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I will do the male part of the story, you write the female part for the same situation. |
| [Introduction]
It was the first day at the new University. Rob, a young teen, aged around 19 has never been in a co-education school before. He comes into the classroom and sits down. Rob thinking, "Well ! First day. Let us check out the ladies we got in the class." Rob is rotating his head like a soccer ball checking out girls. "Bad. Bad. Average. Average. Whoa ! Grade 10. Average. Bad. Ba..." It was the first time he saw her. She was chewing her pen and was smiling like an angel. He couldn't stop staring at her. He told himself to stop doing that because she was glimpsing at him. Unintentionally, maybe. That was the time when his heart took control of the body and made him stare at her like a four-year old who feels for a candy bar that his parents won't buy. He was smiling, not on his face. But, in his heart. She made him feel like she was the most beautiful girl in the 21st century. He was still staring at her. She started looking at him, generally. There were a few milliseconds of eye contact between them, or he imagined that it happened so. She was talking to her friend who sat next to her. He didn't even know her name. They were talking something and they started to share a moment of laugh between themselves. Meanwhile, Dean, a friend of Rob, who sat beside him, called him by tapping on his shoulder. "Rob. What are staring at?" Rob came into senses, "Uh? Nothing. Just that girl. She looks beautiful." "So? Tell that to her. You are staring at her like she is some costly champagne." "What? No. I was just looking at her, normally." answered Rob. "Looking? For 10 minutes straight?" Rob was thinking in his mind, "It has been 10 minutes? What is she gonna think of me?" Dean tapped him on the shoulder again, "Dude? Are you drunk?" "No." "Are you high?" "No. I am not stoned. I was just...... out of balance, i guess." answered Rob undoubtedly. "Out of balance? Dude, You were sitting on a see-saw, with no one on the other end. You getting what I say?" mimicked Dean. Rob thinking, "Dean may say a hundred things, but he didn't look at her with my heart and eyes. She was also looking at me. " The bell rang and everyone started to go out of the class. She was packing her bag, while Rob was walking through the door. The walked past the door, and then just bent his back a little to peek at her with one eye. He was hoping that she would be looking at him. But, his hope was in vain. She was packing her back and was talking to her friend. He didn't look back again and went away with a sad heart. |
| Tina was bored. She looked around and everything from the students to the furniture, even the middle aged professor who walked into the class wearing a suspender, couldn't inject any interest in Tina's mind, expect for a bubbling laughter, which she suppressed with a smile. This was not the university Tina opted for. She wanted to join one further up north, where most of her high school friends went. But she had to concede to her parent's pressure who would not let her out of their sight... not so early. "I am eighteen and half for God's sake," she had protested in vain. But her immigrant parents would not understand this western concept. After admission though, she met Sonia, from her middle school days. But she's an introvert. Talking with her is almost like talking to a chair. As Sonia went back to gulping down the boring lecture of the suspender-guy... "Hmm I can call him Prof Suspender," a broad smiled ran across her cheek as the thought crossed her mind. That's when she felt a weird vibe coming from the right hand of the class. She turned to check and found this weirdo gaping at her. "Oh get a life," was her first thought. But then she noticed he kept on looking at her. "Sonia, Sonia.. hey!" she tried to bring out her friend from the world of witches and magicians. "Whah.. what?" Sonia was a little startled. "That guy, now don't look.. the guy to my right 2nd in the 3rd row. Wait look straight ahead in the reflection in the glass... did u see him," Tina tried to point the guy out for Sonia. "The one with the beard?" Sonia asked. "No, what no.. .. the one to his left," Tina said. "Oh, he is cute. So what's the problem," Sonia turned to her friend. "He has been staring at me for ages," Tina whispered. "Really? Ages? Well he doesn't look that old," Sonia chuckled. "Lame joke. Ok I admit he is cute... but he has been staring this way for more than 10 minutes... Do you think he has some kind of eye-sight problems?" Tina seemed a little concern. "Or he just doesn't know manners?" "Why don't you go over to him after class and find out," Sonia suggested. "Not interested," Tina shrugged taking a quick glimpse of the guy again. |
| Rob was sitting on the couch with a laptop on his lap. He couldn't stop thinking about her. Her tall ravishing structure, alluring skin tone, charming face, dazzling earrings, and her graceful face with an elegant smile lay in front of his eyes. He knew that he was in love. He could feel the weight in his heart. All of the sudden, the power went away. It was pitch silent. As he was thinking about her, he could hear his own heartbeat. Whenever he thought about her, It would bring an unintentional and genuine smile on his face. "Dude. You are thinking too much about her. You don't even know her. Not even her name. You need to plan for things to happen." Rob thought to himself. The power was back on. He turned on his laptop and logged in into his Facebook account. As he was checking his wall, he saw a post-cum-notification kind of thing that "Sonia and Tina are now friends." Sonia's picture was visible along with the notification. He opened her profile and checked her picture for clarification whether she was the girl who sat next to his angel. Then he opened Tina's profile with a doubt whether she was the one or not. His doubt was right. She was the one. He said to himself, "Tina. What a beautiful name." He sent her a friend request. He waited for five minutes. There was no response. So he thought that she was not online and was about to logout. But his intuition said, "Chill dude. Wait for one more minute." He thought of waiting for another minute. All of the sudden, he received a notification, "Tina accepted your friend request." The happiness in his face was priceless. It was like as if she accepted his love proposal and also agreed to marry him. He started dancing, not literally, but inside. She was online. He clicked on her name. The chat box opened. He was rolling his hands on the keyboard but was unable to type a message. He kept doing the same thing for a few minutes. Finally he gained some courage and typed his first message "Hi". It was like Indian Cricketing Legend Rahul Dravid once said "The most tense moment is not the run you wait to score when you are stuck at 99, but the moment when you are waiting to get off the mark." He was waiting for her reply. Seconds seemed like minutes to him. After a minute, she saw the message. The notification that the message was "seen" made Rob more eager to see the reply. But to his disappointment, she saw the message but there was no reply. His heart started pounding like anything. After a couple of minutes, he received a message from Tina saying "hi". He was delighted to see that reply and he typed "How are you?" "I am fine." She replied. He was a little discontented that she didn't ask about him. But he continued. "What are you doing?" Again she saw the message but there was a long gap before the reply came. "Nothing." As the texting was going a bit pale, he tried to use his sense of humor. He replied "Nothing? You aren't even converting oxygen into carbon dioxide?  "She saw the message. After a minute she replied, "LOL." Rob was elated for the reply because felt that the joke was pretty lame. "Do you have a boyfri -" as he was typing this message, a reply came from her. "Got to go. Bye." He erased the message he typed and replied "It was nice talking to you. Bye." She saw the message and a few minutes later, she went offline. He kept his laptop aside and started to think about the first conversation her had with her. Even though he was pretty much pleased even for her single word replies, the dark side of his brain started doing its work. "Why did it take her that much time to reply? Does she have a boyfriend? Is she texting with many people at a time?". He had so many questions in his mind. His thought process was broken in middle as he received a text message on his mobile from his friend, Dean. "Wanna catch up for a movie?" He replied "Yes" and started to wash up. |
| Tina was checking her wall for updates about her friends who went north. But they all seemed too engrossed by their new lives. She felt a little sad and then the sadness started to spread all over her. "Okay guys, if you can forget me so quickly. I can too," she said to her invisible friends who were miles away. "I can make new friends too and forget you all." In a fit of anger she began to accept randomly at all the friend requests that had gathered. Then pushing the laptop aside, she pushed her face down on the soft belly of her cuddly teddy and wept for a moment. "No u need to grow up Tina. No more Melissa, Jane, Sherry, Bridget, Josh or Ben. They are gone and you can do pretty well without them," she told herself, wiping her nose and eyes with the back of her wrist, as she gathered herself up hearing the sound of an incoming chat message. "Rob?!" she said not understanding who that person is. Curiosity got the better of her and without thinking too much she replied "Hi". The next message came immediately asking Tina how she was. "I am fine," she wrote out of habit. "Who is this guy," she thought and proceeded to check his profile. "Oh the cute guy from the class, who was staring at me...hmmm," she smiled to herself as the chat window kept beeping indicating Rob had sent her his next message. As she answered his messages, Tina felt that the loneliness had started to fade away. Though the guy made a lame joke, it made her laugh, and she felt good. But right then she heard her mother calling. "Tinu... Sherry's calling you in your phone. Why aren't u answering?" "What Sherry?! What... Mom where did I keep my phone," Tina quickly typed a goodbye and signed out, as she searched frantically for her phone, which was found minutes later under the pillow --- switched off. |
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