Yet another sleepless night

And there was reason. I got to hear from my old college buddy Arun after a long time. I started thinking about Arun, my good friend in college. We were in our second year of engineering and were awaiting the juniors to join. Being seniors for the first time was exciting all of us. People were all planning intelligent ragging pranks as ragging was officially banned in our college. Two months down the line, things normalized as usual, no more ragging pranks. Then there was this talk of the town junior Divya. She got famous as the home coming queen in the US colleges. Man, she was one perfect girl: not too beautiful and not less too. I have to confess, even I was after her for sometime as she was from our own department and we were her immediate seniors. Soon I realized that she’s too good to be mine. For me, the life has just been to compromise and to console!

Well, it’s my friend Arun who shocked me when I realized that he was feeling love for Divya. This went unnoticed for most of our friends for quite some time. I was guessing it as I was close to Arun and to some extent knew Divya. Slowly our guys go to know about this as the friendship was too close to remain just friendship. In a year, they got really close. And the question, where this relationship was heading, was getting in everyone’s mind. I felt they made a good pair but are they serious?

Arun was really serious but was playing safe for the obvious reason that he may end up losing her friendship too. Divya looked serious as she let the relationship go on strong and better with Arun hinting his love everyday. She could also be playing smart, but I could hardly get her perspective in this. I just kept myself informed of the relationship.

End of our college days, the relationship was still the same. Arun never proposed. Ask me, there was no need for proposal. But as it happens, in love, a yes or no is needed. The relationship cannot proceed further if it’s not defined properly within the time. May be Arun was more conscious of his friendship than the love. May be she knew of this and made him also realize this and played safe. All my inferences could also end up no where close to the reality. A guy becomes wild when he knows someone figured out his unspoken love. I never wanted to risk that. I thought let me just wait and watch.

It’s been five years since we left college. One of my college friends had mailed his wedding invitation. I was happy to see Arun in the ‘To’ list. I mailed Arun almost after three years and of course was curious to learn about the relationship but the since it was the first mail, I kept it very formal asking about his present life. But his reply answered my curiosity and failed all my inferences about the relationship. I realized how bad I was or rather still I’m in reading a girl’s mind. Thanks Arun for making me realize that.