Love happens when you least expect it!

May 23
NabanitaDhar
‘Love conquers all’ is such a familiar aphorism. The books we read while growing up or the movies that we watch all preach the same.But how!!?? Boy meets girl, girl meets boy; fall incredibly in love; parents don’t consent so they elope and live happily ever after! Cut to reality and it isn’t vaguely as simple as it sounds! I too fell in love with Rohit and this is my story of achieving the impossible- ‘The Happily Ever After’. This is the story of Rohit and Anita.

The clock struck 12! It was the 2nd of March finally! Yes we had completed one year of marriage. It has also been the 6th year of our togetherness.We began as classmates, became friends, fell in love and are now married toeach other. The past six years have been nothing short of a roller coaster ride. But this one year mark as a married couple was quite a feat for us. We had battled for two long years to be married and we cherished every moment of this past year.

As a couple Rohit and I are very unusual, some might say dull but we prefer the former. We had our own sweet ways of enjoying special occasions. We were never really the partying kind. For us the best way to celebrate was to stay at home and enjoy each other’s company with a glass of wine, some finger chips while watching re-runs of our favorite sitcoms. For our anniversary too we had decided that we would have ‘our kind’of celebration and wouldn’t splurge unnecessarily on gifts after all we were saving up for buying our own apartment.

Little did I know what Rohit had planned for! We were watching the antics of Sheldon of Big Bang Theory when Rohit suddenly stopped the player. He looked at me and out of nowhere took out a beautiful diamond ring!  

‘Happy Anniversary Honey. Do you like it?’  Rohit smiled. I was speechless. I had absolutely no idea that he would spring up this surprise! Usually I knew him so well that even when he thought of giving me a gift I would get a hunch. But this time I had no clue. When he bought me the Iphone last year I knew he wasup to something just from his behavior. But I must say this time he just caught me off guard. I was totally flabbergasted! I was so happy after all my hubby had given me a wonderful present and that too a diamond ring!

 ‘I love you Hon. I love it. I simply love it!! ’
‘Hope you like it. If you don’t we could always get it exchanged’ Rohit said almost nervous as a baby.
‘It’s perfect. Infact it’s more than just perfect’
‘Are you sure??’
‘Oh Yes…But when did you get this?’
‘On Saturday when I took the car out for servicing’ Rohit grinned. This was the first time he had managed to completely surprise me.
‘Ohh that’s why you were late! You told me you walked home all the way and that’s why you were late!! You naughty you!!’saying that I hugged him tight and we drifted off to sleep in each other’sarms.

When I look back now it seems so surreal. When we started off we weren’t sure where we would end up. It was one hell of a ride to finally reach the point where we aretoday!

Rohit and I met while in college. We were both students of Electronics & Communication in an Engineering College. Rohit was from Uttar Pradesh while Iwas from Shillong. He was a Western UP lad while I was the demure Bengali girl from the Northeast. There was no connection; no common thread that could bind us together. Little did we know then that it is here that we were about to meet our future life partners!

Our holidays had started and we were going home for two months after the sixth semester exams were over. I had booked tickets in the Rajdhani from Lucknow to Guwahati.

‘The train is late again Sur!!!’ I said annoyed at the very much predictable delay. Sur was one of my very good friends in college. 

‘The train is late by four hours!’ I frowned as I heard the announcement. It was the month of June and it was gallingly hot in Lucknow. We were stuck in the station for God knows how long!

‘What do we do Anita?’ What could we do?Every year it is the same story. Our trains are always late sometimes by an entire day. Indian Railways that way is always predictable; we too always knew it could never be on time!’

Suddenly my mobile beeped with a sms. It was Rohit. We had been touch via sms for the past couple of months.

‘Hey wat’s up?’
‘My train is l8 L.wat r u up2?’
‘M showing the boy’s hostel 2 some final yrma’am’s. Orders from their sir’s 😉 ‘. Usually at the end of final year,every girl would pay a secret visit to the boy’s hostel. It was one of the‘must do’ things of college life. It was always arranged by their boyfriends and their special juniors would do the showing around. This year Rohit was the‘guide’ to few of his seniors’ girlfriends.

‘Wow nxt yr will u tk me along?’
‘Ofcousre y not? It’s a deal Anita!’
‘Wen r u goin home Rohit?’
‘I’ll b goin in a few days.’
‘I’m goin 2 miss chatting wid u J’
‘Hey me too.’

The wait for the train now seemed so interesting. We continued some more. Somehow I loved this sms-conversation we were having. One thing led to another and the sms’ continued. We exchanged the numbers we would be using during the semester break. We decided to keep in touch. For some strange reason I was really happy having decided to be in touch with Rohit over the vacations.

Suddenly though Rohit called me up. I didn’t know but I felt so panicky to talk to him at that moment. All of a sudden the hustle and bustle of the station, the noise and the constant announcements seemed to die down. I could just hear my heart pounding.But why? He was just calling me, what was the big deal? It’s not the first time that we were going to talk over the phone. Why was I acting so weird? The phone kept ringing so I picked up and for no obvious reasons pretended that his voicewas not audible. Something happened; something changed at that moment onwards.I was happy he called; I was equally nervous though to speak to him over the phone.

Uh oh what just happened? Why did I do that? Well I am like that sometimes. Yes strange is the word! Meanwhile my phone beeped again.

‘Hey I just called u up so tht v could speak over d phone till ur train arrived’.
‘Ya sorry I couldn’t hear u.Thnx though J’.

I always found Rohit different from the rest of the guys in our batch, infact the entire college for that matter. He was tall and handsome; broad shouldered and had this uncanny mischievous charm around him. He had the aura of a good-bad boy around him and I kind of liked that. Girls like bad boys after all! I liked talking to him and my face would light up when we would meet in any social gathering. Perhaps I had a crush on him and that’s why I chickened out at the thought of talking to him over the phone.

Finally the train arrived and I left for the vacation that would forever change the course of our lives. We were in touch for the entire duration of the holidays, talking for hours while growing fond of each other at the same time. We don’t know when the fondness transformed to love but it did and here we are today; happily married to each other!

Even today at times when we think about that day Rohit and I thank the Indian Railways for being so pathetically late. If it wasn’t for that then we wouldn’t have spent hours sms-ing each other and we wouldn’t have exchanged our numbers which finally ledto the beginning of our relationship.

Love happens when you least expect it and changes your life forever!

‘My debt to you, Belovèd,
Is one I cannot pay
In any coin of any realm
On any reckoning day.’~Jessie B.Rittenhouse

PS:To the wonderful people who take time to read my posts just wanted to say Thank You Guys. I see that many of my friends have felt that this is my story 🙂 but actually Rohit and Anita are fictional characters with certain similarities in their story to mine with my husband :)… Hope you enjoyed the story!

 PS:All Pictures used in the blog posts are sourced from the internet.


94 thoughts on “Love happens when you least expect it!”

  1. Beautiful love story Anita 🙂 … You both are lucky to have found each other.

  2. What a lovely love story ! I agree love does happen when you least expect it …

  4. so, so true, and so cool of you to have written such a wonderful post on this. god bless the indian railways and rohit and anita.

  6. Thats straight from the heart and beautiful! Good Luck and wish you many more happy anniverseries 😀

  7. Hello! Nabanita,
    First time here through Indiblogger 🙂 I like the title of your blog. Also the cats picture in this post. Looking forward to your Random Thought!

  9. reminds me of a very good novel by ruskin bond "the night train at deoli" read t nice compilation of love stories ……….urs is nic too

  10. wow.. this is so beautiful:) Truly said Love happens when we least expect it 🙂

  18. Thanks Neha … but Rohit and Anita are fictional characters with some similarities to their story of mine with my husband 🙂

  19. Thanks Ranj 🙂 …but Rohit and Anita are fictional characters with some similarities in their story to mine with my husband 🙂

  21. Thanks a lot Jaish 🙂 but Rohit and Anita are fictional characters with some similarities in their story to mine with my husband 🙂

  23. Thanks … 🙂 but Rohit and Anita are fictional characters with some similarities in their story to mine with my husband 🙂

  26. Thanks Chandrakant 🙂 just so you know Rohit and Anita are fictional characters with some similarities in their story to mine with my husband 🙂

  43. Love is something which is unexpected still a lot expected (complicated :)).

    Really beautiful story and the flow is really too good.I enjoyed it to full.In short beautiful story

  45. Awesome. 🙂 Just too damn good and totally natural. Loved every bit of it. I'm a fan of your writing since I started reading your blog around a week ago.

  50. awesome:) and gripping…..god bless Rohit and Anita..
    PS- and I know that "Rohit and Anita are fictional characters with some similarities in their story to yours with your husband" 🙂

  56. so sweet an osm love story, hats off to you gal, you are mind blowing,
    i was just lost in it………..
    gr8 job 🙂

  57. Brilliant, it's brilliant.
    Even for someone who finds it difficult to read anything more than 200 words, i read it all 😀 …
    Look forward to more…

  58. Superb… u're right, i too felt this is my story. but i never had a girl to dream about :D… everything is inside the mind makes us think that "you are him" in the story..
    Love happens like a Tsunami from nowhere and anytime. you spot it out very clearly as there was something different at that time in the "terminal"..
    great post..

  60. Wonderful Naba. Loved reading this one. Infact you are right whne you say many readers would reconnect their previous beautiful years of life.

  66. I always thought you as a critics for every thing, but its a good piece of fiction by you …. good one !!!

  74. Blissful love-story.This story is neatly weaved with characters and places entwined together with those rare special moments to create a beautiful concoction!

  76. Loved the story Anita… And somewhere there I was searching for my love story… our story also started with sms and chats. and we are married today hahaha 🙂
    nice work!!

  78. Very well said Naba!! In today's world where nobody finds time for anything or anyone at all, the most special people come into our lives when we least expect it 🙂

  81. wow! sms chats, phone calls and offcourse the night call schemes ……..though i cnt bring bak my past….bt reading dis kinda relived it….thanks:)

  83. Really appreciate your way of story telling. Everybody has praised you so I wont be repeating the same words. Yes the story is somewhat familiar to my own life also. But I have a question.. What is that phone call which Rohit did to Anita at the station would have been the opposite. I mean if Anita would have initiated all the sms and phone calls. I know girls generally never do them but what if it had happened. Would the story end in the similar manner or Rohit would have ignored Anita??

  84. Thanks 🙂 and as to the answer of your question what would have happened if it was the girl who made the first step; I know for a fact it would end up in a happily ever after…Believe me I have seen it; lived through it and loved it ! 🙂

  85. Hey nice blog and yeah nice post..I can totally relate most of it to my own life :)… though waiting for the happy ending or rather happy beginning for the next stage of my life 🙂

  86. Its so true…love happens when you least expect it. In my case i still dont know whether it is love? But I do like speaking to this person…hes is a good individual and a wonderful person…somehow I dont think he likes me like the way i do…maybe thats why i loved your story but got a bit jealous of the two characters since they had mutual feelings…i hope mine develops tooo!

    Keep writing.
    Cheers,
    N

  92. I was under the impression that your nick name is Anita 😉 as it is part of Nab-anita 😉 I realized its wrong and story is a fiction reading PS.

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