Chapter 16 -- Drenching Romances

 

Chapter 16

Drenching Romances

Sathya was happy to see her sister on that day, she seemed to be the happiest person. Next day we went to class. I was looking at her all time and admiring how beautiful she was. She could feel that I was looking at her but she refused to turn back and she was listening to the class.

I wish to spend another travel with her at that moment. The classes came to an end, she came to my place after the boys around me went out. She asked me to come with her. We both were walking, on the corridor of classroom.

“Sorry for spoiling the movie plan”, Sathya said slowly.

“It’s okay, you gave something better”, I said with a satisfied heart.

“No, No. We must go for a movie, why can’t we go this weekend?”

“Sathya we planned go home for this weekend”

“I know Nithish, that’s why I am asking. We can plan a movie at our town”

“Sounds good, its okay for me too”

“Well Saturday, morning show make yourself ready for it accordingly”, she said with a smile and added, “Was the time okay for you?”

“But, I am very comfortable with the night show”, I said with a kidding tone with a smile of teasing. She pinched my hand and showed a sign of warning with her fingers. I giggled. She said, “I too wish to go for a night show but one day we will go for sure”.

“When?” I hurried.

“When I became completely yours and when you became completely mine. I meant after marriage”, she said with bent eyebrows.

“So you are delaying it”, I said.

“I should”, she stressed her words, then she went to her routines with the college class works. I still got a feel inside me filled with happiness.

I didn’t expected to get a chance for going to the movie with her. She had a guilt feel of spoiling my plans with her sister. But I was glad in choosing her sister to the movie. I wished to make her happy and it was the better choice for me on that day. She knew I was happy on seeing her smile too, but she wished to accompany me for a movie as I wished.

That weekend came up, we both went to our houses. I was very eager in going for the movie with her. It was very excited and felt the same feel, I had a week before. I prayed god, everything must go in ease. I also prayed that no known members should come for the movie at that show.

The last night before the day planned for movie, I was giggling on my bed, felt tickles. I was planning and talking to myself, ‘We must sit on the left side corner of the theater. I must sit on the right side of her. I will held her hand until the movie. I will watch her eyes but the movie’. The whole night was spent thinking about her, I also had a craze to know what she was thinking at that time. I slept with a good dream, I didn’t remember it but I felt good at morning.

The sun came up, that day seemed to be greeting me very well. I didn’t know why again as I was sitting at my house entrance and watching the butterflies trying to seek nectar from a same bright red little flower. One was bright yellow with black in color and the other was blue with black in color. When blue butterfly sat over the flower the yellow tried to sit over the flower. The yellow butterfly find a position to sit, the blue butterfly flew away. Then Blue butterfly tried yellow flew off. It repeated. I was not bored on seeing this repeated action and I was almost trapped seeing it. My Mom called me to have breakfast, her voice made me to come out of the trap.

I had my breakfast and I was ready to go for the movie. I bathed, perfumed, combed applied facial powder and felt over ugliness so washed it and checked every part of my face and felt myself handsome at the moment I lifted my chin to little height. I looked at mirror and dropped a smile.

I just told my Mom that I was going for a movie. I made call for Sathya and to confirm the plan. She nodded and told me to be at ‘All Color’ Theater. I just nodded and I got out of home. Then I remembered how would Sathya come to movie, should I pick her? I made another call for her. “Shall I come to pick you?”

“You don’t even know where my house is”, she smiled. I replied, “I will come if you say where it is”. She thanked and continued, “I am coming with my father”

“What?” I feared a little.

“Don’t worry he has an important work so he will drop me and go for it”, she said. I asked, “Okay I will be waiting with the tickets”

I hung the call and I rode to the theater. I could see a little crowd for that movie. It was a movie that came two weeks before so it was less crowded. My eyes were sharp at that moment, I was searching all around to ensure there was no known people. I also searched where Sathya was. I bought tickets and I was waiting by sitting over my bike and checking my combed hair for n^th time.

I got a call from her, it was Sathya, “Where are you?” I replied that I was waiting at parking lot. She said, “Look there were a group of girls standing near a red ‘Santro’ car”. I searched to all directions and I could not see that group. “Where are they?” I asked. She was saying, “First car in the car park from left. No from your right”

I confused with the directions she said but I found that girls group, Sathya mentioned. I hung the call. I walked slowly beside them and spotted Sathya. I smiled but she didn’t even had a look at me. She ignored me. Why she was doing that? I confused and I walked few steps and leaned over a wall and made her a call. She took the call and said, “Thank you for walking straight”. “Where is your dad?” I could know why she was doing it so I just asked straight.

“Near gate way”, she said and I said, “Move along with that girls group, I will go in front and take you inside”. She agreed and asked me to stay in call. But I told to hung the call. She was texting me while she was standing besides that group.

I could see that girls group moving a little towards the ticket checking counter. I walked slowly and joined the queue. Sathya was standing behind me. I walked along with the queue forward, I didn’t know who was Sathya father but I could see Sathya was turning to a particular direction and ensuring his presence. I couldn’t see him. I neared the ticket checking counter, suddenly the whole girls group walked out of the queue. Sathya was standing along me still. She realized it later and she tried to react but I walked in and showed the ticket, Sathya too walked along me.

We both came in. Sathya said, “Do you think, my dad must have noticed me coming with you?”

“How could I know?” I murmured and was looking at the gateway, Nothing was visible. Sathya told that he might have gone and asked me to occupy the seat.

“Show me the ticket”, Sathya asked me and I gave her the tickets, “F1 and F2?” she asked. “Yes”, I nodded. “Corner seat?”

“Yeah definitely”, I winked.

“Rascal, your are naughty”

We both found our seats and occupied them. She sat at the extreme corner and I sat next to her. I twisted my back a little such that I was facing her a little. I said, “It is our first outing”.

“What about going Chennai?” She asked.

“That belongs to other department”

“Other mean?”

“Once we got married, we may visit many people right? Some other time we will travel just to for love. So it differs”, I elaborated a little.

“Are we here for love?”

“Aren’t we?” I tagged a question back to her.

“At first, I thought you are a silent boy, now I could feel you are crazy”, she said with a smile. I gently took her hands within my hand and said, “I am crazy on you”

“Which movie owns this dialogue?”

“Vinnai Thandi Varuvaya”, I told the Tamil movie name as she guessed right. She laughed and asked, “Can’t you say a line of your own?”

“I can”, I said.

“Then say a line for me”

“I am crazy on you as you are making me crazy”, I said by folding my lips inside.

“Sounds similar to me no exactly similar”, she gave a look that meant me as nothing. “You must be a heroine then you must expect new lines”.

“I am not beautiful it is what you mean?”, she said with a rough voice. “I didn’t meant it”, I tried to convince her.

“Then why you compared me like that?”

“I just did without my knowledge, SORRY”, I pleaded.

“No need for asking sorry, you did nothing”

“Okay”, I calmed myself too. I could feel that she has a little feel of having less beauty in her. She is not the most beautiful girl or the girl being a crush for everyone. She was just a common girl with common beauty externally and most beautiful internally. I wished to pull out her internal beauty and make her feel bliss.

A silence last between me and her, was that a fight? I asked myself and I answered myself as NO. The movie started, there was no one in our row for 5 seats. We were isolated privately in a private corner of the movie. In very very few minutes, I held her hand and smoothed her hand softly. I could sense a calmness in her too.

Our fingers twisted one over the other. My eyes were fixed to the screen but my whole mind and thought lies with my fingers. She was very silent, I took her hand and covered it completely with my hands. Her hands were chill and I felt so soft. I removed the velcro of my footwear and tried to peek between her toe and slipper. She freed her hand from my hand and she removed her footwear and placed her foot over mine with a pride. Then she extended her hand to me. I covered both her hands and foot with a warm.

After some minutes I freed her hand and took my fingers to her fore head. Like a blind I wish to feel her face with my hands without seeing it. I touched her forehead horizontally and vertically. She kissed my palm, it made me to drop my hand a little lower and I was feeling her eyes. When I touched at the edge of the eye, I felt the closing eyelid. The eyelid tiny hairs called me to move over the eyes. The vibrancy of the moving eyeballs passes through my finger tips.

My fingers moved to the side and felt a soft cheek. It was very soft and it teased me to pinch. Without a resist I pinched her cheeks. She pulled my pinched finger and gave a painless bite. Along her bite I grabbed her lips and moved my fingers around her lips both upper and lower. Then I moved down to the chin and felt the shape of her jaw. I also measure the length of the nose and the shape of ears. She felt tickles when I kept my finger near her ears.

I could create a perfect face of Sathya even at that dark theater with out seeing her. I took my hand away from her face. She pulled back and held my hands. She kept them between her cheeks and shoulders by tilting her head sideways. I was feeling gooseflesh. She touched over my hand, on her touch the little hairs on my skin are standing erect at the place she touched. She brought her hand to my face and touched my newly growing beard. I even felt gooseflesh at that beard. She combed my hair slowly. I closed my eyes and I almost felt the peace at that moment.

Suddenly, the lights were turned on. The movie has passed to its half length and it was intermission time. I asked her to wait at the seat and I went to buy snacks. I ensured again if there was any known people came for that movie. There was no one. I bought two milkshakes and one popcorn. I saw sandwich and I wished to buy them for her. My hands were full. I tried to run faster but I made faster steps to Sathya. I gave them to her and walked back. She asked, “Where are you going?”

“Will come in a minute”, I bought an excuse and came back to the stall and bought an icecream and a sandwich. My purse was emptied and I could not buy further. I reached her she shocked to see everything on my hand.

“Why the hell you bought these much?” She yelled in a soft voice.

“For you”, I said shortly.

“Idiot, how could I eat all these at the same time”, she lifted the hand with the milkshake and asked, “Why two?”

“Should I starve?” I questioned back. She made a pity laughter and said, “You are really a dumb ass”.

“Mind the Language”, I said with a smile.

“Mind your actions then”

“I did nothing baby”

“Am I Baby?” Sathya asked by raising her eyebrows. “It is what everyone call during their relationship, so I did”.

“Don’t imitate others at any point, if you like to call me baby then call me. I wish to call you ‘Rascal’”

“I wish to call you ‘Cheater’, if some one hear these. They would think us fools”, I said with a giggle. She pinched me harder and said, “Don’t think about others, we love it and we are not going to say this to anyone”

“Okay okay, how was the movie in the first half?” I asked.

“Did you allowed me to watch the movie?”

“What happened?”

“Oh! You know nothing, isn’t it?” she asked sarcastically. I nodded. She took the ice cream from me and gave a milkshake to me. She slipped the icecream inside the milkshake. The she started to drink it. I was then holding the pop corn in one hand and a milkshake in other hand, while the sandwich was laying on my lap.

“You haven’t told how the movie was”, I made slow words. She gave a glance at me and said, “Are you asking about movie?” I nodded off shamelessly. She laughed and added, “I will say later”, she made a pause and continued, “The movie haven’t completed yet right?”

“Yeah, I am waiting for the climax”, I said.

“Me too”, she said with a sharp looking eyes that was piercing through my sight. I was looking at her. The lights went of suddenly and the movie was started. She said in a low voice, “Movie is going to get continued”. I giggled. Suddenly, I felt her grabbing my hand. She pulled it gently and made it to spread around her neck. My right hand was around her neck and she was sipping the milkshake in my hand too. I crushed her neck gently. She tried to free her neck but she ended up by pushing the sandwich on my lap. I got anger on seeing the sandwich on the floor.

I knocked her head with a little anger as she wasted it. She got anger too. “Why you knock my head?”

“Should I kiss you for wasting the sandwich”, I said with a little anger. “I will pay you for the sandwich”, she said with a low voice. I melted at the right moment and realized I was scolding her. I said, “Just leave it”, in a low voice.

She took a pop corn from the cup and feed me. I eat it with a smile and she took the next pop one by one and she was feeding me with a heart filled happiness. I never like to eat pops one by one but I liked to eat the complete cup one by one. She took a piece near my lips, I almost opened my mouth. She touched over my lips and took back and she ate. “What?” I asked.

“Half of the cup got emptied”, she said by chewing it. I took the cup from her and I gave the same way she fed me. At the near time to complete the snack she lifted my leg with hers and placed her feet below mine. She tilted her head over my shoulders and she held my hand tighter.

I tilted and rested my ear over her head, she leaped a little and kissed my cheeks. A little chillness rested at my cheeks, I was feeling myself somewhere else as I watched in movies. I fainted a moment but I recognized myself on the next moment and turned to her. She smiled and turned to the screen. I freed her hands and feet. I was sitting as a frozen statue. I wished to repay what she gave me then. But I felt holding hands would be better than repaying. I held at the same position until the movie ended.

Everyone got up and they walked. I got up, she pulled me and made me to sit and said, “Let the crowd may reduce”. I agreed and sat. I said, “The movie was good”

“It was boring”, she said.

“Was it?” I asked by making my body a little close to her. She made herself a little closer and we became closest. Then she said, “Yes Boring” and smiled.

The crowd reduced and we walked, then I asked, “I forgot to ask you, how you go home?”

“Bus”, she replied.

“Your dad?”

“He got some work so I was busy”

“I can drop you”

“Just leave it, don’t trouble yourself”

“Nithish your house is in opposite direction to my house, so just go home”, she said with a half heart

“It won’t bother me, I will drop you”, I said and decided to ride her home along with me. She covered her face well with the shawl she had and I felt myself dis comfortable for making her to disguise.

On the ride, she sat behind me and she held my shoulders for support. At a particular place there was less traffic, she hugged me from back. I slowed down and stopped at the side of the road and said, “Don’t hug me from back”

“Why I love you right?” she said.

“I don’t want a covered face to hug me”, I said and it disappointed her. I knew that she wished to hug me, but I wished her to hug me with a pride in front of others. She nodded with a fake smile. I asked her directions and reached her house.

She invited me in, as you are expecting. LOL. But at that moment, I could not have a thought of thinking about her invitation to her house. She too must not have thought it. I parked the bike at the street corner and walked few steps away from her. She said, “Don’t worry, no one in this street will come out”, in a low voice. Still I was searching in all directions as I lost my ex relationship.

Her house was painted with yellow in color and it has flower pots at the entrance. There was an arch around the gate and it was well covered with some creepers around it. I felt like entering into some garden. There were a lot of small flower plants and they seemed like well gardened. She had the key and she took me in. The inside house was completely different, it looked like an art museum. On every wall there hung a painting.

“Who do all these?” I sat on a sofa nearby.

“Myself”

“Those gardening? My sister started now my Dad is maintaining it”, she said and she walked away from that room.

“Going where?”

“I bring you coffee”, she said.

“Cheater don’t bother yourself”

“It’s not even a matter for me, I make coffee for my dad always”

“So, I was the only one to drink your coffee next to your father”, I said with a smile. She gave a staring look and said, “It was not a blessing it will be a punishment”

“Stop stop. Don’t need coffee, just give me a cup of water”, I said. “Sure?” she asked. I nodded. She added, “One day you will claim that I hadn’t served you coffee”

“I would claim if you haven’t allow me to”, I started. She kicked my leg and she walked by saying, “You must leave after drinking the water”. She went to kitchen and brought a bottle full of water. I drank it.

Sathya was staring at me without a blink. “Anything?” I asked. She sat besides me and said, “I never thought I would love you and our relationship would go this far”

“Me too”

“It is beautiful”

“Why you term me as ‘it’”

“I told love was beautiful”

“It is, I know”

“Yeah you loved everyone”, she said

“Not everyone, only one”

“Arshitha?”

“Aye, I just liked her. Like is different from love. She is beautiful, thats all about her”, I tried to convince her.

“Jeni?” Sathya questioned.

“I loved her, but I love you”

“So you love both?” she argued with me.

“How could I love both?” I questioned her back.

“You may do play boy”

“Sathya say, what’s problem now?”

“I was with you so long in a bus travel and in the movie too. You haven’t even kissed me yet”, she said with a sorrow pity face. Her little face pulled me nearer. I held her face with my hands. The heart pounded faster. I just drank water but I felt dry lips then. I was closing myself to her cheek. I kissed her left cheek and she turned her face and showed right cheek. I tilted her head a little up and kissed all over her face rapidly. I didn’t know the count of kisses I gave at on her face. The only count I had was ‘Which place I hadn’t kissed on face yet?’ Once I finished all over her face except the lips. I could hear her eyes whispering ‘Don’t cheat my lips by kissing on cheeks’.

I held her face straight and with grip. I lowered the head to her height. I could feel her closing her eyes and her hands were on my shoulders. My eyes were also closed. I tried to kiss her lips, she could sense that too. She moved her lips and I moved we struggled to start our first kiss. It took very few single digit count seconds, but it felt like searching for a lost at that moment.

It was different, my lips confused whether my lower lips got trapped between her lips or her upper lips got trapped with in my lips. The whole world seemed to be dark and I couldn’t even see myself. All I could feel was Sathya. It was the moment I lost myself and I didn’t know where to get back me. I didn’t even remember if I breathed at that moment. Suddenly, a sound came beside. It was my mobile ring tone.

We realized ourselves then, it was my Mother, I attended the call. She asked, “Are you coming home for lunch?” I told I was on my way and hung the call.

“My Mom”, I said to Sathya in a low voice. She shook her head slowly. She smiled and hugged me tighter. I too hugged her. “I love you so much, so so so so much”

“I love you more than myself, you are telling but I am feeling it”, I said by smoothing her hair.

Sathya rested her head over my chest. It was her height. She said, “Your heartbeat sounds like a lullaby for our love”.

“Where did you get these dialogues?” I amused on hearing those lines.

“I didn’t copied from movies as you did before”, She said and added, “I ask you to hold me but you held me up Differently. A way I never felt before”, she was exaggerating the moments again and again.

“I think I must go now”, I said.

“Why? Starving stomach uh?”

“No my lips are starving as long as I stay near you alone”, I too spoke something dramatic. She laughed on hearing it and said “Starve until the day comes, I too wait for it. Let’s break our hunger one day”.

She opened the door and checked out if anyone was out there. Then she asked me to go out. I walked to my bike and rode home. I smiled when even I think about her or talk with her. Besides smiling, I also feared of getting closer to her. The more closer I go with her. I more deeper, I exploring her heart.

Every second is making me to think about her and all beautiful things reminds me of her. The sweetest eatable became sweetless after the kiss. That day made me to forget all my worries and all the things that happened in my life before. That day was an another day to mark in my life.