So, There was a girl in my office, I had crush on her for couple of weeks. We hardly get to talk to each other because we worked in different domain and most of the time we were loaded with tons of work. plus, I don't like to jibber-jabber even if she was first girl ever I really liked.
We had couple of encounter on the floor and sometimes, had small-talk with her in cafeteria or near water-cooler.

One evening, I was on call with our client (via VOIP) with my PM, tech-leads and some other the team-members. The situation was bit tensed as usual. We were legging behind in our project time line and had few issues with earlier releases. So I was discussing those issues with team and meanwhile, I was glancing over her. I took my eyes off her for few secs and then, she wasn't at her desk. Immediately, I stopped speaking, and I had strange feeling that I had never before, like, gumption. My brain reminded to my heart, that it was friday, So I cant see her for next two days,

On next sec, I left the meeting, came down to my floor, ran to my desk, grabbed my bike's key from desk-drawer, ran to the elevator door. Seeing both lifts approaching ground floor, ran down six stories to the basement parking in a jiffy only to find out my bike was terribly jammed between other bikes. Somehow, I managed to pull out my bike, may be the adrenaline rush was in action or something. Next scene, on the road, traffucked by a typical evening indian traffic, some of you may have experience. Only very small portion of brain was occupied for handling this rash driving while rest of the brain was busy scanning all girls on scooty on both side. Thanks to my stalking talent, I already knew in which direction she lived, color of her scooty, etc. To make matter worst, most of gils on vehicles had scarf on face. Not locating her in that mess made me even more furious. I almost had hit one guy on cycle. But luckily, after around 1 km of rash driving, my brain found match. There she was !! I drove my bike parallel to her scooty and said, "Hi". She replied the same with a smile. That is it. I turned my bike towards my flat with a broad smile.

Later that night, I found that it wasn't friday, It was Wednesday. Once again, the evil brain had tricked my poor heart. I got to see her for next two days.

So in summation, I left my colleagues in middle of meeting without saying a word, ran like hell, drove like crazy, just to say 'hi'. I mean WTF. But when I saw her on following morning, the smile on her face, the expression, made me realized it was worth it.

And, after couple of weeks, I had very first Date with her.

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