Her - The Introduction!!!

Disclaimer : I call them Write-Ups, you can choose to call them Short stories if you want. But anyways the point is its been a long while since I wrote one that sounded ok and that was way back in 2005. The last one I wrote was incomplete and largely garbled but even that was 6 months ago. So I figured it was time to get over the writers block , so here is my "attempt" at another write-up. I plan to write this in four parts(Please bear with me :-)) and this is the first of those four parts
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Her - Part 1:

"No it will never work" that was the first thought that crossed my mind when I decided to approach her. She had just entered my office floor and was talking to some of my colleagues. I had never met her before. But something in me told me I had to go talk to her. But something else said "Look at her and look at you, she is so pretty , so good looking , forget it she is way above your league". But luck had different plans for us. She walked up to me and said "xxxxxxxxxxx". Well I couldnt hear what she was telling me, I was so overwhelmed by the fact that she approached me when I was planning to approach her that my mind went blank, well almost.

Her eyes dark and deep, her skin unblemished and pink and her glowing lips moving up and down to reveal her beautifully lined up white sparkling teeth flooded my mind with images of her. It was like my mind was a high speed camera taking tens of thousands of photographs. My eyes were so overworked that my other senses had to momentarily shutdown.

"Excuse me, are you Badri?" she interupted my photography session with by increasing her voice and by change of expression that made her eyes looks bigger. "Cute" I blurted out what my mind was thinking. "Whattt..." she reacted with a lot of emphasis on the t.

"I said true, ,meaning true I am Badri" I said trying to manage the situation. "Well I am Ruchira from the RND department and I was told you can help with a project I am working on, could you please let me know of a good time that we can meet up, I have a lot of questions to ask" she said adjusting a thin strand of hair which I thought was deliberately left in front of her ear so that she can push it back while talking to guys like me and make us notice her model like profile, anyways I wasnt complaining.

"Well, err... Hi Ruchira nice to meet you" I said extending my arm for a handshake. She extended a folded palm and shook hands like a Pomeranian dog would. Hah the soft palm, the smooth skin - My mind went into another blank. I shook her hand for what looked like 20 seconds when she pulled back her hand and said "Same here so when can we meet".

This was my chance, I had to say the right words and something good could happen, think Badri think ..... "Can you please give me your number I will call you back when I am free, I am kinda busy right now" I said quickly pressing windows key + D on my laptop to hide the freecell window. "Oh ok, my number is on the LDAP do give me a call when you are free, thanks" she said and smiled. I nodded, she thanked me again and left.

God bless the RND guys I said in a hushed tone and opened up the employee directory to search for her. Ruchira Sharma , born 21st Feb 1989, Marital status Single, Address : XXXXX , Ph. NO xxxxx. There were advantages of having admin access to some portals. You just could see more information than others could.

I saw that she took the office bus route 31 to go home. Of course I stayed 30kms in the other direction from her place but like so many other times before when I had met good looking gals, this time too my mind was telling me that she was the one and this was my chance. So I called the transport team and booked a seat on route 31 , her destination was today mine.

To be continued.....

--Badri--