It’s about love… [Take-39]

[Take-38][Beginning of the story]

The distance…

While her parents were busy talking to her taking minute updates of what’s going inside the airport, her Uncle seemed to be more interested in knowing everything about me. He had several questions to ask about me, my family and about our relationship. Being an engineer himself, we had a lot of common things to talk about. He knew how to get all the info without being direct or embarrassing me. I did not mind it either. He also offered me to travel back with them and have dinner together. But it was friday night and I had plans for the weekend.

So I took their leave and took a cab to my friend’s place. I was curious about the inquisitiveness of her Uncle. I was also thinking if she would call me after reaching there? or should I? I was also thinking about the relationship between me and Ati. The way it started with a casual chat over CVM. And then grew to a friendship of a different kind. We never go out on weekends or watch movies together, like I do with my other set of friends. We do not feel any urgency to share life’s most important news, decisions or events. But it still is special. Is it anywhere close to being in love. I might have developed some attraction and it may just be a prolonged infatuation. It might just be a fantasy to be thinking about love so soon. We had seen some formal interaction, some embarrassing moments like when the whole office was watching us jaw dropped. We had some casual talks like in the bus and also some intimate moments like that evening. I might have been a desperate bloke, or she might have been a confused lass or may be the other way round, or may be neither. But, all said and done, I like her.

Moreover the huge villain in my burgeoning love story was distance. Distance,  as I have come to understand, is the biggest test of true love. Someone rightly said that distance is to love what wind is to fire… it extinguishes the small and enkindles the great. I have seen some admirable love-couples and then their heart shattering breakups the major reason of which was distance. Distance is not a reason, but it is certainly a situation that brings about several reasons. So, I did not know how this relation was going to work out in this new situation. But a great thing about unseen situations is that it brings unknown results. And if it’s not life-taking, unknown is usually quite interesting. And with a positive attitude, everything simply happens for good.

[To be continued...]