Tiny OS 2 : REUNION [25-Jul-2017] (No PMs)

REUNION

Her lips curved into a smile as Khushi re-read the E-mail she had received a couple of minutes ago. Reunion! Khushi's heart jumped with joy and excitement. Will Arnav be there too? The thought made her feel butterflies in her stomach. Arnav her school crush whom she had madly fallen for during their graduation together. It had been more than four long years since their last meeting at the convocation. Arnav had been abroad since then. Khushi had never been able to express her love to him. And now they were hardly in contact, just some rare messages on Facebook or WhatsApp wishing on birthdays. But Khushi never missed to follow him on Facebook regularly. Seeing and liking his pictures on Facebook and closely following his status gave Khushi an unknown happiness though she had lost the hope to ever see him again. And after all these years, the invite for the reunion of their graduation batch brought Khushi's hope of meeting Arnav back to life. Khushi quickly checked Facebook whether Arnav had updated anything about being in India at the moment, but there wasn't any such update.

"Hey... Are you in India by any chance?" she texted him on WhatsApp, but didn't get any reply. She was disappointed to see that the message had not been delivered to him. Should I call him? A thought popped up in her mind. But then she discarded it.

Finally the next day arrived. Khushi reached the party hall and was happy meeting all her classmates after a long time. But her happiness seemed incomplete without Arnav. She got to know from one of her friends that Arnav was in India and he would be reaching the venue any moment from then. A strange excitement surged through Khushi. Would he be the same Arnav even now? Does he too remember all the moments we had spent together? What will be his reaction after seeing me? Will he too be excited to meet me? Or is it just me as always? A number of thoughts flooded Khushi's mind as she counted moments while waiting for Arnav to come.

Khushi thought of getting juice for her till then. She turned suddenly and bumped into someone before she could understand what happened.

"Khushi!" she heard a familiar voice.

"Arnav!" Khushi couldn't hide her excitement. His looks, his eyes, his voice never failed to take away her heart.

Both didn't know how to begin the conversation. They were just lost into each other's eyes. Khushi looked away from him fearing that he will know about her love. But Arnav kept looking at Khushi. Beautiful as always!

Arnav's phone had fallen to the ground in this hustle. Both knelt down at the same time to pick it up. Khushi was surprised to see the wallpaper of his phone. It was a childhood photo of Arnav and Khushi holding hands and smiling heartily. Khushi's eyes watered seeing it. Arnav smiled seeing Khushi's reaction.

"After all these years?"

"Always!"

Khushi couldn't believe it. Arnav knew seeing Khushi's reaction that his love was actually never one-sided as he had been thinking it to be all this time.

It was not just a reunion of classmates, but a reunion of two hearts made for each other.

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