First encounter with Shivani

Red sweater, black jeans ,fair complexion, long hair….. Hey I am not talking about some red riding hood..it was me getting ready for a party. No doubt I was looking good and to confirm it, I checked myself 135 times in the mirror. After my narcissism was over I left my house for the party. Well it was a birthday party  of my student shikha’s 5 year old brother. There was a jaagran(goddess worship) also. I should mention here that I was a chemistry tutor for two years and because of that goodwill I earned during tuition days I am still getting invited by them, even for the BIRTHDAY PARTIES.I reached the venue at 9 PM and after reaching, my fingers ran on to my mobile and dialed a number.‘hey, hi where are you?’, I asked.‘Hi bhaiya, have you reached?’, shikha replied from the other side.‘yes but where are you’, I asked. I was looking here and there trying to locate her.‘right behind you’, shikha replied. She was standing right behind me in a blue suit and was looking good.I congratulated her on her brother’s birthday and I feel it’s the party gesture to congratulate the host because if you don’t do it, you won’t get the cake. So no need to mention here that soon I got the cake- the chocolate one.‘give me 5 mins and till then you enjoy your cake’, she smirked at me and left.I had a look at the arrangement at the party venue. There were statues of Goddess Durga lined up to get worshipped later on after the dinner. There were some aunties sitting on chairs, gossiping as usual. Some of them were wearing gold pendants bigger than Olympic gold medals. After observing the worship place I moved on towards the dinner area. Soon I was joined by my two old students Himanshu and Prashant. Here I should mention that I was complimented by himanshu on my looks which means I was actually looking good.We moved towards the dinner area which held around 200 people. Most of the women were standing at the chaat corner enjoying chaat as if it’s the first time they were having it. I simply don’t understand the abnormality in women’s behavior while eating chaat or spicy food. Can’t they have it normally without jumping and slurping? I had some snacks while discussing trivial talks with my two students.‘so are you enjoying ?’, shikha said to me. She was back and this time with nishu (her friend and my student also)‘yeah, absolutely and you know me that I don’t get bored as only thing I need to have is at least one person standing or sitting next to me, so that he can listen to my blah blah’, I said pointing towards prashant and himanshu.‘yes we know bhaiya’, nishu said and we all started laughing.I winked at shikha and asked her to come along with me for some time alone. She agreed as we have a good bonding apart from a teacher-student relationship.‘so you must have invited your lot of friends here’, I asked her. I asked this question to her as I saw very good faces in the party with good assets. I had a devil’s smile at my face while asking this question to her.‘yes all my school mates and college mates are here. Why did you ask?’, she asked. Perhaps she understood my intentions but girls are like this only. They pretend to be unaware all the time.‘well I saw some good girls out here and I was hoping to get introduced to them through you’, I replied. The devil’s smile was becoming bigger and bigger.‘don’t worry bhaiya. i know what you want and I will introduce you to them’, She replied and we started laughing like we are terrorists about to execute a conspiracy, but the only difference in our terrorism was that our weapons were shikha’s references and my looks and targets were all girls infact good girls.‘ok but let’s have some food as I am getting ravenous now’, I said and called nishu also.We entered the main dining area. It was even more crowded with aunties and girls than the chaat area. I  even thought of asking shikha that whether she has invited whole colony of hers in the party. I dropped the idea of asking that silly question as I was more interested in food at that point of time. I took some food in a plate and started discussing our conspiracy with shikha and nishu.Soon after deciding with whom I want to get introduced and finishing my food I went with shikha to get introduced to her friends. If I remember exactly the first girl I was introduced by shikha was her best friend and she was double of my size. I didn’t say anything to shikha as she was her best friend. I am good at heart and I don’t hurt people and if I do, its purely intentional and people who know me are comfortable with it.I was introduced to a few more girls after that by shikha but they were out of my league and they were not the girls I was looking for. Actually I should mention here I was just doing time pass with shikha by asking her to introduce me to her friends as there was nothing else to do in the party and it was completely innocuous also.We reached the chaat area again and this time shikha said to me something by waving to a girl.‘hey wanna get introduced to shivani’, shikha said waving out to a girl. I could not see her face as her back was towards me. The only thing I could see was her long hair and her magenta colour suit.‘ya but not right now as she is with her friends and it doesn’t look nice. By the way who is she?’, I asked shikha.  I was still not able to see her face.‘ok, well she is shivani and she is my cab mate doing MCA from greater noida’, shikha said almost giving her complete bio data as if I am an employer looking for prospective MCAs.I took a few steps ahead to see her face and that could have been the last thing I remembered from that moment had I had a weak heart. I had passed out for a few seconds for sure. I almost skipped my few heart beats or may be it had just stopped beating altogether. I was almost imploded. She was breathtakingly beautiful or I would rather say unrealistically beautiful.She was so hard to describe. Those limpid constantly wet brown eyes  seem like as if they were screaming for love. She had big eyes of a month old baby, big and screaming for attention. A perfectly drafted nose, flawless light red lips and a fair complexion that would even put photoshop to shame.Soon shikha left as she was supposed to sit in the POOJA and I was left standing alone in the party venue by her. But my condition was hard to explain as I just couldn’t look beyond her face but I had to look here and there to make her realize that I was not looking at her. Normally I could have said million things to anyone but my senses had still not recovered from that temporary paralysis she had just subjected me to. I was trying hard not to make eye to eye contact and stay alive simultaneously.Though I was looking good but to check myself I went to washroom and saw myself in the mirror and came back to the worship venue. She was sitting with her friends on the couch and I guess she was also looking at me. ( well I should mention here that she was also looking at me and she confessed this thing in our first meeting but full description of that meeting will be published in my next blog).I called my friend on phone as I was getting bored and I started walking in front of her to get noticed by her. Though I was talking to my friend on phone but mentally I wanted to talk to her, sit with her. I sat on the couch next to her couch and I saw her and If I remember our eyes met and that was the moment I can’t forget till date. I am not a writer but that one eye encounter has made me write this blog.‘What happened? Why are you not speaking?’, my friend shouted on phone. I almost forgot that I was on phone courtesy that eyes encounter which lasted around 3-4 seconds I guess.‘ohh, nothing, I will talk to you later’, I said to him and hung up as the whole idea behind talking to my friend was to get noticed by shivani.I checked my watch and it was 11:30 and day after tomorrow I had my exam. So unwillingly I stood up to leave and I again had a look at her and I saw her and I immediately I turned my face away from her. I guess I was scared and I simply don’t know the reason of that.I said good bye to shikha by waving my hand as she was busy in POOJA and wasn’t able to come to me. Shikha replied in the same gesture and I started walking to leave the venue. I had several thoughts running to my mind about shivani while leaving the venue. ‘should I turn back to see her once again?, what she will be thinking about me?, but those thoughts remained thoughts only as I left the venue leaving all of my thoughts and her thoughts also in that night of darkness. But now there is no more darkness as we both are in LOVE. OMG  I really love her. LOVE YOU SHIVANI.