The Proposal

Four wonderful years of life time, Engineering. One shall definitely miss so much of it. Charan was not exceptional. It was his last day in the campus. He was done with his packing and he strolled in the college roads to wave his hand one last time to everything. In fact, He was waiting to meet Keerthi.

Charan will miss each and every one of his friends. But Keerthi is so special in such a way that he does not want to miss her. The wonderful moment of anyone’s life knowing a person with whom they can share rest of his/her life with. Charan had that moment when he was in his second year. But he did not venture into expressing his feelings. He enjoyed everything with her. Midnight banters, weekend hangouts what not, everything in college life. He did not want to spoil the party.

As Keerthi is a girl, he did not take a chance as every girl has unpredictable feelings, thoughts, and opinions about everything. Still Charan proposed her which turned out to be disastrous than a flop Indian movie.

“I Love You Keerthi” stammered Charan on his knees in the cafeteria. Everyone around in the gang including Keerthi burst out laughing as he trolled himself. “Dumbo today is April 1^st and everyone knew that” yelled Keerthi smiling. Charan managed with an ugly grin but could not forgive himself for being so dumb.

On a fine morning in August, Charan picked up a random card from the store and rushed to Keerthi as he does not want to delay in expressing his love. He gave her a hug and whispered in her ear “I Love You Keerthi”. “Me too” replied Keerthi. He just cannot believe what he heard. Before he can reply anything to that, Keerthi tied a band to his hand and wished “Happy Friendship Day Charan. I love you as friend”. The random card that he brought her read “I Love You Friend, Happy Friendship Day”. He could not help his bad luck. He gave her a warm smile and walked off.

“Write a love letter”

“Text her on fb”

“whatsapp her”

“Make a video on her and post it on YouTube with a proposal note in the end”

“Candle light dinner”

“Call her when you are drunk. If she accepts, okay. If something goes wrong tell her that you was drunk last night and it was a mistake”

“Bribe her best friend and rope her in to help”

Free suggestions flooded. But Charan was ready for none. Keerthi is something more important and special to him. He does not want to opt for cheap tricks. Although it failed, He wants to look into her eyes straight and intone his love on her with all those carefully chosen precious words. By the time he chose, Charan reached climax. It was his last day and last meeting with her.

When Charan was waiting at their common meeting point, Keerthi was walking down the lane. Her pace was slow and steady. In the dark coloured outfit she was like an angel from heavens to Charan. Silence ruled the meet.

Charan did not utter a word. Keerthi was anxious. “She must be getting late” thought Charan. Finally she spoke.

“Charan that was an indelible journey we had. I do not know how I got to manage after leaving this place. I will be missing you. Miss everyone. You were the coolest companion I had ever. I shared everything with you. You complete me. You were the only person with whom I had privilege to call even in midnight. With whom from now I can have those beautiful moments from now? W-Why we must part ways? W-W-Why we must not be together? We make a great pair dumbo. Why dint you realize that-“

Charan’s eyes were flooded and he cannot believe what he was hearing. Before she completed her sentence, He sprinted to give her a warm hug. The hug meant everything. It meant all those untold feelings of unconditional love. Keerthi replied back with a hug with which they attained the agreement of sharing the rest of their life without those tentative three word phrase of The Proposal “I Love You”.