Aashay was very nervous, he had dreamt about this day his entire life and he wanted to make sure that it went flawless. This day three months back his marriage was fixed with Vritti! After three months of official tour only now he was able to take her on a date. Plan was simple, pick her from home go to a movie then have dinner, drop her back home. Aashay tried taking deep breathes to calm down his mind but in vain. Vritti was simple and charming girl, they both have been in touch very frequently since their marriage was fixed thanks to the skype and whatsapp! Aashay was waiting on his bike, when he saw Vritti walking towards him, she had a simple orange color salwar, her long hair neatly pulled back. The bindi on her forehead ever so small and a warm smile, but what whacked him out of his mind was her sparkling eyes! Aashay got down from the bike and greeted her.
Aashay : “Hey!!”
Vritti : “Hiii!!”
Tingling sensation spread through his body hearing the girlish cute ‘Hiii’. Aashay was constantly reminding himself to be in control!!
Aashay : “Shall we move, I have booked “Ek tha Tiger” in sathyam cinemas!”
Vritti: “Sure! heard the movie is good! Are you Katrina fan?”
Aashay, to himself, don’t blurt out you like all heroines be cool! : “She is fine, doesn't know acting though!”
Vritti: “Oh!! I like her so much, she has cute smile!”
Aashay, to himself, What the helllll!! okay, don’t change the statement! “Yeah she has many hit films, one of top actress in industry now! I like Salman too! Heard he is good guy off screen!”
Vritti: “Yeah I like him too!!”
Aashay, to himself, YEAH!! That’s the way dude!! Score ONE!!
It was a thirty minute ride to the theater, Aashay nervousness seemed to have calmed down a bit!! In his younger days he used to dream of taking a girl on date, this was dream coming true for him!!! Chennai traffic was on full swing, Aashay had to apply brake hard at times, in one such occasion, Vritti kept her hand on Aashay’s shoulders for balance. He was all smiles, the tingling sensation was back again! He started to hum in low voice a song, a specific song, in fact a specific scene from song, it was not for the tune but for the reaction, he looked up and thanked god still smiling.
They reached the theater, Aashay showed his online booking SMS, there was a small glitch in the system which was sorted out and he got his two tickets.
Aashay: “Would you like to have something before the movie starts?”
Vritti: “Yeah I would like to have pop corn!”
Aashay got himself a extra large coke and a big tub of pop corn for Vritti, they settled down on their big comfortable ELITE seats. The movie started and theater became noisy as the Salman Khan made a dramatic entry in the screen as RAW agent, Aashay started sharing few things which he knew about RAW with Vritti, when a beam from torchlight fit his face. He saw a theater employee asking for his tickets, he checked Aashay tickets with another pair of tickets in his hand, both seems to have identical seat numbers!! The employee cross checked again and said to Aashay : “Sir! you have got yesterday’s ticket!”
The words was like a tight slap on his face, Aashay looked at the ticket himself, yes it was indeed yesterday’s ticket, he checked his SMS confirmation, he had wrongly booked for yesterday’s show! He managed a wry smile and asked Vritti to follow him. He looked up and said “God! why ?” , With a extra large coke and a big tub of pop corn still unfinished they made their way out of the screen! There were so many thoughts running on Aashay’s mind, he didn't know what to say.
Aashay: “I am sor…!”
Before Aashay could finish his sentence, Vritti was laughing so hard, that she had tears in her eyes. All Aashay could do now was to smile, he didn’t know what is to be said!
Vritti still laughing: “That was very embarrassing….! Never happened in my life!!”
Aashay smiling sheepishly: “Yeah!! Never happened before! Sorry!”
Vritti regaining her composure: “Hey it happens, its okay! so what’s the plan?”
Aashay looked like a spectacular fool on his first date, he didn't know what is to be done next : “Shall we go to beach? its around fifteen minutes from here, may be we could watch the sunset!”
Vritti agreed, both of them reached the beach, the crowd as less, it was getting dark, they both made their way past the sands to the edge of water. Aashay took Vritti’s arm and said : “Sorry about the movie! I was excited about the date I made mess of the dates!”
Vritti smiled : “That’s okay! Everything happens for good! This is much better than the movie!”
Aashay smiled : “That’s sweet! we will spend time here for a while and then start for the dinner!”
They both sat down on the sand and started talking, after a while Aashay said: “I think we missed the sunset! Shall we start to our dinner? I have booked at a romantic place, it’s a surprise!”
As he finished saying that a big droplet of water hit his forehead! Aashay looked up and saw dark clouds, it looked like it was going to rain cats and dogs!! They both ran for cover, before they could even reach half way to their vehicle it has started to rain so hard that it was not possible to see things, driving would be impossible in this condition. They both took shelter under a “corn” shop, Aashay looked up and said : “God! Why me?”. The rain had no plans to stop, with every minute passing it rained harder! The dinner plan was spoiled! Aashay stomach started grumbling, he was hungry and so was Vritti. They got two fried corn, in the rain condition, the corn tasted heavenly!
Vritti: “This is the tastiest corn I have ever had!”
Aashay: “I agree!!”
They ate two more corns each and then ate two full plates of various bhaji’s available in the shop. They chatted away while eating, the rain had finally stopped.
Aashay drove Vritti back to her place.
Aashay: “I am sorry, I wanted it to be perfect, but it was messed up!”
Vritti: “It was perfect in so many ways! I enjoyed the time spent with you!”
Aashay: “the movie was totally spoiled, we both got drenched and missed our dinner!”
Vritti: “Aashay! Many people will remember that movie for the box office collection, but in our little world we will remember it for more precious moment! There is an old saying , it not the place which makes it special, it is the person who you are with! this was special to me! It is simple things which gives you more happiness than the extravagant stuff! The plan which you made was for a good date, but what we had was the best date! thank you! go safe and text me!” , she said with a wink.
All Aashay could do was simply shake his head in agreement, he started his bike still smiling, he looked up and said “thanks god!” and started humming the tune for the scene!!
