It was about to rain. The sky was dirty with black and gray clouds ready to pour. The road was much dirty with mud and the 'plastic dirts'- the another name of kathmandu. I was to go to my friend's place at maitidevi to celebrate new year's eve. It was already showering and the traffic was growing impatient. The roads were unmanageably busy and people were running desperately.
I was also walking at my full pace. While walking I noticed someone was walking desperately by my side. I turned my head 90 degree to see who it was.
It was her.................no no wait...............not again.
I didn’t know who she was.
She was trying her best and dragging herself with all her might to keep pace with me. Actually she was wanting to overtake me and leave me far behind. By nature, I didn’t gave a damn to her. But when she overtook me, I became cautious. My pride which thought that there was no any person who could walk as fast as me; became much more alert. It ordered my brain to walk much faster to overtake that girl. My brain ordered my muscles to use the stored energy.....So my pace was increased.
I overtook her in no time. When I found myself ahead of her, I slowed down. After sometime, I again turned my head to look at her. She was not by my side, so I turned back and looked. But hell she was not there. I thought may be her home was somewhere in this location and that she might have entered her home. So I turned ahead and started to walk. But no!!!
She was there just ahead of me, walking desperately, half walking and half running. The rain also increased its speed. And what is this…. She turned back, looked at me and smiled. I told myself “hassi to fassi”.
I was not that stupid who wouldn’t smile back in this situation.
Actually I thought she was challenging me. So I again increased my pace. But this time, just as I was about to overtake her, she would move to my side. When I tried to overtake from her left, she moved a bit left giving me no space to go ahead. I had to decrease my pace. Then I walked by her side just behind her and when I was about to go ahead again, this time from her right, she shifted slightly towards right.
So the lady is teasing me!!! Ha……wait.....
So I just walked behind her, just behind her.
She was from Nobel Academy. You may wonder how I knew that. Don't you think I am genius??? Actually it was due to the C.I.D effect.
She was wearing her col dress and in her chest was written “Nobel Academy”. WOW ME!!
WOW C.I.D!!!!
Walking so fast is not an easy job....So eventually she got tired. But even then she would not allow me to go to ahead.
Then I made a plan. I crossed the road and went to the other side ( Actually the wrong side to walk ). I was keeping my eyes on her. And then she turned back. WOW, she turned 180 degree back and was searching something putting her hands on her back. I just hide myself behind a ‘pani puri thela’. WOW!! Was she searching me??? Oh lucky me........and thank you RAIN.....the lucky RAIN....
After about 30 seconds of search, she gave up and started walking like a tortoise.
I begun to accelerate and just when I was ahead of her; I crossed the road. Then I waited for her to come near. When she found me at her front, she smiled. I smiled back. Then we started walking side by side. Sometimes, when people would obstruct us, she would walk ahead and wait till I was by her side. We were walking like friends, but weren't speaking a word. I don’t know how to start.
With much courage, I started “Hey walk faster, the rain is about to pour.”
“yeah, but I am tired of walking so fast..off!!”
"Hehe"..
"what hehe!!!!And how do u walk so fast?"
"By habit"
"Then you must be a post man…..hehehe"
What a sweet smile was that……it lit her whole face. Beautiful.....simply BEAUTIFUL....
"do you think so?" i asked,
"No, just joking….."
"Ok….and u must be a student…."
"Yeap!! How did u know that??" She said wearing a fake surprise on her face…..
"Simple…by your dress…."
"And you must also have found that I study at noble???"
"Yeah….and you are going home…,aren't u??"
"Yes....u know everything...WOW!!"...she was teasing me....
……..
"By the way, I think you should call your brother to pick you……"
I said offering my mobile to her.
"No thanks..i do have mobile….but I don’t have brother….." she said smiling…
"Oh!! Then call someone, probably your elders. They might pick u up."
She smiled and said………."u are not that stupid….. And yeah….my parents might be going to home from office and besides I am the elder one. I have a sister who is much smaller and u must know that she couldn’t pick me up."
"Oh…yes!!" I send her my smile....
"Then take a micro….u’ll get soaked till you reach your home…." I tried to sound as caring as possible....
"No way!!! the micro are full and they won't stop here. They would only stop at maitidevi. But when I reach maitidevi, I only have to walk 2 minutes to reach my home."
She has this unique habit of moving her hand while talking.
Oh…then she lives at maitidevi……
We just talked about all the stuffs…stupid chatting guffs!!! But we didn’t asked each others' name.
We reached maitidevi chowk. I was to go towards the temple and she was to go ahead.
"Ok….bye" I said, weaving my hand...
"Bye and thanks……"
"Why thanks??"
"just for walking with me.." she said smiling....
"Hey why don’t we take some tea or coffee?" I pointed to a nearby restaurant....
"No thanks…..some other day probably…." She was red....was she shy???
"U sure?" I asked...
"Yeah……" She put the disturbing hair behind her ear...
A moment or so...the environment was silent....of course besides the horns and sounds of vehicles.......
"Then how do I invite you again?" After much hesitation finally I asked her...
"..…..ok give me your moblie number….."
"Why??? " I got suprised......
"Silly…..i will call u later….."
"Oh... its 9841762919….."
"9841762919 ???"
"Yeah...."
"Ok bye…."
"Bye...." I didn't find any thing to make her stop....
I crossed the road and just then my mobile rang.
I turned back to see if she was calling me. But she was not there. SO I picked up the call….
“Hello”
“just to check whether the number is correct or not”
“huh……now u know its correct??”
“yeah"
"and thanks”
“thanks? for what?”
“I got your number” I said...
“hehe”
“but how should I save it, I mean what should I save the number by..”
“save it as unknown girl”
“unknown girl???”
“yeah…..isn't that easy to remember???”
“yeah…..simple and unique……thanks”
“and…….”
“oh yeah, save my number as post man!!!”
“Post man?? That’s a preety name…… hahaha”
“Yeah, someone just gave me this name”
“hehe....Congrats”
“thank you, thank you”
“ok call me tomorrow”
“sure!!”
“bye”
“bye unknown girl…”
“postman!!!!”
And then she cut the call.
