She is MY giRl

It was a dream  come true for him. The breeze, the falling flowers, the sunlight kissing goodbye for the day all made it perfect. Both had an arm around each other and were walking on that lonely beautiful road, on a carpet of flowers. He had always dreamt of just talking to her but here he was having the best walk of his life with her. He couldn’t believe they were together now. He stood there for a second to realise this, and closed his eyes and... hugged her. He felt all  his world stop for a moment. The breeze was still, the flowers stopped falling, it was suddenly completely bright all around. He would surely not forget this.

When he opened his eyes, thud!!!!! He heard a loud noise and felt blood oozing out of his head, and saw a freakingly overweight man, whom he had seen somewhere but couldn’t recollect where, standing in front of him with a hockey stick. His girl was shouting and crying but no one was there to help.

When he opened his eyes he took some time to come to senses. He pinched himself, touched his head. Oh, it was only a dream, he said to himself.  It would be just another boring and keep-staring-at-his-girl day at office. He crawled out of his bed, hoping for some change today.

While leaving the house he saw a note on the table, “Hi Rohit,Tina wants me early in office today. Leaving soon. See you at office - Akash”.

The canteen was as usual crowded. After eating south Indian paratha, or called uttappa usually, he went to his work place, started his system and looked around. Nope, she had not yet come. And Akash was busy flirting with manager in her cabin. Looking at Akash’s desk beside him, Rohit could tell that Akash had directly gone to Tina’s cabin, with his bag, for flirting. So much he is fond of flirting, he said to himself and put on his earphones while settling down for work.

Womanizer woman womanizer woman womanizer baby, you you you are, you you you are womanizer... “Wow, Britney Spears looks awesome in this video” he said to himself, listened to the song. Akash finally came out of  manager’s cabin and signalled from far that Tina was calling him.

 “Hey Rohit, Tina wants you in her cabin. Your frist date with your manager. Good going. I hope you guys make out. He he”

“Shut up Akash. You know she’s a bitch. And you are her favourite, not me. And you also agree that we listen to her only because she’s hot. I wish she was like my girl – always calm and smiling.”. Akash started laughing ,“Oh common. You have not talked to that girl even once since she joined and you call her your girl. I don’t think you even know her name .”

“Ok. We’ll talk about it later. I have to go meet Tina. And by the way my girl’s name is  Roopali.”

Since the day she had joined, Rohit had a crush  on Roopali. But Rohit was a silent kinda guy who always kept to himself. He never had the guts to express his feelings to her, or even talk to her. He needed the much needed push to talk to her which came in form of Akash. Akash was a kind of guy who looked innocent, but was not. He took advantage of his innocence ,to flirt with girls. He felt it was his licence to flirt. He and Rohit had joined the company on the same day. Their manager, Tina, was their first topic of discussion. They had stayed and worked together for quite some time now. During their free time in office, they always did what they were best at - talk about girls.

Rohit and Akash were sitting and chatting about their “hot” manager, as usual, when Roopali entered. As she walked, Rohit’s whole world  was muted and all he could hear was her footsteps. He could see Akash’s lips moving but couldn’t hear a word. He felt like Shah Rukh Khan in Main hoon na, though Roopali was much younger and beautiful than  Sushmita. “Ah!!! How i wish i was a friend of her. I could spend more time with her rather than with this chatter box Akash” he thought. His eyes didn’t miss her until she walked across the floor to her workplace, and Akash was going on and on and on like he had no off button.

“Dude  who am i talking to - you or your ass!!! Why are you turning the other side? Ohoooo. Your heroine has finally come. So you’ll talk to her today?”

“Oh ya. As if i had the guts to do that. I am not as fast forward as you buddy. I don’t start flirting with women as soon as i see them, like you do. And you talk way too much Akash.”

“Fine  Rohit. If you are not doing it, i will.”

“Thanks buddy , you are my best friend in the world. I don’t know how to thank you.”

“No worries Rohit, no need to thank me. I am glad that you are so happy to accept her as your bhabhi. If I have a son with her, will name him Rohit. Sure.”

“Wait wait. Dude you are a moron , i thought you were going to tell her about me, instead you are cooking your own meal in my fire.”

“Well then you go and talk to her. Else a third guy will get the advantage of our fighting. I’ve always seen that fair north Indian guy, whats his name, nihal something, staring at her too. And he’s much well built too. So better be quick or allow me.”

“Ok ok. Ill talk to her by today. Ok? And you must know that we can never be good friends after i am her friend because i know you’d be flirting with her.”

“Chill man. I would never flirt with any of my friends’ girlfriends. And you are talking as if you have never tried to flirt with someone else’s girlfriend. ”

“I have never done that...”

“Look we can have this conversation whole day. So now spare me some time to work and you go and talk to her. Else  you might have to call her bhabhi or my wife”

“Ok fine. Ill talk to  her.”

“You know what Rohit? If you are too afraid , you must get an Airtel connection.”

“What?”

“Dil jo chahe, pass aaye. If not your courage, at least Airtel’s new 3G network will help you bring her nearer.”

“You are unbelievable Akash. What a PJ. I am talking to her before lunch. And don’t you dare talk to her before me.”

“Jab se uske naina, mere naino se, laage re, tab se diwaana hua...”

“Chuck it. I cant believe you. I am going now.”

It was lunch time and the cafeteria was overly crowded. They finally found a table. Akash said opening his lunch box, “So Rohit, she’s going to be your bhabhi or mine? Did you talk to her?”

“Well Akash, you should know, she was , she is and she will be your bhabhi.”

“That depends you know.”

“Akash , I know you are a big flirt and talking to any girl in office is not a big thing for you. But please spare this one girl, for me.”

“Ok ok, she is my bhabhi. So tell me what did you talk to her.”

“Well i went to her on pretext of asking something related to work. Then asked about her previous company, her hometown, and stuff. Got to know few things about her. She is quite nice you know...”and their conversation drowned in the cafeteria noise.

It was just a co-incidence that most of people Rohit liked and adored like crazy started with ‘R’- Rafael Nadal, Rooney,  RCB, Red Devils, Rahul Dravid, etc. R was his favourite alphabet. He was just crazy about R stuff. May be that was a reason why he liked Roopali. Her name started with R as well.

He hoped she would be his someone special. But rarely had it occurred to him that all those R people he liked, never liked him back.

The next day, Rohit came to office growling and ready to kill Akash. Akash had abandoned him in home and left for office without him without telling him. He as usual saw at Roopali’s workplace. She had not yet come. Then he turned right to Akash’s workplace. He was not there too. Ill kill this guy once he comes, he said to himself and glanced around.

Far away from him in the corridor, he could see Roopali standing. By the looks of her it looked like she was laughing, or giggling. The guy she was standing with, was certainly taking full advantage of this opportunity to impress her. Rohit’s head was now a burning tawa, hot enough to make omletes. He wanted to have a closer look at the guy, so started moving towards them. By the time he started, Roopali and the guy had finished their talk. Roopali had started moving toward workplace and the guy was going away. Rohit rushed to have a look at that guy. While walking to see the guy, Roopali walked past by him, wishing him good morning. He had a small chat with her and then ran to see who the guy was...(to be continued).