Friday, August 14, 2020

The Solitude

 

Life is just life, there is no exact definition to it. 

It is not always what we think we can make it work in our way with, it makes things fall in place in its own way.

It was the normal day in the office hours when Survi was busy , working on a very important presentation, her manager, Mr Sinha , called her into his cabin for some urgent work. She left her presentation halfway and headed to his cabin. She found Sourav sitting on the visitor's chair opposite to her manager. She was shocked to see him there, she never expected to see him in her office,not at least like this . She pretended  not to notice him. Mr. Sinha introduced Survi to Sourav there as he came as their new vendor. Survi will be heading the team to assist Sourav in their new venture. Survi got overwhelmed to hear that and was happy from inside but she controlled her expressions being reflected on her face.

Some days passed just like that. Survi was passionately working on Sourav's project with her team, busy trying to make things turn good through her end until that day when something strange happened.

It was a rainy evening when Survi was about to start from her office in her daily office hours and it began raining. She had to wait back as she did not have her umbrella with her. Coincidentally Sourav had come to their office that day due to some work and was there that time . She was about to share the ride with Raghav , her colleague as well as close friend in office,when she noticed Sourav watching her. She did not notice Sourav and sat in Raghav's car when Sourav called her out, she turned back to reply but Raghav had already started the engine. She could not wait back and had to go home with Raghav. She stopped Raghav's car midway and headed back to Sourav.

Sourav welcomed her in his car and drove her home. On the way he told her all about his feelings for her all these years and even expressed how sad he felt when he saw Survi getting into someone else's car.

He wanted to marry Survi , he even told her that, Survi was in dilemma now as she does not know what to do. She accepted every word of him with a smile, without knowing on how to reply him back.She felt like she woke up to her dream come true. With loads of thoughts running across her mind she got off Sourav's car. He expected at least some reply from Survi, but in vain, she seemed lost in her thoughts like the school days.

 All night she kept thinking of him again and again, recalled her weak moments for him but shut herself tight all in herself all over again. Nothing was there in her mind she felt just a blank space in herself. She could not believe why he wanted to marry her now when she is already forty. She had waited for him  for so long all these years when she was young , beautiful. She knew she had nothing to give him, her charm was lost, she lost her face glory. She has started to turn old now but she could not co-relate his decision to something normal. She did not when she felt asleep thinking of all these all night.She woke up the next day on hers scheduled time and rushed to office.

Now, when Survi arrived at office she found her table was decorated with her favorite flowers all over. She did not react instead carefully asked the office helper to clean her desk. She knew it was Sourav who did it but remained calm and started working .She looked casual in her work . During lunch break her colleague Swati reminded her of the office party for the profit earned that year in a pub. Survi asked Swati to pick her up when she starts for the party. In evening when they arrived at the party, Survi found Sourav there which was unexpected as he never loved loud noises. But he was present in real there, Survi pinched herself to check if she was dreaming of Sourav there,but no!! He was present there,enjoying the party. 

He just looking around when suddenly his eyes fell into her  those beautiful eyes  and she too could not resist walking away from his stare. They were trying to feel each other from far without even their shadows to realize about their love. Survi was still the most beautiful woman for Sourav. Her  deep,black eyes made him rest inside them forever. She looked beautiful  like always as he saw her in school  days.That same innocent smile of her makes him melt in her arms  . They both felt themselves chained in the chains of a magical spell that put them together for always  Whenever they look at each other's eyes their love  never seem to get quenched as if they are separated for hundreds of years.They felt themselves incomplete without each other, still there was something pulling them back.  Survi tried to held herself back when Swati called her out to start for home. Sourav also came out of their love spell and headed back home bidding goodbye to everyone out there. Both went home, waiting for a new day to begin, for things to fall in place all by themselves

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