Part 7......... The Roses

Yesterday i came to know for sure that the Blog is reaching its intended Audience want to thank all followers and friends for the same. As i wade deeper in the story today i present to you some of the most important part of the story.
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Beginning where we were.............


Without the Phone and Internet in these days and times communicating can be very dificult and we realized that hard way very early in our relationship. But nevertheless, Friends' phone, Pay phone and Bro's phone kept us talking and together. Then the unexpected happened. My bro was down with dengue. It was very bad time at home.
he had to be admitted to hospital. i usually stayed with him overnight looking after him in hospital.
She was such a source of inspiration in those times. Always encouraging me always talking to me even at 3 a.m. and helping me have faith. The difficult days passed by. My bro was back on his feet healthy as ever and guess what i got a new phone.
in the meantime i got to know about her family, her and her frinds. Those night long conversations also taught me one of the most important facets of her persona of a thoughtful, caring and patient lady. I admired those qualities of hers till this day.

It was during one of those days when we visited the MALL. She loved watching films while i hate the same. Hating films is also not the end of life for me But i can't manage to sit inside a cinema hall for 3 hrs. In my entire life i had done this only 4 times before her. The atmosphere of a cinema hall crampy, closed and bound to watch something which u have no control or idea of is very perplexing to me. But she loved watching movies and no love stories / dates are complete without a movie together isn't it. So that day i decided to take her to the most romantic movie that was being screened in the theater.
that day we were meeting after some good 10 days. I decided to take some red Roses for her. I went to the best flowerseller i knew. Ferns and petals isn't around my home. And handpicked and selected the best bunch of red roses i could find and had them bound brilliantly with all my engineering nuances applied to it. Although i was sure the flowerman was pissed off with me and had labeled me as a sure shot madman. But I could not have faltered on this one.

I took the roses and went on meet her. Only GOD knows or i know the amount of glances people have for u while u are waiting for someone with a bouquet of red roses in hand. It was miserable. Unknown people came and passed me passing a smile. But still i continued and gave her the roses. The reaction wa what made my day. She was excited to core. later she saved one of those roses between her book and i am sure till this day that rose is somewhere inside that bookcover itself. However hard she may claim to move on i am dead sure that Rose still has a niche place in between her books and will always be.

We booked Gold class tickets. I hoped gold class comfort would make me stable and let me survive through the agony of the film. But that was not meant to be. I can survive horrendous vivas and interviews. I can survive 48 hour marathon sessions on my computer but those 3 hrs are like hell. At the entry to the theater itself where we were being checked the security staff had a eyeful of us and the roses. They teased her by asking where her chocolates were and when we were about to enter the oldest one said to me : " Aap dono ki JODI kamaal hai sahab. Sada saath rehna" How prophetic those words seem now in hindsight.

Anyways I tried to survive but somehow my inner self got better of me. I finished the whole movie holding her hands and trying to watch her beautiful face in the dim lights of the theater, perhaps this was what took me through the three hours. She kept her head on my shoulders as she usually does the comfort of having someone so close fills u with immense energy and unknown force . But even that force was not enough to help me after 3 hours . As i was coming out of the theater i almost fainted . She helped me walk up to the Washroom. i washed my entire face with cold water and tried to breathe as heavily as I could.
Although it took 20 long minutes before we could come back to normal mood i was finally back in my senses and she was a s terified as a person who had seen his soul leave. She hug me tightly after that and warned me against watching films ever again.

So now we were not supposed to go out on Movie dates. All that was left was hanging out together in the winters of Delhi at the most beautiful of places in Delhi and its MALLs.
So again it was one of those fateful nights when we were hanging around in the mall. we were moving around having an icecream and were waiting in the lift lobby when she turned her back and saw her sister and brother in law walking in with her nieces. It was horrible. She immediately turned her head. JIJU just walked past us and did not see us, thankgod, don know tiil date whether he actually did not see us or pretend not to. They just walked pass us and we were standing there freezed to our bones. Had they seen us don know what would have happened.
They just walked pass us and went a floor down. we had no idea what to do. I had known her JIJU for some time due to some professional reasons but had never seen her Di. So i decided to go to first floor and check if they are inside any shop we will sneak through. But God has something else in mind for us. i stood on escalator and as i was halfway down the floor i saw here JIJU standing bang opposite me with face in opposite direction. I was almost chilled . I turned back on escalator then and there and with half the mall looking at me except possibly her JIJU i ran on opposite direction on escalator pushing and shoving people coming down i reached back on second floor. We knew our luck was bad but still decided to give it a shot and together got down to the ground floor via another route and departed ASAP.

I literally learned the meaning of ASAP that day. It was a freezing encounter, coz if her JIJU and DI had known. we were gone cases for sure................
So much for a mall experience....

Next up would be the story of KITTU midst our lives............... Tomorrow.

Signing off for the day....

A simple rose I have found
It's not the flower that grows from the ground,
Its beauty is one of such delight ...
This rose is soft to the touch in all its perfection.

The envy for all the flowers in this garden
Its fragrance will consume your every obsession.
This rose must be a gift, a gift from above
A gift from Heaven to show us love.

Every morning I wake to see its petals glisten
Its easy to see how one could be so smitten
If love was a rose it would shine so bright
Because all I need is this rose in my life.

And My love the rose in my life is you

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Love
AKJ