G-talk se H-talk tak!!

hi, how are u doing, my angel. :)
never mind but because this is the convention so asking for 'ASL' plz.
... yeah Before that I am Akshat from Banglore.

As this message flashed on her screen, she was puzzled to see if she could receive the messages from a person who is not added in her friend list even without signing in any chat room.
She was checking her mails on yahoo, (new version-chat enabled). Finishing all mails, she inspected the id from which she was receiving the messages. It said- reach_akshat@yahoo.co.in, She got a smile as it resembled with her id( reach_akanksha@yahoo.co.in) and she decided to reply
hi.
I am doing fine, Akshat. Thank you.
May I know what this "ASL" means.


Akshat: :) thanks for replying, you took a long time, so I became hopeless for response.
A-age
S-sex
L-location

Akanksha: OK.
A=20
S=F
L=Kanpur

Akshat: A=21
S=M
L=Bangalore
E=B.Tech. 3rd year

Akanksha: E(akanksha)=E(akshat)
:)

Akshat: wooh, thats great. from where.
well I am doing it from RBIT, Bangalore.
My branch is CSE.

Akanksha: My branch is also the same, am doing it from HBTI, Kanpur.
:)

Akshat: Wooh.. can we be friends :) !! ?? I want to talk to u more, if u don't mind.
It feels good talking a person of ur kind. right!!.

Akanksha wanted to ask him, that how a message from unknown id flashed on her screen, but it skipped out of her mind.
She liked the boy's manner of talking, although she never went in chat rooms or never added an unknown id in her buddy list, but today she did.

She was not used to of yahoo chat,so she told him, that he can reach her on gtalk- reach_akanksha@gmail.com
and said 'Bye' for now.
He replied, "see u soon :) ".

Next day when she was online on gtalk, she received his invitation, for an unknown reason she was happy clicking 'yes', with a hope to see the green signal with available tag. But He was not. But then the mail notifications popped up a mail by him. She opened the gmail, and read the mail, thouroghly.

Hi Akanksha,
Hopefully you would have recognized me, :)
You can choose adding me.
Thank you.
Have a Good day!!
bye.
Ak$#@t...
with an attachment of a song-- "jungle jungle baat chali hai " , The mowgli- Jungle book.

She liked the song, as it drove her back in childhood memories.
At night after dinner, when she came online again, Akshat too was online, with a 'busy' tag, and the pic of writing hand.
But in a while he pinged her, they chatted and chatted a lot. and after 2 hours of chatting, it seemed they can become very good friends.
And so did they do, and after that they chatted almost every night, almost on every topic.
Akshat told about his hobbies as playing guitar,(He also has formed a college band, with his friends), He liked to collect different kind of pebbles, and had a beautiful collection of it. He was an enthusiastic player.

Akanksha liked cooking, singing and dancing. She also used to make beautiful designs on chalk pieces by scratching it with the help of needle. Akanksha's favorite game was badminton, she also liked chess.
Akshat had a younger sister, studying in class 12th, while Akanksha had a younger brother studying in 10th.
Akanksha's father was in bank, and Akshat belonged to a business family. Both were MBA aspirants, and both had same area of interest in Computer subjects as well.
Their chats were sometimes focused on the discussion of Internet technology, programming languages,networking, algorithms, other times on DBMS, College project, at times also on back-biting of teachers and boasting of their selves that how they fooled their teachers on copies.
They also talked about few recipes, as Akshat was so keen of food.
Both of them liked traveling a lot, hence their chats were also consisted of descriptions of the places they visited.
Sometimes even they shared the horrible and mysterious dreams they saw. These chats knew no end.
On Akanksha's Birthday she received a 100s of scraps at her account on a social networking website.
Akshat had a great collection of songs, great sense of humor as well, so he used to send situational songs and beautiful mails to her almost everyday.
On friend-ship day, Raksha-bandhan, Teachers Day,Dushehra, Diwali and Children's day the good wishes were exchanged with enthusiasm and love.
No one knew when they became a habit to each other, If the buddy at the next end was late even by few minutes, One started being nervous and eager to know the reason. Although they never expressed, but it was showed in the expressions they typed.

By nature Akshat was slow, understanding and mature, while Akanksha was enthusiastic, demanding and innocent.
It went 5 months by and by, and today when he told her that he has got through campus selection in HCL, Akanksha wanted to wish him and hence asked for his no. They talked, and she found his voice deep and soothing, while he liked the joy of her voice. She spoke the same way as she typed, the girlish expressions, with a lots of chirpiness. But she too had a deep voice when was serious.
There were times when Akshat was so depressed and She helped him perceiving the situation differently.

We also must give credit to "Reliance 495/- plan" which brought them even closer.

It was February, the valentine's day, they wished each other, with lots of yellow rose e-cards.

But one thing , that both of them never could understand, why they were becoming voracious to listen others' voice.
Eight months of their friendship with the 'change in meaning and purpose of it' passed by now.
Now they used to share all the problems of their life only with each other.
As his/her number used to flash on their mobile screen, it knew no bounds of joy to the receiver.


Did they see each other?? Oh yes.
Akanksha was a long legged lass, with curved figure and sweet mouth. Lips particularly thick and beautiful. The doll of Afghan she looked like. hair short but cut and arranged fashionably, She was so keen of posing, hence had a large collection of her pics.
Akshat did not like to be framed, but he did it for her, and mailed the photo. He was a grave face, spects made him appear thoughtful too.

But apart from the photographs, they set an imagined persona resembling with the faces they saw in photos, in their sub-conscious.
Every time they felt touched with the thoughts of others, they wanted to see each other, definitely had a hidden desire of romance, actually they were up to, but nothing was accepted in words. Its just that things kept going on.

Every next day they took a leap,shared more between them, and the intimacy was such that one used to estimate others thoughts before his/her mind reacted. They were in synchronization, in coherence.

As the days passed by, They yearned more and more to see each other.

Finally It was march 2, Akshat was participating in Tech-kriti, the annual technical festival of IIT/Kanpur. Both of them bounced with joy when he told her that he is representing his college, and hence got the travel allowance from the college.
Now the calls and chats were at their peak. Their days and nights, Heart and soul all filled only with the thoughts of each other. They were lost in anticipating what would she/he say when they would meet, what would they be wearing while meeting. What a lot other things they were going to tell each other. And above all they were dying to see each other in person ( whom they have dreamed a lot ), from whom they were sharing almost everything of their routine from last eight months, with whom they had explored their lives once again, the person who made him/her change his/her attitude and the perception about life, whose words could soothe like balm, That angel friend.

And It was 17th march when Akshat was in Kanpur, at 11:40 pm, He called her and told that he was in Kanpur. In enthusiasm and Anticipation She did not feel sleepy tonight. The sleep already was off from Akshat's eyes too.
Whole night the situation of both of them was the same. Each and every chat and calls they shared went through their thoughts once again, like a flash back. Few of the things which had impressed them, like Bold and Italics they flashed more brightly in memories.

At 4 am Akanksha slept finally, while Akshat could not as he could not stop himself thinking of her.
But he too slept at 7 am in the morning as his body could not help him any more but brains still were thinking of her.
and he saw a dream.
"She is wearing a pink-white Salwar suit, a jovial face, and the divine walk.. she came closer to him and gave him a gift.
The gift contained five pieces of chalks on which the designs of Ganesha, Nat-raj, a girl dancer, flowers, and hearts were scratched and painted beautifully.
And then he sat down on his knees, and asked for her hand, said (with all the truthfulness and depth of his heart) that he had loved her from the day she was in his life, and wanted to love her throughout his life, and finally he proposed her too.
She gave her hand and accepted him and bowed down to kiss him......"
and suddenly he opened his eyes.. "Ohh .. shitt!!.. I was dreaming was", all he could say with a blush.
He looked at the watch, it struck 11 am. He had to meet Akanksha at campus restaurant at 12:30......

He quickly unpacked his luggage, and went for a shower. It was 11:30 by now, and He was famished so had to had some breakfast .He was staying at Hall-3, so went there at cafeteria, and had Maggie (his all time favorite). As Akanksha's no. flashed on screen, for the first time his heart skipped a beat. She told that she was on her way and will be there in IIT anytime. Said see u then and then cut the phone. it was 12:10 pm of 18th march, He was sitting under the banyan tree, the one that was near to campus restaurant. She called her again and told him that She had taken a rick-shaw and coming to restaurant, just wait her outside.
He was becoming more and more nervous as Akanksha was expressing herself enthusiastically.He tried respiration, but it did not seem helping. He walked back and forth a bit and then sat again under the same tree, looked up,looked down and then kept looking at the people who were going inside the State bank, that is on the left of that banyan tree, and finally he set his eyes from where he was expecting her. It was 12:20 pm by now. He saw a rick-Shaw coming in his direction. He looked at the girl.. oh, it was a lady.
finally he saw Akanksha.... she was busy taking money out from her purse. She got down and paid the rick-Shaw, looked around, and exactly in front of her was standing Akshat.
A boy of height 5 feet and 4 inches, the same studious face with spects on his nose, a more stylish frame, she observed.Complexion a bit darker than she saw in photo. and hair not that cute and curly as they seemed in photograph.
Akshat too saw his curiosity in person... A girl of 5 feet and 7 inches, bright and beautiful, straight hair (longer than he saw in photo, hair style was also changed), a cute mole on her chin (this he did not notice in photo), she was wearing a dark blue low waist jeans, and a white cut sleeve top.

Coming out of this hypnotism, Akanksha said 'hi', and asked him -"should we go inside", with a smile, that made him realize that he too needed to come out of the dream,
They went inside, but Akanksha was no more enthusiastic, Akshat too was nervous for he could see the glow of her face already dimmed.
Akanksha neither was speaking the same voice as he used to listen over the phone, nor the same words and language as she did.

But still he managed. He kept talking about studies and project, about his event in Tech-kriti etc etc.
They ordered for the lunch. And they had it in a horrible silence with fake smiles.

Akshat could feel the rejection by now, and Akanksha could not stop herself rejecting him ...
as he was nothing what she imagined, what she wanted. She was feeling cheated and He was feeling like a fool.

Finally they came out of restaurant, at bill, Akanksha insisted paying half, her voice was no more sweet.. rather it was bossy. She was commanding the meeting.
She told him that she had to go for shopping with her momma..so she had to leave soon.
He bought her ice-cream. He knew her favorite one.
They walked together with ice cream and each other till IIT Gate.
Akanksha bade a goodbye to him,
he said - nice meeting you, see u again.
She just said - Bye, gave him a final smile, and boarded herself in Tempo (the most popular convince in Kanpur).

It has been a three years to this story, Akanksha blocked Akshat after that meeting, while Akshat still is waiting to see the green signal blinking before her name on g-talk.
He still is waiting for those h-talks... the heart's talk.