THE TRAIN V/S THE GIRL

 In the town where I live and where I graduated from, I spent my internship at a hotel where we used to work extensively exhausting shifts. It’s the place where there were no rules and dialects, but only extensive physical work in the food and beverage departments of the banquets. During my days there, I met some unique people out of which there is only this girl I’ll mention because then only this story will make sense to the end! So this girl, lets call her Lisa, was kind of a bully who suppressed her juniors in the team and was quite rude when it came to use of language. I didn’t work with her much, I got saved by switching to the Hr department, but I kept seeing her at the smoking area during our breaks. She even told me to give her a cigarette, and by told I don’t mean asked, but literally told.. which was okay and not that big a deal. We weren’t friends of any sorts neither were we connected socially even for a formality or so! The internship was over, I was never to meet her, end of the story, or is it?

 

A year later, my family and I went to another state travelling over the vacation where we stayed at a hotel, and mind me, this state is far from my hometown… and one morning when we went for the breakfast in the dining, there she was Lisa! Working as an executive! She recognised me, I was the one to know, and we talked a while like pretending to be friends which I still wasn’t sure what were we? So I introduced her to my family and my family was very pleased to meet her. She came out as really being polite and kind which left me wondering is this an alternate reality? Is it really her? So moving further, we decided that after me and my family tours the city, and when her shift ends, we’ll meet before we leave for our hometown, and we actually met! Everything was smooth with her, she being kind, I not remembering her as being a bully image back then, she seeming quite mature and sophisticated now… what to say?

 

So our bags were packed and my family was waiting in the lounge and our train was to arrive at the station and I was on a time constraint by them as we had to reach the station prior as well. So given that I had about only 5-10 mins max to talk to her and I still didn’t know why I was talking to her.. I mean no harm but still feels weird and strange given thar we were almost strangers… but okay maybe something was there between us, maybe a some calmness she developed overtime and maybe some curiosity I started showing in her… felt like there was a touch in our unknown relationship or now called friendship which we then continued to bond and talk!

 

Strange fact was that while in our talks, I mentioned about those times when we used to smoke in our breaks at the hotel-workplace and she agreeing to those temporary memories… and she reciprocated in her every answer one being that she told me places where I could find cigarettes or even alcohol for the matter. And I remember at that time because of being in front of my family the entire vacation I was unable to smoke and when she heard about this, she instantly said that either she brings me some cigarettes from her residence quarters or even if I could join her! Yes! She in a way asked me or invited me to her quarters where as per her we could have smoked, drank and had fun! And this could go anywhere… two young adults hanging out in an apartment in the middle of nowhere, an out of the hometown state with lots to bond over and ignite a relation be it friendship or… anyways… time was the issue and then my phone rang for the third time and I was been called upon immediately by my family if not to miss the train……!

 

That’s the story of The Train V/S The Girl

 

To this day, and thanks to that unexpected day, we are in touch through social media accounts and phone numbers that we exchanged that very day… and that’s maybe it— how we came from being nothing to at least  being something… and maybe retreated from being something more… !