
Note : This is the 2nd part of the Matt Tedd love story. Supposed to be the 1st one, but some change of plans ji.....
Last few days were quite hectic for Matt as he had just joined the new company and it was a training week for him with lots of new tools and technologies to have hands-on on.
That day he was supposed to go to Armonk for the training of DB2 and it was a day long program and later part after the training he was supposed to work in the shift to learn the new project with the senior team member in the project which had 15 members in Armonk and 15 in the off shored country.
The training was as usual a sedate and a boring affair for him. He was quite used to surf and work and chat during his peak working hours and he could manage this with quite efficiency. The DB2 database was new for him and any way he wasn’t a very prominent “resource” in DB side. So he basically ignored the training and for him the whoring sound of the trainer appealed less than the thick booklet as training material from the company that would be his after the end of training session.
However he was quite relieved when the session ended and quickly he collected his belongings to catch the bus back to his apartment. No sooner he was in the bus on his favorite window seat he took out the ipod to plug the ear pads in the ears.
And then the world stopped for him. No sooner the bus started, he saw a pretty slim, thin, a girl with a bag at the back and a handbag in the hand along with long untied hair constantly flowing on her forehead, struggling to make up with them, dressed in a formal attire in white stripped shirt followed by a traditional black trouser and long heels, she occupied the 2nd seat from door – another window seat.
Matt had his eyes opened up and eyes wide shut the next moment. He could nt even breathe when he saw the girl. The world changed for him instantly and quickly he forgot that he had to work the following few hours and they would really knock him off the bed, but it didn’t mattered to the 6 ft long guy with short hair, dressed up in blue shirt and a black chainmen trouser .
Matt was fascinated with the girl. He found her small gestures fascinating and attractive — the flick of hand to pull back wayward hair when it covered the right ear through not her left for some reason, the restless drumming of fingers that were used to hold the bag and the handbag, the flash of a smile when she was talking to some one on the cell, which suddenly went back, when her eyes locked with Matt.
Matt kept looking at her with constant amusement. He wondered how could GOD still make some really beautiful girls with superb features and attractive looks. He thought he might be on a drive of high end lust or a new born infatuation which might die its natural end, but it was not to be. Even after few minutes of first gaze, his heart pumped fast, his adrenalin levels were still high, the sweat trickled down his cheeks and he forgot all entropy of the world around him. All he could see was the wonderful creation of perhaps the last time made by the GOD in so many years gone by.
He kept wondering how he could miss the existence of a girl in his life. If he felt there was ever a moment to have a relationship, then it was now. If there ever was a girl with whom he could even spend his half of life with without really caring about what would follow next, then it was this girl. It was those unseen and unthought-of moments which took the breath away from Matt and he really wished if he could spend the next 10 days exclusively with the girl on a Hawaiian holiday.
The fantasies of coming days ahead with this girl, were started to get formed in his mind, which was tired but had got a new lease of life the moment he saw the sweetie come to the bus which otherwise was full of boring professionals who soon sank into deep snoring while in the bus. He quickly started thinking of adjustments he might need to make to be with the girl or the arrangements he might need to change in his bachelor paradise should he decide to take the girl home.
Matt landed on a different plane in just few moments when he thought he might have got the long time relationship he was waiting to get into and the one which he always thought he was deserving of. He had always loved to be in relationships, but somehow they didn’t materialize with some or the other reasons. Matt had learnt hard from those failed relationships and rightly so he was committed not to repeat those mistakes and be known as a relationship fool nerd. He could sense that a sea change in his life, his beliefs, and his thoughts was right up in the corner.
Quickly Matt returned to the reality zone and the biggest thing that he could think of right now was how to get the hold of the girl n get her talking to. Matt was a pretty confident guy who could kick start a conversation on any topic in the world. But after a moment he thought, going forward and asking her name and kicking off the conversation won’t be a very good idea. So he had to think of some alternate measures and ways to get the communication started.
Matt thought he just needed one positive signal from the girl that she was really interested in him and then with his confidence and different whacky and nasty ideas he could really convert the normal hi-hellos to a long loving blossoming relationship.
Ideas never deserted his nasty and sharp mind. Matt decided to take things slowly and slowly and the very moment he could think of was to know the name of the lady and the rest of hierarchal information would follow, thanks to company intranet and the BLUE PAGES.
Matt decided to know the name of the girl somehow, who by now had tied the hair with a hair pin, and the bag had given way to the pink hankie which she used to wipe off the August drops of rain which occasionally treaded in the bus from he window and enhanced the beauty of the girl. She had kept the window open to allow some rain drops to touch her skin and then wipe off with her favorite pink hankie. She had lots of them, but one at a time in a hand.
The office was nearing and Matt had less time now to act and know her name. Asking her neighbor would have been wrong and embarrassing on his part and then he remembered a simple yet daring way to know the name of the passenger descended from the land of beauty.
Every employee in the bus had entered the name in a register using the swipe card and that name was visible to the other fellow employees too, for luck prevailed with Matt, the girl had signed and he was yet to. And the moment he got the register he calculated the seat and the number of names which her name might be before his place to put the name in. And when he finally could match the name with the actual name of the girl, he froze. He got 2 names which confused him. The names were Teddy Kohl and A.T. Allaigra seemed a boring name and he though such a wonderful kid won’t be named with such a boring name. She must be a Teddy and she must be having something very unusual name – unusual name for unusual beauty.
And yes she was Teddy Kohl, a fellow mate working in Siebel division with the IGA (his own account). Matt was able to find the name of the diva who had swept the land beneath his feet in a flash and the one who became the perfect soul mate for Matt, though in fantasy right on for her until he could initiate the conversation with Teddy the next day on “Sametime” his company s intranet messenger.
Yes the night was going to be a bit longer one when he would sing to the moon and dance with his fantasy – Teddy. Matt was ready, he was ready. Matt and Teddy – the 2 names together thrilled him of a passionate, fairytale, intense relationship and a divine blessed romance something which happens to few people on the earth. His 1st part of the adventure was done and the next stage was to add her on the intranet and kick off an informal conversation and then set up a quick date in the coming weekend.
Yes he was ready to be soul mate of an extremely beautiful girl – Teddy, who would soon become Tedds, Teddu, and M for Matt – the maverick!!!
Matt was not on earth that day, he was on a fantasy ride to some wonderful journey called LOVE……he was in love with Teddy. Whether she was? Find it out more in the days to come……After all the love lets you go high and high defying the resistance and the reasoning and transcends the illusion of a special someone feeling.
Till next time : Hum hai raahi pyar ke, fir milenge chalte chalte !!!
