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Writer's pictureMegha Saigal

The modern romance

Updated: Nov 24, 2018

like Every fairytale this also happened Once upon a time... in a small little cafe around the corner of probably one of the most busy street of this city, there was a young girl sitting on her laptop like a lot people there doing some work or the other. but unlike the others sitting there she gets disturbed by a man who wants to a borrow the sugar jar from her table. She looks at him and his entire world goes in slow motion, and everything barring that girl goes a blur... actually everything except her eyes. There was something about those eyes almost mesmerising.

The colour of hazel with a hint of white, those were eyes you can't take your eyes off and all she does is smiles, nods and back to her laptop. But for him it did something, something that made his heart melt, and he could not control himself... it’s like his tongue and brain lost a connection and instead of saying thank you he ended up saying.

"Hi I am Rishi" and put out his hand. And she Completely ignoring his hand says "Alpna" and goes back to her computer. A bit taken aback Rishi goes back to his table where his friends where watching him. And like all true friends mocked him his entire walk back to his table, but he didn’t care or maybe he didn’t notice them cause his eyes were still stuck on Alpana.

After that day Rishi passed by the cafe everyday for a week with a hope to get a glimpse of her but she wasn't there, he went inside and asked the manager about her, but he had no idea about what he was saying, he had no option but to give up.

The same night just like a filmy scene Rishi in a share cab he finds her to be the other passenger. He jumps in the cab "Alpna right ?" She nods her head. He wants to talk to her but doesn't know what to say. He thinks about it for a while by then her destination had come and not knowing what to do he says "coffee tomorrow at that cafe ?", Alpna looks a bit stunned "excuse me?", he continues "would you have coffee with me tomorrow?" With a bit of an attitude she asks "why would I?" Rishi "cause I am cute and you have amazing eyes and I am hoping you are single" Alpna "let's see" she walks out of the cab and without missing a beat he shouts "tomorrow 5 pm I will see you there" and the cab pulls off. The driver watching this smiles and says "saheb woh Nahi ayengi" Rishi "kyun Teri koi lagti hai kya?" Driver "Nahi" Rishi "thank god !!! Tu gadhi chala".

The next day our young man reaches there at 5 and just like any story goes he waited till 6 but there was no sign of her. About to leave just then, she entered through the door. He looks at her she was wearing an indian outfit and looked even more mesmerising than he had met her first or even in that cab yesterday. He waves to her and as she sits down he says "thank god your late... If you would have been on time I would think you are to easy". Giving him a disgusted look by that statement he says again "sorry I am a bit like this only but, thank you for coming", Alpna "why wouldn't I my whole building knew you were waiting for me at 5" Rishi "sorry about that... Some coffee?".

That day over 7 cups of coffee they spoke for 5 hours that day. That day the cafe owner for the first time he had to ask someone to leave so he can shut down and go home.

As they were leaving she gave him her number and went there own ways. The next day at 9am she got a call from him and that day she must have spoken to someone for the whole day on the phone without cutting the call and ignoring other calls that were coming. Finally at 3am the next day they hang up planning to meet over the weekend for dinner. She felt an instant comfort in him maybe it was because for the first time no guy was pretending to be extra nice, instead was just himself, and he who was already in love with her was waiting for the the night to pass quickly to talk to her again and this long week to end so he can see her again.

Finally!!! The weekend was here and they met and she was looking even more beautiful to him than he remembered and this time she had a smile not only on her face but in her eyes when she saw him. The night went by and the weekend also ended in almost every coffee shop, restaurant and parks in the city. They both never felt love like this before.

And today he is going to her house for dinner. Very excited and like every guy being totally prepared for anything goes to her place.

When he enters her place it's filled with roses and candles everywhere, and on the ground is a dinner set for two. They both spend the whole night just looking into each other's eyes. One thing led to another and they get closer to each other by the minute. Finally without thinking the places his hand on her face and leans in to kiss her. She grabs on to his hand and kisses him back. One thing leads to another and they have the most amazing night of there life's.

Lying in bed he kisses her and comes back where we suddenly see our selfs in a messy and a boy lying in bed with virtual glasses on him. As he takes the glasses of and a very different short and chubby looking Rishi wonders how amazing it would be if this would happen in reality.


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