Romantic Shorts: Destiny – 01 : Me – 00!

The joke was on her she realized as she finally gave up trying different combinations on the Facebook search bar. Her mind took her back to those 2 hours she had spent in his presence not realizing then how deeply they would affect her later on.

She had gone to a new city with stars in her eyes and hope for a better future, she was there all morning waiting for her slot, waiting for a chance to prove her merit to the panel praying for it to be the luckiest day of her life, because this had been her dream since she could remember she had learnt to dream.

To be a part of this elite professional course, she had always wanted this and now that she was so near just a few hours to go, she never realized how destiny had chose to smile on her but in a very different twisted style of her own.

She was called for the Group Discussion and when they sat in a batch of 10 waiting for her turn she saw him there, the only attractive man in the batch, it was not just his looks but something more that she saw in his personality making her thoughts flow towards him. She smiled at her wandering thoughts and shrugged them away.. ‘focus’ you cant afford distractions! and of course focused she was, she hadn’t let any man distract her for a long long time so she was self assured of her control this time over as well. 

He turned out to be seated right opposite her and she had to admit, his personality was truly magnetic, yet number 4 and number 9 had just to glance into each others eye’s to let the magic bind them for eternity perhaps.. they started to speak and the others noticed how he never left eye contact with her.

How the self confident, and precise girl simply couldn’t focus else where and everyone realized what was happening right there in the middle of a career changing opportunity except for the two who were subjected to this mischievous act of destiny. Surprisingly for the distractions that they were for each other, they actually ended up bringing out the best in each other, and become the best speakers in that batch.

A 45 minute wait towards the personal interview and lobbying with the other members, she did realize that he didn’t leave her thoughts once, but it was the pressure of the upcoming interview that kept her from acknowledging what was happening to her. He went in before her, gave the interview and left, leaving her with a smile and a professional hand shake which again didn’t register as much because she was waiting for her own battle cry.

While she was sitting the bus to get back, the seat next to her was empty and she started to think of him, now that the pressure was over and to her amazement the interview had gone well, she felt that destiny had truly been kind to her that day, little had she known of destiny’s mischievous ways! He did enter the bus but to her dismay the seat next to her was occupied by someone else already.

They had a polite conversation after which he returned back to his seat, but she couldn’t help stealing glances away from him, she did want to talk to him she realized, probably because she had met a match  in someone after a long, long time. They got off and stood facing each other silently, it was then that she realized that he had it bad too and something in her yelped in glee with that realization, a simple two line conversation asking each others names followed.

When they say eyes do the talking, for the first time she realized the truth in the statement. He went away looking at her, like an idiot she didn’t even ask his last name or added him up on one of the social media platforms. He didn’t ask either, probably he didn’t feel the same way.. probably he didn’t even think about her for a second after he left from there… probably…

Now she realized that, she wanted to know him more, maybe it was the air of mystery to him that made her want to know him so much. A few details about him that she knew; the first name, residential state and background in academics which she tried in different permutations and combinations, didn’t help her find him.

Smiling at how nicely destiny had entwined a girl who had never given destiny her due by believing that “we make our own destiny” all she could do now was pen down her thoughts and wait.. someday, somewhere probably she might just get to see him again and then her eyes would say everything and maybe he would understand just like they did standing on the road the other day.

Till then the score board reads Destiny – 1, Ami – 0!

– Ami Pandya

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