14. Saying it to Aneesh

My time in Mazes (we are an unofficial group of students working together for…. blah blah blah) was very memorable. Here I came in touch with Fiza, a tender hearted and a very sentimental girl. She was two years elder to us and one of Aneesh’s close friends and that was a reason of all my joy. Soon she became friendly with me and we enjoyed good conversation. Tazzy had observed this over a couple of days and one fine evening he gave me this brilliant idea.
“What good will it do,” I argued with him.
“Ok tell me, if some girl likes me and she tells you. Now you are my good friend, what will you do?”
“I will tell you” I said rationally.
“Exactly that is what is going to happen, my friend! You tell your feelings to Fiza and she will go tell her”
“My god, genius!” I exclaimed with excitement, “But are you sure she will go and tell her?”
“Absolutely, you know girls, if she doesn’t tell she will get a tummy ache.”
“That’s right, so she can’t afford not to tell!”
“Yes, she will have to! Believe me this is the easiest way to let your feelings known to her. And because she will be hearing it from her trusted friend, she will believe all the more and think about it and maybe even respond” said Tazzy with as much hope as he could. I felt elated.
“That’s what I am gon’na do, yes” I said determined.
“But be careful, don’t let Fiza suspect that you know about what she’s gon’na do”
“Absolutely, I will make it look that I am only telling her and no one else, and that because she was my close friend, ha ha” I said adding my bit of cunningness to the plan.

In coming days, guess what…
It worked!
Fiza came telling me after one of those Mazes meeting,
“Harry”
“Yes”
“I told Aneesh that you were in love with her.”
“You did!?” I said, a bit pretending that I hadn’t expected her doing so. While in my heart I said to myself, ‘I knew you would!’ and chuckled.
“Yes, she said she respected your feelings.”
“That’s nice of her”
“But you know she already has a boyfriend.”
“I know that, and I will be happy not to intrude” I said earnestly.
She went ahead and told Aneesh even this, and the response was,
“That’s very sweet of him” and boy that made me sooooooo happy.

In the end I think she was way to forward for me, the way she dressed, the way she kept herself, there were no means to go any closer to her, no great money, no fame and nor some outstanding physical attributes, not that tall-dark-charming types. So I continued being in love with her from a distance. This, my friend told me was the more important thing, being in love whether the other person reciprocates or not. She passed out a few months later and I saw her for the last time in the corridor in front of the college auditorium…

Whatever, one thing is for sure, that, 'Girls cannot digest anything' ha ha...