“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

It was a gloomy day. The weather was as uncertain as to my mood but then there she was there, the chaos in my heart, and she smiled bright enough to light up the cloudy weather.

She was standing outside the boy stuffed the small shop of our college smiling and talking to one of her classmates who happened to pass by. How could someone be that beautiful? Taking the coffee I rushed to accompany her only to drop my tripping over someone’s leg.

It couldn’t be better if it didn’t rain when she opened her purple umbrella clutched my arm and pulled me close with her. Trust me when I say the coffee of that shop was terribly watery but that didn’t matter right now, all I could focus was that coffee was the intermediate connection between our lips as we shared it.

We climbed up to the highest balcony of our college building, sat and shared a nice conversation and man, never in my life did I open up to someone, to be honest. She was my personal diary, I could say her anything and everything.

Walking her back to her hostel I decided to muster up all my courage and said,” Can you help me with something?”

“Yeah, what is it?”, she said and stared back cautiously and all I could do was gape at her big eyes full of questions.

Clearing my eyes I looked up at the sky and said,” I like this girl though I met her just a few weeks ago, I know I am in love with her and I am so afraid to tell her, what if she doesn’t feel the same way, what if I lose the friendship with her?”

“How do you know you love her?” I felt I heard a shiver in her voice.

“Well, she is the one controlling my sanity.”

“Tell her. If she says ‘yes’, you will have the world and if a ‘no’ then you won’t regret letting go, trust me.”

“You sure?”

“An one hundred and one percent” she grinned and looked away.

“I love you”

All she did was look at me in the most slow motion, gave the most surprised look and then her face gleamed in the most beautiful way. Her half-wet hair shaped her cute heart face, her big eyes looked straight at mine finding any glitches to my statement, that dimple beneath her left lips made her perfect lips more captivating yeah…

“Its You!”