Oh Yes. Valentine’s Day.
I’ll never forget our first.
Here I was at home, getting my morning fix of local news, when this huge bouquet arrived. You should thank your stars that it was me and not my mom who opened the door.
There was no note, no name. I have to admit I felt secretly happy, even though I was already in a relationship with you at the time.
But that was not all – a CD collection of my favourite singer, along with a note arrived around mid-day. It was an invitation to a candle lit dinner, complete with directions.
In the hierarchy of forbidden pleasures, few can match that of a woman in a committed relationship receiving non-boyfriend non-husband attention. I decided to go ahead. ;)
If there’s anything called a trauma of exhilaration, I got a taste of it that day.
I reached the restaurant and there you were! Wearing the shirt I gave you last birthday and my favourite smile, it was my prince, who’d planned an elaborate Valentine’s Day for his princess – complete with all the surprises a girl could ask for and then some!
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It’s real that we’re not together anymore, is it? I don’t even know what went wrong. I have tried my best. I know I’m always there and I’ll keep every promise I made you, even if we never see each other again. Whatever you do, please – please be happy.
Maybe…just… remember me sometimes. Maybe when you’re asleep, sometimes dream of what could’ve been, if we’d tried.
I know I can handle the challenges you were afraid of. And if you know me or my love at all, you know that too.
You remember those pretty verses I used to write for you which always made you laugh? Here’s one I wrote last night.
Dono ankhon mein ashq liya karte hain
Hum apni neend mein tera naam kiya karte hain
Jab bhi palkein jhapke tumhari,
Samajh lena hum tumhe dil se yaad kiya karte hain…..
Outgrowing my feelings for you is hard to do it seems. ;)
On this Valentine’s Day I want you to know that I’ll be waiting…till 11:59: 59 PM today. If you ever loved me, show me now. But if you don’t, I’ll understand. I’ll understand that it was my mistake – I was living in a reality of make-believe. That all that happened over the all those months were mere figments of my imagination – even your love. That’ll make it easier for me to close this chapter forever.
dats sad !!! may be its something like — good girl meets a “not good” boy… dat was really sad…i mean, can understand very well & empathize…
I understand Swapnil. You’re both incredible people in your own rights and would create the happiness you deserve, brick by brick, irrespective of all glitches on the way. :)