Just another boy meets girl story

It was a Sunday and the day of the first mock-cat when I first set eyes upon her. It wasn’t the proverbial love at first sight but pretty damn close. I was busy admiring my toe nails when when a voice called out from the row in front of me.I turned up to see that a girl from the front was talkin to prasad, who was sitting next to me. Lila her name turned out to be. But what caught my eye was not the not so aptly named lila but that of the fair girl sitting next to her. Just for the sake of conversation, or maybe for some other untold reason, the fair one turned around to ask me if I had prepared for the test that day. With an expression on my face that I thought made me look like James Dean, I said ‘no’. This I think was a preliminary to all the no’s to come later albeit for different reasons.

The test started and as expected, turned out to be a disaster of epic proportions. But I wasn’t bothered as I knew that I was taking the test just to get a feel of what would ‘the mother of all entrance exams’ be like. I could always improve on my scores. But how often do you get oppurtunities when a pretty girl actually initiates the conversaton with you? It was just great. After the exam got over, I was more keen to talk again to the girl rather than to discuss what my potential results would be. I already knew it to be a disaster so what was the point anyway? And we met in the corridor outside the exam hall.

Hi.
Oh Hi. How did you do?(shit!!! She had to ask me that!!!)
Well I guess I did ok.(James Dean Anyone?)
So you engineers must have it easy. Always doin maths and all. All this must be a cinch for you.
(Oh absoloutely!!) Hmmm…(Someone tell me how to react here!!!)
Us BCom people are not cut out for this.
(Yessss!!! Here is my chance to cut in!!) Oh you are BCom… Which college?
Stella Marris
That’s great(For what joy!!) So how is college going?
Oh its goin great. Lots of fun

Dey. How did you do?
(Bastard. Bloody useless prick has to come in now!!)
I did it ok Prasad.
Who is this? (and by himself) Hi, I m Prasad.
Hi I m Shakthi.
(Shakthi. So that’s her name!! wow!! Whatta name!!)

And the banter went into these two talkin about the mock and I m just standing there waiting to strangle prasad any minute. And Oh Lila is walking towards us.
Shakthi can we leave? Its getting late.
Ok guys, bye.. gotta go..
(here I take all my courage in my two bare hands and go)
Do you have a number where I can contact you maybe.
Sure Its 9840* *****. Gimme a missed call for you no.

Have you ever felt weightless on earth? At that moment, I did.

To be continued...