Peach Melba

Dedicated to my beautiful girl friend (Chapter1), who later became my wonderful wife (Last chapter), Ashzy!!!

 It was the last week of December 2009, when I met her on that beautiful evening at the streets of Chennai!

And, I never thought that, the New Year was waiting for me with lot of surprises!

 New Year Night! And at 12.00 AM, I was searching for coffee bytes toffees. The only thing running through my mind at that time was to impress her somehow. I was sure that she loves these kinds of "weird" things and that was the first thing I loved about her. The train was heading towards Bangalore and it was a December.

The Night was cold! And to make the conditions even "hotter", me and Asha were sitting together in a cramped side-lower window seat of the train. We were sitting face to each other. She was talking about a lot of things and I was getting a feeling that, she wanted to talk and finish everything she knew in that night itself. So, I was mainly doing the "listening" part and was occasionally talking about a few things. But, the main thing I was thinking about, in the back of my mind, was about, "how more to impress her?"

I mean, Boys are boys!!!

 They always have this kind of a feeling when a smart girl is around you.

And, in this special romantic new-year, I was with her in this cramped up space. The only thing separating me and her body was a pillow. I was leaning towards the pillow and the pillow was leaning towards her legs. We both were sitting. I was taking extra-care not to lean so much, so that she won’t think about a "sexual harassment" there. But, I somehow felt that she was enjoying that seating position. I mean, boys are still boys. But, the kind of a decent attitude she had, I was sure that I cannot impress her only through that seating position. So, that’s why I started talking about, "how I wanted to be a writer and how I want to write scripts for movies and all those creative stuffs”!!! But for sure, I was starting to get a bad backache sitting for long in that position.

 I felt that the train was traveling too fast, and I would reach Bangalore earlier than I expected. And, I wanted more time to talk with her. To know her More!!! And, I felt that she also was trying to know me.

 That was when we met. Jab we met -2.

-Sreekant Narayan