Pandemic, hope, love

It's been only 2 months since I found her, now 'found' implies to the virtual world in the times of pandemic, so 2020 ish thing! 

Pandemic has stuck every one of us in one or the other way, each and every day it's just become a constant hustle navigating through these difficult times,

for sure they may not match up with the magnitude of world war times but for millennials, this was our first in this simulation of life or whatever. 

Finding love is a bliss and that too in times like this is more than I could have asked for, we just started on a casual chat. words do magic have always been my Brahmāstra or simply put flirting and that coming from the other person is like a pizza with double cheese to me. (poor foodie stop those references, not the best times to crave)

It was 4 am and I was strolling in the plant, waiting for the hatchers to hatch. This has become my routine for the past week, slogging for 18 hours a day and I don't even remember what I had for my dinner. It was just like a recharge session. I reached out to my phone and there were more than 20 missed calls and more than 50 text messages from her. I am not sure whether she could understand my commitment to my start-up life. Millennials suck in maintaining work-life balance and I am no exception. 

It was my birthday and here I am stuck travelling for a business meeting. I hate to do this but still had to for the sake of thing I dreamt, oh god what position I've put myself in, fucking entrepreneur bitch, says my mind. the whole day drained out in meetings and striking deals; glad those went well. 

"Wish I could celebrate, beside you", text from her. I was sitting in a cab heading to the plant. "Time is what the other person wants from you,'' says the podcast I tuned to and that delved me into endless thoughts watching the metro pillars travel back as we head to ring road. "We might reach by 7 am to the plant, you can lean back and take rest, I will manage the drive, you had a rough day, '' said Mohit, my friend who has been all long in this tough ride. 

But I feel like going to Bangalore and meet her, right now.

you are an insane bastard; he yelled and pulled the car side. 

I don't know, I feel like seeing her. 

fine, guess a puff with a chai would fix the en-route, he smiled and pointed to the stall nearby. 

We started to Bangalore, and it was pouring outside, this is going to be a hell of a ride, I thought. I pulled out my mobile to register for the inter-travel permission and started filling the forum. 

so, is this girlfriend of yours for real? 

HOPE! 

yeah, of course, a familiar word in the times like now, said Mohit pushing the accelerator hard, he sets into the mood of GTA vice city while he is behind the wheel.

I smiled and searched over my WhatsApp chat to find her PG address and set the directions to it and slipped into sleep. 

seems like we are here buddy said Mohit with an excited tone, in fact, it seems like he was more excited than I do, poor one side lovers' tribe! 

It was 5 in the morning, I stepped out of the car, stretched myself and checked the surroundings, surely it wasn't the Bangalore I heard of, with a pandemic set in most the cities are empty now with the work from home in place. I feel like I knew this place from the constant snap feed of her's. oh, I knew her room number too, I took the stairs and found no security around, it's just a bunch of cameras, I felt like Joe from 'YOU' Netflix web series, it was our favourite show, not that we relate to that wolf couple but we have a common love for the narrative. 'I wolf you'.

I took a deep breath and knocked on the door, not sure how she was going to react. I knew she was not that morning person but still, I took my chances, after all. The light was turned on and someone was approaching the door, she lives with her friend, so I thought surprise isn't the right word to scream at this instant as they show in movies.

It was her and I see tears reaching her cheeks and in the next moment we were both kissing, it was so intimate and I hugged her so tight, now kiss isn't an advisable thing to do according to WHO but who cares in the warmth of love, we both don't have any words to fill the silence it's just the warm breath between us, I took her into my arms and looked into her eyes and said "guess I found my vaccine", she smiled and we kissed back. 

can you guys please get a room, I am so tired, I need to sleep on that couch, said Mohit. 

oh, forgot to tell this is my friend Mohit and he helped me to get to this angel at this early hour, I said to her kissing at her forehead. 

"ha there you go, bastard, you used me in your pickup line to ha, such a pain in the ass to be a friend", he said mocking me. 

we laughed.!