Dud Sea Scrawls The Writing, clearly, is not on the wall!

It is hard waiting anywhere. It is especially hard waiting when you look forward to holding your love close to you and you want that moment to arrive soon… It’s been days since I saw Kalpit, god! I miss him so. I’d never understood what Sinatra meant when he sang ‘I’ve got you under my skin’ but now I feel it… every waking second of my life, I want to be with him.

I’ve arrived here and wait for him to pick me up. The airport café is filled with people, I get myself a cup of cappuccino and sit thinking atleast I wont feel lonely here.

I see him. He is searching for me. Then I see her, an attractive woman in her early twenties, her eyes following him. He doesn’t see me as I am sitting down. I want to see what does, so I rein back my eagerness to hold him close and continue sitting.

I guess Kalpit is panicky now, his eyes are getting smaller in anger, perhaps at himself for being a few mins late or thinks I missed my flight. I get up and wave at Kalpit… He sees me, smiles and starts a short jog to embrace me… As I hold him I close, I so want to kiss him and never want to let go. Then I notice that woman again, I see a strange sense of loss in that woman’s face, almost like a child who’s lost a candy and realises that no one’s noticed it… Desperately seeking for some reassurance that what’s lost can be replaced. Wanting to cry, wanting to hold something or someone close but cant because of some inhibition…

As we let go of each other and look into each other’s eyes, I sense some movement close to us. That woman is coming towards us, I can read determination on her face. Kalpit senses something’s wrong in my eyes and turns to look, that woman gives a peck on his cheek and says “You were wonderful last night,” she then winks at me and leaves… I see Kalpit is tongue tied and stunned at this turn of events for a moment, then he smiles at the back of the woman. I work up the best rage I can and and shout that he is a cheat and a liar… The woman takes a quick look at us, me shouting and Kalpit trying to calm me down… She looks happy.

As she disappears out of sight and out of our hearing range, I wink, smile and hug Kalpit. And I ask him, if he really thought I’d forget the video conference we had last night till the wee hours, almost missing the flight because I cut the time of my departure too fine, so soon?

With my love beside me, I’m at peace… I hope she is too.