The rain had just stopped after a whole day of continuous downpour making everything so green and refreshed amidst the humid weather of August .The pearl like water droplets from the wet drenched tress in the garden of her house fell from the leaves on her cheeks and she was feeling so nice and happy .The sun began to peep through the dark clouds to play hide and seek with Survi and it brought a big closeup smile on her face. It came out and again hid away in the clouds, making the moment so special for her. She always loved the after effects of rain that brought an immense happiness to her own self. The wet weather always made her remember Sourav in those days when he was away from her. But now Sourav is even more far away from her. He is there with her but still away from her..
She was pouring her favorite hot and super strong coffee to her favorite mug that Sourav had bought for her on her 18th birthday when he met her after the board exams and he gave her all the gifts that he bought every year on her birthday . She thought to herself how drastically life has changed over the span of time.
Survi got more prosperous and successful over these years. Sourav had owned many companies and is big business man now. Everything sailed smooth but there was still some thing that was missing in life
Even though Sourav's love for Survi remained the same always. He loved and cared for her the same way he did before.
Today it was her 32nd birthday and she knew that this year when Sourav is in her life , some thing special would definitely happen on her big day.
She found her belief to be true. On the morning of her birthday as she opened her home's main door to collect the newspaper, there was a red rose shower on her with a letter which said "lets have a cup of tea in my office room" . She had her very own special office room in her house. She ran there and found a big bouquet of pink roses on her desk with a cup of her favorite masala tea. It had another envelope which read" open the last drawer of your computer table". Survi opened that and saw a parker pen wrapped up with a greetings card .When she opened the card it and it read "lets have our breakfast in your lawn".. Everywhere she touched in the house said "Happy Birthday", even the cushions of the sofa said so. She ran through the back door towards the lawn and saw a perfectly arranged breakfast table with all her favorite food arranged like a five star hotel. She found it very silly but romantic too and she rubbed her eyes twice to check if she was day dreaming on her birthday.
Survi could not believe her eyes that she could see Sourav sitting on a chair waiting for her to join the breakfast. She could never believe it at all to be true and pinched herself. She found herself in the reality, sitting next to him . He took her hand into his and said "I could had never love you this way if you had not trusted my love for you and waited for me in spite of all odds you had to go through for me". Tears rolled down her cheeks and he wiped the pearls off gently touching her for the first time in those 29years since he had seen her. Everything seemed to stop there at once at that very special moment.
Survi felt like nothing could be more important than this ,she got the biggest gift that she always wanted today. She wanted to hug him there but she felt shy . They both held each other's hand and laid down on the soft grass of the lawn under the clear beautiful blue sky to see their love growing to be more promising and loving each day.
Sourav made the day more memorable by taking her to the most beautiful place in the city that she had never seen in all these years when she had stayed in the city. They did shopping together ,dined out. They both had a lovely day spent together with each other holding hands and loving each other more than they did a moment ago.
Sourav often visits Survi at her house after the office and they would spent hours together with each other falling in love again and again. They slowly began to grow more closer to each other and realized that they never went away from each other for even a second.
They finally decided to tell their families about their relationship and get married .They said the same to their respective families . Survi's parents were good to accept Sourav but there arose a problem, Sourav's family was not ready to accept Survi as she belonged to other caste .Sourav was a Bihari boy and Survi was Marwari girl.
Sourav explained everything in details to Survi .He did not want to loose Survi again for some misbeliefs of his family, neither did he want to hurt his parents. So he finally decided and promised her that he will never get marry someone else other than Survi but she was free to marry anyone if she wanted to.
Survi tore into pieces on hearing those harsh words from Sourav. But she was stubborn and promised him that she will remain unmarried for rest of her life until Sourav owns her.
Hours turned into days to weeks and months and years passed by like a blink of an eye.
They both were in their 40s now. Neither of them had their parents alive now. There was no one to stop them from getting married but there grew a hesitation in this regard now. Their social status, their friends circle, everything they were associated with seemed to like question them if they decided to get married at this age...
They both felt it to be a bit strange but it existed in their lives.
