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A Glance!

She has been seeing him for a while now.

Though they were sitting just five cubicles away from each other, it has never gone beyond casual looks. Yes! By ‘seeing’, it meant throwing glances at each other all day long at regular intervals!

Whenever he got a phone call, which was like every one hour, he used to take it outside the cubicle and followed Idea’s strategy of ‘Walk and Talk’ in the aisle nearby. As her seat was near the aisle, the number of glances they shared only increased with every phone call. But, it was just that – A look. Not even a smile. Just a numb, meaningless stare.

However, for the last one week he’s been missing. She looked up whenever she heard a male voice near the aisle. But he was nowhere to be seen. She even scouted the entire floor in the hope that maybe his seat got shifted to another corner. Unfortunately, that was not the case. After few more days of waiting, she finally gave up.

One day, post lunch, when she was waiting in line to fill her water bottle, she felt as if someone was watching her. With an annoyed look, she turned to see who it was. And tada! There he stood. In an impulse, she smiled at him wide mouthed. Surprisingly, he also returned the gesture.

At that instance, about a hundred questions got raised inside her head. The one that topped the list was ‘Did he go on leave for his wedding?’ This was because he vanished from office for exactly three weeks which is the office approved duration for wedding. Just then, he got a call.

The call went on something like this “Hello….Hi Siddique….Yes, I am in office today. Yes, I got the invite for today’s call and I have all the documents ready for the call… huh? Pardon? Ya mom is fine now. She is discharged and she is with me here.. I have appointed a home nurse to take care of her till the time I reach home.. yeah.. sure… bye.”

It was as if he indirectly answered her question. By this time, the guy in front of her had filled his bottle and moved away. When she was about to move towards the filter, she noticed that he had a half-liter bottle in his hand, while she had a one liter bottle.

Clearing her throat, she said ‘Why don’t you fill your bottle first. I’ll take time to fill mine’. And he said ‘That’s ok. I don’t mind standing here or the waiting part’ with a twinkle in his eyes.


It is at that moment she felt that, from now on, the glances are going to be more than just a numb, meaningless stare.

'O_o'
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