She turned to my side

But her eyes were closed

Headphones on her ears

I tried hard to move my eyes from her and atlast I won at that mission and my next mission is to sleep.

Pooja's POV

Whenever I listen to AR Rahman songs I even forget myself. As like that I just lost myself into his songs on that day too.

"Puthu vellai mazhai ingu pozhigindrathu" the song started to play in my ears.

Suddenly I heard a thunder sound. It enter into my ears although I put earphones. I always scared to thunder sounds. So I closed my ears with my hand over my headphones and I closed my eyes too. Then when I feel like there is no thunder sound I opened my eyes and try to see outside through window. But it's too dark to see.

Despite my fear of thunder, I just loved that train travel. Honey like voice playing in my ears, romantic climate, chill air... such a lovely travel. When I moved my eyes from the window, it falls on the person lying opposite to me.

His face looks so calm when he sleep. I took that chance to look at him more. His thick brows, long nose and his dark lips, his thin mustache and trimmed beard he looks so handsome. While I scanned his feature through my eyes, his eye balls started to move in his closed eyes.
And then suddenly my eyes meets with his.

We didnt move our eyes. We just locked it and lost it's key. His eyes speaks a lot. It telling me something which I couldn't get.  To know that I try see through his eyes more. The more I see his eyes the more my cheeks turn red. And the song continues in my ears...

"Iru kaigal theendatha penmaiyai
Un kangal panthadutho"
(Is my untouched womanhood
being caressed by your eyes?)

when I hear this lyrics i felt it's true.
Yes... just his look made me shy. It is the cause of thousand butterflies flying in my stomach. We stayed like that for some minutes. I felt like I'm floating on clouds. When I landed on earth again I moved my eyes from him as fast as I can.

I got shy

I'm blushing

I'm embarrassed

I just lost in him

It's all just because I looked at his eyes. Just because we looked at each other. Just because I saw something in his eyes.

Something that I couldn't understand
Something that makes me to see him more
Something that made him more special
Something that I tried to find but didn't

Something.....

"Don't you sleep?" he asked me.
His sudden question brings back me from my thoughts.

"Huhhhh.. yeah... No...Not yet. You?"

"Trying hard to sleep but couldn't "

"Why?"

"Don't know"

"Oh... then read any books or something in your mobile. It may helps you to sleep."

"Why that so?"

"Because I'll sleep if I read books" he laughed at me when I said that

"But for me, if I start to read I'll be immersed in the book"

"Really? What kind of books?"

"I love every genre... Romance, Historic, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, etc."

"How you like reading books... You know what... the next second I open my text books I'll sleep... in my school times... I hate reading"

"Its because that's text book. Even I'll sleep... I'm not talking about subject books... I like to read other than subject books"

"But I never like to read any kind of books"

"You may like it if you try to read.. may be..."

"Don't know... but I love to hear stories..."

"May I?"

"What?"

"You like to hear stories... I like to tell stories... sooo"

"So?"

"Would you like to hear stories" he asked while raising his brows comically.
I laughed because of his actions

"Oh it's my pleasure... but I would like to hear your story"

"My story??"

"Yeah... when did you start reading...? how come you like to read...? Like that"

"Oh sure... ok now I'm gonna start to tell stories so be attentive ok"

"Ok sir" we both laughed at this.

"So I too like you when I was child... I too hate reading books... but it all changed because of my college professor "

"Professor?"

"Yeah... In my college times there is a girl named Nandhini... my" I cut him off by asking question

"Girl friend?" Internally I prayed that the answer should be no... but dont know why... I dont know why my heart beats so fast at that time until he said that.

"She is a girl and my best friend... That's it"

"Okay okay"

"Yeah... so one day my professor talked about Ponniyin selvan story and she said that Nandhini is a name of one of the important characters of that book. So just to mock my friend I started reading that book. And I fell deeply into that book... You know what... I sometimes read the book while professor took classes in front"

"You love it that much?"

"Yes... You know you can feel every scene in that story... not only that story every story will make you feel every emotions in it... like if any favorite character on the book is happy then I'll feel happy too... if he cries I'll feel sad... if he dead then I'll start to cry... Romantic scenes will make me to feel butterflies in my stomach... if I read Mystery stories I will try to find unrevealed solutions to the question with Author. Every scenes will play in front of my eyes as a movie"

"Woah... Even I get interest in reading books just by hearing you"

"You should try"

Then he started to talk about other books he had read. Listening to him, I really dont know whether I fell for his stories or for him.