James had started taking
Spanish lessons at the university he had a strong affinity to the language, he
called it the language of love. He often greeted Veron as 'Amor'. Love, the word captured all the feelings that James had
developed for Veron in the past few months.
The guitar lessons had
brought both of them closer, Veron was also learning how to sing from a
renowned singer and music director, this was just part of his new extracurricular
amongst other things, they made a great team together, one strum the guitar
chords and the other his vocal. They also performed at their college festival
and received quite an appreciation.
Soon days turned into weeks
and weeks into months, it was a winter evening when as usual they sat together
sipping coffee in the balcony before they could go in for the guitar lessons. They
knew each other’s life in and out now or so did it appear to Veron, but there
was a secret side to James that Veron never knew about clearly. There were many
instances where James wanted to talk about it but he was afraid of losing
whatever they had.
Almost every day was spent
together at Veron’s home, mostly talking about random things, there were times
when Veron fell sick and James would come over cook dinner for both of them, waited
till Veron fell asleep or his father returned late night - the latter rarely
happened - and returned early morning to wake him up and make breakfast. James
was taking care of his 'Amor' in the true sense. He cared.
This was their second winter
together to be precise, together as pals. Some of James close friends had
planned for a night out in a forest, these were the common set of friends James
and Veron had cause James had already introduced his 'Amor' to all his friends.
His friends insisted that James got his amor along for the camping trip.
Together they all made one great musical group, everyone played some musical
instrument or the other, at the trip they were planning to play some Brazilian
tribal songs in the forest, they had been practising it now and then.
James only mentioned about
the plan and Veron exclaimed. “So when are we going?" this is what
attracted James towards him, he was always open to new things, new experiences.
James calmly replied, " Next Saturday, and it’s going to be fun, our first
outing together". Maybe James said too much at that moment, but Veron was
used to such to-be-romantic remarks, he only smiled and walked towards the kitchen
to put away the empty coffee mugs.
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