The New Road – part 3

Part 3

“The boys from the company who were managing her stuff to another city were very efficient and very careful with everything, she didn’t have to worry about anything… she had packed her very personal things already with Meena’s help.

Taking a last glance at the packing she turned to her car and moved to the back seat.

from very childhood she felt attached to everything, she was never in favor of changing places after you create a home there but her job didn’t allow her to make a place for long…here one more time she was leaving this city which was her home for the last three years.

Before joining another place she wanted to take a leave to visit her parents in Mumbai and here she was all packed for that.

“Madam where to?” she suddenly heard her driver.

“bade miyan, first take me that shakti temple and then we will go office…” she instructed her driver. it was good she had the opportunity to be with the persons she liked even when she had no choice to stop her transfers.

“bags packed bade miyan!!” she asked him.

“yes, Madam… we have to be there in time otherwise we will miss the flight.” the concerned voice of her driver made her smile.

A man in his early fifties who has had a few flights with her was still excited about these…

“of course we have to be on time Bade miyan.” she smiled.

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“work didn’t allow you!!” what does it mean?” he had asked her.

“It means I got busy with work and this thought went down in my priorities.” she typed.

She knew she was lying but how could she tell her heart when she had not even met him and know the possibilities.

What if he was still with her and they were having a fight or something…

What if he was going to tell her when they meet …

Or in worst cases he was just being casual and when they meet she will feel it was just a mistake…

But what if he was actually asking her to know more about her…Or What if he was genuinely interested…

She kicked the bed with all these thoughts, something she did when was nervous.

“Okay… I wish I could say the same.” his text got her curious

But she didn’t want to sound desperate so she thought to ignore the reply for the time being.

“courier companies, I think the most flourishing companies these days…I mean everyone is ordering something or another thing.” she typed.

“Was it a little too different to change the topic’ she thought after hitting send.

“of course… every day we deal with nearly a thousand off seas packages and don’t even ask about the local market.” his reply washed all her tensions.

“do you check all the packages?” she asked curiously after she heard the figures.

“pleaseee, I just have to sign the receipts, checking and scanning the packages is not my department.”

“Sorry…” she felt she texted something wrong but it was this charm of his that she was behaving like this.

“why Sorry… you didn’t say anything wrong Maya!!!” and was it the care in his next reply.

She didn’t know why she was thinking too much, perhaps it would be good if they meet in person.

“i have to catch the flight in the morning so…” now saying a bye was difficult, she fumbled with the right words.

“oh of course…” he was immediate with the reply.

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she has known this place all her life , from a very small age she was coming here.

More than the coffee and bakery it had that serene environment of this offshore cafeteria, the dim sound of Hindi songs in the air that attracted her the very first time.

She smiled how she used to tell her father to take her there… as a kid, she was not allowed to have coffee but she used to munch on the yellowish sweetbreads they used to cut in slices and offer her.

With time they had made changes to interior but the basic things were the same.

“Ma’am, what would you like to take?” the waiter asked her politely.

“nothing…I am waiting for for.. and her voice stuck in her throat, she noticed him making his way towards the cafe.

He was not a boy, he was a man now; she knew this by his profile updates but now his profile intimidated her. In the dark blue shirt which fitted him perfectly and black trousers, he looked so good.

“why on earth she decided to go pastel today?” she doubted her decision of this pastel pink dress

“i’ll order later,” she told him hurriedly.

she had decided to come earlier so she could make herself ready for the meeting with the man she wanted to talk about all these years… but he surprised her by coming early.

Perhaps he too thought to come early so they don’t have to wait for each other.

She waited for him to cross the corridor and then her heart started beating fast, it was a new feeling.

She didn’t feel like this when she was giving an interview in front of the big officers or all those times when she had to meet someone influential then why she was anxious this moment.

She thought to just stand and run from there but then her brain scolded her and made her sit there… she saw how his eyes looked up to search for a table in the cafe and she immediately looked away to give an impression she was noticing him.

“don’t look in his side now….” she told her eyes and started calming herself to be conformable in front of him.

After waiting for a few moments and her restless heart forced her eyes… she looked up only to find him coming towards her with a smile.

The background went nil for her, the brewing coffee flew somewhere else, her whole world made a small passage to some wormhole where she could only hear her heartbeats and see him making way towards her.

She has loved him a little too much and today even she could not deny it… she would never feel this for anyone else other than.

“officer!!!” her thoughts got the support of firmness as he called her.

For the first time, she was hearing his voice… not only she had lived an uncertain story but a mute love too.

Controlling her blushing cheeks she tried to smile, “Hii”

“you recognized me!!!” she asked after he settled in front of her.

” It was not that tough to recognize you…” he answered as he kept his phone and sunglasses on the table.

“but the DP had not a very clear picture…” she was curious.

“I thought to take the risk…” he smiled.

In that corridor of the workshop, they have crossed each other many times but not once she had dreamed such a moment… perhaps she was not confident about her back then but today this moment happened and though she didn’t know their future she wanted to live this moment.

“it is a bakery more than a cafeteria…I am coming for the first time.”

“and I am coming as a kid.”

“no wonder, you had mentioned this place the first while discussing this meeting.” he was observant.

“no your ideas were also good but I just love this place,” she replied, it was getting hard to look into his eyes.

The place he had mentioned was the same coffee shop he had posted a few pictures with her and she didn’t want to meet him for the first time in such a place.

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Is it good or bad I don’t know, does it happen or not I don’t know, but this story is something I imagine the most at this point.

I just like this idea of what it will be like when you are meeting the love of your life after years, how a girl is feeling about it. Utter nervousness, self-consciousness, moments making her blush pink every moment and insecurities about little things… I think these will accompany her to that first meet.

I hope you guys liked it…

What do you think will happen now?

Is there a so-called happy ending starting with this meet after ten years or Maya has to finally turn towards THE NEW ROAD.

I will be waiting for your response.

And  A very HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone reading this.. love you guys♥♥

With love Morusya.