Love again buds ... I again got freshness over my skin...as I started applying herbal oil before the bath on my body ...My earnings, bangles, my rings... I'm back... Because my Love is back!
"Hey, Swath... I'm leaving for the City today evening... See you sharp at 10 am tomorrow... Can't wait Swath..." he giggled with joy.
"Ok... I'm leaving for my college... Will celebrate my distinction in the second year, your completion of degree....uff...will today's time go fast.? "I giggled as I had my dupatta over my dress.
"Sunnoo, what I should bring for you? " he asked me in a serious tone.
Hmmm just bring one thing...
I said as I was applying kajol to my eyes.
"What..tell me soon I'm waiting for the auto... To go back to my room. I can buy it now".
"This time just bring my Sagen... Plz...carefully as he is very important to me" I giggled.
He giggled.
"Hmmm mmmm, Love. You... Tc..."
"Yeah... You too!"

I told Madhu and Ramya
"Wahoooo we are happy...dear... Finally, you let go of your overthinking... " Ramya said chewing Vadapav.
"You should dress properly and see him tomorrow as the first attraction is your look..." Madhu said.
I was so happy that whoever looked at me will say, "I'm either mad to keep smiling... Or it was the colour of Love!"

Hey ...Swath... Is your birthday today...
Sujit of another department asked me.
No no Sujit Bhai... It's just I'm happy...
Ah... He winked and hold his gf hand... I kept giggling.
So Swath...who he is... Don't hide...
"It's Sagen "Madhu, spoke loudly to be heard by all surrounded by also the uncle who owns Vadapav Stall.

I pinched her arm.
"Ey... Look your face it's written..."
Hahaha...
"So who is this...and how..." Sujit asked with a biting piece of KachiDabeli.
He is in Chennai now...
What... This far... Sujit asks raising his eyebrows.
"Omg. It's tuff yarr... to be in a distance relationship. "Sujit said holding Asma's hand.
"Shut up, Suji... You take care of your Burka wali... " Ramya said.
"Okok... Seems it's hardcore romance." Sujit said with a teasing look at me.
"Shut up" ... Asma said, she hardly ever speaks.
" Sujit bhai". I said...
"I don't know... But I know...my love is beyond distance... I'm happy in this relationship so...distance doesn't matter."
"Ok been a stay happy. " Suji said surprisingly.


Today, I'm going to see Sagen.
Uff that feeling of waiting and meeting each other... Time just time we check on it!!
He texted me when he reached in the city at night. Boarded room in the hotel.
Uff... I felt like a whole new body waiting for him... I was so quick at cooking, doing my housework... Even with Dad... It was so cool...
Love did it all...!

We decided to meet at the Durga Devi temple on the hill... As we can sit and talk a lot in a beautiful place surrounded by flowers, trees, a garden, a temple, a small lake, a few animals, and a park for kids, also calm and not crowded.

"How you came here Sagen," I asked him as I saw him walking towards me in a Blue check shirt and black jeans...
"Came flying..." He stepped fast wide opened his arms, a childish laugh...and just wrapped me in his arm and hugged me, my head proved into his shirt to hear his heartbeat, it was an ample tight hug!
I wished to be a statue. I smelled his perfume. His soft texture of the shirt. I rubbed his back. I felt like I am a safely wrapped and precious soul... I was again... Sagens only Swathantra!

His rapid kisses on my forehead... His tight hug... His eyes had said billion times that he loves me...
My eyes got wet. As I looked into his eyes.
He held my hand so tightly.
I was doomed in the world of Sagen.
"Come let's sit down and talk".
He said as he took tickets put them inside his shirt pocket and pulled my hand under his arms tightly.
This shirt ... Suits you... I said being lost in his love.
Yeah... This is a gift by Suchitra...
Ok...so Princess gave you!
I said with a half smile.
Hmm...
We sat on a small bench arched by rocks... near the lake.
I looked at the lake... So calm... Swans... The tree's shadow mixed into the lake.
I looked at him... He was watching me in my eyes. He handled his forehead on mine... Said in a low way... I love you a lot.
I looked at him as he sat back, his back pressed on the fence of the walls surrounding the lake.
He was having a baby smile. His shaven face looks like a hero now.
He looked tired also...but ...love kissed his spirit!
He sat in a relaxed way... Spreading his leg and breathing normally... He said looking at me, "Swath... "
He held my hand... and continued...
"Stop running away from me... I know...we had ...gone with stupidity and I did a mistake...but...all this... No...no more third person in our relationship yar... I can't take more... I get disturbed by my whole world when we are not in a good way. I don't feel good. I can't find sleep... During the day I run behind submissions and assignments...at night I cannot hold back my tears on thinking about you... I don't want to feel sad in our relationship...for me it's pure...you are pure...everything that holds me in the ground is you... I don't want to be the bad prince in life... I just want to be wise for my freedom."
I felt guilty. I'm sorry ...Sagen I said with tears that can roll down any moment.
"Shut up..." He put his hand over covering my shoulder,... He kissed my forehead.
I felt to speak ... Perhaps I had rehearsed a lot... A big speech... But I went blank... I was so filled with love... That I wished to stay with him till the time ends and even after... Perhaps the poet says...in the poem... They need thousands of years to love one part of their lover...and another thousand years for other parts...
I looked up at his eyes... I saw the shade of black and brown in his eyes... I said.
"Sag... I missed you... Did you? "
He giggled and sat a little turning towards me and clearing his throat...
"No ... I was busy ...first finishing my exams and then my brother's marriage... Uff ... that part we will discuss later...Swath... The royal wedding is not as it is seen through the camera lens.
I looked at him... The way he speaks... How words come out of his mouth, his breath through his nose that always shines like a baby's skin... His throat how moves when he speaks...
"Hmmm, let us go to the temple ... " he jumped up to stand. Held my hand to get up.

I stood up. He was so thrilled. I kept my eyes, my sense on him.
He held my hand so tightly... Each step on the roads where in syn... I looked up...the trees cover the sky... I look him he looked like a baby walking joyously on his way.
He kept asking "Swath what thinking going on... "
I said "nothing... "

We walked. As we reached the temple. He left my hand. I saw my hand has sweated off his palm.
I felt I'm his in every manner.

He went to the priest... And was talking something... I washed my feet under tap water.
I stood next to him...
We looked at each other...
My eyes couldn't control my sentiments...my love for him... I felt the witness of my love, let it be Maa Durga Devi...
I felt so divine... Pure... Beyond words can ever say!
Sag...
"Shh... Don't say Swath... Feel it... "
He kissed my forehead there. I pushed him a little as felt shy...

My body was shivering with the divine love of being his...only his!

He held my hand and crossed my fingers with him.

Panditji asked me to take Prasad...
Sagen sat on the ground with folded legs to pray.
I took Prasad from pandit ji. I saw Sagen close his eyes and joined hands.
I viewed his eyelid. His eyes look like a lotus bud. I wonder how beautiful it is. I felt his hands so pure. On his thumb nail, half moon can be seen. I looked at him like he is beyond the age I'm living in. How can I deny that, I Love Him!
I looked at Devi ... I wished to be Sagens always...
As he opened his eyes. I smiled at him. He smiled with so much peace in his eyes... I first time felt what peace is said to be is...
That view of his eyes being so bring and calm...moved my heart beyond skin and touch and name and whatever the world can see!

Sag ...Prasad ... I took a pinch of Prasad in my hand.
He opened his mouth like a baby...and said,"Khila ho".
While putting Prasad in his mouth I said, "May Devi, bless you Baaccha ." I felt as if I'm feeding Prasad to my kid... To my soul...to my... beyond this body...

We sat on the opposite side of the step of temple as devotees were stepping up...
In that silence, we felt our divine love.

Swath... You look beautiful in this light green Salwar...
Dumbo it's Kurti and Chudidar...
Uff ...Swath...
What...
He giggled... And got up to put on his shoes.
I went and stood next to him...
He pressed my fingers... And said...
Don't fight again...
Then what should I do... I said as I leaned over her arm...
He giggled like a newborn baby.
I kissed him through my eyesight!
© Saranya Anish Nair