I was getting late. Usually i don’t, but today i couldn’t open my eyes early. At night i couldn’t sleep early for I thought for the whole night, what i did the day before was wrong or right.
As soon as i could, i rushed to the bus stop, the bus had already arrived and was leaving. In fear of being left behind, I started off running as fast as i could behind it. “I need to get into the bus at any cost.”
By good luck something made the bus to stop, and i could reach up to it… i had ran and yelled hard enough to get tired.
Inside the bus, all the way to the campus, i thought of what i did yesterday. “May i shouldn’t have done that. But i couldn’t control my feelings.”
Reaching the campus, everything was normal. “Give me those notes” someone was shouting.
Guys didn’t write their own notes for the previous day lectures… instead they copied others. “Plagiarism off the limits.”
A group of girls gossiping in the corner… Laughing, peeked at boys… And turn back at themselves again.
But something was missing. My eyes were already scanning all around.. But no… No sign of her. Where is she?
The impatience grew within me… maybe she isn’t here today.. Maybe it was my fault. She was a hardworking girl, much pretty… That’s why i liked her. So many boys do… She is beautiful… In her own way, she thinks differently… Little jealous i know.. But she never revealed that.
I had returned her book yesterday. And along with it, a piece of paper i had handed. I couldn’t write more than a few sentences. I liked her and i was jealous for her.
My love note just said that i liked her and had fallen in love. One sided stupid love it was maybe. More stupid was that note. But where was she…? I need to see in the garden.
Talking to myself i was going through the hallway when she appeared, coming out of washroom.
Our eyes met, time stopped. I couldn’t look away. Her eyes were reddish. They captivated me. I stared.
Maybe she too didn’t sleep well last night. Or maybe the water she just splashed on her face redden her eyes.
I was about to smile and greet her, when she looked away. No.. She didn’t notice me then. Not at all.
She passed right by my side. Not a word, not a gesture. No greetings like before. “Where was the beautiful smile she wore..?” Time had changed in a day.
Unnoticed, unseen i stood there like ghost. That was the answer. I knew what it was.
