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Third person pov:
     When sky is clear pitch dark and clouds acting as a veil to fully rounded moon...Gently moving and making the sight even more picturesque.. Amidst of sleeping town  and a subtle night breeze,when the stars are shining like diomands on sky and the traffic lights are looking like stars on the earth.. there sat a girl on the terrace of a function hall which is lit by a single light in the corner... she sat cross legged and highly immersed in her own thoughts...

     She is wearing a pale peach colored saree with simple thread work in combo with a pair of Chand Bali earrings and necklace, and a  of whole lot of bangles slightly making tinkling sounds due to wind...Jasmine flowers adorning her hair and anklets around her feet..She is staring at moon shining like silver plate and her heart speaking the unspoken words..

                    Today is her sister's wedding..Which is yet to take place at 3.20 am...The wedding she has been waiting for months has finally come..She is thoroughly enjoying the day..And now it's 11.30pm..She don't want to sleep till 3 am afraid that she will fall asleep,she has come to terrace to enjoy the scene...She had put her favourite Mohammed Rafi's song playlist playing melodiously in the background making the place even more pleasant.

      The wind is gradually getting cold and she hugged her knees for the warmth and rubbing her hands together..

     All her thoughts snapped by a male voice..A deep yet so gentle..A low yet so audible voice...She is hearing for the first time..And turned her head to see a man asking her for tea?Not asking actually offering her.. Extending his hand.."Tea?"

    He is neither tall,nor fair,nor has an attitude of "I am the coldest person in the whole planet"...But she can say he has warm smile,eyes which can behold others' and he seemed like a warm filter coffee in her cold life...

     She slowly recovered and took the cup from his hands mumbling a small thank you followed by very small actually tiny curve of her lips..

    "Can I join you?"He asked

     Now the girl is uncertain weather to invite him or avoid him..She just moved making space for him to sit...And patted the now empty space indicating him to sit....Songs still playing in the background at low volume..They are sipping their tea silently...
  
     He broke the silence.."Hmm..Are you from bride's side?"

    She too answered with a question"so you must be groom's side?"

    "Yeah I am groom's cousin..And you are?"

    "The same case I suppose.."she said

     "So may I know your name?"he asked with curiosity even though he knew her name...

     "Anupama..So your name is Meghashyam right?"

     He wondered before he could ask she clarified"I have already heard about you too many times..."

    "Well..In that case I suppose all are good"he chuckled.

     "You can say that.."she said.

     Awkward silence followed..They have nothing more to speak this is the first time they are meeting...All her answers are brief not giving any chance for him to speak...He checked the time on his wrist watch.. It's 11.40pm..All he has is hardly 3 hours left..

     He looked at her..She is checking something in her mobile..The light from her mobile is enlightening her delicate features..her hair strands gently swaying for the wind and interrupting him from drinking in her features...

    Hesitantly he tried to initiated talking to her clearing his throat.. Instead she spoke"so..What do you do?"

  "I am working as assistant bank manager in state bank of India"

   "Oh oh...So your parents must be in search of a bride for you"she said chuckling...

    "They are indeed.."he tried to recall how his mother literally pushed him to talk to this girl..

       The moment he said that he liked a girl...She went hysterical and urged him to show that girl...She agreed immediately... Saying that "she is perf for you..I can't wait to see my grandchildren"with dreamy eyes.

     "Mom..Mom... Hang on..I said that I liked her.. Not ready to propose her"he defended.

     "How many days will it take to love her?How many months will you take to express your love? How many years will it take to marry her? She might be engaged also... You keep on thinking..."she said igniting an unknown tension in his chest...

         "Sometimes I doubt weather you were born in my womb or not.."she said her lips twisting hastily and nodding her head negatively..

    "Go and propose her today itself or else I will ask her parents for her hand in marriage"she warned him.

    After completion of rituals, she searched for her and dragged him to terrace and literally pushed him to enter handing tea cups...

    A flow of cool breeze brought him back to present... She is sitting there feeling cold.. He took off his jacket and offered her.. She hesitated a bit..but later took it gratefully mumbling thank you...

     "You need not be so formal anu... We are friends now.. Aren't we?"he asked.

     She was taken aback by his way of addressing her.. And said"think twice before befriending me..."and chuckled.

     "You look beautiful"feeling lost in her beautiful smile,he said out thinking that he said to himself!

     "What?"she asked him.. Even though she heard him clearly, she wanted to confirm it.

     "You are very beautiful anu"he said looking into her eyes...

      "Thank you?"she said uncertainly.

      "Hey anu...I already said not to be so formal"he pointed out..

     " Yeah but...You know what?In my 23 year old life, you're the first man who complimented on my looks"she said more to herself..

     "May be they don't see you the way I see you."he said shrugging his shoulders.

     "Sorry?"she said.

     "Nothing.."he said biting his tongue..

    "Between I want to say...Looks may be decieving...I mean..All this saree jewellery and festive mood and seeing me so polite and respectful may make me look beautiful..But I don't look like this everyday nor do I behave like this...."she defended herself still not agreeing to his compliment.

    "I know this will scare you to the core..But I can't contain myself..I have seen you for the first time two years ago..When you were in santaram hospital...Don't know weather you remembered or not.. the hospital was lack of infrastructure and the Doctor was struggling to inject saline needle to your hand...I came to that hospital with my mother and coincidentally he asked me to hold your hand tightly to find the right nerve...The moment I held your hand tightly you opened your close shut eyes and looked at me with gratitude...Your eyes spoke a lot of things"he said slowly"and I fell in love with you the moment I saw you..It just took two years time to find you and win the internal conflict that this Feeling is called love"

         "What?"She can't believe her own eyes..."You fell for me that day?"she gasped and blinked her eyes to avoid tears..How can she forget that day...one of The most suffered days of her life...The day before her surgery..That surgery which blamed her character and judged her without knowing even her name...The day she can never forget...May in in her next seven lives too..

     She is diagnosed with small swelling of pus near her private parts..Which is generally sexually transmitted and there are other chances they may be transmitted with lack of hygiene also..But all the people of scanning center and doctors doubted her that she isn't a virgin and she got this disease before marriage..

       She was completely broken that day...Even doubted her own self may be someone forced on her without her knowledge or may be she was raped...This cruel world made her doubt herself...How ironic isn't it?

     Those disgusting looks of medicinal team those hasty comments passed on her and treating her like shit..."She is unmarried"..."How cheap"..."girls these days..No shame at all"...All the words are echoing in her ears...The pages of her dairy which she never wanted to open..The incident which doesn't even have space in her mind to remember...That day. He remainded her...All those scenes all those voices are revolving around her mind...Her breathing got heavier...And her eyeballs moving quickly here and there..Sweat beads started forming on her forehead....Just then,he placed his palm on her...And that blasted her little bubble of thoughts...

     With that she came into this world again..Slowly calming down..her breathing got normal...He asked out of concern"are you okay?I am sorry..If I crossed the line and remainded you of something that I shouldn't be"and he took his hand back...

       She raised from that place and slowly walked till the end of terrace..Kept both her hands on pitwall for support and took a deep breath calming her senses...

     "You need not be sorry shyam..It's just I don't want to remember that day...That's it...But I remembered that some guy helped me that day..I was too week to notice his face but...I felt like you're my savior that day... Doctor injected too many times by then but he didn't got hold of the nerve..I was in so much pain..Just then you came and held my hand...I wanted to Thank you but I have no strength"she said pressing her lips tightly..."and I still remember how I looked then..I wore a loose top and completely mismatched bottoms..My hair was oiled and not combed for 3 days my face was drained of blood..In that condition you fell for me.. don't you lie,okay?" She said sarcastically.

     "May be yes...I totally ignored that day...I Thought that I will never meet you again in my life...But again I met you six months ago" he said.

    "And how come I not remember every single time we met?"she is genuinely curious now.

   "Because..You were sleeping then"he laughed.

    Her mouth wide open now..."You sneakpeaked into my hostel?"she is angry and surprised at the same time.

    "Not hostel but your home..."he said suppressing his laugh looking at her expression.

     "You're sounding creepy now...Are you a thief?"she asked as he is undercover  mission.

     "No anu..it was the night of your sister and my brother's engagement.i couldn't attend because it's end of financial year and I was piled with works..So I came in the evening when the function got over...And...My brother forced me to sneakpeak into your home to meet your sister secretly"he said with dreamy eyes.. Imagining her image in his mind...

    "Huh???That idiot did all these things and never said a word to me..I will kill her "she said faking anger and  urged him to continue"then?"

    "Then he called sil(sis in law) and they met in the backyard...As I couldn't stay there,I was roaming around your house..That is when I came across your window where you're sleeping soundly...i saw you under the moonlight of full moon..The rug covering you till your ears exposing only your face..And you kept one of your hand under the pillow and other around the pillow like hugging it..And you were very cute...I felt like this...You know when you go up on a rollercoaster slowly till the top and from the top..While coming down in supersonic speed..Your heart starts thumping while you feel that thrill and excitement combined with nervousness..that moment,I felt like that..I was too happy...Instantly took my mobile out and clicked your picture...But I didn't recognize that my flash was on..By sudden flash on your face..You moved a little and your eyeballs moved in your closed eye...So I hurriedly ran away from there... Imprinting your impression on my heart forever..."

Hello everyone...I just put my thoughts into words..This story is unedited completely..hope you guys like it..

It's just a dream of Every girl to have a secret love or someone who loves her secretly watching her...And loving her by herself.this is just a small trail I made to represent this theme...

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Anu