Love Story-Made For Each Other -3

Back to the home from the first day of work in his new office, Surya doesn’t know what is going on here. He consider the whole day as a sweet dream in the night. Before the dinner, all of his room mates joined the story and heard till the evening. He asked Vishal whether Veena was there in the treat which Vishal and Priya gave in the restaurant. Vishal was not sure about her. He immediately called Priya and asked about Naveena had attended the party or not. Priya said that she is the only one who is not attended the treat and she remained him that, she mentioned about Veena in the party. “Who cares about her at that time? Every body is busy in ordering the food” Arjun commented for his part. Surya gave him a weird look and concentrated on Vishal. Priya told about Veena that she is quite a normal and to some extent reserved girl. Surya wanted her number from Priya but he decided to get it from her itself when they are close to each other. Priya also promised not to tell Veena about this conversation. All the room mates discussed about the coincidences and Surya went to sleep with lot many questions in his mind.

Next day is a new dawn for Surya. He usually woke up late in the morning but today he wanted to see Veena in the bus. Arjun is the one who will leave to office before everybody wakes up. Surya is reading the papers when Arjun is started preparing to going to office.
“Hey buddy! What happened to you? You wake up so early. Are you going to press your dress from now?” he asked sarcastically.
Surya give him a little cross lip smile as a reply.
“Don’t charge the IPod fully. Only charge for 10 min. Else you don’t get a chance to talk to her” Arjun said tying his shoe lace.
Again smile is the reply from Surya. Arjun started to his office saying bye and best of luck to Surya.
Surya started for the day to his office and he is in the bus now, expecting Veena to accompany in the next shop. To his expectation she boarded in the stop and she looked for the people. With a cute smile she came and sits next to Surya.

They greeted each other with ‘Hi’ and ‘Good Morning’. Surya doesn’t know how to begin the chat. Suddenly Priya strikes in his mind. “So did you buzz your best friend yesterday?” he started slowly. “No Yaar. I was bit busy and also tired yesterday. So I didn’t have a chance to call her” she replied in disguise. “So you have been staying here since you come to Chennai?” he asked to get to know the details on her.
“Nope. I just moved here recently. Previously I was in Area 33 when I was working in Company X as it is very near to my company”, she replied adjusting her hair which was flying the wind.
“Great. So how did you join the company? Are you campus recruited?” he doesn’t know how to talk about the personal information. So he decided to go along with this type of HR or rather interview questions.
“No. Previously I worked in Company Y and then moved to Company X”, she gave her bio-data.
Again a thunder strikes his mind. Vijay’s girl friend Rita is working in Company Y and is also staying in Area 33. In fact Surya know her well about the area and Rita as she is Vijay’s girl friend from the college itself. Some times Surya did a call taxi driver service by picking up Rita and drop in her hostel when Vijay Was busy with his works. Now he is not sure that Veena knows her or not but any way he decided to ask her about Rita.

“Hmm. I know a girl in the Company Y who is also staying in Area 33, in youth Ladies Hostel”, he gasped his breath to tell her name but she interrupted.
“Really! I’m also stayed in the same hostel”, replied with a second shock from him.
“Oh my God. What is happening here?” he said to himself and decided to tell about Rita.
“Her name is Rita. She had been there since her college days. Not even changed her room. I know she is on Room 123” he gave the details about Rita.
“You Know Rita? I’m on 122. We used to go to office together. Jesus! You know almost all my friends”, she is not holding her emotions any more.
Surya is hard to believe that all of his close relationships are some how related to the Veena. He made up in his mind that she is the ONE born for him. She is with him these days without having the knowledge on each other.

The bus reached the office and they go to their respective blocks as they are assigned for different accounts. They decided to meet on lunch hours daily and of course they are now the bus mates from today. As they didn’t know any body else, they stick on together to each other.
The bus journey and the lunch hours are the best and auspicious timings of the day for Surya as he is spending the hours with Veena.
Now Surya’s interest shifted to reading books like, How to influence other People? Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. Chicken soup for Teen’s Soul and other personality and self development or improvement books.
His day now begins with ‘How to Know Malayalam in 30 days’ instead of the ‘Holy Bible’. And instead of listening to the gospel songs, he tried to hear and understand the Malayalam songs. But unfortunately he is not able to understand not even a single line.
The both shared their likes, dislikes, interests, places, people they came across, hobbies, movies and many more. Surya got her number on the 3rd day itself and they started talking to each other within one week over the phone.
Now his days are more on the phone and internal messengers in the office and that too with only one person, Veena.

It has been over 5 months since Surya joined the new company or in other terms he met Veena. Surya and Veena are very close to each other and they really maintain a good friendship. The beauty in their relationship is that they never met outside the Office or Office bus. They are actually a good companion to each other’s complex. It was on one Wednesday the sad thing happened. She wore a pure white chudithar and she typically looked like a keralite with a turmeric strand in her fore head. She caught the bus in a hurry burry in the morning so that she couldn’t comb and pinned her hair properly. It was a tough day for her too. On the evening return Surya had a dull face and he seemed that he had lost something very precious in his life.

Both sat in silence on the return journey unlike other days. Veena is also tired but it looked strange for her. Her hair is caressing his face in the evening wind and he is not in a mood to enjoy this beautiful moment. It was Veena who breaks the ice. “Why are you so dull dumbo? Wake up and cheer me up. I’m so tired of my project schedules. From next week on I guess I’ll be staying late in the office and I wont be able to accompany you during the evening” she murmured in her tiredness.
He didn’t reply anything on hearing this. “I‘m going to miss you in the evenings for some days da”, she continued. “But I won’t let you alone for this whole journey. I’ll call you once you are in the bus and I’ll promise to talk to you till you reach home. Is that ok. Shall we have a deal then?”
Surya, slowly, “I don’t know how to tell this to you. But things are happing to us synchronously. I’m also going to miss you from next week”
“Oh. You are also having a project deadline. Cool. Don’t worry. We will take a break in the office at the evening then”, she replied happily.
“No” he nodded. “I’m going to Bangalore as my project is shifted to Bangalore this week end. All of us are going to Bangalore this week end” his heart is pounding heavily.

She is not able to react for some minutes. Unconsciously she wrapped her hand on his hand and she mounted her fore head on his left shoulders. The both are holding their hands together. It was a strange feeling for Surya. After his sister, she is the only women in his life to hold the hands like this. He felt comfortable and soothing at this moment. Both, doesn’t talk to each other for some minutes. “Okay. When are you leaving”, she raised her head towards him. “Saturday night. Sunday we have a BCP and connectivity testing there, in Bangalore. So everybody are moving on Saturday night” he looked the uneven flocks of her hair. She looked more beautiful than in the combed hair.
The rest of the journey is filled with silence and they didn’t call each other in that night.

Surya’s room mates are upset on hearing the news of the transfer. “At last we have to be separated on day. We won’t be living like this for our entire life. Every one is going to get married and settled with their wives. Being separated form each other doesn’t mean that we have completely forgotten each other. We will keep in touch with each other. Don’t worry about this separation and take this as a new opportunity to build your career” Arjun finally consoled everybody.
Thursday Surya and Veena didn’t talk much the separation but they discussed other things like the project stuff and all.

Friday has come. Surya has left only today to spend with Veena. Arjun asked Surya to take her out to beach or any other hang out. Surya liked his idea. Surya slowly started, “Why don’t we go out tonight after the office gets over?” he asked when they are on the bus.
“Where to?” she replied.
“Hmm... May be for a movie?” he asked with some hesitation.
She is thinking for a long time. He thought she may felt bad about this idea. “If you don’t want to come with me to watch movie, we can go for a restaurant. Is that okay for you?” he suddenly changed the venue.
“No. Nothing like that. I was just thinking that movie will take some long time to return in the night. So...” she is thinking again.
“Not more than 10:00. We will reach before 10:30 to home. I’ll drop you and take care of your safety”, he said as if he is a black belt in Marshall Arts.
“That’s okay. Deal then” she gave the permission with a cute smile.

Surya booked the ticket for an English Movie as both are comfortable only in that language. Both can understand the other’s mother tongue to some extent but they are not the professionals in understanding all.
They returned early from the office. Vijay and Vishal want Surya to propose today and they said that you can’t get a chance like this again. Both of them are proposed to their girl friend only in the Cinema Theater and especially in the Sathyam Complex where Surya is heading to. They even mocked that it’s a lucky theater for our home so that Surya can succeed if he proposes there. Surya is in a confused state whether to propose or not. Surya looked at Arjun. “What I’m not going to tell anything this time. It’s your life and your wish. You should be in a position to know the correct time to do this. Don’t take the other’s words for granted. Also love takes different forms and feelings according to the people’s attitude. Some people propose to whom they can live with and some with whom they can’t live without and in some others they simply forget the relation and marry some other people. Your decision is the final” Arjun gave a long speech and left the room.

Surya borrowed Vijay’s Pulsar and he is on time to pick up Veena at the bus stop. He dropped many girls in the bike. He regularly drops Rita and he did the driver job for Priya also. But he is feeling some what happy and he doesn’t know the reason.
Sathyam complex full of youths in the Friday and Saturday nights, both are adding a feather to the cap in the theater. They walked hand in hand to the hall and they watched the whole movie holding their hands.

During the return Surya felt a weird feeling in his life when, she holds his shoulders some time. He watched her in the real view mirror at time and he could see the tears coming out of her eyes. As he reduces the speed she wiped off the tears. He asked her whether he is going in s high speed which results in tears. She nodded and he drove the Pulsar with a minimum speed enjoying the beautiful night.

Saturday he is busy with his packing stuffs. His room mates helped a lot in doing the packing. They finished the packing in the afternoon itself and all of them went for a good restaurant to have a lunch. After lunch they went for Coffee day to have of course coffee. This is an unarranged schedule as both Rita and Priya wants to meet Surya before he leave. Actually Surya wants to have the lunch with his room mates alone. So he decided to meet them at the coffee shop.
Surya is always running behind the schedules and he never say to any of the appointment. He does not keep up his time always. When they returned it’s already late to catch the train. But Surya started to dial in his mobile phone. Vishal scolded him and tell Surya to make his call during his journey to the station itself.

As expected, he called up Veena and talked till they reach the station. As we easily guessed, they both exchanged lot of promises to send good morning and good night messages, proper mails, phone calls etc and they plan to build a strategy like a defense minister to keep in touch with each other.
The room mates had their dinner together in the station and Surya started his journey to Bangalore leaving Chennai, his room mates and of course his beloved unknown relationship named Veena.