Not a love story

Standing in a solitude she was observing the natures game of shadow and sunlight, when he interrupted her thoughts, “Shadow brings calmness and Solace”. She crossed him saying firmly “I like Sun”. “Sun is aggressive”. After uttering the words, he immediately realized that was a wrong statement She just smiled and started leaving the spot. He wanted her to stop and talk more, with some confession he said “Agreed, Sun is everything”. She smiled again, this time with some acceptance. They looked at each other probably for the first time from last few minutes when they started talking. He instantly liked her deep dark dreamy eyes, perfectly placed lips and cheerful cute smile. He was completely lost in her beauty, when a loud noise disrupted him “Diya” She on the other hand was completely absent in the moment ran towards the voice. “Hey sorry! I was just enjoying the mountains.” “It’s okay, I thought we are here together”. Sameer, her husband said it sarcastically teasing her. Arup stood there, watching her holding Sameer’s hand and going far away from him disappearing from his view. Diya convinced Sameer that she is with him only, and was just wandering around. But the truth is Diya always strolls away from reality in her mind. Mostly she lives in her own trance weaving some random moments which she wishes to experience but will never in reality and of course it’s a complete secret, she cannot reveal this to anyone because according to her no one will ever able to understand her, so she just pretends to be there and she is damn good at pretending. Moments later after exploring tourists’ places in the enchanting scenery of mahabaleshwar they went to their hotel. Sameer was in a happy mood since his exhibition of his artistic paintings has been finalized, he wasn’t famous artist but a very good one. As they reached Hotel entrance, he asked Diya to go ahead while he will enquire about dinner time and any evening activities they can enjoy. When she was unlocking her room, she saw Arup standing in front of adjacent room “Oh, you are also staying here?” Arup fumbled to open the lock and pleasantly surprised to see Diya standing right there as he was thinking about entire time since he saw her first time at hill side. He of course still could not believe his eyes managed to reply her successfully hiding his excitement. As soon as he entered inside, his phone rang. It’s a video call from his wife Ira. He accepted the call but forgot to stop smiling. And Ira caught him blushing already. “Hey, what is happening? You are all pink cheeks huh!” She teased him. “He just laughed; he is bad at hiding his expressions but very good at changing the topic, which he did before it’s too late” “How’s the conference going?” he asked her Ira is a MBBS doctor and was invited to one conference. “Going good, you tell how was your meeting?” “We managed to get the contract” “Oh! Cool, you are genius that way”. “Yeah good day it was, ok then see you soon” he said and they hung up. Ira is a good observer and somehow Arup’s blushing disturbed her, she convinced herself that she is thinking too much about a small thing and hushed away that thought. “Dinner starts at 8:30 PM and there’s some live singing that have planned at 7:00 PM”. Sameer informed Diya while entering the room. Diya jumped with excitement “Wow! Live singing. I love it We will go”. “Umm! I don’t like it much you can go if you want to” He kissed her on the cheeks. Diya started to choose her dress. A soothing lovely voice on mic repeated again “Any request for special song, please come forward.” Diya filled with joy, went to the guy and gave her song request, the guy again In soft voice asked “Mam, whom do you like to dedicate this song??” “To myself” Diya replied with superb attitude. There she killed him again, where Arup was watching her standing at the bar counter. Whole room was humming to the fading rhythm of “dil hai chhota sa Chhoti si aasha” And the same soft voice announced again for any song request Arup, his eyes fixed on her went ahead and requested a song, he pointed at Diya when asked whom he want to dedicate the song… Diya was aware what’s going on, but pretending not be. She was actually enjoying the attention she is getting from Arup. Its not that She dislikes Sameer or he don’t give her attention. But Diya is bubbly girl and the one who easily falls in love. She finally walked upto him. “Hi… thanks” Eagerly waiting for that moment Arup hurriedly said “Arup, I am Arup”. “I am Diya” She replied. “Nice Choice of song”. She was looking extremely sensual in her beige colored V-neck knee length dress, blond strokes on her hair were freely dancing on her face, and that coffee mocha lipstick was making her smile even more adorable. Mesmerized by her beauty he just said Thanks. Standing there close to her, Arup couldn’t stop smirking which went unnoticed by Diya because she is also smiling unknowingly. But they were in that moment clueless what to say next and Sameer came to their rescue. Rescue or interruption now Diya was little bit confused. That was it Dinner time parted Diya and Arup, once again he stood there watching her, this time Sameer holding her by waist slowly she disappeared from his view.