“Why didn’t you say anything that day?”, she asked. “Why didn’t you?”, he countered. “You know how I was. How I am.”, she responded, looking down. He looked at her, asked hesitantly, “Would you have said yes, if I had, asked you?”. “I would have said yes, before you could finish the question”, she parried. He smiled, continued, “When I saw you at the symposium today, my heart skipped a beat. I had to talk to you”. His words struck her right at the centre of her heart, they lifted her. The gravity of their meaning sunk in, the very fact that they had to be said, was heart breaking. She smiled sadly, “That is how it…”. “What are you guys discussing so seriously?”, Sneha interrupted them. She replied, “We were discussing a hypothetical situation.”. “Which situation?”, Sneha persisted. “If you dropped an ant from the Empire State building, will it die on impact.”, she responded, with a smile. He gave her an amused look. “So will it?”, Sneha asked. “What will?”, he inquired, smile playing at his lips. Sneha asked, impatiently, “The ant. Will it die on impact or survive the fall?”. “I don’t know, you interrupted us before we could reach a consensus”, she replied. Sneha rolled her eyes at them, as they moved to the dining area.

After dinner, he approached her, “Can we take a walk?”. “Why?”, she asked. “We never did finish our conversation.”, he replied. “Even if we had...