CHAPTER 12: LOVE IS ‘A’rt

09:14:00 Rameeth 2 Comments

LOVE and LIKE are two human behavioural phenomenon that goes hand in hand. If she LIKEs you then definitely she will LOVE you someday. One can LIKE the behaviour of someone, sense of humour or their unique styles that distinguish that person in the crowd. Such was the case with Ragav, he believed that someday Arya will definitely love him. Just he had to maintain the patience and let the Likeness upgrade to LOVE. The Best feeling in this world is when the person you Love, loves you back. Everything changes when your crush starts to like you. Ragav now had a different feeling towards Arya, like she is one of the most precious diamond in the world which needs greater attention.

Night before the last exam of semester 2 :  11:00 PM
The exam timeline of an Engineering student is the true phase where the real engineer comes to life. The first step to clear every written exam is gathering of notes from library. Students who never visited library since their last exam enter library like a celebrity. For them its like a museum  where academic books are for public viewing and borrow the same for a temporary time being. But its not necessary that everyone should get the book, some unfortunate move to next possible alternate i.e Xerox- photo copies. Sometimes the person who runs Xerox centre in college has better knowledge of syllabus than students do.     
Late night studies, revision, group studies, collecting the notes practising the diagrams, solving the problems, guessing the possible question in next paper, deciding which chapter should be omitted from syllabus, all these activities are done during the exam week.
It was last paper for Ragav, frustrated with the studies he decided to call Arya and dialled her number.

Arya “Hellooe” in her sweet voice
Ragav “hey sweetie … wassup ?”  
Arya “revising the last chapter … what about you?”
Ragav “done with first section …will start second section now...”
Arya “Whaaaat? Now? When you’ll sleep?”
Ragav “haha.. maybe tomorrow after paper”
Arya “God help you dude...”
Ragav “I was thinking can we could go for coffee tomorrow after paper??”
Arya “you asking me for a date?” with a giggle
Ragav “sort of date… because you like me now and I like you”
Arya “ahem... ahem... this is getting serious”
Ragav “OK deal done… tomorrow 5PM at Nescafe! ”
Arya “But…”
Ragav “No buts! See you tomorrow good Night…”
This was it Ragav got a chance to spend some time with her which he wanted since he saw her first time in bus.

NEXT MORNING:

8 AM:
Ragav hardly slept for 3 hours as he had to cover the second section of syllabus but manged to complete his studies.

9:45 AM: College Campus
Every student has to check the examination hall and get there by checking the roll number on the notice board. Ragav was busy trying to find his number in the crowd. Suddenly in between the crowd a soft hand caught his hands and pointed to exam hall number on the board. “WTF? This is my exam hall! How come she knows...”
Ragav still confused, got out from the crowd “Hey how come you know my seat no?” and saw her.
Arya “I could be your spy!” winked at him with her smiling.

10:00 AM:
The last hope to get passed in exam is making some deal with God and 3 hrs of creativity in writing the exam paper. With all the blessing from God take the question paper from the examiners hands and gaze at the questions. Some questions you find familiar and some not, it depends on efforts you applied in studies.

12:00 PM:
Questions seemed to be easy for Ragav and was trying to attempt every question, but he was very happy with the thought that he was going to meet Arya and was thinking about her this whole time.

1:00 PM:
After exam Ragav texted Arya “will be waiting for you … 5 PM! Nescafe ”

Nescafé 5 PM
Sometimes waiting for a girl in life is frustrating but waiting for a girl at coffee shop is torture. Ragav was waiting for Arya since 40 mins but she didn’t show up. Finally she arrived, she was in her pink top. ‘Hello Kitte ‘with a cat on her shirt and black jeans with shoes. She also had a matching pair of ear rings which increased her beauty by 2 points (final score 102/100). She looked fabulous.
Arya “Ragav so sorry … didn’t got the bus… and”
Ragav “its fine dear! I’ll keep on waiting for you ages”
Hearing this she blushed “Thank you” with a smile.
Ragav ordered the coffee and both settled at the table.
Arya “looking handsome…”
Ragav “who? me?”
Arya “no your grandpa” with a grumpy face
Ragav “hehe … thank you! and btw you are looking beautiful!”
Arya “Ya I know that…”
And there was no stopping. They got into the talking with each other about their studies, favourite food, films, songs etc just like the best friends talk. Ragav dint wanted to ask her but finally asked her
Ragav “what do you think about love?”
After thinking a bit she replied “Falling in love is like jumping off a really tall building, your brain tells you it’s not a good idea but your heart says you can fly “
Ragav “so you tried loving…”
Arya “change the topic...”
There was something wrong when it comes to love. Ragav felt this and wanted to know more but he didn’t want to push the subject more.
Ragav “so when are you going home? Tomorrow?”
Arya “yea … by 4.30 bus”
Ragav “yes… the fortunate bus!”
Arya “The coincidence bus! hehe”
Ragav “this time it will be not a coincidence because I’m also coming by same bus…”
Arya “good for both of us then… we can chat and have fun…”
Ragav “ok then tomorrow by 4.30 … make sure you bring all your stars at you side because mine are already at my side”
Arya “shut up!” and punches on his shoulder.

THE JOURNEY DAY: 4:30 PM

Ragav and Arya boarded the bus, since they had already done the reservation they need not to worry about the crowd. After getting settled in their seats Ragav took the side seat while Arya window seat. He knew this was going to be special moment for him. Time flies quickly when you are with someone and when ‘someone’ is your crush then you are in different universe. Ragav and Arya spent whole journey talking and teasing each other. Ragav felt like he knew her since ages and she is the one!
After few hours they reached a pit stop.
Ragav “This is the place where first we met”
Arya “ya… I was sleepy...hehe”
Ragav “Still you looked beautiful...” trying to be honest.
Arya “Ragav … stop flirting…” still trying to control her blushing.
As the evening turned into night, the cold wind blowing through the window and your crush sitting next to you. Perfect setup for romance!
Arya rested her head on his shoulders with closed eyes. Ragav didn’t wanted to wake her up, he took her hands in his and whispered in her ears “Arya…”
Arya “hmmm…” raised her head and looked into his eyes.
Ragav looked into her eyes “do you love me?” could hear his heart beating.
Arya with long silence “maybe but …” and tear drop fell from her eyes.
Ragav “Shhhh… Shhhh…” still trying to consolidate her “Arya I Love you”
He looked into her eyes… She looked into his eyes… and her smooth lips met his.

To be Continued…





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CHAPTER 11: Coincidence ? Maybe or Maybe not

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The electricity power outage is common in India but when there’s a power cut in Hostel the whole hostel turns into a jungle book. Different animal sounds from every corner of the hostel, some become a wild cat while others to compete that cat sound maker becomes a dog. You don’t have to visit a zoo just you need to be present at right time in a hostel and you’ll encounter every animal in a hostel. The Hostel had a medical facility for students, a Doctor used to visit the hostel thrice a week. In order to make aware the students about doctor’s arrival guard used to come in every wing of the building and call out “doctor has arrived!” “डॉक्टर आले!!”

104 B and 105B were considered the most mischievous room in the Boys Hostel. Satish also the called the ‘Furious Don of H division’ was always ahead in every action in the hostel. One fine evening during the exam there was a power cut in the hostel and in the darkness Satish used his whole strength to shout “doctor has arrived! Doctor has arrived!” and the whole hostel goes into same singing tune of “doctor has arrived”

The guard on duty was pissed with this sudden madness as he tries to catch every yelling student in the hostel but didn't succeed due to darkness. Satish used to come out of his room and shout in the dark, suddenly the light glows in the hostel and epic scene ‘Shouting Satish Caught’ by the guard was encountered. Similar to the scene from movie “3idots” where Raju was caught Peeing in front of virus’s house in the dark. The angry guard caught Satish by his collar “come on my son let’s go to warden”
Warden summons the whole hostel students especially the 104B and 105B

Warden with his wide belly and high voice came rushing from his room “you scoundrels! … ill kick your ass! … what’s going on here! … act like some grownups! … this is not a mental hospital!”
Hearing this Harsh couldn’t control his laugh and starts giggling.
Warden found Harsh giggling “who is that son of B****?” and went near to Harsh and took his collar in his hand and lifts him from ground “do you think I’m joking here? I’ll punch your face with 50 mg ”
Harsh cowered in fear with warden’s action “Sorry sir!”  
Akki whispers to Ragav “dude what’s 50 mg ?? never heard of such unit”

When it comes to units of measurement during the midnight scolding everything is correct you can’t contradict Warden but just listen to everything that he says.   
Warden “every one of you will write an apology letter saying you will not do thins next time is it clear?!”
Everyone in one note "yes sir”

Returning to the room, Harsh was silent with his face showing fear.
 Akki “what’s the matter harsh”
Ragav ”he just survived 50 mg punch”  and everyone starts laughing including Harsh.
Akki “hey lets go for movie tomorrow …this will freshen up everything..”
Mac “ Duniyadari is the ongoing movie in pvr .. we can go there..”
Ragav “I’m not sure guys want to study for exam…”
Mac “one movie will not destroy your life Ragav!”
Ragav “Hmm ok will tell you tomorrow ”

Life really becomes beautiful when you have best friends around you. you just forget every sorrow when they are around you. Share the sadness with the person beside you, this will always help in positive way. There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Next Morning:
Message popped in Ragavs phone…”hey Handsome what doing??” The heart always skips a beat when you receive a message from your crush.
Ragav “nothing much studying for the exams”
Arya “ohh … did you did the graphics subject…”
Ragav “yes that’s my favourite…”
Arya “crap... I’m fed up with all the lines and figures …”
Ragav “ask me anything anytime ... happy to help...”
Arya “how do understand the concept dude... ??”
Ragav “just you need to visualize every FIGURE and learn how to draw a LINE... :P”
Arya “I think you are expert in visualizing the “Figures” :D”
Ragav “yes.. from day one since I met you... :P”
Arya “anyways... I’m bored lets go somewhere... how about a movie??”
Ragav “hmm ..vokie.. but..”
Arya “what…??”
Ragav “Neva been to a movie with a gal befo :’D ”
Arya “so silly .. I’m not gonna eat you! If you feeling awkward bring your friends ”
Ragav “okkk deal… PVR then…”
Ragav declared that he will accompany with his roommates for the movie at the PVR
Mac “What changed your mind Ragav?”
Akki “I smell something fishy”
Ragav “Guys Lets go ... before I change my mind!”

Everyone reached at the PVR on time still Ragav was searching for Arya in the crowd, then he saw her near the entrance with her friends. She wore a Red top and black jeans with matching red hair band on her head . she looked fabulous and ragav couldn’t take his eyes from her.
Ragav Texted her... “luking like a Barbie Doll J”
Arya took her mobile from her pocket and replied with a smile “Hey Mr. I don’t know you right now :P”

At the ticket counter the whole Kolhapur crowd was rushing to get the tickets, luckily Ragav got the seats in the first row in front of Screen. After getting settled in their respective seats everyone was busy in chit chatting about the new movie trailer, Ragav suddenly sensed a pinch on his arms and ignored it thinking as a mosquito bite. And the second time again same pinch same arm “How come Mosquitoes became so intelligent to bite at same place? “
Annoyed with this he turned his face to the person sitting next to his seat and everything came to a  sudden halt . There she was sitting next to him “Arya” and she was saying something to him but he couldn’t hear her voice as everything in this head went quite with this surprise.
Getting right to his senses Ragav “”hmmm.. hmmm.. is this coincidence or am I dreaming ?
Arya “you are dreaming at wrong place...hehehe”
Ragav “My cute star is beside me today...” trying to hide his happiness.  
Aray whispering into his ears “now concentrate on the film dear not your cute star”
AKki “Hey ragav who is she you were talking to?”
Ragav ”she is Arya.. ”
Akki “From where did you learned to talk with a gal?? hahaha”
Ragav “shut up …. Concentrate on the movie”
Three hours’ movie are best time spend in any of the multiplex movie theaters. Especially when you are with someone special. During the movie, Ragav placed his hands on the resting arm side of the seat and accidently touched Arya’s hands. Sensing what he had done apologizes to her.
After returning to hostel he messaged Arya “How was the movie?”
Arya “was good.. enjoyed the story…”
Ragav “btw what was the story?”    
Arya “freak what were you doing during the whole movie?”
Ragav “Watching you!!”
Arya “you are crazy Mr… hehe”
Ragav “I love to see your face. you are beautiful J”
Arya “ Thanx Ragav! ”
Ragav “Don’t blush Arya… ”
Arya “How do you know that I’m blushing?”
It was time to break the ice and bring all the feelings in front her, thinking this would be perfect moment to say the truth he typed

“You Hide anything ... I’ll find it… You hide anywhere... I’ll find you… I know your feelings ... I can sense your feelings because I LIKE YOU..” and sent.

Arya “Awww… from when??”
Ragav “since day one I met you !! J ”
Arya “Hmmmm…”

A "hmmm" is a filler in the texting language and is considered most irritating reply in this century    which could mean a multiple things depending on the situation. “A reply should be proper/understandable, for hmmm sound is made by Bees too”. This leaves multiple vague questions “is she ignoring me?” “does she like me?” “may be she in love with someone else”
Getting the best possibility in mind he typed again  
 Ragav “ but do you like me??”

Arya “Yes…”

This was it. There was no looking back. This gave him a feeling of joy that he had never felt before.

To be Continued...


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CHAPTER 10 : Fault in 'my' stars...

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The whole HOD lecture for Ragav seemed to be uninteresting as he was unable to stop thinking about the Arya. Next was the mathematics lecture by Sneha Mam. He was still unable to do the calculations as his mind was still on his dream girl. Sneha Mam caught Ragav for his absence of mind in class “Ragav tell the answer of 6th problem “
Ragav getting the unexpected question arrow shot from his favourite teacher made him fumble “Hmmm…. Hmmm... Mam the answer is sin30…”
The whole class burst into laughter, sensing the situation he asked Akki “hey dude what’s the answer ??”
Akki “Freak there are only 5 question!”
Ragav got the situation and he was totally embarrassed, he had to gulp that situation.   
Sneha Mam angrily “Ragav where is your attention??”
Ragav “Hmm …Mam.. Sorry Mam...” not knowing wha to say.
Sneha Mam “Meet me after the lecture!!!”   
Sometimes it’s better to get the scolding from your favourite teacher to remind you about getting in wrong direction of your path. 

Returning to the hostel Ragav’s phone beeped with a Message from Arya
“I will KILL you.. You should have waited for me at the gate before going to lecture”
Ragav. “Ha yes .. you are the only one remaining to kill me!”
Arya “ hehe .was joking … why what happened ??”
Ragav”Sneha Mam caught me in lecture for not concentrating in class”
Arya “Good.. better for you! :-P   
Ragav “And the whole credit goes to you dear.”
Arya “me??y??”
With taking all the courage he typed “because I was thinking about you Arya and I LOVE YOU “
But something held the last three magical word and he edited the text “because I was thinking about you…” and sent the text.
5 mins No reply… 10 Mins No reply. Getting a reply from your crush on important topic is like a timebomb you will neva know whether it will blow or will get diffused at last minute and cause you no harm. Tension grew at Ragavs end.. with thoughts coming up in his mind like “did she got angry??” “she may be busy!” “should I call her?” “message pack may be exhausted”
Finally after waiting for dreadful 28 mins Ragavs Phone beeped
“hey sorry went for dinner. what were you saying?”
Ragav “hmm neva mind .. btw when r v gng 2 meet?”
Arya “When all your stars in your horoscope are at your side then you may get lucky ! :P ” 
Ragav ..”ya real soon J“
God created a Male and Female, an intelligent human being found mathematics. Mathematics and understanding girl go hand in hand, with one single wrong step the whole output goes in wrong direction. Even the scholar says “You will never know what secrets are hiding behind that powerful mind”. And sometimes girls really tend to hide their true feelings. Ragav thought “maybe she is hiding something from me else she would have replied to that message?!” . 

Next Day: Civil practical
Students are blessed with Civil practical to roam in college campus with raging rods, dumpy level and telescope instruments used for practical. Every time the students get a new task to get the readings at new location inside campus. These practical turn out to be more interesting when you have real love for civil engineering else you use this practical to get done with the readings and complete the journals. Also the best part is sightseeing for newbie in college campus. Civil engineers always believe in reading and this is first step to become a civil engineer rest other than civil has to bear the subject.
Ragav and Akki were in same batch and helping each other with the readings.  Ragav didn’t had the mood to do the work as he was still thinking about Arya and her message… “when all your stars are at your side…”
Akki seeing the dull behaviour asked Ragav “Dude are you ok? You seemed to be out of coverage area since yesterday? ”
Ragav coming out of his thoughts “ hmm yaa.. I’m fine .. ”
Akki “There’s something you are hiding.. is it about Arya??”
Ragav “Common dude.. its nothing about her!!”
Akki “okkiee !! cool !! ”

 Now it was Ragavs turn to get the reading , he got the two reading then suddenly he felt something and tilted the dummpy to the window of building next to the reading pole. He saw the same beauty again!!This time she was in the class attending the lecture and taking the notes with small breeze through her face. While writing something in notebook her silk like hairs fell in front of her eyes, which was disturbing her from writing. She untied her hairs and did some pony style and tucked them with the pencil. All these lovely miracle was being witnessed by Ragav with beating like a drummer, Thanx to dummy level giving every detail of the magic! Everyone around him sensed something was wrong and shouted back “Hey Ragav!! Common get the readings…”.
But Ragav had a plan another plan “Hey guiz go for short break il get the reading myself”
Every batch mate was happy with his announcement and went for a break but Akki knew there was something going on with this boy, how can a person have such a sudden change in the behaviour??  
Akki “Ragav give me 100 bucks” Ragav gave him without hesitation, it is true that boy losses his mind and money when the thing is about his crush.  
Ragav Texted Arya “looking beautiful… like an Angle!”
Arya took her phone beneath her desk, read the message with a smile on her face and replied back
“Hey Mr Ragav… go flirt with another gal  :P and its Angel not ANGLE :D”
Ragav “ opps ! my bad… c I evn don’t know spelling bez I never used it before for any gal.. just said the truth and I’m getting addicted to you baby!” still heart beating to its maximum he sent the message. Arya again checked the phone, read the message and this time she was smiling like that message touched her heart!

After returning from the canteen everyone was shocked to see all the readings done by Ragav which were correct when examined later. Phil Collins quoted the true lines “Love can make you do things that you never thought possible”
Ragav was still gazing at the window and smiling.
Akki “Bro! why you smiling?”
Ragav “Get Lost dude! There’s nothing” still hiding the happiness.  Akki had a doubt, to clear the doubt he took the dummy level and viewed through the scope towards the building.
Akki “There’s nothing in that building Ragav!” still confused.
Ragav “I told you! now common let’s go to canteen... I’ll give you treat”
Mix the felling of love in the engineering, you will never find anything that’s not interesting


To be continued… 

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CHAPTER 9: She Smiled... He Smiled...

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Getting home after long time Is like a prisoner on a parole for few days. The house you have lived in for decade where you have all the best moments, memories comes back and  gives you a flash back. The family members welcome you like a guest, entertaining you with all type of special food item. Ragav’s Mom used to prepare him all best dishes just name it. Chicken biryani was the favorite for Ragav. You feel like a Solder just returned from Indo-Pak border.
An engineer never stops working even if he’s asleep the unconscious mind will be active and doing the calculations or recalling the formulas. Sure the Engineers brain never stops working. Assignments are the like the Soul mates for an Engineering student. Where ever you go you have the assignments pages and the pen with you. If you are sincere enough to write the assignments on your own then you carry the 5 Kg Books with you else you have someone’s others assignments, just COPY + PASTE. This seems better option but this fails when you copy a wrong assignment and you get caught by your subject teacher. The worst thing is when the whole class copies the same assignment and the whole class is being caught. There’s a true saying that even a “Cheater should have brains to cheat without getting caught. You keep on writing and do the others chores simultaneously.
Humans are considered as most advanced animal. And with the invent of Facebook and other social networking sites are considered the boosters to any relationship. Just name the person and the next moment you are chatting with the same. Thanks to Mark Zuckerberg the millionaire college dropout and his FACEBOOK, it helped Ragav at the initiation step. Surfing at facebook Ragav thought to search for Arya …
Without second thought he typed the name in search box... “ARYA”
And the next he saw many profiles named ARYA. Its common thing that there will be 100s of ARYA around you then how to find the correct one?  One of the Profile showed “2 Mutual Friends” and there was her cute DP with her cute face smiling at Ragav. BULLS EYE!!
There was no wasting time in thinking he clicked the send Request button and the rest story is getting to convert into great history…  
 Theres no other great feeling when your crush accepts your friend request . the next step was the initiation chat … Never show the eagerness to talk with your crush else things can go in wrong direction and your crush will end up thinking that you are just like other pervert trying to flirt.
Ragav typed “Did you reached home safely?”
Arya “ yes I reached home J”
Ragav “Good…”
Arya “I dint knew that you take the same bus”
Ragav “I was at the right place and at right time yesterday ;-) “
Arya “still a good coincidence … “
Ragav “ we should get along some day.. why don’t we exchange the numbers?”
There was silence for 2 mins no reply from her, and the thoughts “will she reject the offer?” “what if she says no?” “is this the end?”
Then the screen poped ..
Arya “ yea .. 814****”
This was it he passed his first test got the number of his crush…
Ragav “ ohh thanx will message you whenever I’m going home “
Arya “ ya sure J”
This changed everything for Ragav, life now looked more beautiful around him and the song played in background “ Pehla Nasha Pehla Khumar… Naya Pyar hai…” with Agapornis birds also called Love Birds chirping around his ears. This was perfect moment for him but the things were different on other side.
Returning to college the first thing on Ragav’s mind was to meet his dream girl again face to face. He didn't had any clue how and where to meet her in college because he wanted to make it special as it was first meeting in college. After getting ready and done with dressing up he texted Arya.. “Hey hi .. Lets meet today in college if you are not busy?”
Arya.. “ya sure vl meet in mid break at 11..”
Ragav “ok no problem J”
Eagerly waiting for her at college corridor during break Ragav texted Arya … “ Girls are always late …”
Arya “ Stop crying like a baby I’m on my way..”
Ragav “ May be next time.. got to go HODs lecture…”
Arya “ Huhhh.. Good luck with your lecture”
Ragav still waited for her , what’s the point of attending the lecture when your mind is outside the class searching for her. Just about he turned to class he saw a girl in pink Punjabi dress walking with elegance. The beauty on her face was eyes catching. The white matching duppata was waving in cool morning breeze. Just she was about to step on the stairs the book fell from her hand. She picked the book with her one hand with other hand she tucked the two hair strands that fell on her cute face perfectly. All these time Ragav just stood there memorizing every detail of her moments forgetting about the HODs lecture. 
He texted her again “Looking Beautiful…!!”
Arya…” Where are you ??”
Ragav… “ Just around you..”
Arya…” Don’t play games…else I’m going..”
He dint reply. She continued walking to her class and Ragav stood there watching his dream girl go. Sometimes it’s better to watch the rhythmic beauty when you have less guts to talk. She passed Ragav and was about to enter into her class, she turned back and saw Ragav smiling at her. She recognized him and waved her hand. Ragav was struck, he waved her back. Ragav thought “What a Romantic meeting.. Love at first sight”. But he was unaware of the things he was getting into…

To Be Continued….           

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