This happened four years before and I was not this much intelligent that time. You might be wondering, why I am saying this now, but trust me, this sentence can answer a lot of questions which will pop in your head, while reading the rest of the story.
It was a late evening, and I was in my room. My heart usually races, when I get a call those days. It was not something which happened frequently those days. I was Miss. Nobody. But when I answered his call I was totally cool. He is introduced himself as Mr. Krishnan and said that I am Sandhya. I gracefully accepted it. Who cares? What is there in a name?
I should have ended the call immediately but, the lack of phone calls to my number made me think twice. Oh’ C’mon no one ever got killed because of answering a stranger’s phone call!
His voice reminded me of melting butter. So smooth and so rich. He can talk for hours and we did talk for 2 hours. I realized then, he knew all about me (including my real name!).
Any girl would have been scared, if she got a stalker on her tail… but I wasn’t (read the first sentence, please). I was curious. I knew that Curiosity kills the cat but, I was not a cat. I wanted to get to the bottom of this call, I wanted to know which of my friends betrayed me. I was bold, bold up to the verge of stupidity. I was in for the game.
He called me every day after that, and with each day the reluctance to talk to him diminished .Slowly I gained confidence, that he is not a member of al-Qaeda. He became my emotional-ventilator, my personal ego-booster. I can yell at him. I can bang the phone right on his face. I can tell him to get-lost, to hang himself, to jump in front of a speeding train…a million times. I did all sort of things, to measure his patience. Still, he never left his cool. Still, he called me after 2 minutes and I took him for granted with glee.
This went on for three months…(read the first sentence, please). Then, he made his next step. He wanted to meet me.
Oh no! I am not that stupid, to go in front of a man, whom I have insulted a million times.
I was feeling bad too, because I knew he did all these things in vain. I was never going to meet him or to be his girl. At least he could have made an investment with all the money he paid for his mobile bill to call me. But, somethings are beyond our control right? And I never asked him to call me! It is not my fault.
Then, He started to follow me wherever I went.
He knew that I went to a particular temple on Saturday. He described the color of my churidhar I wore that evening.
He called me to tell me that he is in front of my college.
He called me when I went to my college function to say he is there too.
Luckily he was not man enough to confront me, but he did manage to creep me. I became frantic. I have to lose him off my tail! The engineer in me sprang in to action. I googled!!!
I downloaded the software, which automatically ends the call when a particular number calls. I installed it my mobile and blocked every number from which he called.
My phone became dead again And I lost myself in my daily chores, peacefully.
And after 6 months or so, I got his call again, the same smooth velvety voice. It was from an another new number, but I recognized the voice as soon as I heard the "hello". I had missed him and his calls. I was happy to get him back. I wanted to make a clean start, like the ordinary friends do.
We talked for 10 minutes, and he said he is needed somewhere else biding good bye. Well, I was surprised… I was the one who usually ask him to get-lost.
He called me again after 4-5 days. This time, I was the nicest girl. I wanted to make sure that he will call me again sooner. We talked for long. We exchanged the Facebook account details and There I saw his picture for the first time. He was an average looking guy. Clean shaved and with a clear skin, which will be more appropriate on a girl's face.
Then he said that!!!
HE MET SOMEONE! He is in love with someone else.
I could hear my heart shattering this time.
He is no more my Mr. taken-for-granted. I felt spurge of anger. I felt cheated. How can he go after another woman? How can he? Even if I blocked him and asked him hang himself, how can he? That was too rude and un-forgivable!
I banged the phone right on his face for the last time and re-installed the blocking software on my phone! THE END.
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