My First Date......

It was the 9th of September 1996...yes I have been in a relation since quite some time....or rather it would be very apt is I said that its been 12 yrs for both of us .....what started as a simple crush has turned out to be a lifelong relation.......

he was staying at our place those days for taking some coaching and the coaching center was near to our place....I was really happy to know that he will coming to stay with us for a couple of months, but knowing very much the kind of a person he is I wasn’t expecting much to spend time with him during his stay......he was nicknamed "bookworm" ...he would just come out of his room only for lunch and dinner.......

I still remember that day vividly.....its still fresh in my memory.....it was an unusually pleasant evening........ usually one doesn’t get to find such pleasant evenings in Hyderabad right in the month of September......I was taking a little walk on our terrace and enjoying the very rare evening climate ..... suddenly I see that he also has joined me on the terrace..... I enjoyed all those feelings of puppy love during this time, skipping a heart beat whenever I saw him ...and things like that.....I felt one of those right at that moment also......because those were the days when he was a little subtle and I was aggressive (of course its a different issue that its the other way round now ... ;o) ) ..... We started talking about everything under the sun but some sweet nothings ....I was waiting for him to say something really romantic, but as I said he would not take the first step......

then at that moment I said " why don’t we go out somewhere ?, its such nice weather .." ...to my surprise he agreed...... he had a class in the evening, so we decided to meet somewhere after the class...and I decided where we would meet after the class ....

there was a greeting cards outlet "fantasies" near by ....we decided we would meet there , sharp at 7:00 pm ......I reminded him a hundred times before he left for the class about our so called plan.......I started off at home around 6:30, as I got closer to the cards shop, my heart started beating faster......I reached there around 6:45, and started looking at the cards section by section......well this was one favourite pass time of mine, I enjoyed it a lot , I could spend hours together in a cards shop......but even this so called favourite pass time of mine was not killing the time.....those 15 minutes seemed so long.....finally it was 7:00 pm and my eyes started scanning the entrance of the shop every second .....

7:05....7:10......I though he might have got stuck in the traffic......7:15 .....I was sure he forgot about our plan, was furious or rather very disappointed ......I decided I will pick up a card now that I have spent half an hour in that shop and walk back home.....2 minutes later I see that someone I standing right beside me and seriously looking at the cards...I just turned my head and could not believe my eyes....it was him standing beside me with his usual mischievous smile........he knew very well that I was annoyed......we spent around 20 more minutes in the shop, picked up a couple of cards and walked out ......

What next???.... this was the question both of us had in our minds at this point.......he suggested we go to a bakery and have something...... I had mixed feelings, excited and nervous too....it was the first time we were doing this....I said yes very hesitantly.......we walked to a near by bakery, I had a black forest pastry and he had a burger.....this took us another 15 minutes........we dint talk much in the bakery... the feeling that he was beside me and its just the two of us was so very new and fascinating to me........

finally it was time to go back home......we started back on his scooter......when we were almost reaching home, I asked him to stop there, I got down and told him that I will come walking, he insisted that I come along with him, but I was not comfortable with it .......

He started off, and then suddenly stopped turned back......I walked up to him.....and suddenly the same thought crossed both our minds, as it always did........ “This is our first date!!!"