cannot tell you
on the phone, come back. I’ll be waiting for you at the same place you dropped
me”
“Is everything okay? Tell me what happened”
“You don’t drive fast. I am fine. Don’t worry. Take your
time. I’ll wait.” and she cut the call.
Don’t drive fast? I drove insane. I was thinking of the
various things that could have possibly gone wrong and this was not the moment
for me to respect traffic rules. Thanks to the cover of darkness, traffic
violations are easy late night in this city. In no time I reached the airport
and my eyes were quick to spot this woman, wrapped in her jacket who was sitting
on her suitcase all curled up inside her jacket trying to beat the chill winter
breeze.
Anyone else in her state would’ve been in tears by now or
all tensed. But Ananya was different. A lady who always stayed calm and
composed. She was always in control of the situation and I always admired her
individuality. She was apt in handling all her problems.
I was not surprised when I saw her smile when I got down
from the car and stared walking towards her. I guess all the anxiety was
written on my face.
“What happened?” I asked
“Don’t scold me!!! It might sound careless. But not my fault Sidhart. I forgot my passport at my place”
“WHAT????!!!! I must’ve asked you a hundred times. You could’ve
at least told me over the phone, I could ve gone to your place and got the
passport”
“Ya right, and then I would’ve to come to the police station
to bail you out for trying to break into my house. The key is with me Sidhart”
“Now what? We still have time, let’s try our luck”
“Don’t worry, I called up my travel agent and asked them to
re-schedule the trip to tomorrow”
“But your money???”
“I thought you would be happy that I missed my flight, you
are worried about money!!!!”
Careless people usually make me upset. Often felt she was
someone who was never serious of life or anything in it. She was always someone
who wanted to live every moment and believed in living a worry free life. I was
the straight opposite of her.
As I was driving her back home, I kept giving her a lecture on how careless
she has been and how she could’ve avoided all this. She just kept increasing
the volume of the song to avoid my nagging.
She knew how to irritate me and shut me. I gave up and we
both didn’t speak a word
“Where are you taking me Sidhart, I hope you've no plans of kidnapping me and exploiting this situation?”
Seeing my silence she continued,
“See you didn’t want me to go, and that’s why I missed this
flight. All this happened because you dint want me to go.”
By now she sensed she had succeeded in making me angry. But
she also knew I would not react.
“Let’s go for a drive, take me somewhere far. I want to
spend this night with you, just the two of us. I have my bags already packed
and the best thing we don’t have to go back home also” and as she spoke she
pulled out her passport from her bag and waved at me.
That was her. Who always threw surprises at me.
Ananya and I were two extreme personalities. We had nothing
in common, except for the fact that maybe we found good company in each other
and we filled each other’s emptiness perfectly. Though we were different we
enjoyed doing things together. Though our relationship started off on the most
unexpected of notes, it dint take long for it to flare up into a pretty intense
relationship. So much so that we had even planned our wedding and had decided
to spend the rest of our lives together.
(To be Contd.....)
