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Soon, however, our formal demeanor gave way to a more casual one and we started talking about each other, at times pulling each other’s leg, recalling some stupid incidents out of the blue and spicing them up as we narrated them.

Avni became an easy target for both riya and nitin and
they mimicked her embarrassment that day, before seeing me. We were shouting and partying in the
cab with the patties and the pastries they had brought.

‘Yeh lo, ladki vaalon ki taraf se,’ nitin said offering me the box of pastries.

We were in a jolly mood and, adding to the delight, it started drizzling outside. Shouting, laughing, going crazy to those peppy numbers, we were having a gala time in the cab.

On a few occasions,
secretly, avni pinched me from behind, and I just loved that.

For more than an hour and a half, we hunted for my hotel on the streets of Delhi. And, more than
anybody (even me), avni was concerned about this.

According to her, i was tired from my journey and needed some rest, but I wondered why I didn’t feel that way.

It was around 7.30 in the evening when we finally reached the Qutub Din hotel, in the vicinity of
the Qutub Minar, thanks to the chaiwalas and paanwalas.

We all entered the hotel and, at the reception, I checked out my booking.
‘Room no. 300. That way, sir. The boy will bring your luggage in,’ said a man with a huge
moustache, at the reception counter.

‘All right,’ I said and we all headed towards 300, everyone following me.

Riya and nitin were talking to each other in whispers when avni said something to me, very
politely..

‘Can you walk a little slower?
You’ve left me behind.’

And neil realized why people say that girls are far more mature than guys.

He was a fool, earlier,
leaving her on the backseat of the cab and taking the front one.

And here, again, he was walking alone, leaving her behind. I started panicking, not knowing how to handle such situations.

I was a boyfriend for the first time. A fresher in the school of romance.

‘God! Please help me,’ neil muttered.

Avni came closer to me and said, ‘Now you’re not alone. You have a girl in your life. So walk
beside her.’

Behind us, riya and nitin smiled naughtily.

‘Won’t they leave us alone for a while?’ neil thought. But how could they hear my thoughts?

They kept following us.

We were at 300. Neil opened the door to his room and we all went in.

The room was well lit. A small table, with a telephone and a flower vase, separating the two beds.

Nice bed-sheets. There was a telephone directory and a menu beside the TV set, across from the
beds. A giant mirror on the wall in front of us which reflected the entire room, including those two
beds and a cupboard near the entrance.

Beside the mirror, there was a door to the washroom.
‘Hmm … This is good,’ neil announced.
‘Yeah’, ‘Yup’, ‘Hmm …’ the people surrounding me murmured.

Then, nitin started his survey of
the room, analysing everything and telling me the good and the bad.
‘Thanks nitin,’ I said, when he had finished. ‘Anytime,’ he acknowledged.

After which neil wanted to ask him just one more question—‘So when are you going to leave us
alone, for heaven’s sake!?’ Instead, I just kept mum, hoping my eyes would do the talking.

And riya finally
understood that they should better leave us alone for a while.

She whispered to nitin and neil don’t know what was making the three of them look at each other and smile. He hoped they were not joking about me.

‘We are going to a nearby place to have something. If you guys want, we can get something for
you,’ nitin said, moving towards the door with riya

‘No. I’m stuffed,’ neil said. ‘Wow! At last,’ he thought.

Nitin, if we need something, I will call you up. And take care of riya. Don’t leave her alone, all right?’ avni said, opening the Bisleri bottle placed on the table.

‘Yes, I will. You don’t worry. By the way, it’s 8.30 now. We should leave by 10.15.nitin said

We’re already late, you know na?’
‘Yeah. But don’t worry, we will manage,’ said avni

‘All right. See ya.’

And finally they left the room and neil took a deep breath to relax.

He went and locked the door while avni took a last sip of water from the bottle.

She noticed me doing that and smiled, then she kept the bottle on the table and my laptop bag on the chair.

Neil stepped between the two beds and sat on the left one. Avni came in and sat on the right one, just in front of me.
We were together, just the two of us. Our smiles described our mood.

That moment seemed to be a beautiful dream. We wanted to feel and live that moment forever.

The person with whom I was going to spend the rest of my life was right in front of me. I could look into her beautiful eyes, I could touch her, feel her. The delight of that moment had both of us spellbound.

Words were unnecessary. I stared at her for a long time. And when she could not handle my gaze, she
looked at the ground, her neck tilting down and strands of her beautiful hair falling in front of her shoulder, covering her right cheek and ear.

And the silence in the room persisted, and there we were, madly in love. Still not believing that, finally, we had seen each other. Still nervous, still wondering what to say.
Gathering her courage, avni looked up, into my eyes (which were still focused on her) and moving her hair behind her ear again, she asked, ‘Safar mein koi takleef to nahi hui?’

Coming as it did, after more than five minutes of silence, that question sounded hilarious.

It reminded us both of the old Bollywood movies in which the heroine would ask her beloved, ‘Suniye
ji, aapke safar mein …’ and all that.
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Before avni could see my reaction, she understood what a stupid
and stereotypical question it was, and we looked at each other and laughed and laughed, falling upon our respective beds.

But that question also became an ice breaker and we both relaxed.

‘Ha ha ha ha! Yeah, i mean, nahi koi takleef nahi hui,’ I
Neil said, getting up.

‘I am so stupid,’ avni said, slapping her forehead.

‘Nah, you’re not. You are … beautiful,’ neil said calmly, looking into her eyes.

And I don’t know what gave me the courage to raise my right hand towards her, to reach her face.

My fingers first touched her cheek, the middle finger first, then the first finger and then all of them,
helping her hair behind her ear. That human touch was incredible.

Feeling my fingers on her face,
she closed her eyes and I felt her breathing heavily now. I watched her. Her good-looking face, the
lines on her forehead, appearing and vanishing. Her curved eyelashes. Her cute nose. Her soft lips, which I very gently rubbed my thumb on, and she started shaking, her eyes still closed and her hands gripping the bed-sheet very tight. My eyes were the silent observers to this moment we both were in.

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