ONE SHOTS

stranger things

It was a serene night in the city of Coimbatore and a girl was standing there with a small luggage in her hand and a guitar bag in her back pacing here and there with her mobile phone and the moment she after 5 minutes she looked into the ticket and let out a breath of releif and called her sister ananya . 

Ananya " ticket vandhurucha ISHA?"

Isha " oru vazhiya vandhuruchu d ... i was scared to death seriously cancel aanadhu epdi gavanikaama irundhenne therila " 

Ananya " hey vera seatey illad Diwali timenaala .  upper cot dhaan potrukom mulusa vandhu serndhuruvela ?"

 Isha glared at her sister through the phone and said " asingappauthuriya enna ? adhulaam vandhuruve am a strong person " 

Ananya suppressed her chuckle on the other side and the sisters cut the call after the arrival of bus. Isha handed over her luggage to the worker who was arranging all the luggage in the luggage area and got into the bus to find her single upper cot at the last and below the cot few luggages were arranged. she gulped looking at the luggage and prayed to not fall down. To make the situation worser the cot didn't have a bag holding space and she had to give half of the bedspace for her guitar and there were no handrails in the bed. 

She sighed looking at it and covinced herself that it is better to sleep in a railless bus instead of travelling in a seater for 9 hours to chennai. She laid her guitar bag in a place and settled herself up and the bus started to move, and she had her window curtains open. She turned to the window and found a guy running towards the bus with a shoulder bag on. She processed it in a minute and called the worker who was checking the seats and said that a person is running behind the bus. The bus was stopped, and she plugged into her airpods not thinking much watching a korean series. The bus stopped and a guy hopped into the bus panting and said "sorry late aayruchu " 

The worker asked for his name, and he said " ARJUN " he was alloted one cot in the last and he was supposed to share the double cot with a senior citizen. He went in while the worker said " andha lastla irukura ponnu nirutha sollalana neenga varadhe therunjurukaadhu sir iniyaachu timeku vaanga " 

Arjun nodded his head and went in thanking the unknown girl in his mind and got into his cot. He turned his head towards the right to check for the girl and sighed seeing the curtains closed. He thought of not disturbing much as the time was already 11. He placed his bag next to him and drifted off to sleep. 

Isha felt her eyelids getting heavy and thought of sleeping as she was so much tired out of the culturals that took place in her college and the way she was roaming around the city for the street play awareness program. By 2 A.M the bus was halted in a motel for refreshment and Arjun got down to get himself a coffee as he couldn't sleep owing to his headache. The moment he got down his eyes landed on a petite figure which was about to fall down from the opposite cot . He hurried towards her and caught her on place by supporting her by placing both his hands on her back . 

Isha opened her eyes sensing something hard pressing onto her back and turned her eyes towards her back to find a guy's face near hers. Her sleep was long lost and she glared at him mininterpreting that he was touching her unnecessarily . Arjun smiled inwardly looking at her squinted eyes suddenly widening by shock and then glaring at him and he actioned her to look down to which she saw herself floating in the air and if not for Arjun she would've suffered a spine injury. She widened her eyes in shock and looked at him while he pushed her a little to inside and said " paathu carefullaa irunga " and left the place leaving her in shock . She pushed the curtain and looked at his retreating figure and slapped her forehead by saying " cha help panna paiyana poi morachu vachurukene " 

She tried recalling his face and all she could remember was his tall frame and that captivating eyes which had something in it. she could vaguely remember his face and turned to the other side hugging her guitar bag closer to her and tried sleeping which was not truly possible by the incident that took place just few minutes before. She thought of thanking the guy once he gets in and then decided not to as she felt embarassed to have glared at him. 

Arjun got down the motel and took a coffee for himself and looked at the bus without knowing proper reasons and all he could see was the curtain of the last cot disheaveled a little showing her face which was calm with her eyes closed indicating that she is in a deep slumber. He smiled remembering the way she glared at him widening her doe eyes and thought " irukuradhu kutty kannu adha vachu moraikuraanga madam .... vilundhurundha therunjurukum  . " and started sipping his coffee and went inside the bus as he was done with it . He turned towards the worker and asked " aama en endha upper cotlayum rails kudukaama irukeenga ? safety venaama ? try to install rails " and left to his cot as sleep engulfed him in .He woke up to the call of the worker in the early morning that the bus reached kattangulathur and took his bag . He looked at the opposite cot instinctively and left the place seeing her legs extended a little out of the curtain . 

Isha woke up from her sleep as the bus reached kodambakkam busstand and looked at the opposite cot instinctively to find it empty. She cursed herself for not even asking a proper thanks and left down to be engulfed by her father's hug. As the father daughter duo reached the car he asked " epdi da irundhuchu travellaam " and she started explaining what all happened and her father turned towards her to say " ennada oru thanks kooda kekaama vandhuruka "

Isha looked at her father and said " enakum thonuchu pa vidunga innoru dhadava paatha ketruren " 

Isha's father smiled and said " adhu seri adutha dhadava adhe paiyana eppo paapiyo appo avanuku un face kooda nyaabagam irukaadhu . seri nee tiredaa edhum illela da ?" 

Isha looked at her father and said " Tiredaa dhaanpa iruku en ? "

Her father looked at her and said " illada innaiku un perimma pethi zaira baptism iruku adhaan variya ennanu keka "

Isha was thinking about her father's words of not possible to meet the stranger again and something in her told that she would meet him again and she said " prechana illapa freshup aaytu vandhurure .church poi romba naal aagudhu zaira kutty porandhapovum vara mudila " 

There she got down ISHA  AROKKIASAMY and in the other side of the city the stranger who was occupying her thoughts was stepping into his home after removing his boots and the first thing that hit his ears was suprabaadham and the smell of benzoin hitting his nostrils . He went in and called " amma " and his mother came out with a smile and asked " adade kanna vandhutiya ennada ipdi elachu poitiye .... nanna irundha mudiya ennavo panni vachuruka .... " and bet his hand as he was trying to touch the vada his mom have prepared and said " idhennada pudhu pazhakkam snanam senjundu vandhu eduthuko. velaiku ponaalum pona nokkum un thambikkum baasha maariduthu pazhakkam maariduthu ellaam maariduthu . un appa aprom enna dhaa thittuvaar " and he shook his head and went in to see his younger brother coming out after bathing. 

His younger brother sakthi smiled at him and said " enna da nalla vaanguniya ammata epdi irundhuchu travel "

Arjun smiled and said " vazhakkama nadakuradhu dhaana " and smiled remembering the incident that took place in bus and shared it to his younger brother while he asked " aprom ponnu epdi irundha ? " 

Arjun remembered only her eyes and that calm sleeping face and said " seriya naayabagam illa adutha dhadava engayum paaka pora ponna enna nyaabagam vachuka " and went in to bath as he has got another reminder call from his mom. Maybe destiny had other plans.... 

just a short one .... maybe i could develop it into a book.... give away your suggestions and the story is inspired from true life event. i just need suggestions on should i continue it in tamil or english.