Love Happens Like That...!!

People say love happens just like that. One question always keep darting in my head, when do we know that we are in love?  This question always use to keep playing with my patience until that day when I saw her.

It was not the first time when I saw her that day but something in her made me speechless and yes I think I was in love with her. It was a pleasant afternoon; I came out of my class and went to have my daily quota of cigarettes when all of a sudden it started raining. It always happens with me whenever I fag. I dropped the plan of smoking instead I was busy finding some shade for myself to save myself from this game of fate. I stood there for a while when I noticed that she was standing by my side, playing with her wet hair she was cursing god for making her wet. I noticed her carefully, the tiny droplets of rain rolled down her forehead meeting her eyelashes and slowly making the way down her cheeks. I never noticed anything so carefully before but there was something in her that made me notice her so gracefully. She finally noticed me and smiled. Her smile was so graceful which made me feel alive; I was intoxicated by her deep intense eyes. I felt a pang in my heart never felt like that before I was getting nervous and the sweat beads started appearing on my forehead. I felt numb for a while and didn’t know what to do when she asked me something. I didn’t hear it and I was at loss of words to answer her question which only she knew what it was. What was happening to me, she was my classmate from past one year hardly we use to talk and I never thought that standing by her side I will be at loss of words. I felt guilty for not replying to her question. She must have felt either I am a weirdo or I have gone mad. I would prefer the latter one though coz what I did next totally surprised her. I moved my hand and untied her wet hair in one stroke. She kept staring at me for a while when finally I opened my mouth. I had to for what I did there has to be some reason. I moved ahead and whispered in her ears, “You look good this way.” She smiled at me.

There was an eerie silence and again I was at loss of words. She understood the gravity of the moment and finally she was the one who started the conversation.

“How much time do we have before the next lecture starts?”

“I guess the lecture must have started by now.” I said looking at my watch and I jumped with happiness though I didn’t show her. Yes, I have got another 50 minutes to spend some time with her.

“Jesus I am gonna miss that for sure now. This rain looks like it’s not gonna stop so soon.” She said gesturing her hand in air.

“So what are we gonna do? Stand here whole day?” I said expecting that she would understand what was going through my mind.

“How about a cup of coffee, I am feeling cold.” She said reading my mind yet again.

I didn’t say a word; I held her hand and winked at her. She smiled at me and we started running towards the main road. The rain was getting even heavier. Oh god I love getting wet in the rain. We took an auto and asked the driver to drop us at the nearby CCD. The driver gave us a puzzled look, we looked at each other our eyes met and we busted into laughter. This was my day, I looked in the sky and thanked god for this moment. She looked gorgeous in her black dress which was totally drenched by the rain now. She was shivering and so was I, but we kept on laughing for I don’t know whatsoever reason. I paid the driver and asked him to keep the change. We started climbing the stairs and she slipped. I caught her hand and I pulled her closer to me. She kept on staring at me, our eyes met and she thanked me for saving her. After a while she moved away from me when she noticed many eyes were staring at us blankly. We moved inside and ordered coffee for us.

Sipping our coffee in silence I noticed her. She was so elegant, I cursed myself that why didn’t I notice her before. But I thanked god coz if I had noticed her before then we would never had this time together. She caught me staring at her and raised her eyebrow. I didn’t say anything I was again at loss of words here.

“Nice coffee huh?” she said breaking the silence yet again.

“Yes it’s good, maybe the coffee is really good or the weather has made it good.” I chuckled

She smiled again and I was lost in my own world of fantasy. We finished our coffee and she signaled me that it was our time to leave. The rain had stop. I wanted to ask her for a date. I wanted to grab this opportunity and give her a hint that I liked her. I paid the bill and we started walking back to our college. It was hardly five minutes walk from the coffee shop. Finally we reached our college and she excused herself as she wanted to use the washroom. I held her hand, pulled her close to me untied her hair and whispered in her ears, “Will you go out me this weekend?”

She moved away, blushed and just nodded her head. I stood there for a while when she went inside the washroom. I couldn’t believe my luck. That weekend we went for a movie, had lunch at the KFC, spend some time together, walking down the street holding our hand and enjoying the small moments of life which we knew would never come back again.

That rainy day took a new turn in my life and I thank god that it rained that day. Finally I got answers to my questions and I realized that yeah “Love do happens like that…!”

P.S - It's purely fiction...