Chapter: 4

A NEW BEGINNING
June 8th 2003

Yippee, exams are over. Oh sorry guess I forgot to tell you, yeah I study in a University. And I am pretty good at studies as well. So after the exams, I am back to my hometown for holidays. Damn it, it’s still Morning she told me she will be online by 10 pm. Long wait…1 month almost, but in this 1 month I did talk to her twice and exchanged a few mails as well. You know how it is in friendship; there are always crests and troughs. When you meet someone new, you hit a crest, you get to know loads about that person and after sometime you hit the troughs zone when you almost come to a standstill and only tiny winy information is exchanged. And then the cycle starts over again. But it’s a privilege to know such a beautiful person like my friend Anie. I mean the more I come to know about her, the more I feel I already knew this thing. Its like you already have met her somewhere, forgotten her and now you again are meeting her. So the things keep getting clearer and you feel she is just a mirror image of you. Ok not exactly a mirror image but maybe it’s like we two are part of the same soul which broke when we were born and are now the two parts are trying to connect to each other.

Alright its night time and I finally get to see her. She is just the same as when we last talked - Cute, bubbly and sweet. And yes a complete chatterbox.

Angel: You know I made 2-3 good friends in the last month. One of them is really a good friend you know, One day we were talking on the phone for around 2 hours non stop and we were like not even aware of what we were talking. It was so funny.

Me: Wait a second, Phone? You called him? I mean you know him in person? Moreover you never called me .

Angel: Oh Why you had to say this thing…I was going to call you in a few days, I was preparing to give you a surprise.

Me: Oh Ok Sorry for that. So what else?

Angel: Not much, listen do you have your phone with you right now.

Me: Yeah why?

Angel: Ok let me call you.

Me: Now! At this time?

Angel: Yeah why any problem?

Me: No not really, ok give me 5 mins and then you can call me.

Well I was sort of taken aback at this request. I mean it’s not like I didn’t want to talk to her on phone but I was a little nervous. These are two different things talking on phone and on net. And I already told you I am little shy.

Phone ringing…

Me: Hello (almost sounding like a dead guy speaking)

Anie: Hi…Why are you sounding so feeble?

Boy she surely caught me there…

Me: Oh no nothing, can’t speak loudly as everyone is asleep here.

Anie: Oh Sorry I didn’t think about that. Then I guess its better that we talk online.

Me: I guess yeah.

So that was it. My first conversation with my angel. Although hardly a conversation but still, you must have heard that voice, it was so sweet and mellow and in that voice you could feel the purity and truthness of her soul, which you hardly find in today’s world.

After the first conversation she used to call me up almost everyday and we used to talk for hours. I don’t even remember what we used to talk for those hours. I mean you guys must be thinking that she must have done all the talking. Yeah some what true but after few days I also became quite frank and was able to convey my worries and problems to her, help her out if she needed anything. We used to talk about movies, food, music, her daily routine. I got to know a lot about her past, about her family, about her values and ideals in life. And as I told before it was about rediscovering these things for me, somewhere down the line I had forgotten about all this and it was fun to discover all these things again. We had a sense of telepathy, I don’t know how to describe it but it was really cool. I mean I could guess sometimes what she was thinking, if her mood was bad, or if she was sad about anything. And ditto, she could guess things which I hardly ever told her.

This way, I found my angel. The one I longed for, the one I desired to protect, to keep away from all evils, to keep her happy, be with her when she needed me. She was my friend, my mentor, my guide, my sweet little angel. I thank god for this blessing and for this new beginning.