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The next set of coincidence came when Ruhan joined a salsa class. To his astonishment he found nikita present there as well. The first thought which crossed Ruhan mind was to swap partners and to be a partner of Nikita. As filmy it could be, the trainer intervene and found Nikita and Ruhan would look good together (in the final performance) due to their complementary heights. Ruhan for the first time in his life was happy about his short height.

Salsa proved to be a big bang in their relationship. Now they were more than good friends. Both started liking each others company and spent most of the time together and more than anything respect each other. For everything it was discussed between them before coming to any decision or action.

It was now a year long relationship they were now seen as a couple by every one in the group. Though there was no formal proposal by either of them but both of them knew. As with closeness came names for each other, Ruhan was named “dugga” and nikita “duggu” by each other.

By the time dugga was completing his third year of engineering, duggu was about to finish her graduation. For duggu, with the graduation degree there was another thing which was standing on the doorstep. It was the pressure of marriage from her family. Both of them discussed about the problem before but could not find anything near to solution.

But now the storm wasn’t far. Duggu parents have already found two or more prospects for her and now it was inevitable for her to talk to Ruhan. She explained everything to Ruhan and asked for his take. Ruhan repeated the same which he told before that he would only think about marriage once he would have a nice job and probably would take this step only after his first promotion. Though she understood and considered him right but she didn’t have options. For the first time in 18 months they had a huge fight.

“ You don’t have choice to choose your boss , but you always do have a choice to choose your friends and more importantly your life partner”

Next few days were terrible for both of them. Nikita wanted Ruhan to talk to his family and she would in turn talk to her family and then they could find a solution. Ruhan on the other hand was fearful of the fact that he hadn’t even completed his engineering and the relationship would not be accepted anyhow by his family. Moreover he wasn’t in the position of confronting them. Both have their own limitations and their own way of explaining each other.

Now it was only one point of discussion on the calls and there were tears all over the call. After 3 weeks of indecisive discussions it was the day when both of them didn’t uttered a word. There was just silence all over and it was a probable end to their so called love story.

For the next 2-3 weeks none of them talked and on a Sunday morning Ruhan found himself at the epicenter of earthquake. He received a message from nikita about her engagement. He also received the card of her marriage which predictably he never attended.

For Both of them it was an end to Dugga- Duggu saga ….

Today - Bangalore
Ruhan was shocked to see that name again on his mobile. He has lost that person in the memories which in turn were now covered with mist. He was unsure why is she calling him today when a thought gave him shock of his life . He was promoted today for the first time in his life…... but how???? ##### %%%%%…………..By the time he would get over with these crossing thoughts, he had already missed that call….

Why did she called him today , would he call back is unknown , but what is known is, it’s the game which fate plays with each of us in some or the other way ….

PS : Don’t ask me about the how about of that call …and yes I could not find a suitable title for the same , so guys pls help…..

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Bangalore – 1st may 09

Ruhan was sitting in his comfortable bedroom thinking about the good days ahead ( after all ,he has been promoted today ) when suddenly a call gave a jerk to his thinking process. He was shocked to see the flashing name on the mobile. It was duggu….
Two years ago , the same characters Ruhan and duggu disconnected a call after long silence of some 3000 odd seconds , a call which was never repeated in the times ahead till the day today…..

Delhi - 3 years ago…

Ruhan , a fun guy from a middle class family from chandigarh was doing his engineering from a reputed college in Delhi . He was a guy with average brains but a sky high zeal to be successful and achieve his goals. He was a mechie and though mechanical is termed to be an evergreen branch but the experience shows it always lacks the lusture in terms of girls. Ruhan , being the kind of person he was always resisted a change .. he was single ,happy within his small group just partying around , watching movies. But as fate says this was about to change.
In second year of engineering, Ruhan accompanied prateek in one of the Delhi university festivals. Prateek , Ruhan’s batch mate was a delhite and hence had a nack of getting entry to such events . Ruhan met a lot of prateek friend there and was moving out of his limited space for the first time. He gelled with them quite well and did like few of them who found a way to his orkut list the following day . Out of the lot he specifically enquired about a girl named nikita from prateek . Nikita as it turned out to be was prateek’s school mate. she was slim , short and beautiful and kept quite most of the time during that festival . He portrayed her as a shy girl and was impressed from her simplicity.
What happened next was an array of true coincidences. Ruhan found Nikita traveling in the same bus with which he commutes from college to his hostel. He did not made an attempt to talk out of the fear of unrecognition. But nikita didn’t had any such fear and she entered into a brief talk with him. Both talked about their background etc. The only thing which Ruhan brought out was that she was pursuing her graduation from south campus but more importantly travels in the same bus frequently. They started meeting each other frequently in the bus and it was commendable on Ruhan’s part as how he was able to keep his adjacent seat vacant until she boards the bus.

“First impression is the last impression”
Quotes are only to be quoted. Most of the time they don’t find a place in real life .

Same was the case here , Now that both were friends Ruhan understood that by no means nikita is shy and quite .. She was infact a complete chatter box quite intelligent and had a view on every second thing. The bus meetings carried over for 2 weeks after which Nikita had an autumn break.

“ I have always been interested to know when and how does students in DU complete their course… They have a break for all the seasons (summers , winters as well as Autumn ) and when they do attend college it is either for elections, parties or exams”

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