The FIRST nite, the FIRST date and her FIRST proposal!!!!

As she approached that auto she walked past a few PCO booths and had to retrace her steps after deciding that she would call him right away and ask him to delete that photo he had taken with his mobile camera. Then she remembered tht she had stored the number in her friend's fone and was surprised wen it immediately came to her mind with very little effort on her part. Finding it strange(she was very bad at remembering numbers, birthdays anniversaries etc...but this was the first of the very many changes that will happen within her) She went into one of the booths and dialed his number...identified herself as the "girl who u jus met". And he said, "Well im in a meeting now..ill get back to u" and the line went dead!!!! Wonderin how he planned to "get back" to her she made her way back home.

After sometime Miss.Goody called and further tried to scared her with amount of crap he could do with their photograph....but to her it all looked...well a bit too far fetched..Well, "wat cud he do with a picture that was taken while in motion? It wouldnt have come out very clear!!" she tried reasoning with her, but all Miss.Goody wanted was for her to call him and get him to delete the pic. So she decided to play a small game with Mr.Arrogant...though she had his number, she hadn't given away hers and so she sent him a simple sms saying "Hi!!". She was disappointed wen there was no reply even after 3 hours.

She had already gone to bed wen his call finally came...it was almost midnight and since she was sleeping with her parents, the heroine freaked wen a call came that late into the night...she wasnt used to receiving calls at that hour and so to avoid any suspicion she ran into the bathroom and picked up the call without stopping to look who was calling. The first thing both of them said was "Who s this?"....some silence...then she beat him to it...and asked who he was and y he had chosen such an unearthly hour to call up!!! For which he responded, "Hello, if im not mistaken, i thnk u sent me a msg saying hi and now u wanna know who i am...are u in the habit of msging ppl u dnt really know? What is this? some kind of a game???!!!!!!". She by now had realised who it was and could have kicked herself for not seeing who was calling before she had picked up!!!! Then she again identified herself as the "girl u met this evening" and said that she was sorry...and that's how they started talkin...

The talked every nite for the next 4 days...sometimes they spoke all thru the nite(she was in 12th and had the readymade excuse "late nite studies") Then on the fifth day, she asked him, "how long are we gonna jus keep talkin on the fone??" and held her breath to see if she will have to kick herself once again for being the frst to ask. She was increasingly making a fool o herself in front of him. But he said(to her huge relief), "I hadn't yet figured out how to ask u out without sounding too eager...thanks u made everythng very simple!!!"
So they fixed up to meet the next day at around 4 in the evening....went out for a long drive down the city's famous East Coast Raod (ECR).

All through the drive, he was very quiet and that made her wonder if she was sitting with the same guy she had been talkin to all these days...and she mentally termed it as "another facet of his arrogance", but little did she know then that he was contemplating how to say what he wanted to say. He had grown, over the past few days, very fond of this strange girl, who though he had met on the road and till date didnt know anythn close to the truth about him or his background(he had jus told her that he was a muslim and that hadnt made any difference to her though she was a tamil brahmin), had settled in a very deep corner o his heart.

He didnt like the way he was reacting to her....he had been with so many other girls...girls who looked much better than this one sitting beside him...knew more about him...yet something in her eyes and voice held his attention like no one else's had...he felt uncomfortable with the way he was constantly stealing glances at her, while she rattled on (talkin for both o them!!!) unaware of his looks...she was like a 5 year old...unable to shut up...and that he found endearing instead of irritating...and he stopped being surprised around this girl....

They had driven right upto Pondicherry though she had animatedly tried to talk him out of the plan...and on the way back...he decided that it was now or never...he suddenly stopped the car and put his head onto the wheel and held himself still for a couple o minutes, quietly laughing as he sensed her growing anxiety and wen she touched him fianlly, it was a wary touch...(like she expected him to be dead or something!!!!)"Are u ok?", she asked him tentatively. He said that he was feeling dizzy out of all the fasting they muslims had to do during the month of Ramalaan. He asked her if she knew to drive and that's wen she totally started panicking!! She shook her head meaning she didnt know how to drive a car...and he decided to have some more fun with her...he said in his usual matter of fact tone, "then i guess we ll be spending the nite here in the car...i dnt thnk i shud be driving wen i feel dizzy...it may be dangerous u know???" And it was once agin time for her to give her famous reaction...."!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

She started freaking out in earnest now and all the while he was having so much fun watching her raving and ranting about how her parents will disown her if she stayed away for the nite with a guy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then out of nowhere he produced a pack of cakes and started eating from it...after a few minutes he started driving...and she visibly relaxed...until he thrust the pack into her hand and ordered..yes ordered...her to feed him the cake (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Though she didnt wannna do it....she did it...she fed him the cake so that he ll drop her back home...she was now really scared that she had gone away without tellin anyone with a real time mental case...the mental(!!!) as telling her now to eat the other half o the cake he had jus had(!!!!!!!!!!) she did it....(she was really scared...do u accept it now??)

After some time he once again stopped the car...and this time in a side road tat didnt even have street lights....there was no one around...she was lookin around warily when he said IT..."Will u be like this with me forever...???" were his words but she was sure she must have heard him wrong....none of it made sense to her in her state of panic...but the way he was lookin at her expectantly she guessed she had heard rite after all. "How can I? I have to go home..." was all she cud get out of her mouth, though a 100 questions were swarming in her head!! It was now his turn to wonder if he had heard her right!!!!

He asked her once again for good measure...and all he got was a look of anger and fear at the same time. Thats wen he knew he had scared her too much...and that evoked in him a sudden sense of protectiveness...it made him want to comfort her and tell her that nothing was gonna happen(read: he wasn't goin to ditch her there or anythn!!!). He had always been bad at this comforting thing and he did it the only way he knew...he pulled her close and kissed her...and after a few seconds he drew back to see the look of stunned surprise on her face, and cut her protest by saying..."I meant wat i said...im askin u for the last time...will u be like this with me forever?" and after a few minutes that seemed to drag on forever, she said..."yes, i will", without even knowing why she said it...it felt like the most natural thing to do at that moment...
More to come...till then...blah....blah...blah...:)