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An Unknown Girl : Chapter 2
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An Unknown Girl Chapter 1:
That short time feelings were so beautiful. I don't know whether it was love or attraction or imagination or what. But that day I smiled after a decade. After that whenever I booked shared cab, my mind made my eyes to look the co-passengers list in the cab booking app. Not even once I found Shruti again. That unknown girl, I missed her whenever I saw yellow board cabs and cab booking app in my phone.
I tried booking cab from same location. But she was disappeared like Mr India. I was controlled by my heart which was forcing me to get back to that unknown girl, that Shruti.
It was 20 December, exactly one month before I met that unknown girl. I almost stopped hoping to see that unknown girl again. I stopped expecting as well. But life surprises you with things when you least expect.
It was Friday afternoon; I wasn't feeling well. Thursday I was on leave. But some work was pending, that's why I decided to go to office half day. Anyhow I managed to travel to office.
I tried completing pending tasks, but due to coughing, I couldn't concentrate. In every 20 minutes I was taking breaks.
Then I informed to my reporting manager about my health issue and asked him for leave for half day. His reply wasn't straight. He asked me to get done the pending tasks from Dheeraj and then I can leave. Dheeraj was new to Android development, no doubt, he needs little more to complete this work. I can't wait till he completes it. Better I would have completed quickly. I explained task details to Dheeraj, and I didn't have enough energy to walk to bus stand which was only 400 meters far from my office. So, I booked the shared cab. Even this time I checked co passengers list, there was no Shruti. But I didn't want to go home early. I decided to visit Vega City Mall for some time and then direct home.
I reached Vega City Mall in about an hour, there were no much traffic. I de-boarded the cab and took a glance of mall from the road. I saw entrance of the mall was decorated well for Christmas. Most people were busy in clicking pictures with the decoration. Some people were standing outside waiting for cabs or their near and dear ones. I entered inside the mall. There was hustle-bustle of people. Loud music was playing in the background. I directly went to third floor where I usually visit without even noticing here and there and ordered cappuccino. I visited this mall regularly as it was on the way to my office. Luckily, I got the corner seat. Third floor was full of food stalls. Chairs were arranged outside the stalls.
I settled down and kept my bag on the chair beside me. I called my junior team member to check the status of work. Unfortunately, he couldn't complete. As my manager told us to finish it today itself. I took out my laptop and started completing the task. I wrote couple of lines of code. I was kind of lost in coding. I didn't even notice what was going on surrounding me. I tested my code, wow it worked in very first attempt.
For developers, it is one of happy moments. I felt like dancing and celebrating this small success. I was just cross checking the things and it was getting uploaded. I took out my eyes from laptop screen to the surrounding. I steal a glance, but there were nothing looking interesting.
Suddenly my eyes stuck at another side corner seat. Still cappuccino was in glass. I haven’t taken a single sip. My eyes were locked at that white top girl and blonde long hair. But she was too busy in staring stalls and I was busy in looking at her. I couldn’t see her face as she was looking another side, I could only see the side look of her face. Her face looked familiar. I hold on a second and tried remembering the face, but I couldn’t remember. I was waiting for her to look at my side, not me my side was enough for me. I tried to get back to work, I forced myself. Finally, “data uploaded successfully” message pop-up on my laptop screen.
She was staring stalls from long time. I just noticed that, she was sitting in four-seater table. Opposite side a guy and a girl were sitting and another side she was sitting alone. The guy and the girl were sitting reverse direction, I couldn’t see their faces.
I locked my laptop and resumed looking at her. A countdown started in my mind, 5…4…3 and finally her eyes went off from food stalls to food now and I got chance to see her face. I saw her properly. It didn’t even take a second to identify the face. I wasn’t believing, what I saw just now.
My mind gone through an array of questions, “Is it dream?”,
“is she that unknown girl”, “is she really Shruti?”
I took large sip of...
An Unknown Girl Chapter 1:
That short time feelings were so beautiful. I don't know whether it was love or attraction or imagination or what. But that day I smiled after a decade. After that whenever I booked shared cab, my mind made my eyes to look the co-passengers list in the cab booking app. Not even once I found Shruti again. That unknown girl, I missed her whenever I saw yellow board cabs and cab booking app in my phone.
I tried booking cab from same location. But she was disappeared like Mr India. I was controlled by my heart which was forcing me to get back to that unknown girl, that Shruti.
It was 20 December, exactly one month before I met that unknown girl. I almost stopped hoping to see that unknown girl again. I stopped expecting as well. But life surprises you with things when you least expect.
It was Friday afternoon; I wasn't feeling well. Thursday I was on leave. But some work was pending, that's why I decided to go to office half day. Anyhow I managed to travel to office.
I tried completing pending tasks, but due to coughing, I couldn't concentrate. In every 20 minutes I was taking breaks.
Then I informed to my reporting manager about my health issue and asked him for leave for half day. His reply wasn't straight. He asked me to get done the pending tasks from Dheeraj and then I can leave. Dheeraj was new to Android development, no doubt, he needs little more to complete this work. I can't wait till he completes it. Better I would have completed quickly. I explained task details to Dheeraj, and I didn't have enough energy to walk to bus stand which was only 400 meters far from my office. So, I booked the shared cab. Even this time I checked co passengers list, there was no Shruti. But I didn't want to go home early. I decided to visit Vega City Mall for some time and then direct home.
I reached Vega City Mall in about an hour, there were no much traffic. I de-boarded the cab and took a glance of mall from the road. I saw entrance of the mall was decorated well for Christmas. Most people were busy in clicking pictures with the decoration. Some people were standing outside waiting for cabs or their near and dear ones. I entered inside the mall. There was hustle-bustle of people. Loud music was playing in the background. I directly went to third floor where I usually visit without even noticing here and there and ordered cappuccino. I visited this mall regularly as it was on the way to my office. Luckily, I got the corner seat. Third floor was full of food stalls. Chairs were arranged outside the stalls.
I settled down and kept my bag on the chair beside me. I called my junior team member to check the status of work. Unfortunately, he couldn't complete. As my manager told us to finish it today itself. I took out my laptop and started completing the task. I wrote couple of lines of code. I was kind of lost in coding. I didn't even notice what was going on surrounding me. I tested my code, wow it worked in very first attempt.
For developers, it is one of happy moments. I felt like dancing and celebrating this small success. I was just cross checking the things and it was getting uploaded. I took out my eyes from laptop screen to the surrounding. I steal a glance, but there were nothing looking interesting.
Suddenly my eyes stuck at another side corner seat. Still cappuccino was in glass. I haven’t taken a single sip. My eyes were locked at that white top girl and blonde long hair. But she was too busy in staring stalls and I was busy in looking at her. I couldn’t see her face as she was looking another side, I could only see the side look of her face. Her face looked familiar. I hold on a second and tried remembering the face, but I couldn’t remember. I was waiting for her to look at my side, not me my side was enough for me. I tried to get back to work, I forced myself. Finally, “data uploaded successfully” message pop-up on my laptop screen.
She was staring stalls from long time. I just noticed that, she was sitting in four-seater table. Opposite side a guy and a girl were sitting and another side she was sitting alone. The guy and the girl were sitting reverse direction, I couldn’t see their faces.
I locked my laptop and resumed looking at her. A countdown started in my mind, 5…4…3 and finally her eyes went off from food stalls to food now and I got chance to see her face. I saw her properly. It didn’t even take a second to identify the face. I wasn’t believing, what I saw just now.
My mind gone through an array of questions, “Is it dream?”,
“is she that unknown girl”, “is she really Shruti?”
I took large sip of...
