CHAPTER 8 February: Life Full Of Surprises....
The life of
an engineer is always with full of surprises. Sometimes the person gets into
deep troubled thoughts and the next moment the feeling at the top of world just
like an A.C current. You don’t need to go for at the amusement park for thrill
ride and fun “Engineering” will get you everything what you need.
After the
unit test Ragav got a chance to go home. A fresher staying away from home will
always look for a window of opportunity to go home. He packed his bags then he
left to stand, he usually would get 4:30 PM bus and also it was convenient for
him to get home. As he was Anxiously waiting for the bus on the bus stand he
saw a girl sitting next to his chair in the waiting room. With tied scarf
around her face was talking on the phone. God knows why these girls try to hide
their beauty behind 1mm thin cloth. When the bus arrived Ragav got his bags and
started to board the bus. When the whole busy passenger crowd was busy in
boarding the bus he saw that she was inquiring about her reservation seat with
the conductor of same bus. Before entering into the bus Ragav heard part of the
conversation between them “Seat No 14”. luckily Ragav got Seat No 17 the whole vacant
seat the other side to 14. Still he wasn’t concerned about the “The Girl in
Scarf”.
When a
person is hit with the boredom he tries everything to get rid from it. One best
solution is reading Novels. As the Journey begun Ragav tried to read “3 Mistakes
of Life” which was one of famous novel among the youngsters at that time. As he
was Deep in thoughts and into reading book conductor arrived to get the
tickets. Ragav took the ticket and when “The Girl in Scarf” was giving her ticket
the scarf fell from her face and Bingo a familiar face Ragav was eager to see there
she was … “Arya”...
This turned
out to be the most unexpected surprise of his life. Sometimes luck doesn’t play
all the role the fate of the person matters a lot and today everything was at
his side. With this distracted thought he pretended to read the book but he
couldn’t. Holding the book upside down and pretending to read the book he made
up his mind “Dude, this is it I should talk to her”.
After 3 hrs
of journey the bus stopped at a dhaba for dinner. As every passenger was leaving
for the dinner he saw she was talking on the phone with face resting on the
side bars. “She is beautiful” Ragav thought in his mind when he was trying to
get glimpse of her face in low dim bus light. He waited and after she ended her
call then asked.
“Arya you
want something?? Should I get you something??”
With the
sleepy face and surprised eyes she tried to recognize the Ragavs face.
“No you
don’t know me I’m Ragav I was in your division for two weeks when our college
started.”
“Ohh … no
thank you I am not hungry right now”
“OK”
Good Start
for a guy… After the dinner Ragav came back to his seat.
Arya “where
you gonna get down”
Ragav “2
stops after the ghat area”
“okk”
Arya “Do
you wanna share my seat? I guess there’s no one”
Ragav “I
think there’s a bag under your seat may
be someone got down for dinner”
Arya “Ohh …”
Though it
was 2 mins conversation it was better than nothing. Ragav was thinking about
the conversation he just had with Araya. But one think struck his head very
hard. “She was asking you to sit beside her but seat was occupied, then you
could have called her to your seat Dumb!! What a waste!!”
Before getting
down at his stop he saw Arya was sleeping. So he didn’t bother to wake her up
to say good bye. Getting down the bus taking the bags in hand he started
walking towards his house. But this time he felt something different and he
looked back at the Bus. And there she was waving her hand saying good bye. Yes,
that was it. She noticed him and waved him good bye. YUREKA! this was the milestone
for the Ragav and a stepping stone of his amazing Engineering story…
To Be
Continued…
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