Their chats were incessant. During the class(only if it was a less important one), during the break, while travelling. Days went by, he wanted to meet up. Of course, it was a 'No' from her side, she had not even given him her contact number with the thought that they won't chat perpetually. There will be some fortunate day when they will be done with this. That particular day was by no chance nearer though. But, as time passed, the chats did not seem to be in a flow as it did. They rather seemed to be monotonous, usual and sometimes boring. She, still, tried never missing a chance of exchanging few words with him.
It was his birthday! By that time, a very close friend and her sister knew about him. Her friend even had a little chat with him (6-7 lines) and her sister, after listening to the whole thing gave a 'wait and watch' calm expression which scared her. Well, it is pretty normal. A concerned sister will obviously find it a little disturbing if her little sister befriends an absolute stranger.Anyway, She wished to send him a song (which was sung by her), on his birthday, as a birthday present. That was the only thing she could gift him virtually. After a lot of thinking, she made up her mind that she won't be sending a song which is sung by her, to him, on his birthday, because that will be cheesy. Very cheesy. But, darn! She just couldn't resist, the thought of not giving him anythin on his special day didn't quite made feel right. As the clock struck 12:00a.m. She mailed the godamn song to him. He appreciated it though.(He had to.) The next day she had a chat with him and he seemed very down and out. She tried her level best to cheer him up, she was herself being unusually perky (using extra exclamation marks and giving him ideas on how can he celebrate his birthday) but it hardly made a difference. That was the last little chat they had.
A whole month passed by and he remained quiet and silent. She thought her offline messages would provoke him to speak up so she sent many of them but nothing really happened. And, she thought, how she had made a fool of herself. She missed him like a lot and she actually realized that to what extent she was into him. But then, she was mad at him and she was frustrated too and was desperately wanting to tell him that 'If you had to run away you could have informed and left instead of maintaining the annoying silence. Don't you have this much guts?' but her offline messages were polite. All she did was chuck him out of her friends' list on Facebook. But, she kept thinking about him.
One fine day, suddenly, out of nowhere, when she was online from her fake i.d, she gets a 'Hi!' from him. She was happy, angry and sad. Happy to see him after such a long time, angry at the thought of how that silly chap just disappeared and suddenly land up in front of her out of the blue saying a 'Hi!' and sad because she'll again get into this useless affair of talking to a complete stranger who is no more a stranger though. She wanted to run away believing that she's over him but she stayed and even replied to him. She inquired where he was and why did he disappear then she thought of leaving. Though she was not sleepy at all, but it was one reason for her to take a leave in front of him.
He started behaving in the same manner in which he behaved when they had their very first chat. He paid extra attention and was always trying to please and she did get pleased. And, the chats became frequent and lively and cheerful and the fun was back! By this time, two of her close friends got to know about him. And, she wondered how he kept on acquiring a special place in her life as it was HIM about whom she talked to her friends.
After the apology for his disappearing away and frequent chats, everything seemed to be normal. It was a usual day and she was chatting with him. He asked for her number(He had done it earlier too) and she didn't know what was going on in her mind then but after thinking for like some 50 seconds and after looking at her friend's face, she typed the godamn number and sent it to him. It was spontaneous. She was still for sometime, trying to figure out what exactly she had done. He was amazed too. (because earlier every time she refused to give him her number and was pretty determined to do that.) He had her number now. And, she kept on thinking about all the worst possibilities of revealing her number to a stranger. She was expecting a text, if not a call, from him. And, she did get a text after a day. And they exchanged some 7-8 texts and they were done.
After revealing her number and having normal chats, now, he had started becoming very busy, he slept early and he said just a 'hi' and left. She never really wanted a simple 'Hi', just for the sake of keeping in touch. It made her sad for he was not bothered. They exchanged Hi's and left and she never expressed her disapproval of him leaving for she wanted to see if he can make it out but, he couldn't, like everyone else. She regretted giving her number. As time passed by, the chats became least frequent and short. She wondered how he was free for hours when he chatted with her initially and how he is, now, very busy that she feels lucky to get a simple 'Hi' from him. He seems least affected and normal though. She blamed herself to take every thing way too seriously and ending up having thoughts of him. It had to get over now, she thought. And, it will. (hopefully)
She didn't like him, she just liked the way he lived and the way he reacted to whatever she said, thats what she believed. Love does not happen this way. He will be erased from her mind as time passes by, thats what she believed. But, this belief was not enough to change the truth, the fact.
Peace.
