Incomplete First Love Story...

This is my first attempt at writing a fiction blog. I don’t know how good or bad it is going to turn out to be. Hopefully all you folks reading this will like it.

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

It is a Saturday night, Pranita and Ashok are done with their dinner. Pranita puts their three years old son to bed and is back in living room, its Ashok’s turn to do the chores today so she is resting on sofa in their living room after the long day it had been. They are very happy contented couple, they feel very lucky to have found each other. Ashok is a supportive and loving husband and Pranita makes a good wife and a caring mother. Her cellphone beeps, it’s a Facebook update for some game request. She gets irritated but keeps scrolling to see other updates. There flashes the name Abhinav Singhania, it’s his picture with wife by the side. She ignores the woman in the pic and looks at Abhinav, she has the same feeling, same adrenal rush that she had when she first saw him 15 years ago.

Pranita was in PUC 1^ST year and Abhinav was her senior in the next class. She hadn’t met him until their roll numbers were written on the same bench for an exam. She was already sitting there all prepared for the exam, then he appeared and sat beside her. She saw him at a glance and there he was tall, fair and handsome, looks that she couldn’t ignore, looks she was impressed by. She had a strange feeling she didn’t know of. The question papers were circulated, it was difficult for her to concentrate on the exam but she somehow managed to finish it well.

He was on her mind for the rest of the day. She had to study for the next subject but all she could think about was him. She had to sit beside him for the next 5 days, she had to prepare for that as well. She tried her level best to ignore him and study for her next subject in the night. Next day she wanted to look good, she did her last minute preparations for the exam as she felt the guilt of not studying well previous day. She entered the class and saw him already sitting on their bench, she quietly went and sat on her part of the bench. And then he said Hi, she didn’t expect it, she replied Hi without looking at him. He wished her all the best and she just said same to you. These were the only two sentences they spoke. She had some sort of excitement for each of the exams, she couldn’t define those emotions: they were all together new for her. The last day she took lot of courage and said bye and happy holidays. He looked back, their eyes met, it was magical. They stared at each other for some time and then he just said bye when one of his friends called out for him.

She had this last image of his in her mind throughout the vacations. All she wanted was to be back in college, this was the first time she wanted the vacations to end. During these holidays when she met her friends, she told them about the feelings she had for this guy. Some friends who knew him told her all the good things about him and they all teased her. She felt good, she felt happy, and she couldn’t stop blushing. She was turning from a girl to a young lady. She had the desire to see him again.

This next one year was one crazy for her. Whenever they crossed each other, he stared at her and she blushed. She looked at him and turned away when he looked back. She couldn’t control her smile when she saw him. Any occasion in college, may it be annual day, sports day or college trips when students from all classes would gather, her friends would tease her and his friends would tease him. She would be happy but she never had the guts to express her feelings towards him, or she was too young to understand those feelings. Then it was time he completed his PUC and left for Degree College and that was the end of this incomplete first love story of Pranita. They both shared an unshared expression of love, which she realizes now.

Pranita isn’t aware, she is resting on the sofa with her eyes closed and smile on her face. Ashok comes back to living Room after all his household works and is happy to see Pranita like that. He sits beside her and puts his hands around her. She is back to reality now and when Ashok asks what she was thinking about, she tells him the whole story and he smiles back saying “I am happy you didn’t talk to Abhinav, else you wouldn’t be with me right now.” She hugs him and says “I am happy too”