Just after i stepped down from the train,roaring noise from the platform and that honking from the hulk engines after a great blending started to enter my ears.I started to hurry because i had told my mom that i will be reaching at home by 3:00pm .I crossed the overbridge to the others platforms and reached the EXIT way thinking about the autorickshaw I had to take from out side the platform.I had to take it by combating the heavy downpour from the pre-monsoon showers that was adamant not to spare anybody.while i was swimming in these thoughts i heard a familiar ring tone of my NOKIA coming from my right jeans pocket.The no. displayed on it was unknown to me.Anyway I recieved the call and to my surprise I heard a strange feminine voice "Where are you right now?".I wondered that if the call was from the Hospital then i brought my loitering mind to a standstill and asked "who's this?".The voice came "it doesn't matter who am I.just tell me where are you?"then i heard loud laugh on the phone.Then I was confident that some of my friend is playing prank on me.Then I too thought to play some mischief,I said that I was at my college.But The girl on the other side said "don't try to fool me ..I am coming to meet you..i know you are at a railway station."My mischievious mind thought "BACHCHI TEZ HAI"..She was an old friend whom i befriended at facebook couple of days back.But she kept asking about my situation.I got suspiscious and i told her that i'm not at my college and i am going to home.Even then she was adamant to know about me.Once again I tried my "JAMES BOND " mind to fool her.i told her that i am at railway station.about to exit from the Platform no 1.I was feeling like OSAMA challenginging the CIA to find and take revenge and Excited about the way she was going to respond if she really found out that I was away from my college.Then she engaged me on the phone for two more minutes and I thought I was going to win the situation then she suddenly said "turn around".To my surprise ,I got that "SAANP SOONGH GAYA THING"and felt as if the James Bond inside me got shot in the head and dead.I saw a beautiful girl in pink dress and a bag on her shoulders looking at me and smiling.I was not able to recognise her.After a while I caught my senses and asked her."Excuse me.Do I know you?"Ihad never seen her,not even a photograph till then so it was obvious that I was unable to recognise her.
She said "That depends on you?" Then she said "I am . Don't you remember?
I tried to light the Electric bulbs of my brain and tried to find out in which sulci-gyri of my brain she is in there.I had never seen her like this with so much change in her appearance after 10 long years.Finally I found her in some undefined areas related to my childhood.Then she said"Are we going to be like this for the whole day?common lets have coffee." Then we went to a restaurant and ordered capuccino.
I asked about her and her parents,her college ,her education and all the stuffs here and there.Then I asked what she was doing here?.I realised that she was trying to avoid my question.Then I told her that I am not going to get trapped in your net of skillful talks and I need a definite answer immediately.Friends I feel that that some girls have got tremendous ability to leave you entangled in their beautiful talks once you enter into them.I'm sure most of you agree with me on this.Immediately I smelled the trap and was congratulating myself as if I found a dangerous landmine with my bare hands ready to boom on my very next step.Slowly she took the last sips of her coffee.
After a few minutes of silence she told me that she had come from Bhopal all the way to see me.I realised that a few days back i had told her via FB chat that I was going to my home and she had taken the details of my train very skillfully from me at that time.I was wondering how she was able to get the reservation so quickly and matching the timing with my arrival.She told me later that she was waiting from 10:00am .I didn't know how to react.
I was unable to believe my reaction on hearing these ...."have you gone mad???....is this funny???......you came here all alone from bhopal.this is complete madness.why did you do this.?? are you dumb or what???what if your parents come to know????tell me....... why are you silent?
She was listening to me all this time.When she raised her head I noticed drops of beautiful tears hanging from her eyes like those dew drops trickling from black orchid,making a trail marks on her beautyful cheeks. I felt very bad that I shouldn't have used such harsh language.With her tearful eyes she said "I have got the return ticket to bhopal this evening,just let me be with you till my train arrives".Now I was really sorry for what I said to her and I didn't wanted to hurt her again.I wiped those precious pearls from her eyes and said to her that I was angry for her reckless act.we then sat at the restaurant and had a long talk.It felt like we were talking just for a few minutes but actually its been 4 hours...The time passed so quickly that I didn't realise that her train was about to arrive.Finally ,there was time to say her good bye and she left for her train.After a few minutes the train started jolting taking her away from my sight.
I wondered what was the mystery behind those tears.I didn't knew her very much except for a few vague memories from the school.Still wondering what was she thinking when she was holding my hands at the window of train and tears still trickling down her cheeks and the fellow passengers looking at me in a suspicious way.
I regained my consciousness by a loud honking train coming from opposite direction .I looked at my watch .It was 9:00 pm and I realised that I had to arrive at home by 3:00 pm.Immediately I ran out of the station thinking of the good scolding I was about to get from my mom because when I saw my cellphone I noticed that it was in the silent mode and there were 46 missed calls from my mom.I checked if my senses for touch were faded by long sitting.
At last I reached home at 10:00pm and had to give a white explanation how the engine of the train failed on the way to avoid the scolding.while during the night as I lay back in my bed at the end of a rather tiring day, my thoughts ,the mystery behind those tears haunted me ................................................and still haunts me.
