CHAPTER IV: A NEW JOURNEY

CHAPTER IV: A NEW JOURNEY

I reached the class finally with all the emotions in my mind. I was anxious. My body language was different today. Of course it was supposed to be. After all, it needs guts to tell someone that you love her.

As soon as I reached the class, I saw the eager face of my friend, who had called me earlier in the day and because of whom I was in such an awkward situation, waiting for my response. I started ignoring her or tried changing topics because though I had made up my mind of saying ‘Yes’ but still I was afraid of the consequences. This continued for some time but finally a ‘Yes’ popped out from my mouth. My friend was so happy that, ironically, I felt as if she was in love with me.

She then used the same trick on the girl whom I loved and interestingly a positive reply came from her side as well.

I just could not control my emotions. I was happy and very much excited. I felt as if I was on cloud nine. It was a start of a new chapter in my life. A new journey. Life was never so exciting before.

I thought to myself, though we were so close to each other but still didn’t realise, how much we liked each other, it needed my friend who acted as an agent, to make us realise it and I was glad that it happened.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidently in a heartbeat, in a single throbbing moment. For me it happened outside the classroom. We never proposed each other directly but knew about each other’s feelings.

Being in love was a great feeling. It was fun. We used to talk on the phone for hours on end and yet we used to have so much to share with each other. Saying ‘I Love You’ became a regular phenomenon.

Cell phones and email though were becoming an integral part of life yet it wasn’t that popular amongst the teenagers then. So the best way to express our love and feelings was the traditional way of writing letters. Pen and Paper. We wrote letters on a regular basis. We used to share our thoughts, our feelings through these letters and it used to give us both immense pleasure and used to bring us even more closer.

I used to spend sleepless nights thinking of her. I just couldn’t fall asleep because reality was finally better than my dreams.

We decided to keep our relationship a secret. We were very young and may be our parents would have not accepted this relationship. We decided to reveal this fact at a proper stage and proper time. So we neither let our parents know about it nor our friends. It was a well maintained secret.