"Dude, I'm telling you she wont come. I dont know why you insist I meet her", Anil said with a smirk on his face. In reply Siddharth lifted that irritable thingy which people call a mobile phone, punched a few keys and blurted "Where are you?"  He then looked up and with a glint in his eye said "Shes already here!!"

Anil was one of those sombre people who had had more than his fair share of "alone time". Sid and Anil went a long way back...to a time when both studied together. They would meet regularly and discuss plans... plans for the future, goals, ambitions,love,life ..the works.

One such meeting ended in a rather bizzare proposal. Sid had decided that Anil could do with a girl in his life and so had decided to "fix" Anil with a girl he knew.

"You have to trust me on this one. I know she'll be perfect for you!", Sid had said.That Sid was a managger in his company and that he had an extremely persuvasive nature did not help Anil's cause. So Anil decided..."one time.. i'll say 'no' and that should be it...naa rahega bhas naa bajegi basuri!! "

A week later the two friends sat at a coffee shop waiting to meet a girl who was equally relutant to get into such an "arrangement".

Ten minutes later she emerged. Dressed in a white and red top. She seemed a reasonable girl. Half an hour of idle chit chat and Sid muttered he was leaving. Anil cursed silently but politely  shook Sid's hand and smiled.

At the end of those two hours, as a thoughtful Anil left the place he knew too well that he would take this slow. That each time it hurt he'd learnt a lession and yet...strangely, he seemed hopeful....He took a long walk back home as he hummed:

"I know a greater power must have noticed me,
And decided I would meet someone like you.
No-one on this planet thought we could ever be,
Till He gave my heart to you, and yours to me"