Love at First Encounter: Her Admirer; & His Fan, #1

By Mayura Titkare

Love happens unexpectedly!

A girl and boy go through few encounters. Get accompanied by overthinking and confusion along the way... Only to realize that they had fallen in love, at their first encounter itself!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mayura Titkare
• Release date: Jul 7, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223886976

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Love at First Encounter by Mayura Titkare.

Copyright © 2020 Mayura Titkare

All Rights Reserved. 

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Cover image by Mayura Titkare.

Second Edition. July 2023.

Cover image description:

The road disappears ahead in trees. So what!

Should we take it lightly as if there is nothing special?

She thought, 'handsome, so what!'

She took him so lightly, only to get awestruck!

Introduction

Falling in love with someone, you had no intentions on falling for, is the most beautiful kind of love. No forcing chemistry or trying to save them. Just a pure, raw connection that is created on its own.

No idea who wrote this. But that's what happened with our couple. A girl and boy go through few encounters. Get accompanied by overthinking and confusion along the way... Only to realize that they had fallen in love, at their first encounter itself! 

Chapter One: First Encounter

‘She seems to be very proud’ I got this vibe from an aunty who was passing by me today. Many people think such about me, since my birth. 

It hasn’t changed even now, when I am in my early 20s. People! We don’t even know each other, still judging! It’s normal in India only or all over the world? It’s 2019, not old times and yet, such happens!

Never mind. Focus on the exam that is in two weeks. Only starting revision from today is not enough.

Remain focused. I am already tensed with the progress of my studies and life, why bother about people! 

I reach my coaching class building. I remove my shoes and place them under the bench in the corridor and enter the class. Sir comes and starts teaching.

It's near 6pm. My coaching class is over, and I am waiting for the crowd of students to disperse. As it happens, I stand up and walk towards the door. 

I reach the door, when a charming boy catches my attention. He is sitting on the bench placed in the corridor. I stop.

I take a look at him. He is sitting at one end of the first bench. Three benches are placed opposite to the door I am standing at. The first bench is just opposite to the door while the other two towards the exit.

He is dressed all black, hair all up (kind of Faux Hawk hairstyle) looking down and busy with his shoes. He is handsome. So what! Not interested. 

I predict that he will look at me, we will have eye contact, then, I will walk away, and he will be busy with his shoes again. Generally, it happens like this only.

I am watching him, waiting for him to look up. I am a bit confused. He is new or what? I can’t miss taking a look at this much good-looking guy all this time. Almost three months! He is definitely new. He looks someone with some arrogance. His vibes feel like that. What I he to be arrogant?

There is no one else in the corridor. I have already waited for two or three seconds watching him, but he is still busy in his shoes. 

He doesn’t look at me. I am surprised. He is innocent, my first thought about him.

This motivates me, in not giving up looking at him, to check if he is actually innocent or just negligent. I continue watching him for some seconds hoping he will look at me soon, but he, again, is busy in himself. He is good, my second thought about him.

I am in somewhat awe of him. I continue watching him. It's been like seven to eight seconds I guess, I am staring him, and he hasn’t reacted. He is totally engrossed in himself. Did he even pay attention to the fact that there is someone else here!

Some more seconds, he still doesn’t respond and my mouth opens in total surprise, with my eyes stuck at him, watching his face. I am feeling something different. 

He is so different. I didn’t realize at first, he is really handsome. My mouth remains open.

I had crush on many boys, but this time, him, this feeling... What I feel? I feel something different, but what? I like him. It feels like I am under some spell. I am feeling so good, never had such feeling. My mouth is still open. My mind goes completely blank. I am just watching him. 

After some moments, my mouth closes automatically, but eyes still lost in him. My thoughts are back. That feeling is decreasing. I am still confused at what I felt and how.

But now, I want to see his eyes. I want to talk to him. Will he ever look up at me? I should do something to make him look up. He won’t look up by himself, I guess. That different feeling completely disappears.

I try to think of saying something to make him look up.

I am still in the middle of thinking when he suddenly looks up, and we have eye contact. I am caught offguard. 

I blink my eyes, and I am confused. Yet my eyes are looking in his eyes only. He is so handsome. And his eyes are... Shining. I like his eyes. Can someone tell him, his eyes are so attractive. It seems like he is like me only, made for me. 

Meanwhile, his first expression is like he is a little surprised: his eyebrows raise a little the moment he sees me. Surprised at what? He wasn’t aware that there is someone here?  

After a moment, there is a change in his expression. He raises his left eyebrow, continuing eye contact. I am disappointed. He just thought, ‘she is cute, so what?’ He isn’t interested in me? I felt the same about him in the beginning when I saw him.... And even he... He feels the same? 

Didn’t he realize that I like him? I feel bad. He didn’t realize that I like him, that’s why such expression? Else who will directly show such rudeness to someone who openly shows them that they like them!

Anyway, it's better that he is unaware about that. I shouldn’t make a fool of myself. Though being a girl, I didn’t shy away from showing that I like him, and he didn’t even realize it! I shouldn’t let him know that I like him. He is too handsome for me anyway. But...  

I am unable to do anything, literally! I am unable to take my eyes off him. I have completely frozen. I can’t even speak anything.

Now, his raised eyebrow is down. He looks a little confused. He seems to be looking at my eyes properly. Trying to figure out something?

Yes, he was. Because the next moment, he has some realization. His expression tells such. What he noticed or realized?

Again, there is a change in his expression. It seems he isn’t happy. He is disappointed. What for? What I

did? I don’t understand. But he continues the eye contact without saying anything.

Anyway, he is so handsome that he won’t be single. I should not have involved him. It seems like he is looking rudely at me now. I want to do something, I don’t want him to be rude on me, but I am unable to do anything.

Our eye contact continues. I have no idea of time anymore. I am feeling that staring someone for their good looks is wrong. Maybe that’s why he is disappointed? Obviously! How silly of me!

I try to break the eye contact. But I can’t take my eyes off him. I want to tell him that I am stuck at watching him and to give me a moment. 

But I am speechless. Out of words. Can’t he realize that I have froze? I have frozen because of his good looks. He must be knowing that he is enough handsome that such might happen. But he is being rude, acting such! 

In the middle of my thoughts, he looks at my eyebrows. I am a little offended. My eyes narrow a little. That's impolite. 

I agree I have bushy and thick eyebrows that attract attention. And even then, I have never done eyebrows/threading. It’s my wish. But watching them directly, is wrong! I don’t like it.

There is a change in his expression, his eyes are wide open in surprise. He again looks at my eyes, and we have eye contact. And I give him a look, indicating, 'really?’ I thought he is good and innocent, and he... turns out the same as others. I give him a rude look with my eyes narrowed. 

At the same time, his mouth opens and eyes wide and stuck at looking in my eyes. It’s the same reaction I had. I am confused. Why he is reacting like this? I am blank. My rudeness disappears.

I look at his open mouth and back in his eyes. Again eye contact. He reacted the same way as me. I am a bit surprised, he thinks I am cute? 

No, seems like he is shocked because of my eyebrows? He has never seen a girl with such eyebrows? 

I continue the eye contact. My offense has disappeared. And I remember how I had crush on Aarush, four years ago.

I come back to reality instantly. I try to keep a blank look.

Maybe this boy’s such reaction is acceptable or understandable. I agree that I was offended moments ago, but it was just an instant human reaction, and it's over. I feel I should wait for him till his reaction is over. It will take some moments only. It's just a reaction that can’t be controlled.

Even he waited for me when I was unable to do anything. Let’s wait.

We are looking in each other's eyes. After some moments, he is still the same, isn’t recovering. Why! I am little irritated. 

When I reacted the same, he had no idea. I have no problem about that. But now when I