It was a cold Monday morning! Rahul was seriously thinking about the day ahead, while everyone else was half asleep and hardly listening to the lecture. Rahul’s thoughts got even deeper and he started scribbling something on a piece of paper. Once he was done scribbling he passed it on to the next bench adjacent to him, it was his best friend Anjana. She too was half asleep in the lecture almost with her head lying on the desk. When the note got to her, she opened it with her tired hands as slow as possible and read the note with droopy eyes.
The note had something unexpected; she raised her head immediately and turned to see Rahul. She had a bright surprised feeling on her face, as if she had been enlightened about something very absurd. The note read “Shall I propose my love to her today”. ‘Her’ in this place refers to Amritha, a bubbly little girl with short hair and sharp looks and she was Rahul’s love interest. It was initially a crush he had on her for quite some time because of his fetish for short haired girls, but he has been in love with her ever since, she held his hands for walking over a broken bridge, that incident developed his crush into a fully grown love.
It’s been about 1 year since these three people met in college and since then, Anjana and Rahul have been together all the time and are the best and thickest of friends. Rahul helped Anjana to get into the relationship she wanted and so now its Anjana’s turn to help him out. So during the first break, Rahul and Anjana met to discuss the plans for what Rahul was supposed to be doing. The plan was simple. He was going to directly propose to her in the biochemistry lab where amritha and Anjana are lab partners and Anjana would move away when things happen. Rahul was tensed about rejection and consequences if she makes a big scene out of it, but Anjana gave him confidence, support and some pep talk saying, ‘she’s a girl and she knows another girl’s heart’ and also was sure that amritha would accept Rahul’s love. So the stage was set, things planned; only Rahul’s execution was left.
The biochemistry lab was a three hour long lab, and they were almost into the last hour. Rahul was yet to complete his work, while Anjana and amritha were done already and chatting within themselves. Anjana was giving Rahul, stares to get things done and come over. Finally Rahul finished his work, walked over to their bench, while Anjana moved away; he called Amritha and said ‘hey, I need to tell you something’. Amritha replied ‘ ya go ahead’. Rahul with a deep breath and heavy mind said “I love you”. Due to pressure, Rahul’s volume went down and amritha didn’t hear it properly, she just said ‘hey I couldn’t hear you’. He then gathered guts, got laid back, and said “I like you and love you a lot; do you like me”.
There was a moment’s pause; she froze there as if time had stopped. Rahul couldn’t decipher anything from her looks. So he looked at Anjana who was standing in one corner. Then amritha opened her mouth and said “I need sometime, shall I say it today evening after the classes are over”. Rahul didn’t know what to reply. He just stood there and nodded yes.
Rahul didn’t know what to do in the next 3 hrs. He was tensed like a father waiting for his child to be born, anxiety and fear was written all over him. He was starting to panic a little, Anjana again calmed him down saying ‘see when a girl says she needs time, she’d probably say yes’ ‘if she didn’t like you, she’d have bluntly rejected you right there’. Whatever advice was given to him, his restlessness continued, until it was 4 pm and classes got over.
Everyone in the class started leaving out; Amritha was missing as she had gone for a badminton practice during the last hour. Rahul’s tension increased thinking if amritha would have left after practice and forgot all about him. He requested Anjana to stay, but she refused bluntly telling him to take care of himself. He was sitting there in the empty classroom for 5 minutes, when he heard someone walking in the corridor and saw amritha come inside the classroom. He immediately stood up like he saw the principal walk in.
Amritha silently dropped her bag on the bench, walked towards Rahul and stood there for a moment. Looked him in the eye, she could see his tension on his face. She just put her foot forward and hugged him. She rests her face on his chest and said “I love you too”. Rahul’s heart started racing hard, and he didn’t know how to react, he hugged her back.
She raised her head up and asked ‘why is your heart beating so fast’. For which he replied, ‘it’s a mixture of happiness and anxiety’. Then she again hugged him tight, and he too hugged her back, and moved to side and fell down from his Bed. Rahul’s head broke the fall; he woke up from his sleep, the clock showed ‘Feb 14th 5:00 am’. He hit himself in his head, it was all a dream. All his happiness, tension, restlessness and everything he felt was just a dream.
It happened to be an early morning dream, and dreams at that time are supposed to come true. It’s a myth, but Rahul’s dream came true. All the things he imagined in his dream came true. Both Amritha and Rahul had a mutual crush on each other and the holding hands on the bridge sparked the love between them, both loved each other very much, but it was unspoken, finally Rahul spoke about it and she hugged him to accept his love.
It was the happiest “Valentine’s Day” for them.
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