Author: Avni Rahul Katakkar
ONS, HOOK UPS….and what not!
Rohan was fumbled and dumbfound with these very words when he joined a dating app for the first time. Obviously it was his attempt of beholding little cheer amidst his tumultuous marriage.
Not just a sexless marriage, it was a dispassionate , cold relationship ,just the namesake!
He got to know about this app from a colleague and his conscious couldn’t resist trying it. Even after plunging into the app ,he was petrified to see women hungry for sex, girls discerning only making out and females desperate for hook ups.
No,no…he wasn’t judging them, but his inside was screeching for a different level of bonding , a solace that could fill those gaps.
Alas! He gave up on it too.Soon he left for a meeting and completely forgot about the app.At night while he was scrolling all the TV channels just to rub off his loneliness for sometime, he received a notification from the app that said “Shruti V. messaged you.”
Without taking out his eyes from TV. Rohan replied to Shruti’s HI.
ROHAN – Hello
SHRUTI – How was your day ?
ROHAN – Hmm, it was okay
SHRUTI- Okk, mine was a crazy day ????…..
Rohan was a little overwhelmed maybe because it was in a long while that someone asked him about his day.
The chat gripped and geared up through the night. No exchange of numbers was done…but a promise was made to catchup on the same app the next day. This continued for many days. Rohan and Shruti would cling on to each other over the chat. Amidst the work, on the dinner table, they eagerly awaited one another’s replies.
Everything happening on the face of earth was shared between them.They called each other the sapiosexual and demisexual who were hopelessly smitten by each other.
Shruti roughly knew Rohan’s office address. One morning, she skipped her office and took her cab to ‘Bombay Coffee House ‘ it was the landmark that Rohan used to mention in his chats.
As she reached there, with hope and love ,she messaged him ” Hey Rohan, your blind date is waiting at that very landmark. Rohan didn’t reply but within few seconds, a tall, dark and handsome man was there to greet this beautiful lady.
They parked themselves inside the cafe, blushes ,giggles , flirting eyes, all was done, 6 cups of coffee and two hours spent till Shruti reminded him of his office meeting. He dropped her to the cab. As soon as she went , he messaged her, ” I sooooo resisted myself from hugging you” and she could only do was to blush in sheer happiness.
They promised to meet each other more often. She would get him his favourite food and he would pamper her with all his love.
It felt like twin flames igniting with love and lust, he would touch her and she would go crazy , she would smell him and he would eat her up.
Things fell in place, peace was embraced, they knew it was tough to lie to the world but wasnt that veiled bonding and elixir precious?
