After they both calmed down a little Raj remembered something and asked Meera "Do you know why the name of my company is Moments and not anything else."

Meera tried to guess for a little while but replied dejectedly "No clues, bit it is suited for event management company so i didn’t think much about it, is there a special meaning behind it?”

Raj collected his thought and answered her in slow tone "Yes there is, do you remember the college trip that we did together with our group?"

Meera replied merrily with a smile "You are talking about the trip where senior’s introduced their juniors to their place of internship and it can be considered as college trip cum intern-ship program”

Raj chuckled and asked "Yup that one"

Meera replied pountingly “if i had forgotten about it, we would not be sitting here today like this, would we?"

"Ah, you are right about that, that’s when our relationship became strong that after being separated by that much time we came together just like that" replied Raj hurriedly.

Meera replied in nostalgic tone "You boys sure forget things quickly but it is true, if not for that trip we would have become strangers after you vanished in thin air without telling me, it was your good friend Amit who later told me that due to family issues you are opting for long-distance program and gone for job under your older cousin arrangements in US.”

She sighed and asked “Are you telling me that name of your company and incident at that time has something in common and had something to do with me."

Raj always was surprised by women’s intuitions he just raised two different matters and she connected the dots surprised he nodded in confirmation.

Raj sorted some of his memories about the trip and replied " After we reached our second and last destination on trip after taking rest and completing our official work we rested and decided that we all will drink together as it is last chance for everyone to be together with everyone so we all finalized this plan and rested for the day as we have to go for the trek next day. Next day after the two hours trek and the fun and photo sessions we reached our destination both of us hike a little more than our peers and sat beside the water and competed foolishly who will keep his feet more time in cold water of the waterfall and actually it was fun"

Meera replied cheerfully " Yup, I remember that I won and we clicked so many pics on that day after which we returned to the group played some more before returning to the hotel and our teacher knew of our plan to drink so he simply warned us not to make ruckus and tacitly agreed"

Raj replied with smile "We thought he was not on par but we have to agree he was little cool by agreeing to things like this and he supported us, to be honest he was not bad".

Meera replied honestly “Yup, he was irritating sometimes but he helped us more."

Raj agreed with her and nodded as he continued “After which we all sat in groups. First, we all drank and surprisingly there were two or three who drank for the first time and we had fun doing that in group after which we played "Dark Room" on your suggestion, a game which we never heard of."

She hearing this replied with a proud expression on her face "Not my fault but after hearing that all you have to do is hide in the room while the ‘Damer’ will search the whole room, while the light was switched off, you all readily agreed to play and my god you bunch came up with so many new ways to hide that in that little room that made it worthwhile and enjoyable"

Raj replied while chuckling the whole time "Yes i know, do you remember my friend who was so slim that he fitted himself in the space between the TV holder on the wall and cabinet underneath."

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Meera remembered this and smiled and replied " He was too good in doing that but why he has to do that in my turn and that’s not all, you somehow convinced the tallest guy in our group to hide in the topmost shelf of closet, how was i supposed to find him there?"

While laughing Raj chortled “Well we had fun at least.”

Meera remembering the incident replies dejectedly "Well that’s true we enjoyed the most of our trip that day, after the game we both walked for little while outside the hotel and chatted about various things when we reached the bridge where the water was flowing like when dam has its gate open, we watched it for some time after which i think i initiated the kiss that we both enjoyed until we were interrupted by the call from your family and by how late it was in the night and given your family situation you answered hurriedly"

Raj sighed and replied awkwardly "That was the call of my cousin to inform me about that I have to return home as soon as possible, by the tone of my cousin I know something has happened and this time it was big and it was going to be difficult for me to return to the college so i choose to not tell you and we returned after you asked me about what happened as after the kiss and the call things become awkward for me so we returned and next day, our group set on our journey back to college.

Raj looked at her and replied with little depressed "While we were in the train in the night you came to our compartment and shared the birth with the friend when I wake up I saw you half on the birth and half hanging in the air due to birth being little small for two people, you scared the hell out of me that time.

Meera remembering this replied little embarrassed "I remember, after seeing that you offered me your seat and you remained seated for the rest of journey"

Raj replies with smile "While I have to journey sitting I got the rare chance to watch you sleeping and that made it worthwhile, and after seeing you like that i thought of telling you about my situation but seeing you all cute while sleeping I hesitated for the moment which led to our long awaited reunion in California, I regretted that moment and remembered every time that we spend together which sometime comforted me, sometime gave the necessary driving force when i arrived in the U.S., so i decided whether I go the chance to meet you again or not the company I planned for will be named MOMENTS"

Hearing this Meera couldn't control herself and hugged him as they were already seated close after the propose Meera had only one doubt which she didn’t asked in these two years as she know it was sensitive topic but as Raj was telling her everything that he held in his heart, so she asked hesitantly " why is that you never returned after that and called?"

Raj knowing that today he should tell what she was most wanted to know ,so not with-helding anything he said "My Dads business that was on downfall took a big hit and we suddenly had so many loans to pay, so my cousin proposed the job proposal about his friends event management company, but the catch was i have to go in two days , I lost myself as I didn’t know what do to in anger and in a fit I broke my phone and after which I cooled down in the next morning after arranging things with my cousin and informing college I got on place to Greece where I was required, I literally felt like I was not employed by company but Hell as work never end and when it does I was in no condition to do anything except sleep. It took me six months to adjust to constant travelling to different countries and work after which I slowly started to contact my friend but after so much time and what happened between us I simply didn’t have the courage to contact you so this is all the happenings and shenanigans."

Meera fully understood now what happened and replied in cheering voice “You have worked hard."

As they were already hugging, they sat like that for some time. They sat there for some time before returning to their rooms, they both cooled down after sometime but wasn’t able to sleep.

In the next morning they discussed about how to tell their families about it which was rather a not large problem as the Raj was surnamed Mittal and Meera had Agarwal which belong to the categories caste wise so there wasn’t much objection there.

Meera joined Moments after a year and they planned their wedding accordingly.

Raj and Meera settled in Mumbai after some serious discussion, they enjoyed their life, they vacationed regularly, fought regularly and lived a life of full ups and downs until they both become like the elderly couple.

There are all kinds of love and love stories in the world, this type of love was hand tailored for them, many may feel there were many things missing or find it odd but it is love.

“Love is always simple; it’s our feelings that make it complicated”

There are so many things I want;

There are so many things that you want;

But there is one thing that we both want;

To become we, from you and me.

-College Love/Memories