October 30th 2015.
My best friend, Sid travelled all the way from Malaysia to spend time
with me on my birthday. A gesture I can never forget. The beauty of my
friendship with Sid is that, we don’t meet up very often, it’s like once or twice
in a couple of years, but when we meet, we share everything. That day I still
remember, we started from how he mistakenly entered ladies bathroom in Malaysia
to how I wore my gym shorts inside-out and entered the floor only to become a
clown in front of the entire gym.
That evening, we took off in his car for a long drive. I was listening
to soft instrumental music and I was enjoying myself, in-between chatting with ‘Her’
.
“I didn’t come here all the way flying so you text to someone else Harsha” said Sid
oh god he’s mad, I understood that.
He took my mobile, and of course it was code locked, and to my utter surprise he went through the lock in exact 4 attempts.
No wonder he’s my best friend.
“sooooooooooo finally a ‘special one’ eh?, care to explain?” Sid asked
as he kept on shifting his line of sight from road and to my mobile screen.
“Its complicated and a looong story I said” trying to change the topic
“Its not like we are going on a mission, we have a long drive ahead” Sid blurted out.
He was definitely not giving me any chance to let go of this topic. And Sid was definitely enjoying seeing me uncomfortable, that idiot.
He then pulled the car to side of the road got me a Sprite and got a mountain dew for him and he turned towards me and spoke “well?”
“Fine” I said. Sid reached out to the volume dial, and reduced the music to a minimum.
We both shifted to the back seat of his Volkswagen.
“It’s complicated Sid” I said.
“Then it’s a good thing I am here in person, tell me Harsha” he said taking a sip from his bottle.
I leaned back and rested my head on the window and closed my eyes.
“I made a promise to ‘her’ Sid” I said keeping my eyes still closed
“What is it?” Sid asked
“I made a promise on my mom that I will look after ‘her’ like my mom” ….I was silent for a while and then I spoke again
“Sid, I see my god in ‘her’, and in ‘her’ arms lies my heaven … In ‘her’ company my soul can finally rest ….. ‘She’ is the answer to my every prayer … “
“Its complicated and a looong story I said” trying to change the topic
“Its not like we are going on a mission, we have a long drive ahead” Sid blurted out.
He was definitely not giving me any chance to let go of this topic. And Sid was definitely enjoying seeing me uncomfortable, that idiot.
He then pulled the car to side of the road got me a Sprite and got a mountain dew for him and he turned towards me and spoke “well?”
“Fine” I said. Sid reached out to the volume dial, and reduced the music to a minimum.
We both shifted to the back seat of his Volkswagen.
“It’s complicated Sid” I said.
“Then it’s a good thing I am here in person, tell me Harsha” he said taking a sip from his bottle.
I leaned back and rested my head on the window and closed my eyes.
“I made a promise to ‘her’ Sid” I said keeping my eyes still closed
“What is it?” Sid asked
“I made a promise on my mom that I will look after ‘her’ like my mom” ….I was silent for a while and then I spoke again
“Sid, I see my god in ‘her’, and in ‘her’ arms lies my heaven … In ‘her’ company my soul can finally rest ….. ‘She’ is the answer to my every prayer … “
“Siddy, I fought with the entire world through each and every step of
my life, and you know it all, but the moment I see ‘her’ I can’t help but bow
my head in front of her”
I didn’t know what to say next, the only thing I can hear is my heart beat racing. Well, ‘she’ has that effect on me whenever I think of ‘her’.
It was getting dark, so Sid leaned to the front of the car and switched on the parking lights, and he sat back.
“You told ‘her’ how you feel?” he asked
“It’s complicated… nothing comes easy to me Siddy …” I tried to manage a smile “the first time I met ‘her’ is like a dream come true with my heart as a witness … ‘her’ every memory touched my heart in a million possible ways and I have no clue that someone can elevate my life to such an extent”
I didn’t know what to say next, the only thing I can hear is my heart beat racing. Well, ‘she’ has that effect on me whenever I think of ‘her’.
It was getting dark, so Sid leaned to the front of the car and switched on the parking lights, and he sat back.
“You told ‘her’ how you feel?” he asked
“It’s complicated… nothing comes easy to me Siddy …” I tried to manage a smile “the first time I met ‘her’ is like a dream come true with my heart as a witness … ‘her’ every memory touched my heart in a million possible ways and I have no clue that someone can elevate my life to such an extent”
“you are in Love with ‘her’ kiddo” said Sid in a mocking manner.
“ Love? …….. one word can’t explain the feelings I have for ‘her’ Sid… It is said that some lives are linked across time, connected by the strings of the heart … it may be destiny or fate, I don’t know what you people say … but I will say this, ‘she’ is the destiny of my every heart beat…. ‘She’ is the shadow behind my every smile … I just don’t know how to explain to you Sid ….
‘She’ is the only woman for whom I want to kneel and kiss ‘her’ feet …. The king bows to no one but to her queen, and Sid, she is ‘My Queen’ “
