The Flying Hope

                      The Flying Train

In the chaotic crowd, I rushed down the stairs. I could see the train catching pace. Hustling through the platform I jumped in the coach, exhausted and frightened but relieved not to miss my travel plan.

As I figured out my allotted seat, my eyes fell upon a beautiful charming face. She was sitting on my seat by the window. The breeze made her long hair flow over her face. That moment, her blue eyes made contact with mine.

“Excuse me, that’s my seat”, I mumbled. Her smile turned awkward, and just as she was about to stand up, “Never mind, you should sit by the window. I will manage here”, I said, pointing to the empty place next to her.

My choice of words made her laugh, which made me realize how dumb I reacted.

“Thank you so much”, she said, and followed the million dollar smile. Her pink lips sparkling like the twinkle of the stars. She turned her head back into the book.

 I settled down, plugged in to listen to music. Her silky hair kept touching my shoulders, which smelled like fresh rose in the nursery. Enough to turn my head upsidedown, I felt hopelessly attracted to her.

I needed something to break the ice. I saw her book. It was titled “Unkindness Of Ravens”. I googled the name on my phone, read the plot and the author’s name.

“Hey, this is the book by Lucas Scott”, I exclaimed to her.

“Yes, it’s a wonderful book”, she replied, half interested.

“It is an epic love story, sadly such exists mostly in books and movies these days”, I tried to keep the conversation going somehow.

Her face turned annoyed, “No, it is not necessary; life is beautiful if you feel it enough”. She argued, and it was working for me.

“Life is indeed beautiful, but if one starts to expect people around to behave as in books and movies, it will become painful”. I enjoyed reasoning her out.

“Whatever”, was the reaction, and I blew it up.

Sadly, I put my headphones back on, diverging myself to music. Couple of songs later, ‘MORPHINE AND CHOCOLATE’ shuffled up. It struck a chord with me. Diamonds and Chocolates are the two things which every girl digs. Fortunately, I had a Cadbury Silk in my bag. Just as I removed it, I noticed how she reacted at it by the back of my eye. Slowly, I stripped of the wrapper, kept the smooth chocolate bar in my hand for a few seconds. Due to the warm weather, the smooth chocolate was almost starting on stick to my fingers. I took a small bite, taking all the time in the world, licked the deliciously soft chocolate of my lips, closing my eyes to feel the essence.

A few moments later, I offered her the bar, put it right in front of her face, close enough to smell the melting candy.

“Care to have some”, I said. Her face lit up.

Without flashing an eyelid, she took it from my hands, ate a part.

“I love chocolates”, she said with the big smile.

“Now, I know, how you make every moment so beautiful”, I tried to make amends for the previous argument.

“I was exactly trying to say that”. She said sporting a big grin on her face, with the feeling which every woman gets when she is proved right and the man wrong.

“By the way, I am Damon. May I know what is the LIVE IN THE MOMENT girl called?” I enquired.

“Haha, I like the sarcasm. For the knowledge of the extremely anxious guy, I am  Elena”, she said.

“Now, this got me more anxious to know what do you do for most of your moments?”, I asked.

“I am a design intern in apparels. So let me guess, which newspaper you work for?”, she teasingly asked.

“I must say, judging is not your asset. To the contrary, I work in Human Resource” I replied back.

“That’s where you get the communication skills from ! You could have been an interviewer easily”, she said.

It was my turn to be on the receiving end of her sarcastic remarks. The more we conversed, I realized her wit was the icing on top of her beauty. We could not manage to speak a single sentence without the laughter and giggles.

Almost an hour passed, and her station was just 10 minutes away. She excused me to visit the washroom, which gave me a moment to myself.

 ‘I can’t let her go, I want to know her more’ I thought.

As she came back, I said “You are the worst person I’ve ever met in a train journey”

“What ?”, she exclaimed.

“No stranger before has been so addictive. I am going to miss you every time I travel in a train further”, I got cheesy and nervous.

“Aha, hopefully you will meet someone like me, every time “, she said with a wicked smile.

“Someone like you? May be I will bring FERRERO ROCHER from the next time”, I said.

“Let’s add each other on facebook, we can keep in touch, or say I can get a pack of ROCHER on every hometown trip I make”, she smiled and made my day.

TRINGGG TRINGGG her phone rang.

‘Excuse me’, she said, and answered the call

“Hey baby. About to reach in 5 minutes.” I got shocked hearing her words.

“Don’t worry sweet heart. I will be back by Monday morning. I have to hang up now. Text you later”, and she hung up.

 “So Damon Salvatore, right !” as she spelled my name, typing on her phone.

“ Yes found you”, she said pointing towards my profile on facebook.

“Good”, was the only word I could utter.

“It was nice knowing you, bubye”, she said as the train slowed down at the station.

Meanwhile my heartbeats were slowing down gradually, as I waved at her with the fake smile on my face.

Sat down on my seat and tried to recollect the past hour. It felt like waking up from a dream. The Girl I hopelessly fell for was just like a mirage. So near yet so close. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, should had happened to us but it just turned out to be A CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF BEING FRIENDZNED.