I was a college student when I first saw her. I am somewhat adventurous guy. She has a dazzling smile and amazed me with her outgoing personality along her beauty. I hoped we might become friends and tried to introduce myself by offering coffee. But my fate, I spilled coffee on her dupatta accidentally. I also found that she has a strong hand which left my ear ringing, that day. Whenever I tried to meet her, I don't know how, she gets a chance to slap me and I gets a chance to hurt her with my sarcastic remarks. Instead of friend I found my Jerry in her as she found her Tom in me.
Not a day passed without a fight between us. Even it be a petty little thing it turns into a great fight. Though we fight I realised that my day is not over if I did not have a word with her let alone a fight. Later I found that she misses me as much as I miss her, when I took a sick leave of 6 days, from my close friends. I recalled all of our screaming games. When I filtered them, I noticed most of the fights are about making me clear about the stupid mistakes done by me.
I noticed that I was slowly developing feelings for her through our fights. And I hoped she too. I took the help of my mutual friend and asked her to find about her. The answer was positive but I am not satisfied.
I want to know the truth by myself and did a stupid thing. I flirted with another girl right in front of her (which is a ploy) and she noticed us. She turned into a screaming valkyrie and scared the girl. She then turned to me and it is my turn to face the music. For the first time in our fights instead of counter-screaming, I focused on her. She is even more beautiful when is angry. I realised she had more feelings for me than I had for her.
I was too lost in her beauty and didn't say a word. She stopped her rant due to lack of my response and noticed me staring goofily at her. The new found silence pulled me out of my trance. I noticed her blushing. I was about to start my explanation, before I utter a word the bell has struck. Talk about bad luck. She used this opportunity and fled to her class, I grudgingly moved to my class. I vowed to explain myself to her at any cost. Alas, I did not get the chance that day.
I tried the very next day, no use. She didn't even listen to me. I came to an epiphany, what I did was shit and I am a dick.
The very next day by hatching a perfect plan (which by the god's grace worked) with the help of her friend, I confounded her in an empty classroom. Just before she started reading the riot act "I love you" I said.
Man, did she blush? Her whole face turned beet red. She cast her head down.
"What's your answer sweetness?" silence ruled the room.
Lifting her chin "Should I take your silence as yes?" I asked while looking into her almond shaped eyes.
I never saw her hand rising. The slap is a more of a surprise. Shock settled first. Later sadness overwhelmed my body on her denial.
"If you did love me, why the hell did you flirt with that bitch?"
The relief was massive from her words and I immediately launched into explanation without losing a moment "sweet heart that was just a ploy to confirm my suspicions about your feelings on me."
"You should have asked me first." With both anger and hurt in her voice.
"I know it is really bad of me to pull a stunt like that, but I don't want to risk our little tom and jerry friendship. I am really sorry. So, I ask again do you love me?"
"Yes, you goofball."
"Seriously, goofball??" with a fake frown on my face.
"Yes, but my goofball" she said lovingly while enveloping me in her arms.
With a little fight from our parents on both sides, we got their blessings to proceed further and warned us to hold on to our horses and take it slow. After few years of romance and our little tom and jerry fights, I decided to tie the knot.
On the eve of her 24th birthday, which is also a date night, I decided to ask her decision about marriage.
We were on our way to her room where she is staying with her sister on rental basis. She shifted into the room last year. It is near to both her office and her sister's college. We chatted about many things which varied from watching sunset to first printing press and politics to jack and rose's kiss in titanic. I then introduced my ideas about my dream house to her. Between the lines I heard my mother in her, my mother is definitely rubbing off her. My woman became a daughter to my mother who she never had. They were so thick, like a pair of well-seasoned thieves and she teased me mercilessly using the information about the goofy and innocently stupid things once I had done in my childhood.
I dropped her at her room. She invited me in. When I queried about her sister, I found out she is at her friend's place for late night study session for her oncoming exams.
She changed into her normal clothes and "drink?"
"A cup of coffee would be great."
"Ok".
Though the place was known to me, I wandered to check her room. As I am appreciating her talent in organising, a pair of hands enveloped my back.
"It's not a gentleman thing to peep into other's room without their permission." my woman accused me lovingly with her chin against my back.
I pulled her to my frontside and said "I am a gentleman only when you are with me beautiful and when you became mine, I was given permission to do anything with you and your things, by you" with full mischievousness, love and desire in my eyes.
The blush that flashed across her dimple cheeks ignited the fire in my eyes.
She moved towards the kitchen to take care of aforementioned coffee after temporarily taking care of my need of her with a toe-curling kiss.
When she came back with two cups of coffee, her breath was still fast and deep. Her chaffed lips touched her coffee cup after giving mine.
"Hmm, it has a nice taste but not much as your lips." And pulled her onto my lap as we finished our cups.