Real life…. 

Next day, 17th – he called her after coming back from his office, in the night. He pressed and continued holding the digit 9 on his mobile, which was the speed-dial for her number, 98******59. Trrring.. Trrring.. His heart was beating like anything… He was afraid whether she could be able to hear his heart beats. Finally, she picked up. “Hellooo… Whazzup, dear?” A sweet voice came through the phone, which went deep and struck his heart. The sweet lovely voice that he loves to hear all the time… “What happened? Today also you called me? Is something urgent?” Her voice broke his thoughts. 

He said, “Oh.. Actually speaking.. Nothing.. I called you just for nothing..” She said, “I knew you would call me today too”

‘What? How come she knew that?’, he whispered to himself and asked her, “How did you know that?”

“Nowadays you started calling me almost every day. Hence I did a small guess, that’s it”, she said.

Their conversation continued for about half-an hour and he was thinking inside that how would he start, how would he tell, would she take it seriously and definitely, her answer would be a NO. But he didn’t get any chance to say the “real” reason for his call. Sometime later, his daily-calls to her became the topic. She mentioned, “Why are you actually calling me every day? Even about this call, I thought you would call me, but didn’t expect that.” 

He asked, “Why? Do you have any problem? Or shall I ask your permission before calling you?”

She, who is having a nature of giving teasing answers, said, “Yes, you have to ask my permission to call me” 

He replied quickly, “Ok, so now you need me to ask your permission for this call?” and she said, “Yes.”

“Ma’am, will you please give me permission to call you every day?” He was framing this question in his mind, but he didn’t just ask. Just one moment and another idea striked his mind. (He believes that the re-thinking before asking was not his usual nature, but he got it at that time only because of God’s grace.)

He thought, ‘Why don’t you propose her now? Anyhow, she asked you to get her permission and is waiting for that. Why don’t you ask her permission to share your whole life? This is the right time, you may not get another chance to tell your love, or again you have to postpone it’

All these thoughts went through his mind in a fraction of a second.

“Shall I marry you?” suddenly he asked.

“What? What did you ask?” She replied quickly, as she heard something unexpected.

“I asked, shall I marry you?” he asked again.

“Are you joking or what?” Still she was not sure on what did he ask.

He said, “S****, I might have told you in an easy manner, but I’m serious. Really very serious. I really need you in my life. Will you be mine?”

Quickly, she became serious, her smiling voice vanished, her tone loudly said that she was serious and her mood changed into a tensed state.

For a moment, she thought that he was seriously joking and taking revenge on her – if she said yes, then he might tell her that he was really joking and he don’t have any such feeling and hence he can take revenge on her for not telling yes to his first proposal when they were in school. She again thought, she can simply give a positive reply and if he says he was joking, then she can tell him that she’s too joking. (If he was serious, then what would she do? That question was unanswered…) So she decided to tell him “Yes” right at that moment. 

She replied him, “Yes, you can (marry me).” (She seriously didn’t mean it) 

He was really surprised at what he heard. He could’t even believe his ears. He really thought that she too was serious. He felt very happy and told her that he’s now world’s happiest man. He again said her, “I can’t believe that the girl whom I love in my heart for the past 11 years just now said “Yes” to my proposal!!” His voice was filled with great enthusiasm and she could really felt it. Only then she had realized that he was really serious, but hadn’t told him that she didn’t mean it when she said it. That night, he happily slept and his heart was filled with joy because his love became successful.

But she couldn’t sleep for another two hours. She was a little bit upset knowing he was really serious. She was thinking about the (serious) reply she has to give him. After about one and a half hours, she came to a final decision and she needed it to be kept always. Will her decision be in favor or against him?

The next day (18th) he was in morning shift. While he was in the office, she gave him a missed call. He called her back with lots of happiness. She told him that, last night she had a dream. He curiously asked, “What was the dream?”

She replied, “I dreamt that one guy proposed me and I said “Yes” to his proposal.”

“Wow, that’s good. What happened next?” he asked.

“That’s all. Then the dream was over. I don’t know whether it was real or not. But I think, it was simply a dream” she said.

He felt something fishy in her words, but didn’t ask her anything, thinking that he can ask her in evening. Late in the evening, he called her. After their usual talks, he asked her, “Why did you say that you have had a dream last night? Were all those happened been only a dream for you? Again, please don’t make me fool this time, tell me the truth. Please.. I’m ready to hear anything.. Please tell me why did you say like that?”

“Nothing, I said it for nothing, yaar” she tried to lighten the situation. 

But he was not convinced. He told, “No, something is there. I think something is there. C’mon, tell me.”

She said, “I don’t know whether I’m doing correct or not. I’ve decided this after thinking a lot. I really don’t know I’m right or wrong”

Hearing this, he heard the sound of his heart breaking into pieces. He felt that those things she told him the previous day were jokes. But he prepared his mind to hear a serious “No” from her.

“Tell me whatever it is, right or wrong” he tried to push her, to tell the truth. 

She continued after a pretty long silence. May be she too was preparing herself to tell him the truth – her final decision. Her long silence made his heart to sink, making him really painful to hear those 2-lettered word from her. But he too remained silent, letting her to tell everything she wanted to tell.

She broke the silence between them and said, “A****, I love you” 

He couldn’t believe what he has heard. ‘Did she tell that she loves me?’

“What? What did you say?” he asked. She said, “It’s really very tough to say it again. I really felt pain in my heart to tell those words. I don’t know whether it actually meant as much as I’m wanted to say”. This time, he felt real tightness in her voice, which told him that she’s damn serious. 

He was feeling like his heart was lifted from the depth and pumped into the sky, on the top of everything!!!!! 

“Golden words are not repeated, isn’t?” he smiled and asked her, remembering his best friend. He continued, “So I can marry you and you gave me the permission, isn’t?”

She said, “Yes, you can” in a smiling voice. Yes, she too was very happy and became happier when she felt his happiness through his voice. 

Both opened their heart that night and had a long conversation. He told his the feelings which he had in his mind for the past 11 years. She too revealed him later that she started to like him from her 2nd year at college itself and she herself became aware about it when her mom said her that he might have got some girl friends and may be, that is why he didn’t contact her during her 1st year. This thought made her upset at that time and she was surprised on thinking that why did she become upset then. That’s why she created a new e-mail id when he had asked for her id. She wanted to keep in touch with him. Sometimes, she was eagerly waiting for his call and sometimes when she was not in a good mood, she wished he would’ve called her then to talk…

Hearing all these things, he was wondered and it made him really happy… Very very happy… Perhaps he was the happiest person on earth that day… 

Both had a good sleep that day…