{"id":806,"date":"2016-07-16T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T08:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/16\/the-day-dream"},"modified":"2016-07-16T14:14:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T08:44:00","slug":"the-day-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"The Day Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWill you be my date?\u201d he asked her holding her hand in his. <\/div>\n
She was confused. \u201cDid you get short term remembering loss? We have been dating for the past eight months.\u201d Mandira went back to drinking her cold coffee. <\/div>\n
Kiran laughed at her reply. \u201cI was asking you to be my date for Sujay\u2019s wedding.\u201d <\/div>\n
That stopped her slurping for a moment. \u201cWon\u2019t you be going with your buddies?\u201d <\/div>\n
\u201cWell most of them are either married or engaged and would be accompanied by their significant other.\u201d <\/div>\n
\u201cOh\u2026\u201d she was fiddling with her ring. The ring with which Kiran had proposed to her last month.<\/div>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t want to?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cNot like that. It\u2019s just\u2026\u201d she let the sentence trail. She really did not have a reason. She was just hesitant. <\/div>\n
\u201cThis would be the best occasion. We can go public with our relationship.\u201d He beamed for a moment. <\/div>\n
She went down in her seat while mumbling \u201cYou can just change relationship status in facebook for that na.\u201d<\/div>\n
He started laughing at her embarrassment. <\/div>\n
\u201cWhy are you scared? You know almost everyone in my group right?\u201d <\/div>\n
\u201cThat is exactly why I am not willing to go. They all knew very well how big of a crush I had on you back then. The entire school knew. Except you!\u201d she almost covered her face knowing she was blushing. <\/div>\n
Kiran sat next to Mandira. \u201cLook\u2026 There is nothing to be embarrassed about. We have known each other since school. Have been dating for almost a year now. My mom adores you for god-knows-what reason and your family seems to be happy about our engagement. So let me flaunt you to my friends\u2026 Please?\u201d
“I am not some iPhone to flaunt you know…” she raised her eyebrow.
“No.. You are not. You are not as good as an iPhone.”
Now she got upset. “Is it?”
“No… You will never be… You are much more than a flimsy phone. You are my life. C’mon…”<\/p>\n

“C’mon Mandy…” Mandira was shook back to reality by her friend. She hadn’t realized that she had been staring at Kiran for so long and none of her friends actually noticed it.\u00a0<\/i>
“Oh I am not coming. You guys go and dance.” she encouraged them to leave her alone.\u00a0<\/i>
That was a pretty elaborate day dream to have during a school reunion. She looked back again to find the hero of her dreams still talking on his iPhone. But that was when she saw that he had been looking at her the entire time.\u00a0<\/i>

<\/i>May be he too had the same dream as her.\u00a0<\/i>

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A really short story. And I got stuck with the ending part for quite a bit. Thanks to Kishor<\/a> who helped me finish it well. And also made me sit and write it as well.\u00a0<\/div>\n

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\u201cWill you be my date?\u201d he asked her holding her hand in his. She was confused. \u201cDid you get short term remembering loss? We have been dating for the past eight months.\u201d Mandira went back to drinking her cold coffee. Kiran laughed at her reply. \u201cI was asking you to be my date for Sujay\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[240,264,301,355,786,794,798,819,933],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story-corner","tag-crush","tag-day-dream","tag-dream","tag-fantasy","tag-reunion","tag-ring","tag-romance","tag-school","tag-thoughts"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":true,"total_views":21,"today_views":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}