Seriously!

Hi all! Its nice to be back again. With a lot more of experiences of course! But there is this one thing I definitely want to share. Imagine a guy’s picture perfect college life – “Met her in 1^st yr, loved her a lot in 2^nd yr, proposed to her in 3^rd yr and got committed in 4^th yr”. But this one guy I know is almost obsessed with it! So here are the memoirs. (Italicised sentences are what the girls are thinking at that moment.)

It all started around the end of 3rd  yr when one fine day this guy, Rohan, walked up to my friend, Smita, to say hi.

Rohan,”Hi Smita!”

Smita,”Hi…”

Who is this creepy guy and why is he grinning?!

Rohan,”How did you do your test?”

Test?! How did he know we had a test?!

S,”Ahem… OK….”

R,”OK bye!”

Hey wait! Who are you?!

After some Inspector Jacques Clussoue-style investigation, we found out that he was our classmate. Damn! Till that day we didn’t even know he existed! And then it dawned to us that he has been following her for about 2yrs now. Quite literally following and staring. We remembered that he used to follow her even in the bus we travelled. He used to stay at the hostel so it didn't make sense if he went somewhere everyday after college. In fact, once in 2nd year, we had even intercepted and interrogated him. Then we dug out the history. Turns out he first got to know that Smita existed during the end of 1^st yr. And it was love at first sight!

I seriously don’t understand the concept of love at first sight. Neither does Smita. That’s the reason she actually agreed to me using her story for my research! So yes, in the subsequent posts I intend to analyze love at first sight.

But getting back to the topic, it seems he started following her ever since. Again, OK you like the girl. But does that mean following her, like some of those dumb heroes in movies that flopped even during our grandparents time would do because they don’t know to act otherwise; is the only thing to do? I mean forget heroes. Even dogs sometimes chase for no reason. Hell, if you carry some paalak with other vegetables even a goat will follow! So if a goat follows you, you’ll happily marry it?? Dude! Act like a human first!

And then the staring. Most of the time Smita would be thinking Who is this crazy fellow and why is he staring at me?! And what will he do if I stared back?! She tried it one morning. She did not stare. She just looked at him and he turned away. And guess what, we didn’t see him anywhere around that whole day! Chicken!

By this time Smita had found out that Rohan likes her and it was love at first sight. She had no idea why but she wanted to find out. Because she just could not understand how someone could love her with knowing her.

Seeing all this, we kind of felt sorry for him. So we suggested, that dude, forget love etc. Try to be a friend first. And he still has a problem – how do I communicate with her? Seriously, google, facebook, twitter, tagged, Vodafone, airtel, aircel, etc. will sue you simply for asking such a question in this era! So after we suggested this he sends her a friend request on facebook.

But Smita didn’t respond to the request for sometime. And then we noticed that he actually started dressing up like Devdas! Maar daala…. Oh…. Maar daala…. With that perpetually sad face too. Again one day, he walked up to talk to her.

R,”Hi…”

I’ve got to find out why he likes me. This is my chance!

S,”Hi… How are you? ”. She said it with a smile.

He passes her a piece of paper.

R,”This is my mobile number. Feel free to msg me anytime you feel like. Bye!”

He turns 180˚ and walks away.

Hey! I don’t even know you! And why don’t you just tell me directly?!


Smita wanted to ignore that mobile phone number and she tried to do so. But after very little time, he asked her for some help. Genuine help. Something any one else could have helped him with, but you see... in love apparently everyone near the person of interest is in never-never-land or something crap! So he asked her to help him out. Smita did not want to seem too rude or arrogant so she sms-ed him the details he needed. So yes, this was their first sms conversation. After that, he started msg-ing her everyday.

Day 1

R : Hi! :)
S : Hi...
R : Had dinner? :)
S : Yes
R : What did you have? :)
S : Roties and Aalu
R : Nice. What is your favorite colour? :)  
S : Violet
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Day 2

R : Hi! :)

S : Hi...

R : Had dinner? :)

Again?!

S : Yes

R : What did you have? :)

S : Dosas

R : Nice. What is your favorite animal? :)  

S : Cat

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Day 3

R : Hi! :)

S : Hi...

R : Had dinner? :)

Again?? What the hell?!

S : No

R : Why not? :(

S : Is not ready yet.

R : Oh!:( Anyway what is your favorite movie? :)  

S : Troy

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Day 4 

R : Hi! :)

S : Hi...

R : Had dinner? :)

Again?! Seriously what will he say if I said I had a Rat or something?! 

S: I had a Rat.
R : What?!
S : Yes. I had a rat. The tail tastes yummy.
R : Yuk! That's gross! Good bye!
S : Bye R! :)

S: I had a Rat.
R : What?!
S : Yes. I had a rat. The tail tastes yummy.
R : Yuk! That's gross! Good bye!
S : Bye R! :)

Sigh!

Smita : Yes

R : What did you have? :)

Smita : Idlies

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This went on for sometime. With these sms-s for reference, Rohan actually claims to know a lot about Smita. And yes, we had a lot of fun laughing on it. But after sometime, it got onto Smita's nerves. More so because we were teasing her.... ;) And so she decided to take revenge. During one such conversation event, she simply asked him why he was talking only to her and did he not think that her friends(including yours truly!), were his friends as well. And I believe he felt compelled to oblige! So that day forth,


Day 1


R: Hi! :)            R: Hi! :)               R: Hi! :)
S: Hi                P: Hi                   Me: Hi
R: Had dinner? :)    R: Had dinner? :)       R: Had dinner?:)
S: Yes               P: Ya                   Me: Yup
R: What dinner? :)   R: What dinner? :)      R: What dinner? :)
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Day 2


R: Hi! :)            R: Hi! :)               R: Hi! :)
S: Hi                P: Hi                   Me: Hi
R: Had dinner? :)    R: Had dinner? :)       R: Had dinner?:)
S: Yes               P: No                   Me: Not planning to
R: What dinner? :)   R: Why not? :)          R: Oh why? :)
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Day 3


R: Hi! :)            R: Hi! :)               R: Hi! :)
S: Hi                P: Talk                 Me: What?
R: Had dinner? :)    R: Had dinner? :)       R: Had dinner?:)
S: No                                        AAAARRRGGGGHHH!!!!
R: Have it soon :)   R: You there? :)        R: There? :)
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This went on for a while..... And then Rohan did something unbelievable! All that and more in the next post guys....