Monday, August 15, 2005

And they met again........

He wiped the raindrops from his brow while carefully running his fingers through his carefully gelled hair which he had worked into a la Elvis mop only minutes back. Gosh how he hated the rain it got to him in a very oddly irritating way, it had poured every freaking day that he had forgotten to get an umbrella to office. As he got into the elevator cursing Murphy’s Law he heard someone shouting asking him to hold up the elevator. He had barely slid his hand out of his pockets to the partially broken ‘Door open’ button when he had a large camera shoved into his face. Following it entered this girl drenched in these outlandish bohemian clothes looking as if she had been outside for hours. Gosh another one of those hopeless romantics who loved to drench in the rain he thought.

Lovely day outside aint it” she said.
Looks all the same to me, I don’t like the rain anyways”.
An odd moment of silence followed during which he thought it was kinda rude of him to react in that fashion.
You look like one heck of a photographer” he said pointing to the camera.
You must have me confused with someone with some potential; I am just running an errand for a friend of mine to whom this belongs.
Hmmm that camera thing wasn’t making any head away.
After another moment of uncomfortable silence she said “I am Sally” extending her hand.
He wiped his hand on his trousers and then extending his hand said “The name’s Potter, Harry Potter”.
For real?"she asked looking incredulously at him.
Naah, even though it would have made a heck of a story for you, actually it’s a rather more staid and boring Harry Johnson”.
Before he could say anything else the elevator stopped at her floor and she stepped outside disappearing from his view. As he was thinking of running after her, her head bobbed back into view as she blurted “Harry Johnson actually sounds so much better” and then she broke into a smile, a smile that was very childlike, smile unblemished by all the things that were wrong in the world outside the elevator, a smile that was one without a care in the world, as the elevator door closed.

Love stories with sad endings leave a lot of emotional baggage and broken hearts, love stories with happy endings leave behind grandchildren to whom you narrate tall tales of love overcoming all obstacles decades later but its stories like these that somehow make place in some comfortable corner of your mind and come rushing back on days when you least expect them too.

In case you are wondering abt the title its an extension on the shorts i did earlier namely Meeting with a stranger and Love story (free publicity never hurts u see).

12 comments:

Sindhuja Parthasarathy said...

:) particularly liked ur idea about love stories with a difference.Btw,liked ur meeting with stranger.....that was well written.

janani said...

Harry meets Sally yet again! :-)
>> "stories like these that somehow make place in some comfortable corner of your mind and come rushing back on days when you least expect them to"
True!
This story was pretty neat. More of these Harry-Sally stories would be great.

Swathi Sambhani aka Chimera said...

hey that was a neat piece of fiction(assuming u r not Harry J) :))

luved that sentence 'bout love stories with happy endings.

m. said...

lol... that was a nice wise crack by harry!

FlyingHigh said...

Nice, really nice.But Harry Potter sounds sooo much cooler!

totti said...

Nice one. Love stories with sad endings are great. That kamal and rati story..ek duje ke liye..sadma. Atleast, your characters have a better sense of behaving around elevators :)

Jinguchakka said...

:-)

Point 5 said...

Rohan, I demand a "to be continued" to this story...it was building up really nice, and I was expecting it to take some turn....

by the way did u c that McGrath now holds a record for most number of runs by a number 11 batsman...555

KM said...

thats so sweet!
it always tickles me when guys write sweet, roamntic stuff like this.
makes me have faith in u men again.theres still hope yet!lol!

Rohan Kumar said...

@Samudraa thnk u keep visiting

@Janani Yes indeed Harry meets Sally again and misses the train again. Keep the comments flowing and I shall keep working on these stories.

@Swathi I have to admit that post was partly lifted out of a real life incident involving urs truely playing Harry (of course I made sure i added the mirch masala to it to make it fit for public consumption :) )

@m i think all my Harry's will be quitessentially nice guys making bad jokes which hopefully and luckily most females will be labeling wisecracks :)

@shradha Thnx, u still hung up on Harry arent u

@Totti u gult freak u conveniently left out QSQT out of that list and Sholay.


@Jinguchakka I shall conveniently assume that's u enjoying my blog instead of mocking me at the stupidity of Harry in that incident, thnx

@broken verses thnx keep visiting

@Pointy Hey dont burden me with the responsibility of coming up with a shock ending everytime like ala M Night Shayamalan. All stories dont have to have an ending and this is how most stories end in real life u see.

@Khizzy I shall begrudgingly assume the mantle of making the girls keepin the faith in the guys, OUCH the 'u men' thing seemed like a dry jibe, keep the faith :)

Rimi said...

no, absolutely no second part to this story. if you've got something just the way you want it, DON'T MESS WITH IT!!!

rohan, really, really liked the story. and THANK YOU for leaving off where you did, it makes the magic linger...

Rohan Kumar said...

@rimi Thnx my feelings exactly, quoting the great N J Siddhu (assuming its an original by him) 'If it aint broke dont fix it'

@pointy I am developing a story for you on the sidelines, coming soon to a link stating 'Rohan's reflections' on your blog :)