Just Another Love Story

Episode 1

I think the first time I saw her was when I was coming back from class and saw her on the way. Just another human I thought. I didn't even know her name then.
Historically speaking that year turned out to be eventful. Memories are fading away but i do remember noticing her during "that" programme wearing a long black overcoat to beat the cold. We were enlisted as volunteers. She as the 'captain' and every once in a while I would hear her name, her voice, her laughter.

We would be together but not really talk. When the programme drew to a close, "us" and were called to keep back the chairs. I searched for her because I wanted to talk to her but she was with her cousin and I couldn't muster enough guts to talk to her. This was before Christmas.

Pretty soon I started hearing stories and rumors about us. This really surprised me because I didn't even make a move on her. Then the teasing, name calling started. I was mad af. Everyone in a while she would hang out with my cousins. We would talk, and I was falling for her.

Episode 2

So here I was invading the privacy of her home on Christmas eve, in her kitchen with my cousins brought against my will by my cousins. But deep down I thought, maybe,  she wanted me to stay.

Damn how things turned out to be. To be teased of a person you didn't even know existed. I was contemplating how all this shit happened.

My cousins sat there with her, having "midnight dinner". The cousins stopped teasing me and her when I agreed to go to her house. Midnight dinner over and the cousins and me agreed to go home too. She asked us to stay longer but we knew better since it was already late and her parents were asleep. Wished each other merry Christmas and took our leave. This was my first serious encounter with her. Before all this I mistook her to be someone else's sister. Yikes.

It's amazing how things quickly progressed from that day. One fine day, my cousin used my phone to call her and that's how she got my number. I didn't even have the guts to ask for her number first. We met up again over noodles and tea. That was the last I saw of her before she went back to the city for her studies.

Episode 3

I was a little heartbroken that she went back without even saying goodbye but that was to be expected. 

The first time she texted me, I was at my aunts place narrating about hostel life to my aunt when she texted me on Facebook. The moment. The feeling. 

Life speed up. New years eve, new year celebrations came and pretty soon I was to go back to the city too. The night before I was to go back to the city, we were chatting and I asked her to call and wake me up in the morning because I was to move for the city by 6 AM.Cheesy move by me because I could have just set an alarm on my phone or maybe just maybe, it was a matter of heart over head. 

She did call me.

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