Reunion...

We were meeting each other after a whole year!

Not that we were completely out of touch.. Of course - those not so infrequent phone calls, mails, msgs... chats.... throughout the year... when she would ask me how I was doing... And I would reply... Everything's fine! And when I asked her the same, she would say everything was never better... :) Our little sorrows and lumps in our throats we would just hide behind 'I-miss-you's... And try to explain our tears with that... to each other...

I wasn't oblivious to what she'd gone thru'.. No idea whether she knew more than what I told her.. Yet we maintained that I'm-fine-but-I-miss-you... Let the silence continue.. Hadn't someone said something about it being golden?

And now.. We were meeting each other after a whole year! I was wondering how it was going to be... The door opened and there she stood..!

She stepped forward with her arms outstretched.. And when a tear appeared at the corner of her eye, I said, "Hey! You'd promised we would enjoy each others' company.. after so many days.. and not think of anything else! Why are you crying now!"

She said, "Silly Danny! These are tears of joy!"

Tears of joy..!? Rather, unshed tears that push their way out on seeing your beloved friend..., that seek to be wiped with her loving fingers.. unquestioningly... "Let me cry a little, and then I'll be fine..." - we both said to ourselves...

not aloud... :)