Ch. 2 - Let’s Go with the Flow

The whatsapp chats became almost regular. Our chat gradually took a turn towards subtle flirting. Just to let her know my inclination, I casually asked her out if she out like to go on a Date? Inside my mind there was a rush of thoughts if I had put it in the right words, or what she would feel. But she said let’s go ;). The emojis are really saviours. They help us out in speaking a lot that we actually want to and then we cover up saying, “I was just kidding” :D

Technically we can call it our first date. This was the time we got to know our love for poetries and discussed many of our mutual interests. Now we can say the chase had subtly begun. We started opening up about our likes and dislikes. We started realising that though we are totally opposites as a person yet we have a similar thought process with regards to various things. The date went great and our conversations started taking a different turn.

As both of us have been into writing poetries, soon the conversations started becoming mushairas at times. :D We got a medium to talk in between the lines. It was not like long poetries or something but in daily conversations we slipped in one or two shayaris which were situational.

We started hanging out more often. We even went to movies, shows and poetry events. This was the common thread between us. We loved to go around and see different and creative stuff. The bond was developing and it was getting evident.

For both of us this was new. It was after a really long time that an effort was being made to see if this is the right person whom we await for. It started feeling nice, but it was too soon to give it any tag. So we didn’t rush into it. We were enjoying eachothers company and just going with the flow.

One day, out of the blue I got a call from one of her best friends and he mentioned to me about a personal loss Minal had been through. I immediately rushed to meet her. It was a devastating time for her and her family. That’s the time I got to see her real strength. I saw a fighter in her. Being an eldest child she gave all the strength to her family. But even she needed a shoulder to let herself feel relieved. She found that comfort in me and yet didn’t make me feel obligated.

With the passing time she started healing slowly and steadily. Our casual meetups got intense and so did the conversations. We got to know eachother so much in this crucial time. One day we went to this show called ‘Sukhan’. It’s a live show in which some talented artists narrate ghazals, poetries, shayaris etc. It is a brilliant show and I had seen it once before. I took her to the show and for the first time the holding of hands gave some different signals. The show takes you to another zone. You never know when and how you would really get that pure feeling of falling in love. For us it was that moment. The feeling was pure and it was so evidently visible in our gestures. This was the time when the real emotion started getting developed.

Our talks started getting intense and without any big plans or huge setups, the expression of love was uttered for the very first time. The moment when we said ‘I love you’ and we truly meant it, it was priceless. In fact she did ask me ‘Are you sure?’ and it was a BIG YES.

We knew we were different, we knew we were opposites but for some unknown reason it felt right, it felt good, it felt like our happy place. Well that was enough to finally give our relationship a tag. The moment happened on 2nd April,2018 and we have been celebrating it as our relationship anniversary. We can truly say, it was the beginning of the spring season.

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