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Dear Bunny, 

I had given up on the cool guys of Bollywood. No, I did not stop loving them, I just couldn't like them anymore. And then I met you on the 31st May, 2013. I was and still am, a bespectacled nerd. I was somewhere in the second last seat, with another arts student beside me. Yes, we gave each other looks as Aditi introduced herself to Naina's mother. 

You, I thought, were another "cool" guy who was going to fall for the prettiest girl on the trek. Turns out you did exactly that, you fell for her and told her to love herself first. You weren't exactly a knight in the shining armor, you just showed her who she was all along. A badass with a quiet soul. Even as you were yet to discover your own heart, you knew how to love people all along. Maybe that is why you were never good with handling regrets, phantoms. 

That boy, when he left home, was an arrogant wannabe photographer. When he came back, he learnt that there is only so much you can apologize for following your dreams. And that love isn't always convenient, sometimes it is the woman you fell in love with while telling your dreams to, who refuses to follow you halfway across the world, who tells you that love is messy. I don't know how you two made it, how you showed up at her doorstep on that new year's eve, how you thought that even as there might be a slim chance at forever, just in that moment, you had to be together and you had to hope, but I am glad you did. 

I hope the people who gave us all a sense of happy ending, have found theirs. Because your story had just begun that night. 

-That bespectacled nerd in the second last seat at the movie theatre.