Monsoon Love ( Hum Tum )

The beauty of nature can be well felt with the onset of monsoon, the overcast sky, the raindrops drenching mother earth with water drops running through the blades of tree leaves fills romance in one's life . The rain drops falling on the ground and splashing out and when those falls on your body just make u feel loved, like it's playing romantic music as it falls down hitting the tress and the objects around you. What else can someone like me want, who love rain the most. Rain drops just flickers every string of my heart and I just get lost in romancing with it. 

That day was something like that I was returning from the playground after my cricket training session when my beloved rain started to shower love on me, my friends stayed back protecting themselves from getting wet in the name of getting cold . I handed them my cricket kit and asked them to drop it at my home while I need to meet my love as it came after so many days to take me in her arms. Spreading my arms and standing on the middle of the road I made the drops to fall on me, making me feel as if I'm a canvas and she is filling her colours in me portraying the most beautiful picture in me. I walked through the valley road as my hostel was on the other side of the hill and I usually go with my friends in their bike but today I decided to walk through the road enjoying the nature's beauty and quenching the thirst of my soul with the cute cute drops of rain. 

I had hardly reached near the bus stop when my phone rang, I had no option other than to go to the the bus waiting hall to receive the call. Taking out my mobile from the polythene, I was talking to my mom when suddenly I heard few comments passed by some boys in there twenties standing there. One was saying to another, " look at her, how her black bra straps revealing through her dress." while the other one replied, No it's not black, it's maroon" .

I looked towards the girl, a tall, slim girl probably in her mid twenties wearing a white short shirt which has got totally drenched in the rain resulting in sticking to her soft skins revealing her inside beauty and from bottom of her shirt tappers two her long slender legs hidden within her denim jeans . Her long hair though got a knot still falls all over her back reaching out till her hips, that swaying as she walks in her high heels. She was coming towards the waiting hall but the lewd comments by those guys made her feel uncomfortable and she turned her direction towards a nearby tree. I can see her hiding tears behind the rain drops. She walked upto the tree and stood under it along side the road, waiting for someone to take her.

" She is so beautiful ", words emerged out of my mouth and I there I got a response " who is beautiful, have you gone mad?, Said mom from the other side of the phone . Oh god I almost forgot that I'm still on phone talking to mom and I said her, " nothing mom, wait will call you later." Saying this I hung up the call. 

I heard one of the guy standing there saying to his partner, " She got perfect figure, how do she manage to carry those?'

The other guy said, " hey they are padded ones, these days they fool us with those."

" I don't believe you'"

" Okay let's go near her and capture her pic secretly and then by zooming it I'll show you that I'm right. Let's bet 500-500 on it."

Okay done said his partner.

There conversation really pissed me off how idiotic can these guy be ? You should take pride in praising someone's beauty but not by passing derogatory remarks that will embarrase a girl .

.As they were about to go near that girl, I shouted out loud at the girl saying, " oh hello, when did you come, I am waiting here and you are standing there. Wait I'm coming." As those guys heard me saying that, they stopped and I walked upto her. She looked perplexed seeing me coming, little afraid because she took me as one among the other guys who passed comments on her. 

Reaching near her, I removed my sports jacket and gave it to her saying" Please ma'am don't take me wrong, those guys were making vulgar comments on you and trying to peep into your dress. Please put it over yourself, they are trying to capture your picture through their mobile." 

She understood my point and taking my jacket, she put it over her with a sweet word of thanks flowing out of her Beautiful face. I stood little away from her and still both of us were getting wet because the tree wasn't that big enough to prevent the rain water from falling over us. Drop by drop, the rain drops dropped on us through the tree's leaves blade and was making us more wet. We both stood silent for sometime and when the silence began to haunt me, I spoke out to her, " Ma'am are you waiting for someone ?"

She said, " yes, for the bus. Won't it be coming today?"

" Actually I don't take the bus, so I am unaware about its timing., We are already wet, There is a tea shop, why don't we walk till that? you are shivering out of cold. Can have some tea unless the bus come."

She looked towards me and asked, " how far is it from here?"

" Hardly 10 mins of walk, just near the other turning, He makes awesome tea."

She starred at me and I continued, " you can trust on me."

She laughed and said "Okay, let's go."

Both of us moved on through those hilly slippery road with rain water flowing downwards over the road in our opposite direction and as they hit our feet, they splash like the waves crashing against the rocks. I kept splashing the water with my legs and suddenly by mistake I splashed the running water on to the girl and she turned around and gave me a serious look while I said, " Sorry madam Galti se mistake, I didn't do it deliberately, " and giving a sorry expression I hung my head down when suddenly I felt splash of water on me and what did I see, the girl splashing water on me and laughing out loud. I felt a bit relieved because I didn't mean to hurt her

 " Don't call me madam, call me Pihu."

" I'm Rohit, my friends call me Roh, Rou, fohit anything you feel like you can call me."

" No, I shall call you as Rohit only."

" As you wish, by the way, are you a student?"

" No, I teach dance in the Nritya Kala Academy here?"

" So you are a dance teacher?"

Suddenly a bike drove very fast by us and Pihu shouted out, " hey you, can't you see and drive " and began to run towards the road side and before I can understand anything she picked up a squirrel that was bleeding, probably hit by the speeding bike for which Pihu was shouting out on him.

She carefully picked it up and pressed her soft buttery finger on its site of bleeding, to let the blood clot and said, " See how inhuman are these people these days, riding bike as if they don't value others life. He almost got this innocent squirrel killed today." She kept pressing it for sometime and when bleeding didn't stop, she asked me to hold the squirrel.

I didn't have any idea or experience of holding any pet and before I can say thing she kept the squirrel on my palm, my hand touched her hand. It's like a magical moment, her soft flappy fin

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gers touch made me feel as if thousand volt ran inside my nerves. She ran to the road side and plucked some leaves from a bush there and crushing those between her palm she applied it's paste on the site of injury, and remarkably the bleeding stopped within seconds. 

I asked her, " Are you a doc?"

" No but what made you ask that?"

" You know what to apply on wounds to check bleeding"

" This is so simple, I learnt this from my Dadi Maa, I have seen her doing whenever I got injury while playing as a kid. Life experiences teaches us a lot what even books don't ."

We both walked for few more distance talking things to know each other more before reaching the tea shop and there I got a mug of water and Pihu washed her hands keeping the squirrel on the table. I asked, " Baba, give us one cup of elaichi tea."

"Beta, luckily only one cup can be made with whatever tea leaves left with me.Just give me one minute, will make it for you", replied the old man who happens to be the owner of the tea stall.

" Why? Only one cup, won't you drink ?"

" No, I don't drink tea"

" Why? You told this shop makes awesome tea .Without drinking how did you know, he makes fine tea. Fooled me with your words"

" No no, I drink tea but very rarely and on any special occasion only . You can ask Baba, By the way, what is the date today?"

" 23rd June .Do you drink on any specific date too?"

" No it's not like that, I had drank here on 15 th June, it was too a rainy day and I was going in a bike through this road when someone made me stop here and had made me drink tea from that only I got to know that Baba makes awesome tea"

" Then drink today, isn't this a special day, beginning of our friendship, a day to cheer for."

" But you hardly know me, how can you call me your friend, we just met few minutes back . Don't you think you are making avast judgement on me"

" I don't need to know more about you, you are a good human being. The way you cared for me, the way you showed respect for a girl, it itself shows how good a person you are. Sometimes a moment is enough to know a person and I already had that."Pihu had hardly finished her words when the old man said that the tea is ready and I went upto him and bringing the tea handed the cup of red tea with its plate to Pihu and few groundnuts for the squirrel. She looked at me and said "In the name of our friendship, just have a little from this "

" I looked into her eyes, I saw a spark in it and I didn't want to upset that innocent and cute face and said, "okay I shall have it for our friendship ". Hearing this she smiled. Oh my god, my eyes fell on her dimple, how did I miss it earlier? it just mesmerized me. I was falling, falling for her beauty, falling for her cuteness, falling for her innocence, falling for her humbleness and generosity .Any how I needed to hold myself back, I don't know about her feelings for me but why it only happens with me ? Why monsoon make me fall in love ? Why it always happens here at this tea stall?

 

Pihu pour down tea into the plate and gave the cup to me . As I took a sip, I watched her drinking it from the plate. She hold the cup by her long slender cute fingers and the plate moved slowly and softly through her rose petaled lips as she sip it with her eyes looking at me and her chubby cheeks grew pinkish out of her smile. As I watched her and she starred into my eyes, I winked and she blushed with her dimple making her look damn cute. The FM radio in that shop, now stitched to romantic melodies and it was now playing....... 

"Saanson ko saanson

Mein dalne do zara

Dheemi si dhadkan

Ko badne do zara

Lamho ki guzarish hai

Yeh paas aa jaaye

Hum hum tum

Tum hum tum

Aankhon mein humko

Utharne do zara

Baahon mein humko

Pighalne do zara

Lamho ki guzarish hai

Yeh paas aa jaaye

Hum hum tum

Tum hum tum

The song turned the atmosphere romantic, I can see smokes raising out of the roof that is made out of hay due to the burning stove underneath it. I remembered how Saif and Rani were romancing in the rain and my feet began to tab on the floor. Rain, tea and the song just turns me on but I still fear to ask her for a dance because I am not at all good in dancing but yeah my friends do say that I dance well on Naagin beats in marriages and here the environment we'll set up not for a Naagin dance but for a romantic dance.

 Breaking all the suspense, I said to Pihu do you know I love a dialogue from this movie which says ..

" Hum tum mein bash ek hi problem hai...." before I can complete Pihu taking my hand in her said, "What about a dance with me?" . 

I replied, " Sorry, I don't know how to dance?" while she replied, " you are with a dance teacher, I will teach you." Saying that, holding my hands, she took me out of the shop and there we both stood under the rain, the magical rain drops touching our semi dried body and it made me feel as if her smile, her move, her voice spreading melodious love in air. 

Pihu took my one hand and kept it on her waist and she hold me by my neck and made me move my legs and shake my hips. I said her, "All are looking at us." while she replied, " In this romantic atmosphere, while the rain is playing the love songs, you are bothered about these unknown faces forgetting that a beautiful girl is in your arms and wanting for a dance with you.we are just dancing, come on we aren't doing any crime."

I too found logic in her words, why should I care for what people will think about us, we are just enjoying the beauty of nature, the sweetness of monsoon rain, I danced with her as she kept me helping with my moves, teaching me the romantic steps, filling in me her sweet fragrance and making my heart and soul danced to her tunes.I was enjoying her touch, her moves, her way of making me feel romantic in that monsoon evening . 

We both were completely absorbed in dance forgetting that we are on a valley road with people watching us both showing our dance talents. While lost in each other's eye, Suddenly I took her in my arms, moved my lips closer to her face. She closed her eyes, her heartbeat I can feel on mine, her hot breathe felt me on my face and I gently kissed on her lips with both of our eyes closed. The gentle one turned passionate and we kissed longer and deeper smooching each othet unaware of the people at the tea shop , unaware how heavily the rain was pouring and unaware of how a speeding truck whose drunk driver lost his control and heading fast towards us. Within seconds the love of the truck driver for the liquors crushed our love that was blooming in that monsoon evening under its tyres...

I opened my eyes to see Pihu lying far away from me in pool of blood, I was too injured but still breathing, I got up with the help of people there and went upto Pihu and cried out holding her as she had already gone too far from me and I just completed my words..

" There is one problem between Hum Tum and that is without Tum, Hum is nothing ."