I was on my way to college after vacations, had booked my ticket in three tier ac coach of TATA ALLEPPEE express which was the only train available to Chennai from Jamshedpur. The train was as usual filled with students and the patients who needed to go to CMC Vellore.
I prefer the top bunk as no one disturbs, so I arrange my luggage and then ordered the attendant to get my bedding. The attendant got me a blanket with two bed sheets and I arranged my berth. Then I got down and ordered a cup of tea. It was refreshing and I sipped it in, I suddenly noticed a beautiful young lady, about the same age as mine, staring at me with gleaming eyes. I quickly swayed away as our eyes coincided. She also blushed aside.
I soon realized that she was travelling with her parents and I started talking to my other co-passengers. She was sitting opposite to me and I was kind of getting nervous. She was astonishing and every time I saw her, I found her more and more beautiful. She was wearing a blue churidar which enveloped her soft and tender body. She was as serene as the snow capped Himalayas. But her arrogant eyes coupled with her smile were enough to rejuvenate my soul which was annoyed with the lack luster face of the other passengers who were there in my coupe.
I tried to get a look of her amazing beauty from every nook and corner possible. She also followed the same exercise. Many times and oft our eyes met each other and we swayed away with a blush every time.
Suddenly there broke in me a strong desire to talk to her but it soon disappeared when I found her mom giving me disgusted looks. I felt so heavy inside. But I still had that urge to talk to her, but I had to be contented with just looking at her from the corner of my eyes.
There was a civil war inside me; I was still confused how to talk to her with her parents around. My heart was beating at the rate of nauts and my target seemed light years away.
Then suddenly I heard her speak, what a voice! I thought. It blew me off; it was like music to my ears. There was a certain degree of panache in whatever she did and second by second I was more and more getting blown away by her. She was perfect. It’s a pity that God has been a miser in producing this breed of women in this world.
I was disgusted, why can’t she travel alone, why was she with her parent, started cursing the heavens. Her eyes urged me to talk to her but I couldn’t. no way I just couldn’t. In the end I gave up hope and went to my bunk with a swollen face. I kept damning myself the whole night, thought myself to be the biggest loser on planet Earth.
Without my realizing I fell asleep and I had a dream, or shall I say a nightmare, in which I saw myself being beaten up by my co-passengers for trying to talk with her suddenly woke up in terror.
Then I came down my bunk to wash my face and get some fresh air. As I was washing my face, my dream girl, I mean the girl whom I was going nuts came to me and give me a gingery smile and gave me a paper, it was her name and number, I was shocked and she looked at me and said “give me a call some time you COWARD!!”
