chapter 15

CONQUERED BY MY FIRST CRUSH.Chapter 14 :On the wall, it was beautifully decorated with balloons and ribbons whereas in the center it was written with the words which were sparkling like stars.“HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEKHYA. MAY ALL YOUR WISHES AND DREAMS COME TRUE ON THIS DAY WHICH YOU WERE LONGING FOR A LONG TIME”.My eyes were wide open with surprise and kept staring to it having no idea of whose work it was. My friends kept darting their eyes between the decoration and me feeling suspicious of whose doing it was that.All the co-employees were looking to other direction when I darted my eyes towards them to find out the person behind it. I too looked towards that direction and was puzzled by seein the words written over there.“PRINCESS, I AM WAITING TO SEE YOU. WHY DON’T YOU COME AND MEET ME. TAKE THIS DIRECTION AND YOU WILL KNOW WHO IS BEHIND THIS”.Without wasting any time I headed towards that direction to stop this stupid play which was irritating because of the looks my colleagues gave to me.Once I moved in that direction, it showed me to enter the lift which could take me to him.“ENTER THE LIFT TO REACH ME PRINCESS. YOU CAN SEE YOUR LONG LASTING DREAM”.I, being puzzled with the incident, took the lift accompanied by Karan and Sarika who were giving me the support not to break down with the suspense. Once we entered the lift, it showered me with flowers as if the flower rain was falling for a while. My heart filled with mixed emotions for this special treatment and I don’t know why but I felt like I was going to hear a delighted news. The lift was decorated very beautifully with baloons annd ribbons which gave a great look.Once we came out of the lift, I could see a banner written with some words which made my heart flutter with unknown emotions.HAI PRINCESS! I THOUGHT OF BEING AWAY FROM YOU BUT EACH AND EVERY SECOND I SPENT WITH YOU KEPT REMINDING ME OF YOU. HOWEVER I TRIED TO GET AWAY OF YOUR THOUGHTS, I AM GETTING MORE DROWNED IN IT. EVERY SECOND OF EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY HOUR OF EVERY DAY KEEPS ME REMINDING OF YOU. DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO IS THIS STRANGER WHO LOVES YOU TO THE CORE. TURN TO YOUR RIGHT AND YOU WILL LEARN THE PERSON BEHIND THIS. YOU CAN MEET  YOUR LONG LASTING DREAM”. Feeling anxious, enthusiastic and excited to know about the person having a small hope in my heart, I turned to my right which made me freeze. My heart filled with content by seeing it and no words escaped from my mouth. I kept looking at it with open mouth by placing both my palms on it feeling astonished.On the wall a frame was hanging which contained the picture of me when I first met Harsha on my birthday with my pink frock and two tales hanging on either side of my head. My eyes filled with tears which made my vision blurry, unable to see the surroundings. I tried to blink my eyes a couple of times to push them to the back of my eyes and kept staring at the photo. It was drawn with the hand and was coloured perfectly how I resembled on that day. Beside the frame I could see one more banner which contains a letter addressing me.“Hai Princess, this was the picture which stuck in my heart during our first meeting. I couldn’t erase your picture from my heart however I tried to. You are like a magnetic pole attracts me towards you how far I tried to go away from you. At the first meeting, I got fascinated with your charms and those big innocent eyes of yours kept haunting me for every second. They were so magnetic that I couldn't escape myself without drowning into them.I kept telling myself that I was infatuated with you due to my hormones rising in me being a teenager. But you never left my sight which made me get attracted more towards you. I knew that you kept stalking me from the sunrise to night bed time as I was doing the same.I want to understand my feelings towards you and keep myself occupied with work. Though I drown in my studies, your eyes kept pestering me to have a look at you. I couldn’t decide whether I was attracted to you or I like you as I couldn’t decipher it as love which was a foreign feeling for me.The first time I got near you when you fell from the scooty, I realized that I am totally captivated by your charms and really get scared of the foreign feelings which rose in the pit of my stomach. I felt like I am doing something wrong thinking of you in a different way which made me keep myself distanced from you though my heart craved for your touch once again.But the next time when we shared the sweet moment which longed only for a few seconds frightened me to the core. I felt very scared of doing something either which I will  regret later or will hurt you in any way. I lost my rationality and being a coward I left the place by giving a lame excuses of meeting my grandparents. My parents didn’t suspect my actions as I was going to join the engineering college which made me meet them.I kept struggling to erase all the thoughts of the intimacy we had at the exhibition, but nothing helped me out. Every cell of my body yearned for you tuch which totally pushed me into uncertainty of my feelings. I couldn't decipher it as love or sexual attraction due to our age. I want to confirm my feelings towards you and thought of meeting you only when I will be certain about my feelings.I left for my college without informing you or giving my last goodbye which makes me feel ashamed of my actions even when I think of it now. I was frightened that I couldn’t leave you if I come near you which can bring the sudden torment in our families. I don’t want to ruin the relationship between our families because of my stupidity and I left silently without telling you.My heart ached when I saw you looking at me with hopeful eyes to get the last goodbye but being a jerk I didn’t say anything to you. But I captured your face till you are out of my sight to live the rest of my life with your memories as I didn’t wish to come back till I am sure of my feelings.I came across many girls who tried to flirt with me or seduce me with their beauty and charms but no one could flutter my heart as you do to me. I tried to date a few girls to find out my feelings which made me drown in your thoughts comparing their every action with you. I never met a girl who was innocent, cheerful, mischievous and mostly the natural behavior of yours.I realized my feelings towards you were pure love when I met one of the girls in my college who tried to get near me. I didn’t feel any electrifying feelings around her even though she tried to touch me. The simple look of yours passes electricity in my body from head to toe making me yearn for more of it. It was said that  those feelings would come only when we meet our soul mate, which made me believe that my feelings towards you was love.The realization of my love dawned on me at the final year of my engineering and wished to fly to meet you. But I was not sure of your feelings towards me and I don’t want to just come and disturb your life with my reentry. I tried to find out about your details as I knew about the college you were admitted to. I came to know about you being in a shell where no one can enter your life and were away from dating or relationships.There was no boundary for my joy or happiness after learning about you. I strongly believe that you have me in your heart which keeps you away from everyone. My trailing behind you again started from that day and I was updated of your every movement from one of my cousins who study in the same college. He was a big fan of you for your beauty, talent and your personality of being rigid. I could come and confess my love towards you at the same moment but I don’t want to make it very normal like others. I knew that you are the princess of your family nurtured with not only good ethics and culture but also with good wealth.I want to make myself to be at your standards before asking for your hand and I worked hard to reach this position where my family don’t feel low of themselves to ask for marriage alliance with your parents. Not only my parents but I don’t want you to feel low in front of your parents while accepting my love.I saw you after a long time when you came for the interview. It took all my energy to control myself to come in front of you and take you into my arms. I came to know that only the name of my company made you leave your earlier job and I wished you to crack the interview and get into my company. It was your hard work of getting the job in this company as I didnt’ mettled in your recruitment as I don’t want my employees to think of you having my support. I want all my employees to know about you being my dream girl only on this special day of my confession which can keep you away from their gossip.Lekha,I too waited for your love as you did for me from the past few years. Once I was sure of my status being equal to you, I met your parents and took their permission to confess my love towards you after explaining everything about ourselves. After realizing your denial for all the marriage proposals only for yur love towards me, they happily agreed for our marriage which made me dare confess my love towards you. I want to make it very special and as our first meeting was on your birthday, I want our reunion to happen on the same day. I was waiting for this day for the past two months and planned everything according to your dreams.Lekha, I Love You from the bottom of my heart. You are like a quicksand which made me drown more in your love without giving me any chance to come out of it. Will you accept my love and reciprocate the same and give me the honor of holding your hand for the rest of my life and allow me to drown in your love forever. I promise to keep you happy and shower you with the love that exists in this universe for every second of every minute of every hour of every day of my life.Yours ever long lasting dream,Sriharsha,  who will be hollow without your presence in my life.