Match Made In Heaven - To Meet On Earth Chapter 13
Love is in the air and has successfully managed to sustain over all these years for Soumya and Nandini. FINAL Chapter!!!
The next day I woke up early err... actually I didn't wake up early because I didn't sleep at all in fact I was awake the whole night rehearsing my confrontation with Nandini. I put on my best blue jeans and my best white shirt. I was praying for luck to favor me one last time and help me meet Nandini at any cost. All charged up I gave a finally buzz to Raman for some last-minute tips. He told me to be confident and considerate towards her. He kept reminding me that Nandini was a girl and I had to handle matters of heart with her so I must think twice before speaking to her in order to avoid any more goof up's. Since it was a Thursday I was expecting the temple to be crowded but luckily it wasn't. The afternoon pooja had just finished and people had left for their homes, except for a few who were still offering prayers. And much to my luck or shall I say HIS divine grace Nandini was one of the few still standing there, in the center of the temple.
She stood there with her eyes closed and hands joined. I too offered a short silent prayer and bowed before the temple idol. I then went close to Nandini. From all the times I had seen her, today, somehow she looked the best. Dressed in a simple white salwar and kurta with a blue dupatta covering her head she looked absolutely stunning. Her simplicity was what impressed me the most about her. I looked at her and then looked back at the temple idol and in my mind I told Him 'I know she's the one for me, isn't she?' I also said sorry to Him for what I had done to Nan and promised to make sure that this is not repeated in the future. The smiling image of the idol boosted my confidence and in a way showed me the green signal to go ahead and win my lady-love all over again.
I turned back to Nandini and waited for her to open her eyes. I could see her lips suddenly mutter something and thought that may be she was done with her prayers. She then slowly opened her eyes and saw me. I smiled at her. She looked at me for a few moments, smiled and patted her head slightly and then tightly shut her eyes again. I guess she must have thought that she was dreaming about me. After a few seconds she again opened her eyes and saw me smiling at her. I waved my hand and said 'Hi' to her. Her eyes widened. She looked completely shocked and confused. "Hi Nandini", I said to her. She now realized that I was very much there in front of her. She looked around and then started to walk away from me. I walked behind her. "Nandini please listen to me I have to talk to you please"
She walked swiftly. I too increased my speed trying to catch up with her. "Nandini..listen..." I called out to her. "Pppplease, don't cccrreate a scene here", she said without looking at me. She collected her sandals from the shoe counter, I took quickly grabbed my shoes but managed to wear only one of them so as to catch up with Nan. "Nan", I called out again. Seeing nobody around she started to run down the stairs. I started to run behind her but then I suddenly slipped over my open shoe lace and fell over the stairs. I slipped over the last few steps towards the entrance gate and hit my head on a huge rock placed there. My head instantly started bleeding. Nandini immediately turned to see what happened and ran towards me. "Sou, sou aa-re you aaalright? Sou, sou tttalk to me ssou..." she said rubbing my shoulder and wiping the blood off my head with her handkerchief. I looked at her, the concern in her eyes for me dissolved all the pain that I was feeling. She was constantly dabbing my head with her handkerchief which smelt just as sweet as her. I caught her hand that was wiping my head. She looked at me and said, "Gget up Ssou, wee hhave to get yyouu to the doctor c'mon fast gget up". Still holding her wrist I nodded and refused to go to the doctor. She tried hard to pull me up. I stood up and but didn't move from my place. She insisted to take me to the doctor, but I refused again. I then held her wrist and brought myself closer to her. I looked deep into her eyes. She was trying to avoid my gaze by looking at the wound on my forehead. I could sense her nervousness. I suddenly forgot what I had to say. That's the kind of impact she has on me. In her presence I don't say what I have to and do things what I should not do. And Raman feels that I was out of my mind, but that's not true I have already lost my mind and heart to Nandini long back.
"Nandini, please forgive me for what I did to you. What I said to you. I know I am sick and you hate me and don't want to see me ever again, but trust me Nandini I really love you and I feel lost without you. I wanna be with you, always. I promise to never repeat my mistake ever again and believe me I will never let you feel lonely ever again. I want you to be close to me forever and I don't care what the world has to say about it. So will you be mine, Nandini? For now and forever?" Whoa!! I finally said it. And after this, I was expecting a big bright smile and a nice tight hug but instead Nandini frowned upon me. "You are bbbleeding pprrofusely Sou, I think you muuust see a doctor" What?? No hugs no kisses no smile no happily ever after?? Nandini took my hand and tried to take me to the main road. I stood firm on the ground and this time pulled her towards me. I then looked down at her, into her eyes. She was breathing hard. I whispered the three magical words once again to her. "I love you Nandini, I really do" She looked into my eyes as if checking for sincerity in them. And I guess she found it since she then threw her hands over my shoulders and hugged me tightly and then finally arrived the moment that I longed for all these days. "I love you too Sou I love you too", she finally confessed her love to me and what better place than a temple to have your special moment. I was surprised that she said it without getting stuck on a single word. I felt as if I was holding a little soft toy. She was so tender and soft and above all smelt like a bouquet of flowers. I wanted to hold her a little longer but since we were in a public place it didn't seem appropriate to indulge in any kind of PDA (public display of affection). We then sat in an auto rickshaw and searched for a doctor but since it was afternoon all the nearby dispensaries were closed. Though my bleeding had stopped Nan still was worried for me. She then invited me to her house for some first aid. I laughed and said that we had just confessed our love and that she should not rush things up by inviting me to her home. She punched me hard but then gently rubbed it too, since I was already hurt.
Since she stayed at the ground floor we took the rickshaw into the society and stopped right in front of her door. Her mom was not at home she had gone for shopping with some Sona Aunty of hers. I was sitting in the living room while Nan went inside and though I felt extremely tempted to go behind her I controlled myself, as I didn't feel that it was proper for me to go beyond this room since she was alone at home. She quickly returned balancing a glass of water, a box of cookies and the first aid box all in her hands. Maybe she didn't want to leave me alone again in the living room. I took the two boxes and placed them on the front table. She handed over the glass of water to me. I drank the water, without getting my eyes off Nan. She was busy rummaging through the first aid box. She then sat next to me on the sofa. She first cleaned my wound with some wet cotton and an antiseptic liquid. I could see her hands shiver a bit perhaps I was the first boy she was doing something like this for. My eyes were literally glued on her. Her eyes, her nose, her forehead, her lips looked so tender, I wanted to touch them and feel them. Her shoulder nice and rounded I wanted to run my hand over them. Her neck so slender I wanted to kiss it. Our eyes suddenly met for a brief moment and then she looked down at the first aid box. She first examined the cut on my forehead and then blobbed some ointment on a ball of cotton and gently wiped it on my wound and covered it with a band-aid.
All this while none of us spoke a word and for once this silence wasn't as awkward as it had been in our past meetings. We were somewhat comfortable in each other's presence.
"You mmust be hungry, I thhhink you mmust have these cookies", she said with a nice wide smile on her face. Feeding Raman kinda helped me to break the wall between us so I thought of trying the same with Nandini. I told her that I'd eat the cookie only if she'd feed them to me. At first like any other girl she acted coy and reluctant but then I was stubborn and she had to give in. And I must say that it worked like magic. It broke the little hesitance that she felt and looked a little more comfortable than before.
We spent the rest of the afternoon speaking. I asked her about her interests, hobbies and the diary she spoke about the other day. She said she'd show the diary to me when the right time comes. I wonder when that would be. Time flew just like sand in one's fist. The more you want to hold it the faster it escapes from you. It was evening and she said that I would have to leave before her mother arrived. I wanted to ask her for a goodbye kiss but then feared that she might get angry so I kept my thoughts to myself and readied myself to leave with heavy feet.
"Soumya", she said standing next to. "Whatever hhappened today, I don't kknoww if it was wrong or rright but iit happened in froont of Him and He was a wwitness to all of thhhis and I know oone thing for sure that wwhatever happens before Him, happens for ggood. All I want to tell you is that if I've forgiven you this time then it's only with the hhhope that you will nnnevver do this again to me, coz this time if you break me I mmay never be able to mend mmyself aagain" In her eyes I could see that whatever she said she really meant it. I got so carried away that I could no longer contain myself and went closer to her. I took her face in my hands brushed the strands of hair falling on her face and gently kissed her. Though it wasn't a long and passionate one, it was just my way of telling her that I really loved her and was here for her and would never let anything harm her again. She was mine now. She looked completely calm but still a little emotional. I took off the little gold ring that my mother had gifted me on my last birthday and had forcibly made me to wear it every day. I slipped the ring in Nan's ring finger. She looked completely taken aback. I then hugged her tightly. I wanted to say a lot of things to her but somehow I didn't do so since I wanted to enjoy the moment of silence. The moment that would be cherished for life by both of us, the moment that brought to surface our feelings for each other. The beginning of a new beginning.
That was one moment and today is another one of those moments when Nandini is in my arms. The only difference is that today we are in my house and Nandini is now my legally wedded wife and I am her legally wedded husband. Even today I love her the way I loved her nine years ago. She has become my pillar of strength. She has helped me evolve from a rowdy Romeo to a white collared business honcho. She is my better half in every sense. Wherever I lacked she has filled in and vice versa. Nandini is the co-owner of my chain of restaurants and Raman is our partner in this venture, after all, most of our specialty dishes come from his mother recipes. Raman is still single. Neerja, the one he thought he could spend the rest of his life with, died in a bike accident six years ago and Raman holds himself responsible for it since he was the one riding the bike. He survived miraculously but has decided to punish himself by never falling in love again.
I always thought that 'Love' was something that was always exaggerated in movies and novels. It was something that was given too much attention. Attention that it just didn't deserve. But today my opinion has changed. My five years into marriage has changed my outlook towards 'Love'. Today love is a feeling that is above any another feeling one has in him. There are times when Nandini and I fight like cats and dogs but in the end love can conquer anything and everything. We are true soulmates and soulmates understand each other's soul inside out. Love can never be bounded by any conditions. For me the definition of love is Nandini's smile. And yes matches are definitely made in Heaven to meet on earth and He is the one playing cupid helping foolish souls like me. I am very thankful to our little Cupid above for prompting Nan to cancel her shopping plans with her aunt and her mother at the last-minute and instead make her visit the temple and stay there till I could arrive. Our magical moment!
Thank You God. You Rock!!!
Nandini's Last Diary Entry, Five years ago,
Dear Vayasyaa,
Yo baby how are you? Today is our first night (I hope u know what that means) We are now married to each other. Our love has finally taken a take major step ahead. M glad that you are one of the few who knows our love story from the very beginning. You have always been there for us. I want to say that you are like any other friend of ours, but the time has come when we will have to part ways. Nandini loved u and always will in the future. U will never be forgotten. I know I am being a little mean and selfish for asking you to leave Nandini and me alone but I know u can understand because as long as you will be here Nan will never be able to confide in me the way that she does to u. I want Nandini to share with me all that she shares with you. I want to be her secret little diary. I promise that I will never disappoint you since I am your replacement (Yeah right!!). So buddy without any further delays I and my beautiful bride and your former owner Nandini (sitting beside me) are finally bidding goodbye to you. Don't worry we aren't disposing you in any garbage bin. We are only tightly wrapping u in a gift wrapper and keeping you in our bank's locker. Were you shall be safe. Thanks again for always being there for Nandini. Nandini is also saying bye to you with tears in her eyes. She says she'll miss you. (These girls are so emotional!!!!) The lipstick mark on your cover is also hers. It's our first night and my wife kissed you before me. Fine. You must be pretty happy huh? Ok then I am losing my patience I can wait no longer so BYE!!!!
May Love Prevail Between Us Forever
Nan and Sou
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>THE END<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Hey Guys,
This is the last installment of my story Match Made In Heaven - To Meet On Earth. I thank all those who took so much interest in Soumya's and Nandini's little love story. I hope I have done justice to your expectations. Plz plz plz do comment as to how did you like it. Was this story good, bad or ok? Your comments are very important for me. I'll come up with a new story a.s.a.p. Till den CYA!!!!
Thank again.....Love You
Anisuddha Pai
She stood there with her eyes closed and hands joined. I too offered a short silent prayer and bowed before the temple idol. I then went close to Nandini. From all the times I had seen her, today, somehow she looked the best. Dressed in a simple white salwar and kurta with a blue dupatta covering her head she looked absolutely stunning. Her simplicity was what impressed me the most about her. I looked at her and then looked back at the temple idol and in my mind I told Him 'I know she's the one for me, isn't she?' I also said sorry to Him for what I had done to Nan and promised to make sure that this is not repeated in the future. The smiling image of the idol boosted my confidence and in a way showed me the green signal to go ahead and win my lady-love all over again.
I turned back to Nandini and waited for her to open her eyes. I could see her lips suddenly mutter something and thought that may be she was done with her prayers. She then slowly opened her eyes and saw me. I smiled at her. She looked at me for a few moments, smiled and patted her head slightly and then tightly shut her eyes again. I guess she must have thought that she was dreaming about me. After a few seconds she again opened her eyes and saw me smiling at her. I waved my hand and said 'Hi' to her. Her eyes widened. She looked completely shocked and confused. "Hi Nandini", I said to her. She now realized that I was very much there in front of her. She looked around and then started to walk away from me. I walked behind her. "Nandini please listen to me I have to talk to you please"
She walked swiftly. I too increased my speed trying to catch up with her. "Nandini..listen..." I called out to her. "Pppplease, don't cccrreate a scene here", she said without looking at me. She collected her sandals from the shoe counter, I took quickly grabbed my shoes but managed to wear only one of them so as to catch up with Nan. "Nan", I called out again. Seeing nobody around she started to run down the stairs. I started to run behind her but then I suddenly slipped over my open shoe lace and fell over the stairs. I slipped over the last few steps towards the entrance gate and hit my head on a huge rock placed there. My head instantly started bleeding. Nandini immediately turned to see what happened and ran towards me. "Sou, sou aa-re you aaalright? Sou, sou tttalk to me ssou..." she said rubbing my shoulder and wiping the blood off my head with her handkerchief. I looked at her, the concern in her eyes for me dissolved all the pain that I was feeling. She was constantly dabbing my head with her handkerchief which smelt just as sweet as her. I caught her hand that was wiping my head. She looked at me and said, "Gget up Ssou, wee hhave to get yyouu to the doctor c'mon fast gget up". Still holding her wrist I nodded and refused to go to the doctor. She tried hard to pull me up. I stood up and but didn't move from my place. She insisted to take me to the doctor, but I refused again. I then held her wrist and brought myself closer to her. I looked deep into her eyes. She was trying to avoid my gaze by looking at the wound on my forehead. I could sense her nervousness. I suddenly forgot what I had to say. That's the kind of impact she has on me. In her presence I don't say what I have to and do things what I should not do. And Raman feels that I was out of my mind, but that's not true I have already lost my mind and heart to Nandini long back.
"Nandini, please forgive me for what I did to you. What I said to you. I know I am sick and you hate me and don't want to see me ever again, but trust me Nandini I really love you and I feel lost without you. I wanna be with you, always. I promise to never repeat my mistake ever again and believe me I will never let you feel lonely ever again. I want you to be close to me forever and I don't care what the world has to say about it. So will you be mine, Nandini? For now and forever?" Whoa!! I finally said it. And after this, I was expecting a big bright smile and a nice tight hug but instead Nandini frowned upon me. "You are bbbleeding pprrofusely Sou, I think you muuust see a doctor" What?? No hugs no kisses no smile no happily ever after?? Nandini took my hand and tried to take me to the main road. I stood firm on the ground and this time pulled her towards me. I then looked down at her, into her eyes. She was breathing hard. I whispered the three magical words once again to her. "I love you Nandini, I really do" She looked into my eyes as if checking for sincerity in them. And I guess she found it since she then threw her hands over my shoulders and hugged me tightly and then finally arrived the moment that I longed for all these days. "I love you too Sou I love you too", she finally confessed her love to me and what better place than a temple to have your special moment. I was surprised that she said it without getting stuck on a single word. I felt as if I was holding a little soft toy. She was so tender and soft and above all smelt like a bouquet of flowers. I wanted to hold her a little longer but since we were in a public place it didn't seem appropriate to indulge in any kind of PDA (public display of affection). We then sat in an auto rickshaw and searched for a doctor but since it was afternoon all the nearby dispensaries were closed. Though my bleeding had stopped Nan still was worried for me. She then invited me to her house for some first aid. I laughed and said that we had just confessed our love and that she should not rush things up by inviting me to her home. She punched me hard but then gently rubbed it too, since I was already hurt.
Since she stayed at the ground floor we took the rickshaw into the society and stopped right in front of her door. Her mom was not at home she had gone for shopping with some Sona Aunty of hers. I was sitting in the living room while Nan went inside and though I felt extremely tempted to go behind her I controlled myself, as I didn't feel that it was proper for me to go beyond this room since she was alone at home. She quickly returned balancing a glass of water, a box of cookies and the first aid box all in her hands. Maybe she didn't want to leave me alone again in the living room. I took the two boxes and placed them on the front table. She handed over the glass of water to me. I drank the water, without getting my eyes off Nan. She was busy rummaging through the first aid box. She then sat next to me on the sofa. She first cleaned my wound with some wet cotton and an antiseptic liquid. I could see her hands shiver a bit perhaps I was the first boy she was doing something like this for. My eyes were literally glued on her. Her eyes, her nose, her forehead, her lips looked so tender, I wanted to touch them and feel them. Her shoulder nice and rounded I wanted to run my hand over them. Her neck so slender I wanted to kiss it. Our eyes suddenly met for a brief moment and then she looked down at the first aid box. She first examined the cut on my forehead and then blobbed some ointment on a ball of cotton and gently wiped it on my wound and covered it with a band-aid.
All this while none of us spoke a word and for once this silence wasn't as awkward as it had been in our past meetings. We were somewhat comfortable in each other's presence.
"You mmust be hungry, I thhhink you mmust have these cookies", she said with a nice wide smile on her face. Feeding Raman kinda helped me to break the wall between us so I thought of trying the same with Nandini. I told her that I'd eat the cookie only if she'd feed them to me. At first like any other girl she acted coy and reluctant but then I was stubborn and she had to give in. And I must say that it worked like magic. It broke the little hesitance that she felt and looked a little more comfortable than before.
We spent the rest of the afternoon speaking. I asked her about her interests, hobbies and the diary she spoke about the other day. She said she'd show the diary to me when the right time comes. I wonder when that would be. Time flew just like sand in one's fist. The more you want to hold it the faster it escapes from you. It was evening and she said that I would have to leave before her mother arrived. I wanted to ask her for a goodbye kiss but then feared that she might get angry so I kept my thoughts to myself and readied myself to leave with heavy feet.
"Soumya", she said standing next to. "Whatever hhappened today, I don't kknoww if it was wrong or rright but iit happened in froont of Him and He was a wwitness to all of thhhis and I know oone thing for sure that wwhatever happens before Him, happens for ggood. All I want to tell you is that if I've forgiven you this time then it's only with the hhhope that you will nnnevver do this again to me, coz this time if you break me I mmay never be able to mend mmyself aagain" In her eyes I could see that whatever she said she really meant it. I got so carried away that I could no longer contain myself and went closer to her. I took her face in my hands brushed the strands of hair falling on her face and gently kissed her. Though it wasn't a long and passionate one, it was just my way of telling her that I really loved her and was here for her and would never let anything harm her again. She was mine now. She looked completely calm but still a little emotional. I took off the little gold ring that my mother had gifted me on my last birthday and had forcibly made me to wear it every day. I slipped the ring in Nan's ring finger. She looked completely taken aback. I then hugged her tightly. I wanted to say a lot of things to her but somehow I didn't do so since I wanted to enjoy the moment of silence. The moment that would be cherished for life by both of us, the moment that brought to surface our feelings for each other. The beginning of a new beginning.
That was one moment and today is another one of those moments when Nandini is in my arms. The only difference is that today we are in my house and Nandini is now my legally wedded wife and I am her legally wedded husband. Even today I love her the way I loved her nine years ago. She has become my pillar of strength. She has helped me evolve from a rowdy Romeo to a white collared business honcho. She is my better half in every sense. Wherever I lacked she has filled in and vice versa. Nandini is the co-owner of my chain of restaurants and Raman is our partner in this venture, after all, most of our specialty dishes come from his mother recipes. Raman is still single. Neerja, the one he thought he could spend the rest of his life with, died in a bike accident six years ago and Raman holds himself responsible for it since he was the one riding the bike. He survived miraculously but has decided to punish himself by never falling in love again.
I always thought that 'Love' was something that was always exaggerated in movies and novels. It was something that was given too much attention. Attention that it just didn't deserve. But today my opinion has changed. My five years into marriage has changed my outlook towards 'Love'. Today love is a feeling that is above any another feeling one has in him. There are times when Nandini and I fight like cats and dogs but in the end love can conquer anything and everything. We are true soulmates and soulmates understand each other's soul inside out. Love can never be bounded by any conditions. For me the definition of love is Nandini's smile. And yes matches are definitely made in Heaven to meet on earth and He is the one playing cupid helping foolish souls like me. I am very thankful to our little Cupid above for prompting Nan to cancel her shopping plans with her aunt and her mother at the last-minute and instead make her visit the temple and stay there till I could arrive. Our magical moment!
Thank You God. You Rock!!!
Nandini's Last Diary Entry, Five years ago,
Dear Vayasyaa,
Yo baby how are you? Today is our first night (I hope u know what that means) We are now married to each other. Our love has finally taken a take major step ahead. M glad that you are one of the few who knows our love story from the very beginning. You have always been there for us. I want to say that you are like any other friend of ours, but the time has come when we will have to part ways. Nandini loved u and always will in the future. U will never be forgotten. I know I am being a little mean and selfish for asking you to leave Nandini and me alone but I know u can understand because as long as you will be here Nan will never be able to confide in me the way that she does to u. I want Nandini to share with me all that she shares with you. I want to be her secret little diary. I promise that I will never disappoint you since I am your replacement (Yeah right!!). So buddy without any further delays I and my beautiful bride and your former owner Nandini (sitting beside me) are finally bidding goodbye to you. Don't worry we aren't disposing you in any garbage bin. We are only tightly wrapping u in a gift wrapper and keeping you in our bank's locker. Were you shall be safe. Thanks again for always being there for Nandini. Nandini is also saying bye to you with tears in her eyes. She says she'll miss you. (These girls are so emotional!!!!) The lipstick mark on your cover is also hers. It's our first night and my wife kissed you before me. Fine. You must be pretty happy huh? Ok then I am losing my patience I can wait no longer so BYE!!!!
May Love Prevail Between Us Forever
Nan and Sou
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>THE END<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Hey Guys,
This is the last installment of my story Match Made In Heaven - To Meet On Earth. I thank all those who took so much interest in Soumya's and Nandini's little love story. I hope I have done justice to your expectations. Plz plz plz do comment as to how did you like it. Was this story good, bad or ok? Your comments are very important for me. I'll come up with a new story a.s.a.p. Till den CYA!!!!
Thank again.....Love You
Anisuddha Pai
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