It was just another pouring day of july. It had been days since the rains began, and showed no signs of stopping. But to Ayshi Mehra it just was another reason that made her run for the hills since she joined the med school. Just a fresher she was and for the past two months away from home,she had come to despise her place of study.
As for today, she was running late for the anatomy lecture. On purpose to try to get out of the smell flesh rotting in formaline. However she collected all her strength to get pass this day,another day.
CUT TO COLLEGE CANTEEN
A group of 15 students gathered around a table singing A Happy Birthday song in chorus, as Samyak cut the cake. As made his way through is friends feeding him cake, all of them attacked him with a burst of powder colour. Samyak Mehta, student council president, Teacher's pet, An A-student was a student in second-due.
CUT TO SOME CORRIDOR
After all the shenanigans in the canteen, samyak was left alone with some of his room mates to wash all the colour attack evidence off his face.
Just as he was rinsing the colour off ,Ayshi with some of her girlfriend happened to pass the corridor, just when samyak's friends summoned them.
"Hey three of you",said one of them, " Are you all freshers?" he asked enquiringly.
"Yes",replied ayshi as they walked away smiling slightly looking at someone who rinsing his face.
Just as she realized it was samyak. The Samyak Mehta! And with each splash of water that struck his face rinsing off the colour powder made her fall for him,over and over again.
Even dressed in a plane button down navy blue shirt and a jeans too worn out and some hideous green flip flops, Samyak was the anchor she realized would keep her grounded in the world she had come to despise.
Even samyak couldn't ignore ayshi dressed in a white kurta with pink trimmings and pink chudidaar along with her studded hot pink footwear, her slender body and curly short hair made her stand out. Looking at her he felt something so little in the depth of his heart. Little but still something,that would show in his slightly curved lips as he smiled.
CUT TO SAMYAK'S RESIDENCE
At night when samyak sat in his room, glaring over a textbook of medicine, something at the back of his mind wouldn't let him do so. It was her that came again and again to him, the way she laughed as she strolled by in the corridor with her friends. She wouldn't get off his mind. And it was something that Mr. Student council president had never felt, some alien feeling that had grown since that encounter in the morning.
CUT TO GIRLS HOSTEL
Ayshi too lay in her bed, she couldn't read ofcourse! She had hated her MBBS! And today she found how would she could survive in this world. Just when one of her roommates asked her excitedly,
"Hey, do you know? Who was Mr.Hot this morning in the corridor?".
Ayshi decided to keep quiet as if anything she would say was just expressing her feeling about him.
"Oooh, the one who was washing his face huh? That one?" another girl chimed in. "He is our council president Samyak mehta" she said cheerfully.
Just as she said it, ayshi blushed inside. Knowing what unknown alleys she would be walking if she walked towards him.
NEXT DAY
Next day,the pouring had somehow stopped.Samyak would be found in canteen at the break hour after they were done with their term rotations, Just when ayshi finished of with her awful physiology lectures.
She was just hanging out with her friends in the far left corner of the canteen. And samyak was seated in front working on his pathology journals surrounded by a group of friends, screaming and shouting in the hustle bustle of the canteen atmosphere.
After a couple of minutes when he realized, ayshi was in the same permise, he couldn't stop himself glancing her way, just to find out her staring back at him, when their eyes met and H&E pencil fell off his hand. She had intimidated him enough to go talk to her.
Which was the next thing as he found himself walking to her table to introduce himself.
At the same time ayshi's heart was pounding in her chest, so hard that it would come right out of her! Enough was the embarrassment of her tachycardia! When she saw him leap to his feet, and walking his way to their table. Was it for real? She kept wondering, till he reached their table and greeted her warmly grinning from ear to ear.
She was awestruck! He looked even more handsome without colour powder on his face, but she was dumbfounded as to what for was he here? She too greeted him with respect mandatory for a senior.He just chatted to them for a while. She still holding up herself seeming as calm as possible,and his heart fluttering like a bird caged in his own chest!
Day after day conversation became long, both of them were like twins joined at hip, inseparable and together invincible and as they were labelled "Picture perfect".
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Today was his last day of internship and she had just admitted in her final year. They had promised to keep in touch. In their history of 2 years, they had fought and patched up, danced and cried all bye each others side, all together amd hand in hand. And today it might just end abruptly. It might be their end.
Samyak had asked her to meet her at the canteen where it all began by the end of the day, where a farwell party was in progress. Samyak as well as all the batch mates were to be there. And for Ayshi, it didn't end here, may be tonight,she didn't know.
FAREWELL NIGHT
The disco themed party was in progress. Samyak and his friends had arrived already. He donned a black tuxedo,with thin lapels and a corsage at the suit collar, waiting for Ayshi, she had come up with some last minute presentation so she would arrive later.
Later, as party progressed ayshi came in wearing an adorable white fitted gown,her hair pulled up in a bun making her her radiant face glow even more under the light reflected by the disco ball. Smayak awstruck look at his beautiful ayshi. As she looked and smiled to him wearing a corsage on her wrist that matched his.
As both of them met at the centre of the dance floor, and DJ played a soothing romantic song in the background. The floor cleared as both of them came together.
As she laughed her adorable laughter looking at her samyak, He got down on one knee pulling a ring out in a little tiffany box , as his face shone brightly.
"Will you grow old with me?", he mouthed.
Just when he said it, her hands drew to her mouth open wide! As she was shocked to a surprise as the chorus began to sing the same song DJ had played. She wanted to jump up and down like a kid as she said, " Ofcourse Mr. Student president" enthusiastically.
