A short Love Story

“A love Story of a another different Kind”- Love, un-expressed, un-proposed, still understood
Amit and Amrita have known each other since childhood. Amrita is the daughter of Amit’s father’s sister. She is the second among the three daughters that their parents have got. Amil belongs to Latur district in Maharashtra and Amrita lives in Udgir, a town in Latur District around 64 Kms away . The days of childhood went past very speedily as is often the case. Amit got admission in prestigious National Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujrat and Amrita got admission in BSC-Zoology(Bachelor of Science). It was only in his engineering second year, November 2003, when Amit felt something for her, when he had gone to his home on Diwali. But he was not so in to it, ensuing exams and no mode of communication prevented him from going any further. He remembered her though he used to think about her very less often, studies and friend kept him busy. His attraction for her, rekindled when she sent him a birthday card on 16th September 2004.Amit was very happy but could not thank her as she had not had any mobile that time. Days went past one by one and It was on some day in May 2005 that Amit called her on her landline phone, she had given her final year exams and was trying for admission to M.Sc. Amit ironically said that better she won’t get admission and be at her home as she was obsessed with living at home and by that time had spent all her days at that place only. But contrary to it just a couple of days after his call, she got admission in M.Sc-Microbiology at SRTMU( Swami Ramananda Tirth Marathwada University), Nanded, Maharashtra, and she regarded his call as a lucky one for her, only to reveal it later after two years. One more thing that she considered lucky was the yellow Salwar Kameez that he gifted her on Diwali in 2004, as for her all her vivas and exams that she used to undergo wearing that dress had been excellent. Amit wished her Happy Birthday on 7th September 2005, on her friend’s phone. On 15th September 2005, Amit purchased a new mobile, Nokia-6030, and on next morning he got her call. She had walked all the way to an STD which was 2 kilometers away from her hostel, leaving the hostel as early as 6:30 AM along with her friend Mira. Amit was very happy and impressed. It was later that he visited that STD personally. By October 2005, she had got a mobile. When everything was going normal, In December 2005, her elder sister eloped with her lover, causing a tensed environment at her home. In last week of December Amit visited udgir, he remained there for four days. He spent two days entirely with her, 29th December 2005, the day of a farm festival and on New Year’s eve on 31st December 2005. After all those two years when both of them were far away only thinking about each other, exchanging almost 4-5 SMSs each day, thanks to IDEA cellular which always had some attractive SMS scheme for her, these were the two days when they were together , talking about studies and their likings and disliking and yes, Shahrukh Khan, with Amit being a die-hard fan of the star and Amrita being die-hard critic, among slew of other things, with people from family feeling jealous at their proximity. Amrita gave Amit a mobile stand as a New-Year’s gift. Neither of them discussed her sister’s incident. Amit came to his home on 1st January 2006, anticipating something which was not destined to be. He left for his college at the weekend, joined back, meanwhile SMSs continued to come and go. On 13th she sent him an SMS in evening explaining the incidents in the day concisely, Amit replied back that he was going to watch movie Zinda and would send her SMS in night after 10 PM. Once he came back, as promised, sent her 3-4 SMSs but she didn’t reply. Next day, 14th January 2006, was Sakranti a famously festival of north western parts of the country, he woke up early took bath went to temple and called at home, through all these he expected her call or SMS, but still she didn’t. At 4 PM when nothing came from her side, after he was fully distressed he called her. He wanted to know what was wrong with her and why she didn’t reply to his SMS and why there was not even a single miss call from her side. She evaded his questions and talked about normal things like studies and what did he do on festival. Calls, SMSs and even miss calls all had stopped, Amit was missing her and scolding her for not understanding his feelings.He regarded it as their break-up with very little hope of of reuniting with her. On 27th she sent a SMS…..Beep-Beep-“result came today, I got 75%”, Amit didn’t reply.On 29th her mother called him and told him that his mother had came to Udgir some days before and when his grand-parents told her about their closeness , she started scolding Amrita and girl community at a whole, saying girls should not fall in to all this, they better be at their home and study. Amit replied to her diplomatically and said their not talking which each other won’t improve the things either. Now he knew the reason of her silence.He kept on thinking, thinking about her only. On 30th he received her miss call. Amit explained her everything he had undergone for all those days, complaining and scolding, she remained silent, intermittently suggesting that its not like this and that, Amit said he was going Bombay next day and would call her from there as it would be a local call costing much lesser and they’d discuss in detail then. He called her from VJTI University’s campus, dropping 23 coins one after the other, scolding her through all those 23 minutes. He came back joined his college back. SMSes started again and then came 14th February 2006 and make-up took the place of break-up, she wished him through SMS….. Beep-Beep, 7AM, 14-02-2006-“Wish you a very happy Valentines day”. Amit told her that we wanted to gift her a Rose, a Red Rose. From the day onwards romance replaced the hitherto friendly conversation. In April he went to Pune called her, this time 43 coins went one by one from his pocket, but this time he was praising her. Somehow Amit had failed to get any job, gave his final year exam and went to home.He called for the last time from Surat on 5th May 2006. It was struggling days ahead. After a few days, Amit left for Bangalore to find a job for himself. SMSes and calls stopped, as he was busy finding a job. On 25th August Amit shifted from Bangalore to Hyderabad, took a new BSNL number and sent her an SMS apprising her of the new number.SMSes started once again, Amit joined GATE coaching classes(GATE is an exam conducted by IITs for admission to their postgraduate courses). On Diwali, Amit went to his home in October, there her mother told him that she would go to Pune for a conference in November end. They planned to meet, during November. On 30th November ,the day she had to leave for her college, Amit went to meet her to the conference venue, she was wearing her lucky yellow dress,she gifted Amit with a statue of Goddess Saraswati, which accompanies Amit till date. While they were passing through a field on their way to Pune Railway Station, Amit picked a flower from field and presented her, not a Red Rose but a flower from a weed plant. She boarded the train and it started at right time 6PM in evening. Amit came back to Hyderabad and got to know of the communal riots in Nanded, he called her to ask about her well-being, she told him that she was okay and felt that she had actually got a very careful and loving boy. Amit’s days at Hyderabad has been best days of his life, going to coaching classes, watching movies, eating at road-side and sometimes studying. Amit gave his GATE exam in February 2007 and joined some other course related to Computer engineering and stayed back at Hyderabad only. She called him on the day his result came, congratulating him for scoring a good rank. By April 2007, Amit came to his home, SMSes reduced in number as it was their hometown and both of them a bit afraid of their families. In July 2007, Amit joined the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and SMSes from Amrita went very frequent with both of them exchanging around 10 SMSes everyday. By 2008, she got an internet connection and both of them started chatting on internet almost everyday. Days have gone past one by one and the relation has gone becoming stronger and stronger. Neither of them have expressed it openly, the girl has her reasons in the tensed environment at home after her sister eloped with a lower caste boy. Amit on the other hand is a different kind of boy, though I have persuaded him since long to express his love clearly, but he always evades it, he only sends her SMSes once she sends it. Both of them chat everyday at 10:30 AM and 6:30 PM, Amrita by this time has completed her M.Sc and Amit is just a few months away from getting his Masters in Engineering, still jobless, but more mature and determined and going to Udgir in February to express the hitherto unexpressed.