“Why all the delay today?? Why is the flight taking this long?”, I was kept wondering as I was grumpily strolling on the pavement counting the steps. I started to recall how we were brought here in just few months. How we grew so close yet were far, out of what you named as a hiccup. The hiccup that you went back to buy time for.
With the cold winds that always reminded me of your warmth, I was taken back to the day you took me out on our first date. The one which was impeccable, with soo much to say yet soo little told that we decided to meet one another time and another. The second which hooked us to each other, that now keeping us apart was an absurd thought, the way absurdity lives in the stars kept away from its sky. Yes you were becoming my sky with every passing day and it was making me see a different side of my own self where everything finally seemed blue.
But life knows how to hit you and when. It was two weeks ago when you started getting restless and I knew not what for. You started building a wall around, barring me, making me feel lost and broken as I could not see through you anymore. The day you decided to shed it is something that can never be forgotten by either of us. It was 1pm in the night when you called up with a dejected voice telling you need to speak about something. I felt punched in the belly with it, all I could think was, you wanted it to be over. Over. The thought was devastating in itself so much so that I wanted to hole up in the dark.
“I don’t have much time”, you told, which was enough to make the world around me spin.
“What is it about Sweets?”, I gathered courage to ask.
After a long pause you gave your heart words, “My parents ensuing me to get hitched and with you still wanting to wait, I know not what should I do.”
“You want to get married?” I asked and with the words in response, they echoed the depths of my shielded feelings.“Only if it’s you”, you reverted, “Only if it’s you”.
My heart skipped a beat telling to see you the very moment. And with that racing heart I asked if you could come see me.
You as you are, drove at two in the night and as you stepped out of the car my heart was going leaps and bound in joy. Exquisite was the feeling as we hugged each other at the sight. I could hear your heart thumping against your chest and I decided to come out with what I had on mind for the past hour, “Buy time baby. Buy time for us..!!”. I knew it would be arduous but with your arms holding me even closer I realized you too desired the same.
It was that day and today, here was I waiting to know whether you could buy time or no. The anxiety building up was making it difficult for me to breath. I just wanted to see you. Just wanted to be in those warm arms and not feel vulnerable and be safe, what I call my kind of safe.
The wait finally died as the waves against the mountainous rock, when I saw you at the arrivals. My heart was pounding loud enough, that I feared with the passersby overlooking their own commute, even they could hear my clamor. You waved at me with a smile that stretched ear to ear. I was casting the same shadow but something in me freezed, freezed imagining the worst of the possibility. You knew my heart more than I did and thus you shouted from distance, “I bought time hun, I bought time.” Those words echoed in the arena with all the eyes turning to you. My lips broke into a smile and I ran towards you only to plung in your arms. There, ‘Love’ it was named. You held me soo tight as if we had no tomorrow. You put me down and our eyes met with a spark in them like never before, we were deafened to the chaos around as you leaned and we kissed. The kiss, where we were inseparable, where we, shoved away the distance that was entrusted by us. It was when an onlooker tapped on your back, we stopped. We looked at each other and giggled.
It amused me how our hands found each other every time we were together. We got into the car and you whispered in my ears, “That was our first kiss there.”. I blushed pink and said, “And it was perfect.”, with my eyes still shy to look into yours. There, you raised my chin and kissed like I am the only one you belong to.
And here we were, it was our time from now and beyond and you made it come true.
You as you are, drove at two in the night and as you stepped out of the car my heart was going leaps and bound in joy. Exquisite was the feeling as we hugged each other at the sight. I could hear your heart thumping against your chest and I decided to come out with what I had on mind for the past hour, “Buy time baby. Buy time for us..!!”. I knew it would be arduous but with your arms holding me even closer I realized you too desired the same.
It was that day and today, here was I waiting to know whether you could buy time or no. The anxiety building up was making it difficult for me to breath. I just wanted to see you. Just wanted to be in those warm arms and not feel vulnerable and be safe, what I call my kind of safe.
The wait finally died as the waves against the mountainous rock, when I saw you at the arrivals. My heart was pounding loud enough, that I feared with the passersby overlooking their own commute, even they could hear my clamor. You waved at me with a smile that stretched ear to ear. I was casting the same shadow but something in me freezed, freezed imagining the worst of the possibility. You knew my heart more than I did and thus you shouted from distance, “I bought time hun, I bought time.” Those words echoed in the arena with all the eyes turning to you. My lips broke into a smile and I ran towards you only to plung in your arms. There, ‘Love’ it was named. You held me soo tight as if we had no tomorrow. You put me down and our eyes met with a spark in them like never before, we were deafened to the chaos around as you leaned and we kissed. The kiss, where we were inseparable, where we, shoved away the distance that was entrusted by us. It was when an onlooker tapped on your back, we stopped. We looked at each other and giggled.
It amused me how our hands found each other every time we were together. We got into the car and you whispered in my ears, “That was our first kiss there.”. I blushed pink and said, “And it was perfect.”, with my eyes still shy to look into yours. There, you raised my chin and kissed like I am the only one you belong to.
And here we were, it was our time from now and beyond and you made it come true.
By
Sushmita
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