Ek Chhoti Si Love Story

He looked at his watch. It showed 15 minutes to 8. He had been working for more than twelve hours now and was clearly fatigued. He decided he needed a cup of coffee and headed towards coffee machine. It had been a routine for him to work till 8 everyday.

She turned her head and noticed that it was almost time. It was 7:45. She rubbed her eyes and lumbered towards the kitchen. What she longed for the most at the moment was a cup of coffee.

Through the whirring sound of coffee machine, he started running the list of things he would talk to her about in his mind. This was the time of the day he looked forward to earnestly. At workplace he was known to be endowed with power of speech but when it came to emotional matters, he felt incapacitated to articulate his feelings. Every day he prepared himself to express himself and rehearsed everything in his mind but for some reason always failed to do so. How he wanted to tell her that she was the center of his happiness!

While preparing coffee decoction, a spate of thoughts started crossing her mind. She was angry with herself for always starting a fight with him when more than anything else in the world what she wanted was to comfort him after the hard day’s work. Every day when they talked, she would find herself unable to keep the care and concern she felt for him from first turning into a little peevishness and then into anger. "Today I won't repeat this mistake", she resolved.

He glanced at his watch again. It was 7:55. He sagged into his comfy chair and put on his headset.

She saw the clock strike 7:55 and rushed towards her laptop.

Sitting in the taxi on his way to hotel he noticed that it was 9:15. He left office 15 minutes back. He had only one thought in his mind, "Tomorrow I'll definitely be nice to her and listen to her."

The metro train screeched to a halt. She realized it was 9:15 and she was only a few minutes away from her office. She was still ruminating over the fight they had. "Tomorrow I'll be more reasonable and won't spoil his mood", she thought.