Siddarth was running late. But his roommate asked him to buy a ticket in Thiruvanmiyur suburb station. Siddhu is a software engineer working in "tidel park" chennai which is situated right opposite to the suburb station. His room mate is a final year medical student who travels from Thiruvanmiyur to beach station in the local suburb train, hence the ticket buying fiasco.
Siddhu was in casuals as it was friday and was excited about this weekend trip to ooty with his friends Karthik , Arun and Aravind. Long ride, wind on the face, endless clicks, enormous eating , out and out a better way to spend time creating memories rather than sitting in that office cubical and thinking about some deadline fixed by his client in san francisco. He was all day dreaming about this and suddenly he felt someone poke on his shoulder. He came to reality.
"Excuse me!" the ticket counter girl was all tensed and was raising her voice and eyebrow at the same time.
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmm!
Everything seemed to fall out of focus except for that ticket counter girl who was in her white salwar and her perfect face and those questioning eyes.
"Where do you want the ticket?"
"Beach!" ("Anywhere you want to, but just the two of us" mind voice)
"One way or return?"
"One way " (Omg! I just got one way ticket to heaven, just the both of us!)
"Five Rupees"
"Here" ("Everything is just for you, take ! Take away my soul)
Then this became the routine. Every single day he would come here and fetch the ticket for himself for the journey he would never make. He was saving the tickets though. It was touched by those delicate fingers of his angel !
One day the uncle who sat in the next counter turned to Siddhu's angel and called out "Sangeetha, could you hand me the change for five hundred?"
SANGEETHA it is ! Both of their names started with "S" there was "T", "H", "A" were the common alphabets among them.
They seem to know each other in 2 months. Yup two months he was just going to the counter everyday and buy a one way ticket to the beach and go to his office. Sometimes they would nod, on rare occasions they would smile at each other.
And then one day he forgot his purse, which he realised after getting the ticket.
"It's okay, take the ticket and hand me the change tomorrow" she said.
His mind said "Propose her you idiot" .
The next day he gave a chocolate along with the ten rupee note. When she raised an eyebrow he said "My birthday" (Which was true") She said "Happy birthday" and smiled. He was expecting a handshake but that didn't happen.
Somedays in the afternoon he would just come there to see her. He would walk past the counter and just check the timings of the train. He was careful that she didn't see him by any chance. Some days she would be scrolling through her mobile, somedays she would read book. Oh by the way he searched the whole fb and found her name and other details.
Name : Sangeetha Nambiar
Works at : Indian Railways (Joined just 2 days before he first saw her)
Studied at : PES university bangalore
Status :Single
But he just don't want to be someone who looks so desperate, so he wanted to talk to her more than one word at a time. Next afternoon he went during his lunch break to her counter.
"Hi" he said.
"Hi, morning took off?" she asked! (She remembers!)
He got the ticket and took his pen and wrote his number and gave it back to her.
"Whats this?" again the eye brow raised ! (And he fell in love , again !)
"Call me" he said.
"Why?" she asked.
"Somethings cant be discussed over the ticket counter, so call" he said and turn and left without a word.
He didn't go to the station for a week. He almost gave request to her in fb. She seemed to have a normal life as she went out with her family that weekend and updated her cover pic!
And the next day she texted !.
Sa: Hi
Sid :Hi ! Sangeetha how are you !
Then they texted how he knew her name and where is he working and stuffs.
"So why would you buy tickets from me for three months without even boarding a train once?"
"Yeah ! that crazy I am"
"You are an idiot!"
"We meet for coffee after you work?"he asked.
"I am not sure" she said.
"Think on it" he said.
"7.15?" she asked (He imagined her eyebrow raising every time there comes a question mark when they spoke)
"See you".
He gave her friend request. He waited till lunch. Even till 5 pm. She hasn't accepted the request.
Exactly by 7.10 he was waiting in the signal to cross the road.
His phone buzzed.
"Sanegetha Nambiar accepted your friend request"
She was waiting for him on the other side of the signal.
The lights turned green !
P. S : The names used are for name sake only. Any coincidence with the names of any living person is purely coincidental !
With Love,
Arvi
Siddhu was in casuals as it was friday and was excited about this weekend trip to ooty with his friends Karthik , Arun and Aravind. Long ride, wind on the face, endless clicks, enormous eating , out and out a better way to spend time creating memories rather than sitting in that office cubical and thinking about some deadline fixed by his client in san francisco. He was all day dreaming about this and suddenly he felt someone poke on his shoulder. He came to reality.
"Excuse me!" the ticket counter girl was all tensed and was raising her voice and eyebrow at the same time.
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmm!
Everything seemed to fall out of focus except for that ticket counter girl who was in her white salwar and her perfect face and those questioning eyes.
"Where do you want the ticket?"
"Beach!" ("Anywhere you want to, but just the two of us" mind voice)
"One way or return?"
"One way " (Omg! I just got one way ticket to heaven, just the both of us!)
"Five Rupees"
"Here" ("Everything is just for you, take ! Take away my soul)
Then this became the routine. Every single day he would come here and fetch the ticket for himself for the journey he would never make. He was saving the tickets though. It was touched by those delicate fingers of his angel !
One day the uncle who sat in the next counter turned to Siddhu's angel and called out "Sangeetha, could you hand me the change for five hundred?"
SANGEETHA it is ! Both of their names started with "S" there was "T", "H", "A" were the common alphabets among them.
They seem to know each other in 2 months. Yup two months he was just going to the counter everyday and buy a one way ticket to the beach and go to his office. Sometimes they would nod, on rare occasions they would smile at each other.
And then one day he forgot his purse, which he realised after getting the ticket.
"It's okay, take the ticket and hand me the change tomorrow" she said.
His mind said "Propose her you idiot" .
The next day he gave a chocolate along with the ten rupee note. When she raised an eyebrow he said "My birthday" (Which was true") She said "Happy birthday" and smiled. He was expecting a handshake but that didn't happen.
Somedays in the afternoon he would just come there to see her. He would walk past the counter and just check the timings of the train. He was careful that she didn't see him by any chance. Some days she would be scrolling through her mobile, somedays she would read book. Oh by the way he searched the whole fb and found her name and other details.
Name : Sangeetha Nambiar
Works at : Indian Railways (Joined just 2 days before he first saw her)
Studied at : PES university bangalore
Status :Single
But he just don't want to be someone who looks so desperate, so he wanted to talk to her more than one word at a time. Next afternoon he went during his lunch break to her counter.
"Hi" he said.
"Hi, morning took off?" she asked! (She remembers!)
He got the ticket and took his pen and wrote his number and gave it back to her.
"Whats this?" again the eye brow raised ! (And he fell in love , again !)
"Call me" he said.
"Why?" she asked.
"Somethings cant be discussed over the ticket counter, so call" he said and turn and left without a word.
He didn't go to the station for a week. He almost gave request to her in fb. She seemed to have a normal life as she went out with her family that weekend and updated her cover pic!
And the next day she texted !.
Sa: Hi
Sid :Hi ! Sangeetha how are you !
Then they texted how he knew her name and where is he working and stuffs.
"So why would you buy tickets from me for three months without even boarding a train once?"
"Yeah ! that crazy I am"
"You are an idiot!"
"We meet for coffee after you work?"he asked.
"I am not sure" she said.
"Think on it" he said.
"7.15?" she asked (He imagined her eyebrow raising every time there comes a question mark when they spoke)
"See you".
He gave her friend request. He waited till lunch. Even till 5 pm. She hasn't accepted the request.
Exactly by 7.10 he was waiting in the signal to cross the road.
His phone buzzed.
"Sanegetha Nambiar accepted your friend request"
She was waiting for him on the other side of the signal.
The lights turned green !
P. S : The names used are for name sake only. Any coincidence with the names of any living person is purely coincidental !
With Love,
Arvi
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