A Walk To Remember

It was just another beautiful evening. Grey clouds covering the sky, a few punches to them and they would have cried than and there. Winds dressed in their best. Cold winds, dark clouds, sun playing hide and seek with the water splashing and shining at the creek.

We three Me, Jigar and Harshit often went for a walk to the creek near by. It had been a long time though this time, we played cricket in our colony and decided to go for a walk after ages. On our walk we use to go gaga over Computers, Technology, Future Plans etcetera etcetera but this time the topic was changed to cars as Jigar was taking one. This guy goes in deep detailing about everything than let it be cars, BEST bus routes or Western railways. I sometimes feel he is being paid for doing that all the time and mostly i ignored all he said about Bus Service, about new bus routes and railways. This time the topic was good enough and interesting too. Harshit and Jigar both shared their experiences about driving, the mileage their cars gave or would give, the time taken to reach Goregaon and the rest is history. 


"Its a beautiful weather guys, lets go to creek and enjoy it. What say?" Jigar asked and I nodded in affirmation and so did Harshit.


"Hey i wont eat sev puri today i will definitely try omelet" He said while we passed through the Bhel Puri corner on our way to creek. Almost every time whenever Jigar, Lokesh and me went for a walk we had Pani Puri and this disgusted Jigar today as once the Water of Pani Puri was a bit salty and Jigar as usual went on cribbing about it.


"Fine! you can try whatever you want no one is stopping you" I said looking at the tea stall.


"You want to? " Harshit asked me pointing towards the Tea Stall.


"No No i have quit tea long time back" I chuckled.


"Why so?" He questioned me again.


"Ah! Doctor asked me to that asap i use to have lots of it approx 12-14 cups a day so... "I said.


"Oh!" He exclaimed.


We reached creek and it was the best part of the evening i thought, but no, there was something much much better waiting for me. We stood on the deck that was built so that the boats may load and unload during low tide. Mostly the boats (Ferry) were of Beach or Esselworld and Water Kingdom. We stood on the deck feeling every bit of winds and sweet sound of water splashing. The sun stood between two clouds appearing to be the light of faith and good will.

"I am feeling uneasy and restless yaar" I said rubbing my hands.

"You'll be fine its OK" Jigar tapped my shoulder as he said.

The boat from Esselworld came, the workers on the boat tied it to the iron railings of the deck. People started to come out and we were standing next to the boat resting our asses on the railing adjacent to it. What i saw next gave me goosebumps, my palms were wet and i was feeling even more restless now. I saw Suhani.

"Oh shit! Suhani" I said and turned around to the opposite side.

"Where? i can't see her. " Jigar started searching too.

Harshit had no clue what we were talking about he didn't knew who was Suhani so he kept quite and just looked around.

"She's there, she just got down from the boat, there in pink Kurti." I replied while i stammered on the same time.

"Ya ya i can see her now, she is with family i guess, i can see her mom too, here comes her sis, there's another sister too with a small baby with her..." He said in an excited tone.

"Will you please shut the fuck up! that's not funny at all... " I shouted.

"She has gained some weight dude..." Jigar chuckled.

"Will you please shut up! and it doesn't matter to me whether she's slim or gaining weight i always loved her for who she was... What the hell am i saying? " I was irritated at the same time was controlling hard enough to not to turn around and look at her.

I was standing next to the ramp that was made for people to make their way out of creek. She came and stood next to me now her back facing my face. I turned around again in my previous position so that she could not see me. I was in thoughts again. There was a flashback slideshow in my mind running at the lowest bit rate possible. She looked beautiful every next time i saw her. This time she looked like an angel to me, she persist in looking beautiful even today. Her pink Kurti gave more charm to her looks, i wish i could see her smile again just once.

Everything came back to me like a bazooka. Her smile, her big beautiful eyes, her graceful walk, her silent behavior, her sniggers, her chuckles, her smile with a bit of shyness, her habit of biting her lips when she had no words to speak or while she smiled. Each and everything that i was running away from came back to me again with a bang.

She left and she was out of my sight, we too decided to go back home. On our way back i saw her again and this time all my feeling were over flowing at the speed as that of Niagara Falls. My eyes were wet already my  palms still sweaty, I saw her walking again, i like her walk she had the most graceful and amazing walk that i had ever seen. One word from me and i would have started sobbing like a child for lollipop. She walked like a princess. She took a rick and just went...

Jigar called up Bhagyashri her college friend. They were close friends and studied together. I wonder how come they don't feel for each other if they studied together everyday for last 4 years i guess, or even if they did they kept it to themselves. Now i knew her and was a good friend of mine too.

"Guess what! We saw Suhani now... " Jigar shouted on the phone i couldn't hear the other side of the conversation but he handed over the phone to me.

"That's not funny i am telling you again... I don't wanna talk to anyone..." I shouted again but i took his cellphone "Look i don't wanna talk about it.. Its not funny for me..." I handed over the phone to him again.

For the next 20 minutes i did not utter a word. We had Pani Puri again that day and Jigar was still talking to her. I asked him to give me the phone and i apologized for my rude behavior.

"I am sorry yaar... I thought he called me up in the funny manner so... Sorry..." She said in a baby tone.

"NO yaar i am sorry you don't have to be, i was rude... You know right? its been 8 years now i have been waiting for this girl so... Sorry again"I apologized again.

We went back home and that night i just couldn't sleep...  It was her all over my mind again.. Her images kept on flashing in front of me. Why did i turn around? I wanted to see her the other day, so why didn't i today? What was the reason for this? Are you just pretending that you don't love her? Do you really don't love her anymore? Why can't i forget her? Do i still care about her? Will I be able to forget her ever?  Her eyes were beautiful, they might kill me someday. All the questions kept on wandering in my mind.


I said to myself while i was sleeping with my eyes open, this was really "A WALK TO REMEMBER"