The Sun and the Signs…
Rayan….
Some months passed, our bond of
friendship grew stronger with each passing day, each passing message and each
call that we made to each other, I knew all along what I felt for Aashi, but
she needed a friend right now, a shoulder to cry on, a person to rely on,
someone she could trust.
Aashi told me about Rehan, how
he broke her heart, broke the relationship and didn’t even bother to call or
answer her calls, its said that, “Love me, hate me but don’t ignore me”, and
rightly so, because ignorance can do a lot more damage than outright hate and I
was witnessing this first hand. I saw Aashi endlessly waiting for his calls,
incessantly calling a number that he had long since changed, I saw the girl who
could put life into a dead flower, wither away in front of my eyes, I felt I had
to do something, I couldn’t watch her throw away her life like this, so I got
her some books and made her get her hobby of reading back as a form of
distraction.
So among the many books that I made
her read, one was Sun Signs by Linda Goodsman, it was a wonderful book dealing
with the traits of people born under different zodiacs…..
“ It say here that a virgo girl would be most compatible
with you”, said Aashi one day when we were siting watching the sunset in
Bandstand, I am a taurian and Aashi is an aquarian.
“What do they say about my compatibility with Aquarians? “,
I asked her.
“It says Aquarians and Taurians are not at all
compatible, so stop flirting with me and listen what it says here” she said.
I, feigning disinterest say, “I don’t believe in sun signs
then. “
“ I think Meenu (one of my very old friends) , will be
perfect for you, she being a virgo and a Bengali, you two would be absolutely
compatible with each other “ she said,
Those words cut through me like a blade.
“You know na, that it is necessary to be in love with
someone to be in a relationship”, I retorted stung….
And then she smiled that beautiful smile of hers, which
made me forget what I was thinking about and I gazed at her dumbfounded.
At
that instant of time, I told myself, this is the moment, this is the girl , no
one else in the world can make me feel, how I feel right now, so gathering all
my courage, amid the glorious sunset and the cool breeze hitting my face , I looked
into those deep blue eyes of hers and before I could say those three magical
words, she looked at me and as if reading my mind said,
“I know”
Two words that meant so much to me and yet so little
because she continued….
“I have been through a lot Rayan, I cannot relive that
again, there can never be anything between us more than friendship, I cannot
fall in love again, that part of me has been completely and irrevocably
destroyed, I will never get into a relationship again, I will get married to
whosoever my father choses.”
On hearing those words I felt
like the earth shattering around me, girls like Aashi are extremely rare, and
falling in love with them is even rarer, I never thought I would be that lucky
so at that moment it felt like it was the end for us……
But as Linda Goodsman said,
‘ A Taurian never gives up…… ‘ neither did I .
To be continued….
