An Introverted Love

"Anaghaaa!!!" I heard feminine but an angry voice waking me up. I knew who it was and didn't bother to open my eyes before replying "Five more minutes, Ma. Please" I pulled my blanket from my mother's hand and threw my head towards the pillow. THUD! "AH, MA!" I screamed in pain as the head of the table hit my head before I could grab my 5 minute sleep. I was now wide awake rubbing my head with my palm swiftly as I saw my mother trying to hide her smile. It wasn't the first time this happened, you see. "Wake up now. It's already 7.30" she said as she closed the door of my room softly behind her. Shit! I threw my blanket and went inside the small bathroom that was directly attached to my room. I had to leave everyday at 8:00 so that i would reach my college 30 minutes later. Else, the traffic would consume my patience and take the double amount of time.

After a quick shower among other things, I put on a ponytail and let the curls of my hair fall till my waist. I glanced myself in the mirror and saw the not so thin, light browned girl in front of me standing with no emotions in a room bathed in light blue. I put on my jeans and black tee and grabbed the keys off the hanger in my room. "Bye Ma. I will have my breakfast in the college canteen." I shouted as I took my college essentials along with my smartphone closing the main door behind me and went downstairs to start my blue scooter.

Half an hour later, I was walking towards my college block with 2 bags hanging from my shoulder. One was the regular backpack every student had and the other was a special bag stitched to carry a T-square and a roller to keep my architecture sheets. I headed towards our architecture block that was according to me, the best block designed. It had a central courtyard around which all our class rooms were constructed after creating a buffer zone of a wide corridor to connect the rooms to the courtyard. And the placement of the our block was literally kept aside and away from all the other engineering and management blocks. The canteen was right next to our block and I made my way towards my breakfast.

I ordered a cup of coffee with Idli, an Indian steamed rice cake. I sat in my usual place and started eating with my smartphone in one hand scrolling through Instagram. Double tapping through all the memes, I almost finished my breakfast when I got a notification. Vishwas_Simhaa started a live video. Watch it before it ends.

My heart raced as I clicked on the notification with my favourite name. The screen showed the budding actor's face smiling and still adjusting the phone camera. The brown skinned man staring right through the camera into my eyes... His dark brown eyes similar to mine was complementing his white casual t-shirt that hugged his developing muscles and pecs. The classic full beard around his sharp lips all were just encouraging the butterflies to fly more swift inside me.

"Hello everyone!" a voice, so deep and strong was blessing my ears. My idiotic brain was sending all kinds of orders for my face to show the broadest smile ever. My eyes wouldn't leave the screen as he spoke about how we should care about the nature and for the summer that was going on, we should keep bowls of water outside for the birds in thirst. That's what I loved about him - so humble and caring. Yeah! I said love... I was proud to admit that he was the only man in my life I have said 'I love you' to. Not to his face, obviously. Why? Because he was a celebrity 7 years older to me and I am just a student who basically is afraid of a direct phone call in my life. After 15 minutes, he started taking QnA's from his fans live comments.

As a self appointed biggest fan, I started commenting 6 times with a gap of a minute between each. The 6th comment was 'I love how you care about nature. Your heart is as beautiful as your voice :p' I was being goofy not knowing that he would pick that comment. 'Anagha... Thank you so much for the observation' he said and winked. OH MY GOD! Vishwas said my name! My name in his bass and casual voice as though I was known to him since many years! My name that I hated since forever... I now started liking the sound of it just because it came out like a spicy honey in his voice. I was too excited shaking my hands and by mistake, my phone slipped out of my hand and fell down next to my college dog that used to follow me whenever it spotted me. He was startled and got up in a second and went away and I felt guilty and tried to call him back, but in vain.

I went towards my classroom hiding my smile with my not broken phone in my hand. I sat in my assigned but not assigned chair in the corner of the classroom and took out my sheets that i had to submit. It was not a regular day for me as I smiled a lot and got scolded by one of my teachers in class for the first time. First time because, I was the student that did all her works even though I complained about it and submitted whenever I was asked for it. I had just one friend in the whole college and she basically adopted my introvert self and we became close. I texted her during class about how my love took my name and she sent back heart emojis with a small text - 'of course, he's gonna take his future wife's name... why you surprised?' I laughed in my head. Me? A wife? And that too with someone I love? Who is a celebrity? Hell no! I didn't even have the guts to lead a group project and she thinks I'm going to approach a celebrity? Hahaha... I sent the text as I laughed in my head and put my concentration back to the teacher who was explaining about various materials we can use instead of glass while I started making notes that my future classmates would ask me later.

NOTE: This is my first try in writing an online book. All suggestions and comments are welcome. I am basically a poet who is trying new things. Please let me know if you want poems along the story or just keep it as it is. Thank you :)