In Which S gives me the moment of the year!

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I wasn’t ready for it. Neither was I expecting anything, that too yesterday out of all the days. It was like any other day in my life. Stale, dull, uninspiring, unnecessary, unendurable day. And the fact that mana Hyderabad weather these days is seeing the wrong side of the 10*c wasn’t helping it either. I just hate chilly winter days. Don’t feel like doing anything that’s creative or memorable or stimulating. I was trying to do a lot of planning/thinking for the Christmas weekend, new year’s eve [Thyag is going to be here]. I was/am inconclusive of the itinerary for my next holiday even though my flights are all booked.

And to top it all, as soon as she came home we had a silly irritating argument which almost ended up in a tiff. I kissed for the sake of it and made up and after a boring dinner there was this movie Intolerable Cruelty on in HBO. She insisted to see the finals week episode of Master Chef Australia instead. We were swapping through both the channels, bickering each other for the remote all through until they were on. Once the V8 cake episode of Master Chef ended, I got hooked to the movie. Not because it was great and all but for the lack of a better thing to do. The movie plot was ridiculously apt and was about pre-nuptial marital agreements, full of mean and selfish people suing each other in expensive law suits. I didn’t see when she settled down. Soon the movie ended as the both the protagonists find true love in each other [isn’t it always the same?]. I got up from the couch and was almost switching off the idiot box.

Then at that moment S gets up; May be she liked the little peppy zingy lilting soundtrack that was playing as the end credits of the movie rolled. Breaks into an impromptu jig oblivious of my presence and continues her little jig with the oh-so-cute-pick-me-up new teddy bear, which is like the first thing you will find right in front of the door if you visit my place now-a-days. We weren’t dressed for it. She was in her night tracks with a sweater on and I was in my shorts. The place where I stay dead sleeps long before the 9pm movie ends. So there it was in that pin drop silent nippy night, I got my most romantic seconds. Just that music bit and S dancing away to glory in my memory.

And I was like WOW! I walk up to her, plant a kiss on her cheeks and she was blushing. That was the moment that lasted for around 90 seconds but was worth the wait for months.

Pure platonic lovable memorable Kodak moment of the year!

D

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