Part 1
When it comes to humans I would rather say they are strange and behave in strange ways. Every one lives around a cocoon of him/herself, which abstracts their behaviour from their actions. Some gain an opportunity in light of a lost one, whereas some loose it all when they have nothing to loose. It all works very differently so that everyone has something fill up their lives with and keep themselves busy. May it be coping with the loss of somebody who has vanished from their lives or adjusting themselves when they find somebody new who was not supposed to be there in their lives. Someone has rightly said, it's a strange world. Stranger it becomes when it comes to a point when you start liking someone preferably of the opposite sex.
This story is of a similar type wherein there is a boy and a girl and both find each other interesting but find it difficult to assimilate the fact that they do so. This story does not have a single ending because in real life you never have one ending, it's upon the reader to decide which ending suits the sequence of events and would be more preferable.
Well, it all began when Sam came back from a long period of service overseas to find himself a bit mesmerised by the same city in which he had lived and earned for years. In short nothing much had changed, there was more construction(sort of signifying more progress) and more traffic, the only thing which had changed were the people which were around him. All faces seemed new, be it the room where he was put up or the office in which he had to start his work. All the people with whom he had started his career had somewhat vanished and now he had a challenge to start up afresh and find new circle of people. Sam, rightly put was a work alcoholic, who preferred to start early and work late. The city had quite a busy routine when it came to work and travel. He had to wake up early, board a shuttle train which took approximately an hour to reach the destination and then take taxi to his workplace. It was a tough life compared to his overseas work location which was just 10 minutes walk from his home. Every day was the same routine, taking the 8 o clock train to office, then a taxi, working for a couple of hours in the office and then leaving by 8 o clock train in the night, reaching home by 10, preparing some food, eating and sleeping early to prepare for the next day. Life was becoming a bit monotonic and especially the part of travel which was not his cup of tea before, until one day when he saw a charming young girl sitting in the train in a corner just opposite to his corner. It so happened, the girl also noticed him and smiled. Before you could know they both started noticing each other more frequently and the journey started to become interesting. Sam would notice, the girl came into the train and started reading a book, which looked familiar. He recollected it was sequel to the same book he used to read, which was interesting, at least they had something in common. This rekindled Sam's interest in books and he just realised he had a few books which he could finish off during this time of travel. This would definitely make the travel more interesting and utilitarian.There was a small problem though, the girl had a different time of boarding so Sam would not see her every time. Somehow though Sam could squeeze a day or two out of his busy weeks schedule to travel on the same time as the girl, just to have a look at her. He saw that the girl found it difficult to concentrate during the start of the journey but had a very strong attention span towards the end probably because she had to finish the part defined for that of travel. In all she appeared to be a voracious reader. The fact that she was travelling in the same compartment made his day sound great. Days went on like this, when one such day, the train missed the stop where the girl was standing for boarding. It was an odd day and someone had to do something about it. Sam quickly sprung up to pull the emergency stop buttons so that the train would stop. Well, it did and the girl boarded it, although she was not aware of the fact that Sam had pushed the alarm. Sam thought, this at least this calls in for an introduction, he must know this stranger before life does not give him the opportunity to meet her again, so he decided to go out and talk to her.
It was a bit difficult though, usually after getting down from the train Sam used to race along to be the first to get into a taxi. There were a lot of people and he wanted to avoid the rush. It appeared, this girl also had similar thoughts and there were a couple of days when she used to catch up and leave Sam behind. One fine day, the girl got into the train for the return journey back home, she tried to adjust windows for some fresh air but found it difficult, Sam tried to help but couldn't do much, the latch was too tight. Although this gave them an opportunity to exchange a few words but not much except a 'sorry' and a generous 'thank you'. Although, this did give them an opportunity squeeze in an occasional formal 'hello'. One another fine day, when in this hustle in morning to catch the taxi, Sam took the courage and talked to the girl, asking her how was her experience with her latest book. She mentioned it was a fine book, Sam told her he had read the earlier versions. They talked, but time flew and they got into their taxis to their respective destinations. Sam just realised after she was gone, that he had lost her introduction.Well, this was not good and called off for another meeting. Days went by and one day Sam just managed to say hello to the girl, asked how she was and asked her name. She said her name was Stacy. Sam introduced himself. At least now he knew who he was talking to, Stacy was a fine name. Was it so simple? well nonetheless because Sam had no idea what was coming through his way.
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