''When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew"
I studied those words carefully. Was it true? Does that really happen in real life or is it just a publicity stunt? Question flew into my head as they always did. NO..no Let me start from the first.
I am Ada. I am told I am kind of beautiful but I don't really care. Books are my world and today like every Saturday I came to my world.There was this shop tucked in the corner of a street.My friends walked by it for two years without even noticing it. I saw it on the first day. It had books everywhere I just had to look .There were rows and rows of books and it was said only few people found the place. we were the lucky ones.My favorite spot was the one next to the window.I never really believed in true love from the beginning but I will not lie and tell you that I don't want it to exist. people said it did. It did well to your dreams. My best friend's name is Richa. she is the kind who dresses really well and watches all kind of popular movies.Both of us often wonder how we really became friends. She insisted that love at first sight existed. she said that the world would stand still, that I would hear all kinds of music around me,that there shall be lightning around in the sky. I laughed out loud. That Saturday I thought was just another beautiful day. I had no idea when I woke up, none when I reached the shop and none at all when I read the quote. I never braced myself for what was going to happen. where was I?
yeah. So various questions flew into my head. I shook my head and put the book back in it's place. I went to find the book that I could not take last Saturday. I walked in the narrow corridor between the rows and rows of books. I could hear the sound of rain beating against the window. I liked the sound of it. I smiled a small smile and realized too late I passed on from the row I wanted.I was about to turn but something stopped me. For my life I will never be able to explain the feeling. I looked back and there he was. He was sitting beside a window and holding the book I wanted to read. He raised his head and I let it blow me away. There was no thunder,no lightning, no world standing still,no music floating around my head. He looked at me and I looked back. Some voice whispered in the back of my head, there is a high probability that I might have misread it but it said "He is the one". I walked back to the row and took an extra copy of the book.
I went back home . If there is such thing as cosmic destiny, it would sure like to show it's power again. I hoped it would. I never said a word to anyone.
I went there again next Saturday after suffering for a whole week.He was there. This time he came and asked me to join him for coffee in the sweet little cafe beside. I said yes. It was a nice place and everybody knew me so he can't do anything against my wishes. I wonder what would have been my answer if it was some other place. I liked the way he carried himself and the way he talked to me and looked at me. His walk was sure but his words came out unsure and that appealed to me. We met there every Saturday and as weeks passed on he became a part of my life.I made Rachi meet him. They stared at each other and declared they knew each other well. He was her one of her brother's many friends. Talk about destiny. I met his family and all his friends. I guess they did like me a lot.All my friends declared him good enough for me but I never said a word. I liked the way his eyes twinkled, how his hair fell over his forehead and the way he looked at me as if I was something precious.Most of all I liked the way he had dreams and hopes like I did.I took him to my parents too.I loved that evening.We started meeting daily after first two years. Then one day when he told he couldn't come, I went and sat in my usual place beside the window. I felt the feeling again and I looked out of the window .There was nothing there but I did not suffer for long.A small boy walked up to me and gave me a note. I was asked to come down to the end of the road.It was his hand writing. I ran there, something made my heart pound against my chest even before I started running. I found him on his knee with a ring for me. I said yes. It all was planned to perfection but I did not notice the surroundings then .In fact if it wasn't for the photos that some of our friends took I would have missed it. The voice whispered the same again or I managed to misread it again.I don't think I did . Only after my tenth anniversary did I know that Richa sent him there that day.she made him go there but she never knew about the book or the window.I never figured out if it was a touch of destiny or simply a clever human brain. It was too late to care. Whatever it was it gave me the best thing in the world. A person I could grow up old sharing my home,my dreams and my life. I realized if you don't believe in love at first sight,it does not really matter. If it happens to you you won't deny it but if it doesn't you fell in love in a healthier way.