"Your name is beautiful...", says the scrap on orkut, "and so are you!"
There is nothing new in that, except for the fact that the scrap doesn't accompany a Please-Make-Me-Your-Friend request. Hmmm... Let's wait for a day. He's bound to come up with it.
There is nothing new in that, except for the fact that the scrap doesn't accompany a Please-Make-Me-Your-Friend request. Hmmm... Let's wait for a day. He's bound to come up with it.
* * *
Two days have gone by. She has even sent back a "Thanks" to him, which is quite unlike herself. She has read his profile twelve times in these two days and seen all of his 10 pictures at least 5 times. He HAS replied to her - "Pleasure!", but no! No Please-Make-Me-Your-Friend request!
He's extremely handsome - tall, broad-shouldered, just-the-correct dark, stubbled, and eyes so perfectly soft in one picture and so teasingly sparkling in another. He's in the same city, single and well-off.
Her Relationship status finds no mention on her profile. Just a blank. The ambiguity of the real thing extended to the virtual world.
He's extremely handsome - tall, broad-shouldered, just-the-correct dark, stubbled, and eyes so perfectly soft in one picture and so teasingly sparkling in another. He's in the same city, single and well-off.
Her Relationship status finds no mention on her profile. Just a blank. The ambiguity of the real thing extended to the virtual world.
* * *
Another day has passed. She has stopped taking calls from a certain number, and her Relationship status on orkut reads "Single".
She has typed a very carefully worded Please-Make-Me-Your-Friend request. "I've never tried to make online friends before. But for once, I felt I could give it a try..." She checks it for spelling, grammar, language and dignity thrice. She presses the button 'Send'.
She has typed a very carefully worded Please-Make-Me-Your-Friend request. "I've never tried to make online friends before. But for once, I felt I could give it a try..." She checks it for spelling, grammar, language and dignity thrice. She presses the button 'Send'.
* * *
The next morning, broadband is not working at her place. Desperate, she goes to the cyber cafe.
Orkut is taking ages to open today.
Her phone has started ringing. It's the same certain number. She lets it ring like she has for 2 days now. A few seconds later, the other surfers have started screaming at her - "Shut the noise!", "Take the call, will you?" She is NOT going to take the call. The only option is to disconnect the call.
Orkut has opened.
"Hello", she says, on the phone.
Orkut is taking ages to open today.
Her phone has started ringing. It's the same certain number. She lets it ring like she has for 2 days now. A few seconds later, the other surfers have started screaming at her - "Shut the noise!", "Take the call, will you?" She is NOT going to take the call. The only option is to disconnect the call.
Orkut has opened.
"Hello", she says, on the phone.
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