Episode VI

Click!

14^th July, 2008

So… Everything was set now. And that was the problem. This means that I really have to tell Tanvi now. That suffocating yet beautiful feeling I feel when talking to her erupted in my heart again. The feeling that I hated and yet I wanted to have again and again.

& then, just in a moment or two… Wow! It became an amazing feeling when I recalled the girl in those beautiful sketches, the girl described in all those poems. This is a feeling one can never understand until he himself has not experienced it. It is something that reminds you, that someone is out there, whom you love so much that you can do anything for her. And that’s the feeling, my friends, that’s the feeling which gives immense pleasure to your heart.

So… The girl of my dreams, the angel of my heart, the queen of my world, will be deciding now, whether to reward the one who dared to love her, or execute. And the funny part is, the one who was being blamed for the crime of love, was himself a victim of love.

Anyway, I was in Kolhapur at that time, away from the stage of drama, as it wouldn’t have been possible to do all the preparation in Pune with Naren & other friends being there. You see, in Pune, my big bro lives with 4 other friends, including Adi and Aman. And to be honest, one of the main reasons was that, I wanted to stay away from Pune and keep myself busy with anything. And when everything was in place…

…that’s when I clicked the send button. After so many sleepless nights… For the sketches… For those words, words that were going to deliver my feelings to Tanvi… For those poems… For that darling face… And above all, the anxiety, the desire to know what is going to happen kept me awake for nights. And now I had only one thing to do - Wait, just wait patiently.

I recalled everything again and again. Last two and half years kept flashing in front of me. Adi, Aman and Neelam, always supporting me. Aman and Neelam. Though these characters are being introduced quite late and might not seem significant in this story, but they play a very important role in my life and this story too. As I believe, Aman-Neelam is the ideal couple one can find. And they did play a very important role in the whole story.

Neelam was one of the first to know about the tale of Mihir and Tanvi. Even though I did not tell Neelam that I love Tanvi, she realized it in no time. She has some supernatural powers, to know what’s hiding in the heart of the person before her. I feel so comfortable talking to her.

When I was not at all ready to accept that I really do love Tanvi, even though it was quite clear to me, Neelam used another one of her special powers – to make the person before her accept what his heart says. So you can understand how important she is, for this love story to come into existence.

Aman! This is the coolest and foolest (if there is such a word) guy I’ll ever know. He is the kind of person, kind of friend that you’ll think of as an icon. He’s my partner in many crimes and he is the one, on whom I can rely always for anything and everything. Even if I ever plan to kill someone (and that will certainly be some professor), this guy will be the one to bring the weapons.

TO BE CONTINUED . . .