All my childhood and teens, I used to imagine what it would feel like to get drenched in the rain. Once, I had got the chance when I was in school in 9th or 10th standard. I had a raincoat which could keep the heavy rain away from me, and when I got half wet, I thought it was better to get completely wet rather than half, and so, I took off my raincoat and allowed myself. :) It was fun then, but I still imagined what it would be to be in the rain out with my love. I had always envied the ones I saw in movies. Finally, a time came when I found my love but to my horror, I had grown up by then. Rain no more thrilled me, instead it gave me shivers out of cold. I gave life a heavy sigh believing that maybe I would never be able to do that. I used to try getting wet but failed to sustain the cold in about 2 min at most. Even my 'love ' is a mature kind of guy who believes that truth is stranger than fiction and he says that we can have much more fun unimaginably rather than deliberately trying to follow the ones in the movies. I was trying hard to learn these theories, me being a rather dreamy kind of girl.
Last Sunday, we drove to the nearby park where we usually go when we feel like talking a lot or even sitting quietly holding hands. The weather was quite cloudy, being the month of July. We sat down on a bench, talking about random things. Suddenly, it struck my mind that where all the people in the park would go in case it started raining. Then, I swept aside the thought explaining myself that it doesn't rain quite suddenly and for long periods in Bangalore. Even if it rained, it would be sustainable. Anyways, then we walked around the park and decided that it was time to go home. While we took staggering steps towards the gate (well, that's our style of walking when we have fun), his phone rang.
He took out the cellphone out and removed the cover to see his Mom calling. He disconnected it and moved towards a tree to call her back. Just as he started talking, it started drizzling. It was funny at first because none of us thought that it would rain more. So, we pushed ourselves together close to the tree which protected us from the light drizzle. In the next minute, it started raining as though it had never stopped raining since days. We didn't know what to do. I was a little unsure as to how he would react because he does not prefer me to get wet as I catch cold very fast, but to my surprise, he was laughing hard. The first thing he did was disconnecting the call explaining the situation we were in. (I am sure his Mom must be getting worried about our health after knowing about the rain).
Then, we just walked out of the park not knowing what to do. We were almost completely wet by that time. The other people had taken shelter below the windowshed of a nearby house. Some others were standing under trees. Clearly no one knew what to do as there was only a single locked house nearby which provided very little space for shelter. We looked at each other and laughed loud. I could see him comfortable with the rain the first time. We then decided that getting wet on the bike was better than standing there and keep getting wet without covering a single metre towards our home. So, off we started on our bike and then, I remembered that this was which I used to imagine always and to my surprise, I wasn't getting shivers too. Maybe the light drizzles gave shivers but this kind of sudden rain was like shower in bathroom. So, maybe my body thought that I am taking a shower and thus, didn't shiver. It was awesome as we drove away making people looking at us shocked. I am sure some of them who are romantic like me must be envying us. We really had fun. We drove slow as I was scared of the slippery road and nothing was visible to him too due to the XL size rain drops whipping hard on our faces.
But, I am so thankful to God to give me this chance at least once. And I understood why he used to tell that natural surprises are better than deliberate attempts. It was so natural that I was on cloud Nine. When we got home, we were all dripping enough water from ourselves to create a small pool in our home. Hahaha. Thank you darling !!! You are always right...
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