The Proposal

SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER'S DAY?

THOU ART MORE LOVELY AND MORE TEMPERATE

Shakespeare’s sonnets

Well, she was like the seasons. Her smile would be like a cool breeze during the rains, a budding sapling during autumn, a cool drizzle during summer and hot fire during winter. Her name became the name of the pen I was writing, the sticker on my tiffin box, the name of the bus. Every time whenever I read a word starting with her name’s starting letter, mind whispers her name. Before the whole girls of my class begin to be interpreted as her in my mind, I realised that it’s high time to propose her. “Will she accept it?”, “Could we live happily lifelong”, “Will this be a wrong decision?”, “Family Issues” began encroaching my thoughts. Being 8th class student, I thought isn’t it so early? Just then I came to know that some of my juniors have been in relationship since primary school. Omg! Then, why it took so long for me? Maybe, God was auditioning the perfect one for me, and it’s she. How should I? Should I email her? Or else I would use Orkut to send her some indirect texts conveying that I love her. No, it would be so cheap! She might think that I’m not strong enough to propose her face to face. Else, I may tell her best friend… She may do the rest. Wow, nice idea.

As I told it, to her best friend. She began asking about my caste and religion. “Hey, why all these now? First let her come to know that I love her deeply and madly”. “Hey, you remember what you always say in morning assembly during the pledge! “INDIA IS MY COUNTRY”. So, why are you asking why?” she replied. Well as “Password and Username Matched” our “Caste and Religion Matched” Access Granted.

But her friend didn’t turn to be much help. She rather felt it would be unnecessary trouble if she get herself into this issue. Now, how will I convey to her? We can’t take a chance this world, If I go on keeping it in my mind, then someone else my take me over and win her heart. “Survival of the fittest”they say. So, I must not waste my time. Decided to impress her and propose her asap. But HOW? This question ed unanswered. Well, I tried to get the answers from classic romantic movies and new gen romantic films. It’s planning! Planning makes the man perfect! But doesn’t girls get perfection if she plans something…? Ah..whatever, leave that and have a plan to propose her, told my heart to my brain.

Well Finally, I got a perfect plan. Which could make her smile and think. I hoped that I could witness all my seasons together, when I say these words. I began smiling for no reason all the time. Spend more of the time of day thinking than being into life. “Think, Think, Think, Dream, Dream, Dream and put that thought into Action, Action, Action”. It was all her, I was always thinking about her, she will be always in my dreams, I expect tonight also she will be there in my dreams but action! Oops, this thought is not actually meant to be here I suppose. After having the perfect plan, whenever her image fall on my retina, my heart skips a beat, lips smiles, eyelids became wide opened, hair starts moving even without wind, muscles relaxes, and all these makes me reborn at every instance.

Finally the day has come, my plan is gonna work this day. I started from home with a mile long smile on my face. As I rode my cycle on the way to school, I concentrated on the words I’ve decided to tell her, rather than on the road. After reaching the school, my eyes searched for her. But she was nowhere to be found. I felt hopeless as I thought that wouldn’t come, I couldn’t participate in the morning assembly with as much energy as I used to have. Later on I remember that I had a smile when I heard her voice “May, I come in ma’am?” a rose bloomed inside my heart. She came late on that day. As my plan was to tell her everything on the way back to bus stop which was approximately 1km from the school gate. Before next period began, I told her to wait for me in front of school gate after that day`s class.she asked me why she had to wait.i told her that it was a surprise. She agreed readily as we know each other since 2nd class. I couldn’t listen to anything or everything in the class going on that day. All my intension was to get the hour hand to 2 and minute hand to 8 (40 min) so that I could tell her. At 2:40PM Bell rang. I rushed to the cycle shed and went to the main gate. I saw her waiting for me. “C’mon let’s walk” I said. We began walking together, me walking along with my hands on my cycle’s handle and she on my right side. How to begin it? I was confused at the right moment. With much hope, courage and confidence I began “I like you… I like your eyes, smile, personality, attitude, and almost everything… It makes me happy and feels positive always and I want to be happy and Positive for the rest of my life too…. I LOVE YOU. I started sweating! Hey, wait….. Am I dreaming?